The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-28 00:00:00

THAMES.

EXTENSIVE AND DARING ROBBERY.—James
aged 40, and described as a labourer, of 92, Eastfield-street,
Limehouse, was brought before Mr Partridge charged with
stealing 430 yards of red cambric, valued £36, from a barge
called The Sisters, on the Regent's Canal.,
Mr William Adams, an inspector of Thames police, said
he saw the prisoner on Haggerstone-bridge, in the parish
of Shoreditch, yesterday evening. The prisoner was look-
ing at a barge called The Sisters, laden with valuable mer-
chandise, coming along the Regent's Canal towards the
bridge. He followed the barge and kept the prisoner in
view, for he knew that a robbery was intended. At last he
went to Eastfield-street, Limehuuse, the eastern end of
which looked on to the canal. There was a fence at the
end of the street. He saw the prisoner leave the barge and
come towards the fence. A man followed the prisoner
with a large sack on his back containing something bulky.
The prisoner climbed over the fence into Eastfield-street,
and the man behind him pitched the sack and its contents
over the fence. The prisoner immediately raised the sack
from the ground, put it on his shoulder, and was proceed.
ing towards his own house when he seizEd the prisoner,
and assisted by a constable took the load to the station-
house. The sack contained 20 pieces of red cambric, each
piece containing 24 yards. The value of it was is 6d per
yard, and it was in charge of the Great Northern Railway
Company for exportation to India.
A Solicitor, who appeared for the prosecution, raid he
would offer no more evidence today, and asked for a
remand.

Mr Partridge—Certainly. The prisoner is remanded for
a week.
LOSING AND FINDING A £5 NOTE.—Alexander Good-
body, who said he was a tailor, was brought before Mr.
Partridge charged with stealing a £5 note.
On the night of Thursday, the 15th of the present month,
Mr. Henry Masson, of 56, Smith-street, Stepney, lost a£6
note between the hours of 9 and 13 o'clock. He thought it
was abut half-past nine when he missed the note in Smith •
street, a few yards from his own door. It was wrapped up
in a tax paper and fell out of a book. Mr. Masson gave
information of his loss to the police, and a notice was sent
to the Bank of England, where the note was paid in on the
23d of June by Truman and Hanbury, the brewers, who
received it from Mr. Edwin 13artictt, the landlord of the
White Horse publia house, gnthrod, at the corner of
Stepney-green.

Mr Bartlett said he cashed the note for the prisoner on
the morning of Monday, the 20th of June. The prisoner
indorsed the note as follows;--Mr Goodbody, No. 3, Henry-
street, Stepney.
Mr Richard Adie Barley, clerk in the Bank of England,
producad a cancelled £5 note, No. 82,189, April 16, 1864,
which Mr. Masson identified as Ihe one he had lost.
James Briden, a police sergeant, No. 4 IC, said that he
took the prisoner into custody this mcrning, and he said
that he took the note on Hampton Racecourse cn the after-
noon of the 16th of June, at 5 o'clock, in payment of a bet.
The prisoner—Yes, I took it at 4 o'clock--the day Caller
Oa won the Queen's Plate,

Mr Partridge—you took it on Hampton Racecourse
fonr hours and a halt before it was lost, and did not part
with it till the following Monday ? I don't believe you
took it on Hampton race-course.

Briden—The prisoner gave a fictitious address.
Mr Pa4tridge said the prisoner was a dishonest fellow,
who found the lost note, and instead of looking for the
owner, whose address was on the ta4 paper, he converted it
to his own use. He hued the prisoner 20s for the unlawful
possession of the note, and in detanit one mouth's impri-
sonment,

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