The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-05 00:00:00

BOW-STREE7.

POST-OFFICE ROBBERIES.—ROBBERY BY A LET
TER-CARRIER.—A respectably-attired man, named
Win. Brown, late a letter-carrier in the employ of
the General Post-office, was charged with stealing a
letter, containing 1/. 3s. 6d.
Mr. Peacock, solicitor to the Post-office, attended
on behalf of the Post-office, and Mr. Clarkson, ap-
peared for the prisoner.
Mr. John Hail deposed that the prisoner was the
letter-carrier employed for the delivery of letters in the
district of the Temple. Having heard complaints of
the non-delivery of certain letters in that district,
witness, who is an Assistant Inspector at the Post-
office, inclosed a sovereign, a half-crown, and a shil-
ling, all of which coin he privately marked, in a let-
ter, on the 30th ult., and addressed it to "Mr. Bowers,
at F. Thesiger, Esq.'s, Temple." 'Witness gave the
letter to Willis Clare, a sub sorter, at the Post-office.
That letter never arrived. The prisoner was searched,
and the half-crown was found upon him, which wit-
ness identified as the half.crown that he had inclosed
in the letter. The shilling and sovereign were also
found and identified

A great number of witnesses were called, who
raced the letter in question, from the time when the

last witness delivered it to Willis Clare through the
various departments in the . Post office, and till its
delivery with the other Temple letters to the prisoner.
Other witnesses were also called to prove that the
letter never reached its destination.
Mr. Clarkson cross-examined most of the wit-
nesses, but at the conlusion of the case, he said he was
afraid the evidence before the Court was such that
the prisoner must be committed.
Mr. TWYFORD committed him accordingly.
FORGERY OF MONEY ORDERS BY A CLERK IN THE
POST-OFFICE.—A gentlemanly attired young man,
named James Samuel Brown, (no relation of the last
prisoner) late a clerk in:the money department of the
General Post•office, was then placed at the bar
charged with forging money-orders, under the follow-
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ing circumstances.
Elizabeth Blunden kept a receiving post-office at
Camberwell, and had been in the habit of paying
money-orders. On the 24th of August last received
a letter of advice purporting to come from the post-
office at Sittingbourne, authorising her to pay
39/. 9s. sd. to William Goucher at Peckham, being
on seven orders for Si. each, and one for 4/. 9s. sd.
The prisoner called the following morning, and from
what he stated she gave the money to him. He re-
presented himself to be the person for whom the
money was intended.
Charles Wm. Armstrong, a clerk in the Money-
order-office of the General Post-office, stated that
the prisoner had been for some time a fellow clerk of
his. He believed the letter of advice, dated the 23d
of August last, to be in the prisoner's hand-writing,
and not to have been issued by the Sittingbourne
Post-office.

Rowland Jackson identified the writing of the
advice letter to be that of the prisoner's, and proved
that the prisoner was absent from the office on the
25th of August for several hours.
A Post-office constable took the prisoner into cus-
tody, and searched his lodgings at No. 12, Old
Gravel-lane, where he found 651. in notes, 189 sove-
reigns, and ten money-orders.
Mr. Peacock said there were other charges of a
similar character to be brought against the prisoner.
Mr. TWYFORD then remanded him till Friday next.
CLERKENWELL.
Mrs. Charlotte Knight, an independent widow lady,
residing at No. 4, Claremont-place, Pentonville, was
brought up under the following circumstances :
Police Sergeant Cotton, 10 G, said that at half-past
one o'clock on that morning he was conversing with a
brother officer in St. John-street, when the accused
approached him, saying, " Oh, you are the villain, are
you ? You shall not be a policeman much longer, for
I am intimately acquainted with Colonel Rowan." lie
desired her to go home, but she refused and continued
abusing him, so he took her to the station-house and
charged her with being drunk and disorderly.
Defendant—Before you seized me did I not claim
the protection of a lady and gentleman who were
passing? Complainant—Seeing that you were annoy-
ing a lady and gentleman I told you that if you did
not go along I would take you into custody. I swear
that you were drunk ; and I did not say as you were
passing that I knew you well—You were just come
from Wallbank s.

Maddocks, 40 G, deposed that he was with Cot-
ton ; that the defendant when addressing the lady
and gentleman went close to them, leaving witness
and Cottyn some yards behind, and that the latter did
not in any way interfere with her until she had
stopped at the door of the lady and gentleman, and
refused to go on. Defendant certainly implored wit-
ness to save her from being injured when the sergeant
seized hold of her. She was much excited and ap-
peared to have been drinking. The defendant, in
reply to the charge, said the sergeant grossly abused
abuse her as she passed, and, with a view of having
his conduct investigated, she said she would take his
number ; at this instant a lady and gentleman came
up, and she implored their protection. Cotton said,
" if you take my number I'll take you," and imme,
diately pounced upon her with brutal violence, and so
injured and alarmed her that she besought the pastors
by not to allow her to be murdered. Two teen
proffered to see her safe to the stilt'. "
they ere instantly, and on-house ; but
out provocation, felled to
the ground, and " -- •
" Th.-- and ultimately locked up.
and other gentlemen," said the defendant,
"will presently be brought before your Worship,
and you will doubtless hear from them the real
facts of the case." Defendant called in cor-
roboration Mr. Richard Moss, of 65, Hermitage-
place, Clerkenwell, the assistant of Mr. Snow, auc-
tioneer, of Dorset-square. He said that all the par.
ties were strangers to him; that as he was passing the
defendant claimed his protection, saying she had been
much insulted by those policemen, and that Cotton
then said to her, « We know you ; you have just left
Mrs. Wallbankia, and if you talk to people about us