The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-05 00:00:00

NG SEPtEMBER

of Wednesday last be was at the Belvidere public-
house, where-he saw the defendant, and a conver-
sation took place about the robbery. Witness
a3ked the defendant if he really, thought a robbery
had been committed ? and he repEed, " Oh, yes ;
I am positive thcre w as. You recollect when you
were there on Saturday, the landlord called me
on one side and showed me a hundred sovereigns
that he had put in a mall cloth bag, and then he
counted out a hundred moro, and placed them in
a small box • and if he bad the case to look of er,
as he thought he should, and not Sergeant Bond,
he could have found the money and the pers( ns
who took it, as be knew who they were."
Mr. Norton—Ara you sure he said he cc,uld find
the parties who committel the robbery ?
Witness—Yes, sir ; he said so ; and that he
knew where they were.

Some further evidence having teen given,
Mrs. Coleman, the wife of the prosecutor, said
that onithe night of the robbery, at about I:al -past
nine o'clock, the defendant came to the bar and
had a glass of gin ; and while doing so another
constable came in in a great hurry and had a
glass of porter, and hurried out again. The de-
fendant also left after taking his glass of gin, and
went out at the side door ; but whether he went
towards the street or the yard she could not say.
On the evening before the defendant came to the
bar, and having hoard him say that he could find
the money and the thieves, she asked him why he
did not look after them. He replied, that he had
neither money nor clothes, but said he had given
the necessary information to Police-constable Shah-
brook, 120 P, who was acting on it. The witness
denied that she had ever t dd the defendani-, al he
had stated, the amount of money lost, or that it
had been in a box and a bag, as she was not awa'e
of the fact.

Shabbrock, 120, who is engaged in endeavour-
ing to detect the thieves, was called, and denied
having received any information from the dt.-
feudant.

Mr. Lund here informed the magistrate that
there was another witness he had ordered to b 3 in
attendance, and that wai a female who lived op-
posite the house of i\lr. Coleman, and who on the
night of the robbery -saw a young man in Mr.
Coleman's bed-room with a lighted candle and a
cap on, but not being able identify that person
she did not attend. Mr. Lund further said that the
beat of the defendant was a considerable distance
from the residence of the prosecutor, and he (de-
fendant) had no right to expect that he should be
employed to trace the thieves. In reply to the
magistrate, he said that the defendant had been in
the force about seven mouths, and entered wish a
good character.

The defendant admitted that what he said was
from mere bravado, and he was sorry for it.
Mr. Norton admitted that this was his own opi-
nion, and that he had nothing to do with the rob-
bery, but still his conduct was exceedingly im-
proper. He was then dischargel.

ALLEGED MURDER AT BRADLEY, NEAR
BILS TON, STAFFORDSHIRE.

COMMITTAL OF PHILIP CLARE FOR MURDER.

S 1857

bL-foro ycu go, I wish to say something. lam no
murderer. lam 'as innocent as God who sits un
his own thTono. No one is more innocent than I
am. I with she could come forth herself, and tell
who did it. I am as innocent as the angels on
their thrones in heaven."