The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-04-24 00:00:00

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DATDamonP.o a aEar.—Two}•otingmen.earned Xiilo.
anti Ilrury lives, were yesterday pot to the bar, choe;ed with a
most daring robbery at the house of Mr. Christian, of Cie Strand,
at half-past eleven o'clock this forenoon. They are bath notoriously
bad characters, and well known to the police. It appeared that the
prisooers had been lurking about the spot for I days, and had
drawn the attention of several of the neighbours Oil them.
At the hour above stated, they were seen to go to the window,
cut one of the squares of glass, and thaw out a quantity of silk. In-
formation was instantly given to Mr. Chrietian, and the prisoners
were pursued. In the MITIe of the chase one of them dropped the
propeety. They were immediately given into custody, and brought
to this office, where the case being clearly proved against them by
several must respectable witnesses, they were fully committed.
On searching them, a knife curiously constructed, and a piece of
wire, used for the purpose of withdrawing property, were found
concealed in their clothes. On being removed trout the bar, they
appeared to treat the charge with the utmost indifference, and winked
to a person in the office, who made a hasty retreat.
hl A KLBOROUG -STE LET.
Yesterday John Ilnycroft, a respectable grocer residing opposite
thealnion public-house, Ebury-square. Chelsea, was charged, by
Robert Moreau Price, Esq. who resides near the same place, with
maliciously braking his windows.
Mr. Price stated, that about Christmas last he invited the pri-
toner, among a number of others, to his house to dinner • that in
the course of the evening he (Mr. l'rice) had some difference of
opinion with one of his guests. who grossly insulted him at his own
table; and that the prisoner, who had received many favours at his
bends, had thought proper, ups.' that occasion, to take up the quar-
rel of that person and to strike him (Mr. Price). Feeling indignant
at this conduct, be the next morning ordered him to furnish him
with his account (he dealt with him for what groceries he wanted),
determined to have no limber acquaintance with him. Since that
period (Mr. Price said) bin house bad been assailed by unknown
persors and his wir.down broken. Determined to discover who the
actors in those sceces were, he set about anteing, and on Wednes-
day night less, near twelve o'clock, he saw the prisorer, who liven
. manly opposite him, fling a stone at his window, which dashed it
• to pieces.
• Here Mr. Price produced a witness, who stated that be happened
I to be pannirg by at the time and saw the prisoner at his shop-door;
he heard Mr. Price accusing him of having that moment thrown
the store at bin window ; no other person whatever appeared in
• ' the street.
The prisoner roundly dribd the charge, and alleged that Mr.
: Price had done all he could to injure him in his ht.simss.
He was ordered to pay the amount of the damage done, and the
costs of the watrant under which he was brought to the other.
MARY-LA-RONNE.

