The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-15 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-April 14.

MANSION-HOUSE.—ThomasWolcot, former:y
a journeyman in the employ of Mesrs. Moses and
Son, shoe manufacturers and merchants, on Tower-
hill, was brought before Mr. Alderman Hale,
charged with having robbed that firm, while in
their employment, of six pairs of water-right boots.
Mr. Lewis said he appeared on the part of
Messrs. Moses and Sou to prosecute the prisoner
for a felony committed while in their service, and
it would ultimately turn out that the p-isoner had
been connected with five men, now under remand
upon a charge of having plundered a great number
of packages of large quantities of boots and shoes,
belonging to Mr. Isenbumr, of Leadenhall street.
Mr. E. Moses, one of the prosecutors, said—
The prisoner was in our employment as warehouse-
man for nine years previous tai the 4th of Novem-
ber last. In May last I received a written com-
munication, in consequence of which I deemed it
my duty to watch what was going forward on my
premises. On the 4th of November I dismised the
prisoner from my service. During the last 1 or
18 months he was in our employment we missed
large quantities of goods, amounting in value to
about 1,0001. We bad also in our employment
a man of the name of Timothy Desmond, who
was dismissed on the same day tlett the pri-
soner left. On the day in question I found
in a cellar adjoining our premises, which
was used as a tinman's shop, and in which
Desmond used to make packing-cases, six pairs of
water-tight boots of the value of 31. From infot-
mation I received, I caused the prisoner to be ap-!
pretended last night. Upon being-brought to our
house by the officer, he said that both he and
Desmond had been deeply implicated in robbing
me, and he,asked me to forgive him for the sake of
his wife and family. I told him that the law must
take its course. The goods we missed were chiefly
boots and shoes, and a large quantity of knives.
Timothy Desmond—l live at 85, Chambers-
street, Goodman's-fields, and am a tin-plate worker.
Prior to the 4th of November last, I had been for
13 years in the employment of the prosecutors.
During a part of that time the prisoner was in the
same service ; and during the last few mouths cf
our employment there we were in the habit of
stealing property belonging to the prosecutors.
We used to steal "water-tights." Oa the 4!li
of November, the day we were discharged, the
prisoner brought to the cellar in which I was at
work six pairs of water-tight boots, but I had no
opportunity of removing them before they were
discovered by Mr. Moses. The prisoner and I
shared money about a dozen times, the produce of
goods stolen from Messrs. Moses. A man named
George Boyce paid me on several occasions for
goods • which had been stolen by the prisoner and
myself. We shared upwards of 501. between us.
A man of the name of Pickering used also to convey
goods away, and he has paid me about 121., of which
the prisoner received his proper proportion. The
selling price of the stolen boots was 10s. per pair,
and we used to get 4s. per pair for them. The
goods used to be taken to the house of Boyce, who
has paid me money for goods that I had stolen and
delivered to Pickering.
Prisoner—Have you told the truth ?
Witness—l have.

Prisoner—What did you give me for the boots ?
Witness—They were sold at 4s. a pair, and out of
245. I gave you 10s.
Pri,oner—Are you not asharnA to look at me ?
You confess yourself to be a thief.

Witness—l don't know why I should be ashamed
of myself, I'm sere.
Prisoner—You are the biggest villain upon earth,
and you ought to have a rope round your neck.
P. W. Dunnaway, a metropolitan police-con-
stable, No. 129 H, said he apprehended the pri-
soner, who confessed to Mr. Moses that ho had
been deeply implicated in robbing him, and asked
his forgiveness.
The prisoner, after the usual caution had been
given him, said, in reply to the charge, " Mr. Moses
has made the amount to which he has been robbed
immensely too large."
He was then fully committed for trial.

CLERKENWELL.—Yesterday having been ap-
pointed for the re-examination of Robert Robinson
Tripp, who stands charged with the wilful murder
of Mr. James Scott, the court was crowded to ex-
cess low: before the hour fixed.

Mr. E. Silence gave evidence that haa already
appeared.

Police-constable B. Hill, 159 N, said—On the
morning of the 7th I went to the house of the pri-
soner. I saw the prisoner in the front 'room of the
second floor. When I knocked at the door the
prisoner said; " Who is there ?" I replied " Police;"
when he said, " Open the door, it is not locked."
When I went in the prisoner was smoking his
pipe, and I saw the cutlas and knife produced. I
asked what dis:urbanee had taken place between
him and Mr. Scott ; when the prisoner said, "He
is my landlord. I told him that I owed him some
rent,. that it was an unreisonab'e hour, and that if
he would come on Saturday I would pay. I per-
suaded him to go out, but he refus-d, and then I
s'a..bbed him." I asked him what he had stabbed
Scott with, and he slid, " The cutlass, and I hope
I have given him his death-Wound. If it had not
been Mr. Silence I would have cut his head off."
The prisoner then asked me what I was going to de
with him. I told hint that I wanted him to go with
me to see Mr. Scott, awl also told him Scott was-
not dead but that ho was hurt very much. He then
said, " I am sorry for that—l am sorry I did not
give him his death-wound." This he repeated
several times.

Mr. Corrie—Did the prisoner seem 9.3 if he had
been drinking ?
W it ness--No.
Witness colitinued—The prisoner asked me if he
was in my custody, and I said no, until I had taken
the knife and cutlass, and then I told him he was.
On our way to the station the pri=oner said, " I
hope I have given him his death-wound." On exa-
mining the sword I found marks of blood, and also
on the stairs.

Crosi-examined—l saw Scott and the prisoner in
the Caledonian-read. They were then wrangling
together, but I did not hear any threats used. At
2 o'clock I met Scott, and he then called the pri-
soner an old vagabond, said he would wait there all
night, and then put the brokers in for the rent lie
did not make any compla►nt then that the prisoner
at that time had made any threat.
Mr. H. Sillifaut, a surgeon, of 1., Thornhill-
square, proved that clecea9e I died from the effects
of the wound.

Sergeant Berkly,l2N—Theprisoner was brouht
to the station about 4in tt.e morning. The pri-
soner, upon beiug told the nature of the charge,
• said, "I did it." I told him it was my duty to eau-
tion him, when he again said, "If it had uot been
for the lodger interfering., I, would have given him
a right one and a left one, which would have saved
the trouble of taking him to the hospit I was jus-
tified in doing it, as Mr. Scott had no right to come
thete at that nos: asonable hour for his rent." At
that moment Silence came in, when the prisoner
"If it bad not been for your intPrference, I
would have soon finished him." (sensation.) I then
asked the nature of the wound, and was to;d that it
was an inch and a quarter, when he said, "I wish
it had been six inches."
To Mr. Robinson—The prisoner, I should say,
was not drunk. He might have had something to
drink, but not much. He waA a sober man.
Pt m. over--We had both ~oraething to drink. This
'is what I expected after I had had the gio and water.
Mr. Inspector Judge, of the N division,said that
he had taken an inv ntory of the go iris for the poi-
pose of ha Al, g them to the ptisolier's fri,.nris,
found iu a box a s ull and several bones, which the
saigiou stated were the bones of a female. I ala)
found six bags 01' shot and a powder flask. e e