The Sun.
London, England, 1860-01-04 00:00:00

ELOPEMENT' AND ROBBERY.

A ease was heard on Saturday before the Mayor
of Swansea, Mr. T.. E. Thomas, and a full bench of
magistrates of that borough, which excited a very
unusual amount of interest. Elizabeth Thomas, a
respectably-dressed and good-looking female, who
is the wife of Mr. D. Thomas, landlord of the Jersey
Arms Tavern, Orange-street, in that town, was
charged, in conjunction with Chas. Holloday, a pho-
tographic artist and concert singer, with having
stolen between £3O and £4O in gold and silver, a
a gold watch and guard-chain, gold Geneva watch' chain, silver hunting watch, several silver
spoons, articles of jewellery, &c., the property of
the husband of the first-named prisoner, and they
-were further charged with having forged and uttered
a certain order, purporting to be an order of the
said Daniel Thomas, whereby they had defrauded the
;trustees of the Swansea Savings Bank of the sum
of £9O. It appeared from the evidence that Mr.
Thomas and his wife had been married for nine
years, and that nothing had occurred to mar their
domestic happiness until. about Midsummer last,-
when the male prisoner came to the town, having
been engaged to sing at a series of concerts given
at Mr. Buskin's Music-hall. In some way he be-
came introduced to. Mrs. Thomas, whose affections
he succeeded in estranging from her husband. It
happened that Holloday had some knowledge of
the photographic art, and in order that he might
not have to leave the town he set up as a photo-
grapher, visiting Mrs. Thomas frequently, and re-:
ceiving clandestine- visits from her at his rooms.
In the early part of October they both absconded
from Swansea, 'and it .was then found that the arti-
cles enumerated, together with several boxes of bed
linen, clothing, and a variety of other articles, had
been carried off by them-from Mr. Thomas's house,
and that, moreover, they had presented two orders
professing to be signed by the husband, Daniel
Thomas, on the faith of which Mrs. 'Thomas was
paid two sums of £6O and £29 14s. Upon receiv-
ing intelligence of the flight of the putty' parties,
Mr. Superintendent Dunn, of the police force, in,•
stituted inquiries; and in consequence of informa-
tion he had been able to collect; he in the course of
last week went to London and put himself in com-
munication with Police-sergeant Lockyer, of the
Metropolitan Detective Force. In the course of their
,investigation they were induced to go to 111 rs.
Kieg's coffee-house, Seymour-street, Euston-square,
where they succeeded in apprehending the male
prisoner, who almost immediate) yr upon seeing the
Swansea superintendent said " I know very well.'
what you are come for," and immediately produced
to him a purse containing £l5 10s. in gold and Bs.
in silver. The officers told him they must search
him, and Mr. Superintendent Dunn was about •
to do so when he produced a silver pencil-case
and some other articles. In his pocket was found
the silver hunting watch which had been stolen
from the house, and a gold chain, to which was at-
tached a sovereign, gold seal, gold key, and gold
snap. At the request of the officers he agreed to
take them to where Mrs. Thomas was, and he then
conducted them to Gotha Cottage, Coburg-place,
Old Kent-road, telling them as ho proceeded with
them that Mrs. Thomas had given him all thethings
which were found in his possession, and had bought
the gold (Alain for him whilst he was in Swansea, of
a jeweller named Kerry, carrying on business in
High-s 4 et in that town. On reaching the cottage
already named the constables went up to Mrs.
Thomas's bedroom, where seeing them she said,
" Ah !.1 know what you are come for. I have been
otxpecting you." In the room they found the bed
linen, &e., and Mrs. Thomas handed them a gold
watch and chain. The prisoners were then taken by
rail to Swansea, and while on the road the man
Holloday said, " I'll make a clean breast of it. I
did g.tt a man to sign the order to get the. money
from the bank. I wish I had told you this last night,
for where you got the black box from is a purse.s
containing 50 guineas." In consequence of t
communication, the superintendent h
, after he had
deposited the wife at the Swansea lock,up, returned
to London With Holloday, and went with him to 3,
Cirencester-place, Marylebone. They saw% a person
named Smith, to whom Holloday said, " 1 hisis e
superintendent of police from Swansea. I
am come
to get the purse I left kith you." Smitl then handed
them a purse with 50 sovereigns, and said, " I used
the £2 10s. as you told me;" to which Holloday said
" Yes, it's all right." To support the charge of forgery,
Mr. J. W. Jones, actuary of the bank, produced the
forged orders, and identified Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas
as the person to whom he made the payments of £6O
and £29 14s, and a man named John Brown, alias •
Cui•tis, who was a singer at Buskin's Concert-hall,
clearly proved the complicity of the man Holloday.
He stated that the signatures both of Elizabeth
Thomas and Daniel Thomas were made by him at
the request of the male prisoner, who, having
induced him to stay with him at his lodgings,
asked him to write them on the order, stating
that he did not want to do it himself for a reason.
The nilgistrates considered that as one of the docu-
ments was not completed the charge of forgery
could not. be sustained, but ultimately they com-
mitted both prisoners for trial.

wTs CONSUMPTION INCURABLE ? Invalids labouring
under Consumptive 3laladies, and families who have
suffered !rent the ravages of ConsumptioJ (and what
family in the empire is there who has not to deplore a
loss caused by this scourge of the human rape ?) will find
a satisfactory answer to the qUestion, " Is Consumption In-
curable," in an original article by Dr. DENIS CRONIN,
M.D., 35, Bruton-street, Berkeley-square, W. Published in
the "household Physician," iu numbers, one penny each
by G. Berger, 19, Holyweil-street, Stritia From Ito 9 now
reedy.