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Mr. Clarkson then proceeded to a new case.
William John Winter, of 47, Jewin-street, said he came
from Barnstaple to London by the Great Western line on the
26th of August. Ills luggage consisted of a carpet bag,
containing apparel, and a hat-case, containing a hat. On
reaching the terminus his luggage could not be found. He
valued it at 121. and claimed it from the Company. His
name on a card was sewed to the bag, and also was on the
handle of the hat-case.
The carpet bag, hat-case, shirts, and other articles were
produced, and identified by the witness. The marks had been
removed from a part of the linen.
Collard, the superintendent of the railway police, stated
that he found a part of the property at the prisoner's lodgings
at Lisson-green, where he apprehended him. The carpet bag,
hat, and hat-case he received from Mr. Hawkins, a wine-
merchant, at Kennington-green, who purchased them from
the prisoner while he was lodging at the Cock, at Kennington,
and the rest he received from Mr. Clarke, the landlord of the
Cock.
Mr. Clarke, of the Cock, Kennington-common, said his
sister-in-law assisted hint in his business. He received the
six shirts produced from her. The prisoner lodged in his
house from the 14th of August to the sth of September.
Mrs. Mary Ann Clarke corroborated his evidence. The
prisoner used to be away for three or four days at a time.
About the end of August he called her into his bed-room, and
asked her to buy a half-dozen of shirts, the collars of which
buttoned behind, instead of down the front. He said he was
going abroad, and had more luggage than he wanted.
While she was looking at them she was called down stairs,
and he rolled them up, put them in her hand, and said,
" There, take them." She should have returned them, if
she had not been in the country on the day the prisoner left.
She gave them to her brother when the officer and Mr. Nash
came to inquire about the prisoner.
Mr. Thwaites, the prisoner's solicitor, declined to cross-
examine the witnesses.
Mr. Clarkson submitted that he had clearly shown a pos-
session of the property recently after it was stolen.
Mr. Alderman H. IluGnEs asked Mrs. Clarke if the pri-
soner brought in fresh luggage from time to time while he
was staying'at the house ?
She said she saw none brought in.
The Alderman asked whether three shirts produced by
Mr. Clarke, and which Mr. Winter did not identify, were
owned?
Mr. Nash said they were part of the large quantity of arti-
cles found, and which were almost daily advertised, but
which had not yet been claimed.
The prisoner was then committed on this charge.
Mr. Clarkson then proceeded to a case of robbery on the
South-Western Railway. At present the gentleman who was
robbed, a Mr. Bedingfield, was too ill to attend, but he should
offer some evidence. Mr. Bedingfield was on his way from
Gosport to London, after witnessing the sailing of the expe-
rimental squadron, when his travelling case was stolen, con-
taining apparel and money to the amount of 50/. He adver-
tised and received by the Parcels' Delivery Company a parcel
containing Ms pocketbook, and any papers that could not be
converted into money. -'
Mrs. Isabella White, carrying on business as a hosier in the
Strand, said Mr. Bedingfield had lodged in her house for seve-
ral years. She, with a friend, met him at Gosport on the 15th
of July, and returned with him to town. She saw his travel-
ling case at the Red Lion, at Portsea, and on reaching London
it was missed. They were told it had been put along with
witness's luggage, and it was " all right." This, however,
turned out to be otherwise. She identified a blouse, shooting-
jacket, a stock, and some other articles. Mr. Bedingfield
brought home a day or two afterwards a parcel he had re-
ceived, addressed to No. 50, Old Change. The wrapper was
the same now produced.
Mr. Wilson, of the Blossoms Inn, was examined as to the
handwriting of the direction. He believed it was the prisoner's
but he would not swear to it.
The prisoner asked permission to look at it, and then.
much excited, exclaiined, for fa thousand pounds to a
penny it was not his handwriting. He would call a friend
who would swear it was not, and he would re-write the
direction to satisfy the Alderman.
Mr. Alderman IL HuGnEs said his writing the address
differently now he had seen it would have no weight with
him; and it was awkward to pitch on a scintilla of evidence
out of a mass to which he made no objection, for that was
lake an admission of the rest.
The prisoner wished his friend to be examined on the
point.
Mr. Clarkson recommended Mr. Thwaites to advise with
his client, or he must take the consequences of calling some-
body who could swear to his writing.
Mr. Thwaites with some difficulty appeased his client.
Collard, the officer, proved that the articles produced were
found at the prisoner's lodgings at Lisson-green.
Mr. Clarkson hoped to complete this ease on a future day
by calling Mr. Bedingfield. He said there was a case of
stealing from the Brighton Railway, but the gentleman who
had lost his luggage was obliged to go to China.
