The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-15 00:00:00

THAMES.

SHABBY FELLOWS,—WiIIiam Collins, an engineer, of
No. 12, .Marlborough-street, Blackfriars• road, and Richard
Carthy, of No. 2, Frederick-place, Blackfriars-road, musi-
cian, were brought before Mr. Woolrych, charged with steal-
ing a silver watch from Margaret Taylor, of No. 12,
Albert-square, Shadwell.
Mr. Joseph Smith, solicitor, defended the risoners.
Last night the parties met in Shadwell, and the prisoners
accompanied the prosecutrix to her apartment in Shadwell.
Other persons were present, and there was a good deal of
singing and drinking going on. The prosecutrix was seated
on a bed, the prisoners were alongside of her, and while
Collins handed her a glass of beer, he slipped her silver
watch from her and handed it to Carthy, or
Carter, for he was called by both names. The
prosecutrix immediately charged the prisoners with stealing
her watch, which they denied. A quarrel ensued, and the
prisoners rushed down stairs into the street. The other
prisoners in the room followed, a row ensued, and the women
present called for the police. A police-constable named
George Coleman, 270 K, came up directly afterwards, and
he distinctly saw Carthy pass a silver watch to Collins,
who threw it over the houses. The prisoners were then
given into custody. The stealing of the watch was dis-
tinctly proved. It was taken from the woman's side.
Coleman bad made search for the watch, but could not find
it. It might have gone down the chimney of one of the
houses, or it was not improbable the watch had been picked
up and taken away.
It was elicited by Mr. Smith, in cross-examination, that
the house in Albert-square, where the robbery took place,
was a brothel, and 25 persons were assembled in the room
when the watch was stolen, and that the young men and
several women were invited by Margaret Taylor to come
into her room.

Mr. NV oolrych said there never was a clearer case. The
prisoners were seen to take the watch, pass it and repass it
from one to the other, and finally it was thrown over the
houses in Albert-square by Collins. He intended to com-
mit the prisoners for trial, but they would be brought up
again on Wednesday next for the completion of the deposi-
tions.
CHARGE OF STABBING.—Moses Swart, a German Jew,
aged 50, of No. 1, Swan-yard, Minories, was brought before
Mr. Woolrych charged with stabbing Thomas btent, a
gilder.
The prisoner is a hewker, and yesterday afternoon was
vending pickled cucumbers in Backchurch-lane, White-
chapel. The prosecutor Stent and another man named
Samuel Cardoza purchased a few slices of cucumber of the
prisoner, and kept him in conversation two or three minutes.
The prisoner became impatient and demanded his money,
whicb Stent refused to give him, and the prisoner then took
up a knife and made a blow at Stent's face. He put up his
arm and received the blow, partly on his face and partly on
his knuckles. Cardoza went to the assistance of his com-
panion, and the prisoner cut him down the arm.
Mr. Woolrych—Then two men were wounded P

Stent—Yes, sir.
Mr. Woolrych—Every day I have sat for some time past
there have been one or more cases of wounding with a knife.
It is really shocking.
Mr. Joseph Smith, solictor, elicited in the course of his
cross-examination of the witnesses, that the prisoner was
using his knife to cut up cucumbers, and that they had not
paid him when he struck them.
Lawrence Manders, policeman, 172 H, said he found the
two men, Stent and Cardoza, bleeding copiously from their
wounds, and that the prisoner handed him the knife with
which he inflicted the wounds.
Mr. Woolrych said he wanted the evidence of the surgeon
who dressed the wounds, and when that was given he
should commit the prisoner for trial. At present he should
remand him for a week.