The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-03 00:00:00

LAMBETH.

After the other business of the court had been dis-
posed of, Matthew Williams, a well-dressed young
man, of rather respectable appearance, and who had
been brought from the Mansion- house, was placed at
the bar before Mr. Elliott, on a charge of receiving
a silver pencil-case, and other articles, the property of
Mr. Henry Isaacs, from a young woman named Mary
Ann Boreham, with a guilty knowledge that they
had been stolen.
Mr. Gilham appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
Hobler for the defence.
Mr. Gilham having briefly stated the outline of
the case, called
Mr. Henry Isaacs, a City officer, and officer to the
Committee of London Bankers, who stated as fol-
lows :—About the middle of July last I missed several
articles from my residence, 157,I,Fenchurch-street, and
my wife, in consequence, spoke to a young woman
named Mary Ann Boreham, then in my service, re-
specting them. My wife told me—
Mr. Hobler—You must not tell us what your
wife told you, as that cannot be evidence against the
prisoner.
The magistrate having ruled this in Mr. Hobler's
favour,
The witness, Mr. Isaacs, said—On the 15th of
August the young woman Boreham disappeared from
my service, and, from what I had beard, I on the
Monday following called on the prisoner at the place
of business of his master. Mr. Byass, a wine merchant,
in Langbourne-chambers, which is nearly opposite to
my residence, and where he holds the situation of
messenger: On seeing him, I said, " Matthews, do
you know anything of my servant girl ? " and his
reply was, "I never saw the girl." I then left; but
from what I subsequently heard, I went back, and
saw the prisoner. Addressing him I said, " Mat-
thews (for such was the name I called him), you
know where the girl is, I am certain, and if you do
not tell me, I shall see Mr. Byass." The prisoner re-
plied that I might, with pleasure ; and I went into
Mr. Byass's office. When the prisoner was called in,
Mr. Byass, upon being informed of the circumstances
asked the prisoner what he knew of the affair; upon
which the prisoner began to laugh, and his master
checked him, and remarked that it was no laughing
affair, but, on the contrary, a very serious matters
and requested me to put such questions to him as I
might think proper. I then said, "Did you ever see
the girl ?" He replied, "No." I then asked if stie
had ever given him anything, and he replied that she
had given him an apple. I then said, "I have lost
such a description of articles as are likely to come
into the possession of such a person as you,,, and
produced a card containing a list of the things, and
stated what a part of them were. The prisoner then
said, " I havegot the slipper-tops, they were given to
me by a young woman of the name of Hannah, a
servant to Mr. Swift." I asked him his address, and
he said "fl, Church-street, Kennington," but added
that he also lived at Hanscomb-crescent, Union-row,
Clapham, for be had hardly removed. I then said
" I shall take you into custody for having in your
possession things that have been stolen from me," and
I did take him into custody. At the station-house
he was searched, and a cigar-case was found in his
breast pocket belonging to me. I have since seen
the pencil •case, penknife, and the worked slipper-tops,
found at the lodgings of the prisoner, and also a gold
pin, found on a young woman at Camberwell, to
whom the prisoner had given it, and identified all as
my property. On the 27th of August I received in-
formation that the girl was discovered drowned in a
pond near Brixton, about a mile and a half from the
prisoner's lodgings, and at a place where she had
never, lam convinced, been before. The shawl,
apron, shoe, and bonnet produced were those worn by
the girl when she left my house on the 15th of
August, and the pin, pencilcase, and some other ar
tick ir
on
safe. I have spoken of, were stolen from a small
safe.

City police-constable Charles Dodd, 511, deposed
to finding the articles produced on the person and at
the lodgings of the prisoner.
Harriett Simmonds, a good-looking young woman,