The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-25 00:00:00

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Police-constable Jones said he typrehended the
prisoner at No. 17, Park-side, Knightsbridge. The
prisoner said she had given a bill of exchange for the
money advanced by complainant. Witness found a
number of lcAters from other persons, who were ap-
parently in the same situation as the complainant.
The prisoner said she had attempted to procure the
complainant a situation in a Government office, but
had failed. On one occasion she had written to Mr.
Laboucbere, and had received a reply that the vacancy
at the office of the Board of Trade had been tilled
up. The money advanced had always been treated
as a debt.

Remanded till next Friday.
LAMBETH.
SKITTLE ROBBERIES.—CAUTION TO PUBLIC-HOUSE
AND BEER-HOUSE KEEPERS.--Ypsterday Mr. Charles
Morton, landlord of the Canterbury Arms public-
hou9e, in the Upper Marsh, Lambeth, appeared .be-
fore Mr. Norton, in obedience to a summons charg-
ing him with knoWingly suffering gambling to take
place on his premises, Mr. Renton Simpson, of
York-road, solicitor to the Lambeth and South Lon-
don Trade Protection Society, attended on behalf of
the defendant.

In support of the summons, which had been taken
out by the police, Robert Catton, a draper's assistant,
residing in Sutton-street, Soho, square, was called,
and deposed that on the 10th day of last month he
was induced to go to the house of the defendant with
some sharpers who had picked him out, and also to
accompany them into the skittle-ground. While
there one of his new acquaintances offered to bet him
fifty pounds that he could not get the nine pins down
in nine throws, and he accepted the bet; but not
having the money about him he said he should go to
his landlord, borrow the money, and return to play
the match. One of the party
accompanied him to
his lodgings, and having got the money he returned
to the defendant's house. On arriving there he found
the party he had left in the skittle-ground in front of
the bar, and they all returned to the parlour, where
they had some dinner and two bottles of wine, and
they proceeded into the subscription skittle-ground.
Mr. NORTON—Are there two skittle-grounds at the
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house ? Witness—Yes, sir. One publicground,in
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second time. I put down 451. out of the 501. for the
match of my knocking down the nine pins in nine
throws, when one of the party offered first to play me
for a bottle of wine. I accepted the challenge; and
having put down the other Si., set to play for the
bottle of wine. This I lost, and the stakeholder in-
stantly gave up the money to the person who was
playing against me, saying that the 50/. was wagered
on the result of that game. The person who received
the money disappeared, and all the others also got
away.
Mr. NORTON—Had any drink been supplied in the
skittle-grounds ? Witness—Yes ; one bottle of wine,
and that I suspect was drugged.
Mr. NOB-TON—Why do you think so ? Witness
—Because neither of the parties drank a drop of it ;
and though I had only two glasses of it, it had a
powerful effect on me—an effect that two glasses of
pure wine was not likely to have on me. Besides,
one of the men, when I was about to take a third
glass, said, " I'd recommend you not to take any more
of that wine, else you'll be drunk."
Mr. NORTON—Do you recollect seeing the defend-
ant during any part of the game in either of the
skittle-grounds ? Witness—No, sir ; Ido not recol-
lect seeing Mr. Morton at all before I lost my

money.
Mr. NORTON—Who was it that brought the wine ?
Witness—l cannot say, sir.
Mr. NORTON—Was the defendant's pot-boy there
during the game ? Witness—Yes, sir, he stuck up
the pins.
In his cross-examination by Mr. Simpson the wit-
ness said that he did not see the defendant at trim
house before losing his money, nor could he swear
that the pot-boy was aware that they were playing
fur money. He was present, however, when the pot-
boy had sworn that he had seen the stakes deposited
and handed over to the person who had played with
him (witness).
Mr. NORTON—Have you any doubt whatever that
the pot-boy was aware of the fact that the money had
been deposited for the purpose of being played for ?
Witness—None whatever.
Mr. NOItTON —The fact, however, we will have from
the potman himself; let him get into the witness-box.
The police said that they had not summoned him,
and

Mr. Simpson observed that his client, suspecting
that his pot-boy know all about it, had discharged him
immediately after he had given his evidence at this
court. He (Mr. Simpson) further begged leave to
state that no person more deeply regretted the occur-
rence, and that the young man Catton should have
lost his money at his house in the way described,
than Mr. Morton, his client, did, and ho was ready to
declare on his oath, if necessary, that the parties by
whom the fraud had been perpetrated were perfect
strangers to his house, and that he at the time had
not the slightest cognisance of what was going for-
ward, else he should have prevented anything wrong.
Mr. Morton had only been in the house for three
months, but had been in the public line for some
years,
a number of the most respectable inhabitants of the
neighbourhood, SaismtPh'ecn)had in attendance
officers of police, to
speak to the respectability of his house, and others to
vouch for his high character for many years.
Mr. Gray, a respectable tradesman in the Water-
andhe
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leo-road, and several others, spoke in high terms of
the defendant's character, and the mode of con-
ducting his house ; and the police corroborated the
latter.
Mr. NORTON remarked that from all he had heard
he felt satisfied that no culpability attached to the de-
fendant. The inquiry, however, he thought a very
preper one, and justice would be met by the defendant
paying the expenses.
Mr. Simpson begged that instead of doing this, and
having the matter recorded and sent before the coun-
try magistrate as an offence, his client might be al-
lowed to put half-a-crown in the poor-box, and this
was assented to.