The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-22 00:00:00

itself, that before he could send for bail and they
could attend, the court would be closed and the
magistrate and officials would be gone away. The
magistrate (Mr. Currie) then observed that it was
out of his power to do otherwise than remand the
prisoner, who was clearly contradicted by the
sworn testimony of the prosecutor. If any wrong
was done to the defendant he could bring an action
against the prosecutor for false imprisonment. The
prisoner was then remanded.
On the present oecasion Mr. Lewis, of Marl-
borough-street, appeared for the prosecution ; and
Mr. Abrams, of Bow-street, for the defendant.
The prosecutor, being unable to speak English,
Mr. Albert, the interpreter of the Marlborough-
, street police-court, attended to translate his evi-

dente.
Mr. Lewis, in opening the case, said he did not
know what defence the prisoner could have to
offer, unless the production of a bill of sale. If
such a document were put in evidence, he should
ask the magistrate to impound it.
The prosecutor, M. Vital Weldekins was then
sworn. He deposed in French I live at 2, King-
street, Holborn, and am an artist. I have known
the prisoner about four years. In Sept. last I occu-
pied apartments at 2, King street, Holborn, where
I had some furniture and wearing apparel. I left
England on the 4th September, having on the Ist or
2d informed the prisoner of my intention to leave
on that day. He asked me what I was going to
do with my furniture. I said I would lock every-
thing up and take the keys with me to Brussels.
He recommended me not to do so, saying that he
would undertake the care of my furniture and
everything I might leave in the apartments, and
that on my return I should find everything as I
had left it. For that purpose I was to sign two
printed papers, so that the landlord might not hin-
der him from having access to the apartments. He
observed that unless I did that, if the landlord's
goods should be distrained upon, mine also might
be seized, and I should have " no right to say any-
thing about it." He also remarked, " You do not
know what happens in England every day." In-
duced by his representations I signed two papers
which I did not read. They were in English, which
language I do not understand at all. I gave no
authority to the prisoner to remove any article
whatever of my property from my apartments. I
locked the boxes and took the keys with me and
kept them in my possession till my return on
Thursday last, when I missed a great portion of my
property. My boxes were open and nearly empty.
The prisoner was with me. I had met him in the
street, and he had given me the keys and accom-
panied me to the rooms. I asked him what had be-
come of the furniture, &c., which I missed. Ho re-
plied, " Oh, make your mind easy about it, there is
nothing lost." I then searched for the rest of my
things, and when I found so large a quantity
missing, I called him a thief. He said, " Don't speak
so loud—don't speak so loud, the people of the house
might hear you, and consider into what a position
you might throw me. Don't be afraid, all will be
returned to you, and you shall even have double the
value of what I have made use of." My answer to
this was, that we only wanted what was ours, and
no more. He said, " Don't let us quarrel about it."
I afterwards said I wanted to see the pawnbroker's
tickets, to see if it was true. He said he had not
got them about him, they were at his lodgings at
Islington. At a quarter past 8 the next morning I
went to his lodgings to look for him, and found
him in bed. He seemed much displeased at my
calling, and asked me to go to a coffee-house in
the neighbourhood to wait for him. I refused to do
so, and said I would wait there. I waited in a
room down stairs for an hour and a half, and then
he came down and we went together that he might
deliver me the tickets, as he now said he had made
a mistake, they were not at his lodgings, but in the
care of his solicitor or agent. After going about
with him for three hours I again demanded the
tickets. We then went to a coffee-house, where he
received two parcels, which he had left there, and
one of which contained 41 duplicates. He gave me
the 41 duplicates, saying, " These are your things."
I made a list of the duplicates at his dictation to
see that nothing was wanting. The entire property
taken from my rooms is about 2,500 f., or about £lOO.
When I left England I did not owe the prisoner
anything ; on the contrary, he asked me to lend him
some money, and I advanced him about £lO or £l2.
Nor did I owe him anything at the time I signed
the documents. I gave him in custody on Saturday
about 3 o'clock.
Cross-examined by Mr. Abrams—l never owed
the prisoner, and never had a disputed account with
him. On Saturday I went to a solicitor's office,not
to settle a disputed account, but for the purpose, he
said, of giving back the papers which I had signed.
