Star.
London, England, 1824-09-17 00:00:00

GUILmIALL.

Romer sr SISRVANTS.—Another lamentallie instance of that
continually recurring offence—robbery by servants upon their em-
ployers—came under the cognizance of Mr. Alderman Scooter,
the Sitting Magistrate at this Justice-room, yesterday.
The prisoner, in this case, was a very tashionably dressed and
gol:teel.looking young man, named lietijamiii Cook, the confidential
warehouseman in the employ of Mr. .1. Marsh, wholesale glover,
Maiden-lane, Wood-street. Some circumstances had come to Mr.
Marsh's knowledge, which led him to suspect that the prisoner
was appropriating to his own use part of the cash that necessarily
cama•iilta his hands, a* it seemed quite certain that his salary could
nut support the extravagant nature of his expenditure ; an investi-
gation into his accounts was the consequence, and the first discovery
was the receipt of a sum of £2 Ids. for which he had never ac-
counted, and which, indeed, be acknowledged he had applied to
his own use. Mr. Marsh having been frequently robbed by his
servants determined at last to make an example. An officer was'
accordingly sent for, who, on searching him, found certain letters,
which indicated an expensive connexion with a frail fair one, anu
as the prmins he had made h:tr were such as were likely to have
originally formed part of Mr. Marsh's stock, the prisoner's lodging*
in London-wall were searched, and there no less than eight amid
thirty pair of French gloves of different descriptions, a pair or two
of silk garters, &c. were found, all cf which Mr. Marsh had no
doubt had been stolen from his warehouse. The depredations from
!:is master were rot, it scents, sufficient to support the connexion
de had formed, fur ro less than fourteen duplicates weir found,
mostly felr wearing apparel, either of his cr the female's.
Mr. Marsh said fur was compelled, in his own defence, to bring
him to punishment, as he was the alith *oilman in SuccessiOn who
had rubbed Iniu.

The prisoner offering no defence, was accordingly renitats‘t g3t,
further erratuivatitui.

MAR I.BORbUGII-STR !MT.

Tuesday a charge appeared entered in S. James's watch book,
against Lady M.rt • Antonia Winnington, for an as It t pon Mr.
Gilbert, a tradesman, in Bond-street ; but ehe fair prisoner nut being
forthcoming, the Magistrate enquired flit. course of fres absenc
when the Constable of the Night Worthiest Ides, char, behaving ti k.
Lady to be-the person she represented herself, he himself eine: tll
into hail, in the usual form, for her appearatice.
The Magistrate said, that, however. oraiseworthy this 21 of
gallantry might lie; unless 1* produced his prisceter, his let ,gni-
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settees would I* in some danger.

To make assurance doubly sure, Mr. Gilbert* notwithstaridirt
the Night-Constable', promise to.produce his prisoner,. took out
warrant against Lady Maria Antonia Winnington ; and, in tii:
course of the day after, Lady Mata Antonia Witaiinlaon. caals „u.
a cross-warrant against Mr. Gilbert, fur art assault and fahe itapri.
Sonment p and, by mutual consent, one o'clock yesterday rre;
pointed to hate both warrants heard.
Mr. Gilbert being first on the list, he was called upon to
charge ; and Lady Maria Antonia Winnington, a person of very
genteel figure, and elegantly dressed, stepped forward, aceompanhi!..
by several friends, to meet her accuser.
Mr. Gilbert said, that the sister of the defendant rents a hoe,.
of his, which, had he known as much as he doea.now, at the tint
he let it to her, she never ehould have occupied; but of
Lady herself he knew nothing whatevet, nor had he ever been her
until about eight o'clock on Monday night, when she came ti' hi.
house, and at being introduced into his office, she c:nintec,.4
abusing him in the most shocking manner, because, as she slid.
intended to dispdssess her sister of the house she held of hits, 4s.it
threatened, if he did so, to annihilate him • at the same time Lot:.
ing het clenched fist in his face. Ile ordered her quietly. to leave
the house, but she still continued to abuse him, andesclectied a mei,
round his door. To avoid her, he walked down hut). Pocczniiiiy,
but .tat? still followed him, with some.man who accompanied her;
and fearing personal danger front both, he gave the Lady into the
custody of a watchman, and charged her at the watch-boooe.
Harrington, a watchman, said that he took charge of the Lily
by the direction of Mr. Gilbert, whom she attempted several anus
to strike, while going to the watch-house; and that the Gen:leo:4l
who was with the Lady at the time, a Mr. Sergeantson, a wine_
merchant, in Pall-mall, endeavoured to rescue her, and she bermi;
offered him (the watchman) a sovereign to her go. This watch-
man said that her Ladyship, whoever she was, was blind drurk
at the time.

Two servants in the house of Mr. Gilbert also spoke to the vio-
lent conduct of the defendant on the evening in question, and her
threats to Mr. Gilbert.

In calling on the defendant for her rerly to this charge, the 'Ala.
gistrate asked her If he should address her as Mrs. Winnington. ur
Lady Winnington?.--She replied, Lady Winnington, certainly,
which neither Mr. Gilbert nor anybody else could deny. She is,
she said, the wife of Sir John %V' • gton.'who has conaucted him-
self in well a manner towards her, by giving the preference to the
society of another Lady, that a suit is pending in the Ecclesiastical
Court for their entire separation, and it is at the instigation of her
husband and this Lady —, that Mr. Gilbert had acted towards
her as he had done. The real circumstances, she said, which oc-
curred on Monday night were these :—Her sister, some time ago,
took a house from a Colonel Monroe, to whom this Mr. Gilbert is
a sort of agent, and receives the rent. For sonic reason or other
they now want a pretext to turn her sister out of the house, as they
teem to repent of the bargain they had made; and although there
is not a farthing rent due until the 49th inst. Mr. Gilbert has been
threatening to take possession of the house. On Mondly evening
she called on Mr. Gilbert to say that the rent would be paid on the
day it became due, by Mr. 3languall, of A Iderniatihury, her Soli-
citor, and therefore not to take any steps against Ler sister ; upon
which Mr. Gilbert flew into a rage, and in the rudest wanner turned,
her out of the house; and not content with this, be followed her
into Piccadilly, for the putpose,as she well knew, of watching where
the resided, to give her husband an opportunity of annoying her.