The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-03 00:00:00

QUEEN-SQUARE.

Fanny Williams, a girl about 18 years of age, the daughter
of the proprietor of the Three Jo'sns, Cartwright-street, West•
minster, was charged with having wilfully broken and damaged
a large number of panes of glass in the shop-front of William
Devaney, a tailor, living opposite.
Complainant said that in consequence of having had great
damage done to his shop window of late, be determined to keep
a sharp look-out, in order, if possible, to detect the off,nder
On Saturday week, between nine and ten in the morning, he
was watching behind some cloth, in his shop, when he saw de-
fendant place herself at the window on the first flo.ir, and put a
sort of stick to her mouth, and instantly there was a rattling
of small stones and shot at his shop front, which cracked and
broke twelve panes of glass. He had on the previous day seen
a man, who was screened from his observation by the defend-
ant, who stood before him, arid discharged some mi-sites f gun
an upper window in the house at his shop-front, but they did
not do so much mischief as those on the Saturday. He h
had thirty -two panes of glass cracked, starred, or broken, in al'.
In anseer to the Magistrate's inquiries, complainant could
not say that the small stones and shot were discharged from a
tin tube called a " pea-shooter," but there was an instrument
of the sort used, he believed, at the house to play a game with.
The twelve panes of glass were all cracked or broken at the one
discharge.

Mr. florin inquired whether he had ever kid any difference
or dispute with the defendant or her family.
Complainant replied that he had not. He knew of no cause
excepting that he was a teetotaller.
Complainant, in answer to further interrogatories, said that
defendant had the window partly up at the time she put the
instrument to her mouth, and the Wind partly down.
Complainant produced his daughter, a girl fourteen or fifteen
years of age, who confirmed his account, with the exception of
stating that the blind was not pulled down. She was closely
pressed as to whether defendant had applied the instrument to
her mouth, and at first positively declared she had, but after-
wards qualified it by saying that she was almost su►e.

Mr. BoNe, in the end, said he had given the parties an op-
portunity of arranging this in order that the damage might be
properly estimated. Defendant was to blame for not having
ascertained the correct amount of damage.
The brother—He swore my sister broke twelve panes of
gla,s, and they had not been broken.
Mr. Bolin repeated that he had an ample opportunity of
knowing what had been broken before he came to an arrange-
ment. He (the Magistrate) should like to hear the com-
plainant's reply to what had just been said about the windows,
and would send a message desiring him to attend to-morrow
(this day). _

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
John Clark was brought before Mr. Maltby for final exami-
nation, charged with having stolen a dressing.case, containing
jewellery and other articles, worth between two and three
hundred pounds, the property of Lai), Hannah Campbell, wife
of Sir .John Campell, o'f Ardnarmurchan.

