The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-26 00:00:00

THIRD COURT.
THE GOLD ROBBERY.-VERDICT.

(Ccntinued from our Afternoon Edition of Saturday.)
Mr. BALLANTINE and Mr. FAYNE severaly addressed
the jury for the prisoners.
Mr. GURNEY Summed up.
The jury having retired for some time, Acquitted
ILmann and Kessler; Vanderhoost, Tonnetz, and Steffin
were sentenctl to eighteen months' imprisonment and
hard labour.

With a few other trivial ea;e7, the busineis of the
se,-;Aona ended, and the e2urt- atauds adjourned until
Monday, September 16.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
M ANSION-HOUS

Thomas Crauford was brought before Alderman
Gilks, charged with having stolen a number of gold
watches, the property of Mr. Bennet, watchmaker, of
65, Cheapside.
The prosecutor said—The prisoner was engaged by
me upon the strong recommendation of a master with
whom he had lived, and of whom I had a most un-
questionably good opinion. The situation in which I
had placed him was one of great trust—to receive all
watches which were brought to the house for repair.
It was his duty to enter the watches co brought, and
to fix the number of each watch in the book in such
a manner as that it could be easily ascertained. It
was a place of considerable trust, in consequence of
the large number of valuable watches which passed
into the concern. I find that within the last twelve
months, instead of obeying my instructions by send-
ing the watches to the workmen appointed to perform
the repairs, he has from tiale to time pawned them,
and redeemel the last watches sent for repair by
subsequent pledpF. It was his duty to examine
watches brought by customers in the first instance,
and, in case the repairs required were trivial, to do
them himself; but if they appeared to be of a serious
character to send them by the messenger appointed
for such purpose to one of the woikmen in whose de-
partment the particular cases of repair lay, so that, in
fact, to the prisoner was left the whole of that valuable
trust. He had been in my employment eighteen
months, but I should have discovered the system upon
which he had been acting before this if it bad not been
for my knowledge of the high respectability of his
family and the general regularity of his personal con-
duct, he having been always at his post, and appa-
rently most attentively engaged in the business.
Alderman GIBBS—What led to your suspicion ?
The prosecutor—My suspicions arose from the delays
which took place in the production of the repaired
watches, and which, instead of arising from the fault
of the workmen, as had been represented to me, were
attributable, as I have since ascertained, from the
pledging. At last a watch which had been. brought
for repair to the house was found pledged at the shop
of Mr. Chaffers, in Watling street, for DI. (Here the
watch was produced by the shopman of Mr. Chaf-
fers.) This is the watch. It is numbered 4,852, and
was made by French. The prisoner entered it. It
appears to have been pledged on the 29:h of July, and
the owner called several times for it ; but the prisoner
deceived me in this case by stating that the repairing
workman who, he said, lived rr..ar his house, and to
whom he stated he had delivered it himself, had met
wish an accident in repairing it. Since the detection
of the plunder the prisoner has given up four dupli-
cates of watches which had been received in a similar
way to repair.
Alderman GIBBS—How many do you consider
were taken ? Prosecutor—There are twenty missing.
The prisoner was remanded till Friday next.
BO W-STREET.

William 'Whitelow, conductor of the Atlas ornni-
btr, appeared in obedience to a summons which
charged him with extorting more than his legal fare
from Mr. Richard Child, of 139, Long-acre, under
the following circumstances :
Mr. Chill stated that his father and himself were
passengers by the omnibus of which the defendant
was the conductor, on its way from St. John'.-wood.
His father went inside, and he took his seat by the
driver. He desired to be set down at Charing•cross,
knowing that the fare was 31. each. Un reaching
the destination he requested the driver to stop and
put him and his father down ; but to this he paid no
attention till he drove on a few yards further, then
he pulled up. Witness, on his father descending, then
gave the defendant a balfcrown, and he returned him
only Is. 61 change, thus charging Gd. each. Wit-
ness remonstrated with him, but he said he had gone
beyond the limit of a threepenny fare and must pay
the full price.
The defendant said he had no option but to charge
the fare, which was distinctly written inside the
" bus" as well as out, and within view of the com-
plainant.
•Mr. HENRY remarked that this was a common
trick of the omnibus fraternity, and was a gross im-
position. He only regretted that persons thus de-
frauded would not follow the example of Mr. Child
and seek tilt redress which he was ever rea ly to grant.
He considerad the present case one well worthy of
example, and he therefore directed that the defendant
should pay a penalty of 203. and costs, and further
that he should return the complainant the overcharge.
Ibis was done, and a wholesome lesson affordei,
of which the public no doubt will not be *low in
taking advantage.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Mary Ann Duncan, and her sister, Jane 2Veaves,
were brought before Mr. Hardwick, the former
charged with stealing various articles of wearing ap-
parel, household linen, tea, soap, and other articles,
the property of her master, Mr. W. Finch, grocer,
227, Oxford-street, and the latter with having re-
ceived part of the proprty, well knowing it to hare
been stolen. ,

Mr. ILIRDWICK asked the prosecutor if be thought
the case against the receiver sufficiently strong to in-
duce him to go before a jury ?
The prosecutor said he could not possibly doubt the
guilty knowledge of the receiver. His loss had been
so considerable, and the system of robbery had been
carried on fur so long a time, that he felt it to be his
duty to proceed against both prisoners.
The prosecutor was then sworn. He said the pri-
soner Duncan was his servant, and Neaves her mar-
ried sister. On the 16th instant, in consequence of
information he received he procured the assistance of
a constable, and then asked Duncan to give up the
keys of her boxes. She did so, and prosecutor and
constable went into her bedroom, and on looking into
her boxes found two pairs of gloves, and in a basket
in a closet about lib. of tea, and 31b. more in other
places. Other articles were found which prosecutor
could identify as his property. Prosecutor then ex-
amined another closet, of which the prisoner had the
key, and discovered in it a cash-box, containing.a key
which fitted the lock of his warehouse door. Prose-

tutor then went to the prisoner's sister's house in
Helen's-place, Commercial-road, and waited for the

arrival of the Parcels Delivery pan. Prosecutor saw
the carrier take a parcel and leave it in the house.
Prosecutor went into the house, and ascertained that
the parcel contained 161 b. or 181 b. of soap. The
parcel had not been opened, and Neaves said it be-
longed to her sister. The house was searched, and a
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quantity of tea found, which prosecutor WAS certain
had been stolen from his house. Several articles were

also found which prosecutor was certain was his

property.
Thomas Heseltine, constable D 104, corrobated the
above statement.

Thomas James Clunk, baker, 10, Portman-street,
agent to the Parcels Delivery Company, proved that
he received the parcel from the prisoner Duren.
This was the parcel delivered at the prisoner Neaves'
house.

Sarah Oliver, another servant of the prosecutor's,
identified several of the articles found in Neaves'
possession.
The prisoners declicel to mike any defence, and
were fully committed.

CLERKENIV ELL.
Mary Ann Allen otherwise knolsn aa Poll Calla-
ghan, was put at the bar before Mr. Tyrwhitt,
charged with burglarionsly entering thq
house of Mr. George Pearson, of 15, Tonbridgc-
street, New-road.

The prosecutor stated, that at 20 minutes to 2
o'clock i❑ the morning he was aroused by a noise in
the lower part of his house, and on looking out of
his bedroom window he saw two women and a man
in his garden. He immediately descended to the