The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-25 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

THE LEICESTER—BANK ROBBERY. - Yesterday,
Richard Elliot, who stands charged with being con-
cerned in stealing the sum of 1,071/. 16i. 10d., during
the transfer by railway to London, the property of
Messrs. Pares and Co., Leicestershire Joint-stock
Banking Company, was brought before Mr. Jardine
for final examination. _

Mr. William Bradley, 41, Stafford-street, Birming-
ham, gun maker, said that in the month of September
last he received the letter produced by post, enclosing
the sinister halves of t,wo 51. Bank of England notes,,
and an order for a double-barrelled gun, two single-
barrelled guns, and six pair of pistols, amounting to
121. The ..numbers were 49,760 and 92,011, and
having completed the order he sent the goods to Mr.
Moore, care of Mr. Draper, Globe Tavern, Hatton-
garden, but he never received the corresponding half
notes. .
Mr. James Ball, clerk in the service of Messrs.
Smith, Payne, and Co., bankers, stated that on the
14th of September he received from Messrs. Pares
and Co., of Leicester, the corresponding half notes
spoken to by the last witness.
Mrs. Jane Jones stated that in September last she
was housekeeper in the service of Mr. Draper, at the
Globe Tavern, and recollected a person coming to
request that a letter addressed to Mr. John Moore
might be received there. She afterwards took the
letter and a box directed to that person, but as the
man wore a fustian coat and a different dress from
the prisoner, she' could not positively swear that he
was the person.
Mr. JARDINE ordered the prisoner to be committed
for trial.
CIIARGR OF BURGLARY.—A young man named
Thomas Coffee, described as a painter and glazier,
was placed at the bar, charged with stealing from the
Feathers public-house, in Great Wild-street, Lin-
coln's Inn-fields, the sum of 901. in gold, 81. in silver,
a quantity of copper money, silk handkerchiefs, silver
spoons, and a silver watch, the property of George
Mason, the landlord.
The prosecutor's wife stated that the prisoner had
been her lodger for a week, having rest led in the
house previously to her husband taking the premises.
About eight o'clock, on the night of the 26th of De-
cember, she wanted to go to her bedroom, but found,
after repeated attempts, that the staircase door was
fastened, which she concluded was done by her hus-
band, who was not in the house at the time. About
twelve o clock her husband opened it, and having
gone into the room he found that the box had been
broken open, and all the property it contained taken
away. The same evening the prisoner borrowed ss.
from her husband, and then went away, leaving three
suits of clothes behind him. The prisoner had heard
a conversation between her and her husband about
going to the distillery with the money that had been
stolen, and she never saw him again till he was in
custody.
The prisoner denied haling overheard any such
conversation. -
Constable Thompson, F division, said he traced the
,prisoner to No. 2, Vine-court, Clerkenwell, where
he apprehended him in. a back room. Three keys
were found upon him, one of which opened the box
from which the property was stolen, together with 53
pawnbrokers' duplicates. He knew the prisoner to
he a returned transport.
Mr. JARDINE ordered him to 'be remanded for a
week.

MARLBOTIOUGH-STREET.
DARING STREET ROBBERIES.—Sarah Smith was
charged with having robbed a barrister named Hethe-
rington of his purse, containing three sovereigns and
some silver.
Inspector Plume told Mr. Hardwick, the sitting
Magistrate, that the prisoner had been brought into
the station-house by a police-constable, and that the
complainant had made the following charge against
her :—He said as he was passing down Regent-
street the previous evening, he was accosted by the
prisoner, who persisted in walking by his side,
although he desired her not •to annoy him by her
company. When near Glasshouse-street, two or
three men, whom he had evcory reason to believe
were in league with the prisoner, came up to him,
and crossed him in such a manner that he was obliged
to remonstrate, upon which he was suddenly knocked
down by one of the party. He was much injured
on the knee by the fall, but he succeeded in giving
the prisoner into custody, as she was not able to get
away so ,expeditiously as her presumed confederates.
The complainant made his charge in the usual way,
and promised to attend in -the morning at this Court,
but he hal failed to make his appearance.
A German got into the witness-box, and said the
prisoner had robbed him of 191. a few months ago
under similar circumstances.
Mr. HARDWICK said this was a class of offences
that appeared to be very much on the increase.
Persons of respectability were accosted by women of
loose character, and then, at the first convenient
-opportunity, they were set upon and robbed by men