The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-22 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

The Court was crowded with hotel-keepers and
licensed victuallers, anxious to hear the examination
of Wnz. Kelly alias Win. Young, charged with com-
mitting a robbery at the Waterloo Hotel, Hay-
market, and respecting whom there is little doubt
that he. is the individual who has within the last
twelve months plundered a vast number of hotels and
public-houses. The police have for a considerable
time been in possession of a description of the pri-
soner's person and a list of his robberies, but owing
to the adroit manner in which the offences were com-
mitted they have, up to Saturday last, been totally
unable to capture the delinquent. The prisoner is an
Irishman, about 30 years of age, rather tall, light
hair, and of flashy appearance. His clothes had ap-
parently been contrived with the view of carrying on
his robberies so as to elude detection ; they were
very large and loose, and calculated to hold any plun-
der he might get possession of, without drawing sus-
picion on him from any appearance of unusual bulki-
ness. The first charge was the following :
Mr. Richard Bradshaw, a gentleman of fortune,
said he had occupied apartments at the Waterloo
Hotel for about four years. On Saturday week last,
about one o'clock A.M., he went into his sleeping
apartment, and discovered that a chest of drawers had
been forced open and a case containing a silver knife,
fork, and spoon, with some other articles, taken away.
The prisoner had engaged a bed at the hotel for that
night, and his sleeping-room was opposite to the bed-
room of prosecutor. Suspicion having been excited,
prosecutor knocked at the door of the prisoner, and
after some time prosecutor was admitted by the pri •
soner, who apparently had just been roused from his
bed. Prosecutor immediately searched the prisoner's
clothes, and, having found sufficient evidence to con-
firm him in his opinion that the prisoner was the thief,
he went out of the room and caused a policeman to be
sent for. When the constable came the bed-room was
thoroughly searched, and on the top of the bed the
case of plate was found. There were other articles
also discovered which had been stolen from the room
of a gentleman who also occupied apartments in tne
hotel, but who was then at Ramsgate.
Police-constable Wells, C 185, said when he took
the prisoner into custody he found a chisel in his
pocket. This chisel exactly fitted the marks on the
drawers, and no doubt was the instrument employed
by the prisoner to effect the robbery.
On this charge the prisoner was fully committed.
The next charge was preferred by Mr. E. Tomp-
kins, who stated that, on being informed while at
Ramsgate that a robbery had been committed he
came to town, and ascertained that a. portmanteau in

his apartments had been forced open, and severaf shirts,'
a card-case, and other articles stolen. The 'missing
property was found in the prisoner's room.
On this charge the prisoner was also committed.
Mr. Hardwick was informed that since the pri-
soner had been in custo.iy.the police had ascertained
that he had committed an immense number of similar
robberies in all parts of London, and also that the
prisoner had been committed in May last for a rob-
bery at the Ship Hotel, Charing-cross, and had been
sentenced to six months' imprisonment.
The system adopted by the prisoner was this :—He
fixed upon a house, and engaged a bed for the night.
In the morning, when the family were engaged at
their business, he took the opportunity of going from
room to room, and breaking open boxes and drawers,
and carrying off as much booty as he could get clear
with. From the bulk of some of the articles it is
suspected the prisoner had a confederate, and the
police are consequently on the look out.
Among those who have been pillaged, the following
have been traced out by City-policeman Horton,
532 :—Mr. Curling, Sugar-loaf; Great Queen-street,
Cheapside, a quantity of clothes and jewellery, worth
about 201. ; Mr. White, the Cock, Leadenhall. street,
of clothes worth about 10/. ; the George and Vulture
Tavern, George-yard, Lombard-street, a quantity of
linen and wearing apparal from the carpet-bag of a
gentleman staying at the tavern ; the Sceptre Hotel,
Flea-street, a suit of clothes belonging to the waiter ;
the Rainbow Tavern, Fleet-street, a silk-dress, the pro-
perty of the housekeeper; the Mitre Tavern, Fish-
street-hill, a quantity of clothes and other wearing
apparel ; the Catherine Wheel, Bishopsgate-street, a
quantity of wearing apparel, the property of a gen-
tleman from Cambridge.
The potboy at a public-house in London also
complained to the magistrate that he had lost a new
Taglioni and other articles of Sunday clothing,
in consequence of the prisoner having been accom-
modated with a bed in his master's house.

The Crown Tavern, at Pentonville, had also been
visited by the prisoner, among other houses.
Mr. HARDWICK said, as there was reason to believe
that many other complete cases would be brought
forward against the prisoner, he would remand him
until Thursday week, May 2, in order to grant time
to the police to arrange the charges.