The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-01 00:00:00

THE ROBBERY BY THE ORDNANCE CLERK AT PORTS.
mouTit.—Ge,,rgo Joseph Nathaniel Charher, whose ab.

scoodirig from Portsmouth on Friday last with 1,1301.
of the Gr)vernment mobeys was fully detailed in The

Sun ,f yesterday, was pla-ced in the dock of the Ports-
mouth police-court, beiore Mr. G. C. Stigent, the
Mayor, and other magistrates, yesterday noon, to answer

to the charge. The woman who was the companion of

hie flight (who is well known at the gaol and to the
police as El.ztbeth Jones, and who was captured in his
compan3) was placed in the dock with him. The nude
prisoner was admirably "got up" as a middle-agwd
widow, in weeds, and, having a cadaverous thin face,
pa,sed well for one who might have been supposed to
have lost " the prop that did sustain her house." His
apparel was nnplete, consisting of widow's cap, bonnet,
and crape veil, false hair in bands, black alpaca dress,
black cloth, lad's boots (he has a remarkably small

foot), open-worlied stcckings, white corded skirt, pocket
kerchief with widow'A hem, fur boa, and "spectacles on

nose." The evidence given by Mr. Alexander Stewart,
Storekeeper of the War Department ; Mr. Theakstone,
cashier of the BAnk of England ; Joseph Shepherd,
office keeper at the Gun• wharf ; and Mr. Superintendent
Leggatt, of the Portsin,luth police force, fully confirmed
the details given in our yesterday's revrt. The only
addition neces ary is relative to the manner of the cb.-
t,ction and capture of the prisoners, which was very

dexternusly eff..eted by Mr. Leggatt. It appears the
Drisoner Chat lier and his compinion 14ft Portsmouth on

Friday niuht by a fly, takmg the(lld..turne road
inland. The first stage they made way 'Pc ferefierl,l

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where they put up at the Dolphin Hotel, at d partook of
refreshment. From the Dolphin they posted on to Farn-
ham, whence on Saturday they posted on to Guildford
(White Lion Hot,l) ; thence to Esher, and thence to
Lordon ; and, the driver's horse being kno2ked up, he
put them down somewhere in Piccadilly- ; from this

Spot to various hotels and coffee-houses and packet-
stations, Mr. ',Ng: at prosecuted his search until he

came upon the fugitives at the Leopard C ffee house,
at the top of Fenehurch•street, Aldgate, where he found
the man dressed As de,erioed, but without the bonnet.,

and looking out of the window, and the woman very ex-
pensively atsired for a person of her class. Mr. Leggett
announced his name and duty, and took up a black
leather bag he saw beside the man, saying, "Is the
money here, Mr. (Shadier?" To which he replied, " The
principal part of the gold and silver is there, acid here
(producing from neder his sown a packet) are the whole
of tie notes. I have not broken them at all." (The
numbers of these notes corresponded with those spoken
of by Mr. Theakstone as having been paid the prisoner
partly in exchaege fir the check for the public salaries
on Friday). Mr. Leggett then took him into custody.
The neon ,ys recoverr ed amount t 1,1081. 14s. 61. In
the black bag were the whiskere &c., mentioned yester•
day, and some eaeve-s bank bags, with pieces, where
apparently a revue may have been cut out of each. Char-
ber then turned to his companion, and said—" Betsy,
I've deceived you ;" arid then added, " Mr. Leggett,
until five minutes since she was not aware but what the
m new I had were my own ; I told her I had 1,4001.
in the hank of my own, and she said, on my telling her
of it. ' You have deceived me, indeed ; 1 won't betray
you, but I'll not go any further with you. " This so far
exonerated the female prisoner from the suspicion of being
a. part/ceps criminis that the bench discharged her. Mr.
Seiainson, the Portsmouth agent to the solicitor for
the War Department, prosecuted for the Crown, and
Mr. Ford appeared for the prisoners ; and Charlier was
fully committed for trial at the ensuing sessions. He
preserved an unmoved hearing throughout, and stepped
from the dock to the mitt table and signed his state-
ment, "I have nothing to say," with a firm step and
flourishing style. His appearance created much mirth
in a large and not too select auditory in the gallery, and
the case altogether excit,d unprecedented curiosity,
owing to the prisoner's respectability and his remarkable
disguise.
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