The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-20 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE, Nov. 19. !ADMISSION OF EDWIN JAMES 70 THE
AMERICAN BAR.

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WESTMINSTER. - THE EXTRAORDINARY
CHARGE OF ROBBERY IN BESSBOROUGH-GARDE,,NSI

Newell, housemaid, late in the service of
Mr. Barker, of Bessborough-gardens, Pimlico, whi'
stands charged with having stolen a great quantity
of property from his house under very extraordi-
nary circumstances, and who was afterwards cap-
tured at Yarmouth in male attire, was placed at
the bar for re-examination, in the more becoming
garb of a domestic servant.
Mr. Bury Hutchinson appeared in her behalf.
The morbid state of the public mind was strongly
evinced by the court being more densely crowded
than even en the occasion of the charge of murder
against William Maloney, the culprit being mag-
nified into a heroine.
Mr. Hutchinson observed that he wished to ask
Mr. Inspector Humphreys a question. He wished
to know whether the whole of the property carried
away from Mr. Barker's house had not been re-
covered ?

Inspector Humphreys replied that everything,
with the exception of about £3 iu money, had been
recovered.

Mr. Hutchinson observed that he believed the
inspector had not discovered anything else affect-
ing her character for honesty.
Inspector Humphreys replied that he had.
Mr. Paynter intimated that matters of this sort
to her disadvantage could not be introducd into
the present charge.
Inspector Humphreys observed that he had two
other charges of felony to put up against the
prisoner.
Mr. Barker, the prosecutor, then stood in the
witness-box, and, in answer to Mr. Hutchinson,
said that the prisoner had been in his service from
the 17th of March to November 7th. He saw her
six or seven'times a day during that time.
Mr: Hutchinson inquired whether he had not
noticed much eccentricity about her.
Mr. Barker replied that ho never observed any-
thing eccentric about her.
Mr. Paynter observed that he could see by the
questions what the line of defence was to be, but
that matter could not be introduced into the depo-
sitions, but must be reserved for another tribunal.
In answer to other questions,
Mr. Barker said he never had any conversation
about some papers of the prisoner's in the hands of
the polite. He had not possession of any memoran-
dum-book of the prisoner's, and knew nothing about
her affairs.

Mr. Hutchinson inquired whether she had not
borne a very good character while in his service, up
to the present transaction.
Mr. Barker said he could name many things
which had been missed from the house since the pri-
soner had been in his service.

The depositions taken upon the previous exami-
nation having been read over,
Mr. Hutchinson said the accused reserved her
defence.

Mr. Painter inquired the nature of the other
charges of which the police had spoken.
Inspector Humphreys replied that on the Ist of
December, 1856, the prisoner was in the service of
Cob Wynyard, 22, Chester-street, Belgrave-square,
and absconded from the house at about six in the
evening. Immediately after she had gone a purse
of money was missing from the room in which the
lady's maid had been sitting, and which purse had
been shortly before opened in the prisoner's pre-
sence, no one else having had access to the property
but the prisoner. On further search a watch
and valuable brooch was also missing. Previous
to entering this situation she had been in the
service of Lady Gipps, of No. 11, Chester-street,
who had recommended her to the colonel's
family, and after she had left her ladyship's a
very valuable diamond pin and amethyst ring were
missed, and in consequence of the robbery at the
colonel's and sudden departure of the prisoner,
she was naturally suspected of having stolen the
ring and pin. The diamond pin having been offered
in pledge to Mr. Smith by a young female, answer-
ing the prisoner's description, was stopped by him
and restored to her ladyship.
Eliza Davis, lady's maid to Mrs. Edward Gipps,
proved that prisoner absconded as described. She
missed the purse from a drawer in her room, it was
safe at half-past five. Witness sat with her back
to the drawer. Prisoner had never been seen or
heard of since the time she absconded till now.

