The Sun.
London, England, 1832-11-09 00:00:00

HATT ON- GARDEN.

Yesterday, Eleanor Goderich, a beautiful-looking
girl, aged 16, and Esther Reeves, aged 15., were
brought up for final examination, charged by Mr.
James Bennett, a mining agent, of Sr. Austle, Corn-
wall, with having robbed him of property, consisting
of gold, silver, bills of exchange, securities, and other
documents, of the value of 600/.
Edward Hutton, a fellow of forbidding aspect,
aged 19, and William Herne, alias Honest Bill, were
also charged on suspicion of having been concerned
in the robbery, or receiving the property knowing it
to be stolen.
Mr. Bennett now has a temporary residence dur-
ing his stay in town at the Queen's Arms Tavern,
Cheapside. On Tuesday, the 30th of October, he
arrived in London from St. Austle, Cornwall, for
the purpose of transacting some business, when he
brought with hire his pocket-book, containing
money, bills of exchange, securities, miming shares,
and other documents, of great value. About eleven
o'clock at night he was walking along Holborn, and
he asked the prisoner Goderich, whom he met,
whether she could recommend him to comfortable
lodgings, to which she answered in the affirmative,
and she led him to a place in St. Giles's, and intro-
duced him to an apartment of the meanest descrip-
tion, in which he found the prisoner Reeves in bed
upon the floor. He said the lodgings would not suit
him, and was preparing to leave the house, when
Goderich told him she would procure him a more
suitable place, and he made her a present of some
silver ; Reeves jumped up and commenced dancing
about the room, while Goderich ran out and brought
in a mug, which she said contained liquor, and pre-
sented it to him to partake of, which he did, and in a
few seconds he became so drowsy that he fell into a
sound sleep, from which he did not awake until
about half-past three o'clock in the morning, when
he found himself stripped of his coat, shoes, and
other property, and the prisoners Goderich and
Reeves gone. He made an alarm, and was nearly
deprived of his senses on finding his loss, and he
remained in the house until Sergeant Palmer, of E
division, No. 5, came and provided him with clothes,
and took him to the station-house.

Mr. ROGERS inquired whether he saw anybody
else but the prisoners Goderich and Reeves while
he was in the house?

Mr. Bennett did not. He was a stranger in Lon-
don, or he should not have gone to the place. He
had since understood it was known by the name of
"Rat's Castle," and the " Rookery," a most noto-
rious receptacle. He was happy to say that the
prisoners could not avail themselves as to the pro-
perty, and he had stopped payment of other bills at
the Bank, &c. He had, since the robbery, traced his
coat to the possession of the prisoner Hutton, but
had not heard of the remainder of his property.
George Palmer, the police-sergeant mentioned
above, described the situation in which he found
Mr. Bennett. He apprehended Goderich the same
evening. On charging her with the robbery she
was silent, and in their progress to the station-
house he met Reeves, whom he also took into
custody. A crowd assembled,and a voice exclaimed,
" Honest Bill has got the money." Having a know-
ledge of the prisoner Herne, who is generally known
in St. Giles's by that appellation, he proceeded to
a flash-house and apprehended him. Esther Reeves
was the first to speak, and she stated that she would
tell the truth at the office. She then said, " After
the prosecutor drank out of the mug and went to
sleep, we (Gode rich and herself) robbed him of
his coat, boots, and Bfd. On leaving the house we
met with William Herne, and returned with him
into the room, and while in the dark searched the
prosecutor's pockets, when Herne took the pocket-
book, and put it into his breast-pocket. On arriving
a short distance from the house he demanded some-
thing to think on which Goderich took out the
handkerchief containing the property, and he
snatched it from her and ran off.
Robert Hewson, a police constable, apprehended
Hutton, and found in his possession the duplicate of
a coat, which proved to be Mr. Bennett's.
William Randall, a police-constable, stated that
Hutton had said to him, " You are too fast, you'll
get nothing from me by that; if you had not been
so fast the whole of the papers, and other property,