The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-15 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
Andrew SchTer, a German, was brought before
Alderman Musgrovb for re-examination, upon the
charge of having been concerned in stealing a cash-
box containing 341. 6s. 3d., the property of Mr.
Laming, out of that gentleman's counting-house, in
Mark-lane (the General Screw Navigation Company's
offices).
Mr. Wontner attended for the prosecution ; and
Mr. Buchanan for the defence.
The cash• box, it will be recollected, was stolen
immediately after the prisoner had performed the
extraordinary act of bolting himself and the rest of
the establishment, of which Mr. Laming is the head,
in an office within that in which the property lay.
There must of course have been an accomplice in the
robbery, and most of the evidence gone into upon the
present occasion referred to the person supposed to
have been concerned with the prisoner.
Mr. Wontner called Mr. Dickenson, the clerk,
who made the following addition to his evidence on
the first examination :—During the time the prisoner
came about the premises we had several visits from
a little foreigner, dressed like a sailor, from 20 to 23
years of age, who came upon some begging or
trifling occasions, and called himself Hillier. He was
rather short, of a sallow complexion, had darkish
hair, and wore a cap. When the prisoner came on
the 31st December, when the robbery was com-
mitted, he had on a striped or check blouse. I took
the prisoner into the inner office to procure for him
the information he required, and when we were all
inside he shot the bolt, so that an accomplice had the
opportunity of taking off the box while we were
shut in.
Joseph Turner, housekeeper to Messrs. Donaldson
and Dixon, in the same building in which Laming's
offices are, said—l remember having seen on the
31st of December, a man in a blouse or smock
frock, and another standing near Mr. Laming's
door. The prisoner was a few feet nearer to
the door than the other, who was a German boy, and
had a memorandum book in his hand. It was about
the hour at which the robbery appeared to have been
committed. I had been in the habit of seeing the
German boy every day. He was dressed in the way
described by Mr. Dickenson, and the smock-frock or
blouse on the other man was just such as has been
described.
Charles Birnboun, interpreter, said—l have seen
the prisoner several times, but have no particular
acquaintance with him. I also know Auguste Hil-
lier, a boyish-looking young man, without whiskers,
about twenty-one years of age, dressed in the manner
described by the other witnesses. On the left shoulder
of his jacket was a brown patch. I saw Hillier in
company with the prisoner once, in Leman-street,
seventeen or eighteen days ago. They both came
from Cologne.
Alderman MusGßoTE—Have you ever seen them
together at Cologne ? Witness—Never.
Alderman MUSGROVE—And never more than once
here ? Witness—Never. I was present when the
prisoner was at a public-house in Little Alie-street
after the robbery, and I asked him when he saw
Auguste Hillier. He said Hillier was gone away to
Rotterdam. I assisted the officer to find the pri-
soner, who said that he had nothing at all to do
with the young man, that he had merely met the
lad at the office in Mark- lane, where he had gone to
get a passage to Corunna, and that if Hillier had
robbed the office, he (the prisoner) had nothing to do
with it.
John Davis (651) said—l took the prisoner into
custody on the night of the 31st of December, at a
public-house near the Commercial-road. When I
went up to him I said, " Scheffer, how do, you do ?
You have changed your dress." " No,' said he.
" Yes," said I, " where is the blouse ?" " Oh, I don't
know," said in. " You know me very well," said I;
for I had seen him about two months before at the
Mansion-house. He said he did know me, and I
then said I wanted him, and if he would walk
quietly with me to the station-house he should be
discharged if there appeared nothing against him.
He refused to come with me without knowing what
for, and I then said for a cash-box containing thirty-
five sovereigns. He then made a dart at my neck,
endeavoured to throw me down, and to rush outside
the door. I seized him by the collar, and had a
struggle with him until two or three policemen
came to my assistance, and we took him to the
station-house.
Mr. Wontner--Was there not blood upon his
hands ? Witness—The cash-box was found by a
metropolitan policeman and brought to the station-
house. It had been forced open with a sharp instru-
ment, and there was blood inside, and upon examining
the prisoner's hands, we found that a deep gash had
been inflicted upon one of them.
Here the cash-box was produced, and identified by
Mr. Dickinson as that which had been stolen.
Mr. Buchanan submitted that it would be rather
too romantic to ascribe the blood in the cash-box to
the cut in the prisoner's hand, and the evidence of
the connexion between the prisoner and the boy
alluded to, was of too loose a nature to justify a
committal.