Mr. Humphreys said it could be proved that on
that, as on the present occasion, the prisoner had
gone into the country upon leaving her master's
house. A cook in the colonel's establishment, to
whom part of the stolen property had belonged,
had shortly after left the service, and there was no
means now of finding her,
Mr. Paynter observed that he did not think it
would be any nse sending this case before a jury;
the robbery had taken place so long ago, and there
was not sufficient evidence.
Mr. Smith, pawnbroker, was then called, but
said he could not identify the prisoner as the person
who offered Lady Gipp's diamond pin in pawn. It
was now five years ago, and the prisoner had
altered from a girl to a woman.
Mr. Paynter observed that there might be a
strong presumption of guilt against the prisoner,
but he should only send her for trial on the charge
upon which she had been arrested.
Mr. Hutchinson observed that, as the two cases
spoken off had fallen to the ground,and he was sure
would not prejudice the prisoner, he must now
apply for leave to put in bail for her appearance at
the sessions. It was quite clear that she brought a
good character to Mr. Barker's.
Mr. Paynter interrupted him by reminding him
that several things had been lost while she was in
Mr. Barker's service.
Mr. Hutchinson said there was nothing to show
that they had been taken by the prisoner. It was
his duty to submit that the prisoner's conduct was
not like that of a person ordinarily committing a
felony for the purposes of appropriation. She had
conducted herself in a most extraordinary way, but
not in a manner of a person influenced by gain, for
although the loss was large to the owners, the class
of property was not that which she could have dis-
posed of at such a place as Yarmouth, where she
went, while she left valuable articles behind her in
her master's house, which she might easily have
disposed of anywhere. She had indulged in a comi-
cal extravanganza of putting on male attre, of
smoking cigars, making love to her landlady, and
taking her to the theatre, by which it was scarcely
possible that she could hope to escape detection.
The act of gumming some of her hair to a poker, of
breaking the windows of her master's house inside
instead of out, of going to Yarmouth, with such a
great amount of luggage, where she must have
attracted the notice of everyone, showed that she
was not altogether right in her mind. Her family
were highly respectable, and this was a great mis-
fortune to them. At the time of the alleged rob-
beries, which had really come to nothing, she could
not have been more than 15 or 16 years of age; she
had not been living in any concealment, and if there
was anything in those charges they might have
been brought forward before.
Mr. Paynter thought that, although she had
conducted herself in a very fantastic way, she had
probably assumed male attire as best calculated
to effect her object; and, so effectually had she
done it, that the officer had the greatest difficulty
in finding her, even when he got to Yarmouth.
With respect to the window and appearances
at Mr. Barker's house, persons in her position
who committed robberies were apt to exercise
some precautions to raise the presumption that
they were perpetrated by persons outside the
house, and so divert suspicion from themselves.
He could not deal with the question of insanity,
even if there was evidence to support it ; but if the
prisoner could be proved to be in that state, she
would not be in a fit condition to go at large, as
much mischief might result from it.

Bail was then refused.
Mr. Hutchinson next applied for the copy of a
will and some papers found upon the prisoner.
Inspector Humphreys said there was some dis-
pute about the will. The accused's mother wished
to have possession of it, and if he had permission he
would give it to her.
On being asked who it should be given to,
The prisoner, who now spoke for the first time
during the examitaation, said, in a voice peculiarly
unfeminine " My Mother."
it was subsequently arranged that the whole of
the papers should be withheld by the inspector for
the present.
The prisoner was then fully committed for trial.

CURIOUS DISCOVERY OF HUMAN REMAINS.—
Mr. G. S. Brent, the deputy coroner for West Middlesex,
was communicated with yesterday in reference to a some..
what singular discoveiy of eight human skulls and a largo
thigh bone on Saturday morning. It appears that a num-
ber of labourers in the employ of Mr. Austin, an ex.ensive
builder, of Paddington, while engaged on the above morn-
ing digging out a foundation for a new building in Ken-
sington-gardens-square, suddenly came upon eight human
skulls lying in two perfect rows close together, and the
thigh bone lying parallel about 18 inches below the surface.
Mr. Austin's attention was immediately called to the cir-
cumstance, and by his directions these remains were
banded over to Mr. Porter, one of the parish officers, who
deposited them in the Paddington dead-house. Various
surmises are rife in the neighbourhood as to how these re-
mains became placed where they were fOund, one of which,
apparently the most probable, is that they are skulls of vic-
tims to the great plague in London in 1665, inasmuch as
they lay near the burial-ground of that fearful time for this
part of the metropolis, known as the Pest Field. It is be-
lieved that the remains are no case for a coroner's in-
quisition.