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The robbery was effected in a very ingenious way. The
prisoner, who was hanging about Curzon-street, saw an. omni-
bus, containing Sir John Campbell's servants and baggage, stop
at a house in the street. He immediately made himself busy
in assistiug to remove the property into the hone, and this he
was permitted to do:because the people of the house belered that
he belonged to the omnibus, and the driver of the omnibus
theu.ht from his proceedings that he had a place in the family.
William Lockhart said he was butler to Sir John Campbell,
of 39, Curzon-street. On Friday, the 22d ult., about half-
past three. witness arrived from Leith, in an omnibus contain-
ing luggage, which the prisoner assisted to unload. Shortly
afterwards Sir John and Lady Campbell arrived, in their car-
riage, and the prisoner again assisted to unload and to place
the
things in the ball. Witness paid the prisoner sixpence for
his trouble. About ten minutes after the prisoner had gone
away witness mipedandthe case which he had previously taken
Joyce Bryatt, cook to placed in the hall
from the carriage,'
prisoner making himself handya4,A
inn Campbell,rereeg
thesai dl,
luggage,
gs egeaigneg, the
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pepper. Witness then went upstairs,
gave him a shilling, and
leaving tke prisoner in
him to go for some salt and
the hall.
thief,eiving information
Police-sergeant Driscoll, 2 C, said, on
lhteh went
of the robbery, and a description of the
for the prisoner, and on the night of the 25th he made search
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into the gallery of the English Opera-house, and :o;it
sorter into custody, aryl afterwards to the station-house.e psiOn_ '
searching the prisoner a bunch of small keys was found, and
also another key. Witness went in company with police-ser-
geant Miller to No. 5, Pipemaker's-alley, Bedkrdbury, and
with one of the keys opened the door of a room occupied by
the prisoner, and there found the stolen dressing-ease.
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Police-sergeant Miller, C 14, said he took charge of the pri-
i soner from Miscall, and told him he was taken into custody on
suspicion of stealing a dressing•case from Curzen-s'reet.
I The prisoner said he know nothing about the dressing•case,
and denied having been in Curzon-street on the day of the
robbery.
Catherine Berifield said she let the room in Pipemaker's-
alley to the prisoner a few days before the robbery.
Lady Campbell said the dressing-case now produced was her
property. The property in the case, before it was stolen, was
of the value of 2001. and upwards. All the best of the dia-
mond rings bad been taken out of the case, and the articles
deficient were worth about 801.
In defence, the prisoner said he took the dressing-case. The
woman in whose house it was found knew nothing about its
being in the room.
The prisoner was fully committed.
BENEVOLENCE.—Mrs. Murray has sent the half of a 51. note
for charitable purposes.
WURSIIIP-STREET.
John Goodwin, a middle-aged man, of respectable appear-
ance, holding a confidential situation in the service of Ales=rs.
Pontifex and Co., the extensive colour manufacturers, at Mill-
wall, Poplar, was finally placed at the bar before Mr. Bing-
ham, charged with having feloniously received a large quantity
of calomel and red precipitate, the property of elessrs
Maurider, Weaver, and Co., wholesale operative chemists, at
Wolverhampton.
It appeared from the opening statement of Mr. Justin,
who attended on the part of the prosecution, that in conse-
quent e of the pro.ecutors having discovered that a long-con-
tinued series of robberies had been practised upon them by
persons in their employment, the produce of which had been
transmitted to the metropolis, and sold for less than half
its prime cost, through the medium of a druggist named
Hopkins, in Union-street, Spitalfields, one of the partners was
dispatched to town to endeavour to trace out the matter, and
on calling at the premises of Hopkins, and mentioning his busi-
ness, the latter admitted, after some hesitation, that he had
been in the habit of purchasing drugs at a reduced price from
one of their workmen, named Mason, at different periods, ex-
tending over twelve months, and that he had afterwards sold
the property to different retail dealers in London. In conse-
quence of this admission he was conveyed to Wolverhampton,
where a searching investigation was entered upon ; and it hav-
ing been then clearly ascertained that the man Mason, in con-
junction with another of their workmen named Leach, had
been implicated in the robbery, they were both given into the
custody of the local police, and Hopkins was admitted as evi-
dence against them. It having also been ascertained that the
prisoner at the bar had been the principal medium through which
a large portion of the stolen property had been disposed of, a
communication to that effect was made to the London police,
which ultimately led to his apprehension.
Mr. John Weaver, a junior partner in the arm, and Ser-
geant Barker, of the H division, proved that on Saturday
list they proceeded to the house of the prisoner, who in
answer to their questions, admitted having received up-
wards of 1601hs. of caloa el and 92.1b5. of red precipitate
frost the man Leach, about two months before Christmas
last, and that he afterwards sold the greater part of the
property to Hopkins, for less than half its real value, the latter
refusing to give him more for the articles. While they were
engaged in conversation with him a general post letter was de-
livered at the door, and received by the sergeant, who found
it had been written by the wife of the man Leach, to the pri-
soner, apprising him of the fact that her husband and Mason
were in custody at Wolverhampton, and concluding with an in-
timation7that he would probably be called upon to prove on
their behalf that the property had been two years in his posses-
sion. The prisoner at the same time admitted having received
another letter from the same quarter on the preceding day,
which he immediately destroyed, as it was invariably his prac-
tice to do with all his correspondence.
Mr. BINGHAM said he considered the prisoner's admission
that he had been in the habit of destroying all letters relating
to these transactions, and the fact of his receiving such large
quantities of the particular articles, that lie must have known
they were dealt in by the firm in whose employment the other
men were, formed circumstances of such strong suspicion
against him, that he felt it his duty to leave the case for a jury
to determine whether or not he had received the property with
a guilty knowledge that it had been stolen.
The prisoner was then handed over to the care of the
officers, who were directed to convey him forthwith to Wolver-
hampton, where the other prisoners are under examination.
LAMBETH.

