The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-06 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

THE BOBBERY AT THE CHARING-CROSS HOTEL.—The
three men, Hodgin, Manshott, and George, charged with
robbery at the Charing-cross Hotel, were to-day placed
before Mr. Vaughan, on remand.
It will be recollected that the two prisoners, Manshott
and Hodgin, were found near the rooms 87 and 88 in the
hotel by one of the chambermaids named Mitchell, and she
feeling they had no right there, called the porter to ques-
tion them. On seeing them he at once went to Sergeant
Toby, the constable attached to the establishment, when
the prisoners ran away. Toby, however, succeeded in
capturing Hodgin, and as they were going to the sta-
tion the prisoner struck him with a jemmy which he
had concealed in his coat pccket. Previous to the alarm
Toby had drawn the attention of Sergeant Monkton to the
three prisoners, whom he had seen in company together
underneath the front portico of the Charing-cross Railway
terminus, near the hotel entrance. George was appre-
hended a few days after by Inspector West from the infor-
mation by Sergeant Toby, and the officer afterwards
identified him at the police station as the third man he had
already spoken of.
Sergeant Monkton said he went into the 87 and 88 after
the prisoners Hodgin and Manshott had been locked up,
and found one of the drawers of;a cheffonier had been
forced open. Mr. Poore, the gentleman who occupied the
apartment said, when he left the room in the early part of
the day the drawers was quite perfect, but when he tried
to open it, on his pointing out the marks, he could nOt
do so.

Inspector West said he examined the marks on the
drawer and door, referred to by Sergeant Monkton, he
found they corresponded with the jemmy taken from
Hodgin's pocket. He went to the House of Detention on
Saturday, the 30th, and while there he saw George waiting
outside. The prisoner went into the public-house at the
corner. As soon as George saw him he and another man
ran out of the house, but they were pursued by himself
and Inspector Silverton, the latter of whom secured
him on Clerkenwell-green, and he was afterwards
put in a cab and taken to the station-house. He asked
what he was taken into custody for, and he (witness) told
him it was for being concerned in a hotel robbery. He
said, " You make a mistake," but he (witness) told him
the names of the two other prisoners. lie said Ike (-mild not
deny that he blew them, and as he had known Manshott
for a long time he was persuaded to visit him at the House
of Detention. Witness told him he was going to take him
to Bow-street, and if he was found not to be the person he
would be let go. He gave a false address at the station.
He was identified by Toby as the man he saw in company
with the other two prisoners at 12 o'clock.
Mr. Vaughan asked whether' there was any further
evidence to connect George with the robbery than that
already adduced ?
Inspector West said there was not.
Mr. Vaughan was of opinion that the evidence was very
insufficient. Although the man might bear a bad characte
the evidence only went to the length of saying that he was
in company with the two men at twelve o'clock and
nothing more. The robbery took place about two o'clock,
and he was not about the station or hotel at the time. He
should therefore order him to be discharged.
George accordingly left the dock, and the charge of
robbery was then proceeded with against the two remain-
ing prisoners.

Mr. George Poore said he was a merchant, and at the

time of the robbery he was stopping at the Charing-cross
Hotel. The property stolen from the drawer, consisting of
two Austrian coins, belonged to him.
This being the whole of the evidence,
Mr. Vaughan, after giving the usual caution, asked the
prisoners what they had to say in answer to the charge.
The solicitor who appeared for them asked the magistrate
to deal with the matter instead of sending the parties for
trial.

Mr. Vaughan replied that he intended to commit Hodgins
on two charges;—One for felony, and the other for resist-
ing and assaulting the officer who took him into custody.
Application was then made to admit Manshott to bail,
his legal advisers saying he could get substantial bail.
Mr. Vaughan inquired if there was anything known
about the prisoner ?

Inspector West said they were two old thieves, and both
ticket-of-leave men.

Mr. Vaughan immediately committed both for trial, and
not another word was said about bail.

MARLB ORO UGH-STREET.

AN INTOLERABLE NUISANCE.—Henry Harper, a lad, was
charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with disorderly conduct.
Mr. Byrne, a bootmaker, Marshall-street, Golden-square,
said that he felt it his duty to proceed against the prisoner
for the sake of the public, and with the view of assisting
the police in checking a most disgraceful nuisance. On the
previous night ho saw about 20 lads and girls collected in
Marshall-street, who were pelting every one who passed
with bags of flour. The prisoner, whoswas very active,
threw a bag of flour at a female, smothering her from head
to foot, and just as he was receiving another bag of flour
from a lad he (Mr. Byrne) seized him and took him towards
the station, when meeting a constable he handed him over
to him. On the former night the prisoner and his com-
panions had stretched a cord across the street for the pur-
pose of throwing persons down, and they were in the
j._mping on the backs of
_persons, Zile'-police not
being able to take any of the offenders into custody,
owing to lads being placed to give the signal when the
police were coming.
Mr. William Brown, of 14, West-street, proved seeing a
number of lads and girls pelting ono another, and every one
who passed, with flour. At the time Mr. Byrne seized the
prisoner he had a bag of flour in his hand, and another bag
was found upon him.

A constable said he found a bag of flour and a piece of
cord on the prisoner, the cord being used for tripping up
persons.

The prisoner said he did not throw any flour, and the
cord was given to him.

Mr. Byrne said the nuisance had been going on for some
time.

Mr. Tyrwhitt said that it was evident the prisoner had
plenty of what was called " cheek." He should commit
him for 21 days with hard labour, and he wished some of
the others had been brought before him.