The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-16 00:00:00

SOUTHWARK.

William Lipsham was brought before Mr. Seeker
charged with stealing two Ascot Race Sweep tickets,
amounting to 121. 75., the property of Mr. William
Harris, landlord of the Equestrian Coffee-house, in the
Blackfriars-road, and Thomas Worster and John Miles
were charged with being concerned in the offence.
The complainant stated that racing sweeps were held
at his house, and that in conformity with the usual prac-
tices on these occasions, he issued tickets for sweeps of
the late Ascot and New Stakes. Monday last was the
day appointed for the payment of prizes won on these
two races, previous to which he had employed Lipsham
as clerk, to attend to that particular part of his business,
in the course of which the latter individual was entrusted
with various letters enclosing sweep tickets to persons
who had written for them from the country. On Friday
last he (the complainant) gave Lipsham several letters
to post for country subscribers, and much to his surprise
he did not return afterwards. On Monday, however, he
called to make some inquiries relating to the sweeps,
and made some frivolous excuse to account for his
absence, but complainant rejected his further services,
ignorant at the time that he had kept back tickets be-
longing to other subscribers. Lipsham then went away,
but on the following day Worster called at the Eques-
trian Coffee-house, and presented a ticket, the number
of which was drawn a prize, and he (complainant), with.
out suspicion, paid him the money, amounting to 61. 13s.
When he was gone, the waiter of a tavern in the neigh-
bourhood, entered the house, and presented another
ticket, drawn a prize. This circumstance led to some
inquiries, when the waiter said that he had been sent to
receive the money by the owner, who was waiting at
the tavern for it. The complainant, however, refused
to pay the money without the owner of the ticket came
himself, and then Miles came forward, and at first as-
sumed to bo the holder of the ticket, but upon being
pressed on the subject, he admitted that he was merely
engaged by the other two persons, to represent him-
self as the owner of the prize, and that for his person.
ation in the affair he was to have had a sovereign
for his trouble. The complainant then went on to
describe that he had since ascertained that the ticket
presented by Worster belonged to a subscriber at Win-
chester, to whom it was enclosed in a letter, which
must have been opened by Lipsham, and taken possession
of when ho was sent with it and others to put in the
Post-office on Friday. That it was also observed that
Worster was the brother-in-law of Lipsham, and when
eint
the former was taken into custody, he exclaimed that
was his brother who got him into the difficulty, The
complainant added that a ticket which turned out a 1001.
prize on the horse Garrick was also taken from his desk
and presented by the same man Worster„ and
that if it had
not been for the circumstance of receiving a
letter
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one of the subscribers to the Sweep, announcing
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have paid the money to the i: (complainant) would
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ticket.
Mr. SECKER having heard the statement againstaceused parties, said that it would be necessaryto
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whom the ticket
was paid over to Worster on its production, after
having been abstracted from the letter in which it was
inclosed.
Mr. Games, on behalf of the prisoner, said that at the
present stage of the investigation he should decline
givinc, any answer to the charge, but as the offence was
a bailable one, he trusted the Magistrate would accept
of such sureties as they could procure to appear on a fu-
ture day.

Mr. SECKER said that he should adjudge the prisoners
to enter iato their own recognizances of 401. each, and
find two sureties of 204 each, to appear again on
Thursday next, and to give twenty-four hours' notice of
bail.