On Monday evening Frederick Drury and Michael Benson
were brought before Mr. Henry, the former on a charge of
robbing his employer, and the latter, who is a cons,able of
police, with not only waiting the commission of the act, but
partaking of the plunder.
After stating the outline of the case, which he described to
be one of considerable public importance, Mr. Games called
Mr. Noble, proprietor of the Dover Castle, Marsh-gate, who
deposed that the prisoner Drury had beer. in his service, a,
barman, for six weeks, and upon entering it he had received a
good character with Lim from Mr. Silcox. On Friday last,
between the hours of one and two o'clock, Mrs. No gave
him ( witness) the package of silver then produced, and before
he had time to get to the counter, the prisoner Benson, who
was standing before it, left the house. Soon after, Benson sent
in a man to request he would send the package of silver he had
placed on the counter to him, but which he refused to do; and
soon atter the same man came in with the note produced, and
while reading that note, the mes.enger, who had gone away on
the delivery of the first, returned with a second note. He (wi•-
ness) desired him to send in the man that claimed it, and the
prisoner Benson was pointed out to him as the person who
had sent it. He was then walking up and down in front of
the house, and in a few moments after he ( Benson) came in
and claimed the money. He (Mr. Noble) asked him why he
had not claimed it directly it had been found on the counter,
and he replied he did not like to do so. He then asked him
where he had got the money, and he replied, he had received it
in change from one of his young men; but upon being asked
to point out the particular person he had got it from, he could
not do so. He again requested the money, but Mr. Noble
refused to give it up without making some inquiry into the
matter, and desired him to call on Monday (that day). He
did call, and in reply to a question from the in-pector, who had
been awaiting his arrival, and who took him into custody,
witness distinctly heard him say be had received the silver he
had le't in the house of Mr. Watchorn, opposite, on the
Friday, though he distinctly told him (Mr. Noble) on the
former occasion, that he had received the change from one of
his young men.
Nathaniel Laremercroft, a butcher, of No. 2, Lower Marsh,
Lambeth, deposed that on Friday last, between the hours of
one and two o'clock he went through the private entrance to the
house of Mr. Noble, and saw a small package of silver placed
at the bark of the engine. He took it up and handed it to
the prisoner Drury, who gave it to his mistress, and witne s at
the time addressing lirs. Noble, said " 1 suppose this belongs
to you?" Upon which the prisoner Benson said, " I have seen
that parcel lying there all the time I have been here." Wit-
rie.,s had been to the house of the prosecutor about three-
quarters of an hour before, when he observed to the prisoner
Benson that he was perfectly satisfied the package was not
wilere he had found it.
In reply to a question from Mr. Games, the witness said he
was perfectly convinced the prisoner Benson used the expres-
sions he had mentioned.

Thomas Howard Regers, an inspector of the L division
of pehee, said he was at the house of Mr. Noble that day, when
the prisoner Benson came there, and after taking him into
custody, brought him into the bar-parlour, where Drury was.
lie produced two letters, and asked him if he was the writer
of ti,em. He ( Benson) replied he was. He then asked him
if lie lived at 127, Oxford-street, to which he replied no. He
then asked him if hewn a policeman, and he said his number
was 142, S division, and that he resided at the Phoenix-street
station-house. He also said that he asked him where he had
received the money he claimed from Mr. Noble as his, and he
replied he had got the silver in change over the way at Mr.
Watchorn's. Before the arrival of Benson the prisoner Drury
said he wished to make a confession, and said, " I wish to tell
the truth." He also said, " I acknowledge to have told lies,"
but that he then wished to tell the truth. He said he had
placed the money where it had been found by the butcher,
to give to Benson, who is at present in the police, and
belonging to the S division. He further said he had taken
two -billings out of the till to make the silver up a pound, to
lend to Benson,
John Stockman deposed that he had been sent to the house
of Mr. Noble on Friday last with two letters, which were the
same produced, and sad it was with great difficulty he could
prevail upon the prisoner to go into the house of INIr. Noble on
the Friday.
The prisoner Drury, after being duly cautioned, stated that
he had last lived at Mr. Silcox's, Kentish-town, where he had
been for two years, and before that with Mr. Bennett, Gros-
venor-square, about the same period. He did not, he
said, wish to say more than he had already stated. Mr.
Benson asked him to lend him a sovereign, and he told hi .n
that if he came on Friday he would if he could. He wrote to
say he wished to have it, and came on Friday, when he
( Drury) put the money down. He did not think Benson saw
it. He did take two shillings out of the till to make it up
a pound.
Benson, who was also cautioned, said he had been for
nearly five years in the S division of Police, and wanting a so-
vereign, had written to Drury to lend him one. He sent him

word that if he called on Friday he could have it. He went to
Mr. Noble's on the Friday, and called for a glass of ale, and
t••ndered a sovereign in payment. Saw Drury place the
change in a parcel on tilt counter for him to take. He had a
second glass of ale, and was reading the paper, when the
butcher came in and picked op the parcel, which
he gave to one of the rating men, being so engaged in
reading the paper that he had forgotten Drury had left the
money on the counter for him. Drury told him, the mo-
ment the money was picked up, that he had placed it there.
Flee also said how foolish it was of him, for that he had placed
the money there for me. Then fearing that he should be the
loser, and make him (Benson) pay the money again, he sent
the witne a Stockman to ask for the money he had placed
there. He considered it was his, as Drury had placed it there
for him, and he was to have returned the pound to him that
thy. The reason he had told Mr. Noble he got the money
from one of his barmen, and signed himself in the letter " J.
I. Benson," instead of Michael Benson, was, that he did not

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wish him to know that a policeman should borrow money from
his ssrvant.

