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

In the course of the investigation, when Finch
was called on to give his evidence, he prevaricated
so much, denying that he had given Sergeant any
information with respect to the person who had
stolen the portmanteau, that the Magistrate ordered
him to be placed in the dock with the other prisoners,
and he was charged with having bad a participation
in the robbery.
Mr. COTTINGHAM said that it was quite evident
that Finch must have been aware of the robbery,
otherwise he could not have given information. The
circumstance of the finding the housebreaking im-
plement in Fisher's house, as well as the complain-
ant's portmanteau, rendered it extremely probable
that he was engaged in burglaries as well as other
offences. He should order the prisoners to find bail li
for their appearance at the next examination, and in
the mean time every exertion must be used by the
police in the apprehension of Fisher.
James Smith, a well-dressed young man, was
charged with stealing a 101. Bank of England note
from Mr. William Baker, at the Cole Hole Tavern,
near the Surrey Theatre.
The complainant stated, that on the preceding
night he went into the Coal Hnle Tavern, and being
in want of some stnall change, he addressed the land-
lord who was at the bar, and inquired of him if he could
let him have sovereigns for the note. The landlord
replied in the negative, and complainant, still holding
the Bank note in his hand, walked round the bar,
and as he was passing, the prisoner, who was there
with several others, snatched it out of his hand, and
holding it up to the light, asked if it was a good one.
Complainant, thinking it was done by way of a joke,
desired the prisoner to restore it, but he crushed it
up in his hand and said that he had it not. The pri-
soner then hastily went towards a room at the back
of the bar, followed by some of his associates, who
endeavoured to prevent the complainant from entering.
The landlord immediately proceeded to the room, and
insisted that the prisoner should deliver up the note.
The prisoner, however, denied that he had it, and
endeavoured to make his escape, but was closely fol-
lowed by the complainant, who had every reason to
believe that he passed the note into the hands of an
associate, and a policeman being called, the prisoner
was given into custody. The 101. note, however, was
not found.

A gentleman who was with the complainant con-
firmed his account of the transaction.

Mr. COTTINCLIAM asked the prisoner what he was,
and he replied that he was the proprietor of a cooper-
age ; and when further questioned he denied the
eharge, declaring that he never saw the note.
A. policeman gave evidence of having frequently
observed the prisoner in the neighbourhood of the
Surrey Theatre in the company of thieves, and the
Magistrate committed him for trial.
John Daley, a powerful-looking man, was charged
with committing a very aggravated assault on Eliza-
beth King, by throwing her into a horse-trough in
the Kent•road. _ _

The complainant said that on the preceding after-
noon she went into the World Turned Upside Down
public-house in the Kent-road, to have a little re-
freshment with another woman. When they came
out the defendant was very insolent to them, and she
desired him to go about his business or she would call
the police. Instead of doing so he ran towards her,
and, seizing her up in his arms, plunged her into a
horse-trough nearly filled with water, which was
opposite the public-house.
The witness alluded to confirmed her evidence, and
said that no provocation was given for such conduct
on the part of the defendant.
The defendant said the complainant spat in his face,
and he warned her that if she attempted to do it
again he would assuredly throw her into the horse-
trough, which was near at hand ; that she did repeat
the insult, and that he then took her up and laid her
in the horse-trough, which was not more than a
quarter full at the time. He added that she had
often insulted him before.
The complainant contradicted the assertions, and
said that a new straw bonnet she had on at the time
was completely spoiled, and that it had cost her ten
shillings.
The Magistrate adjudged the defendant to pay
twenty shillings for the assault and also the cost o
the bonnet, and in default to be committed for four.
teen days

WESTMINSTER.
John Jackson, William Warren, and Mary Bur-
rows under went 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 :—Mr. 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 26th 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 had 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 3/. 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 strengthening 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, hardvvareman, 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 preseiging 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. BBODERIP 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.
CLERKEN WELL.
Charles Theodore Krallower, a German Jew, was
placed at the bar :for final examination, charged by
Mr. George Joseph, diamond merchant and jeweller,
of No. 19, Woodbridge-street, Clerken well, with
stealing eight diamond rings, value 471.
Mr. Humphreys attended for the prosecution, and
Mr. Sidney for the defence; and the court was
crowded to excess.
The prisoner, it may be recollected, called upon the
prosecutor, and representing himself as a merchant in
partnership with his brother, inspected some diamond
rings, eight of which he selected and ordered to be
sealed up in a box, and promised to return for them
with the money, but before he left the house he dex-
terously contrived to substitute another box 'for that
Which contained the rings, bearing an exact resem-
blance, but which when opened was found to contain
nothing but rags and two half-boiled potatoes. The