The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-18 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Now. 17.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET. —Elivin Collins,
footman, was charged with having burglariously
stolen a large quantity of silver plate, the property
of his master, Mr. Defries, of Fitzroy-square.
Two persons are already in custody and under
remand on the same charge.

Police-constable Lambert, E 68, said, in conse-
quence of information he received he went to
Wokingham, where the prisoner, who had been- in
the service of Mr. Defries, was living with Ms
father. On seeing the prisoner he told him he was
a police-constable and must apprehend him for
robbing his late master of a quantity of plate. Tile
prisoner, without any promise or threat, volunta
rill said, he would not deny the robbery and would
t,ll him all about it presently. The prisoner asked
him if he had seen a man named Sullivan recently.
He said he had, and added that Sullivan was now
in custody. The prisoner then stated that Sul-
livan had one-half of the plate and he had
the other. The prisoner mentioned that he also
had a topcoat belonging to Mr. Defries. As they
were coming to the train he asked the prisoner when
he had seen Sullivan last. The prisoner said he had
not seen him since the morning of the robbery, an d
that was in Marylebone-lane, where he was taking
the plate to dispose of to a person there.
At this stage of the proceedings Mr. Defries inti-
mated that he had an important communication to
make to the Court.

Mr. Bsadon took Mr. Defries into his private
room, and after a short cenference, the prisoner was
remanded until the day fixed for the further exami-
nation of the other prisoners.

WESTMINSTER.—John Usher, a private in
the Grenadier Guards, was charged on Monday
with the following outrage.
Mary Ann Watkins, an unfortunate woman,
liv-
ing in Cottage-court, Orchard-street, Westminster,
stated that on the previous night, between 12 and 1
o'clock, she was in bed, and upon bearing loud and
long continued screaming from the room beneath
she went downstairs to the door of the room whence
the cries proceeded, and was standing there when
the accused opened the door and struck her a des-
perate blow in the mouth, which knocked her down
and rendered her insensible. No words had been
exchanged between them, nor had she given the de-
fendant any provocation.
Jane Morgan, another woman, corroborated this
statement.

Eliza Clayton, another woman of the same un-
fortunate class, said that she was drinking at the
King's Head, Orchard-street, on the previous even-
ing, and saw the defendant there. When she left
she found the defendant following her, and he
rushed after her into her own room, and treated
her in the most atrocious and disgraceful manner.
She screamed repeatedly whenever she was able,
but lie put his hand upon her mouth at different
times and prevented her making any noise.
She struggled and .resisted as long as she was
able, but he at length got the better of
her. He kicked and beat her in the most shock-
ing way, as it would be proved if her body was
examined, and she now produced her dress, which
was torn to pieces, to show the violence of the
struggle which had taken place.
Mr. Arnold inquired whether he understood
rightly that all had occurred against the will and
consent.

The reply of the woman indicated that it was not
only so, but was attended by circumstances that
heightened the nature of the offence.
Thomas West, 53 B, said that at 1 o'clock that
morning he heard screams of " Murder " and
"Police" from Cottage-court, and on proceeding
there the defendant was pointed out to him as a
person who had committed a violent assault. He
found the first woman, Watkins, lying in the pas-
sage insensible, with her mouth severely cut and a
large pool of blood on the floor in front of her. He
sent defendant to the station, and conveyed her to
the hospital.

In answer to questions from the magistrate, wit-
ness said that the defendant was a little under the
influence of liquor, but well knew what he was
about. The woman Clayton was intoxicated ; the
other was not. He examined Clayton's room, which
boo every appearance of a severe struggle having
taken place there. One end of the bedstead was
down on the ground, and the place was in great
disordtr, as was also Clayton's dress. Many per-
sons were round the door of the house, attracted
by the woman Clayton's screams.
One of the witnesses said that the screams were
heard for nearly an hour.
Mr. Arnold remanded the accused until Satur--
day, and directed the police to make the fullest in-
quiry into the matter.

