The Sun. — 1860-08-17 (London, England)

MANSION-HOUSE.—Samuel Armsberg, a respectable-looking young man, 19, a foreigner, living at 3, Princes-street, Finsbury, was charged with robbing his master of £l7 10s. The complainant, Edward Keil, a courier-bag maker, 26, Bush-lane, had a bank post bill for £lO, and also £7 in gold and 10s. in silver in a purse, which he kept in a private room of his house in a locked drawer, the key of which hung at the side of the mantel-shelf. The prisoner, who had been in his service two months, had occasional access to the room. The money was last seen all safe in the drawer by the complainant on Wednesday afternoon, about 4 o'clock. The prisoner worked in a room underneath, and the complainant in one immediately over that in which the money was. Between 4 and 5 o'clock he heard the prisoner come up stairs and enter the room, and when complainant shortly afterwards went there to take his tea he perceived that the drawer was open and the money gone. Suspecting the prisoner had taken it he went to his lodgings, where he found him, and charged him with the robbery. At first prisoner denied it, but afterwards admitted having taken the money. He went with the complainant, at his request, to the place of business in Bush-lane, and on the way offered to give complainant the money, but he refused to take it, and afterwards gave him into custody. At the police station he said the money was at his lodgings ; and an officer who went there found 9s 4d. on the top of a picture-frame in his bed room, and £l7 under some old carpets in another part of the house. The complainant had received the £l7 10s. in question from the prisoner's father in Germany only the day previous, in payment for some goods supplied to him, and the prisoner knew that he had received it.  The prisoner said what his master had stated was all true, and he was guilty. Yielding to the temptation of a moment he had been induced to take the money, and this was the first time he had committPd a crime.  A respectable-looking man stood forward and stated that the prisoner had lodged in his house since the early part of January last, and had uniformly conducted himself with the greatest propriety. He had had during that time the range of his house, and no single thing had been missed. • The prisoner held down his head and cried very much as his landlord volunteered this character of him, and, on the question being put to him, he elected to be sentenced by the court instead of being sent for trial.  The Lord Mayor said he would take time to consider what sentence he should pass upon him. John Rogers, a cigar-maker, was charged with an aggravated assault upon his wife. The wife, though she gave prisoner into custody, did not attend to' state the charge; but a young woman, a stranger to both of them, who happened to witness the assault, came voluntarily forward to speak to it. She said she was in Bishopsgate-street on Monday night, and hearing a cry of " Murder" and " Police," she ran to the spot, when she saw the prisoner dragging a woman along by the hair of her head. A gentleman who saw the assault broke an umbrella over the prisoner's head ; and a policeman who came had the greatest difficulty in forcing him to release his hold of the woman. At her request the witness went with her to the policestation, when she gave the prisoner in charge. There she said she was his wife, and they had been married some years, but that she could not live with him by reason of his ill usage, and had left him four or five times. Her face was very much swollen, and a great deal of blood was upon the front of her dress.  • The prisoner said tile blood had flowed from his own face, from a wound which his wife inflicted with a large door key. Three weeks ago she sold everything he had and left the house, and he had not since seen her until Monday night, when he met her in Bishopsgate-street, and taunted her with her ill-hehaviour, and they had a quarrel. The Lord Mayor said as the prisoner's wife was not in attendance, he should discharge him.