The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-28 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREET.

John Dower, a young fellow connected with a no•
torious gang of thieves, was brought before Mr,
A'Beckett, charged with assaulting Thomas Blencowe,
a clerk, residing at Horselydown, and attempting to
rob him, on the steps of London•bridge.
I'rosecutor stated that a little after twelve o'clock
on Saturday night last he was passing down the steps
of London-bridge, on the Surrey-side, towards
Tooley-street, when he pulled out amp money to
count it. While doing so he had the misfortune to

drop three or four shillings, and while picking them
up the prisoner ascended the steps and passed him.
He suddenly turned upon witness, and knocked him
headlong down the steps, and before he could recover
himself the prisoner kicked him on the head, but his
cries of " Murder" brought the police to his assist-
ance, when the prisoner ran away. He was, however,
found concealed under the arches of the bridge, and
taken into custody.
Mr. A'&CKETT asked whether any one was with
the prisoner at the time P Prosecutor replied that a
female was with him when he was attacked at the
bottom of the steps, and had not his cries been heard
by the police, they would have robbed him of all his
money.

ATECKETT—Did he say anything when he
was taken into custody? Prosecutor—All he said
was " that it was somebody else ;" and "he knew
nothing about the assault or robbery."
Mr. ATECHETT—What became of the female ?
Prosecutor—Sne made her escape as soon as I called
out murder.

Felice-constable 485 A said, while he was on duty
a little after twelve on Saturday night he heard cries
proceed from the steps of the bridge, and on going
there, he saw the prosecutor, who told him that he
had been ill-used by a man who no doubt intended to
have robbed him. Witness asked him which way he
ran, when prosecutor told him that he went under the
arches of the bridge. He accordingly searched there,
and found him crouched up in a corner. The prose-
cutor identified him, and gave him into custody.
Mr. ATECILL4T asked whether he was known to
the police ? Alfred Aylett, a police-constable of the
M division, said that four years ago he was sentenced
to two months' imprisonment for breaking into a
stable. He was afterwards in custody for stealing
plates from the North- Western Railway Company.
Mr. ATECKETT asked the prisoner what he had to
say ? Prisoner replied tbat he knew nothing about
the charge ; it must have been somebody else.
Mr. ATECYETT said it was his intention to com-
mit him for trial ; but, as it was likely other con-
victions might be proved against him, he should re-
mand him to give the constables an opportunity of
looking at, him.

WESTMINS7'EII.
Immediately after the disposal of the night charges,
Mr. BRODERIP said that, in the case of Captain
Nestor, who had been brought before him, charged
with stealing a watch, and who had subsequently
undergone an examination before a military medical
board, he had received the following commu-
nication :

" War•oflice, Jan. 25.
"Sir,—l am directed to acquaint you that it appears,
by the report of a military medical board, that Captain
Nestor, half-pay, lath Foot, is not competent to the
management of his own affairs, and that it is necessary,
For his future safety and welfare, thut he should be under
surveillance. The Secretary-at-War has accordingly
d, cided upon sending Captain Nestor for some time to
the Military Lunatic Asylum at Yarmouth, that he may
be treated by, and reported upon, by the military
medical officer in charge of that establishment. I am
accordingly to request that should you be enabled to
release Captain Nestor from civil custody, you will
authorise hi, being take❑ charge of by a non-commis-
sioned officer, who will be prepared with a route to con-
vey Captain Nestor to Yarmouth in safe custody, on
Monday morning.—I have the honour to be, Sir, your
obedient servant,

"K. C. KIRNY.

" W. J. Broderip, Esq."
Mr. BRODERIP observed, that under these circum-
stances, and believing that justice would be satisfied
by the unf'ortu❑ate gentleman's being handed over
to the military power, he should do so, in conse-
quence of Captain Nestor's not being a respo❑sible
agent.