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In the Supreme Court yesterday afternoon—Jus-
tices Clerke, Sutherland, and Barnard presiding—
the distinguished British member of Parliament and
Queen's counsel, Mr. Edwin James, was admitted to
the New York bar. It is understood that he intends
to make' this city his home, and that he will enter at
once upot i the practice of his profession in which he
has won 5%14 conspicuous honours abroad. In spite
of the bor.;ers that oppose the progress of mere
talent, however great, to high success in England,
Mr. James had achieved, without the slightest aid
from aristocratic connexions, the very high distinc-
tion of standing among the foremost members of
the British bar. Since the elevation of Sir Frederick
Thesiger to the Chan tellorship, and that of Sir
Alexander Cockburn to the Chief Justiceship of the
Queen's Bench, he has be. In almost without a rival ,
in some branches of his profession. As a Parlia-
mentary counsel, even previous to their elevation,
he held the highest position. No member or peti-
tioner believed his chances St !cure until Mr. James
had been retained, and the statute book of England
is indebted to him for the New Bankruptcy Act,
and many of the wisest niettsures which have
marked the course of legal rel'orin in the past few
years. In all the " causes celd'res" which have
awakened interest he has figured as leading counsel
either for the prosecution or defence. The conduct
of the case against Palmer, in the celebrated
Rugeley poisoning, was committed to him. In the
prosecution of Bernard, for conspiracy against the
life of Louis Napoleon, he led the defence, and his
eloquent vindication is almost as familiar among
us as it is over Europe. But re eently, in the case
of Colonel Dickson against the Earl of Wilton, he
did battle for the soldier's rights and honour against
the whole power of the Court and Horse Guards,
and obtained a verdict of 20,000 dols. As a states-
man, representing Marylebone, the largest and
wealthiest constituency in England, he has been
the unvarying advocate of every measure calculated
to enlarge the liberties, unchain the industry, and
advance the freedom of the people. His Parlia-
mentary career has been chiefly made remarkable
by his advocacy of Italian unity at, d liberty, of
which in the House he was regarded as the special
champion, and into which cause he thre w himself
with the most eager enthusiasm. At the end of
the Session of 1860 he hurried off to Itai,v, and,
after passing some time with Count Cavour at his
country seat near Turin, was despatched by him in
a Piedmontese frigate to join Garibaldi, by whose
side he remained as counsellor and companion
during the glorious campaign of Italian free-
dom. He took part in the battles of Caprera
and Volturino, and accompanied Garibaldi alone
in his carriage, on his triumphal entry into
Naples. Nor was it least due to his wise and
friendly counsels that Garibaldi was saved from
pursuing that mad course into which he was urged
by wild theorists, and which at one time threatened
to jeopardise all he had gained for Italy. On his
return to the House of Commons he was known as
the friend and vindicator of Garibaldi, and, in
upholding his views in the great debate on Italian
affairs in Februry last, in the House of Commons,
closed an address of remarkable power in these
striking and eloquent words :—" The religion which
Bossuet and Fenelon illustrated and adorned will
endure for ages, but the temporal power of St. Peter
is irrevocably doomed. In the exercise of the tem-
poral power all that is good and holy is destroyed,
Every priest becomes a spy, and every bishop a
policeman." In person and in manner Mr. James
is an excellent specimen of the hale and hearty
Englishman. He is a far more fluent and impres-
sive speaker than most of the leading English
orators, and has none of that half-stammering
hesitation which to an American ear so sadly mars
their best and most striking efforts. He is still in
the prime of life, of laborious industry, eminently
adroit and able in his management especially of
criminal eases, and quite able to hold his own .
against the consummate masters of law with whom
he will come in contact among us. He will fina
them generous as well as formidably competitors
for the high prizes of the profession.--.Neto York
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COUN7BY MARKETS.

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NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYNE—Nov. 18.

At this market there was a tolerable supply of wheat,
which met a fair demand ; prices were about the same as
the previous week—white making 56s to 635, • red 52s
to 60s. The demand for barley was very slow, and the
same in value. Oats were in fair show, with a steady
sale, from 24s to 32s per 24 stone. Beans scarce, and
held at extreme rates, fiom 46s to 50s per qr.