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hasitommitted nearly one hundred petty robberies, some of them
or a peculiarly dosing character, considering his age.

IMPUDENT ROBBERY.
am.no n it- sT REET.—Yeaterday a hack-
ney-coachman, was brought up for robbing Mr. Reddick, of No.
7, St. James's.street, of a sovereign, in the following impudent
manner
Mr. Roddlek stared that on Wednesday week he hired the pri-
soner's coach in St. Paul's Church-yard, to take him to St.
Janies's.street, and on alighting at his dour gave a sovereign into
his hand for the coachman to rake his lure, who said he had not
*lira enough ; the friend to whose house he went offered him some
silver, and witness asked for the return of the sovereign. " What
sovereign ?" said Hughes ; " you did not give me a sovereign."
Witness told him he had, and that if he did not return it he should
charge the watchman with hint. While his friend was getting the
change, witness observed the coachman tumbling among the straw,
at the bottom of the coach. As the prisoner persisted in his asser-
tion of not having the sovereign, witness gave him in custody.
John Cane, watchman of St. James's, took charge of the mi-
toner and conveyed him to the watch-house, where he was verdict!,
but the sovereign was not found on Trim; the prisoner said he had
taken no gold, and that tire gentlemagjmd made a mistake.
Thome» .outty. another watehman,leard the prisoner deny hay-
ing receive the sovereign ; he said he had not seen a sovereign for
a month. From an intimation the prosecutor gave him, witness
went out, and (mind the sovereign at the bottom of the reach.
The prisoner denied having had the sovereign, and said several
persona It id been in his coach that day ; tin refore the sovereign
found at the bottom might belong to one of them, or the genthernap
*night have dropped it himself.
'l'he prosecutor repeated to Mr. Roe that he could not have
dropped it, because he put it into the coachman's hand.
He was fully committed for trial.
Hughes's master, for whom lie had driven 13 months, offered to
' bail him ; but Mr. Roe refused to take bail.

FORTI'NATE ESCAPE.
A woman, named Fairbran, war brought up for robbing Sarah
Jenkins, a person with whom she lodged, of a silver watch.
Mrs. Jenkins stated, that she lived at No. 2, George-court,
Broad -street, and had resided there 32 years. She took the pet.
soner in to lodge with her. lost Sunday morning, at ten minutes
past six o'clock, she got up. leaving the prisoner in bed, and the
watch under the pillow, where she always placed it. Witness
was employed down stairs for a short while, when she returned
to her room and asked the prisoner if she was going to get up.
She said, "If
,you want to go out you need not Inca the door;
I'll take care.' After which witness was again employed below
stairs, and the prisoner went nut. At half-past ten witness went
to King-street Chapel. and recollected shelled not sezn her witch
that day. Thought nothing of it, but went to her son's to dinner,
and in the afternoon sent her grandson for it.
The grandson said he went to his grandmother's house, to ask the
prisoner fur the watch. Site said she knew nothing of it. but would
look fir it. • She went down stairs to look ; and on her return
bade him tell his grandmother she could not find it, and did not see

it when she made the bed.
Cook, the mutable. said he was sent ftr about eight o'clock
on Sunda) night. Wl:en lie went, the prisoner had the key in
her hand, and her box was open. She denied having any dupli-
cates, though he found one, but it had no reference to the
watch. She refused to tell him where she had been during the
time she was out in the morning, or to refer him to any ac-
quaintance. She was a single woman., and had no visible means of
support. On 3londay he made inquiries at the pawnbrokers',
and found the watch pawned at Alr. Wedmore's, in Tottenham-
court-road, by a man. From the description given by the pawn-
broker, he suspected a man who lodged in the next room to Mrs.
Jenkins. Meeting the man in Conduit-street, he persuaded him
to go to Mr. Wadmore's ; and when in the box, the pawnbroker
thought he was the person who pledged the witch. The man very
willingly came with him.
The man denied being the person.
The pawnbroker thought the man was like the person, but would
not swear.
Ile was discharged instantly.
Fairbum was discharged, with a suitable lecture from Mr. Roe.
The pawnbroker retains the watch, till redeemed by Mrs.
Jenkiar.

