The Sun.
London, England, 1829-07-06 00:00:00

➢IARLBOROU Gil-STREET.

At a late hour on Thursday evening, two women,
named Mary and Ann Delany, mother and Baugh-
ter, and a young man, named Thomas Phillipps, were
brought, in custody of Goddard the officer, before
Mr. CONANT, the res;dent Magistrate, charged with
being concerned in an extensive robbery, committed
at the house of Lady Charles Bentinck, No. 1,
North-row, Park-lane.

Ladyßentinck)eft town some months ago, leav-

ing her house in the hands of an agent, to be let for
six months, during her Ladyship's absence, and
leaving the female prisoner, Ann Delany, as her only
servant, in charge of it, or rather to remain in it
until let. The house was soon disposed of to a gen-
tleman named Macnamara, from Wales, who conti-
nued to occupy it until a few days ago, when Lady
Bentinck was to return, and the prisoner, Ann De-
lany, was also suffered by Mr. Macnamara to remain

in the house while he occupied it. On Wednesday
last Lady Bentinck arrived in town, at her house,
and soon discovered that during her absence her
wardrobe had been forced open, and her gold watch,
value 100 guineas, and other articles of jewellery,
such as diamonds, topazes, &c. to a considerable
amount in value, had been carried off; her Ladyship
also missed from the house various paintings, chiefly
portraits of herself, Lord Byron, and other friends,
painted by her Ladyship's own hand, and several
other articles of property, and upon this discovery,
Goddard, the officer, was sent for. On questioning
the girl Ann Delany, the officer had occasion to sus-
pect her, and on being taken into custody, and
closely urged on the sultject, she admitted that she
had taken the things, but that she was urged to it by
Phillipps, who was the servant of Mr. Mac-
namara who had occupied the house, and she ad-
Mitted farther that the articles she stole were at her
mother's house, to whose care she had intrusted
them. Goddard then went to the mother, the other
female prisoner, Mary Delany, and there, after a
great deal of denial and prevarication, the latter
gave up to him a box containing all the jewels except
the watch, and which she had concealed under a
heap of coals in the cellar. The watch, however,
she denied all I:nowlege of, as did also the daughter;
the officer found also in the house the paintings
that had been stolen, and brought them away; he
also discovered in the house a large collection of
valuable books, which it appeared had belonged to
the late Dr. Hill, of London-street, Fitzroy-square,
in whose service the girl Ann Delany, it seems, had
lived up to the Doctor's death, and for some time
after was continued in charge of the house, until it
was disposed of. There was a great quantity of
house-linen besides found in the old woman's house,
of a quality that never could have belonged to her,
with the marks evidently picked carefully from the
whole.

Having lodged the two female prisoners in safe
custody, the officer preceeeded next in search of the
young man PhiHipps, and succeeded in catching him
within five minutes of the time that he was to set
off to join his master, Mr. Macnamara, who had
already gone off some days to his residence in Wales,
leaving the prisoner to follow him.

The young man, however, positively denies that
he had any thing to do with the robbery, directly or
indirectly, or that he in any way instigated the girl
Ann Delany, as she had represented, to commit the
offence.

Lady Bentinck attended before the Magistrate,

and identified the articles of jewellery, &c., produced
as her property. A pair of gold shoe buckles, pro-
duced, her Ladyship identified as belonging to Lord
Charles Bentinek, although the old woman Delany
told the officer that they were given to her by a re-
lation many years ago.
The prisoners were all remanded for re-examina-
tion on Tuesday next.

LAMBETH-STREET.
Eliza Briggs and Thomas Briggs, her father,
were finally examined, charged, the former with
having, so far back as the 12th April, 1819, robbed
her mistress, Mrs. Eliza Taylor, of 651. and a jewel-
case containing trinkets of diamonds, pearls, &c.;
and the latter with having instigated her to the com-
mission of the robbery and having received its pro-
duce. A short time since the male prisoner took a
warrant out against a member of his family for as-
saulting him; and suspecting that the female pri-
soner would give evidence on behalf of her brother,
which would invalidate his complaint, he went to
Christian, a constable at Stepney, and informed him
that his daughter had been concerned in the robbery
at Mrs. Taylor's, and admitted that he had himself
received its produce. The officer, although dis-
gusted with the profligacy of a father being the in-
former against his own child, and that too on a
charge that affected her life, took her into custody;
land on applying to Mrs. Taylor found that the in-
! formation was too correct, and that the robbery had
actually taken place at the time and place mentioned
to him. The father was subsequently apprehended.
Mrs. Taylor stated, that on the 12th of April,
1819, the female prisoner pretended that thieves had
broken into the house, and on the premises being
searched, the property above stated was missed.—
The constable proved the confession made by both
prisoners, and they were committed.