The Sun.
London, England, 1835-12-29 00:00:00

LAMBETH STREET.

Yesterday, owing to the arrival of some witnesses from
the Continent, who could give some important evidence
against the persons at present in custody on the charge of
being concerned in the Custom-house robbery, T. Sullivan and
William Jourdan were again, notwithstanding they had been
remanded to Wednesday week, brought before -Messrs.
HARDwicx and WALKER for further examination.
On Saturday last M. Dupont, a highly-respectable sil-
versmith and jeweller, residing at Lille (who bad changed
one of the notes for 1001., which had formed a portion of
the large sum stolen from the Custom-house had been
taken to the New Prison for, the purpose of identifying, if
he could, one or both of the prisoners. On arriving there
in company with Mr. Hobler, and Lee, the officer, the fog
was so intense that M. Dupont would not undertake to
point out the prisoners who had been placed with several
others in one of the prison yards. In fact, it was so
dark at the time and in the place, that it was impossible to
discern the features of any person even at one yard's dis-
tance. It was in consequence arranged that the prisoners
should be brought to the Office yesterday, both fOr the pur-
pose of being seen by M. Dupont and other witnesses, and
having the evidence of such of them as could identify them
taken- down in writing.
Mr. Adolphus, Mr. Thackery (the Assistant-Solicitor to
the Customs), and Mr. Hoblor, attended for the prosecu-
tion ; and Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Humphries appeared for
the prisoners.
It was previously arranged that the prisoners should stand
with throe or four other persons when seen by the wit-
nesses, so as to give them a fair chance ;. and, this being
done, M. Dupont, and Mr. Charles 'Thorpe, a person' re-
siding at Dovvers'i Hotel at Calais, were brought from the
Magistrate's room into the office. M. Dupont fixed his
eye on the prisoner Jourdan, and observed to Mr. Adol-
phus, who accompanied him, that he thought he had
some knowledge of him, but that he did not like to
speak positively as to the identity. The witness Thorpe,
however, at once recognised Jourdan, and, being sworn,
he said he lived at Dowers's Hotel at Calais, and recol-
lected the prisoner Jourdan coming there on the Bth of
September last, and signing his name in the book kept by
order of the police " Mr. W. Herring." The witness
here produced the book in question, and Mr. Humphreys,
in the absence of Mr. Clarkson, who had not at the time
arrived, insisted on his right to see the book with the.en-
try. This Mr. Adolphus obMad to, inasmuch as the
witness had merely referred *te'.the bock and entry, for
the purpose of refreshing his memory, and therefore the So-
licitor for the prisoner had no right to it, particularly as
the object was to found a cross-examination of the witness
upon it.
Mr. HUMPHRIES urged his right to examine the book,
and it being objected to by Mr. Hardwick at the present.
stage of the proceedings, he desired that a note of the re-
fusal might appear on the face of the deposition.
Mr. Anou.sins could not consent to any.such thing.

Mr. IlAunwieK—Did you see the prisoner write his
name in the book? Witness—l did, Sir. The witness,
in continuation, said that at the request of the prisoner, he
got a passport, which he had with him, ex..nnined and
signed for Belgium, the prisoner at the same time saying
that he was going to Lille, and would be back on the 13th
or 14th. Witness ako accompanied .Tourdan to a place
where he got into a diligence for Dunkirk, and he saw
no more of him until the 13th, when he returned to Mr.
Dowers's Hotel, and sailed on the next day for Dover.
M. Dupont was next sworn, and, through an interpreter,
said he was a jeweller and goldsmith in Lille, and was occa-
sionally in the habit of changing English notes. Changed
the one for 1001. now produced, on the 10th of September
last, for a person who had purchased a gold watch and
watch key. In change he gave several gold pieces of twenty
francs each, and a note of the bank of France for 500 francs.
Mr. lIARDWICK—Did the person from whom you took
the note write any thing upon it ? M. Dupont—Yes, the
name " Mr. W. Herring, Marine-parade, Brighton," and
the signature underneath is my own.
Mr. HARDWICK—Look at the prisoners at the bar, and
say whether or not either of them was the person who had
changed the note ? M. Dupont—The face of one (Jour-.
dan)has much analogy with the person who changed the
note, and his eyebrows, of which I took much notice, are
quite like. They were dark and arched, the same as the
prisoner's are. His hair appeared black or brownish black,
and was turned up and not down, as the prisoner now wears
it. The figure was exactly the same as that of the pri-
soner. He was slender, and not very tall. He was dressed
in a black frock coat, grey ribbed pantaloons, and black
stock r wore -the wristbands' of his shirt below his
coat, and on the whole appeared very neat. The witness
also observed that he had with him a leather portfolio or
letter case, lined with violet-coloured silk. ,
Lea, the officer, here produced a frock coat, pantaloons,
and stock, which M. Dupont said were the same as those
worn by the person changing the note. A gold watch was
also produced, and the witness said it resembled exactly
one worn by the person to whom he had given change of
the note, and who, at the time, drew it out to make a
comparison between it and the one he was purchasing.
He was enabled to say that it was very like it, from having
seen so much of it, while the person was making thd com-

parison.
James Lea had taken the clothes he produced from a box
at the late residence of the prisoner Jourdan, in White
Hart-row, Kennington, and the watch from his person at the
time of his apprehension.
The witness Thorpe was here recalled, and on comparing
the name and address of " Mr. W. Herring, Marine-pa-
rade, Brighton," with the name of " Mr. W. Herring," in
the book he produced, he said that, from his knowledge of
writing, he was decidedly of opinion that they were written
by the same person.
Mr. ADOLPHUS then, addressing the Magistrates, said
he had, in consequence of the great difficulty which pre-
sented itself in the production of the necessary witnesses
in the case, and the great distances from which they were
obliged to be brought to apply to their Worships for a fur-
ther extension of time from Wednesday week, on which
day they were to have been brought up again, to 'Wednes-
day fortnight.
Mr. CLARKSON replied that, with respect to the
prisoner Jourdan, he had no objection to offer, but, with
respect to Sullivan, he did not see the necessity of reman-
ding him to such a lengthened period.
Mr. ADOLPHUS rernarkedthat it could not make any
risoners, as there was at present
great difference to the p
sufficient evidence to send them both for trial. It was
already proved, that Sullivan had changed one of the
stolen notes at a wine-vault in the Westminster-road ; but
independent of this, a
warrant was placed'in the hands of
the officer for the detention of the prisoner, to be tried on
a bill of indictment found against him for a capital offence
at Sheffield, from which place he had made his escape by
breaking out of prison.
Tne prisoners, during the lengthened examination, con-
ducted themselves in an impudent manner (particularly
Jourdan), and were not only grossly offensive to the
Counsel and witnesses against them, but also to the Ma-
gistrates. Mr. Hobler, owing, no doubt, to the indefati-
gable zeal which he has manifested in getting up evidence
in one of the most difficult cases (rendered so by the ex-

traordinary ingenuity and skill displayed by the prisoners
in disposinc, of the plunder), that has occurred for many
years in the metropolis, was made the object of the prison-
ers' marked vituperation.
The prisoners shortly after the examination were con-
veyed to the' New Prison, strogly ironed and guarded by
the police.