The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-12-06 00:00:00

EDAM BETH -STREET.

lionss-Shreauwo.—Yestertlay a person, named atom, a
mi:kman, residing in Stratford. was Oared at the bar before Sir
Model Williams, the **filtrate. charged with having stolen.two
horses from the neighbourhood of East Griraterid, in Sussex.
Lee, an officer belonging to the totabii,liment, stated that, in
consequence of the information he hi received, he went on Sawr.
day night to the King's Arms Inn It Bow, where be found the
prisoner, who, on the preceding Tucolsy, brought a grey gelding
and a brood mare to the stables enacted to that inn; the forir.er of

of which was then in the stable, the latter be had sold on ‘Vetl-
nestlay at Rumford 11 irket ; the format. he had also made arrange-
ment tor disposing of ; but the person who was about to become
the purchaser, thinking from the smallness of the sum demanded
that the animal could not be fairly come by, declined removing It
for a few days. On his (Lea) asking the prisoner how he became
possessed of it ? he said that he bad purchased it together with the
mare about a fortnight since, on his return from East Grinstead,
where he had been on a visit to his friends. The person he put.
them from was, he said, a gardener, named Bally, and that he had
given him 91. for them ; he, however afterwards, on being taken
into custody, said that he found that it was all up with him.
The prisoner, in his defence, persisted in his former story of his
having bought them front a gardener; but Lee informed his
Worship, that since the prisoner had been apprehended, two horses,
answering the description of those traced to his possession, were last
week stolen from the vicinity of East Grinstead, and added, and
added, that if the prisoner was remanded for a few days, he would,
no doubt, be able to produce the owners.
The prisoner was accordingly remanded till Thursday next.
THAMES OFFICE.

Chrblopher Gudgcon was charged with having robbed a poor
laundress of nine linen shirts and one shift.

John Shields, a Thames Police surveyor, stated that on Satur-
day evening, between six and seven o'clock, he stopped the pri-
soner in the New-road, carrying six wet linen shirts under his
arm; witness asked hint how he came by them ? and the prisoner
said he hail not stolen the linen, but that a man had given the
shirts to him to carry to Tower-hill, where he was going to meet
him. He admitted he had never seen the man before, and witness,
therefore, knowing the prisoner to be a suspicious character, took
him into custody.
Hannah Watson, a laundress living in Farmer-street, Sbadwell,
identified the shirts produced. She had washed them on Saturday,
and hung them up to dry about twelve o'clock at noon. She first
missed the linen about six o'clock.

The prisoner, In his defence, again asserted that what he had
stated to the first witness was the truth.
He was fully committed for trial.

As one of the officers was conveying him to the strong room, he
remarked that the prisoner looked unusually large round his body.
In c nsequence he was induced to search his person ; in so doing be
found ti•ar he had got over his own shirt a shift, and two other
shirts, which were taken off and produced to the Magistrate; on
inquiry it was discovered that this linen bad also been taken from
Hannah Watson's yard, and was Net when stolen.