The Sun.
London, England, 1819-04-26 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY, APRIL 24.

GENERAL POST-OrTICE ROJIBERY.
[Farther Particulars.]'
Nicholas Benigne Albin, aged 32, was first ar-
raigned, under an indictment for stealing and se-
creting divers letters, tontuining sundry Bank
Notes of the Bank of England, and other Notes,
which came into his hands, front time to time, as
letter-sorter to the General Post Office.fhis in-
teresting trial commenced at ten o'clock, and
after the London Jury were sworn, Mr. Justice
PARK direzted,
.that as • the prisoner was rather
deaf, he should be admitted within the inner bar,
in order to hear the indictment read, and the evi-
dence in support of it.
Robert • Simpson, Esq. the first witness eta-
mined, stated, that he intended to transmit the •
note in question to a Gentleman at Paris. It was
a 201. no; e, and lie himself put it into the post
office at York, at the saute time paving the post-
age to one of the Clerks there. It was proved
that the letter had reached the General Post Office
in London, where it fell into prisoner's hanes.
Jiihn Tesseytnan and John Goney, clerks in the
Post-office at York,- both corroborated the evi-
dence of the former witness, and deposed to the
letter being sent off from the Post-office at York
to London by the regular mail. "
Robert Watts, Esq. of-the' General Post-offiCe,.
confirmed the fact of the receipt of the letter at
the above office, where; front his situation, it ne.
cessarily fell into the prisoner's hands.
Ann Coffin bad been actrainted t!te-Pri-
soner about -a year and a half, nut knew nothing
of the Prisoner's profession till la-ely. She hvi
become an evidence al2ainst consequence
of seeing herself described as having passed o,e
2.01. note at Mr. Swift's, a haberdasheriu Hounds-
ditc:J, of whom she purchased a pelisse for 21.
Iss. and artervartl.i gave the difference, 171 ss.
to rite Frison,r.
It was further proved, that two of the small
notes received in change of the 20/ note at the
Bank, were given in payment by the Prisoner, at
a pnblic-!“mse in the Hackney-road.
Baron WOOO ttavittg summed up the evidence,
the Jury, ryter a %bort consultation, found the
Prisoner Guilty—Death.
Thomas Jeff eott was then put to the Bar, charg-
ed ,:vith a similar offence.
John Aligns, clef k to Longman, Horst, and
Co., booksellers, was the first witness
On the 16th October last, he gave to Mr. Hurst,
a ba!,k post-bill for 301.; a bank note, value 101,
No 1325 ; and another 101. note, dated Bth of
Sept, umber, 1818.
Mr Horst said, he bad occasion to send mom.),
on the 16th of October last'to the country, and
inclosed in a letter'a 30/: bank post-bill, and two
10/. notes, and dirt cted it to E,!ward Whiteley,
Bury, in Lantashire. He put the lettet
,in their
private box, tear the entrance into the conuting,-
house.

John Pulteney proved that he put the letter
direch-d to Mr. Whiteley into the bag of the
po.stnnin, whelk he celled. 1
Matthew A;kinson is a postman. He &livered
on the 16,11 October, at the General Post-oNce,
letters he received at Longman, 11nr.t, and
Co.'s that evening. Ile would not say that it
was impossilie io take a letter on; of his bag after
it was put in.
Mr. Watt's; of the Post Office, said the pri- l
cotter, .from his situation, had on opportunity of
taking a letter directed to Bury, in Lancashire.
This might happen by mistake, because there
was a - Bury also Stiffolk:• The prisoner was
connected with the Nor wirb divkion, and was
employed in the Post Office as a charger, or,taxer, •
He had been twenty )ears a clerk in the office,
and was never arraigneti•nefore the present time.
Mr.
,Whiteley, the nephew of Mr. Hurst, said
be expected a letter with a remittance which he
never received.
Atkins, the officer, said he went to the prisoner's
lodgings in Norfolk-street, Strand, and found new
and old plate there to the amount of about 1501.
'and furniture worth tilmot 1401. Prisoner said
his income was 2001: a-year. There was a quan-
tity •of cut-glass unpacked. On searching in a
drawer, where the prisoner's linen was, he found
2171. in notes. He marked them, and one of the
notes so marked was No. 1326. When witness
was taking from the prisoner two gold seals, be
" It is of no use ; I have done wrong ; I
am guilty."
Mr. PARKIN, Solicitor to the Post-office, cor-
roborated Adkins's testimony, and added that he
told the prisoner- that he was suspected of steal-
ing letters containing money. There were nine
gold seals found • on searching the prisoner's
drawers. The 101. note taken from Mr. Hurst's
letter was one of those found also in the prisoner's
drawer.
The prisoner put in a written defence, in
which he asserted • that Adkins must have been
,mistaken when he affirmed that be (the prisoner)
hail confessed his guilt ; but that on the con-
trary, when his property was strewed about the
town in the most wanton manner, and unfeeling
observations made on-the quantity of his furniture,
he became quite unmanned, and quitted the room,
saying to Adkins, " you are to do as you please,
but I Am -not a- guilty man." • The Bank-notes
found in his drawer werenot extraordinary, since
he had been in the Post-office for twenty years,
and since he defied the world to show that he was
addicted to any extravagancesor vice.
Several respectable persons gave the prisoner
a high character for integrity, and the woman,
at whose house he lodged, considered,him retired
and economical.
Mr. Justice PARK summed up the evidence,
and the Jury, after retiring for nearly an hour,
returned a verdict—Not Guilty.
Mr. Justice PARK observed, that the. witnesses
who had been bound over in this case must at-
tend again on Monday morning, as there were
several other charges of a similar nature against
the unhappy prisbuer at the bar.
The Grand Jury of the City of London re-
turned a true Bill against Richard Carlisle, of
Fleet-street, bookseller, for a libel.

