The Sun.
London, England, 1828-04-10 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.—Chas. Potter, a journeyman butcher,
was brought before Sir C. S. HUNTER, Bart. yesterday,
charged with embezzling 201. the property of his employer,
Mrs. Mitchell, a butcher in St. George's-crescent, Lon-
don-road, in whoee service he had been only a fortnight.
Mrs. Mitchell stated, that on the 22th of March she
directed the prisoner to wait upon Mr. Mitchell, the pro-
prietor of a Tottenham stage, when he arrived at two
o'clock at the Swan, Snowhill, telling him that if he was
paid 20/. in bankers' cheques, as she expected, he was to
change them on his return home.' Mr. Mitchell gave the
prisoner a cheque on Fry's for st. another on Curtis's for

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14/. and a sovereign ; and allowed him to ride on the top
of the stage, as far as the Poultry, where he was set down
soon after two o'clock. He did not reach the London-
road till nearly four o'clock, and then represented that he
had been detained an hour at Messrs. Curtis's ; that he

had wrapped the sovereigns in a piece of brown paper, and
that he had lost the money in his way home; that he
supposed the parcel jumped out of his pocket, when he
scrambled up behind a coach in the Borough ; and that be
had not seen any acquaintances since he had been out.—
Mrs. Mitchell expressed her doubt of the truth of this
story, and remarked that the breast-pocket, where he said
he had placed the parcel, was so deep, and the parcel
must have been so heavy, that it was impossible it could
work out in the way he represented. The prisoner was
perfectly at ease upon the subject, and said, " Take me
before a Magistrate ; I must be acquitted ; you will dis-
charge me from my place, and that is the most that can
be done with me." Mrs. Mitchell gave him into the custody
of Read, a Union-hall officer, who questioned him, and
detected him in several falsehoods ; but could not trace
him in the possession of the money after he quitted Loin-
bard-street.

William West, who lives at a soda-water shop, No. 27,
Lombard-street, remembered two persons coming into his
shop one day, and examined some gold, but could not
swear to the prisoner.
Mr. Blaxland, a clerk at Messrs. Curtis's, remembered
changing the cheque, and giving the person a little blue
paper bag, and also a piece of brown paper to wrap the
sovereigns in. The man was not detained at the counter
five minutes.

Mr. H. Mitchell proved the payment of the cheques to
the prisoner. _

11Ir. Hobler, jun., for the prosecution, proved that there
was a sufficient case for inquiry in another place, while
the prisoner's solicitor insisted that there was nothing to
raise a presumption of a conversion by the prisoner, or that
his tale of losing the money was untrue.

Sir C. S. IfuNTER said that the presumption of the pri-
soner's guilt was sufficiently raised by his telling a gross
falsehood as to being detained an hour at Curtis's banking-
house, and therefore committed him for trial.

BOW-STREET.—Yesterday morning Sir RICHARD
131aNIE took occasion to refer to an assertion made by Mr.
Corder, the successful candidate for the office of Vestry
Clerk to the parish of St. Paul, Covent-garden, that " he
(Sir Richard Birnie) had been sent for by Mr. Peel, and
severely rebuked for having interfered in the proceedings of
that parish." This assertion Sir Richard Birnie authorised
us to state is utterly unfounded. No communication had
passed between Mr. Peel and himself upon the subject ; nor
had he been to Whitehall to account to the Right Hon. Se-
cretary for the part which he had taken, as stated by Mr.
Corder.

James Smith and Jeremiah Latchford were finally exa-
mined—the former upon a charge of having stolen a horse
and gig, the property of Mr. Jennings, of Staines, in
Middlesex ; and the latter with havipg received the horse,
knowing it to have been stolen.

The -case, as developed by the evidence, presents some
curious features. The facts,are briefly these :—The prin-
cipal witness is a man named Halls, an accomplice, who
has turned approver. Accordiwz. to his testimony, he was
privy to a plan, formed by the prisoner Smith and a man
"wed Odes, who has not as yet been taken, to steal the
bell from the parish church at Staines, and also to rob Mr.
Jennings of his horse and gig. Smith and Odes, accord-
ing to the witness's statement, made hint acquainted with
their intention for sonic weeks previous to the commission
of the act. He was asked to join in the undertaking, but
declined to do so, and gave information of what he had
heard to Colonel Carmichael, a magistrate residing in the
neighbourhood. The witness proceeded to state, that as
he was passing the premises of Mr. Jennings on the night
of the robbery, he saw Smith and Odes in the act of driv-
ing the horse and chaise from the stable yard of the prose-
cutor. Smith said to him, " is that you Bill ? You must
not say you have seen Odes and me ;" and then, he said,
they drove away in the direction of London. Circum-
stantial, however, as the story of the approver appeared to
be, the Magistrate, Mr. Halls, seemed to be little inclined
to give it credit, as it appeared that the approver had only
come forward to disclose where the gig and horse were,
after a reward had been offered for their recovery, when he
first stated that the property would be found at the resi-
dence of the prisoner Latchford, at Woodford, in Essex,
when an officer was despatched, who discovered the horse,
but could not ascertain any clue to the gig. In addition
to this objection to the approver's evidence, Taunton, the
officer who had been employed in •he recovery of the pro-
perty, stated yesterday that he had ascertained that the ap-
prove! bad seduced the wife of the prisoner s;mi,th., un-]

