The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-31 00:00:00

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and other articles, and this when he went out irt the
daytime he left locked and safe. About 9 o'clock at
night Mrs. Cooke heard the sound of footsteps in
the passage, with a grating noise, such as would be
produced by a box rubbing against wainscot, and
on looking out at her door she saw the prisoner
leaving with a box on his shoulder, which she at
once recognised as that of the prosecutor, and on her
telling her husband so Mr. Cooke went up to Mr.
Gibbard's room, and found that the box of the pro-
secutor had been taken away, though the prisoner's
own was left. The prosecutor and Cooke went in
search of the prisoner, whom they found at a public
house, and accused him of the robbery, which he
denied, declaring that the box he had taken away
was his own, and had brought to the house 20
minutes before to pack some clothes in. He then
took them to another house, where he showed them
a box, which he said was the same he had remove d,
but this was not the box of the prosecutor; and it
was proved by a widow named Wallis. of Chick-
sand-street, Spitalfields, that within half an hour
after the property of the prosecutor had been stolen
the prisoner left a square box of the same descrip-
tion at her house, saying he should bring a larger
one next day, but that on the following evening a
strange man came and asked for the box which had
been left, and carried it away with him. The pri-
soner was then given into the custody of Horne, of
the H division, to whom he made much the same
statement, and who on searching him discovered
only sixpence upon him.
Mr. Vann, for the defence, was instructed to give
a total denial to the charge on behalf of the pri-
soner, who had been ten years in the service of one
firm and lodged nearly three years in the house
where the robbery had been committed, in both
which neighbourhoods he bore an excellent charac-
ter ; and as his client declared that the property he
had removed was really his own, and, it turned out
that there were uo less than seven other lodgers in
the same house, any one of whom might have taken
it, he hoped the prisoner's character would be taken
into consideration, and bail accepted for his future
appearance.
Mr. Knox, however, refused bail, and ordered
prisoner to be remanded.

CRERNWICH.—Ch as. Kpll•r, baker, Queen's-
place, Blackheath-road, appeared to a summons
charging him with having refused to weigh two
half-quartern loaves, when required to do so by Mary
Duke, by which he had incurred a penalty of £5.
The complainant stated that on the 23d inst. she
obtained a ticket from a committee appointed to re•
lieve distressing eases in the district, which ticket
entitled her to a quartern loaf. She took the ticket
to the shop of defendant, who gave her two half-
quartern loaves from a shelf, placing them on the
counter. She then asked defendant to weigh the
bread, which he refused to do, when she told him
he had refused to weigh it on the previous day,
and left the shop with it.
Mr. Baxendale, a gentleman connected with the
committee, said arrangements had been made with
defendant and other bakers in the district to receive
the committee's tickets given to deserving objects,
the bread supplied being charged for at the ordi-
nary retail price and paid for out of the contribu-
tions of the public. In consequence of a complaint
made that it was supposed defendant was issuing
bread light in weight, a ticket was given to the
present complainant to take to the defendant's, and
to have the bread weighed. She afterwards returned
with the loaves produced, which were weighed at a
neighbouring baker's, and found to be nearly 6oz.
deficient in weight.
The defendant said he had offered to weigh the
bread for the woman, but that she took it away,
saying, Never mind." _ _

Mr. Maude said that he could not but consider
the complaint a very serious one against the defen-
dant, who had been engaged to supply bread to
the poor, which was paid for out of funds provided
by the benevolent public. The deficiency in weight
was very great, and was a great consideration to
poor people, more particularly at the present season
and the present price of provisions. He should
therefore impose a fine of £3 and costs.