The Sun.
London, England, 1829-07-30 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, •JULY 30, 18249.

:his 3001. stock, and applied to a broker to effect

he transfer.

The brolier not knowing the prisoner,

hesitated in the matter, upon which the latter said
that Mr. Linton knew him well. Mr. Linton hap-.

pened to be near the spot, and upon being appealed
to immediately seized the prisoner, who was taken
away in the custody of an officer.—Committed..
It was stated by the beadle of St. Stephen's,
Coleman-street, that by means of the press a mise-

rably poor man named Smith, who was in the.
habit of receiving work-house relief, had come in
for an immense fortune. This man supposed that

he had had cause, at the commencement of his
Lordship's Mayoralty, to complain of the parish
officers, and summon them. Mr. Ellis fully justified
the conduct of his brother officers, and mentioned

that the complainant had, he really believed, a claim
to a large fortune, but was prevented by his poverty
from establishing that claim. The Lord Mayor ad-
vised the parish to make the experiment, but Mr.
Ellis thought that parishes could not really under-
take to support claims which might after all involve
them in expences never to be repaid. His Lordship
then mentionePthat there were no doubt persons

who would undertake the office of mediators be-
tween the conflicting parties, and the facts were
stated in the newspapers. Mr. Ellis said. yesterday,
the gentleman who-saw the account called at
the work-house immediately afterwards, prosecuted
the action, and succeeded in obtaining a verdict for
Smith, who would probably be put in possession of
nearly 100,0001.
The LORD MAYOR hoped that Mr. Smith would
not forget the numerous favours he bad received
from the parish.
Mr. Ellis had met the lucky man some days ago,
and he did not appear to be in the slightest degree
intoxicated at the change of fortune. He had, it
appears, been formerly a lamp-lighter, and a grena-
dier in the city militia. We understand that the
case may, however, still get into the House of
Lords. The East India Company are, it seems,
deeply interested in the result.

LAMBETH-STREET.
Yesterday nearly the whole of the time of the
sitting Magistrates was occupied in the investiga-
tion of a case in which three miscreants named
Thomas Amor, Francis Beckman, and Mary Hamp-
ton, were charged with having obtained, by threats
of exposing and bringing him to justice for being
guilty of a most abominable offence, various sums of
money from a Mr. Young, a gentleman holding a
respectable situation in one of the first mercantile
houses in the city.
From the evidence of Mr. Young, who appeared
to be labouring under highly-excited feelings, pro-
duced by a nervous affection of body, it appeared
that the prisoners belonged to a gang of ten or
twelve wretches who live by such practices, all of
whom have haunted and annoyed him for the last
twelve months. In the first instance they accused
him with being guilty of the most disgusting prac-
tices with one of their confederates, and threatened,
that if he did not give them a sum of money, they
would at once expose him to his employers, and
bring him to justice. He foolishly complied with
their threats, and since that time (twelve months
ago) scarcely a day passed over that he has not been
beset by one or other of the gang, to whom he has,
according to his own acknowledgment, paid over
1001. About ten days since, however, fortunately

for the friends of their unfortunate victim, the par-

ties quarrelled among themselves, some of them
being jealous at the success of the others ; and the
result was, that the fact of their infamous practices
was communicated from one of them to Goofing, a
conductor of the Bow-street patrol, who succeeded
in securing the prisoners. After the most minute
inquiry into the whole of the circumstances, the pri-
soners were committed, under Mr. Peel's Act, to
take their trials for the capital offence of having
feloniously obtained the money.