The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-23 00:00:00

NEW COURT.

William Edward Brown, a respectable-looking young
man, aged twenty-three. was indicted for stealing a
shilling, the property of his employer, Mr. J. Dobson.
Mr. Clarkson defended the prisoner.
The prosecutor stated that he was a linen• draper, re-
siding in Southwark, and the prisoner had been in his
service as a shopman. Having entertained suspicions
respecting the honesty of the prisoner, he marked some
money and placed it in the till. In the evening the pri-
soner was searched, and a marked shilling was found
upon him, and he was In consequence given into custody.
The prosecutor was severely cross-examined by Mr.
CLARKSON—Had never accused his wife of theft. His
wife had left him, in consequence of ill-treatment. The
witness, in the course of his cross-examination, prevari-
cated very much.
The CommoN SERGEANT stopped the case, and ordered
an acquittal.
The prisoner was again placed at the bar, charged with
stealing another shilling, under similar circumstances.
The evidence in this case was less satisfactory than in
the last, and

The COMMON SERGEANT again directed an acquittal,
and the prisoner was discharged.
A respectable-looking young man, named Justinian
Burrell, pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him
with embezzling 54/. 165., the property of Mr. Golding,
his employer. The prisoner was clerk to the prosecutor.
In answer to a quesion from the COMMON•SERGEANT,
the prosecutor said that the prisoner's salary was 501. a
year, with board and lodging.
The prisoner was sentenced to 7 years' transportation.
Octapius Cl trke, aged 28, son of the celebrated clergy
man, was indicted for stealing a gold watch, two seals,
and a key, value 201., the property of Mr. Leese, in the
dwelling-house of Mr. Alexander T. Sweat ; also with
stealinc, a purse containing 151., the proporty of George
Boothl; ; and also with stealing goods, to the value of
101, the property of Richard R. Pearce, in his dwelling-
hou se.
The prisoner pleaded Guilty to the whole of the in-
dictments.

The COMMON SERGEANT said the prisoner was a whole-
sale plunderer, and sentenced him to ten years' tran-
sportation.
Jane Robinson, aged 40, was indicted for stealing a
silver tea-pot, a silver coffee-pot, and various other arts
cies, the, property of her mistress, Mrs. Mary Hoffman ;
and Mary Anne Robinson, aged 40, sister of the prisoner,
and Sarah Batley, were indicted for receiving the pro-
perty, knowing it to have been stolen.
The first prisoner pleaded Guilty.
From the evidence adduced against the others, it ap-
peared that the property had been given to them by
Jane Robinson to pledge, but it did not appear that they
had a guilty knowledge.---The jury acquitted them.
The COMMON SERGEANT inquired how long the con-
victed prisoner had been in the service of the prose-
cutrix ?

Mrs. Hoffman said she had been in her service four-
een months.

The COMMON SERGEANT said the prisoner had been
guilty of a very serious offence, and sentenced her to
seven years' transportation.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION-HOUSE.

A man named William H;dera:Tvas charged be-
fore the Lord Mayor under the following circum-
stances :

William Murton, a person in the employment of
Messrs. Nathaniel Fenn and Co., of Botolph-lane,
Aldersgate-street, stated that on Tuesday last a
person called to look at some sugars, which witness
showed to him, and he chose three bags, containing
between five and six hundred weight, and value from
161. to 201. He then ordered that the sugar should
be sent to the Nag's Head, Bow, addressed 0. M., in
the name of Joseph Morris, of Kingston. Witness
forwarded the bags accordingly. The prisoner upon
being asked, said that his name was Joseph Morris,
and witness told him it was the usual practice of the
firm to have cash for the first purchase, and a refe-
rence for any future purchases, and he told the
witness to send the invoice to Sir Charles
Prices, and to mention in the invoice the day
he would call with the discount taken off.
Witness, therefore, considered it to be completely a
ready-money transaction. The prisoner referred him
to Messrs. Lowell and Nash, and Thompson, Ross, and
Co., and the former house, to which witness applied,
gave him a very high character of Mr. Morris. In
order that there might be no mistake, witness asked
the prisoner a second time his name, and the prisoner
gave him a card, with the name of Joseph Morris, tea-
dealer and cheesemonger, Collaton-bridge, Kingston.
Witness afterwards saw the sugars in the possession
of Mr. Russell, and identified them.
Mr. Joseph Morris, of Collaton-bridge, grocer,
stated that the prisoner called upon him on Monday
last, with samples of sugar, and, after receiving an
order from him for two bags, asked him where he '
dealt in London. He replied, at Sewell and Nash's,
and Thompson and Ross's, and was then asked by
the prisoner for his card, which he accordingly handed
to him. Witness asked him what house he repre-
sented, and he said he represented Messrs. Hands and
Co., of Mincing-lane, brokers. Witness had not
given the prisoner any authority to apply to Messrs.
Fenn and Co. for any goods in his name.
William Bashford, a man in the employment of the
proprietor of the Nag's Head Inn, Bow, stated that
whilst he was at work in the yard on Tuesday, a man
entered and produced an order for three bags of ^A tgar.
The goods were given to the man, and witness as-
sisted in loading the cart, but in consequence of in-
formation which he received, ha followed the cart to

the Swan on the Dover-road. The cart then re-
turned to Mr. Russell in High-street, Borough,
where witness, seeing the prisoner help to unload it,
gave him at once into custody.
Mr. Thomas Russell, of No. 72, High-street, Bo •
rough, stated that on Tuesday the prisoner came to
his shop and said he was a traveller, and asked him if
he was a buyer of sugar. The prisoner stated that he
represented the house of Hands and Co., Mincing-
lane, that he was selling on commission; and he exhi-
bited a sample, which he said was a remnant of three
or four bags from off a large parcel which they had,
and asked 60s. per hundred weight font. Witness
offered him 595., and the prisoner observed, that as it
was to clear a remnant, he would take it.
Yesterday the sugar was brought to the
door, and the prisoner presented the invoice
produced, made out in the name of Dent,
who he said was a commission-agent. Witness hesi-
tated, and the prisoner wanted to take the sugar away,
but witness said, " No, if it's all right I'll keep them,
as I bought them; if not, you have no business with
them ;" and then the last witness came in, and asked
whether witness knew the prisoner, and where the
sugars came from, and witness sent to the Nag's Head
to ascertain who had booked them, and found that
they came from Fenn and Co.'s. The prisoner was
then given into custody.
The Loan MAYOR said the prisoner had adopted a
most ingenious and systematic plan of robbery, and
committed him for trial.