ROBBERY BY A CLERK.
Hull, a tall, thin, middle-aged man, clerk to Messrs. Allen,
flilby, and Allen, solicitors, in Carl isle-street, was brought up on
Wednesday evening, for robbing his employer of 1701. in notes.
The prisoner, we heir, formerly kept a shop in Newport-market,
and, failing in business, was reduced to the necessity of seeking pa-
rochial relief from the parish of St. Ann. Mr. Allen, who is
vestry clerk of the parish, commiserating the distressed condition
of the prisoner, took hint into his employ, and about a fortnight
ago he decamped with the money from the counting-house; it con-
sisted of a note of 1001. and 701. in smaller notes. They heard
nothing of the prisoner till a clerk in their employ met him
in Peckham fair, on IVedneaday, where he gave him in custody,
had him taken in a coach to Mr. Allen's, and from thence to this
office, where he was remanded for another hearing. The prisoner's
wife, hearing of the capture of her husband, followed the coach
front Mr. Allen's, to learn where her husband had been taken.
The coachman knowing Mr. Allen also wanted her, to hear of the
property, proposed to take her to her husband; but when she got
Into the coach he took her to Mr. Allen's. She was also detained.

WATCH-HOUSE BAIL.
A man named /Word was taken to St. ticorge's warchhouse,
for striking another, named Divine. Laurence. a hay and straw
salesman in the Haymarket, the friend of Holford, bailed him our,
by representing himself to be a housekeeper in TouttillismAtreet.
When the charge-book was called over yesterday, Holford was ab-
sent. Laurence said Milford was an acquaintance of his, but he
did not know where lie lived ; he gave the address of iiollord's
brother. lie said he did not state himself to be a housekeeper.
The night constable and two watchmen swore that he so stated
himself.
Mr. ROE told Laurence he had subjected himself to a penalty of
207. the amount of his recognizance, which should be =faced
against him; and ordered a warrant to be issued for Holford.

ASSAULT.
Mr. .I,lltu Neville, a man of colour, was charged with accom-
panying a young woman to a house in Dean-street,
Soho, not behaving in au honourable way, and striking her in the
face.
The watchman found them quarrelling at the end of Newman-
street, and tool both ir.to custody.
Mr. Nevihi said he merely pushed her away for Importuning
hint. He a.sscred the Magistrate he had better taste. She was an
old stager, and wanted to extort money from him. He had not
been to any house with her. Let the landlady be sent fur.
The girl described the lutus‘ in Milk-alley, and the landlady at-
tended, hut declared a gentleman of his complexion had not been a
visiter. There was another house of accommodation two houses off
hers.
Mr. ROE recommended hi.n to settle with the girl for the assault,
which he did with great good humour, by giving her three shillings.

HORSE STEALING.
UN-TON-11AL L.—Yesterday an elderly man, named John Hunt-
er, was brought to this office in the cu►tody of Poole, charged with
stealing a chesmit mare, the property of Mr. Riddle, a farmer, re-
siding in the vicinity of Islington.
The complainant stated, that on the 28th of October last, a ches-
nut horse was stolen out of his field at Islington. In the month of
December following, he traced the horse into the poasessioo of a
man named Barnett, a botcher, residing in the neighbourhood of
Brixton, who restored it to the owner, on being informed that it
was a stolen horse.
Joseph Hancock stated that lie purchased the horse in question,
of the prisoner, on the 29th of October, at Ewell fair. Soon after-
wards the witness sold it to a young man in the fair, by whom
the prosecutor's home was alternately diposed of to Mr. Barnett,
into whose possession the original owner traced it, and claimed as
his property.
The prisoner, In his defence, could give no satisfactory account
of the manner in which the horse carte into his possession, and
he was accordingly committed far trial.