The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-26 00:00:00

NEW GI) U 11T.

(Before the RECORDER and Mr. Alderman HUGHES.)
CHARGE OF SHOPLIFTING.—Ann Wilson, a rather

respectable-looking young woman, was indicted with
stealing 321- yards of damask silk, value 131., the pro.
perty of Joseph Allinson.
It appeared from the evidence brought forward that
Mr. Allinson carried on an extensive business as a silk
mercer and linendraper in Westminster, and that on the
18th of the present month, the prisoner, in company with
another female, came into the shop and purchased some
small articles. They were about leaving when the shop.
inan, Walker, whose suspicions had been excited, told
her he th mght she had something about her which she
had not paid for. She denied it, and he then discovered
the silk lying on the floor under her mantle. The other
woman in the meantime had left the shop, and the pri-
soner talked of a compromise.
The jury, considering the case a weak one, Acquitted
the prisoner.

Philip Magnus was indicted for stealing, on the 31st of
August, three half-crowns, two shillings, one sixpence,
and a fourpenny piece, the property of Ann Davis, from
her person.

The prosecutrix, when called upon, did not make her
appearance, and consequently the case failed against the
prisoner.

From the evidence of Mr. J. Hanbury, a grocer at
Islington, it appeared that on the 31st of August, about
a quarter to five in the afternoon, as he was going down
Great Carter-lane, he heard the cry of " Stop thief I stop
thief!" and saw the prisoner running at great speed. As
he passed by witness, he said, "There he goes! there
he gocs! stop him! stop him!' Witness instantly caught
hold of the prisoner and threw him upon his back, and
upon the prosecutrix coming up, she said he bad robbed
her of all her money. The prisoner said to witness that
he had plenty of money, took a quantity out of his
pocket, and said, " Here, take it." Witness advised the
prosecutrix not to do so, and the prisoner was given into
custody.
Mr. Hardy, a surgeon, of Great Carter-lane, corrobo-
rated the testimony of the last witness.
The RECORDER thought, in the absence of the prose-
cutrix, that there was no case to go to the jury.
The prisoner was then Acquitted, the Learned JUDGE
telling him, that if he had been convicted, he should
certainly have transported him.
It was generally supposed that the prosecutrix, who
had appeared before the magistrates, was kept out of the
way by the friends of the prisoner.
JUVENILE TASTE FOR RUMP STEAKS. John Els-
worthy, 20, and Wm. Haynes, 17, were convicted of
stealing thirty-two pounds of a rump of beef the property
of Henry Caswill, and sentenced, the former to three
months', and the latter to six months' imprisonment and
hard labour in the House of Correction.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,
MANSION-HOUSE.
WilliaM Thomas Power, a man 33 years of age, was
brought before Alderman Gibbs, in the custody of
Daniel Forrester, who apprehended hien at Munich, in
Bavaria, upon the charge of haring conspired, with an-
other, to defraud the Clonmell branch of the Bank of
Ireland, and with having himself absconded with cash,
the property of that estahlishtnent, to the amount of
about 13,0001.
Forrester, accompanied by Enright, a Clonmell con-
stable, who was acquainted with the person of Power,
traced the prisoner to Munich, and took him into cus-
tody in that town, where he was residing in the name of
Prick, having passed thither with a false passport.
It was under,tood that the prisoner expressed a wish to
return to Clonmell, in order to explain the particulars of
the transaction in which he was suspected to have been
concerted.
Patrick Enright, the Clonmell constable, stated that
he knew the prisoner to be the person charged with the
above-mentioned felony. He also identified the hand-
writing of Mr. Ryan, the magistrate who signed the war-
rant, and that of the Lord Mayor of London, who
backed it. Witness then aprlied for leave to take the
prisoner to Ireland, and the Alderman accordingly issued
an order.
Joseph Jones was brought up for re-examination,
charged with having forged the name of G(!orge Edwards
to a transfer of stock, to the amount of 31. 10s. per an-
faun, on the Bank of England. The sum purpoeled to be
transposed by George Edwards, at the requ,2,st of his
wife, and the transfer appeared to be attested 'by Thetis.;
Crompton, a bre,ker.
Upon a former day George Edwards, tle?e proprieth r
of the stock, proved that that transfer had r lot been made
in his name.
It was also stated that Mrs. Edwards
'lived with the
prisoner, and that the name f George, ti,iyards in the