The Sun.
London, England, 1851-06-25 00:00:00

a party at Croydon, who is privileged to buy all the
cast-off uniforms in that place.
Alderman FAREBROTHER—Very well; we will make
inquiry into it, and see if your statement he correct.
Prisoner—l hope you will admit me to bail. I bought
the articles, alleged to be stolen, from an old man that I
met in Devonshire-square; and if I am allowed to be at
liberty I may, perhaps, be able to meet with him again.
Alderman FAREBROTHER—Under the circumstances,
I feel I should not be justified in accepting bail.
Prisoner—l assure you lam innocent your Worship.
Alderman FAREUROTHER—I cannot help it. I shall
remand you for a few days.
The prisoner was then remanded, and bail was re-
fused.

SOUTHWARK:.
Yesterday Frederick Cornelius Lewis, a young man of
respectable appearance, was placed at the bar before Mr.
A'l3eckett, charged with stealing two 51. Bank of England
notes, and Iwo sovereigns, from the purse of John Jen-
lunge, a seaman, recently paid off from one of her
Majesty's ships.
Mr. Clarke, box keeper of the Victoria Theatre, stated.
that on the preceding night, while in the box-lobby of
the theatre, his attention was drawn to the complainant,
who was sitting between the prisoner and a female in the
saloon. The complainant appeared to have been drink.
ing, and he held iu his hand a 51. note, which was torn in
the middle, and he asked the prisoner to give him up two
other 51. notes which he said he had belonging to him.
Witness, uron seeing the state of the complainant, and
hearing him demand the restoration of his money, went
up and spoke to the prisoner, asking him if had the
sailor's two 51. notes. The prisoner immediately
produced two 51. notes, and said the complainant gave
them to him to keep, adding that the sailor was a friend
of his, and that they both came up that day from
Rochester by the train. Witness took the two 51. notes
from the prisoner, who wanted them back again, ex-
claiming that he was only keeping them safe for the
owner until he was sober. The prisoner also asserted
that the woman sitting with him was his sister, and the
sailor having afterwards stated that the prisoner had
some gold belonging to him, he (witness) called forward
Murray, the officer of the theatre, and gave the prisoner
into custody.

The prisoner here ejaculated—" As the case has taken
so serious a turn, I should wish to have a solicitor
in attendance to defend me from such an accusation."
Mr. ATECKETT—Do you wish to put any questions
to the witness?

Prisoner—The greater part of what he states is
wrong. I was not sitting by the sailor's side at the time,
nor did I say the woman was my sister.
In reply to Mr. A'Beckett, the witness said ho had
correctly described what took place in the saloon.
Murray, the constable of the theatre, confirmed that
portion of Mr. Clarke's evidence which related to the
prisoner having asserted that the sailor was his friend—
that they had come up by the train from Rochester the
same day, and that the woman in company was his
sister. Murray added that he searched the prisoner,
and in his pocket found a
phial half full of laudanum, a
sovereign and a half in geld,
knife. besides some silver and a
The sailor was next examined, and he stated that he
was paid off from the Wellesley, and came up from
Chatham on the previous day. When the train arrived
at London-bridge he was looking after his luggage,
when the prisoner came up and offered to assist him,
and a woman whom he called his sister was with him.
They all left the terminus together, and they afterwards
went into several public-houses and bad beer and rum,
and finally the prisoner proposed that they should visit
one of the theatres. They then went to the Victoria,
and while in the theatre the prisoner and the woman
asked him how much money he had, and he told them
he had three 51. Bank of England notes and three sove-
reigns. They then advised that he should give one of
them the money to keep for him in case of accidents,
and as he supposed the woman to be the prisoner's sis-
ter he handed her over the notes and sovereigns. He,
however, on reflection, thought he had done wrong in
entrusting his money to the hands of strangers, and he
was in the act of demanding it back, when the first wit-
ness came into the saloon and interfered; that when he
called upon the woman to restore the money she refused,
and the prisoner pulled one of the notes, that which was
torn, out of his pocket and gave it to him, but he refused
to give up the others until they were demanded by the
boxkeeper, and ho then gave up the two other 51. notes
to that gentleman.

Mr. A'BECRETT, in allusion to the phial of laudanum
found on the prisoner, asked the sailor what liquors he
had been drinking in the company of the prisoner and
the woman, and whether they had an opportunity given
them of mixing anything of a deleterious character in
the drink.

The complainant, in reply, said in some places they
had beer and rum before the bar, and at other houses
they went into the parlour and had liquor there; that he
did not attend much to what they were doing, as he was
so overjoyed to get ashore.
Mr. A'BEcLErr—Then the prisoner did not come up
with you from Chatham? Complainant—I never, saw
him until he offered to assist me with my luggage at the
terminus at London-bridge.
In reply to other questions, he said that he had paid
for all the liquor they had; that he believed he changed
a sovereign for the purpose.
Mr. ATECKETT inquired what had become of the
woman whom the prisoner called his sister, and who
acted such a prominent part in the _transaction?
Murray said that she was not taken into custody. That
he saw her in the court before the case was called on,
but that she had since left the place altogether.
Mr. ATEcKErT (to prisoner)—Do you wish to ask
the sailor any questions? Prisoner—l only wish to
ask him whether I did not advise him at our house to
take soda water instead of grog, and that I paid for it?
The complainant said he had no recollection of such a
circumstance.

Prisoner exclaimed—My character is at stake. I
wish to have the matter sifted before any decision is pro-
nounced.

Mr. ATECSETT—You may depend upon it that the
whole of the circumstances shall be thoroughly investi-
gated, and for that purpose I shall remand you until
Thursday.