The Sun.
London, England, 1870-02-03 00:00:00

GENII:AL CRIMINAL COURT.—This Day.

(Before Mr. Justice Byles.)
THE WANDSWORTH ROMANCE.

William Skeplehorne and his wife, Sarah Skeple-
borne, were indicted for having, with intent to in-
jure and aggrieve Thomas John Irouside, conspired
with Louisa Maud, his wife, to falsely represent
that Mrs. lronside was delivered of a female child,
and to pass off the child of one Fanny Wood as the
child of the prosecutor, by his wife. They were
also charged with causi,ig the prosecutor to cherish
and maintain the said child as his own. There
was another count charging them with conspiring
with intent to deceive, injure, and defraud Mr.
Irouside; and further counts charged conspiracy
with intent to defraud and cheat the next
of kin of Mr. Irouside, and to burden the parish of
Wandsworth with a liability to support the child.
Another count charged them with conspiring to
make a false entry relative to the parentage of the
child.

POLICE INIELLIGENCE—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A BANKER'S CLERK CHARGED WITH ROBBERY.
—Samuel Bro,_ks, a clerk in the employ of Messrs.
Hopkinson and Co., brokers, of No. 3, Regent-
street, was brought before Mr. Knox, by Sergeants
Langley and Summerway, of the Detective Depart-
ment, Scotland-yard, charged with stealing some
£5 Bank of England notes, the property of his
employers.
Mr. Hodgkinson said that on the 11th of No-
vember last he sent a letter by post to Miss E. J.
Brackenborough, a customer, residing at Malvern-
cottage, Kirby Lowestoffe—the letter containing
six £5 Bank notes. On the 13th he received a
letter from Miss Brackenborough stating that she
had not received them. He communicated with
the. Post-office, and stopped the notes, and left the
matter in the hands of the Post-office authorities, but
on the 20th December another note for £5 having
been stolen from a letter containing ten sent to Miss
Pennethorne, of Hampstead, Yarmouth, Isle of
Wight, he found no reason to think that the enve-
lope in which they had been placed had been tam-
pered with at the Post-office, and suspecting that
the robbery must have been committed by some one
in their establishment communicated with the police
at Scotland-yard, and found that some of the notes
had been passed bearing an endorsement in the
name of Rogers, and the police finding the prisoner
was connected with a female of that name took him
into custody. He had a third charge to prefer
against the prisoner—that of abstracting a letter
containing coupons sent to the firm.
Sergeant Suunerway said that the prisoner, on
being spoken to respecting the notes, said he could
not explain the circumstance of their being miss-
ng, and on his being told to leave the bank he
eft the room and then returned, and said that he
had intercepted the letters and taken out the
notes, and said that he had throws four of them
down the water closet. He (Sunnerway) had pre-
viously followed a woman, who was joined by 0:3
prisoner, and found her nam3 to be Rogers, and
that she had passed one of the notes at the White
Hart public-house, Kennington-cross.
Sergeant Langley said ho had ascertained the
prisoner Letd been cohabiting with a female named
Rogers, and he had seen the prisoner and another
on the 19th ult., after being put into an omnibus
by the prisoner, get out near Kennington-cross,
where one of the notes was changed. He heard
the prisoner admit his guilt, and that he had
thrown the notes down the closet, and that a note
containing the coupons was at his lodgings, and on
going there he found them.
The prisoner was remanded.