The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-22 00:00:00

THAMES.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF FRAUD.----Charles A.2180D, a
dark, tall, and swarthy Jew, about 40 years of age, was
brought before Mr. Partridge charged with obtaining 16
coats, valued at £7 10s.

Isaac Goldstein, a little foreign Jew, with a red beard and
moustache, gave his evidence with great vehemence. His
impassioned gestures, grimaces, and mode of delivery created
much amusement. He said he was a clothes dealer, dwell-
ing in Umberstonc-street, Commercial-road. On the even-
ing of Thursday in last week the prisoner called upon him,
and said he wanted to buy a coat, looked at a great many,
and at last selected four black coats and twelve other ones.
The prisoner showed him a note for £l7, and said he would
get cash for it and pay for the goods when they were sent
home to his house, No. 91, Heath-street. Stepney.
He went to the house with his child, left
the sixteen coats there, and asked the prisoner for
his money. The prisoner said he could not get change for
his cheque. He demanded his goods, and the prisoner
said, " You shall not have them." He then asked for pay-
ment, and the prisoner regularly pitched into him, and gave
me a good hiding into the bargain. The prisoner took his
goods away from him by force. " That," continual the
witness, " was mine payment." (Laughter.)
Mr. Partridge—An old way of paying new debts, not a
new way to pay old debts.

Witness —He threw water over me. He said I'll cool
you. (Roars of laughter.) He said he would pay me over
the face and eyes. I went to his house several times ; he
was always out on business. Yesterday I saw him in
Leman•street, Whitechapel. He was wearing my coat.
I said, " You rogue, you thief, you swindler, you robber,
will you come to the station-house." He said, "No, I
won't," and he seized me by the throat, and said, " I'll
chokeyou. Thetis how he paid for mine coats." (Laughter.)
Mark Goldstein confirmed the statement of his brother
in every particular.

The prisoner cross-examined the witnesses, who said
they could not read. The prisoner did not say he had a
bill of exchange, but said he had a note for £l7. The pri-
soner asked for an invoice, and one was given.
The prisoner (triumphantly)—Yes, you sold me the
the goods. It is only a debt.
Albert Standen, police-constable, No. 214 H, saw the
prisoner and the first witness in Leman-street, yesterday
afternoon. They had hold of each other. The prosecutor
said, "I give this man in charge for stealing 16 coats."
The prisoner had one of Goldstein's coats on his back, and
four more in a wrapper under his arm. He found upon the
prisoner a summons, signed by Mr. Woolrych, the magis-
trate, calling upon him to show cause why he de-
tained four jackets, three waistcoats, and three
pieces of trousers, the property of Morris Lever-
son. The prisoner did not appear to the summons,
but settled the matter with the complainant. He also found
on the prisoner a great many pawnbrokers' duplicates. Two
related to coats. One was pawned on the 17th, the other
on the 20th instant,

An officer of the Court said the prisoner was in custody a
year ago on a charge of fraud.
The prisoner said the coats were sold to him.
Mr. Partridge—Yon have been here before. Your con.
duct is highly suspicious; you are remanded.

London Play-goers in 1863 and 1802-3,

The very long " runs," as they are called (though
Viey might more properly be termed long still-standings),
tend (according to a Saturday Reviewer) to make the
Londoner forgetful of his theatres altogether. He saw the
" Duke's Motto" last January, and thus consumed the
Lyceum some seven months ago. Soon afterwards a ver-
sion of " Lady Audley's Secret" enabled him to make
short work of the St. James's. Lord Dundreary retired
from the Haymarket, to leave the world in uninterrupted
enjoyment of Finesse. The "Ticket-of-Leave" and the
" Haunted Man" become respectively fixtures at the
Olympic and the Adelphi ; and Madlle. Stella Colas
had no sooner established herself at the Princess's than
" Romeo and Juliet" was stereotyped in the bills.
In striking contrast to the foregoing resume of the past sea-
son, the writer thus summarises the season of sixty years
ago at Old Drury and at Covent Garden :—With respect,
then, to the season 1802-3 : Drury-lane cpencd on the 16th
September with Farquhar's " Inconstant," which was fol-
lowed by the "West Indian," the "Brothers," " Cymbe-
line," the " Jew," and the " Rivals"—a series showing that
Cumberland's works were at that time exceedingly popular.
On the 7th October, Stephen Kemble, famed for his obesity,
made his first appearance as Falstaff in" Henry 1V.," and
then came the "Winter's Tale," the " Gamester," the
" Castle Spectre," the " Jealous Wife," " Mary Queen of
Scots (a tragedy by the Hon. John St. John), the " Merry
Wives of Windsor, the " Suspicious Husband," " Rule a
Wife and Have a Wife," the "Beggar's Opera," "Deaf
and Dumb," " Douglas," " Twelfth Night," the " Beaux
Stratagem," " Lovers," the " Wonder," the "Busy-Body,"
" Venice Preserved," " Every Man in his Humoar,"
"Bold Stroke for a Wife," "Trip to Scarborough," the
"Count of Narbonne" (a tragedy by Jephson), and the
" Orphan." None of these works were new, but, with such
a varied selection from the mass of stock plays, no one
one could complain of monotony. However, on the 29th
of January, a play by Holcroft, entitled " Hear both Sides,"
was brought out, and it was followed in less than a month
by a tragedy written by Dimond on the subject of Gusta-
vus Vasa, and entitled the " Hero of the North." In the
beginning of March, an actor from America named Cooper
made his debut, and played a few Shakspearian characters ;
and in April came another new comedy, called the " Mar-
riage Promise," of which Allingham was the author. 0
the farces and other afterpieces, and of the benefits, we have
said nothing.

Al Covent-garden, which opened on the 13th of Septem-
ber with "Folly as it Flies"—a comedy by Reynolds, first
brought out in the preceding year—Cooke was the great
attraction, and went through a series of plays, which com-
prised " Richer d III.," "Hamlet," "Merchant of Venice,"
"Every Man in his Humour," and the "Man of the
World." These were alternated with others in which he
did not appear, and which comprised " Romeo and Juliet,"
"Henry IV." the "Suspicious Husband," the " Cure for,
the Heart Ache," the " Way to Get Married" (a comedy
by Morton), and the "Beaux Stratagem." All these pieces
were played in the interval between the opening and
the 30th of October, when a new c miedy by Reynolds,
called "Delays and Blunders," was brought out. Other
novelties were Holcroft's "Tale of Mystery," one of the
earliest and (in its day) most famous of melo-dramas ; the
younger Colman's "John Bull," of which it is recorded as
an event little short of miraculous that it was played for 48
nights; and a version of "I(abal and Liebe,"
entitled the "Harper's Daughter." Our list is by no means
complete, but, without looking further, surely here was
enough for the inhabitants of a capital to talk about; and
it must be admitted that the doings of the numerous play-
houses of our own day, during a corresponding period of
time, furnish a chronicle meagre iudeed as compared with
this re,.:crd of two theatres.