AFFECTING CASE OF DEFIIAVITY.—Yesterday a very af.
fecting MSC of felony came before Mr. HAWLINSOX the Magis-
trate, wherein Cathr7ise &Wean, alias 11:iUN Bush, servar.t to
Mrs. Peters, of the Grand Junction Tavern, Paddington, was
charged with having robbed her mistress of two valuable gold
watches at d other property to a considerable amount.
Mrs. Peters came forward, overwhelmed with grief, and could
scarcely be kept bon fainting, and stated that she had of late enttr-
tained a suspicion that a robbery to a very great extent had been
carried on in her house: and, on looking over her property on
Tuesday last, aim found that a boudoir in her chamber, an:leh she
continually kept securely locked, had been opened, and the most
valuable part of its contents had been carried oft: On a minute
search she ascertained that a 101. Bank of England note and two
valuable gold watches, amongst usher property, had been stolen,
but by whom she had not the slightest conjecture. She named the
robbery to her daughter Elizabeth, and questioned her closely upon
the subject, of which she at first protested her ignorance ; but, sub-
' seouently, to her utter atithnishment, acknowledged herself to be
the principal in the robbery, and that the watches and other pro-
, my she had given to Kitty Bush, by which name the prisoner
Sullivan was designated. In consequence of this ilistreasing
closure she sent for Harrison, constable of Paddington, who took
Sullivan into custody.
atm Peters expressed herself decidedly of opinion that her
daughter had been seduced to enenmit the robbery by the artful wiles
of the woman Sullivan, aNo had arrived at the age of maturity.
Miss Eliza Peters, daughter of Mrs. Peters, a little girl about
twelve years old, then stated, that about a week ago the prisoner
Sullivan told her that if she could steal any thing, no matter what,
from her mother, that she would dispose of it, slid give her a share
of what it produced ; she consented to the proposition, and on Wed.
nesday evening, whilst her mother was engaged in the bar, she
went up stairs into her bedchamber, and finding her mother's
drawers open, she took the two gold watches, and a 101. note.
There were four silver watches in the drawer, but she left them
behind. The gold watches and the note she delivered into the
hands of Sullivan, who undertook to put them away to good ac-
count, and to n:ake her a present for the part she took in the busi-
ness, but she never derived any benefit from it. (Here Mrs. Peters'
shed tears.)
Harrison, the constable, stated that when he went to take the,
prisoner Sullivan into custody, he also searched her box, and there
tound Mrs. Peters' two gold watches, eleven sovereigns, and a
quantity of wearing apparel belonging to the family, which Mn.
Peters had not before missed.
Sullivan protested her innocence of having instigated Miss Peters
to rob her mother, that she had done so without any counsel on
her part, ar.d that she had given her the property to dispose of for
her sole benefit, she being about to elope with a young man.
The Magistrate told Mrs. Peters that it gave him great pain to
find that she had such a daughter, who (if Mrs. Peters persisted
in the prosecution) he must commit as the principal in the robbery,
and Sullivan as the receiver.
Mts. Peters, at this address, seemed deprived of utterance, and
begged ids Wership would not commit her daughter, who, she was
sorry to:say, had now divulged a scene she little expected; but, she
felt satisfied, that by strict attention, her daughter would reform
her conduct, therefore she implored the Magistrate not to send her
unfortunate daughter for trial, as the was an only and fatherless
child. Here again Mrs. Peters' utterance was choaked.
The Magistrate said, that in that ease the only course he had to
pursue as. to discharge the prisoner Sullivan. After some further
remarks, she was, with a very severe admonition, set at liberty.
The office during the examination was very much crowded, and
the case excited the greatest interest.
LAMBETH-STREET.
Yesterday Esther Cummins, a decrepit old woman, was charged
with felony by Mr. Benjamin Ferry. The prosecutor resides at
No. 8, Upper Chapman-street, Saint Georges in the East, and is
a pilot ; prisoner had been his servant for a considerable time, and
latterly various articles of plate and culinary requisites were miss-
ing, upon which the prisoner was taken into custody. The greater
portion of the property was now produced by three pawnbrokers.
It appeared to have been pledged on the 9th instant, not by the
prisoner, but by an agent of hers; the duplicates were found in
her possession when apprehended. Tice old delinquent was fully
sommitted for trial.
TOWN-II A _ _

PAWSBUOICE as' Ac Smith,—pawnbroker, 11 igh. street,
Borough, was summoned to this office, for refusing to deliver up a
new suit of clothes, and a shirt, the property of Joseph Tucker, a
lighterman. By the Act 40 Geo. 111. c. 99. sect. 12. all property
unit:wittily pawned, to be given up on being claimed by the owner.
The clot! es had been pawned by a thief, and being women to by
the complamant, were delivered up to him.
UNION-HALL

A middle-aged and respectable-looking man, named Abbott, was
brought before L. It. Allen, charged with haring assaulted
Mary, his wife. on Wednesday last.
airs. Abbott, who is also advanced in years, stated, that on
Wednesday last her husband assaulted, and turned her out of,
his house, without any cause, and refused to admit her hack
again.
The defendant, who appeared to be labouring under much agi-
tation during the above sugement, delivered himself to the following
erect :
" Your Worship, on Wednesday last my wife and I were sitting
in the parlour together, ahen the subject ofour conversation turned