The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-19 00:00:00

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Mr. James Smithers, inspector of letter carriers, said, that 1
in consequence of what he heard from the last witness, he
watched the prisoner into the water-closet. Witness then
got on a step, by which he was enabled to see that the pri-
soner had a letter in his band, and haviifg asked him what
he was doing with it, he said " nothing.' He then came
out of the apartment, and the letter turned out to be di-
rected to the " Secretary of the Wilts, Somerset, and Wey-
mouth Railway Company, 449, Strand," upon which a con-
stable was sent for, to whom he was given in charge. After
the other carriers had gone away, the prisoner sent for wit-
ness, and told him that he did not intend to do anything
with the letter he held in his hand, but it was a mis-sorted
one which he happened to have about him. The letter was
torn near the seal when taken from the prisoner, and as it
was not in his delivery, he should not have had it in his pos-
session. It appeared to contain coin with the stamp of eight
o'clock on Monday evening, the time at which it should have
been sent out. _ _ _

Mr. George Willis, a clerk in the railway-office, having
opened the letter, found that it contained the transfer deeds
of conveyance for ten shares, with a half sovereign on ac-
count as fees. _

The prisoner said that when any letters were mis-sorted,
it was customary to take them back to the sorters, and that
was his intention when the letter was taken from his hand,
which had not been broken open ; besides, what was seen in
his hand when he left the office was not a letter, but a bit of
waste paper.
lie was ordered to be remanded.

Francis Cope, another letter-carrier, was next charged with
stealing three letters.
Matthew Peake, a constable employed in the General Post-
office, stated that on Monday night, abcut seven o'clock, he
went to the Paddington branch-office, where he met the pri-
soner, and having searched him, he found a small tobacco-
box, containing secret springs, which he desired him to open,
at the same time asking him what was inside, upon which
he replied " two letters," and having set the hands of the
springs, it was opened, and contained a letter torn into pieces.
Witness then proceeded with him to search his lodgings,
No. 8, St. John's Wood-terrace, and having asked him on the
way what letters were in the tobacco-box, he replied that
one contained a sovereign, and the other, which was only
addressed to .a servant girl, nothing. He was then asked if
the sovereign found upon him was inclosed in the letter, and
he said " yes." On searching the tobacco-box at the sta-
tion, a letter was found addressed " Jane Stagg, St. John's
Wood-terrace, Regent's Park, 75 ;" and also the fragments of
a letter, addressed " Mr. Bastin, at Mrs. Harris's, No. 2,
Wellington-place, St. John's Wood-road, near the chapel,
London."

Mr. Cole, after corroborating the evidence of the last wit-
ness, said that the letter addressed to Jane Stagg bore the
London stamp of the 11th, five o'clock in the evening, and
the other the 17th, which would in the course of business, be
forwarded to the chief office at ten o'clock in the morning.

George Harper, principal change taker at Paddington
branch-office, said that the prisoner had been an auxiliary
about twelve months. The letter addressed to the female

Stagg would have arrived at the branch office about twenty
minutes past seven o'clock in the evening of the 11th, and
the other about ten o'clock in the morning. The prisoner
assisted in sorting letters on Monday, and the last letter
which was not in his delivery might have come into his pos-
session through mis-sorting ; but in that-case it was his duty
to have brought it back to the office, and have the words
" taken out by mistake," written upon it.
Mr. Bastin proved that the letter produced was addressed
to him by his sister, Mrs. Matilda Kemp, of Wood Hill, near
Grantham, and contained a sovereign.
Eliza Vale said that she wrote the other letter to Jane
Stagg, containing a piece of paper with directions from her
mistress upon it.
The prisoner, who said nothing in his defence, was ordered
to be remanded.
The prisoner was again charged with stealing another
letter containing money.
It appeared from the evidence, that a letter containing a
marked sovereign, a shilling and a sixpence, was addressed
by Mr. Walter Culthrope, a president of the General Post-
office, to a Miss M'Kensie, of St. John's Wood, and although
another letter was delivered on the same evening by the
prisoner at the same house, nothing was heard of the letter
in question. the contents of which were found upon his per-
son. He was again ordered to be remanded upon this charge.
THE ALBERT ELASTIC STOCK.—Thomas Smith, of No. 4,
King William-street, Strand, appeared on a summons, to
show cause why he was in possession of a quantity of elastic
stocks, the property of Mr. Edward Joseph Weston, well
knowing the same to have been stolen.