was actually living with her at present in a state of adultery,
which might probably be a motive for the anxiety which
he manifested in accusing the prisoners.
Mr. HALLS, upon hearing this fact, said, he could very
well comprehend the state of the case, and he thought it
not at all unlikely that the whole matter had been planned
by the approver, to suit his private purposes.
Colonel Carmichael said, that on the first examination
his evidence was misconceived by some of the gentlemen
who attended for the public press. The approver bad in
the first instance made him acquainted with the design to
steal the bell of the parish church, to frustrate which ob.-
ject he (the Colonel) and a constable were watching in the
church-yard, at the time named by the approver for the
robbery. The approver, however, came to him there, and
said that the prisoners had altered their plan, and proposed
to rob Mr. Jennings on a future night.
Mr. HALLS said, that as the prosecutor seemed to desire
it, he should commit the prisoners, although, in his opinion,
no jury would find them guilty upon such evidence as that
of the approver Hall.
The prisoners were committed accordingly.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Yesterday another in-
stance among the many lately detected, of extensive depre-
dations committed by shopmen on the property of their
employers, came on for investigation at this office, before
Mr. DYRR, the sitting Magistrate.
There were first placed at the her, a middle aged woman,
named Elizabeth Brown; a' laundress, and William
Brown, her son.
Mr. Fenwick, an extensive silk-mercer in the Regent
Circus, stated, that the male prisoner had bee* for some
time in his service as a light porter, and his mother was
in the habit of frequently coming backward and forward to
the house, as she washed for her son, and for some of the
shopmen. He (Mr. Fenwick) had recently received infor-
mation that the woman at the bar had for a long tine been
in the frequent practice of pledging quantities of silk at the
shops of different pawnbrokers, and feeling satisfied that
she must have been supplied with this silk from his shop,
and most probably by her son, he obtained a search-
warrant to search the residence of the woman, and there
found convincing proofs that she had been disposing of
great quantities of his property, and he then had the two
prisoners taken into custody.
Clements and Goddard, the officers who apprehended
the prisoners, said, that on seat ching the residence of the
woman, Brown, at No. 31, Harrow-street, Edge--
ware-road, they found a vast number of pawnbrokers'
duplicates (between 100 and 200) for silks of various kinds
that had been pledged by her.
Mr. Ross, of Paddington-street, the only pawnbroker
who had as yet received notice to attend, produced a large
gown-piece of beautiful silk, which he said the female pri-
soner had pledged at his shop.
Mr. Renwick, and one of his shopmen, identified this
silk as his property, and as having been stolen from his shop.
the female prisoner now said that it was useless for her
to deny her guilt, and she acknowledged that she had
pledged all the property named on the duplicates, but she
solemnly declared that her son, who stood by her side, was
altogether innocent of any participation in the transaction.
She confessed that all the pledged property belonged to
Mr. Fenwick, that it was all stolen from his shop by
one of his shoprnen, named Mussered, for whom she wash-
ed, and who gave the silks to her at different times to
pledge for him.

A warrant was immediately issued for the apprehension
of this shopinan, and in a few minutes he was brought to
the office, and placed at the bar by the side. of the other
prisoners. He is a genteel looking young man, and gave
his name John Charles Mussered. He seemed consider-
ably embarrassed, although he denied all connexion with
the dishonest practices attributed to him._ The woman
Brown, however, repeated her former statement-in his pre-
sence, and declared that the silk produced, as well as all
the others pledged by her, were given to her for that pur-
pose by him while living at Mr. Fenwick's; and in this
state of the case the three prisoners were remanded for a
future examination. •

Mr. Fenwicl said that the prisoner Mussered came into
his service about 12 months ago from the house of Messrs.
Williams and Price, also silk-mercers, within a few doors
of him in the Regent-circus, but he has lately learned, that
just before the prisoner entered the service of Messrs. Wil-
liams and Price he had only been a few days discharged from
'the Marshalsea prison.

William Snow, the driver of the cabriolet No. 58, ap
peared to answer the complaint of a gentleman named Con.
nington, residing at Hampstead.

