The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 22, 1868.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

STEALING GOLD.-ROBBERY AND RECEIVING.—
Walter Peck, 45, and Walter Peck, 19, of No. 20,
New Gloucester-street, Roston, working jewellers,
were charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with stealing
two ounces of gold, the property of Mr. Richard
N. Welchman, manufacturing jeweller, of No. 72,
Dean-street, Soho, and Robert Elliott, a jeweller's
polisher, of No. 25, Wells-street, was charged with
receiving the same with a guilty knowledge.
Mr. Allen, of Carlisle-street, prosecuted, and
Mr. Sayer, from 'the office of Mr. E. Lewis, of
Great Marlborough-street, defended the Pecks.
Mr. Allen, having opened the case, called
Mr. Welchman, who said he employed 30 men,
and amongst others the prisoners, the elder Peck
having been many years in his employ. The
younger Peck, an apprentice, and the other priso-
ner, had also been some years in his employ. The
gold is weighed out to each man as it is wanted. In
consequence of heavy losses he had sustained he
was more strict in his watching. The prisoners
Peck had been in the habit of producing from three
to four ounces of filings in a fortnight, and last week
he noticed among them the appearance of copper, and
tested it, and he would show that, instead of it
being of the value of
.60s. an ounce, be worth
about 40s. The lump produced is made by the
filings of a fortnight being fused in a crucible, and
is the produce of the prisoners' filings. Before
giving the Pecks into custody yesterday he asked
them if they had any explanation to give after ac-
cusing them of having tampered with his gold. The
elder Peck denied it at first, but afterwards said
that his son had been robbing him (prosecutor). He
afterwards saw the younger Peck, and told him his
father had said he had been robbing him (prosecutor)
and he said he had but only a little, but afterwards
said that he had done it for mouths, and sold it
to Elliott. He then sent for Elliott, and asked him
how it was he became a dealer in gold, and he
began crying, and said that he was doing it, but
had not done it to a great Extent, and that he had
used it in making ornaments for himself. He then
asked what he gave the younger Peck for it, and
he said 40s. for gold, which was not worth less than
605., and on the officer asking him whom he had sold
the gold to he made no reply.
In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, the prosecutor said
that from the quality of gold he used his filings
were always worth 60s. an ounce.
Police-constable Cane, 35 C, said that he went
to the prosecutor's yesterday afternoon, and asked
the elder Peck if he could account for his filings
being in the state they were in, and he said he could
not account for it. The prosecutor said there was
a great deal of copper with it, and he then said it
was his son.

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In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, the prosecutor said
the prisoners never had any copper given to them.
Cane said the elder Peck also told him that his
son had taken the gold, and that he had put the
copper with the filings to make up the weight. The
younger Peck said he had taken the gold, and not
his father, and that he had only been taking it for
three months, and that he had sold it to Elliott.
Elliott, on being asked how long he had been dealing
in gold, at first denied but afterwards admitted buy-
ing some off the younger Peck at 40s. an ounce, but
that he could not tell what ho had done with the
gold. The prisoners were then given into his
custody.

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Mr. Sayer declined to cross-examine the wit-
nesses at the present stage of the case, and the pri-
soners were remanded.

Mr. Sayer applied for bail for the elder Peck, but
Mr. Tyrwhitt declined to accept it.

WESTMINSTER.

EXTENSIVE ROBBERIES BY A CHARWOMAN.—
Sarah Telson, a woman between thirty and forty
years of age, was placed at the bar charged with
robbing her employer to a considerable extent.
Mr. George Coteau, 122, Brompton-road, hair-
dresser and perfumer, said that for the last nine
weeks the prisoner had worked twice a week at his
house. During that time much property had been
missed. Yesterday evening the prisoner's landlady
brought a bundle of things which were identified as
prosecutor's. She was at that time at work in pro-
secutor's house, and was given into custody. On
going to a room recently occupied by the prisoner
and a woman named O'Brien, a number of hand-
kerchiefs and miscellaneous property were found.
James Thomas, assistant to Mrs. Ileigham,
pawnbroker, produced some articles pledged in the
name of Telson.

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Watts,
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perty.
Prisoner was remanded.
Eliza O'Brien was then charged with robbing
Mrs. Ward.

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A great quantity of valuable property was found
at 24, Arthur-street, Treboor-square, in the course
of the search in the last case.

Mrs. Eliza Ward said the prisoner had worked
for her for five months, and her loss of property
was so great that she discharged her. When the
woman Telson was taken, and the miscellaneous
property found, witness went to the house and
,re-
cognised other things.
131 I Prisoner was remanded.

