The Sun.
London, England, 1829-12-31 00:00:00

GUILDHALL.

Charles Sherwood, a working upholsterer, was
brought up for re-examination, charged with obtain-
mg a quantity of fringe from Messrs. Hutton, Le-
pines, and Co., in the name of Messrs.
Warlter% and Co, auctioneers, Farringdon•street,
nearly threw years after he had been discharged from
their service.
The prisoner declined making any defence, and
was committed for trial.
MA RLBOROU G H-STRE ET.

Yesterday William Maling, William Adams,
Agnes Smith, and .Mtiy Maling, four prisoner's,
who were in custody, charged with being concerned
in the following- audacious robbery, were brought
before Mr. De-ree, the sitting Magistrate, for final
examination.
At the commencement of the proceedings, which
occupied the Magistrate until a late hour, Mr.
DYER, as well as those concerned in the prosecu-
tion, being satisfied that the two female prisoners
were not implicated in the guilt of the transaction,
they were discharged, and being removed from the
bar, they were admitted as witnesses against their
two male companions.
The first witness was Mrs. Elizabeth Musgrave,
a maiden lady, residing at No. 27, Green-streer,
Perk-lane, who deposed that on Thursday last, the
eve of Christmas-day, she was spending the evening
from home, having left her housekeeper, Agnes
Smith, and two other servants, in charge of the
house, and about ten o'clock the same night a mes-
sage was brought to her that her house had been
robbed in her.absence ; on which she immediately
returned home, and found that a great quantity of
plate and other articles had been carried off. The
articles now produced, consisting of several dozens
of silver forks and spoons, silver-handled knives,
cream-ewers, gold and silver spectacles, ear-rings,
necklaces, gold and silver pencil-cases, &c., were the
property so stolen, and belonged to her, the whole
being worth about 150/. Part of these articles were
taken from the drawing-:oo►n, and the rest from a
cupboard in her bed-room. The prisoner Adams
had been, for about 12 months, a footman in her
service, but quitted in August last; but of the pri-
soner Maling she knew nothing.
Agnes Smith was housekeeper in the service of
Mrs. Musgrave, and knew the ;prisoner Adams as
having lived once in the same service. On Thursday
evening last, about nine o'clock, Adam!, who
was in the habit of calling occasionally at the house
since he had quitted the service, came down into
the kitchen, arid proposed to treat the witness and
the other servent with something to drink, and ask-
ing for a bottle lie went out, and soon after returned
with some' gin : he rang the street-door bell, and
witness let him in, arid wit:real supposed that lie
had shut the door after he had entered : they set
awhile in the kitchen drinking the gi❑ and:playing
at a game of cards, w hen witness said she could not
play any longer, as she had some needle-work to do,
which she immediately set about, and while at this
work she heard a bustling noise in front of the street-
door, and shortly after she heard the door slammed
to. She instantly became alarmed, as she knew
there was no one belonging to the place in the upper
part of the house, and asking Adams to go with her,
which he did, she went up to the parlour, where
she found all safe, as she did the other parts of the
house, until she came to her mistress's bed-room,
where she clearly saw that a robbery had been com-
mitted, upon which she told Adams to call in the po-
lice, which he (lid.

William Bond, one of the new police-men, was
called into the house by Adam, and on hearing the
circumstances connected with the robbery, he de-
tained all the parties in the house until his in.
spector, for whom he sent, arrived, and he also sent
for Mrs. Musgrave, having learned where she was
spending the evening. The chisel produced the
witness found, he said, under the bed in Mrs. Mus-
grave's room, and it appeared to be the instrument
with which the cupboard was forced open.
Benjamin Bates, a Police Inspector, was sent for
by the last witness, and on his arrival at Mrs. Mus-
grave's house, and learning the circumstances of the
robbery, as already stated, he ordered all the parties
who were in the house at the time to be conveyed
to the watch-house, and the next morning the pri-
soner Attains, without threat or" inducement, ac-
knowledged to witness that the robbery had been
planned by himself and a man named Wm. Milling;
that he ( Adams) admitted Maling into the house
when he went for the gin, and that Mating had
carried off all the property in a hand-basket, and if
not finally disposed of, he had no doubt the whole
of the property would be found at the house of a
man named Appleyard, in Prince's-row, Lambeth;
and he declared that the two females were quite
innocent of all knowledge of the robbery. The
witness here handed in a statement to the above
effect, voluntarily written down in his presence, and
signed by Adams. Witness, accompanied by other
officers, went next, he said, in search of Maling, and
after some difficulties, found him at his lodging, No
12, Rochester-row, Lambeth; but he denied all
knowledge of the robbery. Soon after he was
taken into custody, however, he asked permission to
write a note, which he wished to have forwarded to
Adams. Witness here produced the note, which
went to caution Adams how he said any thing
against him (Milling); that he had already tallied
too much, and more than was true; and concluded
with saying, that if he (Adams) wished to be trans-
poi ted, he (Maling) did not. The witness went
on to state, that he next proceeded with Clements,
another officer, to the house of Appleynrd, a car-
penter, in Prince's-row, arid inquired for Maling,
but no such person was known there by that name;
but the persons of the house said that a man named
Warren, who answered the descriptiion given of
Maling, called there sometimes, and had left a chest
of tools in the house. WitiseSs on being shown this
chest of tools, broke it open, and there, in a hand-
basket., found the whole of Mrs. Musgrave's pro
party now produced,
Clements, the other constable, confirmed the evi•
dcrice of the last witness as to the finding of the
plate, &c.

William Church, a police constable, about nine
o'clock on the night of the robbery saw the pri-
soner Milling "rasa twice through Green-street while
the witness was on duty, and the last time he passed
it was close to Mr. Musgrave's. house, and be went
towards Park-lane.
Mary Mating saw nothing of her brother the
whole of Thursday, or on that night. Adams
called on her that evening, and took her with him
to Mrs. Musgrave's to pass the evening with the
servants, where he said he himself was going; but
he said not a word about having seen her brother.
This L;;I;;g tlte whole of the evidence, the Magi.
strates asked the prisoners if they wished to say any
thing?
Adams had nothing to add to what he had told
Inspector Bates, which was the truth.
Maling said that it was of no use for hint to say
any thing, and he would therefore be silent.
Both prisoners were then fully committed for trial.
The Earl of Belgrave, and a number of other
householders at the west end of the town, were tined
ss. each for rot having the footway in front of their
houses cleared of the frozen snow at a proper hour
in the morning.