Mr. Humphreys, the solicitor, stated that he appeared on
behalf of the Birmingham Railway Company. Much of the
evidence which had been taken at length in the pre'vious case
applied equally to his charges, and might be admited into the
depositions upon being sufficiently referred to.
Mr. Price Lewis,.ofJermyn-street, and Llandlear, in Cardi-
ganshire, said he' came to London from Blisworth by the
Birmingham line on the 28th of March, and lost his port-
manteau, containing a writing-case, a pair of leather breeches,
and various other articles. He identified the writing-case, the
leather breeches, two waistcoats, and some other articles,
which Collard produced. He believed the portmanteau pro-
duced was his property, bathe would not swear it.
Collard said he received the writing-case from Mr. Nash,
who in his presence received it from Mr. Roberts, the land-
lord of the Dolphin, in Oxford-street. The leather breeches
he received from Mr. Broom, the landlord of the Rising Sun,
in Air-street, Piccadilly, and the other articles he found at
the prisoner's lodgings at Lisson-green.
Mr. Roberts deposed, that the prisoner lodged at his house
from the last week in March to the beginning of June. He
was in the prisoner's bed-room one day and observed, "What. a many things you have here." Prisoner said, "Yes, I have,
I want to dispose of some. What will suit you?" The pri-
soner recommended him to buy this writing-case for his
children. Witness observed that the lock had been forced.
The prisoner explained that he had lost his keys, and was
obliged to break it open. When Mr. Nash and the officer
came to inquire if he could give them any information about
Garratt he produced this writing-case to them.
Mr. Broom, the landlord of the Rising Sun, next accounted
for the possession of the leather breeches. He saw the pri-
soner; sell them in' his parlour to a customer, and witness
purchased them of the latter.
The evidence of Mr. Nash and Mrs. Noble as to the find:.
ing of the rest of the property in the room occupied by the
prisoner was added.
The prisoner was committed on this charge.
Mr. Keep, a lace manufacturer, at Newport Pagnell, was
then examined as to the loss of a carpet bag. He travelled
from Wolverton on Dec. 18. It was stolen at the Wolverton
station, and he was told by the bell-ringer that some man
had seized it, and taken it into a second-class carriage.. .-He
heard no more of it till he found it in the hands of Collard,
the railway officer. The bag had a new lock .now.
Mr. Alderman H. IluonEs asked if .he was quite sure he
could recognise his old friend with a new face? Mr. Keep
said lie was sure; for he had travelled thousands of miles
with it. Mr. Keel also identified a shirt collar. (What
other property the tiag contained did not transpire.)
Collard deposed to finding the carpet bag and collar at the
prisoner's lodgings, in North-street, Lisson-green, and the
prisoner was committed on this charge.
Mr. John Jones, of Kingstown, Dublin, solicitor, was next
called. He stated he was a passenger from Chester to London,
by the Birmingham line, on the 2d of August, and arrived in
London about 10 o'clock at night. Amongst hiS luggage was
a portmanteau, the same now produced by Collard,and the
articles of apparel produced were part of its contents. He
identified a black dress coat, two pairs of trousers, a satin
waistcoat, and other articles. The contents of his portman-
teau were worth 20/. He missed it the London terminus.
Inspector Collard proved the finding of the property at
Garratt's lodgings.
Mr. Alderman H. HUGHES committed the prisoner on this
charge also.

Mr. Webb, merchant, of Huddersfield, was examined rela-
tive to the loss of a pertmanteau on the Birmingham line on
the 25th of July. He said this was a part of his luggage.
lie identified the articles produced, consisting of a dress coat,
four white waistcoats, a shirt, and several other articles.
Witness had four ladies with him, and had a strong recollec-
tion of seeing the prisoner standing near him at the terminus.
On the prisoner's spectacles being removed, and his hat put
on, the witness was further convinced he was the same per-
son. His luggage was safe on reaching the Ruston Station,
but on setting the ladies down in Torrington-square, and
giving them their luggage, he missed his own.
Inspector Collard said he found the whole of these articles
at the prisoners's lodging.
The prisoner, who appeared to be even cheerful, was com-
mitted on this charge.
Mr. Humphreys said that concluded the charges he had to
support.
Jr. Nash then prayed that the prisoner might be remanded
upon a charge of stealing from the Brighton Railway, as well
as to offer further evidence in the case of Mr. Bedingfield.
It was arranged that the prisoner should stand remanded
till the 17th instant.
Mr. Nash complained of a scurrilous attack which bad
been made upon hith by name in one of the railway papers,
but which be was told was intended for a person of a dif-
ferent name. It had given his friends great pain, as they
could not conceive how Mr. Nash had committed himself in
this prosecution.

SOUTHWARK.
