The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-02 00:00:00

SATURDAY

would give her the change. Shp '-lid so, Rnd he
handed her, not the 9d. she was entitlt d to, but 2d.,
and proceeded without attending to her expostulation
about the money he detained until he reached Grace-
church-street. She then touched him with her
parasol, and showed that she was determined not to
be imposed upon, but he insolently refused to do her
justice.

The conductor said, he had given the person her
full change.
The LORD MAYOR said, he was aware of the prac.
tice of the conductors of some of the threepenny om-
nibuses towards their female passengers especially,
who, if they gave silver, often received not one far-
thing of change, but were suddenly left in the street,
when the hint was given to the coachman. His Lord-
ship thanked the lady for having come forward, and
fined the conductor 20s. and costs.
GUILDHALL.
Yesterday James Pummel', a lad employed as a
porter at Messrs. Westley and Clarke's, bookbinders,
Friar-street, Doctors'-commons, was brought before
Mr. Alderman Farncomb for further examination,
charged with robbing his employers of a considerable
number of books of gold leaf.
At the previous hearing the policeman, John Coram,
stated that he stopped the prisoner in the street while
engaged in tearing up the paper leaves of the book
from which he had just extracted the leaf gold. He
had eighteen books of gold in his pocket, and at a
coffee-shop which he frequented the officer found five
wrappers bearing the names of the gold beaters, each
of which wrapper had contained 300 leaves of gold.
He had been observed at the coffee-shop to be busy in
taking the gold out of the books on two or three
occasions.
Fowle, a clerk at the Cross Keys Inn, in Wood-
street, was now called to show that the signature
"A. Paine," in Messrs. Westley's parcel-book, was
not in the handwriting of any person belonging to
that inn, nor had the parcel therein referred to been
booked there.
Mr. Logan, the foreman at Messrs. Westley, de-
posed that on the 31st of August he made up a parcel
containing a handsomely bound copy of "The Ode
on the Installation of Prince Albert," and addressed
it to "W. Wordsworth, Esq., Rydal Mount, near
Ambleside, Westmoreland." He then delivered it
to the prisoner, as one of the porters, to carry it to
the Cross Keys, with money to pay the carriage. Ile
brought the parcel-book back, apparently regularly
signed, and 2s. Bd. marked as paid.
Jane Collier, the prisoner's sweetheart, was then
called as a witness against him.
Mr. Alderman FARNCOMD endeavoured to avoid
placing her in this position, by examining her sister
first, to see if she could prove the prisoner brought
the book to their house in Bethnal-green. She, how-
ever, could only speak of what her sister had told
her.

Jane Collier was therefore sworn. She said she
was nineteen years of age. She shed tears while she
was giving her evidence. She stated that the pri-
soner brought the book to her house on the 21st of
September, and said he was going to take it to a Mr.
Evans, of Chancery-street, Stratford. He said he
would leave it till the next day, but he let it remain
till the 25th, when the policeman came, searched the
place, and found it.
Mr. Logan, the foreman, identified five volumes of
the " Penny Cylopmdia," as corresponding in the
style of binding and in the number of each volume
with five others which had been stolen from a set of
fourteen, which had been lying in his counting-house
for a considerable time. One of them was the pat-
tern volume, which the rest were to match. They
were kept back to await the reprinting of a sheet
which was imperfect. The gold was kept in wit-
ness's counting-house, and he did not know how the
prisoner could get at it without the help of false
keys. The stock of gold kept was large, as a great
number of hands were constantly using it. He took
care to deliver out no more to any man than would
be wanted for his job, hut he did not keep such an
account of his stock that he could miss a dozen
books. The prisoner had no right to take any gold
off the premises.
The prisoner offered no defence, and was committed
for stealing the books and the gold.
WORSHIP- STREET.
Yesterday a little girl scarcely nine years of age,
named Charlotte Davidson, was placed at the bar be-
fore Mr. Arnold, charged with the following syste-
matic robbery upon another child of about the same
age, the daughter of a labourer living in Gray's-
buildings, Kingsland.
Elizabeth Jenkinson, the child in question, stated
that having been sent out that morning with her little
brother, three years old, to purchase meat for their
dinner, by her mother, with a handbasket in one
hand, and a half-crown in the other, she had not pro-
ceeded far down the road when the prisoner came up
to her, and asked her if she had any money ? She
replied " Yes," and showed her the half-crown, and
the prisoner, upon looking at it, told her that there
was a tall man lurk* about the neighbourhood,
who was constantly robbing little girls like her, and
that he had the day before cut off her (the prisoner's)
pocket, and not only stolen a shilling she had been
sent out with, but also carried her little brother away
from her, and that he had not been seen since. The
prisoner then told her to be very careful of her money,
or she would be sure to have it stolen, and proposed to
wrap it up for her, to which she assented, and the
prisoner having rummaged the basket to see what it
contained, produced a piece of rag, and taking the
half-crown from her, rolled them up together, and
shutting down the lid, placed them, as she thought, in
the bottom of the basket, and hurried away; but on
reaching the butcher's where she had to purchase the
meat, she found the money had been stolen, and
having burst out crying, pursued in the direction the
prisoner had gone, and having overtaken her gave her
into custody.
When asked by the Magistrate what could have
induced her to act so, the prisoner said, that her elder
brother, a boy of 14, had told ,her to take the little
girl's money ; and that, having done so, she went to
the corner of a street where he was waiting for her,
and handed him the half-crown. In answer to fur-
ther questions, she said that her parents resided at
Ball's-pond, Islington, and gave a minute description
of the locality ; but on the return of the policeman
who was sent there by the Magistrate to make in-
quiries about her, he informed the bench that,
although he had been very particular in his search,
he had been unable to ascertain anything about her
parents, who did not appear to be known there.
Mr. ARNOLD said, that as it might be attended by
the most serious consequences to send so young a
child to prison, he should allow the case to stand over
for a few days, during which the prisoner must be
taken care of in the workhouse, and in the meantime
one of the warrant-officers must use his best exertions
and endeavour to discover her parents or friends, when
he would determine how to act in the matter.