Mr. Wontner pointed out what he considered to
be strong grounds in the appearance of the prisoner
and the boy at Mr. Laming's door, and in the whole
of the, prisoner's subsequent conduct.
Alderman MUSGROVE said Mere was quite suffi-
cient evidence to justify him in remanding the pri-
soner, and he expressed a hope that the boy ,would
be found.
The prisoner was then remanded. As he was
leaving the bar, he loudly complained of his deten-
tion, as he had a wife and two children to look after.
ROBBERY AT THE FISTULA INFIRMARY. Infor-
mation was given by the Secretary to the Fistula
Infirmary, in Charterhouse-square, that the house
was broken into on Friday even by burglars, who
stole several silver spoons, some old coins, and a
great coat belonging to the house-surgeon. Fortu-
nately, the matron's cash-box escaped the observa-
tion of the thieves, who have hitherto eluded detec-
tion. It is supposed they must have entered at the
back staircase window.
The LORD MAYOR said he had to acknowledge the
receipt of' 101. 10s. from the Merchant Tailors'
Company, through the hands of Mr. Fisher.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
DUEL PREVENTED.—Henry Neville, a gentleman
of fortune, living at No. 133, Oxford-street, was
charged by Mr. Benson, tobacconist, of No. 133,
Oxford-street, with being about to fight a duel with
a gentleman named Jessop.
Mr. Benson said he had been told by the defendant,
who occupied apartments in his house, that it was his
intention to fight a duel with Mr. Jessop, and he
thought the best way to prevent a breach of the peace
was to bring Mr. Neville before the Court to have
him bound over.
Mr. Neville having admitted that he did intend to
fight with Mr. Jessop,
The Magistrate (Mr. HARDWICK) ordered him to
find bail, himself in 3001. and two sureties in 1501.,
to keep the peace for three months.
The solicitor who attended to put in bail mentioned
that Mr. Neville was either in possession or expect-
ancy of 5,0001. a year.
It was reported that Mr. Jessop fills the post of
high sheriff of one of the counties.
ANOTHER DUEL PREVENTED.—Two women ap-
plied to Mr. Hardwick to interfere to prevent the
son of one and the husband of the other from fighting
together. The belligerents were both tailors ; they
had quarrelled over their goose, and had agreed, as
soon as the one had done basting a coat, and the
other had finished quilting a collar, that they should
put down a sum of money and go a little way out of
town to ascertain which was the best ninth part of a
man.

Mr. HARDWICK granted a warrant against the
tailors, as also against Mr. Jessop, with the view of
preventing any breach of the peace.
BENEYOLENCE.—"E. F. F." sent 51. for distribu-
tion amongst such objects of distress brought to the
court as might be considered worthy of relief.
WANDS WORTH.
CONVICTION OF A SOAP DIANUFACTURER.—Yes-
terday, Mr. John Turner, late of Lower Tooting,
Surrey, was summoned to this court at the instance
of the Commissioners of Excise, to answer an infor-
mation charging him with carrying on the business
of a soap manufacturer in certain premises situated
in Lower Tooting without making the entry required
by the Excise, and with intent to defraud the Go-
vernment of certain duties, whereby he had forfeited
the sum of 6001.
The defendant having been called, and failed to
answer, George Martin Coppard, an officer of Excise,
produced a copy of a summons which he served at
defendant's premises at Tooting, where the offence
was committed and the seizure mentioned in the in-
formation made.
Mr. Thomas Liston, the supervisor, stated, that
on the 13th of. October last, in consequence of
some information which he received, he went to a
house in Lower Tooting; he knocked at the door, and
Mrs. Turner (the defendant's wife) answered it. He
went through the premises to the back yard, where
he found a door locked. He had not got a key,
and could not *get in. He then went away, but
afterwards got over some other premises into the
place he had found fastened up, he there found a cop-
per boiler for the purpose of making soap, and there
were about three quarters of a ton of materials in the
copper. There was also a large quantity of materials
for making soap not in use. Witness went up a
ladder to the top of the copper, and there found a
door leading into a bed-room. In this room he dis-
covered from two to three hundred gallons of lees,
which he destroyed, and a quantity of materials and
utensils, sufficient for carrying on an extensive and lu-
crative business, and which he had no doubt had been
carried on since August last. The property seized
consisted of 2,0001b5. weight of fat, 2001bs. of salt,
two iron pans, two iron pails, a number of casks, soap,