The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-25 00:00:00

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On Thursday the Court was much crowded in consequence of
its being the day appointed fur the examination of William
Morse, formerly in the service of the Great Western Railway
Company, on the charge of having stolen a very handsome
dressing-case with silver fitting.' and also with being con-
cerned in other robberies on the line in question. The utmost
degree of interest was excited, and at one o'clock the pri-
soner was placed at the bar.
Mr. Nash, from the firm of Naples, Pearce, Stephens, and
Co., solicitors, Old Jewry, attended on the part of the pro-
secution, and Mr. Robinson for the prisoner.
A w eat deal of fresh evidence was gone into, touching
the stealing of the dressing-case, and the prisoner was or-
dered to be bronght up again next Thursday.
A number of letters, it will be remembered, have been
written to Mr. Nash, in regard to Garrett's case, all of
them being of a threatening nature, and in reference to
the present case, Mr. Collard, the superintendent of the Great
Western Railway police, has within the last two or three
days received a communication, of which the following is a
copy :

"'Sir,—Don't you wish you may get rurther evidence for
the lady's dressing-case. I' can tell you, !Sir if you do not
draw it mild and keep more darke in Maynard's case, it will
be the worse for you in the end. I shall be on the watch fur
you and Mr. Nash next ThursdAy.

"I remain, yours,
"JACK MILLER.
" To Mr. Collard, Police-station, Paddington."
MAIILBOROUGH-STREET,
Bridget Buckley was charged with having assaulted
David Strout', a broker's assistant.
The complain:set, who had his face badly scratched, said
the defendant owed about 245. rent, and had removed her
goods c andestinely to her present lodgings. His employer,
a broker named Eic,,ife, bad obtained a warrant of distraint,
and under that warrant he had obtained access to the room
in Husband-street, whe!e the goods had been deposited, by
getting through an open window. Having produced his
warrant, he was immediately attacked by the defendant,
and in a short time a mob of a hundred persons assembled,
and he. was but too happy to escape with life.
Scaife, the broker, said the defendant was Irish, and the
place to which she had removed was an Irish locality. It
was next to impossible to execute the law in these places.
Tho3e who attempted it did so at the peril of their lives. The
landlords who owned the houses could not get their rents,
and if a distress on the goods was attempted the Irish inha-
bitants made common cause and ill-treated those who tried
to enforce the law. He had told the complainant to enter
the house and seize the goods under the original warrant of
distress which had bean obtained.
Mr. HARDWICK wished to know by what authority the
broker had followed the goods to another place, and had
there made a seizure without the warrant of a magistrate?
The broker said it had been decided over and over again
by the judges, that if a tenant removed goods clandestinely
in order to avoid the payment of rent, those goods might be
followed and seized under a warrant of distress wherever
they could be found, provided the seizure was made within
thirty days, and without any forcible entry. In the present
case the seizure had been made within the prescribed time,
and without any forcible entry, as the assistant had got in
by an open window, without breaking, which was necessary
to constitute a forcible entry.
Mr. HARDWICK did not think that to prove a forcible
entry by law it was necessary to show that any breaking in
had occurred. He then appealed to Mr. Allen, the vestry
clerk of St. Anne's, for his opinion as to the law on the sub-
ject of following goods from place to place, without a special
warrant for the place in which such goods were found.
Mr. Allen said his opinion was that a broker, armed with
a distress warrant, was authorised to follow goods clandes-
tinely removed to avoid the payment of rent due, within a
limited number of clays. But then there must be no forcible
entry, and it must be clearly established that rent was due,
and that the goods had been removed to avoid the payment
of the rent. In his opinion, it was a forcible entry to get in
at a window, as that was not the ordinary mode of entering
'a house.
Mr. HARDWICK said this view of the law coincided with
his own.
The broker wished to know whether a man was to be
beaten and murdered when attempting to. execute a legal
process? •
Mr. HARDWICK replied that an assault had undoubtedly
been committed on the defendant, but then this assault arose
out of the commission of an illegal act on the part of the de-
fendant. If a broker required the protection of the law in the
execution of his business he must take care to conduct his
business in a legal manlier.
The defendant's husband proved that the rent had been
offered and refused, and that the goods had not been re-
moved to avoid the payment of rent due.
The charge was dismissed.
A JEREMY DlDDLER.—nOttett atthi, n Stylish young
gentleman, was charged With Obtaining goods under frau-
dulent pretences from a number of West-end tradeenien,
Mr. W. Henry Martin, whip and umbrella-Maker, Burling-
ton-arcade, said the defendant Called at his shop in Septem-
ber, and conducted himself so as to impress him with the
belief that he was a distinguished member of the epOrtieg
circles, Ile ordered a tandem whip a hunting whip, two
canes, and a parasol, to be sent to his apartments in Hans-
place, Chelsea, on approbation. 'the goods were left, but when
a call was made to ascertain if they,sulted, it was discovered
that the customer and goods had vanished. Complainant
discovered that a portion of his goods had been pledged at
Mr. Rochtbres, a pawnbroker in the district:
Mr. lienowicK said the tornplainent's case was one of a
very comm in deneriptien. He had believed the defendant%
representations, and had not taken the precaution to make
those Inquiries and obtain those references which ordinary
caution would dicta's.
Mr. Martia said he must shut up his shop if be attempted
to conduct his business on such a system. Were he to ask
a sporting gentleman, or a gentleman of fashion, for a refer-
ence, the party applied to would ask him if he looked like a
thief, and would take care not to let the cirmtnstance remain
unknown among his friends. It was hardly conceivable
what risks tradesmen were obliged to run, and the small
amount of protection they had.
Mr. HAttuvirece. replied that the law did not reach the
present case. Morally, the defendant might have swindled
the complainant out of his Property, but legally it was
a debt,

