The Sun.
London, England, 1830-12-02 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW.STREET.

Yesterday Mr. Charles Kemble waited upon Sir
R. BIRNIR, and stated that he had received a letter
signed " Swing," threatening his life and also the
destruction of Covent-garden Theatre, unless he
should consent to grant a free benefit for the writer
and his associates. Mr. Kemble produced the letter,
of which the following is the substance:---
" sir,—We must not, shall not starve. Give us a free
benefit, and apply the profits to our want., or we will set
fire to the theatre, and kill you. f' SWING."
Sir R. Ihamti told Mr. Kemble, that he need
not be under much apprehension that any mischief
would arise either to himself or the theatre, as the
letter in question was most probably a hoax. The
Magistrate added, that perhaps the better way
would be to accede to the demand, and to take Mr.
"Swing" into custody, or whoever he might send
to the theatre for the amount of the benefit.
lamination was received at this office on Friday
last, that a most daring and extensive burglary had
taken place on that day week, between the hours
of four and seven o'clock, at the house of Mr. John
Abrahams, a pawnbroker, residing at Bristol. Mr.
Abraham. being a Jew, closed his premises at four
o'clock on the day in question, as the sabbath of
the Jews usually commences from bun-set on Fri-
day, and continues until the same hour on the fol-
lowing day. The thieves, taking advantage of this
circumstance, entered the shop by means of skeleton
key., and packed up nearly the whole of the valu-
able property which they found upon the premises,
consisting of 243 gold and silver watches, 500
wedding and fancy rings, 400 solid gold seek, 30
gold chains, two doz,,n of silver gilt knives and
forks with mother-of-pearl handles, a great quantity
of ear-rings of various patterns and descriptions,. se-
vend dozens of silver table, ten, and salt spoons, and
a great stock of valuable property, amounting in the
whole to upwards of 2,000/., the principal part of
which consisted of pledges received by Mr. Abra-
hams in the course of his business.

Sir It. BIRNIN, upon receiving this information,
immediately despatched Ford, the gaoler, the only
officer whose services were at that time available, to
endeavour to ascertain at the several Bristol coach-
offices, whether any suspicious persons had lately
arrived from that place with luggage likely to
contain property such as had been stolen. From
the inquiries set on foot by Ford, he was induced
to bel►eve that the driver of a hackney-couch,
whose number he ascertained, could furnish him
with some important information, but on inquiring
for the coachman, he was informed that he had
gone down. to the neighbourhood of Hastings with
some articles of furniture, which he had been in-
trusted to remove. By direction of Sir Richard
Birnie, Ford proceeded to Hastings on Friday
night, and fortunately met wi;11 the coachmen, who
nt once informed him that he conveyed three men
from one of the Bristol coach-offices, on the pre-
vious Saturday evening, to the Gun Tavern at
Pimlico. The coachman added, that the travellers
had with them some very heavy luggage, and that
he conveyed the part es to a house which he de-
scribed, in Pontipool-street, Blackfriars-road. Ford
returned to. town with the coachman, and, accom-
panied by other officers, proceeded to the house in
question, where they apprehended a man who went
by the name of Cole, but whose teal name is Wm.
Walker, This person was immediately recognized
by the officers us an old acquaintance. The mother
of the prisoner was observed by Ford to leave the
room in a hurried manner, and upon following her
to the privy, Ford discovered two silver tea-spoons
lying upon the soil, and from the situation in which
they were found, it was evident that they had just
been thrown there. The mother of the prisoner who
said her name was .lane Cole, was then taken into cus-
tody, and also a womun,who gave the name of Mary
Ann Cole, and who described herself as Walker's
A young woman who acted as servant, and who gave
the name of Mary Ann Scott, was likewise appee.
bender!, and Ford, upon searching the premises,
found a gold seal and some small articles of jewel-
lery, of which he took possession, together with the
spoons which were found in the privy. The prison-