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THAMES.

A BRUTAL RUFFIAN. —Henry C. S. Walker,
labourer, aged 25, of No. 5, Railway-street,
Bromley, was brought before Mr. Paget charged
with violently assaulting Bridget Fitzgerald.
The wretched couple have lived together some
time as man and wife, and the prisoner knew the
complainant was a prostitute when he took her off
the streets to his home. The consequences of this
immoral connection have been grievous. The com-
plainant'has often been intoxicated and has loaded
her paramour with railings and reproaches. He
has frequently ill-used her in a brutal manner, and
last night there was a quarrel between them, and
he used sanguinary threats. He beat her with his
fists about the head and body, gave her two black
eyes, and struck her a tremendous blow on the head
with the leg of a table, inflicting a severe wound.
She lost a good deal of blood, and was in a weakly
condition.

Henry Peters, 185 K, produced the leg of a chair,
with which the woman was struck. There was
blood and hair adhering to one end of it, which was
turned like a screw. The policeman said the woman
lost a good deal of blood.

The Prisoner, iu defence, said he could not keep
his " wife" off the streets, or make a sober woman
of her, although he had often tried to do so. He
had often brought her home his hard earnings, and
she had spent the money in drink.

Mr. Paget said the prisoner could not expect a
comfortable home, or any happiness with a drunken
prostitute, and that he had no occasion to live with
her, but she was not to be ill-used and half mur-
dered by a ruffian.
The Prisoner—What am I to do with her ?

Mr. Paget—Leave her ; do anything but ill-use
her. You have used an unlawful weapon, and in-
flicted a very severe wound on her head. There is
no justification for such a brutal assault, and, bad
as she is, she is under the protection of the law. I
sentence you to he imprisoned and kept to hard
labour in the House of Correction for four calendar
months, and at the end of that time to find good
bail, your own personal recognisance in £4O, and
Lwo sureties of £25 each, to keep the peace and be
of good behaviour for two months longer.

MAILS FOR MALTA. —By command of the Post-
master-General, in October next, the usual day of despatch
of the mails for Malta, via Marseilles (on the Messina line),
will be departed from on two occasions, in order to fit the
arrival at Messina to the departure thence of the Italian
packet for Malta. Instead of the mails being made up in
London as usual on the evenings of the 7th and 27th, they
will, in October, be despatched a day earlier—viz., on the
evenings of the 6th and 26th of October, with supplemen-
tary mails on the moorings of the 7th and 2 Tth. No altera-
tion will occur as regards the mail of the middle of the
month—viz., the 17th, which will be despatched in duo
course.

The Forte, screw (unarmoured wooden) frigate,
Captain J. Alexander, C. 8., steamed into Portsmouth
Harbour yesterday morning to get some damages re-
paired, which were caused by her collisivu with Nor-
west= barque at Spitbead.

CENIRAL CRIMINAL COURT—This Day.

NEW COURT.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Kerr.)
THE CASE OF MADAME RACHEL.

The hearing of this extraordinary case was re-
sumed this morning. The court was crowded iu
every part, a great number of ladies being pre-
sent.

Mrs. Borrodaile was this morning cross-examined
by Mr. Digby Seymour. The opening was prin-
cipally directed to the writing of certain letters
directed from different places, all of which she said
were written at the dictation of Madame Rachel,
and from her shop in Bond-street. The only time
she ever altered any of the words in the letters was
when the grammar was too bad to pass. The letter
mentioning the circumstance of her brother-in-law,
Mr. Cope, being in London searching for Lord
Ranelagh, and that he had purchased a photograph
of his lordship, whose nose he did not admire, was,
like all the rest, written from the dictation of
Madame Rachel. Another one, commencing " I
am afraid to go to Rachel's for fear of Mr. Boore,"
was written under the same circumstances.

The Judge—Had you been told that there was
an execution out against you ?—I think Madame
Rachel told me so, but I cannot be sure.

The Judge—Execution could not take place until
you had been served with a writ. Getting a piece
of paper, beginning " Victoria, by the grace of God,
we command you," &c., would, under ordinary
circumstances, make an impression on a lady.
Were you served with such a paper ?—I now think
I was by a man named Abrahams, in Great George-
street. I was four times arrested, and I think I had
two writs.

A great deal of time was here occupied in conse-
quence of the learned gentleman repeatedly asking
the prosecutrix whether she wrote such and such
passages in a great quantity of letters, after she had
given a general answer that she never had written
one single letter used during the former and pre-
sent trial except at the dictation of the prisoner.

