The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-26 00:00:00

HAMMERSMITH.

On Monday having been appointed forthe further examina-
tion of Mr. Git&ert Kennedy, the surgeon, practising in the
Broadway, Hammersmith, and Mr. Archibald his
assistant, on a charge of having stolen certain gold chains
and other articles of jewellery, the court was crowded in
every part by respectable persons anxious to witness the
proceedings.
The prisoner M'Neill was first examined
,on Monday, the
17111 inst., when evidence to the following effect was gone
into. On the 12th of April last (Easter Sunday) an aged
widow lady, named Riley, lodging in Mr. Kennedy's house,
died, after a short illness. On the afternoon of the same
day Miss Church, the executrix, placed the following pro-
perty, belonging to the decease' lady, in a drawer in the
room in which the body was bins;, which was securely
locked up, viz., a very massive gold chain, weighing upwards
of half a pound, a present from Ferdinand VII., King of
Spain, to Mrs. Riley's brother; a pair of bracelets, to cor-
respond; a Maltese gold chair. ; four gold seals; a gold key,
like a lock key; a chased gold ring ; a gold eye-glass; and
a gold brooch, &c. On the following Wednesday the articles
were found to have been stolen, although the drawer was
still locked. Within the last few days the police ascertained
that the two chains and a brooch were pledged by Al.'Neillon
Easter Monday, and taken out again on the Wednesday, when
the robbery was discovered ; and M'Neill, on his examina-
tion, declaring that he had received them from Mr. Kennedy,
for whom he pledged them, and to whom he had returned
them, that gentleman was also taken into custody.
At 3 o'clock, Mr. Archibald A'Neill surrendered in dis-
charge of his bail of 4001. to which he was admitted on
Friday laSt, and was placed at the bar; as was also Mr.
Gilbert Kennedy, who had been brought up from the
Westminster Bridewell.

On the bench, with Mr. G. Clive, the sitting Magistrate,
was the Earl Cadogan, in whose establishment Mr. Kennedy
had formerly been domestic surgeon; and iralie body of the
court we noticed Dr. Quin, Mr. Levies of Great George-
street, surgeon to the Westminster Bridewell, Mr. Boone
of New Bond-street, and other friends of Mr. Kennedy.
Mr. T. Alley Jones, solicitor, of Hammersmith, attended
on the part of the prosecution ; and Mr. Sleep and Mr. Nob-
ler as solicitors for Mr. Kennedy. Mr. M‘Neill was unde-
fended.

Mr. Jones requested, as the case for the prosecution had
only been placed in his hands that morning, that the evia
deuce taken at the previous examinations might be read
over by the clerk. His object in making that request was,
that he had heard from a gentleman who was present on
both occasions, that there was some difference between the
evidence given Ly the same witnesses on the Monday and on
the Tuesday.
Mr. CLIVE said no depositions had yet been taken in the
case, but only the minutes entered, sufficient to warrant a
remand. Those, however, should be read.

Mr. Fletcher, 'chief clei:k, then read the evidence of Miss
Church, the executrix, Amelia Eyles, the charwoman at-
tending Mrs. Riley at her demise, Mrs. Upham, who was
employed, by the prisoner M'Neill to fetch the chains, &c.,
out of pledge, Henrietta Mills, Mr. Kennedy's servant,
Sergeant Mount, T 29, and Spurring, T 112, and also the
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any fresh evidence in the case?
Mr. Jones said he was, but ha had just understood that
Sergeant Mount, who had the case in hand, was at that
moment engaged at the Central Criminal Court; and as that
officer had in his possessicin certain letters, a copy of one of
which had been found in Mr. Kennedy's house, the produc-
duction of which was of great importance, he had to
apily for the postponement of the examination for two or
three days.
Mr. nobler, on the part of Mr. Kennedy, said he had
noticed that in the evidence of Sergeant Mount it was stated
that certain duplicates of gold watches had been found in
Mr. Kennedy's room. He wished to know in what name
those articles had been pledged?
Mr. Fletcher said, it Was not stated in the minutes of
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