The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-11 00:00:00

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CUSTOM:4IO USE IM-1.,;1C.V •
THAATE'S POLICL'.
Edward Lewis and William Bonham, Custoni-llonse
weighers in the employ it the Crown, and Witiain Stick'b?.
land. the iamilord of the Wheatsheaf public-house, lin
Aatiteey• street, St. George's in the East, who was ur'
merly a Custom-house weigher, were brought beOed
2,1 r. Broderip, changed with stealing one gold watch as
four silver watches, the property of the Messrs. Sav°ll'
goldsmiths and jewellers, 9 and 14, Cornhill, and IPA
Osborne, landlord of the Crooked Billet public-house es:
Tower-hill, was charged with feloniously receiving ;b
property, well knowing it to be stolen. This prosecni,
tion was instituted by the Crown, and Mr. \Valle!'
Solicitor of Customs, and Mr. Ballantine, the barrister,
conducted it.
The prisoners having answered to their names, Lewis'
who was described in the p lice .sheet as a solicitor is
o
the Borough-road, stated that he was intoxicated Wilt.
he was taken into custody, and wrongly described hitosell
Mr. Joseph Savory stated that he carried on busiee%
as a Goldsmith and jeweller, in partnership with
hs
brother. In June, 1842, he had occasion to expe64
case of clocks and watches to the East Indies, and
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afterwards received information that on the receiOn
the case one gold watch and tour silver ones were miss;
ing, and he had to pay for them. The value 011" i
watches was 451. The clocks arrived safe in the I'slndies.
Mr. John Faris, clerk to Messrs. Savory, was etlie;
ployed to ship a case of clocks and watches on the 2".1
of June, 1842. There was one gold watch and four
ver watches in the case, which were placed on the tl
of too very large clocks, which were enclosed in Ati
cese and a wooden one outside. He attended the usns,
Customs examination at No. 1 shed of the West loull
Deck. The case was opened and inspected by the forl'Ped,
Custom-house officers, and the tin case was re-solderlo
and the outer case screwed down in his presence. .0
recollected a Mr. Scanlan, a gentleman connected vvie,
the Customs' department, being present, but bad rl° r
collection of the prisoners.
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Mr. George Cliff Lowe, also in the employ of ite e his
Savory, gave similar evidence. He was sure the essbc-
were in the tin case when it was re.so:dered. ttel
Henry Richard Turner, an accomplice, was adiell 14,
as evidence for the Crown. He said he lived at Ni". ge
Dempsey-street, Stepney, and was a Custom-bre,
weigher, and filled that situation in the month of lendel
1342. At that time he was stationed in the West 10
Dock. He recollected a case being brought to :ere
shed for examination by the searchers. There ''„se
present himself, Bonham, Lewis, and Sticklandt 'the
was then a Custom-house officer, and then acted as 00
shipping officer. He was occasionally absent from co
shed during the day. During one of those Os° 0e
Bonham and Lewis were in the shed, and Stickland vlec,
outside, on the watch. He saw Lewis and Bonlian/t to
gaged in securing a case of clocks and watches abe,,,s9
be shipped for the East Indies. There were some ig
on the outer lid, but they were not used again tutejjel.
was opened, but knocked in with a hammer and ale sod
He was asked by Bonham to lend a hand' 00
did so. After the case was fastened °be
again he took it out for shipment, butt, I
could not recollect whether it was taken to itee
shed or No. 3 shed. After he had been absent aboutd
minutes he returned to No. 1 shed, and a brow° !ilks,'
parcel, containing four or five watches, was produc` bet'
Stickland ; one of them was a gold watch and the °',oloo
were silver ones. He knew them to have been °or
from the case, and an observation was made about 500
ing them, but as there were five there was more 04
one for each, and it was arranged they should Ix
The watches were packed up and left in a desk in sod'
land's office is the shed. Next morning witne3sbeile
Lewis waited upon a Jew named Moss, in Elisnstioll
street, St. George's-ia-the-East, and made a pror7sser
to him to boy the watches. Moss said lie would, —„seo,
to the dock and look at them, and after he Lad aecsOt
he offered 161. for the lot, which was refused ; .
