The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-20 00:00:00

TIiAIITES.

Henry Ivory and James Smith were brought before
Mr. Ballantine, charged with stealing a truss of hay and
a sack of oats, the property of Harman Hendrilts, an
omnibus proprietor in Church lane, Whitechapel.
It appeared from the evidence that Ivory had been
horse-keeper to the prosecutor for about four months,
and in the course of that time great quantities of hay
and oats had been missing from the stables. On Tues-
day evening, about nine o'clock, another horse keeper,
named Lay, in the employ of the prosecutor, saw the
prisoner Ivory leave his masters premises with a truss
of hay on his shoulders. A. few minutes aftarwards,
and while Lay was sitting in the Fir Tree public-house,
in Church-lane, he saw the prisoner Smith pass along
with a full sack of oats on his back. He then returned
to the stables and found the loft door open, and on men-
tioning what he had seen to Mr. Dell, the prosecutor's
store-keeper, he looked over the stables and loft, and
missed a truss of hay from the former place, and from
the ether a sack of oats. The loss of the hay and the
oats having been communicated to Mr. Hendrilas, jun.,
the son of the prosecutor, he repaired with several po-
licemen to the house of the prisoner Ivory and knocked
at the door; no answer was returned, although he could
hear voices within. After waiting four or five minntes,
Mr. Hendriks pulled down the shutters, and Ivory's wife
then admitted the. prosecutor's son and the police into
the parlour, where they found a truss of hay placed
against the wall. It was of a mixed quality, exactly
similar in quality and appearance to the hay in the
stable. Ivory on being questioned said, he had taken
the truss of hay to feed the horses in the morning. He
was then asked what had become of the sack of oats ?
and he declared he knew nothing of it. A further search
was made, and in an upper room the officers found two
of the prosecutor's sacks, on which Ivory's children
were 13 ing. The two sacks were joined together. There
was a third sack also belonging to the prosecutor in the
same room. It contained a handful of oats, and corre-
sponded in appearance, and the. marks upon it were
similar to the one full of oats which Lay saw the
seller Smith carrying two hours preVious. Both
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' SOQrg were 01P11 .;Vt'n into en iy-• the \MN to sto
the station-muse Smith tn..d, him escape. lie was pur-
sued, and about a quarter of an hour afterwards a po-
liceman named Goddard, 16 li, overtook him. The
prisoner made desperate resistance, and Goddard was

compelled to use his staff before he could recapture him.
In addition to the above facts, it was shown that Smith
gave a fictitious address, and that in the early part of
the evening, and before the hay and oats were stolen,
the prisoners were together at the Weavers' Arms,
13ackchurch•lane, Whitechapel, and Ivory called for a
pot of beer, and asked the landlord to give him credit
for it, at the same time remarking that he and his com-
panion had no money. At eleven o'clock the same night
when the prisoners were apprehended, 4s. was found
upon one, and 3s. 6d. upon the other, and this money is
supposed to have been obtained by the sale of the oats.
The prisoners were committed for trial.