Police.
The Times, 1824-03-15T00:00:00

:'AUStON.tI'OUSE...George IfWalhen, who h;s undergone seve. ral examinations before the LOR D MAYOII, tipon the charge of hav. ing stolen bank-notes to the amount of 4,2001. out of the banking- house of !lMessrs. Lloyd and Jones, of Lnthbury, wvas on Saturday brought up for Sinal examination. AIr. ANDRE WS, for the prisoner contended, that the evidence whlcl had alreatly been stated to the publi was not sufficient to ground a commitnment to prison upon; and asked, whether therewas any further evidence to be produced. If notf he should call for the discharge of his clicnt. The counsel for illessrs. Lloyd and Jones admitted that they had no further evidence, and. that the case ought not to be submitted to a jury. His clients had received the stroniest assurances from re- spectable quarters, that it was impossible tle prisoner couild be the person wo stole the notes; that he waS, at tie time of the robbery in a niost helpless and deplorable state oe health and wholly incapable ot miaking the desperate effort descrbed by tiie clerks, and thal his character was. up to the moment of his apprehension, iin. exceptionable. Besides, the evidence which lad been given was not, of itself, and uncontradicted by any other satements, sufficientlY strong, considering the great lapse of tinre since the robbery was conumitted and the present inyestiga!ion. Under suchi cir- curnstances, AI essrs. Lloyd attn Jones thltugnit it incumbent upon thlem to drop all thooghts of prosecuting the prisoner. Mlr. Boucher, one of' the zentlemen of the Lord Mavor's house. hs3dI said lie remnembered Ithe prisoner many years to be respectable, .,nd that he was at the tine of the robberv about the town apparent- ly in a tdying state. The Loitti) AYOR, ipon these representations, said he believed the best course he could adopt would be to disclharge the prisoner. The prisoner was accordingly discharied. Bow-sTREEFr.-On Saturday Vhonzas Frederic Kreese, andI Elizsbrcth ilarriet Krcesc, his wife were brought up for re-exanmi- attons, charged on suspicion of having stolen a large quantity of va- lu:tble jewels, &c., in thie dwelling-house of Mrs. Keighlev, an aged wildow lady, residing at No. lIP, Upper Harley-street, Cavendish- square. The cirtunnstances attending this robbery, and the capture ot the prisoners, are very singular. The female prisoner was house- keeper to Msrs. Keighle'y for more than 18 vears, and was so much in lier confidence that every thing was intrusted to her care. About four yearrs ago she became acquainted with the prisoner, T. F. Kreese. who was at that tine a translator of foreigu languages, and was miuch respected in his profession. He was a poet, too, it is said, anct wrote niany songs, which have been set to music ; and in per. sonal appearance be had much the advantage ot' the young woman. She is rather a good-looking thougll{ diminuitive per- son, and her face is defonned by an unsightly scar, extend- ing fron the left eve across th,e cheek, and dividing the upper lip. But, nevertheless, they married ; and it would appear that ailmost iaimediatcly after they cmmenced that sysiem or plunder which has brought thes into their present predicament-the oppor. tumtity of plundering being afforded them by the young woman con- tiluing in her situiation. Mrs. .eighley was possessed of some very costly Jewels, wvhich she has not sed tor many years, and they wevre deposited in a casket. sealed with her own seal ; and there were other valuable trinkeis intrusted to the care of the young woman. In the beginining of November last year she abrtptly left Mrs. Keighley's service, and after her departure that lady having occas on to open the sealed casket, discovered that a'diamond cross and neck- lace na. been taken out of it. Theinpression of the sea., however,was pertfect and unbroken, so that it was evident the robbery mnust have been effected by some person whohad accessto the seal witih which that irnpression was made, and had thereforethenmeansof replacing the im- pression after havingaccomplishedtheirpurpose; and,asno orebutthe femaleprisoner hadaccesstoit,she was suspected oftherobbery.There were many other articles of value missed after this discovery, and in- forannti,nof the circumstances having been laid before the magis- trates, Salmon, Qne of the principal officers of this