The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-16 00:00:00

SOUTHWARK.

Edward Elsbury, a fashionably-dressed young man,
was brought before Mr. Traill for re-examination,
charged with breaking into chambers occupied by Lord
Burghley, St. John's College, Cambridge, and stealing
upwards of 501. worth of property, consisting of diamond
shirt studs, pins, and brooches, the property of his Lord-
ship.
Lord Burghley, accompanied by the Hon. Frederick
Montague, a fellow collegian, attended, and from the
statement of the former, it appeared that on the morning
of the 26th ult. he went from his rooms in the above
college, about eleven o'clock, leaving the various articles
of jewellery safe in his dressing-room. He returned
about nine o'clock the same night, and then discovered
that his rooms had been entered in his absence, and
plundered of the whole of the jewellery, none of the
books or any other description of property having been
removed. A set of diamond studs was here produced,
and his Lordship identified them as forming part of the
articles of which he bad been plundered, under the cir-
cumstances just mentioned. He added that he had no
know!edge whatever of the prisoner, never having seen
him until he was placed at the bar of the Court.
Inspector •Rogers briefly described the circumstances
under which the prisoner's apprehension was effected,
from which it appeared that on Tuesday last the pri-
soner walked into a pawnbroker's shop in Blackfriars-
road, and, producing a very splendid opal pin, wanted to
pledge it. The shopman, suspecting that the article bad
been stolen, detained the prisoner until the arrival of a
policeman, into whose custody he was given, and when
taken to the station-house, a pawnbroker's duplicate fur
a valuable diamond pin was found wrapped up in a
corner of his shirt. The pin in question was also pro-
duced, and identified by Lord Burghley as his property.
Mr. TRAILL inquired if the prisoner was seen at Cam-
bridge about the period the robbery was committed?
An inspector of the Cambridge Police stated that evi-
dence would`be forthcoming to prove that a young man,
answering the prisoner's description in every particular,
was seen leaving St. John's College between seven and
eight o'clock on the 26th ult.
On the former examination, the prisoner said he lived
at Cambridge, and in accounting for the possession of
the diamond pin he offered in pledge, and the duplicate
of another article of jewellery, he said that he had pur-
chased them of a Mr. Roll, a silversmith, of Cambridge.
Neither the latter gentleman, nor any of the prisoner's
friends attended now, although he was strongly advised
to communicate with them, particularly with Mr. Roll.
in order that he might bear out the truth of his asser-
tion with respect to his having purchased the diamond
pin of him.
In reply to Mr. Traill, the inspector said the assizes
commenced that day at Cambridge, and as that was the
case, the magistrate said that the prisoner had better be
taken down there immediately, the offence having been
committed there, and that the necessary evidence to es-
tablish the charge could be produced at once before the
grand jury.
The prisoner, who made no remark, nor expressed
any disappointment that his friends were not in at-
tendance, was then given into the custody of the Cam-
bridge inspector, who accordingly proceeded with him to
the above place.