The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-27 00:00:00

MARYLEBONE.

Mr. John Lawrence, a fishmonger, No. 2, Mot-
combe-street, Belgrave-square, and who is said to be a
man of considerable property, was placed at the bar
before Mr. Long on the charge, as entered upon the
police-sheet, of " feloniously obtaining possession of a
-
title-deed or counterpart lease of premises, 2, Mot-
combe-street, the property of Mr. Seth Smith, by
inciting John William Jones to steal the same from
his employer's office, No. 30, Somerset-street, Port-
man-square.
The MAGISTRATE considered that the case, taking
all the circumstances into consideration, was one of a
very peculiar character, and he could not say at pre-
sent what shape it might ultimately assume; the
" inciting to steal" had, no doubt, been clearly made
out, but not so the felonious intent, with which the
prisoner was charged. It was a matter, which re-
quired full and further consideration, and he should,
therefore, remand the prisoner until next Thursday.
Upon that day another important witness, necessary
to the completion of the case, will be in attendance.
Mr. LONG said he had no objection to the prisoner
putting in bail, himself in 4001. and two sureties in
2001. each, for his being forthcoming on the day
named ; he should, however, require twenty-four
hours' notice, in order to afford time for the neces-
sell inquiry with regard to the respectability and
competency of the parties whose names might be
given in.
The prisoner was locked up, and afterwards re-
moved in the usual way in the Government van to
the Housed Detention
AMBETH.
, Clerkenwell.
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Thom s Bennett Gibbing, who has been in custody
s on a charge of obtaining enormous
from the benevolent by fraud and
a,-.4 who, for the last ten years has
.iilent means, was placed at
final examination.
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anything in
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committed for
The prisoner, who declined s:,:ting
reply to the various charges, was fully
trial.

WORSHIP-STREEF.
Amelia Gill alias Shield, a young woman of lady-
like appearance - and deportment, who was blind in
one eye, and_ was stated to be the daughter of a gen-
tleman holding a situation in a Government office,
was placed at the bar before Mr. Arnold, upon a
charge of felony, under the following rather peculiar
circumstances :
It appeared from the statements of Sergeant Hare
vey, of the G division, and other witnesses, that on
the preceding afternoon the prisoner called at the
shop of Messrs. Toros and Joseph, silversmiths and
jewellers, in Ludgate-hill, and selected various costly
articles of plate, to the aggregate value of nearly
2001., which she requested them to forward to her
residence, at 56, Farringdon-street, and they would
be paid for on delivery. Some misgivings having
been entertained respecting her from the suspicious
manner in which she conducted herself, one of the
shopmen was directed to watch her closely as soon as
the left the shop, and he accordingly followed her
about for some hours, during which period she entered
several other shops, one of which was that of a boot-
maker named Dodson, in Chiswell-street, Fins-
bury-square, on leaving which she stealthily pulled
out a pair of boots from the inside of' her dress,
which she hastily wrapped in a handkerchief and
secreted them underneath her shawl. She next en-
tered the shop of a pawnbroker in the City-road, at
which the shopman ascertained upon inquiry that she
had endeavoured to dispose of a gold ring, and sus-
pecting that the article had been stolen from his mas-
ter's warehouse, he again pursued the prisoner and
gave her into the custody of a policeman, who took
the pair of boots from beneath her shawl, but the ring
she had attempted to pledge was not found in her pos-
session, and it was supposed that she had contrived to
get rid of it on her way to the station-house.
Sergeant Harvey stated that he had called at both
the addresses given by the prisoner, the first of which
was a respectable public-house in Farringdon-street,
where nothing whatever was known respecting her;
and that the premises in Wood-street were in the
occupation of a wholesale manufacturing firm, who
had been for some time past pestered with repeated
inquiries for " Miss Gill," who was, of course, an en-
tire stranger to them.
Mr. Vann, who appeared on behalf of the prisoner,
expressed his intention to reserve the defence, And .