The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-02 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION HOUSE.

A poor woman, named Eleanor Ann Preston, who ap-
peared to be in deep affliction, waited upon the Lnrd Mayor
for the purpose of craving his Lordship's assistance in her
most deplorable extremity. The applicant had, she said, re-
sided in the family of the Rev. J. Lowry, of Armagh, in the
county of Tyrone, Ireland, for fifteen years, and had by gre
economy during that period, and for some time ixeviously, con-
trived to save the sum of 7501., which was transmitted fo her
from the bank at Armagh, through Messrs. Spooner and
Attwood's house, and which she received in one note of 5001.,
one note of 200/., and one note of 50/. Being determined to
place the whole of the money in the English funds, she deposited
them in her pocket inclosed in a pocket-book, and got into an
omnibus at Hammersmith, where she resides, for the pur-
pose of calling upon a broker in the City to purchase the
stock. When she was about to leave the omnibus, however,
she discovered that her clothes had been cut, and her pocket-
book stolen. As soon. as she was able, after the shock, she
called at the banking-house of Messrs. Spooner and Attwood,
who informed her of the numbers of the notes, which she forth-
with communicated to the Bank of England; but she heard
no intelligence of their presentation until the lath instant,
when she was told that the 5001. note was in the hands of Mr.
Bolt, the bullion•dealer, in Cheapside, who had received it
from a house in Paris, where it was changed a few days before.
She also learned that the other notes of which she had bt en
robbed, were changed in Paris:
The following is the answer of the money-broker in Paris,
into whose hands the note for 5001. passed after the robbery,
to Mr. Flower, of Moorgate-street .
" Paris, April 20, 1842.
" Replying to your favour of the 16th instant, I purchased the
note for 5001., I think, on the 12th of April ; but I do not know
the person from whom I received it; but it strikes me that it
was of a Monsieur, of about thirty-seven years of age, of good
manners, and of respectable appearance. I think I caused him
to write his name on the back of the note, which you can ascer-
tain. When these notes were lost, you should have sent me a
list of the numbers; I should then have known how to have
acted. 1 remember when this note was presented to me, and
consulted all the advices I had received of lost notes, but none
agreeing with your number, I purchased it without hesitation.
I regret it is not in my power to afford you more information.
(Signed) " V. EMERIQUE."
The LORD MAYOR asked the poor woman whether she had
any notion of the identity of the persons who sat near her in the
omnibus in which she was robbed ?—She replied, that she had
nut the slightest knowledge who they were.
His Lordship, after communicating with John and Daniel
Forrester, the officers, who stated that bank notes of consider.
able amount, obtained in the manner in which the applicant's
property had been obtained, were regularly taken ever to the
continent and sold, and thus all possibility of tracing was re-
moved, told the unfortunate woman that he had not the slightest
expectation of succeeding in procuring the restoration of the
bank notes, the amount of which was no doubt divided by this
time between tke thieves who watched and followed her into
the omnibus. .

The applicant said that she was now completely destitute,
after having worked and economised all her life for the purpose
of falling back upon her savings in her old age.
The Loan MAYos declared that he would most willingly
receive subscriptions for a poor object, who was plunged in so
pitiable a condition by her ignorance of the ways of the town,
and hoped that the press would give the details of this
must lamentable case.