Did not admit in the prisoner's presence at the at-
torney's office, that I owed 11,000 fr. I said the
amount for which the goods were pledged amounted
to I,loofr. or £44. I did not know till Thursday
that any of my property was pledged. I did not
during my absence write to him with respect to
pledging furniture, but I did with reference to other
matters. Amongst the tickets now produced are
some to the amount of £l4, relating to property
which the prisoner had previously pledged. Before
leaving I told the landlord I had left the goods in
the prisoner's charge till my return; not that I had
sold them to the prisoner, or that I had given up
the apartments to him, except for the period of my
absence. During my absence I did not pay the rent
myself, but gave the money to the prisoner to pay
it. I swear I did not know the contents of the docu-
ment I signed. The prisoner's milkman and a
lodger of the milkman's were present at the time it
was signed • my landlord was not. I did not tell
my landlord had sold my goods. I never gave him
leave to sell my things.
Re-examined—The £l4 worth of goods were
pledged before I left England. The £44 worth
which he has pledged include the £l4 ; but I allowed
him to pledge those things in order to assist him, as
he wanted money at the time.
Madame Rosalie Weldekins, the wife of the pro-
secutor, deposed that she came home with her hus-
band on Thursday last. She corroborated her hus-
band's evidence, and added that the prisoner said
he had put the things away to redeem some docu-
ments, but he would pay everything back two-fold,
as he would soon be rich (" je vais cite riche"). He
also said that the paper which had been signed by
tit, prosecutor was an accommodation paper, and
false.
Mr. Lewis then applied for a remand,
Mr. Abrams hoped the prisoner would be ad-
mitted to bail.
Mr. Lewis would leave that matter to the magis-
trate, but there was a document in the hands of
Mr. Abrams which ho should call on that gentleman
to produce,
Mr. Abrams—But perhaps I may think proper
to reserve it till I have heard the whole of your
case. The police have taken some papers now before
3.4 u, one of which ilia; throw a light on the case.
Corrie—l think these papers ought to be
given ups to the prisoner.
Mr. Lewis—We do not know what they are. Let
the officer keep them till to-rnorrov.
Mr. Corrie—lf a.accept bail it must be to a heavy
amount. I must have two sureties of £lOO each.
The Prisoner—Very well, Sir.
AN AFFECTIONATE PAREtn.-A dissipated-look-
ing woman, named Johanna Smith, was charged
with assaulting her son, Thomas Smith, one of the
shoeblacks of the Ragged School Society.
Patrick Connor—l am an inspector of the Ragged
School Shoeblack Brigade. This morning as the
boys were assembled at the station in Ship-yard to
get their boxes, in order to go out to their day's
work, the prisoner came there and created a great
disturbance, owing to which a great crowd collected.
As her son left the station with the box on his head
she knocked it off with her fist, and the blacking
was spilt on the ground. The blacking was t2ae pro-
perty of the society, and worth is. She was drunk.
Mr. Corrie—What do you say to annoying your
son in this way when he is getting his living ?
The Prisoner—Your worship, I wanted to go
down to Epsom for a holiday, and I went to ask him
for Gd. to take me there; but just because I had a
" drop taken" he would not give it to me. So I says,
a Then I will give you a holiday, for instead of me
aoi 8,„. to Epsom I will stop and annoy you." So, of
,
course, 1 knocked his box off his head to keep him
from going to work. He is a very good boy, your
worship, and be allows me 2s. a week out of what
he earns.
Mr. Corrie—Yes, and you must be a very wicked
woman to hinder him from eainihg his money.
The Prisoner—Your worship, be would not give
me the Gd. I wanted, so of course I tiLought I'd an-
noy him.
Mr. Corrie—l'll fine you 55., or commit you for
five days.
The Prisoner—My son will pay that for me.
Mr. Corrie—No, he won't. Mere, Thomas Smith,
you are not to pay the fine for her, mind, If she
can't pay it herself she is to go to prison.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—THE ALLEGED
DESPERATE ASSAULT AT THE ALHAMBRA.-111r. G.
Wyld, j un., Mr. James Bartleman, Mr. George
Butcher, Mr. C. Laforest, and Mrs. Elizabeth Hart,
all employed in various situations at the Alhambra,
Leicester-square, appeared before Mr. Beadon, to
answer the complaint of Mr. Henry Hart Davis, for
an alleged combined and murderous assault.
Mr. Sleigh, instructed by Mr. Lewis, GreatfMarlborough-street, was for four of the def
etca Metcalfe for
the complainant.
The professional gentlemen retired together into
the magistrate's room, an arrangement having been
previously arrived at, and after. a
few minutes' con-
sultation came again into court.
Mr. Sleigh, addressing Mr. Beadon, said—Sir, in