Henry Joseph litllerby, a youth of 17 years of age, appren-
tice to, a printer in the City, was brought before Mr. Coifing-
ham, charged on suspicion of being the writer of anonymous
letters addressed to several families residing in the borough
of Southwark, threatening the lives of the parties, and also
. inclosing poison for the purpose of destroying them.
It will be recollected, that in the course of last week the
churchwareens of St. George's parish, Southwark, made an
application at this Court on the subject of anonymous letters
received by several of the parishioners, and amongst those
produced was one addressed to Mr. Stead, the parish clerk,
the writer threatening to set fire to the church if he did not
announce to the congregation on Sunday some vile insinua-
tions against • the character of a Mrs. Spriggs, residing in
White street, in the vicinity of the church. In consequence
of the application to the Magistrate, two officers of the de-
tective police have been engaged in the discovery of the affair,
and the result of their inquiries was the apprehension of the
priSoner, on suspicion of being the person who had trans-
mitted the letters containing the threats, as well as the poison,
to the parties to whom they were addressed.
The prisoner is rather a decent-looking lad, and on being
placed at the bar, he evinced no fear or alarm at the position
in which he stood ; he was accompanied to the Court by his
father, who is a tradesman in White-street, nearly opposite
to the residence of one of the persons to whom a letter con-
taining poison had been recently sent.
Mr. CorrorGitAni inquired the nature of the evidence im-
plicating the prisoner in the alleged charge of sending the
threatening letters to the parties who made the complaint.
Sergeant Kendall, of the detective police, made a state-
meat to the effect that a memorial was transmitted to Sir
James. Graham some time ago, which was afterwards placed
in the hands of the Commissioners of Police, and that it con.
tained a representation of the state of alarm into which the
writer and his faniilf had been thrown in consequence of the
threats of an anonymous writer. The document, which was
signed by a brother of the accused, on being placed in the
hands of the detective officers, was found to bear a strong re-
semblance to the writing in the anonymous letters, and this
fact led to further inquiries, in the course of which some
writing of the prisoner's was procured, which bore such a
similarity to the offensive epistles as to create a very strong
belief that he was the writer of them. On a:recent occasion it was
also ascertained that a letter had been posted in the Minories,
and that the prisoner was seen near the place about the time
at which it was dropped in the letter-box.
Here several anonymous letters were handed to the magis-
trate, and amongst theth one by Mr. Samuel Clouter addresslkl to his daughter,-containing about three-quarters of an ounce of
poison, and which ran thus :

ept. 5, .
"My dear Elizabeth,—lf you mix the" wShite powder
have inclosed in the letter you will find it very delicious. It
has come from France. I will call in a few days. Mind you
mix the powder directly you receive it, and you will find that
it has the flavour of the melon."
Mr. CormanAm compared the writing Of the above note
with a specimen of the prisoner's handwriting recently pro-
duced, and remarked that the resemblance was certainly very
strong.

.evidence was then adduced that the powder contained in
the letter had since been analyzed, and was found to be
oxalic acid.
Another letter was read by the magistrate, addressed to a
Miss Elizabeth Spriggs, describing that the writer of it was
aware that exertions were made for a discovery; that he was
aware the officers were in search of him, and had seen them
on the preceding night making inquiries at Mrs. Spriggs's,
but that he would foil them all in their attempts; that he
was aware -a reward of 401. had been offered to discover the
writer, but that if it was 1,000/. it would not have the desired
effect. The writer then expressed his determination not to
stop until he had sacrificed some of the inhabitants of the
parish, whose names he inserted, for their officiousness in at-
tempting to discover the author of the letters.
Another note was also produced, the writer vowing ven-
geance against Mr. Clouter for preventing his daughter from
taking the powder.
A copy of prisoner's handwriting, with the.words, " Miss
Elizabeth Spriggs," written that morning, was compared with
the superscription on the above letter, and was found to bear
a very close resemblance.
jSergeant Kendall said, in' reference to one of the epistles
ust read, where the writer said he had seen two men making
inquiries about him at Mrs. Spriggs's, that he (the Sergeant)
and another officer named Smith, of the detective police, had
been making the inquiries alluded to, and that Smith's
attention was particularly called to the house where the pri-
soner's father resided, which was nearly opposite Mrs.
Spriggs's, and that the prisoner or some one very like him
was observed peeping from one of the upstairs windows. The
very next day Mrs. Spriggs's daughter received the letter
above-mentioned on the subject.
Several anonymous letters were also produced, which had
been written to Mr. Humble, a hop-merchant, of a threatening
nature, and one of them containing poison was addressed to
his wife while he was in the country. The letter purported to
be from a clerk in Mr. Humble's employ, describing that his
eniployer had directed him to inclose Mrs. Humble some
powders of a very efficacious description, which he recom-
mended her to take as soon as possible, and that they Would
benefither health. The chief part of the letters had been
dropped in Mr. Humble's own letter-box until the writer