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"Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was

brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst.,

abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the

valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder,

upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect

that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess

of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might

solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had

remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been

called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared,

that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco

casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was

accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the

dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was

arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found

either upon his person or in his rooms.