The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-18 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
ROBBERY OF DRESDEN CHINA FIGURES.—TWO young
men named Geo. Rutherford, porter, and Geo. Chatham,
labourer, were charged before Mr. Knox with stealing from
outside the shop of Mr. N. W. Jacobson, 311, Oxford-
street, dealers in works of art, two Dresden china figures.
Sergeant Bentley, 13 C, deposed that about half-past
five on Saturday afternoon he met the prisoners in Pulte-
ney-street. Observing they had something under their
coats, and suspecting them he asked Rutherford what he
had got, when he said it was a figure a man had given him
to carry to Bryclges-street, Covent-garden, and on asking
the other prisoner what he had he made a similar answer.
He then took them iutp custody.
A little girl, a daughter of Mr. Jacobson, proved seeing
the prisoner take the figures from outside her father's shop
on Saturday afternoon. She directly afterwards told her
father.

Mr. Jacobson, having identified the articles as his
property, stated that they were not quite complete, as they
would be xorth £lO ; in the present state they were of the
value of £5. His daughter had been asked by one of his
men to stand at the shop door for a moment, and directly
the man left the two prisoners instantly snatched up the
figures and made off,
Mr. Knox asked if the prisoners were known ?
Sergeant Bentley said he believed both of them were ?
Mr. Knox said ho felt bound to state that he had himself
observed in passing lir. Jacobson's shop, where there were
a number of pretty things exposed, that no one was in
charge of them.

Mr. Jacobson
care of the goods.
said he kept a lad for the purpose of taking
The prisoners were remanded.

A CRUEL ROBBELY. THAMES.
—Elizabeth Muirhead, a very in-
temperate and violent woman, was brought before Mr.
Paget charged with stealing a coat and several articles of
female wearing apparel,
the property of Mr. 'Teague.
The prosecutor and his wife are living at No. 1,
Nightingale-lane, Lfmehouse. The prisoner was their
next door neighbour. On Thursday afternoon last Mrs.
Teague left home and securely locked the front door, but
the back door was open, no robbery being contemplated
by any one from that quarter. On her return Mrs. Teague
discovered that her dwelling had been entered in her
absence, and her husband's coat, a shawl, two stuff
petticoats, two pair of drawers, a red scarf, and
a few chemises had been stolen. The prosecutor
and his wife are poor card working people, and the loss of
their property was tc them a heavy one. Michael Holton,
a police-constable, No. 26 K, was called upon to investi-
gateentrance had been made from the back of the dwelling-
and he came to the conclusion that an
ho u the affair, s
e.The
garden or yard at the back of one house could
be easily reached froze the yard of the next. The prisoner
took advantage of this facility of access to rob her neigh-
bours, and raised money on the property she had stolen,
which she expended in strong drinks. She pawned the
prosecutor's coat at Mr. Matthew's shop, and gave the
ticket to a man named Pilcher, who gave it up
to Holton. Tho prisoner said she had pawned the re-
mainder of the stolen property, with the exception of a
pie° of canvass, which she sold to a rag dealer. The dupli-
cates relating to the stolen articles were not forthcoming.
The coat was identified.
The prisoner pleaded guilty.
Mr. Paget said the prisoner had committed a very cruel
robbery on her neighbours, who were poor and could ill
afford the loss. It was a very wicked and unneighbourly
act, which deserved severe punishment. He convicted
the prisoner of larceny, and sentenced her to be imprisoned
and kept to hard labour for six calendar months,