The Sun. — 1834-09-06 (London, England)

REHO USE.) ROBBERY BY A SERVANT.  Ann Vickers, so well known to the public iu connection with the case of the Lady of Colonel Hampton and the late unfortunate Mr. Tuffnell, who committed suicide in consequence, was put to the bar, charged with stealing on the 10th of July two cups and saucers, chocolate stirrers, some bottles, glass saltcellers, spoons, napkins, handkerchiefs, table cloths, carpets, dusters, chintz curtains, wax candles, shawls, fifty numbers of the Mirror and Penny Magazine, &c., the property of Edward Dove and Ellen Chandler, Clifford-street, Bond-street.  Mary Dove, wife to the prosecutor, who keeps a hairdresser's shop in Clifford-street, had hired the prisoner on the 17th of February. She remained in her service until the 10th of July. During that period witness missed a great quantity of small articles, which induced her to apply for a search-warrant, on the prisoner leaving her service. Ellen Chandler, a nursemaid, also in her service, aceompanied witness and the officers Schofield and Davis; of Marlborough-street office, to the lodgings of the prisoner, at No. 6, West-row, Carnaby-market. The prisoner was not present when they got there ; but a search was, notwithstanding, commenced, and a shawl, the property of Elizabeth Chandler, and other articles—wax candles, cups and saucers—the property of the prosecutor, were found in the kitchen. Witness identified some of the property as her husband's ; and swore that the remainder, the candles for instance, were, to the best of her belief, her husband's also. The prisoner's boxes were then searched, and other articles of the prosecutor's property found therein. They were all produced in Court, and identified by the witness.  In her cross-examination by Mr. PHILLIPS, witness admitted that a messenger had come, purporting to be from the prisoner, with a message to Eliza Chandler, to the effect that she would restore her shawl, if she paid he,shilling which she owed her. . a, The Common-Sergeant, et  va Of p I  of the trial, sug gested that if the shawl were thrown out of the case on this evidence it would tend to simplify it very much. Witness further deposed that the prisoner, on entering her service, had given her a letter of character from Mrs. Hampton, wife of Colonel Hampton, then under a prosecution for perjury, arising out of a well-remembered trial, which letter witness handed over to that lady at her lodgings, whither she had gone to find her for the purpose, Witness had no connection, directly or indirectly, with Mrs. Hampton in respect to this trial, and had no other motive in prosecuting it than the furtherance of public justice. George Davis, police-officer, of Marlborough-street Office, deposed to the same effect as Mrs. Dove, especially in regard to the finding the property. Schofield, the other officer, was also present at the search. The prisoner, still a good-looking young woman, though considerably altered for the worse since her former trial at the Old Bailey, addressed the Court and Jury in a low voice, but with great collectedness and apparent composure. She stated that she had entered the service of the prosecutor on a written character, subsequent to her leaving the service of Mrs. Hampton, and her late trial at the Old Bailey. Up to that period she had been a servant from the age of nine years, with an irreproachable character. Her story, though complicated, and in most instances irrelevant, was very fluently told, and expressed in language extraordinary for its selection and appropriateness ; artful in the extreme, as far as it involved the sympathies of the Jury. She broadly stated that the present prosecution was for the purpose of getting her out of the way, as she was a most material witness against Mrs. Hampton ; and she added, that a long time previous to its being instituted against her, Mrs. Dove had made propositions to her to leave London till the trial was over, promising her, as from Mrs. Hampton, any sum she chose to ask. She denied the charge of theft, alleging she had received the property from Mrs. Dove, and attempted a retort upon the prosecutors, by alleging several matters against them. Her address occupied a considerable length of time, very near an hour, but it contained nothing save imputations of other parties, which we do not consider it our duty to publish. Some witnesses were called by the prisoner. The Jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict of Guilty, but recommended her to mercy.