The Sun.
London, England, 1829-11-19 00:00:00

CASE OF MR. ANDREWS.

We gave some time ago an account of the adven-
tures of an Irishman, who, having arrived in Paris
in June last, without knowing the language, was
conducted to a house of ill-fame, and there was kept
till his expellees amounted to 1,500 francs (or 601.),
about 450 of which were for champagne. In this
abode, or at his ledgingss to which he was brought
in a state of intoxication, he lost bank-notes to a
much huger amount, fig the stealing of which Begin
(his landlord) and his wife are about to receive their
sentence. Andrews, who comes forward, not as a
criminal prosecutor, but as a civil party, demanding
his property, appeared on Friday before the Court
of Assizes to prefer his claim. His entrance into
the Court is said to have excited a lively curiosity.
He is described as a man about forty, a merchant,
usually residing in London,—a man of spare figure,
of bent form., trembling on long and thin legs, and
apparently worn out by long excesses. He passel
the hall in the midst of all the spectators, whose
looks were directed upon him, without any indica-
tion that his temper or his phlegm was in the least
disturbed. Ile took his place beside his advocate,
M. Theodore Perrin. The President interrogated
separately the husband and wife Begin, who de-
clared that they only obeyed the .commands of Mr.
Andrews in depositing in the hands of third parties
some of the money which this Irishman freely spent
with them for his own pleasure. They !elated some
of the occurrences which took place on the occasion
of his entering the house. He arrived about mid-
night on the 7th of June, with a woman of
the town called the Polish girl. He sat up
and drank till two o'clock in the morning;
Begin was afraid that he would not pay : but the
Polish girl said, " Fear nothing.; it is I that pay ;
that is my man here." Begin added that Andrews
stayed voluntarily at her house; that she registered
his arrival, received his passport and a roll of paper,
which she afterwards found was bank-notes. An-
drews went down in the middle of the night to
search for —, and it was said that he was run-
ning off; but the landlady brought him back. In
the morning he spoke of his notes. Begin showed
them to him. They amounted to 67,000 francs in
11 notes. The Irishman wished to change one of
them for 1,000 francs. Begin said that he went
with it to aM. Dagiucourt, to get it changed. The
latter having jested with him on the subject of his
wealth, received. for answer, that the Irishman offer-
ed the note for Begirt's daughter. Dagiricourt on
this consented to change some of the notes, but two
days afterwards returned in company with his
brother-in-law, a M. Boursier, to say that the notes
were stolen. Andrews was then heard,:who re-
counted the story of his meeting with time woman of
the town—described how he was carried to Begin's
—how after dinner, he could with difficulty walk—
how he was kept at Begin's against his will—how
he was deprived of his clothes, and compelled to
exchange bank-notes for 50,000 francs, of which he
was robbed to the amount of 17,500. The Presi-
dent of the Court asked Mr. Andrews why he did
not not call out of the window ? The plaintiff re-
plied, because he wished to escape without being
known (making use of the word reconnaisance, which
means gratitude for being known). Various wit-
nesses were then examined ; amongst the rest the
prostitutes who attended the disgusting orgies of
Andrews. The syren, called La Polonaise, who
bewitched Andrews into this den, is 17 years of
age, and is described as being very ugly.
All the other girls were likewise heard. They
declared that they were in the bed-room of the
plaintiff ; and M. Begin attested that he saw them
grouped round his bed.
The PRESIDENT (to Begin)—Were you a wit-
ness to these infamies ?—Not altogether.
These women mentioned that Begin paid them
by the orders of Andrews, who allowed that he had
seen several of them in the house, though he de-
clared that he had no intercourse with any of them.

Newer did the Court of Assize listen to such dis-
gusting details—to such accounts of depravity. The
Commissary of Police of the quarter being examined
declared that Begin's Louse waa one of the most
frightful in his district.

Begin expl.dned his cons'ant attendance on An-
drews, by declaring that he was afraid the Irishman
would cut his throat, if he sound an opportunity by
being left alone. Andrews often said, " I shall he
to-morrow at the Morgue. `Vail yott come and see
me at the Morgue," (a place where dead bodies are
exposed, in order to be recognized and claimed)
After hearing the Advocates on both sides, with
the summing up of the Judge, the prisoners, Begin
and his wife, were condemned to five years' impri-
sonment, and the restitution of Andrews's property.

SUICIDE OF THE REV. W.M.
This unhappy gentleman, who, our readers will woollect,
was tried and convicted at the Summer Assizes of 1827,
before the Chief Baron 01G4 ,any, of having fired at the
Rev. Dr. CoLlaNs, of Skibbereen, with inttnt to kill hilt',
and upon whom s,ntonce of death was recorded, but who
was subsequently respited, in consequence of labouring un-
der insanity, was found this morning by the turnkey Fa,-
perded front one of the window-bars of his wit, with a
sienicr string of the tick of his bed tied about his neck.
A Coroner's inquest %las to hare Imo hdd Cur)
Sotohfrn Rerrter of aViuday.