The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-10 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
Thomas Allen was brought before Sir Robert W.
Carden charged with having robbed Thomas Young.
The prosecutor said—l came to London from New-
eastle-upon-Tyne in company with the prisoner, for
the purpose of seeing the Exhibition, and on Tuesday
last I left a carpet-bag and a basket, containing wear-
ing apparel and 91. in money, at the Punch Coffee-
house, in Bishopsgate Without, with the landlord.
The prisoner was with me at the time, and he and I
afterwards went together to a house near Astley's
Theatre, and I went into a shop to inquire for a friend,
and when I came out the prisoner was gone. Upon
my return to the Punch Coffee-house I learnt that my
property had been all taken away.:
Ellen E. Walker—l live at the Punch Coffee-
house. Between one and two o'clock on Tuesday the
prosecutor and the prisoner came together and had
some refreshment, after which they left a carpet-bag
and basket, and the prisoner said they would call
again for them. About half an hour afterwards the
prisoner returned by himself and left in the bar a
small bundle, which was deposited along with the bag
and basket.
It was proved by one of the servants of the house
that the prisoner called by himself between seven and
eight in the same evening, had some refreshment, and
asked for the bag, basket, and bundle, which were ac-
cordingly given to him.
The officer into whose custody the prisoner was
given said he had found 9/. in money of the descrip-
tion of that lost by the prosecutor upon him.
Sir R. W. CARDEN directed that very particular
inquiry should be made by the police into the case,
which had the appearance of being a very cruel
robbery.
The prisoner was accordingly remanded.
GUILDHALL.
Freiherr von Forster, describing himself as a
Knight of Starkenburg, and adjutant of the Ist
Regiment of Prussian Dragoons, was placed at the
bar before Mr. Alderman Wire, charged with stealing
three Bank of England notes for 201. each, the pro-
perty of Mr. Jordan ; and two notes, one for 101. and
another for 51., the property of Mr. Prevost, of
Ghent, from the York Hotel, New Bridge-street,
Blackfriars.
Thomas Quarterman said—l am the proprietor of
the York Hotel, New Bridge-street. I charge the
prisoner, who lodged in my house, with robbing the
portmanteaus of two gentlemen residing with me. I
don't know any of the circumstances connected with
the charge of my own knowledge, as my wife had
the chief management of the hotel.
Eliza Quarterman said—l am the wife of the last
witness. I remember the prisoner coining to our
hotel on the 19th of September last. He remained
with us about eleven days, and left on the 30th of the
same month. For the first four days he shared a
double-bedded room on the third floor with a
friend that came with him, and when his
friend left he (prisoner) removed to a single-
bedded room on the same floor, but in another
part of the house. There were other lodgers
on the same floor, among whom was a Mr. Prevost
occupying the room adjoining the prisoner's. Mr.
Prevost complained to me that he had been robbed of
a 101. and a 51. note, which had been abstracted from
his portmanteau, and shortly afterwards Mr. Jordan,
whose room was next to Mr. Prevost's, also com-
plained of a similar robbery, and stated that he missed
three 201. notes. In consequence of this I gave in-
formation at the Fleet-street station, and a detective
officer was sent to the hotel, and prisoner's luggage
was searched. Mr. Jordan discovered his loss on
Sunday, the 28th of September, and prisoner left on
the Tuesday morning following, having previously
paid his bill.
Sergeant Weale, No. 2, of the It division, said—
From information I received I went to Mr. Quarter-
man's Hotel on Monday, the 20th of September. I told
prisoner of the robbery that had taken place, and that
suspicion had fallen upon him, upon which he con-
sented that his luggage should be examined, and as-
sisted in unlocking his boxes and turning out all his
wearing apparel, but nothing relative to the charge
was discovered. On the following morning, about
five o'clock, prisoner called for a cab, and directed the
driver to convey him to the Dover Railway station.
From further information I received on Monday last,
to the effect that one of the missing notes had been
stopped at the Bank of England, and traced home to
the prisoner, I made inquiries, Mid found he had made
his way to the Adelphi Hotel, kept by Mr. Radley,
Liverpool. I then ascertained, by means of the
electric telegraph, that prisoner left there by the one
o'clock train on the 6th of the present month to come
to the Royal Hotel, Blackfriars ; but, on inquiry, I
found he had not been there at all. Acting upon
further information I went yesterday to Mr. Du-
bourg's Hotel, in the Haymarket, where I found
prisoner's luggage, and accordingly waited there for
him until he returned home, about seven o'clock in
the evening, when I took him into custody. Mr.