Mr. Seymour—You speak in one of the letters
to Lord Ranelagh of " the little, lady with the
golden hair." Now, are you that personage ?
No ; 1 cannot say I am.

Mr. Seymour—But you use something to dress
your hair with ?—Yes, I at one time used a little
aurilicum, but that was only to produce brightness
to the hair, not to change its colour. (Laughter.)
I don't think I'm " the little lady." Madame
Rachel told me there was such a person, and I
wrote accordingly.

Mr. Seymour—Now, Mrs. Borrodaile, I have a
very important question to put to you. I've a
letter here in your handwriting which says :
'• I've received a letter from my daughter, and
it is full of insults, as it is well known in Pembroke-
shire that I have been living with you for some
months."

Do you mean to say that you wrote that by
Madame Rachel's dictation to the person to whom
you thought you were going to be married ?—Yes,
I did, and am as much surprised now as any one
that I could have written such falsehoods. If you
say I ever did live with any one, I'll make you
prove it. You said nearly as much during the last
trial. •

Mr. Seymour—l mean to say much more during
this one.—Well, all I can say is, I will make you
prove your words if you make any charge against
me. I wrote everything at the dictation of that
vile, wicked woman (the prisoner.) I can say no
more. In one of the letters that followed reference
was made to " Dear William" mixing with the
Fenians, and that money had been supplied to
Stephens. In answer to the learned sergeant, the
prosecutrix said she knew a person named
O'Keefe, but he was in Paris. O'Keefe went there
before the last trial. It was O'Keefe that advised
the present trial as the best way of recovering her
property. She never for a moment thought that
the prisoner would have the audacity to keep her
clothes after the first persecution commenced. She
did not know that O'Keeffe had been ,to Madame
Rachel's residence and offered to settle the case if
a certain sum of money was paid. She did believe
that such a thing had taken place.
We shall continue the report in a late edition.

111A1?.K.E7 8-7 HIS DAY.

HAY.

Supplies of haystuffs at Smithfield and Whitechapel are
ample, and the trade to-day was very dull, at quotations.
Meadow hay, prime, £5 to £5 lOs; inferior to middling,
£3 ICs to £4 lOs ; clover, good to prime, £5 to £6 6s ;
inferior to middling, £3 to £1 lOs; straw, 28s to 34s per
load.

TAT TERS ALL'B—Las t Evening

GREAT EASTERN HANDICAP.

sto 1 agst Bounceaway (taken and wanted)
100 to 12 agst Nelly Rose (taken)
15 to 1 agst Benevolence (taken)

CESAREWITCH.

Bto 1 agst Blue Gown (off—take 9to 1)
9to 1 agst Ilium (taken and offered)
1000 to 70 agst Beoswing (offered)
1000 to 70 agst Blueskin (taken)
1000 to 60 agst Friponnier (offered—take 20 to 1)
1006 to 40 agst Special (taken and offered)
1000 to 40 agst Kingsland (taken and offered)
1000 to 40 agst Suffolk (taken)
1000 to 30 agst Gondolier (taken)
1000 to 30 agst Pietro (offered—take 40 to 1)
40 to 1 agst Cecil (offered—take 50 to 1)
40 to 1 agst Mercury (offered)
1000 to 20 agst Eastley (offered)
1000 to 20 agst Paul Jones (offered)
1000 to 20 agst Hermit (off—take 1000 to 15)
1000 to 15 agst Tynedale (taken)
100,1 to 15 agst Romping Girl (taken)
1000 to 15 agst Our Mary Ann (taken)
1000 to 10 agst Knight Errant (offered)
1000 to 10 agst Owain Glyndwr (wanted)
1000 to 8 agst Guy of Warwick (taken)
CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
10 to 1 agst Eastley (offered)
13 to 1 agst Green Sleeve (offered—take 14)
20 to 1 agst Lady Coventry (offered)
1000 to 40 agst Kingsland (taken)
40 to 1 agst Mortemer (taken)
DERBY.

