The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-18 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

John Jackson,William Warren, and Mary Bur-
rows underwent a lengthened examination before
Mr. Broderip, the two former charged with stealing
ninety gold pencil-cases, 165 silver ditto, eighty-one
silver penholders, a vast number of gold and silver
toothpicks, pens, thimbles, shirt-studs, and other
valuable property, and the latter with feloniously
receiving the same well knowing it to have been
stolen.

The 'prisoner Burrows was apprehended on the
25th ult., and has since that period been from time
to time remanded in order to give the police an op-
portunity of capturing others implicated with her in
the transaction, which they succeeded in doing en
Sunday night last.
The facts, as detailed on a previous examination
of the woman, are these :—.3lr. John Sheldon, a
maker of pencil-cases and other articles, came to
town about the middle of last month, in order to
visit his customers, bringing with him the property sub-
sequently stolen, as an assortment of patterns. Being
in want of a porter to accompany him in his rounds
with a trunk and bag containing the articles, he hired
the prisoner Jackson, after careful inquiry. After
accompanying Mr. Sheldon for several days, Jackson
was left by him about twelve o'clock on the morning
of the 25th ult. in the passage of 145, Strand, while
prosecutor waited upon a gentleman in the upper part
of the house, and on his return in about a quarter of
an hour to the passage, he found that the porter had
decamped with the trunk and bag. Information was
immediately given to the police, and the female pri-
soner, in three hours after the robbery, was taken
into custody with a gold pencil-case in her possession
which she was endeavouring to sell. She pretended
that she had bad possession of that and another a day
or two before they were stolen, and being conveyed to
the station gave a false address ; but through the acti-
vity of the police her residence was discovered and
searched, and the officers found the trunk and bag
concealed under the bed. The articles they con-
tained had been placed between the sacking and the
bed, but the whole were found in the room except
about 31. worth. In the course of the inquiry it was
ascertained that the female prisoner had pawned an-
other pencil-case; within two hours of the time the
robbery was committed.
Some important evidence was yesterday given
against the male prisoners, and also 3trengthening the
case against the female.
Sergeant Loom and other constables proved the
apprehension of Jackson on Saturday night at the
Yorkshire Stingo. On being captured he said,
" You may as well have my mate," pointing to
Warren, who ran away, but was pursued and taken.
Mr. Sheldon identified Jackson as the porter who
accompanied him to 145, Strand, and then absconded
with the property. At that time his trunk was
locked, but when found by the police it had been
broken open.
Mr. Brook, hardwareman, 9, Tothil-street, West-
minster, and C. W. Farwig, his apprentice, proved
that about the middle of Monday, the 25th ult., the
female prisoner broughtagold pencil-case to the shop,
and having inquired whether it was gold, the appren-
tice, having ascertained that it was, gave her 6s. 6d.
for it. Shortly afterwards Mr. Sheldon came and
acquainted Mr. Brook with his loss; and on the female
prisoner presenting herself again in the course of the
afternoon with another gold pencil-case, she was de-
tained, the police were called by Mr. Brook, and she
was taken into custody.
Eliza Robinson, a woman residing close to No.
100, York-street, where the female prisoner lodged,
and where the property was discovered, stated that
she saw the prisoner Warren enter the house at about
two o'clock in the afternoon of the 25th with a bag,
and in a few minutes afterwards he was followed by
Jackson with a trunk, resembling that produced.
Warren shortly afterwards came out, and
returned to
the house in a few minutes with some liquor in a jug,
two pipes, and some tobacco.
Evidence was given to show that Warren had
offered a gold pencil-case for sale on the afternoon of
the 25th ult., and also that he had been previously
convicted of felony.
The male prisoners declined saying anything in de-
fence. The female did not add anything to her for-
mer statement, that a young man had given her the
first pencil-case to sell for him, and then, made her a
present of the second for her trouble. She accounted
for the articles being found in her house by stating
that the young man who gave her the pencil-cases
said he wanted to leave something there.

Mr. BRODER; committed the whole of the pri-
soners for trial, the two men for stealing, and the
woman for feloniously harbouring ; and observed that
the police deserved very great credit for the diligence
and astuteness by which the property had been reco-
vered, and the whole of the parties concerned in this
nefarious robbery brought to justice.