?Jr. Noble was re-called, and distinctly swore the prisoner
Benson declared he had got the change at the house over the

way.

TLe butcher also repeated that the prisoner, when he took
up the money, said he had not seen the package all the time he

Kai there.

This was the whole of the evidence, and upon it Mr. fixtraY
slid he should send both prisoners for trial, but would remand
there to a future day.
The prisoner Benson repeatedly applied to Mr. Henry to be
admitted to bail, but the magistrate refused it.
The prisoners were then remanded to Monday next, and Mr.
Henry directed that they should be kept apart till that day.
TH 4 MES.
Gabriel Pean, a sailor, was brought before Mr. Broderip,
charged with intermarrying with Jane Cox, a widow, while his
first wife was living.
The magistrates have been frequently troubled with the pri-
soner, who is one of the most desperate characters in the dis-
trict. He has been repeatedly fined ; and a few weeks since he
eas held to bail to keep the peace for six months, for annoy-
ing and threatening his second wife, who then believed she was
legally married to him. It was proved on that occasion that
he had broken up the woman's home and hunted her through
the streets.

Ilale, a p'dice-constable, 373 K, proved the apprehension • n of
the prisoner on Monday night, and stated that upon acqsuaint-
I ink him with the nature of the charge, he said he did not
I think his first wife would appear against him, and no one knew
where ,he lived. Hale quickly undeceived him, and said he
had seen the Erst wife last week, and he knew her address.
f The constable produced the certificate of the marriage of the
1 prisoner to Rebecca Watkins, spinster, at Shadweli Church on
the Ist of February, 1842, and anothrT of the marriage of the
prisoner to Jane Cox, widow, at Rotherhithe Church, en the
12th of August, 1843. He had compared the certificates with
the marriage register-hooks in both churches, ar.d found them
to correspond. He knew both wives were living.
The second wife, an attenuated creature, who appeared to
have suffered greatly from hard living and bad usage, said it
was her misfortune to marrry the prisoner at Rotherhithe
Church in August, 1843, and she had frequently been ill-used
by her husband. He represented himself as a single man when
lie paid his addresses to her. He was at the present time under
recognisances to keep the peace towards her. The woman,
who is very reTectably connected and bas seen better days,
said she had seen nothing but misery since she had known the 1
prisoner.

The prisoner, on being called upon for his defence, addreised
the magistrate at great length in a very energetic manner. lie

bean by stating, that the woman who had just given evidence
agiiiiat him was riot his lawful wife.
Mr. Beonsiete -aid that he should remand the prisoner till
Friday, by which time Hale promised to have the witnesses to
the first marriage in attendance.
eraha 1 obson was brought before Mr. Broderip, charged
erito a•seuiting Mrs. Ann Mackenzie on the Queen's highway,
putting her in fear, and stealing horn her a purse containing
las. 6(1. in silrer moneys.
It appeared from the evidence that the prosecutrix is residing
in Cabe-street, Whitechapel. On Monday night she hail been
to a friend's house in Duke-street, and upon leaving was accom-
panied by a black man, the servant at the house where she had
been visiting, who was directed to accompany her part of the
way home. On her way to her own residence she went into a
public-house. and treated the bla;.l man with some refresh
ment. The prisoner was there with some others, and observed
her take some money out of her purse, and pressed against her.
On leaving the house she had her purse in her hand, and
was about parting with her conductor when the prisoner
and two other men came round them, and Dobson struck
her a violent blow on the breast, which knocked her back-
wards, and at the same time snatched her purse oat of her
hand, and made off with it. Simmons, the black man, im-
mediately pursued him, and, in spite of the attempt of the
pri•nser's confederates to stop him, he soon came up with
the prisoner. who threw the purse away, Simmons stooard to
recover it, and then recommenced the persuit_ The prisoner,
however, soon got the start of him, and was running at the top
f his sieed when he was stopped by Madden, a policeman,
116 H. The policeman asked him what he was running for,
and he said he was reeking his escape from a black man who
wanted to ill-use him. Nimmons very soon came up and un-
deceived the police-constable. to whom he delivered the puree,
which contained all the money the prosecutrix had lost, viz ,
twelve shillings, five sixpences, and 2d. in halfpence. Mrs.
M.,ckenzie was only ten or twelve yards from her own door
when she was attacked by the prisoner.
Dob-on made a lung► and ingenious defence to the charge,
and endeavoured to make it out that a row had taken place in
the street, in which the young lady participated, and that she
dropped her purse.
The witnesses said there was not one word of truth' in the
defence, and the prisoner was committed for trial.