The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-25 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Nov. 24.

Thomas Macintosh, 23, and Ellen Madden, 20,
were indicted for stealing the sum of 4/. and a watch-
chain, the property of James Connor.
The prosecutor's wife—a smart, good-looking,
young Irishwoman—deposed that she was in service,
and that her husband had a situation at Camden-
town. On the night of the 9th instant they met by
appointment, and went to a lodging house in the
neighbourhood of St. Giles's, and hired a lodging for
the night, and she, having undressed, placed her
pocket, which contained three sovereigns, two half-
sovereigns, and a watch-chain, under the pillow. As
she was about to get into bed, the female prisoner,
who was a kind of servant in the house, entered the
room and told her that the bed belonged to a young
man lodger, and asked for the key of the room, but
neither she nor her husband was willing to remain if
the key were taken away, and accordingly they put
on their clothes and left the room, the prisoner having
persisted in demanding the key. On reaching the
street she recollected that she had left her pocket
under the pillow, and at her request her husband
went back to the room for the purpose of getting it,
but he did not succeed.

Frem the evidence of a police-constable, and a
confession made by the female prisoner before a ma-
gistrate, it appeared that after Connor and his wife
left the room, she (prisoner) found the pocket under
the pillow, and gave it to the other prisoner, who was
in the room with her, and he left the house with it.
Mrs. Connor gave Madden into custody, and from
what she communicated to the police Macintosh was
taken into custody on the following day. Madden
admitted that she took the pocket, and said she gave
it to the other prisoner, who, however, when called
upon for his defence at Bow-street, positively contra
dieted her. Madden's confession was put in as
evidence.

Mr. O'BRIEN addressed the jury for Macintosh,
urging that, independently of Madden's statement,
which could not legally affect him, there was nothing
to implicate him.
Mr. WilliAm, in summing up, told the jury that
what had been said by Madden with regard to Macin-
tosh could not be received as evidence against him, but
was very important as regarded her.
The jury found both prisoners Not Guilty.
Mr. tVITHAM —Both not guilty ! Well, gentlemen,
that's certainly a strange ♦erdict after the woman has
confessed the fact.

The Foreman said at any rate their verdict would
have been one of acquittal as regarded the man ; but
they understood the Learned Judge to say that they
were not to take the confession into consideration
at all.

Mr. WITELkm said he did not say anything of the
kind, but as the verdict was recorded he should not
interfere.

The Foreman said they thOught the prisoner ought
to be acquitted, because the probecuLrix's husband and
the landlady of the house were not called.
Ur. Wawa:l—Well, she confessed her guilt, (To

