The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-04 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Matthew Heath, a porter in the employ of Messrs. Cottam
and Hellen, general ironmongers, Oxford-street, was charged
with having robbed his masters ; and also with having robbed
Mr. Burton, of the late firm of Rippon and Burton, ,Oxford-
street, in whose service he had formerly been employed, of a
large quantity of miscellaneous property.
Police-sergeant Archer, G 8, said, from information he re-
ceived he proceeded to take the prisoner into custody, in
Oxford-street, on Saturday evening, the 25th of July, as he
was leaving his employers' shop. The prisoner threw away
a fish-slice, which witness afterwards ascertained had been
taken from his masters' premises. Witness proceeded to
make inquiries, and ascertained that the prisoner had within
the lag ten or twelve months disp3sed of a large quantity of
British plate and hardware goods to a general dealer, named
Tylor, living in Turnmill-street, Clerkenwell. Bowing up
his inquiries, witness from various places obtained a consi-
derable quantity of new property, portions of which were
identified as belonging to Messrs. Cottam and flallen, and
the remainder as the property of Mr. Burton.
A fish-slice, knives, forks, spoons, and other articles, were
fully identified, and the prisoner was committed to take his
trial.

The next charge was that made by Mr. Burton.
John Smart, foreman to Mr. Burton, said the prisoner
was in the employ of Messrs. Rippon and Burton, furnishing
ironmongers, Oxford-street, for about eight or ten months up
to last June. The prisoner left of his own accord, and there
were no suspicions against his honesty. Witness had seen a
large quantity of property which had been taken possession
of by the police, and he had no hesitation in swearing that it
was part of Mr. Burton's stock. The property consisted of
dozens of British plate spoons, forks, sauce-ladles, some can-
dlesticks, snuffers, trays, and other property. The property
had not been missed from the premises. Indeed, the stock
was so extensive, that if the stolen property had been twenty
times as much it would not have been missed.
Elizabeth Tylor, wife of William Tylor, general dealer,
Turnmill•street, said she had often seen the prisoner come
out of Messrs. Rippon and Burton's shop, and give her hus-
band packages of spoons and forks resembling those now
produced. Her husband had been accustomed to have deal-
ings with the prisoner for a considerable period.
A clerk and accountant, named Pocock, in whose posses-
sion much of the property had been found, said he knew
Tylor from having purchased trifling articles at his shop. At
the request of Tylor, who said he was in want of money, wit-
ness bought the property found by the police at his house.
The prisoner was fully committed on the second case.
THAMES.

Laura Sophia Rossiter, aged 14, the daughter of a hair-
dresser, whose brother is now awaiting his trial for highway
robbery, was charged with stealing a book, a pewter milk-
pot, and various other articles, from the dwelling-house of
Charles Henry Wenger, a cow-keeper and dairyman, of No.
13, IScaumont-street, Mile-end.
It appeared from the evidence, that the prosecutor's busi-
ness called him out at five o'clock every morning, and his
wife also quitted her home two hours afterwards, and left
her dwelling for some time in charge of a little boy, only
six years of age. The prisoner, whose penatsrleside in
Globeroad, became aware of the circumstance,
the practice of calling almost every morning in Beauwmaosnr
street, tre sting the boy with sweetmeats, and abstracting
any portable article she could lay herhands on. Mr.
Wenger had repeatedly missed things for the last five or
six months, without being able to detect the thief, and one
morning last week he missed several new laid eggs. On
making inquiry, he ascertained from his child, that the pri-
soner had been there during the absence of the prosecutor
and his wife. The girl, at usual, treated the boy with sweet
things, and after she had abstracted the eggs, called upon
a woman in the neighbourhood, and asked her to boil one
for her breakfast. The woman complied with this request,