The Sun. — 1846-12-01 (London, England)

THAMES.  Edward Lock, alias Laughton, alias Locklee, a man about 30 years of age, described in the police. sheet as a theatrical hosier, was charged with breaking out of the dwelling-house of Messrs. Martin and Co., linendrapers, Whitechapel-road, and stealing money and securities to the amount of 310/. Mr. Pelham stated the case for the prosecution. On Friday night last Mr. Thomas Martin, one of the proscutors, deposited gold to the amount of 35/. in his cash-box, below which he placed securities and I 0 U's to the amount of 2251. more. The box was placed, as usual, for security in a desk in the counting-house, a small room in the shawl department, at the rear of the premises. On the following morning, at six o'clock, Mr. Martin's attention was directed to the state of his shop and the fastenings. The street door was open, the box of the lock was off, and two bolts had been drawn back. There were two locks on the shop door, and both had been removed. On further search he ascertained that the cashier's desk in the shop had been forced open, and the slide of the drawer or till forced away. The counting-house door was not made fast on Friday night, because the lock was out of repair. The desk appeared to be all right at the first glance, but some chips on the floor caused Mr. Martin to institute a more rigid examination, and he soon discovered that the bottom of the desk had been cut away, and the cash-box and its contents removed through the aperture, without disturbing the lid of the desk at all. There was a pane of glass taken out of the window at the back of the counting-house, where the thief had entered from a lobby, and, after removing the bottom of the desk and stealing the cash box, he found no difficulty in retreating by the door into the shop, in an opposite direction, and left the premises by the street-door. A ball of v,ax was, inserted between the door and the door-sill,which caused it to stick fast after it was slammed to on the exit of the burglar. The police constable of the beat pushed against the door several times during the night, while going his rounds, and it appeared to be fastened in the customary way. The suspicions against the prisoner were founded upon circumstantial evidence.  After some further evidence, the prisoner said he was not in Printing-house-square on Friday night, but this assertion was negatived by Mr. Tipper, who said the prisoner did not sleep at home on Friday night. On searching the boxes of the prisoner the police-constables found three files and a knife. They also found in his sister's room a mask and a hammer. A piece of the wood cut from the desk was produced, and the indentations upon it corresponded with the size of the hammer head. None of the cash, bills, &c., had been traced. The solicitor requested a remand for a week. His request was acceded to, and the prisoner was remanded till Monday next. Charles IVoohnore was charged with committing a murderous assault on two police-constables, named John Earl, 13 0, and Hugh M'Kallan, 47 K. After hearing evidence, Mr. BRODERIP sentenced the prisoner to one month's imprisonment for each assault, the last sentence to commence at the expiration of the first.  THE TICKET Sv STEidl.