The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-30 00:00:00

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street, Strand. propertyMr. Bourne said that on leaving Hyde-park on Saturday
Michin Bourne, barrister, staying
evening, about eight o'clock, atter the volunteer review, he
felt a tug at his watch-chain, and on looking round saw
his watch in the hand of the prisoner John, who was at-
tempting to pass it to some p Toon, he believed the other
prisoner. He took the watch from the prisoner's band
and held him till a constable came up and then gave him
in charge, another constable taking the other prisoner.
Sergeant 61 K proved taking them into custody and
to the station, where on searching them he found some
silver on each.
A constable said he saw the prosecutor
. holding the
prisoner John, and the other prisoner holding out his
hand as if to receive something. He had seen the pri-
soner John make a grab at the prosecutor's chain.
Mr Knox asked the
prisoners what they had to say in
answer to the charge, and they both said they were not
guilty. They were committed for trial.
Thomas Isted and Thomas Bennett were convicted of
picking a pocket of a pipe. Isted was sentenced to a month's
imprisonment, and Bennett three dabs and 12 strokes of a
birch rod.
John Donovan, a young man, was charged with stealing
a gold watch of the value of £2O, the property of Mr Ed-
ward Henry Corbould, the well known historical painter,
of the Prince of Wales-terrace, Kensington-palace.
Mr Corbould said ho was in Hyde Park on Saturday
evening and heard a click, when on looking down ho saw
his watch under the prisoner's foot. His chain, which was
a steel one, must have been cut by some sharp and power-
ful instrument, He then gave prisoner into custody.
Mrs Corbould said she saw the prisoner pass something
to a person, but she could not say to whom.
Thomas Athenson, 75 D, proved picking up the ring of
the watch at the prisoner's feet. Prisoner had given a false
address.
Sergeant Cole, C division, said the prisoner had been
known to him as a thief for ten years, and had suffered
penal servitude.
Mr Knox committed the prisoner for trial.
There were several other cases of picking pockets in
Hyde Park, and the prisoners were disposed of in various
ways,
EXTENSIVE CASH Box ROBBERY.—Sidney Barnes, a
young man, formerly in the service of Mr Charles Durant,
of 20, Park-street, Grosvenor-square, was charged before
Mr Knox with stealing a despatch or cash box containin?
one £)0 and nineteen £5 Bank notes, the property of his
master.

Mr Durant said—The prisoner had been in my service
about 6 months. On tho 6th of this month there was a
despatch box in ruy drawing-room containing Bank notes

to the amount of £145. They were taken away, and lat
once communicated with the police. One morning about
a week afterwards my butler informed me that the pri-
soner had absconded. I stopped the notes at the Bank of
England, and on Tuesday received notice that a £5O bank
note had been paid in. I communicated this to Scotland-
yard, and a detective was sent off to the part of the country
where the prisoner was supposed to be stopping, and yes-
terday I received a communication that he was in custody.
Sergeant Henry Beard, of the detective department,
Scotland-yard—I received notice that a £5O bank-note had
been paid in from the Gloucestershire Banking Company
at Cirencester, and I afterwards went to the Horsefair at
Malmesbury, where the prisoner's father resides. I there
learnt that prisoner had gone to Bristol, and I found him
at No. 27, Tower-street. I asked him if he had any bank
notes about him, and he said he had not. I told him I
should take him into custody for stealing a cash-box con-
taining bank notes from Mr Durant, his late master. On
searching him I found a portemonnaie containing £54 2s.
in gold and silver, three gold rings, and a watch and chain ;
also the receipt for £5 which he had paid as a deposit for
the fixtures of a shop at Redcliffe•hill, Bristol. The pri-
soner said the £5 notes in his possession were part of some
he found in Hyde-park,
Prisoner—So they were.
Mr Knox—l shall remand the prisoner far the attendance
of the persons from the bank.