SlllO4l
was asked, which the Jew declined giving. St'cl'ise
Lewis, and Bonham, were all present when .Moss
161. for the watches. Two or three days afterel.
Stickland said he would buy up the other shares 'see
each, to which they agreed, and witness, 'AWL' tilr
Bonham, received the money of Stickland. It vve'stlie
derstood that Stickland had found a customer In
watches, and received 201. for them. tsisci
John Haynes, inspector of the detective force, 5 ell
that he went to the Crooked Billet public-Ivesse;ioe,
Tower-hill, on Friday evening, and waited till tos`sou
the landlord came home, when he told him vv,,,"; eei
what he was, and cautioned him against mak"
statement that might criminate himself. • tbereA,
Mr. BRODLRIP stopped the witness and 50- ido„
was no occasion for him to do anything of the,,
Police officers appeared quite to mistake their &lid 001
was the duty of an officer when he apprebeede, sit*
person to state the nature of the charge agellil,tot,°,
and then leave his prisoner free to speak or be sic
he thought proper. It was not necessary te
caution at all, and it often caused the loss of stolen
party and defeated the ends of justice. -boffje
Haynes then stated that he asked the prisoner°'efesn'
,
if he had not sold a watch to a person named ejserl°
and he said he had. Witness told him he had the fe'r"oserr
it in his pocket, and that he must have it, and the Pr.l,lsiln:
immediately took the watch off the guard and gave to°
He then told the prisoner that his wife had a gold lob
and that as she was ill he had no wish to execute his %es°
warrant, if it were delivered to him. The pr. 00
immediately fetched a gold watch and gave it tcis,oooC,
He then asked if he could give a satisfactory t"-ssi
of how he became possessed of the watches, and Mx°
that he had bought five of them at one time. .149,1- 000
him where the others were, and he said he had st)„,'"„, tie
to Mr. Taylor, his solicitor, who lived at No. 2,
street, Holborn. He asked him where the other,see.
and he said he did not think he had but four, alt 0110
he at first said he had five. Witness asked WU:OOj.
he bought the watches of, and he said he bough. or
of a man who occasionally used his house when. OO
the Lamb in Conduit-street, Holborn. He asl‘v-eet be
for the man's name and address, and he replied 1".-00
did not know either, nor could he give a descrittiss
him, but would consider about it. He then left PD-nt
went to the Wheatsheaf in Anthony-street, Ittgerollol
Stickland, and told him he was charged with 5,,-0 Id
watches, and he said he knew nothing about it;
,-.-1,00,.
Stickland into custody. After he had locked Sr
in the station-house he returned to the Crookeleels
and found Osborne was out. He immediately Plitser
cab and returned to the Wheatsheaf, where he
Osborne, and took him into custody. ester),'
John Robinson, book-keeper to the Messrs. pe's
said the gold watch and the silver watches prod
responded with the number and description of fl 11 boo'
manufactured by his employers, and inserted le
in the year 1842. se'
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Haynes said the numbers of the three vessch -seod;
responded with those in Messrs. Savory's Wok' ekse
expected to produce the others at a future exsoii:istr.
After several hours had been spent in the invest'
sss
Mr. Watford applied for a remand. defe7
The prisoners were then called upon for their ,
and their legal advisers directed them to be quibejed;
Mr. Clark addressed the Magistrate at grew' uo?
