The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-23 00:00:00

THAMES.

A THIEN CAPTURED BY A PAWNBROKER.—Henry
Larking, aged 30, was charged with being in the unlawful
possession of a silver watch, which had been stolen or un-
lawfully procured.
Mr. W. Carpenter, foreman to the business of his uncle
of the same name, No. 68, Cannon-street-road, St. George-
in-the-East, said the prisoner offered him a silver watch
in pawn, and asked for a, loan of 60s upon it. He asked
the prisoner if it was his own watch, to which he replied in
the affirmative. He asked him the maker's name and
number on the watch, and the prisoner said he did not
know, and bought the watch of a man in a publichouse for £2
10s on Monday last, but he did not know the man or the sign
of the public house. He then detained the prisoner and
gave him into custody. The watch was a silver lever, the
maker Spilgelhutton, Whitechapel-road, and it was worth
five guineas.

William Jenkins, a police-constable, No. 346 K, said the
watch was sold by Mr Spilgelhutton 18 months ago to a
customer, named James Scott, of No. 4, Carter-street,
Evan's-street, Poplar. If the prisoner was remanded, he
hoped to find the owner.

The Magistrate said the conduct of the pawnbroker, Mr
Carpenter, was highly creditable, and as the prisoner would
not give any satisfactory account of himself or the watch
he should remand him for a week.

DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—James Jacobs, a well-
known young ruffian and thief, was charged with stealing
a purse containing £1 6s. 9d. from the person of Johnson
Gustav Johnson, a Danish seaman.
The prosecutor is lodging at No. 30, High-street, Shad-
well. He was passing along Rateliff Highway on Satur.
day evening, when the prisoner and two other boys sur-
rounded hiel. One of them pointed to some dirt or mud
on his left shoulder, and he turned his head aside to look at
it, when another shoved against him, and the prisoner put
his hand in the sailor's right hand trousers pocket and took
from it a purse containing £1 6s. 9d., and all the sailor's
papers. Johnson immediately seized the prisoner, who
threw the purse away. The eailor left the prisoner and
recovered his purse and money. The prisoner ran away. Ha
was pursued, and after a long chase was stopped by police-
constable 185 K, who said the young thieves in the district
had got up a new dodge. They stopped sailors, called
attention to something on the shoulder of the person
stopped, and when his head was turned dived into his pocket
and took out anything it contained.
The prisoner made no defence, and as the Dane was
about to sail with his ship, the prisoner was summarily
disposed of, and sentenced to three months' imprisonment
and hard labour.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GRAY'S-INN.ROAD.—
The number of patients relieved at this hospital during
the week ending May 21, was 3,436, of which 1,006 were new
cases.

Among the royal collections at Windsor a map
has been discovered, which has on it the earliest known
instance of the word America. It is a mappemonde, or
map of the world by Leonardo da Vinci. At the next
meeting of the Society of Antiquaries, Mr. Major, of the
British Museum, will explain the particulars connected
with the discovery and character of this interesting map.
LIFE SAVED BY A Dock.—At the late wreck at
Saaday, a Newfoundland dog, belonging to the vessel,
seeing a poor fellow struggling among the breakers, leaped
into the sea, and having seized in his mouth the upper part
of the man's jacket bore his head up, and swam ashore with
him.—Orcadian.