Star.
London, England, 1826-05-09 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Mr. Colrain., the Magistrate, was yesterday occupied for a con-
sidetabk time in the private room of this office, in tne investigation
of a case which involved the sudden and mysterious disappearance
of two valuable gold watches and their appeudages, the property of
Sir William Jolliffe, Bart. and his Lady.
It appeared by the statement of Sir William JoUiffe, who with
his Lady is at present residing in a house in Brook-street, Grosvenor
Square, belonging to Mr. Mivart, who keeps the hotel in the same
street, that on Sunday morning he (Sir William) laid his told re-
peater, which he had been in the habit of wearing, on the table in
his bedroom, as he could not that day wear it, he having had occa-
sion to put on mourning, and the watch having a red and white
ribbon attached to it, but used in its stead for the day, a silver
watch, to which there was a black riband. Lady Jolliffe generally
laid her watch, after wearing it in the morning, on the table in
the bed room also; so that on Sunday it happened that both
watches, gold repeaters, were laid there, side by side, and in
that situation they were seen so late as five o'clock. At
about ten o'clock, however, at night, it was discovered that both
watches, as they had kept each other company on the table all the
evening, had gone somewhere else to keep company fur the night ;
in short, they had disappeared, and nobody could give any account
of them, nor have they been since heard of. Under these circum-
stances, Sir William made the case known at this office, and
Scofield, the officer, was employed to inquire into the matter,
hut he has not been able to throw any light upon the affair.—
Sir William and his Lady were quite at a loss whom to rest
their suspicions on not knowing of any person who had access
to the room where the watches were, except Lady Jollife's
waiting-maid, of whom they entertained the best opinion.—
The officer, however, ascertained that on Sunday this young woman
bad bad some persons to visit her in Brook-street, and he found out
who those persons were—namely, a very respectable young female
and her brother, residing in the neighbourhood. Those two persons
attended yesterday before the Magistrate, as did the young woman
herself, Lady Jolliffe's maid.
The latter was first questioned by the Magistrate, in the absence
of the other two. She acknowledged that she had been visited on
Sunday by the young female in question, but not by any young man
whatever.

The young man was next questioned, and he said that he accom-
panied his sister to whit Lady Jolliffe's maid on Sunday, and that
the latter took them up into Lady Jolliffe's bed and dressinkrooma,
and showed them all her Ladyship's collection of jewels, Ecc. but he
saw nothing of the watches.

Lady Jorliffe's maid being again questioned, admitted that the
young man had ascompanied his sigter on her visit, and that she
had shown them upstairs to the bed-room.
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Sir William Julliffe expressed himself highly indignant at tie
girl's conduct, particularly her falsehoods; but his opinion of her
honesty seemed unchanged, and nothing further was done in the
matter, no person being in custody on the subject.