The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-29 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREET'.

A SAINT IN TROUBLE.—Sergeant Teakle, of the H divi-
sion of Metropolitan police detective force, applied for and
obtained summonses for the appearance at. this Court, of
Messrs. Meeking and Co., linen-drapers and silk-mercers,
&c., of Holborn-hill, and Messrs. Williams and Co., of Re-
gent. street, also in the same line of business, under the fol-
lowing very peculiar circumstances.
It appears that an individual, named William Travers
Hunter, had obtained, in the capacity of town-traveller,
four pieces of silk goods, valued at 60/., from the firm of
Messrs. Brooks and Co., silk-weavers, Spite!fields, and that
the sale thereof was effected by Hunter at Messrs. Meeking
and Williams, as above.

Hunter, who is represented as an individual belonging to
the society called "Teetotallers," and who has also bee❑ re-
-1 cognised for his apparent piety and general good conduct
by the clergy of the district in which he resided, absconded,
and was traced by Sergeant Teakle to Liverpool, and found
at the "Temperance Commercial Coffee-house." The pri-
soner acknowledged having sold the goods to Messrs. Meek-
ing arid Williams. On being searched, a portion of the
money, 251. 13s. 6d., was found upon him.
Mr. Keane, clergyman, of Bethnal-green Church, spoke in
high terms of the respectability of the prisoner, but k r.
Broughton observed that he had a public duty to perform ;
it was well, perhaps, for the prisoner that he had such
powerful friends. He, however, sat there for the purpose of
administering justice, and a worse case had not, perhaps,
come before his notice. The prisoner should be brought up
again, preparatory to his being fully committed to Newgate
for trial.

ROBBERY AND CAPTURE BY
MEANS OF THE RAILWAY TELEURAPIL
In the latter period of last week, a young man named
John Bourne, respectably attired, took up his residence
at Mr. John Cox's, the Ord Arms Inn, Scotswood road,
Newcastle, for the ostensible purpose of being trained
by Henry Clasper to row a skiff match at Manchester,
and Mr. Cox, in order to make him comfortable, gate
up his own sleeping apartment, in which was a chest of
drawers, containing a sum of money amounting to above
2001. Bourr.e's deportment, altogether, was such, that
not the slightest suspicion was attached to his proceed
ings until Tuesday afternoon, between five and six
o'clock, when the drawer containing the money, together
with a cash-box in which it was deposited, was
found to have been broken open, and the entire contents
of the box taken away. The alarm was immediately
given, when it was ascertained that Bourne had left the
house about two o'clock, and from various circum-
stances no doubt was felt that Bourne was the guilty
party, and it was concluded that he would make down to
Gateshead and take the train southward. Mr. Taylor,
of Stvalwell, accordingly mounted his horse, and rode'
direct to the Westgate station, where he gave informa-
tion of the robbery, and a description of the dress Bourne
had on, to Mr. Inspector Little, who, with Sub-Irapectir
Drummond, proceeded at once to the telegraph c tfiee at
the Gateshead station. Almost simultaneously Mr. Cox
himself called at Mr. Stephens's, the superintendent of
police, and gave information there, with a full description
of Bourne's person and dress, with the amount and de-
scription of the notes stolen. This was sent ov, r imme-
diately to Mr. Johnson, the station-master at Gateshead,
who felt the importance of this additional information, and
instantly set the telegraph to work ; and these particulars
were so full and accurate that the station-master at Nor-
wanton felt no hesitation in acting upon them. This
would be about six o'clock, and as the mail train left at
a quarter past three o'clock it was conjectured that if he
had left with it he might be intercepted. When the ac-