As it weS stated that many other charges of the Aanie sort
would be produced, several o!her tradesmen were e:itamihtd,
but their cases possessing similar features, met of course
with the Caine fate.

Mr. HARDWICIiWas informed there were also clutrget
passing forged cheques against the prisoner. These, however,
being within the Bow-street district, the prisoner was ark•
manded to that Court.

Jane Eaßtrot, Q ("PRA'. 8 QUA RE.
having nlun
to a considerable extent st'Oritl milies
a co‘'V, v;as placed at the bar charge
in shy had lived,
1 te case was not broil} ht Utile the rilagistrale tint'q to.*
after the Nsnal hour of closing the 0004 and M the prisoner
had just been apprehended, And ttoilSeqneptly no time airaded
to get the necessary evidence together, it was but slightly
gone into hi Order to justifya remand.
It appears that the priaoiler lived in the service of a lady
named Howarth, hi Wilton. crescent, up to the end of May
last,
and dining the time she was in the establishment pro-
perty to a considerable amount was inis..ed; but, as she was
not the person suspected of having stolen it, her mistress
gave her a character by which she entered the service of
Mrs. Candwell, of Thurlowe-square. Here, as hi the former
place, the losses were frequent and considerable, and another
servant, on whom suspicion unfortunately fell, was dis-
charged. Prisoner's boxes were subsequently searched, and
a profusion of handsome dresses, shawls, very expensive
female under clothing, jewellery, perfumery, and such other
articles as it would be most unreasonable to suppose a servant
could honestly obtain, were found, as also a number of dupli-
cates. As Mrs. Cand well supposed that these related to pro-
perty missing from her hous, she sent to the.pawnbruker's,
when, finding that the articles did not belong to her, a‘te
very properly apprised Mrs.. Howarth, who immediately'
identified a gold neck chain and ether articles 'as her pro-
perty. Information was given to the police, and the prisoner,
who had left Dim Candwell'a, Wad yeate4day afternoon ap-