The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-04 00:00:00

GUILDHALL.

A respectably-dressed man natued James hare, of
No. 11, President-street, King's-square, was placed
at the bar in custody of Richard Cook, 346, on the
chargo of obtaining under false pretences four shawls
and one length of satinet, of the value of 8/.

During the time the evidence was being taken
down the Court was crowded with tradesmen in the
City who had been victimiKAl to a very considerable
extent by the prisoner, who, there was not the slightest
doubt, was connected with others.

Mr: R. Farmer, of No. 16, Ludgate-hill, said on
the 19th of August the prisoner came to my shop
and said he was going into the country, and should
he glad if I would let him take four shawls, as he had
an opportunity to dispose of two of them. I replied
that perhaps it would be better if he went to a whole-
sale house, where he would get them cheaper than
from me, but he said he did not know where to go
to get tha precise sized shawl. Having known him
for some years, I at last ordered my assistant to let
him have them, and on being asked for his address he
gave his residence as being at King's-square, Goswell-
street, and went away with the articles. On the
Monday following he again called while I was

absent, and informed my assistant that he bad sold
two of the shawls, and that he had no doubt he could
sell the others, but that he wanted a length of black
satinet for one of them.
It was intimated that another prisoner, who was at
the Mansion-house, was to be brought here for the
purpose of implicating him in the transactions with
Hare, and, accordingly, the case was adjourned for a
short time, when a young man named Charles
Rehden was placed in the dock, and
Michael Haydon, 21, of the City detective force,
deposed to the following effect :—I charge Rehden
with obtaining three sovereigns from me under false
pretences. At eleven o'clock this morning I met the
prisoner, by appointment, in Red Lion-street, John-
street-road, Islington, for the purpose of receiving
information to enable me to apprehend the prisoner
Hare. Rehden said, "If you place in my hand three
sovereigns I will give you information which will
enable you to take Hare." I said, "If you enable me
to recover the property I will do so." He replied
that he would; upon which I placed the money in his
hands, when he turned round with:a laugh, and said
I might go to the station-house, and I should there
find him in custody. I asked him to return the
money, when he told me I might do my best
and worst, for that he should not return it; in
consequence of which I took him into custody, and
on being searched at the Bow-lane station I found,
among other things, a duplicate relating to a piece of
satin belonging to a person now present, but which
he said had been given to him by Hare. I then went
to his lodgings in Fowler-street West, and saw his
mother and sister, who pointed out a portmanteau to
me. It was in the prisoner's room, and was repre-
sented as belonging to Hare. I took possession of it,
and Webb, another officer who accompanied me, had
a desk. In the portmanteau I found a number of
duplicates to the amount of between fifty and sixty.
When I conversed with Rehden on the previous day,
he told me that he knew where the duplicates were,
as also where the portmanteau, but would not tell me
until he got the money. I got the information from
the prisoner that Hare was in custody after he got
the money. I got other information after he was in
custody, but not from the prisoner.
Rehden—l told you at the station-house where the
portmanteau was.
Heydon—You did not. I found 68 duplicates of
different kinds of property, a number of which were
pledged in the name of Rehden ; and I also found the
various invoices relating to that property, a portion of
which could be identified by persons now present.
At any rate, I think if they were remanded I could
establish between twenty and thirty against them.
A number of tradesmen here said they had been
swindled in a similar manner.

Alderman MOON asked the prisoners if they wished
to say anything ?
Rehden said that he certainly pawned some of the
things, as the other prisoner, who was a distant
relation, said they were the remains of his bankrupt
stock.

Alderman Moox said the charge was of so serious
a nature, and it having, as far as the evidence went,
been proved that a regular system of swindling had
been carried on, that he must remand them both until
Tuesday next.
Rehden asked to be, admitted to hail, but his appli-
cation was refused.

Hare then made a similar request, when a general
laugh throughout the court took place, in which he
himself joined, but as a matter of course, that was
refused also.