The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-10-21 00:00:00

POLICE.

MANSION-Il*llBE
Yesterday Cheeks Hughes was brought up on the following
!S r, Maker, •paribroker„ mated, that the prisoner ems to his
shop, on Tuesday. and offered two pieces of silver fee sale. Emits the
tammthifartney vaunter in which lie accounted foe the possession of
them, witness detained him, and sent to an officer.
Mr. Browne,* jeweller, said, the prisoner was formerly In his
employ, but he discharged him about eight months since. lie
had a great quantity of silver, similar to that peoduevil, In Ins
slurp at the time ; but could not identify rather of them as his
Fort,.
1 he prisoner, in his defence, mid, he found the silver in a chest
of tea, about twelve months since, at which tome he lived with Mr.
Jerutes, a tea-broker, in kit. Mildred's-court. Ile refuted to say
where he lodged.
The prisoner was remanded.
The Loan Macon directed the dicer to endeavour to find out
his lodgings.
The silver was worth about Ind.

GITILIMALL.
Two piing fellows. named Jam Brumley and Join Cu/rev/on,
well•kns•wn thieve'', having each of then. modeled% appearance he.
hue at this bar, were brought up yesterday before the Sitting Ma-
gistrate, Mr. Alderman IlaiDGes, charged with ft luay antler the
following ritratinstanct :
William Idle, a lad in the employ or Mr. lloole grocer, No.
110. London-road, hail been sent into the City with two cwt. ot
moist sugar, dour• op in eight pant:sant' a ipararter of ■ hundred
eadt, in a truck, between six and seven o'clock on Tairahay
even-
ing, and in passing along l'pper Thames.street, came to a Blatt
WillTe the paremelit Wall up, or nut of repair, in %itch a manner as to
muter it almost impossille foie Lim aluae to drag the truck over it.
A stranger, who turned out to be the prisoner Callaghan, very read-
ily volunteered hi% assistanitc, aid was in Stu, net of performing
this Ind Aire, when Charles Herds:Mit, an active I ity c'tirer,
who happriwal to ki MI the luok.out in that neighlantarlioucl,
eawe
up, and knowing Callaghan'. character, and seeing Brontley. whom
he ales knew, close behind the truck, 'married they were IthOtlt to
rob it, and accordingly followed. As the truck turned the comer id
a street be lost sight of the whole party for r minute, and, at die
woe ltronaley returning will one of the parcels of
sugar u 1.0.1 ht. slier War. II e stopped and secure.) him, and some
of the ps,,,miiirers, I.) hi‘ shreetion, followed the true: and fICCOTeti
Calhagtasn, who was still eoutinuing his friendly otr.ccA in assisting

the hey bile to drag it.
Sorb sere the fiums detailed In evidence by the officer aml the
led, bin neither of them saw the parcel taken out of the truck.
There was no mar!: upon it by which the lad tould identity it, avid
all he knew was, dint vie such parcel was inissirg Croton Imo truck.
This difficulty, hewer,. r, was got err by the evideice of one of
Mr. llooles shopntiat, who swore,. that the poem pr:eliteed was one
of those put into the truck Inc r boy to deliver. lie knew it by
the manna in which it was dune up. he having tied it himself.
Bromley made 1:o deter:cc. but dee:land that Callaghan was not
in his root iormy ; that he did out know him, and had never seen
hint laifore ia hi. lite.
I 'allaghatt catight up the sante story. declared he knew nothing
Itromley, was entirely of the robhery, and had assisted
the lad merely out of good-old.
If ards,idd end the lad loilJ were questioned, but neither of them
had seen any act of cut eert or communication between the prisoners
Getterwise titan above related.
C illaghan, cunning imough to know that this ended the charge
ref f,lony as respected himself. now loudly reiterated his protesta-
tions of innocence, and declared be got hie living by hie trade sea
shoemaker, and volunteered hit address and the name of a person
for whom he said lie w.irkid.
Ilarrison, the Marsitalman, who leis a toletably extensive know.
ledge of the persons of mint of the city thieves, was then called by
the llagedrate, and asked if he knew the ;trimmer (:ellaglisn.
Ilarrison--Yes, your Worship, 1 know hint very well ; he is a
noted thief. Ile-is what they call a drovirtati ;he will pick a
porker. or lend a hood in a rubbery of any kind.
Callaghan denied this accusation, and said he had never been
brought up to that Office beliore but once its his life.
Morrison—Vette NVorship, he knows 1 know him very well; he
is no shoeusaker, but gets his living by thieving. Last time we
had him here he said he was a fish:ll.4lpr.
A constable of St. Sept lehre's parish also recognised him, and
said. on one occasion, when Its haul hums in custody, Callaghan told
the Alderman that he got hit Itvioog by his trade as a fishmonger.
(:allagh in—Will you swear that I ant the young man you had
its custody?
The constable smiled, and said—Yes ; you know vary well it is
true.
Mr. Atlantan llama ca said he hail no doubt but that the two
prisoners had acted in concert, anti that the one had volunteered his
assistance to the lad fm the ;terrine of occupying his attention
while the other robbed the truck. I 'nfortnnaiely, however, for die
cause of justice, thee was no proof before hint of their having been
seen in roitimuiticstion together, and consequently no evidence to
warrant Lim to commit CAlaglian for the felony. As, however, be
had been found tinder circumstances of very strong suspicion, and
was known a. ft ronnmon thief, he should commit him to hard la-
hour in the /louse of Correction for duce months, and Bromley to
Newcate for trial.
The showman now stepped forward and said, that Mr. Hook
desired him to nay that he did nut wish to prosecute, if be could get
the sugar bark without.
The Alderman reprobated in strong terms such a proposition,
and directed all the parties to be hound user.
A bricklayer's man, rained /'aft :milk was brought up by
Tampenny, a city officer, who had stopped him between FIX and
seven o'elock that morning in Smi thfirld, with about 30lias. weight
of old lead lit a hag, which be said he hail brought from a house in
Boll's-hoildings. Fetter-late, where he was at week, and was going
to sell it bowa little beer.
Ali. Noy, the master bricklayer, mid he could not swear to the
lead, as there was a good dead of the same sort about the premises.
torte could he say that it was his property till it had been carried
home to his yard.
Mr. Clint, the occupier of the premises, was precisely in the
same situation. lie could not identify the property. nor entild lie
swear that it wan his. This premises were undergoing a thamugh
repair, and the lead might have been part taken from the neigh-
tutoring house, the gutters of which communicated with bit own,
and which his neighbour, of course, was bound to keep in repair.
The prisoner's own account was, that he foetal it at the bottom
of a cess-pool he was employed to clean oat.
That this might possibly have beenshe case was allowed, and
under all the circumstances, the Alderman considered that there
wortlol he to tooth difficulty in the proof, that the charge of felony
most he abandoned, and the prisoner was convicted in the Tenuity
of Mk. under the aratute, for having the lead in his posseasiort
without being able to give • satisfactory account how he became
possrased of the same.