Dubourg objected to my removing the luggage, as
the prisoner's bill was still unpaid, so I locked up the
room and took the prisoner to the Fleet-street sta-
tion, where I searched him, and found a purse con-
taining Bs. 611. in silver and one penny in copper, a
pawnbroker's duplicate of an opera-glass, pledged at
Mr. Whistler's, in the Strand, and another of a gold
watch and Albert chain, pledged with Mr. Edward
Byford, of Liverpool, for 71., in the names of Vignatol
and Redhammur: also a returned paid cheque for
371., drawn in the name of Dubourg, a gold signet-
ring, a corkscrew, and two knives. I then went
back to Mr. Dubourg's hotel, and searched the pri-
soner's portmanteau, in the presence of May, the
officer, and several other persons. In addition to the
wearing apparel I found two netted bead purees, two
clasp purses, two small jewel-boxes, a leather bag
with clasp, three pocket books, and one sovereign in
money. This is the bunch of keys I received from
the prisoner. There are more than he had luggage
for, and some of them are blanks, while others seem
more fitted for picking locks than for any other
purpose.
Mr. Quarterman here said he had communicated
with Mr. Radley by telegraph, and received in answer
a letter, which he produced, stating that the prisoner
had been staying at the Adelphi Hotel, and that on
Sunday last the prisoner entered the apartment of a
Mr. Wombwell while that gentleman was at church.
Application was made to the Prussian Consul and the
detective police, but as the prisoner had paid his bill,
and Mr. Wombwell had gone into the country, he set
every one at defiance, and refused to open his port-
manteau on any account. Several tavern bills were
found on him, but the heads of them were torn off, so
that they afforded no clue to his previous movements,
and he was therefore allowed to depart.
Daniel May, a detective officer of the City force,
said—On receiving information of the robbery at the
York Hotel, and the numbers and dates of the missing
notes, of Mr. Jordan, I went to the Bank of England
and stopped them. On Saturday last I heard that
one of the 201. notes had been stopped, and, accord-
ingly, after some difficulty, succeeded in tracing it to
Mr. Quick, of Fenchurch-street, and from him to Mr.
Willis, of Armley, near Leeds. I went down to
Leeds, and asked Mr. Willis to account for his
possession of the stolen note, and that gentleman
stated that he was staying at Anderton's Hotel,
Fleet-street, on Sunday, September 28, when, about
half-past eight o'clock in the morning, a foreigner
(answering the description of the prisoner) came
in and called for breakfast, for which he tendered a
201. note in payment, and, the waiter having no
change, he (Mr. Willis) changed the note for him.
He also gave me a description of the notes he gave
the prisoner in change, and which have since been
presented at the same hotel. The numbers of the two
missing 201. notes are 24,774 and 17,798, and both
dated July the 9th, 1851. The number of the 101.
note is 92,103, and that of the 51., either 65,868 or
72,899, also of the same date.
William Henley said—l am a waiter at Anderton's
Hotel. I know the prisoner at the bar very well.
On Sunday, the 28th of September, I supplied him
with eggs and coffee for breakfast, which he finished
in about a quarter of an hour, and then taking out
his purse, from which he produced a 201. note, he
expressed a desire to pay for what he had had. I
opened it to see the amount, but not having
Willis,
change, I returned it to him, when Mr. who
was sitting at the same table, said, " That's 1
just what
I want, to relieve my pocket of this gold." I left Mr.
Willis to give prisoner the change, and on my return
prisoner paid me 2s. for his breakfast and 6d. for my-
self. I never saw prisoner before. He spoke very
good English when he asked for eggs and coffee.
May and Weale then applied for a remand of this
case, as they were in possession of certain particulars
that led them to believe that the prisoner had been
carrying on a regular system of depredations of this
nature both in the hotels on the Continent and those
in this country. His tavern bills, however, showed
that he had always appeared in the same name and
assumed the same rank.
Alderman WISH said, from the contents of Mr.
Radley's letter he considered it highly important that
further inquiries should be made. I-Ie was very de-
sirous that the Prussian Embassy should be applied to
to ascertain if prisoner really held the rank of adju-
tant in the Prussian army, and how he came to Enr
land. He would remand the case for as long a period
as the law would permit him, and he hoped that the
officers would exert themselves to have all the wit-
nesses ready for the next hearing of the case.
Remanded for a week.

THAMES.
Wilhelm Balser, a German, appeared before Mr.
Yardley, for the second time, on an adjourned sum-
mons, charging him with assaulting Catherina
Diebiel, a girl aged 16 years, whom he brought over
to this country, and was in the practice of beating
very frequently, and not allowing her sufficient food,
because she was unable to sell a sufficient quantity
of brooms to satisfy the cupidity of her brutal task,:
master.
The Rev. Dr. Cappel, the minister of St. George 5