The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-21 00:00:00

that she was there the evening before, when the ser-
vant, whose name she thought was Mary, gave her the
letter, and told her she had received it from a Mr.
Hamilton, of Dublin, who was lodging in the house,
and that she (the prisoner) was to go to the Bank and
get change for it ; that she had been to the Bank
of England. that evening, and was there directed to
go to Barclay and 'Co., in Lombard-street, and that she
knew nothing more of it. This statement was made in
the presence of Mr. Morris, and he soon afterwards left
us. The prisoner then expressed great anxiety to know if
there was anything wrong I told her there was, and that
further inquiry must be made, as the o►der was payable
to Miss Lucy Thompson, and she was certainly not that
person. She then expressed some further anxiety about
it, and said she had not told me the truth, but a false-
hood, and now she would tell me the whole truth. I
said, I was sorry she had not told me the truth at first,
as falsehcod might possibly involve her in some
trouble ; and I warned her not to conceal any of the
true facts from me. Iliad previously thought well of her.
She then made another statement to me. I did not hold
out any inducement to her to make any statement, nor
had I stated any previous tieenswion against her.
I took down her second statement in writing. She
said, she did not receive the order from Mary, or
any one in Jermyn-street. That she had it from
a waiter atithe Burlington Hotel, named Baddell, whom
she had known some eight or nine years past ; that he
formerly lived as servant to Dr. Philpotts, the Bishop of
Exeter, that he had been about twelve months at the
hotel in Burlington-street ; that she received the order
on the preceding evening from Baddell's wife, who lived
in Newman's- tnews,Castle-street,Berners-street, and took
in washing, but that Baddell himself did not sleep there.
The female prisoner also said that she did not see Bad-
dell at the time his wife gave the order to her ; that she
had seen him on the Friday evening previous, but never
saw the order till last (meaning Sunday) evening. That
Baddell's wife told her to try to get it paid at the Bank,
although she feared that it was too old, and that her
husband had given it to her. I accordingly sent up an
officer and my principal clerk to the Burlington Hotel to
make some inquiries. I stopped the examination at that
point, because it then became a question whether the
husband or wife was the person to be accused.

Mr. W. Base, clerk to -Messrs. Bush and Mullins, said
—I went, accompanied by the female prisoner and
Wardle (policeman 25), to the Burlington Hotel, in
Cork-street, and asked for Mr. Morley, the proprietor,
whom I saw, and in consequence of what passed between
us he sent for the prisoner Baddell, by the name of
Lewis. I then showed Baddell the order in the presence
of Mr. Morley, and Mr. Phillips, of the office of the
solicitor to the Post-office, (Wardle being outside in a
carriage with the female prisoner), and asked Baddell if
he knew a person of the name of Murphy. He said,
yes, he did. I then shewed him the order, and said to
him,'," Did you send this order by Mrs. Murphy?" He
said, "I did, it's quite right; I picked the order up in
Oxford street, on Wednesday night, between eight and
nine or between nine and ten, when I was out. It was
wrapped up in a piece of paper." I then left the
room and fetched the officer Wardle, and told
Baddell there was something wrong about the order,
and he must go with me to explain. Afterwards,
at Bow-street station-house, Baddell sent for me, and
then he made a statement which I took down in writing,
in the presence of the policeman and the prisoner Eliza-
beth Murphy. The statement was as follows :—"ln-
stead of that statement I made being true, I found it
(the order) amongst some letter covers and waste paper
at Mr. Morley's Hotel, on Wednesday last." He after-
wards said in my presence, when the charge was being
taken down in the station-house, "I gave it to my wife
yesterday."
Baddelf—My Lord, the last statement is quite correct.
I made the first statement because I did not wish to get
my fellow servants into trouble ; but I found the paper
in the waste-paper drawer in the coffee-room, where
there are scores of unclaimed and unopened letters.
George Wardle (policeman 25), stated that he took
both prisoners into custody, and was present when Bad-
dell made the statement at Bow-street to Mr. Base,
which that gentleman related correctly. Baddell had
made a similar statement to witness.

Mr. Bash again called Mr. Morris, the first witness
examined, who deposed that from information which he
had received, as clerk to Messrs. Barclay and Co. (the
house having received advice to the effect), he believed
the order produced had been obtained by fraud, or
feloniously stolen from a post•office letter, and that if
time were given, further evidence would be brought
forward.

The LOUD MAYOR—DO you know that the letter has
been robbed ? Witness—l do.

In a conversation which took place between the Lord
Mayor, Mr. Goodman, and Mr. Bush, upon the subject
of the evidence against the female prisoner, Mr. Bush
observed, that if she was not involved in the criminality
as to the fraudulent possession of the order, she had got
herself into serious difficulty by telling such falsehoods,
as rendered it impossible to call upon her as a witness,
for she had utterly destroyed her own credibility.
Davis, cabman, 6,047, was charged by Mr. Waghorn,
of Cornhill.

Mr. Waghorn stated that the defendant demanded
eight shillings for driving from Cornhill to the South
Western Railway and back. He had waited twenty
minutes at the station, and was paid 4s. 6d., and he de-
clared that he would stay all night at Mr. Waghorn's
office if not paid that exorbitant demand. Witness ex-
postulated with him, but the defendant insisted that Mr.
Waghorn was the person he carried, and not Mr. Wag-
horn's clerk, who was the actual fare. The demand was
aggravated by the insolence of the defendant, in catching
hold of Mr. Waghorn and pushing him.
Mr. Waghorn's clerk proved that the defendant had
been paid sixpence more than his fare, and that the
man was tipsy.
As Mr. Waghorn considered the night's lodging in
the station-house sufficient punishment for the defendant,
The Loan MAYOR admonished the apparently peni-
tent cabman, and discharged him.