The Sun.
London, England, 1865-03-21 00:00:00

The Great Jewel Robbery iii the City.

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MANSION-HOUSE.-(THIS DAY.)

The prisoners David Roberts, Henry Geoffrey, Thomas
Casley, Thomas Brewerton, James Hurley, Wm. Brown,
alias Scotty, Martha Geoffrey, Anne Casley, and Louisa
Brewerton, were again placed at the bar before the Lord
Mayor. Mrs. Hurley was not present to-day.
No further evidence was offered on this occasion.
The prisoners were again remanded until Friday.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A TRAINER OF BoY THIEVES.—OMNIBUS ROBBERY.--
Charles Williams, calling himself a hawker, and residing
near the Victoria Park, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt
with being concerned with a lad named Charles Slack,
who described himself as a professional dancer, in stealing
a purse containing silver, &c., from a lady named Jay
while in an omnibus in Oxford-street.

The prisoner Williams was seen by Sergeant Coathupe,
of the detective force, on an omnibus in the Strand on
Friday last, and the sergeant, knowing him as a trainer of
boy thieves, and suspecting he had some one inside the
omnibus, followed the omnibus in a cab. After going a
short distance the sergeant found his suspicions to be
correct, for the prisoner got from the top of the omnibus
and was joined by a lad named Slack, who got from tho
inside. The prisoners then went by another omnibus
to Westminster, Williams being outside and Slack inside,
as before. On reaching Westminster-bridge the prisoners
changed to another omnibus and returned to Charing-cross,
and then changed to an omnibus going up Regent-street.
On reaching the Regent-circus, Oxford-street, the prisoners
left the omnibus, Williams paying the fares for both, and
they then walked sharply away into Castle-street, where
Sergeant Coathupe saw Slack take something from his
pocket and give it to Williams, and he then seized both
prisoners, when he found in Williams's hand a purse and
in Slack's the contents of it ; but on the prisoner throw-
ing away the purse, and tho sergeant attempting to
pick it up, he (Williams) managed to escape, but the
sergeant retained his hold of slack, and brought
him to this court, and he was remanded. Last
night Sergeant Edward Langley, of the Detective Force,
succeeded in taking Williams into custody at his lodgings
near the Victoria-park, the prisoner being at the time
dressed as a hawker, while when seen by Sergeant
Coathupe on the omnibus he was attired as a gentleman.
Williams said he had no other clothes than those he was

wearing, and that the officer had not told the truth.
Mr. Tyrwhitt remanded Williams—who has suffered
four years' penal servitude and been long known to the
police as a trainer of boy-thieves—till Friday next, when
he will be brought up with Slack, who has undergone two
terms of imprisonment of three months each.
VIOLENT ASSAULT ON A MENDICITY SOCIETY OFFICER.—
John Sullivan, a notorious begger, was charged with beg-
ging and violently assaulting Thomas Turner, one of the
officers of the Mendicity Society.
Turner saw the prisoner begging in Oxford-street, and
on taking him into custody he became very violent, kick-
ing him about the legs, and swearing that 40 officers should
not take him to the station. A struggle then ensued, in
the course of which Turner got several blows about the
head.

The Magistrate said a violent fellow like the prisoner
should be punished to the utmost of the law, and he should
therefore commit him for two months for the assault on
the officer, and one month for begging.