The' Toomey was paid off ,at Plymouth on Sa-
turday. One of the crew became a victim to lay
intemperance on the previous [light.

CEIARLES RENNETT.

BOIV-STREET.

EXAMINATION OF CHARLES RENNETT, FOR CHILV

STEALING.

Our readers will remember that in Nov. last an
extraordinary degreegree of interest was excited in the
public mind by the disappearance of the mile child
of Mr. Horsley, The principal circumstances con-
nected' with the loss of the child are most pro,:
bably fresh in public recollection, and it will
therefore be uonecessary for us to enter into Al
lengthened detail. Helmet was appiehended -C
Braake, near Bremen, soon after the theft of tbe
child, and lUdged in the prison there to awld;
certain ft>, ms and arrangettients,, which bele% '-
completed, he was sent under an escort of sould
Oldenburgh dragoons to Bremen on Sunday sea!
night, and placed'at the disposal of Jr. F Cole'
man, the British Vice-Consul. On Thur"B/
seniiight he.was sent off from Bremen in the cos'
Cody of a German Police officer and an assistant/.
to be put.on board the packet at Cuxhaven- 1111°
was landed at Harwich on Thursday last. late
ligence of his arrival was immediately forwarded to
Bow-street office, and Goodwin, thePatrole) tq.
accompanied Mt. Horsley to France in pors"itio
Hennett, and who held the warrant origi""ly
granted, was sent off to take him- into cnst"4,-.
Goodwin met the German officer and his prisone
on board, and returned with them to Load°4,:o..
They arrived at Bow-street on SaturdaY "I.(b°oe
ing at half-past ten o'clock, and at half-145r •
0
o'clock the prisoner was conveyed into. the rrd'r,
vate room of the office to be examined before-
;pride.
Tie foreign Police officer produced to the,
'I
'
gist rate a packer directed to him,, and conta—
copies of
,the depositions of Mr. flotsleY'Dreo
other documents, which had been taken at
dtd
tneu, and upon which Rennett was Cooltuitte.
prison there. foci"
Mr. Bratria, upon the,aubject of these:.
m h bat
ents,, observed, that e had nothing to o"evi,
with the case inintediately before him, a"( 1
was
dente the fact with Which the prisoner
charged way all he required. h 1 tlO
Elizabeth Htilbrook, the girl wh° bait
charge of Mr. Horsley's child when it W
d"the St 064
was then brought in and examined, ao
Boner was identified by her. , for hi!"
Mr, lIIRNta said, this was sufficient
or •i,ll
to act upon, and to commit the pi i•oorr f
wool('
by a Jury of his Country, and each par' Y ,hey
now only have to make what preparatwno
conceived necessary for the prosccuilOo s
defcuce. It had been publi,ly rouroore“ the
bill Of indictment lad been toond ag3'"s: was
prisoner for the offence with which
.Itiewoold
charged ; but as this w3s only row
perhaps be necessary for him to 3sce:;":,,ntched tv
Goody: in, the offi, er, was ;hen Mllet"c6 intliCt•
the Sessions-house for a certificate °`
nt.
on was ')
Kennett, who during the examinati a
lowzd,to sit, was very deatly affected. He eon, voi
in teats the whole of the time, and so Wen
oder
lie cast down that his sister was repeated/YllO,O
the necesci'y of exhotting him to assatue 9
our,. it
oct.
degree of firmness. t.
It was urged on the part of Rennett, tha
Tior,ley, when at Bremen, promised him oter
and that he ought not to forget that proilti4t
Mr. Horsley said, he promised, when tibenor td
tiletit, that tiny mercy which he Could , „Wig
Reopen, consistently with the demands of Poevef
justice, should not be withheld ; but orose°
held out any hopes that be would foreo Si'r 00
cation altogether. He bad before sol,,.dialt°
he entertained no vindic;ive feeling tos" felt
tain,J
prisoner, very far from it ; but lie, eet waool
himself bound in justice to the public, i'.(s-s"it„ace,
he had experienced that sympathy alidipiory.
'
to bring the matter before a Coors 1)°
The certificate of the indictment 11,:,'e:11,, ow
obtained, and every necessary form do,:jsfeve.
Meted, the prisoner was fully committe to pro'•
gate for trial, and the patties boned over
coa '
secute. He was conveyed to prison itlib:preseill
It is expected that he will be tried
Session.

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tryaAnlivsdei.attchtotslfrcSwindlers are now travel' je:ilfaiteth.:,e,ttfliiiiiccill:}
they impose upon the un war for thl'se 0' -:rejar'
e
and
it is
position.
the hulks, at Yottsjuohth, "" t/Qc4
the John Barry, lying destined to l•
sn'oOt:
t'htel from thirtytl convicts have bee.o)o3rerti
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