7 to 1 agst Bellairuin (taken)
1000 to 70 agst Tenedo ; (offered)
25 to 1 agst Duke of Beaufort (taken)
30 to 1 agst King Cophetua (offered)
50 to 1 agst Boulogne (taken)

PROGRAMME OF NEWMARKET FIRST
OCTOBER MEETING.
WEDNESDAY.
Fifty Pouuds—three year olds 7st 91b, four Bst 1011', five,
six and aged 9st llb ; fillies and geldings allowed 31b ;
the winner to be sold for 300 soya. D.I.
A Handicap of 15 soya each, 10 ft, for two year olds.
T.Y.C.
A Handicap of 20 sovs each, and only 5 ft if declared by
ten o'clock on Tuesday evening (to gas to the second),
for three year olds and upwards. D.M.
A Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each, for two year olds; colts
Bst 101 b, fillies Bst ilb ; the winner to be sold for 50 sovs
if demanded, &c. First half of Ab. M.
The Twentieth Triennial Produce Stakes of 10 sovs each,
for three year olds; colts Bst 10Ib, fillies Bst 71b; the
second to receive a sum equal to 10 per cent, and the
third a sum equal to 5 per cent. on the whole stake
A.F. 55 subs.
Pic-nic, Franchise, Belle Sauvage (paid), Fugleman,
Queen of Italy, Herald, Lady Grace, Merry and Wise,
Booty, Sir David Gam, Tregeagle, Pearifeather, Lady
Ravensworth (paid), Samson, Lady Tatton f, Amiral,
Gabriella d'Estrees f, Lorenzo di Lardy, Carbine f, Rose
Dew, Slanderer, Skedaddler (paid), Uncas, Rosee, Alice
Gray c, Phoebus, Miss Ann c (dead), Sunstroke, Lady
Lurewell f, Loudoun (dead), Lady Seymour, Post Haste
(pd), Citron, llminster, Northerner, Nyanza, Maria c,
Queen, of Beauty, Happy Though; Idalia, Stamford,
c by Parmesan—Skim-names dam (dead), br c by Parme-
san—Skirmisher's d, f by Skirmisher—Buckenham's d,
Mary f, False Alarm, The Laird, Weather Isle, Drum
Major, Haricot f, tEgina, Mysotis, Discord (dead), Qui
Vive c (dead), Molinara.
A Biennial Sweepstakes of 500 sovs each, 200 ft; colts
Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 71b ; each subscriber to name six
colts or fillies, two to the post. Bretby Stakes Course.
4 subs.
Duke of Beaufort, Standard Bearer, Vestminster, c by
Birdhill out of Lurley, Scottish Queen, f by Trumpeter out
of Farfalla, Brother to Cambuscan, Brother to Chattanooga,
Chanoinesse, Brother to Union Jack, The Orphan, Bertha,
Brother to General Peel, c by Young Melbourne out of
Miss Sarah, cby First Flight, dam by Young Melbourne,
cby Knowsley out of The Drake's dam, f by Young Mel-
bourne out of Maid of Masham, c by Knowsley, dam by
West Australian, `Penedos, Athanor, Vladimir, The Mar-
tyr, Abstinence, and Chillianwallah.
The St. Leger Stakes of 25 sovs each, with 200 added, for
three year olds; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 61b ; the win-
ner of the Epsom Derby or Doncaster St. Leger 71b, of
the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes, Prince of Wales's
Stakes at Ascot, or the Oaks 51b, of any two of the above
stakes 12Ib extra ; maidens allowed 71b ; the second to
receive 50 sovs and the third to save his stake ; D.I. ;
49 subs.
Pic-nic Frailty colt, Amelia c (pd), Typhoeus, Apol-
lonious (Lid), Thorsgill, Tympanum, Wardour, Grandee,
Cad, Carlowrie, Moslem, Melbourne, Courtmantle, Capsi-
cum, Lymington, Angus, Lanark, Arran, Boreas, See Saw,
The Piper, Virtue, Lady Ravensworth (pd), Cactus (pd),
Le Sarrazin, Capitaine, Sunstroke, Phoebus, Birdseeker,
Head Centre, Clairon, The Don, New Broom, Cork Jacket,
Cap-a-Pie, Thunderstorm, Restitution, King Alfred, Puff,
Legislator, Helvellyn, Vale Royal, Brother w Claverhouse,
Redivivus, Madrid, Earnley, Socrates, (leant des Batailles.
The Granby Stakes of 30 sovs each, 20 ft, for two year olds
not named in the Rutland Stakes; colts Bst 101 b, fillies
Bst 71b ; winners of a sweepstakes value 200 sovs (in-
cluding the winner's own stake) 41b, of two such stakes
71b extra; Criterion Course; 15 subs.
Typhon, Standard Bearer, Aftermath, Brother to Union
Jack, Candidate, Portsmouth, De Vere, Nightjar, Arch-
duke, Artemis, Poinsettia, The iEgean, Burford, Bagpipes,
and Amity.