The National Register.
London, England, 1811-09-08 00:00:00

GUILDHALL.

PICK' G POCK KT S.—Yestyrday .khanritt Broome, a foreigner,
was brought up before the Sitting Magistrate (Mr. Alderman
Woon) for re-examination, being charged with picking the
pocket of a person of the name of Gregoyr, of his watch, at Bar-
tholomew fair, on the night of Tuesday last. It appeared that
the prosecutor being much inebriated accidentally fell into com-
pany with the prisoner, and finding he was a foreigner was am..
ions to shoe him all the fun ! they had perambulated the fair for
some time together, when a Police Officer, having some suspi•
cion of the prisoner, and observing the condition of the prose-
cutor, joined them, and asked if he had lost any thing, the pro-
secutor answered in the negative, but being desired to examine
his pockets, immediately discovt red that his watch was gone,
and at the sane moment the prisoner was obServed to throb
something behind one of the booths, which turned out to be the
prosecutor's watch and the prisoner yr:ill then taken in custody.
i'tie•prisoner in his defence said the prosecutor had given him
the watch to take care of, but this the prosecutor denied.

HIGHWAY Roan ltßY.—The next charge against the prisoner
was of a more serious nature, amounting to highway robbery.
It appeared in evidence tha: on the night of the ‘29th of August
last the prosecutor, Bradshaw (a disabled Chelsea pensioner),
was returning home to Chelsea College, accompanied by a Cot.
por:-.1 of the Life (;cards, and in passing • Grosvenor-street, on
their way towards Portman-street barracks, they were accosted
by the prisoner, who entered into familiar conversation with
them, and invited them to p:lrtalee of a tankard of porter with
him. They accepted the invitation, and retired to a neighbour-.
ing public-house, where they remained in company together,
about an hour, during which time the company joined some
other company in a game of drafts ; they then went away toge-
the:-, and as they proceeded towards South Audley-street, the
prisoner expressed great anxiety for the disabled state of the
prosecutor (w!lo being paralyzed on his right side walked with
lty), arid proffered his services to see him safe home.
This offer was accepted, and soon after the Corporal left them.
When they arr:ven nearly opposite Mount-street watch-house,
the prisoner tripped op the prosecutor's heels, as if by accident,
and .apologising for his awkwardness, assisted him to get up,
t,tel at the same moment eas.:d the prosecutor of his watch, and
immediately made his escape, The prosecutor was so alarmed
he did not cry out, but went to the w:ttch-house, where some
time elapsed before be could make himself heard, and had
given up all hopes of recovering his watch, until the appearance
of a report of the former day's examination in some of thy
Daily Papers, which coming to the knowledge of the Corporal,
it occurred to him that tl:e prisoner might be the same person,
and on seeing him in custody, immediately recognized him.
The watch had been pawned the following day by the prisoner
himself, under a fictitious name, for four guineas.

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The prisoner, iu his defence, said, the old gentleman (mean.
ing the prosecutor) .had given him the watch to pledge, and be
was to bring him the money to Portman-street barracks the
next day, but when lie went he could th,t find him.

'file worthy Magiqrate observed, that the prisoner must be
an old and notorious'offender from the nutuber of duplicates of
watches (l 8 in number) fourld upon him when taken, and there
war4ittle doubt hut that he was ene of the party concerned in
the robbery In Cheapside. _ _

The parties were then bound over to prosecute, and the pri-
soner fully cominiLteti tut tti4l.

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Misr ion Crane coseerned with two
ethers in burglariously the house of Mr. Cagan,
o the Hampstead-road.
It appeated, that so long since as the morning of the 29th pf
May, the prosecutor's house was broke ope i ; an alarm was
given by the watchman on seeing the street door open; three
men being seen coming out of the house, two of them were se-
cured, and have been tried sad found guilty ; the third made his
escape. The prisoner was brought to the office un a warrant for
a common assault, when he was recognised by some officers as
the man who escaped at the time of the above robbery.—He was
fully identified by a watchman and others,‘and was committed
for trial.
Abraham Levy,
u a well-known Jew pickpocket, who was ap-
prehended by Humphreys, at Hackney, on Thursday seinnight,
at the time Mr. Sadler and Mr. Beaufoy were ascending with
the Balloon, underwent a final examination.
It appeared from the evidence of Humphreys, that he saw the
prisoner put his hand into a gentleman's pocket, and take out
something, and put it into his bosom—upon- which he seized
him, when the prisoner let a pocket-book fail; he picked it up.
The prisoner resisted violently, and endeavoured to get away;
he was then surrounded by at least a dozen well-known pick-
pockets, and he received a violent blow in his mouth; notwith-
standing he was determined not to let the prisoner escape. The
pocket-book has written on it" Thomas Bradshaw," and a Cer-
tificate from New York, dated November 7, 1910 ; but the
owner has not been traced. The prisoner was, therefore, com-
mitted for trial, charged with stealing it, the property of some
person or persons unknown.
William Raman, the man without fingers, was fully committed
for trial, charged with breaking open and robbing the house of
Mary Stratford, at Kensington.

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OFFENCES, ACCIDENTS, Bfc.

ROBBERY AT VAUXHALLaGARDENs.—The Proprietor of
these Gardens having had suspicions for some time past, that
the men employed in lighting and trimming the lamps were in
the habit of obbing him of considerable quantities of oil and
cotton, steps were taken to detect them, hut without t ffcct till
Monday last, when a constable was got to watch them as they
were going out, who accordingly took his station near the gate,
and as o';e of the suspected men, named Brown, accompanied by
Crowley and Guildford two other lamp-fighters, were quitting
the gardens, he stopt them, and on searching them two large
bladders of oil were fout.d concealed under the hats of Brown and
Crowley, and upon Guildford was found a quantity of cotton.
On this discovery being made, Brown and Crowley, expressed
contrition, and offered to discover all they knew relative to the
depredations. In consequence of their discoveries, no fewer
than twelve of these pilferers were taken before a Magistrate,
when four of them were discharged, and eight were remanded
for farther examivation. There is also a person in custody on
-auspicion of having received the oil, knowing it to he stolen.—
'After the discovery on Monday, it was observable that the
lamps were better trimmed, and burnt more brilliantly than
usual; yet on investigation it was found that the quantity of oil
iised was less by upwards of twenty gallons than on any former
sight. The price of this oil to Mr. Barrett is between nine and

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Mistiest Crone was charged with being camel
others in burglariously breaking open the house of