SOU I'HWARK.
' Edward Austin was brought before Mr. Cotting-
' ham for re-examination, charged with forging and
uttering cheques purporting to be drawn by Mr.
Charles Chester, a solicitor, in Acre-lane, Brixton, on
the Southwark branch of the London and Westmin-
ster Bank, in which he keeps an account.
Mr. Mullins, the solicitor to the Bankers' Society
for the Detection and Prosecution of Frauds and
Forgeries, attended. The prisoner was undefended.
Yesterday, when the prisoner was placed at the
bar, Policeman 72 M stated, that since the first ex-
amination he had been making inquiries with regard
to the prisoner, and had ascertained that he had
borrowed several sums of money of different persons,
and deposited forged cheques with them as security
for the repayment of the same. It, however, did not
appear that the prisoner had obtained any money on
them of the bankers, and that, it seemed, his motive
in circulating the cheques was for the purpose of
leaving them in the hands of those from whom he
borrowed money as security for its repayment.
Stephen Long stated that about ten days ago the
prisoner called on him and told him he was going to
dispose of a cottage, for which he was to have 1501.
of Mr. Chester, who was to give him a cheque on his
bankers for the:money. Ile said that at present he was
in want ofsmoney and borrowed several small sums of
witness, saying that he should repay him the moment
he obtained the cheque of 1501. from Mr. Chester.
On the last occasion he borrowed of witness he ac-
companied the prisoner to Mr. Chester's house, and
waited outside until he came out, and he then exhi-
bited a letter to witness, which he said had been put
into his hands by one of Mr. Chester's clerks, and
the purport of which was an acknowledgment, on the
part of the writer, that he was indebted to the priso-
ner in the above sum, and that if he called in the
course of a few days he should have a cheque for the
money. This letter, which was produced in court,
was left by the prisoner in the hands of the witness,
who, in a few days afterwards, suspecting that it was
a trick to defraud him of his money, proceeded to Mr.
Chester and showed him the epistle ; and that gentle-
man at once assured him that he was not indebted to
the prisoner a shilling, and that it was a fictitious
letter altogether.
The policeman stated that the prisoner ran up a
score at a public-house kept by a Mr. Clarke, and as
security fur the debt he entrusted him vtith two
cheques, purporting to he drawn by Mr. Chester on
the London and Westminster Bank. Mr. Clarke,
however, it was found, had since destroyed the cheques
on being made acquainted that they were forged
ones.

Mr. COTTINGRAM inquired what number of these
forged cheques was supposed to be circulated amongst
the public P—The policeman said, that there was no
doubt a great number was deposited by the prisoner
in the hands of those of whom he borrowed money as
security, and that that seemed to be the only use he
made of them, as it did not appear he had presented
any of them at the banking-house.-
Mr. COTTINGIIAM (to the prisoner)—Why did you
obtain this witness's money by such means ? The
letter now proluced is also a forgery, it appears.