Mr. Wontner appeared to prefer the complaint, and Mr.
Gale for the defence.

The case occupied the Court many hours, and it appeared
from the testimony of several witnesses that the complainant,
who had purchased the patent of the articles in question
from Messrs. Hughes, of Holborn, observed, on passing
through Duncannon-street, Strand, some elastic stocks in a
window, and as they resembled his own manufacture, he
sent a friend to make a purchase, and on opening the article,
having found that it not only corresponded in every particu-
lar with his patent, but that the materials were composed of
his property, be applied to this Court for a search warrant,
which was granted, and the man in attendance in the shop
was given in charge. The name of Thomas and Co. WWI
over the door, and it being ascertained that the concern be-
longed to the defendant, who kept an ale store in George-
street, Adelphi, and was also an advertising agent for news-
papers, a summons was issued for his appearance. The com-
plainant had a lad named Pierce in his shop in the Strand up
to the month of May last ; but was obliged to part with him
in consequence of a large deficiency in the stock ; and his
mother also managed another establishment for the com•
plainant in Holborn ; with both of whom the defendant was
on the most intimate terms, and after the discharge of the
youth, had been known to have frequently visited the
mother at the house in Holborn, who was also discharged for
malpractices.
On the part of the defendant it was proved, that the de-
fendant employed a person in Brownlow street, Drury-lane,
to manufacture the goods, amounting to about fourteen
dozens of springs for stocks, produced, which being stripped
of the satin, turned out to be correct, with the exception of
one, the pattern of which was furnished by another person
not connected with the complainant ; but the other materials,
such as lining, India rubber, &c., were identified by the com-
plainant as his property.
Mr. JARDINE Said that the case was the first which came

under his notice under the particular clause in the Police Act,
and, therefore, he considered it necessary to pay the greater
attention to it. The defendant must have known he was
possessing himself from time to time of stolen property. Had
the case, which was of a very grave nature, been investigated
by him on a former occasion, it might have been sent to
another Court, but he would prefer dealing with it in a sum-
mary manner by sending the defendant to hard labour for six
weeks, and the goods to be delivered up to the complainant.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A RICH BEGGAR.—An aged countryman, in a smock frock,
was seen by Bostock, one of the Mendicity Society's officers,
to beg of various persons in Oxford-street, on Monday after-
noon. His venerable appearance and seeming poverty
attracted general sympathy, and he had alms bestowed on
him by charitable passers-by, whose condition appeared to be
but a shade better than his own. Bostock took the old man
into custody, brought him to this Court, and, according to
the usual practice, proceeded to search him, to ascertain if
he had any property about him. The old man suddenly shook
off the infirmities of age, and made such a vigorous resist-
ance, that it took the united strength of six persons to over-
power him. He was at last subdued, and the search com-
menced. In a pocket in the smock frock the officers found two
pounds in copper money. In a pocket in his clothes they found
between two and three pounds in silver money, and in his
wallet, which formed a sort of capacious trousers pocket, they
found concealed among potatoes, bacon, bread, and provi-
sions sufficient for three or four persons, a small bag which
contained sixty-four sovereigns and half sovereigns.
The amount of money found on the old impostor ex-
ceeded 691.
The defendant gave the name of Jesse Grover, and stated
that he was a native of Hemel Hempstead. He said the
money was his own, he had saved it out of the wages of his
labour, and he declared that he had never begged a penny
from any body.
Mr. MALTBY sent the defendant to prison for a month, as a
rogue and vagabond, and directed that a portion of the
money found on him should be applied to cover the expenses
of his maintenance in prison.
QUEEN-SQUARE.