the prisoner)—A special note will be made of this, and
if you ever come here again you will most certainly
be transported.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSIO.N-HOUSE.
D. TV. Hunter, a man employed in the warehouse
of Messrs. Hyam and Co., of 59 and 60, Houndsditch,
was brought up in the custody of Funnell, of the City
detective police, for final examination before Alder-
man Wire upon the charge of having robbed his em-
ployers. Mr. Hobler appeared for the prosecutor.
Funnell having received information from those
who suspected the prosecutor of dishonesty, watched
him on the evening of the 6th of November, and fol-
lowed him from place to place until a proper oppor-
tunity of apprehending him occurred. A young man
of respectable character,-who knew the prisoner, and
was in his company on the night of the apprehension,
was also taken into custody, and having had dealings
with the prisoner, was very near being seriously im-
plicated in the charge; but it appeared, upon strict
investigation of the case, that there was no ground for
the accusation.
The prisoner was committed for trial.
Waller Bodges was charged with having robbed
his employers, Messrs. Rogers and Co., of thirty-four
yar.ls and a half of merino, value 6/ 18s.
Inspector Mitchell took the prisener into custody
at the warehouse of his employers in Watling-street,
and upon telling him with what he was charged, re-
ceived from him a full acknowledgment of the offence,
with the addition that he had committed other rob-
beries upon his masters, and sold the articles he had
stolen to his mother.
O'her evidence of the guilt of the prisoner was
produced, and the prisoner was committed.
William Rastall was charged with having broken
into the warehouse of Edgecombe and Sturgeon, of
Bread-street, trimming manufacturers, his employers,
and stolen 2/. 23.4 d.
Inspector Mitchell—l was informed that the pri-
soner was suspected of having broken open the desk
in the counting-house of the prosecutors, and I took
him into custody. At the Bow-lane station-house
he told me that be had one shilling about him, but I
found a sovereign in one of his boots. I asked him
what he had done with the other sovereign, and he
replied that he had lost it in the Blackfriars-road.
It was proved by witnesses in the employment of
the prosecutors that the prisoner, who performed the
duty of messenger, had gone to the warehouse at an
earlier hour than usual, and had gone down through
a trap-door in the passage into the cellar, from which
there is another trap-door leading to the warehouse,
which latter trap-door it is supposed he had left un-
locked the night before, in order to take advantage of
that mode of entrance at a seasonable opportunity;
that he had been seen returning from below by a ser-
vant girl; and that he had gone away contrary to
custom immediately afterwards without permission of
the clerks.
The prisoner was committed.
David Barnard was brought up for final examina-
tion upon the charge of having stolen several watches,
the property of his employer, Mr. Tand Gorr.
The prosecutor said that while he was in a deplor-
able state of sickness, which at one time it was sup-
posed would have been fatal, the prisoner, who had
the complete command of the valuable property in the
shop, robbed him in one night of thirteen watches,
and that since that robbery had been detected twelve
more watches had been missed from the premises.
The officer who apprehended the prisoner said he
confessed that be had committed the plunder of the
thirteen watches, and that he had been urged to rob
the unfortunate invalid by a man named Friedeburg,
who contrived to rob the original thief, and never
gave him a share of the proceeds.
The prisoner was committed.
William Rewe was committed for embezzling 101.,
which he had received for his master, Mr. E. M.
Williams.
The ALDERMAN regretted that be seldom or never
sat on the bench without being obliged to send for
trial parties charged, and in many instances under
circumstances proving the deep ingratitude of the
accused, with having committed robberies upon their
employers.
GUILDHALL.
William James Milson, a respectably-dressed dimi-
nutive individual, representing himself as a Quaker,
who has from time to time appeared in the aliases of
" Chadwick and Co." architects and civil engineers;
" James Wm. Harris," surgeon; " Wm. Williams,"
solicitor; and lately resided at 28, Broad-street-
buildings, was placed at the bar before Alderman
Carter, charged with obtaining money under fraudu-
lent circumstances.
Mr. Tann, of Worship-street, attended for the pro-
secution, and stated that the charge against the pri-
soner was that of obtaining 81. ls. from the father of
one of the pupils that had been articled to him, for the
purpose of purchasing books and instruments, but
which had not been laid out. Prisoner also told the
father that he was a Quaker and a preacher at one of
the meetings, which satisfied the party as to his re-
spectability ; but shortly after it was found prisoner
had bolted, and the offices in Broad-street-buildings
were deserted. He was next found at Hoxton, prac-
tising as a medical man in conjunction with another
party, under whose treatment a child three weeks old
died. The next that was seen of him was at the old
offices in Broad-street-buildings, where he appeared
as a solicitor under the name of Wm. Williams.
Numberless letters have been intercepted, addressed
to the prisoner, in the various aliases he has assumed,
containing half bank-notes to a considerable amount,
in answer to advertisements which he has
inserted in an Irish paper. In consequence of
the death of the child, a Mr. Austin waited
upon the prisoner, who represented himself as Mil-
son, the rejected Member for St. Albans, at
the last election, and at length offered Mr:Aus-
tin 11/. or 121. to let him off, which that gentleman
refused, and then took prisoner into custody.
Thomas Hartrop, ironmonger of 96, Upper-street,
Islington, said, in consequence of an advertisement he
saw in the Times, in August last, he went to 28,
Broad-street-buildings and saw the
prisoner, who
then appeared as " Chadwick and C 0.," and said he
was a civil engineer, and his partner's name was
Milson. He also said he had lost the last election for
the borough of St. Albans, and that he was a preacher
and a Quaker, and a member of the Society of Friends,
upon hearing which witness concluded that he was
placing his son under the tuition of a very respectable
person.
Prisoner here said he was a Quaker.
Witness—And upon the faith of these representa-
tions he tendered prisoner 6/. in addition to 1/. ls. for
the indenture stamp, for which he gave witness a re-
ceipt, signed in the name of " Charles Chadwick."
There was no premium required, but a sum of 301.
was to be handed over to the prisoner for the purchase
of books and instruments which the pupil would re-
quire. Witness afterwards gave him another sove-
reign, and the only things that had been bought for
his son were a small drawing:board and a few books
of trifling value. Witness did not obtain a copy of
the articles or indenture until some altercation had
taken place between him and the prisoner relative to
certain suspicions he had about the latter's conduct.
On the 9th of November instant, he learned from his
son that prisoner had vanished with the whole of his
architectural apparatus, and that the offices were quite
deserted.
Prisoner (interrupting witness) said they were not
removed by him.
Witness said his son's time was almost wholly oc-
cupied cops ing out various kinds of advertisements
to send to the newspapers. After visiting the pre-
mises several times, witness found the name of " Chad-
wick and Co." erased from the door, and in its place
" Williams and Co., solicitors," the former name
having been transferred to another door.
Prisoner, notwithstanding the Alderman's advice to
hold his tongue, said he had taught the youth during
the time he was with him specifications, taking out
quantities, and other preliminary points.
Alderman CARTER thought prisoner knew much
better how to take in quantities.—(Laughter.)
Mr. Austin, Shepperton-cottages,: New North-
road, said, in consequence of information he received
from Dr. Young, he went to the prisoner's house in
Murray-street, in the same road, where he was resid-
ing as Dr. Harris. " When witness saw him, he
asked him what he wanted, and he said he was Dr.
Harris. Witness said he wished to know if he (pri-
soner) was permitting a Mr. Bellares to attend his
(prisoner's) patients, as a child bad lately died
under his treatment. Prisoner said he knew Mr.
Bellares to be a very respectable young man, and told
witness not to mind, for he would bring Mr. Bellares
through the difficulty, as he (prisoner) was at the
top of the tree in his profession.—(Great laughter.)
Witness then said Bellares was in Dr. Young a ser-
vice, and that prisoner had no right to tamper with
him in that way. On Sunday witness went to Mer-
rion-square, Hackney-road, and saw prisoner with a
man who said his name was Wilson. Witness told
prisoner he wanted him to go to the police-station to
explain certain matters, but he refused to go, and
said the man with him was Mr. Wilson, his clerk,
and would give any explanation that might be re-
quired. Witness advised him to go quietly, as he did
not intend to let him go. Prisoner then appealed to
him as a father and a gentleman to have compassion
on him, and said he had been driven to the commis-
sion of many acts that be would otherwise shrink
from, but having offered himself as a representative
of the borough of St. Albans, he was reduced to very
great distress. He then offered witness 121. to let him
go, and say nothing more about it, which he, how.
ever refused, and taking a paper from his pocket,
showed prisoner the following advertisement in the
Belfast Chronicle of the 22d October of the present
year :
" MONEY ON MORTOACE.—A physician is desirous of
lending 6,4001., to be lent in one sum or smaller sums,
at five per cent. interest. Persona requiring the above
may forward all particulars to Mho, Ora of Dr. air-