The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-20 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

CAPTURE OF THIEVES AND A RECEIVER.—WiIIiam
Cook, John Greenwood, and Arthur Russell, three lads
who refused their addresses, were charged before Mr.
Tyrwhitt with stealing, at 34, Dudley-street, four pairs of
trousers, of the value of £1 6e., the property of Mr. Ben-
jamin, clothier; also with stealing a coat of the value of Bs.,
from the shop of Mr, John Foster, tailor, &0., 29, Princes-
street, Leicester-square; and they were further charged
with having in their possession a coat, a piece of linsey, and
other property, believed to be stolen. Maria Cavanagh, of
6, Hatton-yard, St. Andrews, was charged with receiving
the articles, well-knowing them to be stolen.
The lads were well known to the police as thieves, and the
woman as a receiver of stolen goods.
Thomas Knowles, 200 G, deposed that about 10 o'clock
at night he was on duty, in plain clothes, at the corner o
Cross-street, Hatton-garden,when:he noticed Cook go down
Hatton-garden-yard, having a bundle under his arm.
Knowing Cook to be a thief, and suspecting all was not
right, he kept a sharp look out, and soon afterwards he saw
Greenwood and Russell go down, and one ca them having
a bundle. On going down the yard a little way he saw the
three lads go into the house, No. 6, where Cavanagh lived.
He then went and got the assistance of another ccnstablf,
and entered the house very quietly, and found Cavanagh's
room door a little way open, and on peeping through the
opening saw Cook hand Cavanagh two pairs of trousers,
which, after eho had looked at, she placed on a chair, say-
ing she would pay for them. Russell then handed Cavanagh
two pairs of trousers, and while Cavanagh was looking at
them he (Knowles) pushed open the door and walked into
the room, when Cavanagh exclaimed " Oh, my God," at
the same time acting down on the two pairs of trousers on
the chair, and the oth©r two pairs she tried to secure under
her clothes. He told Cavanagh to get up and she did so,
and on his pointing to the trousers on the chair she said
they did not belong to her. He then made a search and
found a piece of now linsey and a piece of check, which
Cavanagh said she had bought of a person she did not
know.

Air Tyrwhitt asked the constable whether be knew
Cavanagh, and the constable said he had known her ft r
years, and she was once charged before his worship at
Clerkenwell Police-court.

Mr Benjamin having identified the trousers as his pro-
perty, and stated that they were stolen from his shop,
L. Bibby, 182 G, proved finding two ousts in Cavanagh's
room, one of them he saw Greenwood drop ott his entering
the roam.

Thomas Fitzgerald, in the employ of Mr Foster, identi-
fied one of the coats as the property of Mr Foster.
Cavanagh said she told the lads to walk out of her room.
Mr Tyrwhat remarked that he had no doubt she did so
as soon as she saw the constable walk in.

Cavanagh said the constable could not have looked
through the keyhole, because the door had not got one.
Knowles said the door was not closed, through some
singular want of foresight; nor aas a blanket hung before
it, which was a common practice with receivers, and he
was thus enalled to see what was going on.
The prisoners were all committed for trial, but will be
brought up again.

Cavanagh asked to be admitted to bail, but Mr Tyrwhitt
refused, stating that she was the receiver, and the worst of
the lot.

WESTMINSTER.

GROSS CASTS OP IMPOSING A FALSE CHARACTER UPON
GENTLEMAN.—A tall man, about 40 years of age, who
gave the name of Francis Harris, was Charged upon a
warrant with having imp )sed upon Mr Fryer, a gentleman
of fortune, in Chester-street, Bolgrave-squire, a spurious
character, by which he WAS enabled to enter his service at
his country house in Dursetshire,

Prosecutor said I appear here entirely on public grounds,
with the desire to break up a clique of persons who are pur-
suing most disgraceful courses to get situations. Early in
September last I saw an advertisement in the papers ; it
was headed, " Indoor Servant," and went on to say,
"Single-handed or otherwise, age 30, height oft Din, can
brew, in last situation 3 years 2 months." Thinking that
the person described would suit me, I wrote to the address
given, No. 13, Little Queen's-street, Edgware-road,
and he came to me. I engaged him, provided
his reference, which ho had given me, was
satisfactory. His reference was " Captain Charles Willes,
Lyster House, Brentwood Essex." He particularly told
me how to spell the gentleman's name, cad I wrote to him
at the address given, and in a few days I received an
answer stating that Thomas Harris had Lived under him
the exact time stated in the advertisement, three years and
two months, and was everything a man could desire in a
servant, was sober, honest, and had left on his own accord.
Prisoner was hired in consequence of this high character,
and came to my house in Dorset-street on the following
Friday, and continued with me until the Monday, when I
found out what he was. I found there was nothing laid for
my dinner, no cloth, no preparation. Tho prisoner was in
a confused and muddled state, yafectly bewildered, and did