The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-10 00:00:00

!EN IN (3, VEMBER 10, 1346.

THE BURGLARY BY A YOUNG
FEMALE AT EALING.
On Saturday, at the Brentford Petty Sessions, Hester
Elizabeth White, was finally examined on a charge of
burglary at the house of Mr. Jones at Ealing, some par-
ticulars of which have appeared in The Sun. Mr. Den-
ton, solicitor, of Gray's Inn-lane, attended for the pro-
secution.
The prisoner, when placed at the bar, appeared to be
in a very weak state from the effects of the cold she
caught in the commission of the robbery, and she was
accommodated with a chair. She was respectably
dressed, rather short, and in countenance looked a hand-
some gipsy.
Mr. Jones, having identified the property found at
the prisoner's lodgings as part of that stolen from his
house on Tuesday, October 20,
Emma Kent deposed that she had been in the service
of Mr. Jones for the last four years. The prisoner in
the month of September last came on a visit to witness
by Mr. Jones's permission, during his absence, and
stayed eight or nine days. On the 20th ult. she again
called on witness at Mr. Jones's, as she said, to bid wit-
ness good-bye before she went to a situation at Bedford.
She came about six o'clock, and left about nine o'clock.
Witness, with the servant next door, accompanied the
prisoner to the Ealing station of the Great We• tern
lteilrsay, and saw her take her departure by the quarter-
past ni©e o'clock train, which is the last to Paddington.
On that evening witness fastened up the house between
five an i six o'clock, and sprung the bars of the kitchen
window shutters. The next morning, when witness went
down stairs, she was greatly surprised at finding the
drawing-room door open, having seen it shut as
she went up to bed the night before, and on getting
into the kitchen she found that door shut which she had
left open, and the window shutters open, and the curtain
hanging down. She then saw on the window sill muddy
marks of some person having entered. Having searched
the house without missing anything, the gave infor-
mation of the circumstance to Mr. Jones. Saw nothing
suspicious in the prisoner's conduct the evening before
the robbery.
Inspector Loxton, T division, deposed to having re-
ceived information of the robbery on the morning of the
29th ult., and that he had examined the premises the
same day, when he found that the entry had been
effected by some flat instrument being introduced be-
tween the kitchen window-shutters, by which the bar
had been lifted up from the outside. Ho also found
footmarks, evidently of a female, on the lawn in front of
the kitchen window, and tracked them to the wall at the
side of the house, and over that in a field where he also
found the knife produced, which he had no doubt had
been used to open the window-shutter. The knife was
Mr. Jones's. Witness had since traced the stolen notes
front the Bank of England, into which they had been
paid through the hands of several tradesmen, and one of
them, No. 88,061, to have been paid by the prisoner to
a Miss Warren, of Hanway- street, Oxford-street, in the
purchase of two pairs of stays, to whom the prisoner had
given her real name and address. On Friday, the 30th
ult., witness went to No. 20, Crown-court, Pall-mall, and
was shown by Mrs. Lee, the landlady, to the prisoner's
room. On entering, he found the prisoner and
another female in the room, both undressed, having
just got out of bed. That was about ten o'clock
in the forenoon. He told the prisoner he was come to
apprehend her for the robbery at Mr. Jones's, atEaling,
the stolen notes having been traced to her, when
she became greatly agitated, and nearly fainted. In the
room he found wills and deeds and other documents
done up in a brown paper parcel, directed to Mr. Jones,
Woodland piece, Ealing, and under the pilloiv the stolen
desk produced, with the coins and most of the stolen
articles, except the notes and sovereigns. He then took
the prisoner into custody.
Sergeant Tull, T 22, deposed to conveying the pri-
soner to the station-house at Ealing by railway. At the
Paddington terminus the prisoner said she hoped Emma
Kent would not be discharged through the robbery, as
no one was to blame but herself (prisoner) ; and, in
addition, she said, " they can't say I took anything ex-
cept that," meaning the desk. She also said
.she had
folded up the wills and deeds with the intention of send
ing them back to Mr. Jones. Witness cautioned her
that what she said would be used against her, to which
she replied, " Never mind, I have no wish to conceal
anything."
The prisoner was further identified by Miss Warren,
who sold her the stays, as the person who gave her the
stolen 51. note ; and also by Mrs. Glover, a person to
whom she had given the stolen penholder ; and Mrs.
Lee, the landlady where she lived in Crown-court, de
posed to her coming home on the morning of the 21st
ult., about eight o'clock, wet through, and in an ex-
hausted state, and that she soon afterwards saw the
desk in the room, and the prisoner break it open.
The prisoner. who declined saying anything, was
committed.