The captain was then given into the custody of a
sergeant of the Coldstream Guards, who was in at-
tendance, to convey him to Yarmouth, but in a few
minutes Miss Nestor, his daughter, and the sergeant,
who hrkd left the captain in charge of another non-
commissioned officer, entered the court, and informed
the magistrate that as the unfortunate gentleman was
about to step into a cab which had been sent for to
convey him to the Eastern Counties Railway, a
sheriff's officer and his assistant had pounced upon
him and arrested him for a debt of 841. On the one
hand the sheriff's officer had threatened to bring an
action against the sergeant, if he took the captain out
of his hands ; and on the other, if he (the sergeant)
parted with the custody of his prisoner he was liable
to be tried by court-martial for disobedience of orders
The sergeant, therefore, asked the magistrate how he
was to act in the matter.

Mr. Bitonzair observed that he had no longer an 7

A young man, named Isaac Chamberlayne, was
placed at the bar before Mr. Arnold, charged with
having stolen 50 yards of manufactured silk and a
quantity of the raw material, the property of Messrs.
Walters and Dow, silk manufacturers, in Wilson.
street, Finsbury, and a man named Joseph Harris was
charged with having incited and abetted the other
prisoner in the commission of the robbery.
In appeared from the evidence that the father of
the lad Chamberlayne, who had been employed by the
prosecutors as a journeyman weaver for a consider-
able period, and had always borne the character of a
trustworthy respectable man, was entrusted by the
firm with a sufficient quantity of raw silk and other
necessary materials for the manufacture of 100 yards,
about 50 of which were completed on the morning of
Friday se'nnight, when he was suddenly called out
upon business, leaving his son at the loom, and on
returning home, some hears afterwards, he found
that the whole of the manufactured work had been
carried off, together with the remaining bobbins of
raw silk, and that the prisoner had absconded. He
immediately communicated the fact to his employers,
and exerted himself to the utmost to discover the
retreat of his son, whom he at length traced to
a beer-shop in the neighbourhood, and after up-
braiding him with the heartlessness of his conduct,
in involving him in such trouble and disgrace, at once
called in a policeman and gave him into custody.
When examined before Mr. Arnold upon the charge,
the prisoner denied all knowledge of the robbery, but
subsequently solicited an interview with Sergeant
Telkley, to whom he entered into a lengthened detail
of all the facts connected with it, and stated that
shortly after his father left home he went out him-
self, and happened to call upon Harris, who, on hear.
ing he had deserted the loom, menaced him with the
consequences of leaving his work unfinished, for which
he told him that he was liable to three months' im-
prisonment, and as only the same amount of punish-
ment would befal him if he made way with the work
altogether, proposed that they should proceed to the
house, to cut it out of the loom, and that he would
find a purchaser for it. He positively refused at first
to accede to the proposal, on account of the injury it
would entail upon his father, but was at length in-
duced, by the renewed threats and importunities of
the other prisoner, to consent, and Harris accompa-
nied him to the house, and remained at the door while
he abstracted the whole of the property, which
he delivered over to Harris, the latter suggest-
ing that he should leave the room door open to give
rise to a suspicion that the place had been entered by
skeleton keys. He afterwards met the prisoner by
appointment at a beer-shop in the evening, and re-
ceived from him 1/. 2s. 6d., which Harris stated to be
his fair share of the booty, as the whole of the manu-
factured silk had produced 21., and the entire eleven
bobbins of " shoot" had been sold for 3s. In conse-
quence of this disclosure the prisoner Harris was
at once taken into custody, and also lodged in the
station-house.
Mary Chamberlayne, the daughter of the poor
weaver, nine years of age, proved that on the day in
question, while her father was absent, her brother
and the prisoner Harris came to the house, the former
of whom gave her a penny to remain down stairs while
be went up to the work-room, from which he returned
in a short time with a large bundle, and both prisoners
left together.
The prisoner Harris made no reply to this state-
ment of his accomplice, and they were both remanded
for the formal completion of the depositions.
SOUTHI,VARK.