The Sun.
London, England, 1835-11-27 00:00:00

CRIMINAL COURT.-THURSDAY,

Robert Graves and Henry Hastings, two plumbers, em-
ployed in the extensive repairs going on at Greenwich Hos-
pital, were indicted for stealing a large quantity of lead, the
property of the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital.
The principal witness being an accomplice, and the evi-
dence being defective, the prisoners were acquitted.
Hastings was again indicted for stealing a quantity of
lead. The evidence being precisely the same as in the for-
mer case, the prisoner was acquitted.
John and Thomas Bayley, two respectable-looking young •
men, were indicted for receiving a large quantity of lead,
stolen from the Hospital.
Evidence having been adduced on the part of the prose-
cution,
Several witnesses swore that they saw a person of the
name of Stagg take the lead td the house, and he was the
son-in-law of a person who had repeatedly large quantities
of lead in his possession.
Lord DENMAN could not help thinking there was a great
degree of negligence on the part of those who had a control
over the property of the Hospital, in not taking better care
of it. With respect to the young men at the bar he consi-
, &red there did not exist the slightest suspicion.

The Jury instantly acquitted them.
His Lordship ordered the two young men to be imme-
diately discharged.
The result of the trial appeared to give great satisfaction
to a crowded Court.
Sarah Bowling, alias Square, was again indicted for steal-
inr, some more articles of plate and clothing, the property
of Mr. Roe ; and Bridget Doyle with receiving the same.
well knowing it to have been stolen.
The Jury found Doyle Guilty, and acquitted Bowling.
Mr. Roe recommended Doyle to mercy on account of
having five small children.
The RECORDER considered there was no ground for such
recommendation.
The prisoner was then sentenced to be transported for
fourteen years.
Bowling, on being cautioned by the Recorder as to her
future conduct, said " I should be very happy if you would
also transport me."
William Lee was indicted for stealing a chest of drawers,
a silver watch, three shirts, and other articles of wearing
apparel, the property of Ann Lee, his sister.
They both resided in the same house at Highgate. Pro-
secutrix left her property safe at seven in the evening of the
18th, and, on her return-home at ten at, night, she found the
door had been broken open, and the articles mentioned in
the indictment had been removed into the roem occupied by
the prisoner. The watch had been carried away.
In reply, the prisoner said—" Your Lordship, this here's
a family thing altogether. My father died, at least he was
killed—he (lied through accident. Thesehere people came
to me one night at Holloway, and says, Your father's half
in the road and half in the public-house.' Well, and so I
goes and I carries him on my own back. My mother told
me afore she died, says she, ' William, when,ever you sees
.that 'ere watch you; may take it, as' yon firs v took it from
your dead father!'' Then she died; myl;orct.titild there was
a lot of things to be:clivideci among Pt vs I, Let's
have my share: and-ther oevet g!tyt itre:.Yl:!-,11 I took the
watch, acause I first took it fronaffir
Mr. Sergeant Aansixitiiiie`dttealiei directed the
Jury to acquit the prisoner.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MARLBORO UGH-STREET.

A foreigner, who said he was a courier, was brought be-
fore Mr. DYER on suspicion of having been concerned in
robbing the house of Colonel Barnes, Grosvenor-street, on
Tuesday last.
A woman entrusted with the care of the house during
Colonel Barnes's absence from town said some person, evi-
dently well acquainted with the house, had contrived to get
admission by a latch key, and had gone up stairs to the
drawing-room floor, and had carried off a valuable clock, a
tea-caddy, and a tin-box, containing, as she believed, papers.
Now, the only person whom she could suspect was the pri-
soner, as he was well acquainted with the house from having
lived with Colonel Barnes in the capacity of courier. The
prisoner had called just before the robbery to take away
something which he had left, and this circumstance induced
her to suspect him, as he was the only person that she was
aware of who knew the arrangements of the house, and who
was in the neighbourhood at the time of the robbery.
.The accused asserted his innocence, and said he had the
highest testimonials as to character to produce.
Mr. DYER remarked that he should be sorry to injure a
person's character on such slight evidence as had been pro-
duced. He should therefore take any respectable person's
surety for the attendance of the accused on the folldwing
Saturday.
Mrs. Jane Harvey complained to Mr. CHAMBERS and
the Rev. Mr. THURSBY that she went in grievously bodily
fear of one John Kitchen, an elderly' harmless-looking jour-
neyman tailor.
The complainant said she lived next door to the defend-
ant and his wife, and they had scraped an acquaintance
together, each being accustomed to drop into the others'
lodgings to talk over a friendly quartern and the news of
the neighbourhood. This harmony continued for some
time, until one day last week a good-natured gossip called
in to tell her in a friendly way that Mr. and Mrs. H., her
neighbours, had for some time past been scanmagging her
character, and in particular had told everybody, as a very
great secret, that she carried on a correspondence not
strictly platonic with a certain Bob Hirst, a brawny Life
Guardsman. The complainant ran to the next door to ask
for an explanation, and while the war of words was raging
in walked the defendant, who took a part in the squabble,
and among other alarming denunciations swore on his
sleeveboard that one of these odd mornings he would do
himself the pleasure of washing both his hands in her
" heart's blood."
Mr. CHAMBERS asked the complainant if she seriously
meant to say she believed the defendant would do as he had
threatened ?
The complainant, thus appealed to, admitted that she did
not think the defendant intended anything of the sort, but