The Express.
London, England, 1852-08-27 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREET.

Two well-dressed men, named Jams Phillips and
Richard Adams, were brought up on remand before Mr.
lrEyncourt, charged with a sines of adroit robberies at
the shops of tradesmen in the neighbourhood of Stoke
Newington.
The prisoners were given into custody by M. Jane
Rogers, a fsney stationer, at Stamford-bill, from whose
statement it appeared that on the afternoon of Tuesday
n'nnight the prisoners called at her shop and requested to
be shown some silk purses, a number of which were placed
before them ; but, alter closely inspecting them, the pri-
soner Phillips intimated that he wanted one of a different
description, and both of them left the shop without making
a punhase. They had only been gone a few minutes when
witness discovered that • show-card containing penknives,
which had been exposed for sale upon the counter, where
she had seen it safe shortly before their entrance, had disap-
peared, and she immediately gave information of her loos to
a policeman, who hastened after the prisoners and took them
into custody. On being searched at the station-house the
missing property was not found upon either of them ; but
an elegant gold brooch was discovered in the pocket of
Phillip, which formed the subject of a second charge
against them.
Mrs. Emma Simmons, the wife of a jeweller in High-
street, Stoke Newington, stated that on the afternoon of.
Monday, the 16th inst., the prisoner Adams entered her'
shop alone, and after inquiring the price of some gold shirt'
studs, which were exhibited in the window, he selected
and purchased • set, and pieced his hand in his pocket,
with the apparent intention of paying for them, but imme-
diately withdrew it, and told her, with an air of surprise
and mortification, that he had unluckily forgotten his purse,
and requested her to set aside the articles until he called
for them in the evening. The prisoner then left the shop,
but failed to return at the time appointed, and she heard
nothing more of him until the following evening, when the
policeman who had taken him into custody called with the
brooch produced forj her inspection, and she immediately
identified it as one which had been abstracted from a glass
case at that part of the counter where the prisoner stood
at the time of his visit. Witness then recollected
that on leaving her back parlour to attend to
the prisoner, she observed that the glue ease was partly
open, but her suspicions were so completely lulled by the
plausible demeanour and respectable ap,iearance of her
customer that she omitted to examine the ease, and was
not aware of her loss until the article was brought to her
shop by the officer.
The policeman stated that upon finding the brooch upon
Phil ips, and requiring him to account for its possession, he
declared that be had purchased it in Petticoat-lane, and his
statement was confirmed by the other prisoner, who said
that he had bought a waistcoat at the some time.
In answer to a question from the magistrate,
Police-constable Watts, No. 184, stated that he had
known the prisoners as the constant associates of thieves
for the last two years, and that both of them had been in
custody and convicted of felony on previous occasion..
' It having been also intimated that in all probability fur-
' thee charges would be preferred against them if an oppor-
tunity were afforded fur that purpose, the prisoners were
remanded for • week.