UNPROVOKED MURDEROUS ASSAULTS —Thomas Howard,
a powerful fellow, was charged before Mr. Bond with a suc-
cession of assaults of the most desperate character.
There were no less than four distinct charges of feloniously
assaulting and wounding clearly proved against the accused,
independently of another in which the injured man could not
be found.
Henry Tyne, a labourer, stated that on the evening of the
21st of last July, he went in company with three other
men into the Colville Arms, King's-road, Chelsea, where he
saw the prisoner, who on his entering the room immediately
asked him if he would fight, and on his refusal declared he
would knock him down. Prisoner then advanced towards
him and struck him on the head with his hand, and then,
seizing a quart pot from the table, threw the beer it con-
tained away, and gave him a violent blow on the bead with
the pot, which felled him to the ground, and whilst in that
defenceless condition the prisoner kicked him desperately in
the eye. The blow the prisoner inflicted with the pot cut
his head open, and it was found necessary to take him im-
mediately to the hospital.
James Foreman, another labourer, after confirming the
account given by the last witness, said that on going to his
assistance when on the ground, prisoner gave him, without
the least provocation, a desperate blow on the head with a
quart pot, which knocked him down. He got up and de-
fended himself as well as he could, until he became senseless
from the loss of blood. The wound in his head was five inches
long, and he also received a very severe injury in the back.
He was taken to the hospital, where he remained ten weeks,
and never expected that he should get up again. Witness,
on concluding his statement. said, •' I was so injured, that I
shall never be the man I was before."

Jesse Taylor said that on seeing Tyne on the ground, and
the prisoner kicking him in the head, he went to pick him
up, when the accused knocked him down with the quart pot,
and kicked him with such fearful violence as to dislocate his
shoulder. Witness on partially recovering was about to
leave the place, when the prisoner rushed into the coon with
an axe in his hand, which was fortunately taken from him
by a man who stood by his side.
Benjamin Goodal said he was in the street advancing to-
wards the house, when the prisoner struck him a violent
blow with his fist, which knocked him down. He then threw
two large flint stones at him, which cut his head open, and he
was also conveyed to the hospital, where he remained for a
montb, and was afterwards an out-patient for five weeks.
He never spoke to the prisoner before he struck him.
James Cobbetts, foreman over the men emploped in making
a sewer in the King's-road, proved the dreadful condi-
tion in which he found the victims of prisoner's brutality.
On hearing that some of his men had been treated with
great violence, he went into the Colville Arms, and found
three of them on the floor, weltering in their blood. He
immediately put them in a cart, and had them driven to the
hospital.
In the course'of a long, rambling story, prisoner said that
Tyne wanted to fight, and lifted his hand as though he would
strike, when he (prisoner) gave him a blow with his hand,
and after that he took his part as well as he could.
. .

Mr. BOND committed him for trial on the whole of the
above charges at the Central Criminal Court.

WORSHIP-STREET.

James Harrison and William Edwards, alias Setter, were

brought up for final examination, on suspicion of having
been concerned in breaking into and robbing the house of
Mr. Roper, one of the parochial guardians of Hackney; and
in several other burglaries committed in the same neighbour-
hood. Two other men, who gave their names Samuel
Trindle and John setter, were now placed at the bar with
thou, before Mr. Greenwood.
The two first-mentioned prisoners were apprehended on
the morning after the burglary, at Mr. Roper's, by Inspector
Cooper, who found upon them several pieces of wax taper,
one of which appeared to be the counterpart of a piece left
by the robbers at Mr. Roper's. Upon one of them also was
found a piece of prepared liver, calculated to entice and
silence watch-dogs, and a similar piece had been found upon
Mr. Roper's premises.
A fresh charge was now stated of a burglary committed at
the house of Mr. Sewell, Dalston-rise, early in the morning i
after the burglary at Mr. Roper's, and a few hours only be-.
fore the two first-named prisoners were taken into custody.
James 511uulers, gardener, iz the peryice of Ir, gimp,