establishment, was uireeted to inquire intothem. Hesetaboit it immediately, and was fortunate enough to discover the reater part of the property pedged with diflferent pawnbrokers in London; but he was not so torunate in dliscovering rthe supposedc robbers. He ascertained that they were gone to the continent, though to what par, of itremained a inystery ; however, lie set out in putsuit of. the;n, and after search. ing fur tnem in D)uinkirk, Lisle, and Antwerp, he ascertained that they wvere living in Brussels ; btit the Authorities at the Hague re- fused to sanction their apprehension, he being furnislhe(I only with a -Mazistrate'& warrant. He therefore returned to Eniglandl tbr at Judnges warrant, but in order to procure this, it was necessarv to indict the parties. TheY were indicted accordinglv ; the grand tiry returned a true hill against them, and thereupon the Lord Chitf 'VnStice of the King's Bencdl issued his warrant for their apprehen- sion. Armeid with this instrument, and accompanie(r bv Winr. Smith, a trusty patrol, Salnon once more proceeded to the flague wvhere the;.Vinfster of Justice, and the Commissary of Police, duly authorized him to take tlie parties into custodv, and carry them to Enmglanmd; and they also appointed a ,endar,ae to assist him. He im:nediately proceeded to Biussels, and after a short seaich he found thc woman in an obseure lodging in tlat city, in a state of great poverty. When Salnon enteredl the room, she was washing a few raFgedu articles of under dress; andl upon hlis asking her where her tdusbanti was, shie burst into tears, and told him her husband hal deserted her ten days befosre-he was gone, she knew not where; he had left lier -wvithout the slightest means of subsistence, and during the last three days she had been almost entirely without food. Diligent search was made after her tusband in Brussels, but with. oLit effect, and eventually Salmon set out on his return to Englan(d with tie wife. On reaching Ostend, they stopped at the London liotel, on the Grand Quay, kept by an Englishman named Cocks intending to wait there until the wind should serve for their passage| to England. The female prisoner was placed in an upper room of the house, under the care of WVilliam Sr..ith and the gentdarmne asid the saine evening, as Salmon was sitting in one of the parlours on the ground floor, ne saw the liusbaiid go along the passage with a candle in his hand, as if ietiring to bed. Salmon instantlv followed him up stairs into his bcd-room. and there challenged him as the person he had been in pursutit of Thomas Frederic Kreese, but he said his namne was Stevens, a4d (ienied thathie wasa married man, or that lie had been in England during the last ti years. The officer weas puzzleda little, forthe description of Kreese's person with wlhicl lie waS farnishe(i was very imperfect, and therefore, in order to as- certain the fact, he sent to WVm. Smith and thegendarme to bring the female prisoner into gte room. This stratageem decided themat- tecr at once, for the poor woman no sooner saw the detained person t:in slie exclaimed, "Oh ! my dear Thomas !" and rushing for- wards she threw her arms round( his neck and wept. He then ad- nmitted at once that he was her husband, and that his name was Thomas Frederic Kreese: and thereupon Salmon brought then both samely to England. He arrived in London with them on Wed. nesday evening last. In the evening they were brought before the Magistrate, anid by him committed until. the parties prosecuting should have notice of their arrival. On Sitrurday they were again brought up, when Tios. Keighley. Esq., or' Harpcndtn, Hertfordshire, step-son to Mrs. Keeighley, of H arlev,street, attended on her belialf, and stated that she was too much indi-posed to appear before the imsagistrate at present. 'I'he gold repeater was prodised by a Mr. Baddeley, shopman to Mr. Do3bree, the pawnbroket, in Oxford.street, who deposed that he received it in pledhge from the prisoner Mlrs. Kreese, with wlhose person he was well acquainted, having often advanced her money upon various kinds orproperty within the last four years. Several other pawnbrokers produtced a variety of different articles whichl hadl been pledged with them bv the female prisoner, and the persons of both prisoners being identified, they were fully comnmitted t) Nevwgate for trial. POFICE.