WORSHIP-STREET.—Edwird Jackson, an oil
and colourman in Leonard-street, Shoreditch, and
Anne Jackson, his wife, were charged on re-exami-
nation before Mr. D'Eyncourt with being found in
felonious possession of numerous valuable articles
of wearing apparel, the property of the Countess of
Ellesmere, and stolen, with a portmanteau con-
taining jewellery and other property to the aggregate
amount of about 15,00 W., from herladystup's trave-
ling carriage, during her progress from Cleveland-
squ tre, St. James's, to Windsor, on a visit to her
.111ajesty.
There have been five remands of this case in

the whole, such difficulties have the officers experi-
enced in tracing the stolen property and the pri-
soners' connection with it. The first three, which
have already been published, were occupied with
the production of what stolen articles have as yet
been discovered and their identification by Lady
Ellesmere's servants and tradesmen, and it now re-
mains to prove the male prisoner's reception of the
stolen property, his solicitor, Mr. Lewis, being in-
structed to deny that he had the slightest personal
knowledge of it. When Jackson was taken he was
f ,und in possession of a large package of new ribands
and neckties, suspected by toe officers to form part
of the produce of another robbery in the city, and
for which Jackson accounted by stating that they
had been intrusted to him for sale by a man named
Woodford, at Bethnal-green, but where Woodford
resided, or what Woodford was, he professed not to
know. The police therefore set to work to trace
Woodford, if possible, and
Sergeant Evans, who had the conduct of the case,
stated—l have since made persevering inquiries
after this man Woodford, who is alleged by the male
prisoner to have given him this part of the property,
and find that Woodford is now undergoing 12
months' imprisonment for receiving stolen goods, he
being by trade a clockmaker. I shall now prove the
stealing of her ladyship's travelling case by calling
Chas. Fr oud—l am now driver of a Hansom cab,
but on the 22d Jan., 1856, when this robbery was
committed, was driving the four-wheeled cab No.
10,932. I was on the Davies-street stand, nearer to-
wards Grosvenor-square, when a young man came
up and asked my charge for taking him and a box
to Willow-walk, Shoreditch. I thought 3s. would
do, to which he agreed, I drove to the church, where
another man stood with a largo box. I offered a hand
to put the box on the roof, but the first man said
" No, no, inside;" and it was got inside. The box was
601 b. to 801 b. in weight, black, like a lady's box,
with a flat top, and would just go in the cab-door.
The box now produced by the police I believe to be
the same. One man shook hands with the other
and went away, and the other man on reaching
Finsbury-square told me to go down Leonard-street.
and pull up at a beershop in Leonard-square and
have some beer. I did so, and the man who rode
with me then got the trunk out on to his shoulder,
went down Leonard-street with it, and then erossed.
over. It is so long since I don't think I could
recognize that man now, and I don't think I have
seen the male prisoner before. I suspected some-
thing wrong when I took the man up, but he offered
to stand beer, and I then did not. Directly I heard
of the robbery I gave information to the police, de-
scribing the box as two feet wide and three feet
long, and I saw the same box directly after it was
found.

Thomas Geary—l live in Antelope-garden!, near
Leonard-street, and found this box between 7 and
8 in the morning in a garden near my house, with
its lock broken and two of the buckles fastened,
and but a short distance from the house of the pri-
son.r.

Eliza Parsons, a widow—l have washed for Mrs.
Jackson and seen some very expensive articles in
her possession, such as handkerchiefs with lacy on

them. I think I have seen this one now shown me,
and also one with a much deeper lace. I have seen
them from a year to 18 months back. (A frock
was handed to witness.) I have seen this often ;
it was made about a twelvemonth ago for Mrs.
Jackson's baby.

Sergeant Evans--This forms part of a dress which
was sworn to by the Countess's servants at the last
examination. Perhaps, sir, you will ask her if she
ever saw any diamonds ?

Witness—Yes, I have seen Mrs. Jackson with
two diamonds ; she showed them to me ; they were
like a batton, very splendid, and had a point up-
wards. She told me a gentleman had sent them to
her from Australia.

Inspector Brecknell—Willyou ask her, sir, about
a teakettle

Witness—When her husband had been taken by
the police about a tub of butter, Mrs. Jackson asked
me to take care of the teakettle. Tn the kettle were
two watches and a lot of rings and other things,
and some silver spoons. A little long jewel-boa was
also given me beside the kettle. It was a bright
copper kettle. I was accused, as I was told by a
neighbour, of keeping back one of the rings when I
i returned the things. There were lots of rings n
the kettle. 1 don't know if they were valuable, but