The Sun.
London, England, 1832-04-24 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

John Ellis, alias Robert Adams, was charged un-
der the following circumstances :—Viscount En-
combe said, that on Sunday the prisoner called on
him, in Piccadilly, and said he came from Captain
Mangles, of the Robert Bruce, to ascertain whether
Robert Adams, who had been apprehended by the
Thames Police, was the same person whom his
Lordship had recently assisted. He instantly re-
coenized the prisoner as the person who in February,
1830, called on him and said his name was Adams,
and had come to pay him 10s. which he had lent
him two years back. On refusing to take the
money, he begged a handkerchief as a keepsake,
which his housekeeper gave to him.
The prisoner here took a large handkerchief from
his neck, and impudently said, " This is the one,
your Lordship."
Viscount Encombe said the fellow was one who
practised upon the credulity of gentlemen by making
up a story of gratitude for a pretended benefit con-
ferredon him some time back. He had no doubt
the ptisoner's object in calling was to practise a fresh
trick on him.

The Prisoner impudently said, he just called on
his Lordship to thank him for past favours. As he
gave an unsatisfactory account of himself, he was
committed for trial.

Thomas Wright, late house steward to the Earl
of Belfast, was remanded on a charge of robbing his
master of 31Ibs. of wax candles.
W OR SHIP- S TREE T.
Yesterday morning, in the list of disorderlies, a
nymph of the pave, named Ann Woods, was
placedna M
the bar before r. BENNETT, under the
td-oalslohl:vPigg charge :
Mr. Parker, a solicitor, in the Hackney-road,
stated, that on Saturday evening, about half-past nine
o'clock, he was returning home from the city, when
the prisoner accosted him, and on his refusing to
have any conversation with her, she followed him
for a considerable distance, importuning him to enter
into conversation with her; in consequence of which,
and in order to get rid of her, he took a retrograde
movement, when the prisoner instantly vanished
from his sight, and in a few minutes after he missed
seven sovereigns from his trousers pocket.
Mr. BENNETT—Are you sure that you did not go
into a public-house with her? Mr. Parker, In-
dignantly--No, Sir, I did not; I missed the money
the instant she disappeared.
George__ Kemp, police constable 82 H., said—
Your Worship, I know the prisoner ; I was on duty

A young man, named John Curran, was brought
before Mr. BENNETT for final examination under the
following charge :—Mary Ann Whitehead, an
interesting looking young woman, lodged in Rum-
bold's-buildings, Long-alley, Moorfields, and on last
Tuesday morning she and a young woman, named
Owen, went out to buy a veil. The prisoner (who
was known in the house) said he would go with
them, and after purchasing the veil, he said she
could not expect a husband for a year to come, or
that the veil would wear well, if she did not wet the
purchase with a little rum and water, and which she
accordingly did, and returned to her lodgings, where
she left the veil. She and the prisoner then went
together to Gray's-inn-lane, to see a friend of her's,
and not meeting with her, they went to an eating-
house, No. 309, Holborn, where they dined toge-
ther; she became sick after dinner, and laid her
head upon the table, during which period the pri-
soner took a sovereign and 3s. out of her pocket,
with some laundress's bills; he took her home in a
coach, and upon her recovery, she taxed him with
taking the money, when he insulted her, and she
gave him into the custody of an officer.
The officer said no trace of the property was found
upon the prisoner, except the laundress's bills.
A waitress at the eating-house in Holborn said
the prisoner gave her a sovereign, front wh.ch to
take the amount of their dinners, which she did,
and r, turned him the change.

The prisoner said he asked the prosecutrix for
money to pay for the dinner, and she put her hand
in her pocket, and gave him the sovereign, some
silver, and two or three pieces of paper, which she
requested he would take care of; he afterwards paid
coach-hire home, as well as the expenses of a cab to
go back the same night to Gray's-inn-lane.
The prosecutrix was here asked if she would
swear she did not give him the money? and on her
refusal, the Magistrates admitted the prisoner to
bail, which was instantly procured.