The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-11 00:00:00

safe in his pocket wily two minutes before, On
going to the station Doughty said, "I have not got
our watch, but I know who has."
O❑ cross examination he said if the plaintiff and
Doughty had been eearehed at the hotel and the
watch had not been found upon them, he would not
have given them into custody.
Miss Stone, the defendant's daughter, a young
lady, who also suffered under the infirmity of deaf-
ness, said she saw her father take the plaintiff's
hand out of his pocket.
The Lord Chief Baron, in summing up, said the
jury would have to consider whether the defendant
had good and sufficient reason for believing, and
did believe, and honestly made the charge that
Doughty picked his pocket, and that the female
assisted in the operation. He said that if they
found for the plaintiff, it did not necessarily follow
that the defendant and his daughter had committed
perjury, as it was just one of those eases in which
mistakes on one side or the other might naturally
be made as to what exactly took place.
The jury, after a few minutes' deliberation, gave
a verdict for the plaintiff—damages, £25.
The foreman said the jury wished to express their
opinion that the practice at the Lambeth police-
court as to taking hail was excessively inconvenient.
The Lord Chief Baron said he had already made
some strong remarks on the subject. It was very
much to be lamented that a person like the plaintiff,
charged with an offence of this kind, should be re-
manded a whole week without having an opportu-
nity of being released on bail.
DOUGHTY Y. STONE.
In this action, which arose out of the same affair,
the parties, without going to trial, consented to a
verdict for the plaintiff—damages, £l5.

JEWELLERY ROBBERIES.

At the Public-office, Birmingham, yesterday, be-
fore Mr. Kynnersley, stipendiary, several charges
were heard, in which four foreigners, believed to
be Polish Jews, were implicated, they having been
engaged in robberies of jewellery in Birmingham
and in London,
In the first case, two men, named Tobias Kynnler
and Herman Levey, were charged with having com-
mitted a robbery on the premises of Messrs. Pay ton,
manufacturing jewellers, in Northampton-street, on
Friday last.
The facts, as detailed by Mr. Motterarn, of the
Oxford circuit, who appeared for the prosecution,
were as follows ;—ln the course of Thursday last the
prisoners called at Messrs. Payton's place of busi-
ness, and having represented themselves as foreign
merchants, intimated their wish to purchase goods.
They were informed it was not convenient to show
the goods at that time, and an arrangement was
made that the men should call on the following
morning, which they did. They were waited upon
by Mr. Henry Payton and a clerkin attendance. Mr.
Payton had a suspicion that the men were prigs; he
was not only especially watchful and cautious of
every movement of his customers, but by a memo-
randum in writing upon a card he enjoined watch-
fulness on the part of his clerk. No movement was
seen by either. A selection of articles was made by
each of the prisoners; these were put aside on a
couple of trays, the men saying they would call
again at 2 o'clock, when the things were packed,
pay for them, and take them away. At the first
interview the men said they would pay for whatever
was purchased. Mr. Payton suggested that the
goods might be packed in a quarter of an hour and
taken at once, if the prisoners were prepared to pay
for them. However, they left the place in a cab,
promising to return at the hour named ; a minute
afterwards Mr. Payton noticed that one of the
brooches selected by the prisoners was missing from
the tray ; his suspicions became stronger, and he
despatched his father in search of them. The pri-
soners were overtaken and brought back, much
against their will, almost by force. On entering
the warehouse one of them asked to be shown the
trays on which were the goods they had selected,
and suddenly, with a dexterity which eluded all
vigilance, the brooch Mr. Payton had missed re-ap-
peared upon the tray. Upon that a policeman was
called in ; he proceeded to search Kynnler, but no-
thing was found on him ; the other prisoner in the
meantime in some mysterious manner had deposited
on the counter eight brooches and no less than 13
pairs of earrings, which he reproduced almost as
cleverly as he had secreted them, one of the earrings
only falling on the floor near him. These facts
were fully proved, and the jewellery identified by
Mr. Payton.
The prisoners were both committed for trial at the
sessions.
There was also a charge against them, in conjunc-
tion with a young man and a woman said to be the
wife of Kynnler, of having stolen valuable rings
from the shop of Mr. Wilkinson, of Skinner-street,
Clerkenwell, London. The woman when taken into
custody had many rings on her fingers ; one of
these, which she attempted to throw away, was
identified by the prosecutor, and under circum-
stances to cause the committal of the woman for
trial for felony.