The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-03 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

DISGRACEFUL DISTURBANCE OF TRADESMEN.—Four
shabbily dressed young men, giving the names of Haines,
Duffey, Hunt, and Ryan, were charged as follows :
Sergeant Hornblow, 24 B, said—At a quarter before one
this morning I was on duty in plain clothes in Sloane-street,
and heard some knocking at the shutters of a shop. I
directly afterwards saw the defendants—they were knock-
ing at the shutters of No. 32 with their hands. They made
such a noise that I at first thought there was a fire and
they were calling people up. I saw the defendants go to
35, and they knocked there for half a minute. They theh
went to 41, and commenced an attack on the shutters there,
and then went to 81, where one of them, I cannot say
which, ran with his foot against the shutters. I
followed them into Halken-street, and there I met
with a policeman in uniform, and I then took two of the
defendants myself, and gave the other two into his custody.
Defendants said they had been to the Sun Music Hall, at
Knightsbridge, and were there rather late. They declared
all in the same breath, that they never touched any shutters
in Sloane-street, and that, in point of fact, the whole state-
ment against them was a fabrication of the police sergeant's.

Mr. Selfe—Were the defendants drunk?
Sergeant Hornblow—They had taken some drink ; but
were certainly not drunk.
Mr. Selfe—Did they knock at any of the doors ?
Sergeant Hornblow—l could not say.
Defendants (all at once)—We did not knock at any-
thing.

Sergeant Hornblow—l followed them on the other side,
all the way down Sloane-street, and never lost sight of
them. I have made inquiries this morning and find that
some of the inmates were disturbed at the houses where the
defendants knocked, and one of the shutters is broken.
Mr. Selfe—Why did you not take them sooner ?
Sergeant Hornblow—l was obliged to wait till I saw a
constable, I could not take them all four myself.
Mr. Selfe—Yes you could; they have been locked up all
night—(to defendants) " There, go along with you."
They were accordingly liberated,

THAMES.
DARING HORSE AND CART ROBBERT.—DanieI Thomp-
son, a tall young man, for a long time the associate of
thieves and desperate characters, who loiter about the docks
and wharves, was brought before Mr. Partridge, charged
with stealing a horse and van, and two wooden cases con-
taining 6 oil paintings, valued in all at £l3O.
On Tuesday last Mr. Jacobs, of No. 24, Tibberton-square,
Islington, and a member of the firm of Tindal and Jacobs,
licensed earn:ten in the City, gave directions to a man named
Jacob Patey, in the employ of that firm, to fetch two
wooden cases, which contained oil paintings, from the pre-
mises of Messrs. Aldridge and Company, in King William-
street, and convey them to the St. Katharine dock for
shipment on board the Sir James Gray, bound to the Cape
of Good Hope. The carman reached the front of the dock
gate at ten minutes past 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and left
his horse and van while he went into the dock to make in-
quiries about the ship. On his return the horse and van
were gone. He gave immediate information of his loss to
the police. On the same night the horse and van were
found unattended in Poplar and removed to the green yard.
The cases containing the six oil paintings, and valued at
£9O, were gone. The prisoner was apprehended this morn-
ing by a police. constable named Wm. Andrews, who said
the prisoner was formerly a carman, and described himself
as having no home or occupation.
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wharfingers and warehouse-keepers, Crutched-friars, said
he was standing at the gate of his employer's premises at
half-past three o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, and saw a
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