The Sun.
London, England, 1861-03-11 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

DEFRAUDING WEST-END TRADES MEN.—Kate Connor,
a female having the appearance of a respectable servant,
was charged before Mr. Beadon, with obtaining a quantity
of grocery goods from West-end grocers as follows :

RichatdAlfred Gandy, assistant to Messrs. Armstrong,

grocers, of 42, Old Bond-street, proved that on Saturday
evening the prisoner came and asked if Mr. Edmonds, of
10, Arlington-street, dealt there. He said he did, and the
prisoner then asked for 41bs. of loaf sugar, 21bs. of dessert
biscuits, &c. They offered to send them, but she said she
would profer taking them, and the goods were given to her.
Suspecting her, a porter was sent after her to give her in
charge if not all right.

Mr. George Edmonds, of 10, Arlington-street, private
hotel keeper, said he was a customer of Messrs. Armstrong,
but never sent the prisoner, who was a stranger to him, for
the goods.
Tidy, 118 C, proved going to the prisoner's lodgings and
her denying having been to Messrs. Armstrong's, but he
with the porter found the goods at her lodgings 41, Carnaby-
street. The prisoner subsequently admitted having been
to Messrs. Armstrong's.

A second charge, that of obtaining a quantity of goods
from Mr. Daniel Decastro, of 65, Piccadilly, was then
taken. _ .

Wm. Warren, jun., assistant to Mr. Decastro, said pri-
soner came on Saturday evening and asked for 3/41b. of tea
and 61bs. of moist sugar, and told him to book it to No. 10,
Arlington •street. He said " Mr, Bates," and prisoner said
" Yes," and taking up the goods walked out. He was told
by another assistant that Mr. Bates lived at 21. He then
walked over and found that the address she gave was Mr.
Edmonds', and could not find the prisoner. The goods
produced were the same,

Tidy said that at the station she handed the last parcel of
goods to him from under her shawl.
The prisoner was committed on both charges for trial.

THAMES.

ROBBERY IN THE LosnoN Dom—James Vickers, a
labourer, was placed before Mr. Woolrych, charged with
stealing slbs. 6oz. of tea, the property of the London Dock
Company, from their premises.

The prisoner was stopped by a gate keeper named Day,
as he was leaving the dock in consequence of his bulky
appearance. The gate keeper put his hand under the pri-
soner's left arm and felt alarge bag there. Day was about:to
seise it when the prisoner ran away. Day gave chase to him
and the prisoner sought refuge in a house in Doak-street,
about 450 yards from the dock entrance. Daniel Sugg, a
public carriage attendant, who was formerly a police ser-
geant of the H division, saw the prisoner running into the
house, went after him and caught him as he was going up
stairs. Sugg dragged the prisoner out of the house into
the street and found upon him a linen bag containing
51bs. Goz. of tea. The prisoner had been employed on one
of the quays near the tea warehouse, and had an opportu-
nity of helping himself to a bag full of tea, and thought he
could escape the rubbing down process to which every
labourer is subjected on leaving the dock.
The prisoner said he went into the dock to seek employ-
ment. There was a large quantity of tea lying scattered
about, and he collected as much of it as would fill the bag
in which he carried his victuals.

John George, a dock constable, said the value of the tea
taken from the prisoner was 155., and that immense quan-
tities of tea in chests or scattered about were always in
store in the warehouses. The prisoner had been convicted
of a similar offence by Mr. Yardley, sometime ago, and
was then sentenced to three months' imprisonment and hard
labour.
Mr. Woolrych—This is a case for trial. I shall com-
mit the prisoner to the Middlesex Sessions.