The Sun.
London, England, 1829-11-18 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

Mr. HALLS was engaged until past five o'clock
in disposing of several cases in which the Mint were
the prosecutors.
Thomas Middleton, the creole, who was taken
into custody on suspicion► of being concerned with
Johnson and his gang, and charged with having one
half-crown, four shillings, and a sixpence, all base
money, sewed up in the lappel of his coat, was
fully committed for trial for having counterfeit coin
in his possession with the intention of passing the
same. The prisoner begged hard to be allowed a
few minutes' conversation with Mr. Powell, solici-
tor for the Mint, for the purpose, it is supposed, of
making some disclosures connected with the mode
in which he had been so deeply engaged, but that
gentleman did not think proper to accede to his re-
quest, and he was accordingly sent to Newgate to
await his trial.

Johnson and Reilly, who were taken into cus-
tody by Mr. Thomas and his men, in a room
upon the first floor of the house No. 37, Bed-
fordbury, on the morning of Monday, were also
fully committed to Newgate for trial, charged
with having in their possession twenty-one
shillings and thirteen sixpences, all base money,
with the intention of passing the same. The fe-
male prisoner, Mary Johnson, was discharged, there
being no evidence tending to fix a charge upon her,
further than her known connexion with the gang.
It was erroneously stated at the first examination
that she was the wife of the prisoner Johnson. It
appears she is his daughter. Johnson is not the per-
son who was tried at the Old Bailey, and acquitted
by the Jury on account of the manner in which the
prosecution was got up by the officers of the Mint,
but he is the brother of the individual, and both
have long been known to the police.
Daniel Flynn and Ann Flynn, alias Ann Cox,
were charged with having in their possession several
moulds, made of plaster of Paris, and also a variety
of implements for coining, for the purpose of making
counterfeit money.
The prisoners were taken into custody by the
officers of the new police, on the first floor of a house
in Church-lane, St. Giles's. In searching the room
the plaster of Paris mould s and other implements of
coining were discovered under the bed of the pri-
soners. It was alleged, however, by the prisoners,
that these implements were placed in the room for
the purpose of trepanning them; ar►d there being no
evidence to negat►ve that assertion, or tending to
prove that the prisoners had a guilty knowledge,
Mr. Powell said, that in justice to the public on
the one hand, and the prisoners on the other, the
case should undergo the strictest inquiry, for which
purpose a statement, detailing the pecular facts con-
nected with it, should be drawn up, and laid before
his Majesty's Attorney-General ; and with this view
he (Mr. Powell) requested that the prisoners might
be remanded for a week.

The male prisoner hoped that his character would
be inquired into.
Mr. HALLS assured him, that not only had that
been already done, but further inquiries should be
made upon the subject ; and in remanding the case
for another week, he felt that no injustice could arise
to the prisoners; but that, on the contrary, they
might be materially benefitted by the delay.
Several minor cases of passing base money were
afterwards disposed of.