in support of an application that Strickland sis-se fls'e
borne should be admitted to bail. He said ti,fvJesi,.,)l";
persons of good character, that Osborne bed gs.r.ss
fullest information to the officer, and that it ",.tiy,.;
likely, if he thought the watches had been disbelief,- oll'he
tained,he would have kept one himself, and give° tt,-hees rde
to his wife. There was no proof that the vVis'bebe.r.",4
purchased were those stolen from the case, and
had not attempted to get out of the way. W:„`'"h
et. 07,4
to Stickland, there was no evidence against 11' yiefl`
that of the accomplice Turner, which ought to "e
with great suspicion. s opP°ji
Mr. Ballantine, on the part of the Custom", is, sst
the application, which was founded on a false basd, ros
was r, ady to give his reasons, if Mr. Clark wisha it
they would affect his clients most seriously,
always dangerous to say any thing about 0'11'1,01;13
Mr. Brodrip said, as the application for baffle eb°
opposed by counsel on behalf of the Crown, ue spr
remand all the prisoners till Thursday next. ties ..01
The prisoners were then remanded. It viereel
stood that other charges of robbery will be Freote°
the next examination. The disclosures havecr
groat sensation at the Cestom Hon- e.

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MR. PITT'S LAST MOMENTS.—" I haPPelle"
serve that I had read an account of Mr. Pitt's last innor
Gifford's life of him, and that his dying words, praYie'ds to 1.-o,s
giveness through the merits of his Redeemer, or sot
_bed, !is
effect, together with the whole scene of his death
id too
',eared, as I thought, too much made up, and toe forms) nom
frdat
true; leaving the impression that the author, and t'",
whom he gathered his information, had considered it "if re', y 1
make the close of a great man's life comfortable the.; it :Da
ous feelings rather than to facts and reality. v",e,„„a-sall
sacs it of him ?' asked Lady Hester, Dr. Prebrd, rsfritt
Sir Waltar Farquhar.' Oh ! it's all a lie,' she rePliegr' ?so
indignantly ; Dr. Prettyman was fast aseep Whennbodi e
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died ; Sir Walter Farquhar was not there; and nobody e&di
present but James. I was the last person who sa!
James, and I left him about eight o'clock, for I saivil! skis
gling as if he wanted to speak, and I did not like ton 6
worse.' After a short pause she resumed : Wrteo thwile
Mr. Pitt make such a speech for, who never wen.' ,fibe° ef
in his life? Nothing prevented his going to church
was at Walmar : but he never talked about relialoo9 r
brought it upon the carpet.' "—Memoirs or Laug
Stanhope.
Of
BIRTHS. ,he flifeAcl
On the 28th ult , at Interlachen, Switzerland, 'Lois, '-
Lieutenant llodgkinson, her Majesty's ship Calee'
of Wimpole-street, London, of a son. e
On the sth inst., in Kensington Gardens- ferrA"
park, the wife of R. Sargent, Esq., of a daughter. the
of Ottnietßheev6.tGh aatYeayteoßf Rectory, Gloucestershire, the
On the 6th in ry
at the Vicoarage, ChieveleYt Berms'
lady of the Rev. J. E. Robinson, of a son. ICeSt'
tb
On the 7th inst., at Provender, near Faversbarth
Je
lady of Norton Knatchbull, Esq., of a son. lc the
On the Bth inst., at Norfolk-crescent, Hyde-par
of Alfred Alexander Julius, of a son.
DeOmntshteerBHtheminisntg.: Curzon-street,r.3layfair, the $.
Onp the Bth inst., at Gracechurchh-street, Mrs. 0
Wheeler, of a son. °l
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bet'
AiARRJED. re,
On the 4th inst., at St. George's, Hanover- squa ,
Ransom, Esq., of Hastings, to 05e Hannah IVlarth
Pa, h
ter of Mr. George Pearson, of Pimlico. Grounds, .1f
ter
On the 9th inst., at St. Mark's, Tenter ,tdoe
Wohlgernuth, Esq., to Mary Louisa, the eldea
the late James E. Maddox, Esq., of Bow.

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DIED.
On the Ist inst., in ih.r 73(1 N at N'o
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born, Mrs. Ann Smith, widow ..neftrbv 140:;111°'935
fOrraerly o£G.,rden House Kerii,ll-town• r tile •
On the 2d inst., Mr. "l'hottna-; 'Etchings, 0' p•
Head, New Cavendish-street, Portland-Pince 'a C°ol
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