Mr. Connington, about seven o'clock on Tuesday even-
ing last, was with a friend in a one-horse chaise, on his re-
turn home, when, in driving through High-street, close to
St. Giles's church, the defendantearne along in his cabrio-
let at a most furious rate, evidently in a state of intoxica-
tion, and having no control whatever over his horse. . He
was repeatedly called to, but he paid, not the slightest atten-
tion, and he drove so close to the curb-stone, that it was im-
possible for him (Mr. Connington) to avoid him, or get out
of his way ; an). the consequence was, that he came with
such violence against kis (Mr. Connington's) chaise as to
smash it to pieces, and fling himself and his friend to a
considerable distance on the pavement, so that it was a
miracle almost they were not killed on the spot ; but as it
was, they were both severely bruised.
The prisoner had nothing to say in his defence ; and
Mr. Dyer said, that he was extremely sorry that he had
no power to inflict a greater punishment upon such a fel-
low as this, than a fine of 10s., under the Highway Act ;
but Mr. Connington, the magistrate said, could have his
remedy by civil action against the prisoner's employer for
the damage done to his chaise, &c.
The prisoner was locked up in default of paying the penalty.

DIARY I.EB ONE- 0 FFICE. —Robert Timms, a builder,
at No. 15, Edward-street, Regent's-park, was charged be-
fore Mr. RAWLINSON with having seduced a young mar-
ried lady, and with threatening, afterwards, to shoot her
husband.

Mr. William Henry Ward, the injured party, came for-
ward to support the charge, accompanied by the lady.
Mr. Ward told tke Magistrate they were married on the
28th November, 1825, and until Monday week occupied
apartments in the defendant's house. A short time back
he met with an accident, which detained him from home ;
the defendant took advantage of the circumstance, and, in
his absence seduced his wife, and accomplished his ruin.
He returned home on Sunday week, the 30th March, and
having heard of the defendant's misconduct, began to
upbraid him. The defendant took a pistol from a shelf,
presented it at his head, and swore if he said another word
he should have the contents. " I deny this," said Mr.
Timms, interrupting the complainant ; " I have no pistol,"
What I say, your Worship," replied Mr. Ward, "is
upon oath—he had a pistol, and I understand he has gone
into my wife with a drawn sword.
Mr. RAW LINSON—With what?—Mr. Ward : When he
has taken advantage of my wife, he has even brought a
naked sword.

Mr. Timms—l never knew she was your wife.
Mr. RAWLINSON-Why! were they not living as man
and wife in your house ?—Mr. Ward : Certainly, your
Worship, and he has seen the certificate of our marriage.

Mr. RAW LuisoN—This is a very disgraceful business;
you commit adultery with a man's wife, and then you
threaten to blow out his brains.

Mr. Timms--Your Worship, I have letters in my pos-
session, received from this young woman, stating she was
not married ; here they are (handing five or six to the Ma-
gistrate); I- wish you would read them aloud.
Mr. RAwr.tsrso.,. (having opened one of the letters)—
She calls you her " Dear Robert."—Mr. Timms : And
signed it with her maiden name.
At this moment Mrs. Ward exclaimed, under great agi-
tation, "He obliged me, your Worship; he stood over use
with a drawn sword, while I wrote that letter."
Mr.& IlawuNsort—Stood over you with a drawn'sword
while you wrote a letter to himself ! I never heard of such
a thing.—Mrs. Ward : He is a base wicked man, your
Worship; he has even asked me to poison my husband,
and threatened to kill me if I did not go away with him.
After Mr. Ward recovered from the alarm which on
Sunday week Mr. Timms's threat occasioned, he told him
he would immediately take his wife and his goods out of
the house. " You may go out, and you may take your
goods out," replied Mr. Timms, " but I'm if you
sall take your wife." He, however, removed the whole
the next day, into apartments at No. 16.
Mrs. Hazlewood, who keeps the house where Mr. and
Mrs. Ward now lodge, stated, that on Sunday, the 30th of
March, Mrs. Ward ran into her house, and slid she was
afraid she should be murdered between her husband and
Mr. Timms. She then disappeared, and the witness
thought she was gone to drown herself, but she afterwards_,,
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found her at the next house again, in the companY her
husband and Mr. Timms, the latter of whom,
of gin in his hand, was persuading her to drink,
to mind her husband. ss a
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111 r, RAWLINSON told the defendant he did not know
when he hail seen a man stand in a more disgraceful situa-
tion. The charge of adultery must be preferred elsewhere,
but it was his duty to protect the complainant from his
violence and malice, and therefore he bound hint over in
501., and two sureties in 251. each, t) keep the peace to-
warde him for 12 months.

The defendant immediately gave the securities which
were required, ;:nd the pal tiet. left the office,