The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-13 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREET.

A stout elderly German of respectable appearance,
who has passed by the names of Rosenberg, Parre,
and Sandars respectively, was brought up before Mr.
Arnold, charged with obtaining various sums of
money from lodginghouse-keepers and others seder
false and fraudulent pretences.
The first case, which also involved a charge of
felony against the prisoner, was preferred by Mrs.
Emily Sutton, the wife of a wine merchant on Rich-
mond-terrace, Queen's-road, Dalston, who stated,
that on the 6th of May last the prisoner engaged
furnished apartments in her house at 30s. per week,
representing that he had just arrived from Bordeaux,
and had a large stock of silk and other foreign mer
chandise which be intended to dispose of in this coun-
try. He was supplied with board and every requisite
until the 10th or 11th of that month, when he told
her that a large consignment of rich velvets, laces,
&c., to the amount of between 4,000/. and 5,0001., had
just been made to him, and, as they were then under the
lock of the Customs, he should be obliged to her for the
loan of 6/.los. to makeup about 1801., which the charges
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never returned; and on examining her writing-desk,
which from the prisoner's apparent respectability she
left in the sitting-room he occupied, she discovered
that a small gold watch of trifling intrinsic value,
but highly prised by her as a gift from her mother,
together with a pocket-book, had been stolen. She
had since made inquiries at the Custom-house and
other places he had indicated, but could gain no in•
formation about him, and had ascertained that the
whole of his statement as to the extensive amount of
property consigned to him from France and Germany
was a fabrication.
The prisoner was given into custody upon the
second charge by the Rev. John Roberts, brother of
Mrs. Jane Richards, a lady residing in King-street,
Finsbury, at whose house the prisoner presented him-
self on the very day he absconded from that of the
last witness, and to whom, upon her asking him for
references as to respectability, he pulled out an appa-
rently well-filled purse, and exclaimed, " Reference ?
oh, yes, dis ist de best of reference:" and displayed so
much ease and indifference that she allowed him to take
possession without inquiry. He remained here,too, only
about a week, when he asked her fur the temporary
advance of 81. to pay Customs' dues upon French
merchandise, and as security for the amount volun-
tarily handed her two watches, which he stated to be
worth twenty guineas. 'The watches appeared to be
worth considerably more than that, and she there-
fore let him have the 81., which he engaged to return
in a couple of hours, but did not, and she saw no
more of him until he was given into custody by her
brother, who accidentally met him. In the interval
she directed the watches to be taken to a pawn-
broker's, to ascertain their value, and, having no use
for them, partly reimbursed herself for the loss by
accepting as large a sum as the pawnbroker would
advance upon them.
Messrs. Pickford and Roberts, pawnbrokers in Old-
street, produced the watches in question, pledged for
SI. 103 --the first a common metal one of an almost
worthless description, and the second a small gold
enamelled Geneva watch with chain, which was im-
mediately identified by the first witness as having
been stolen from her under the circumstances detailed
in her evidence.
A third charge was then preferredwer by a widow
named
Jane Gardner, of Wink th. pl ace, City-
road, of whom the prisoner took lodgings, about the
same time as in the last cases, as an extensive dealer
in French silks and velvets; and after trying to ge!
31. or 4/. of her upon similar pretences, which th,-,
widow had not got to lend him, at length accepted
1/. Bs., and absconded.
The prisoner in an unintelligible mixture of broken
German and English said the watch had been in-
trusted to him to get repaired by his landlady, but
said nothing in answer to the other charges.
Sergeant Tate said, since the prisoner had been in
custody he had been identified by numerous house-
holders whom he had defrahuedrheeed:sin a similar way of
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structive felonies; but, as there would be a very great
difficulty in establishing the fact that the accused
had no foreign goods at all consigned to him, which
would be somewhat equivalent to proving a nega-
tive, he should leave all the complainants so circluil•