The Sun.
London, England, 1865-03-06 00:00:00

THAMES

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY IN A DWELLING HOUSE.—Louisa
• Beere, a servant girl, was brought before Mr. Paget, charged
with being concerned with her two sisters, Jane Deere
and Mary Ann Birch, in stealing a large quantity of pro-
perty in the house of Mrs. Letitia Jane Goldsmith, No. 33
Trinity-square, Tower-hill, and also with stealing £lO lOs'
in gold and three £5 Bank of England notes, the moneys of
Mr. James Alexander, a merchant dwelling in the same
house.

Dunnaway, a detective police-sergeant, No. 11 H, said
that Jane Beere, who had been in the service of Mrs.
Goldsmith, and her sister Mrs. Birch, were remanded on
Saturday by Mr. Cooke for a week. On Saturday night,
in consequence of what the prisoner, Jane Beere, said
to him after she was remanded, he went to the
house, No. 138, Leadenhall-street, where the prisoner
was at work. He said to her, your sister Jane told me
to-day, at the time I was searching the room, that she
handed to you a purse containing a £5 note and £4 10s.
or £5 in gold, I don't know which. The prisoner denied
this, but while on the way to the station-house she said
my sister did give mo the purse. I threw it away in the
corner of the room. She also said she wished to see her
mother. The prisoner's mother was sent for, and she said
in her daughter's presence that the purse had been de-
stroyed. He asked the prisoner what she meant by its
being destroyed, and she said she threw it in the fire. He
wont to No. 69, Banner-square, St. Luke's, where the
prisoner had been living, and sifted the ashes. He could
find no trace of the purse.
Mr. Paget remanded the prisoner until Saturday next.
AN EXTRAORDINARY CAB FARE.—George Piper, a master
butcher, whose wife, a respectable woman, carries on a busi-
ness which he has neglected in Cable-street, Whitechapel,
was brought up on a warrant charged with refusing to pay
40s. to a cab-driver named George Jaques.
The prisoner hired the complainant's cab at the end of
January last, and drove him to various parts in Stepney
and other places, for ten hours, finally setting him down
at the Rising Sun public-house, Oxford-street, Stepney.
Here the prisoner gave the cabman the slip, by escaping
over the back wall. The complainant sought for the pri-
soner, in vain, and went home. He came to the conclusion
he had been " bilked "of his fare. On the following day
the prisoner again hailed Jaques in the street, made
an excuse for leaving him on the previous night
and said that he had just been to his master's
yard in search of him. He again hired the complainant,
who drove his faro over the same ground, finishing the
job, as before, at the Rising Sun. The prisoner again
made his escape, and the cab-driver never saw him again
until he was in custody. A summons was originally applied
for and served on the prisoner, to which he did not appear,
and a warrant was then applied for, on which Piper was
arrested by Howland, an officer of the court. The com-
plainant drove the prisoner in his cab 10 hours the first day
and 11 hours on the second day, in all2l hours, but he had
only charged 20 hours.

The prisoner said he was unable to pay the cab-driver,
and he was committed to the House of Correction for 21
days.