Some Selected Reports from The Times
31st December, 1851
POLICE.
LAMBETH.
James Spanswick, Charles Mallen, Thomas Brooks, and
Elizabeth Spanswick, were finally examined before Mr. ELLIOTT, on
a charge of breaking into a warehouse belonging to Mr. Terry, a Government contractor and cheesemonger, residing at
No. 12, St. George's-place, Walworth-road, and stealing therefrom 881b. of sealingwax and 2001b. of twine, his property.
Mr. Terry, the prosecutor, after identifying the property, which he said he had purchased from a Mr. Wild, on the 16th inst., as his,
complained of the report of the last examination as calculated to do him serious injury in his business. Though a cheesemonger,
he said, his principal business was a contractor for and a dealer in Government stores; and, being at present a contractor to
supply the General Post-office with some articles, he took the property produced from Mr. Wild merely to serve that person.
In reply to a question from the magistrate, the witness admitted that the quantity of wax alone which he purchased from Mr. Wild
was 2l/z cwt. in the year, and for this he allowed him 101/'d. per Ib., the contract price to the Post-office being double that sum.
Mr. ELLIOTT again freely denounced the practice of giving perquisites, particularly to public offices, and committed the three
male prisoners to take their trial. The woman he discharged