The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-22 00:00:00

POLICE IN TELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.
Yesterday William Ashby, a tall, robust-looking
man, and Harriet Gribble, were brought up before
Mr. Alderman ilumphery, charged with misdemea-
nour under the following circumstances :
Police•constable 229 stated that about twenty-five
minutes to four o'clock on Thursday morning he saw
the male prisoner talking to the female in Three Tuna
psssage. While requesting them to move on he ob-
served the male prisoner holding his hand down by
his side, which appeared to contain something he
wished to hide from the officer. Witness immediately
secured prisoner's hand, and, on opening it, discovered
a gold watch guard, with a gold seal and two keys on
a ring attached to it. Seeing that the chain was
broken as if it had been forcibly severed from a watch,
witness asked prisoner whose property it was, and he
replied that it was his own. Not being satisfied with
this account, witness took both the prisoners into
custody.

Alderman HIIMPIIERT—To whom does this chain,
with the keys and seal, belong ? Prisoner—They are
mine, your Worship.

Alderman IIUMPHERT—The name of William
Ashby does not agree with the initials engraved on
the seal. How do you account for that ? Prisoner
—I bought the ticket and took them out cf
pledge. I left the watch at the watchmaker's, Mr.
Connor, in Cheapside, to be repaired. It is a silver
lever.

Alderman liumrsEßr —Then you had better stand
down for a few minutes while the officer makes inquiry
at Mr. Connor's.

In the course of the sitting of the Court the officer
returned, and stated that he had been to Mr. Con-
nor's, who had informed him that prisoner had been
in the habit, for the last two or three years, of leaving
watches with him to be repaired. Prisoner left a silver
lever watch with him about a week ago.
Alderman HUMPHERY—Where is the watch?
Officer—l have not got it. Mr. Connor hesitated,
and did not seem inclined to let me have it.
Alderma❑ HUMPrIEILY- Go and get it.
In a few minutes the officer returned with the
watch.

A brother of the prisoner appeared, and stated that
prisoner was a dairyman, residing in Clapham. He
knew the watch to be the property of the prisoner,
William Ashbs-.

Alderman AusiruEßT—Where did he get this
watch? The brother—Oh, he bought it somewhere.
Alderman lIIINtruERr —That may be. I ask the
question because a gentleman was before me yesterday
who was rubbed of a watch answering in description
the one now produced ? The brother said the pri-
soner had had it a long time in his possession.
Alderman HUMPIIERY—Do you know anything of
this chain ? The brother—Yes; that is the property
of the prisoner.

Alderman HUMPIIERT—Do you know what h on
the seal ? The brother—No, Sir; but I think there
is a crown on it.

Alderman llnairuner There are the letters
" J. F." engraved on the stone, which is a dark ame-
thyst, with a crest of a fawn's head on a ducal coro-
net. To say the least of it the case looks very suspi•
cious, particularly as the chain appears to have been
cut, and it is not at all likely that any gentleman would
cut his own chain. Under these circumstances I
shall discharge the female, as there is nothing against
her, and remand Ashby fur further inquiries.
The brother here offered to be bail for the prisoner,
which was accepted by the Alderman ; and be was
accordingly bound over in the sum of 50/. to answer
for the appearance of the prisoner when called on.
ROBBERY BY AN ERRAND-BOY.-- William Matthews
was pieced at the bar, charged with stealing a Bank
of England 101. note, the property of Messrs. Braun
and Kortoski, cap-makers, of 34, London-wall.
Marcus Kortoski said he was in the employ of
Benjamin Kortoski. Prisoner was errand-boy to the
firm. On the 24th of August, 1849, witness entrusted
prisoner with a Bank of England note for 101., and
requested him to obtain change for it. Ile went out
with it, but never returned. Witness went to the
Bank of England on the following day, and ascer-
tained that the prisoner had changed the note there,
and had received ten sovereigns, which he appro-
priated to his own use. The note produced was the
proper • ty of Messrs. Braun and kortoski. The words,
"34, London-wall," written across the back of it,
were in the prisoner's handwriting.
Richard Adye Bailley, a clerk in the accountant's
office of the Bank of England, identified the prisoneras
the party who changed the note on the 24th of August,
1849. lie requested the prisoner to write the address
across the back before payment.
Police-constable 204 M sail, in consequence of in-
formation he received, he apprehended the prisoner in
Star-corner, 13,rmondsey, on Monday last, when he
admitted having changed the note and kept the money.
The prisoner was then committed tor trial.
BOW-STREET.

A Post-office clerk, named Forbes, charged with
opening letters passing through the Genersl Post-
office, was brought up in custody for further exami-
nation.

Several witnesses having been examined, the pri-
soner, who declined saying anything in his defence,
was committed for trial.
AiAI?YLEBONE.

BURGLARY.--Yesterday two men, well known to
the police, and who gave their names James Wilson
and Charles Rivers, were placed at the bar charged
with a burglary at the residence of Dr. Mayo,
56, Wimp°le-street, Cavendish-square.
Elizabeth Allen, cook and housekeeper to Mr.
Parker, 35, Wimpole-street, deposed that at a quarter
to eight on the previous evening she saw the prisoners
at Dr. Mayo's door, and observed Wilson enter the
dwelling ; he soon afterwards came out and rejoined
Rivers, who was waiting for him a short distance off;
and as witness suspected that there wee something
' wrong, she intimated her suspicion to a person on
the opposite side of the way, by whom such informa-
tion was given to the police as led to the prisoners'
apprehension. _ _

...Mr. Lee, 13, Bayham -street, Camden-town (the
party alluded to by the first witness), gave evidence
corroborative of the latter part cf the above statement.
Other evidence was gone into, from which it ap-
peared that the prisoners, after being closely watched
through several streets, were ultimately taken into
custody by Ward, 357 A, and Glide, 153 D. They
were conveyed to the station -house, and in the posses.
sion of Wilson was found a chisel, a taper, some luoi•
fern, and a large bag; the other prisoner had upon
him six latch-keys, two of which opened Dr. Mayo's
front-door.

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the movements of a dinner party up stairs.
The prisoners, the former of whom was tried at the
Central Criminal Court two years ago for burglary,
and sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment, were
remanded till Wednesday next, in order to afford time
for the police to make other inquiries respecting them.
Samuel lioddington, the truck-clerk of Pickford
and Co., at their preini.es of the Camden station of
the London and North-Western Railway, was finally
examined, and committed for trial on three charges of
stealing articles from u crate and other packages.

THREE AT A BIRTH.—Mrs. Tully, wife of a jour-
neyman
baker, was safely delivered of three children, all
females, on Tuesday. The mother and children are doing well.
She had previously borne her husband eleven children, eight
of whom are living. The husband, wife, and tight children,
were previously subsisting on 14s. a week, with an addition,
almost too trifling to mention, wising from the earnings of
the elder daughter, whose time was almost occupied in fa-
mily affairs on account of the general 111.keeltit of the
mother.—Brighton Gazette.