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

SUN, LON DON,

Police-sergeant Miller, C 14, said he took charge of the pri-
soner from Driscoll, and told him he was taken into custody on
suspicion of stealing a dressing-case from Curzon-street.
The prisoner said he knew nothing about the dressing-case,
and denied having been in Curzon-street on the day of the
robbery.
Catherine Benfield 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 ease, before it was stolen, was
of the valise 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.
BENETOLENCE.—Mrs. Murray has sent the half of a lil. note
for charitable purposes.
WORSHIP-STREET.
John Goodwin, a middle-aged man, of respectable appear-
ance, holding a confidential situation in the serv►ce of Messrs.
Pontifex and Co., the extensive colour manufacturer!, 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 Messrs.
Maunder, 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-
qttence of the prosecutors 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
enstody of the local police, and Hopkins was admitted as evik
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 firm, and Ser-
geant Barker, of the H division, proved that on Saturday
last they proceeded to the house of the prisoner, who in
answer to their questions, admitted having received up-
wards of 1601135. of calomel and 921bs. of red precipitate
from 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•
timation!that 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 he 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.