The Sun.
London, England, 1814-11-07 00:00:00

POW-STREET.

. On S.aturelay the naval uniform wag ,again
dis-
graced by the appearing at.the 13ar of the.
OffiCeOf J,olw Grout, undergoing a second exa
mination on , a charge of fraud, by a nuttalter of
publicans, by "getting into their .houses, UrL:Cjr
pretence of flaying just arrived, in I,,Ondon (Win
sea, and baying considerable sums to receive. at,
S:omerset-house for wages and prize-money.. The
prisoner was fully committed for trial.
,attirday, Th9incts Elliot was charged,under,the
Ganie . Laws with illegally Selling game,. The
prisoner called at the Green Man public-house,
in Bow,:street,, and offered the landlord two hares
for sale. The landlord declined purchasing them;
but Dickons,, the Officer, who was in the tap-
*room at the ihue,,came forward and -purchased
them. On questiOning.the defendant, however,
where he got then], and who he was, he gave so
unsatisfactory an aecOunt of himself, that the Of-
ficer took hint to the Office. On being questioned
h Mr. Biarig as to Where be:got the game, he
'said he was not obliged, and would not answer
that question: The Magistrate was then ybiint.
to convict, him in !he penalty of 20s. for .sellifig
ganie Ni7hVa Mi 1:11.1PP111;1C9;'-iiii attor-
ney for the defendant, Submitted, that the ,31
gLstrate cduld not thus convict, not having a re-
gular infornaation before hint. Mr. Bison: then
inqtrired ofThickons if he was ready to swear to
his helierthat the delendant•did not clime honest,.
ly by the hares ? and he answering in the affirma-
tive, pr. 1311 R cih,ier,l lie would save all fur-
ther trouble by committing the prisonet ror
ekamipatiou for felony, and thus afford.him an
opportunity-of giving a more satisfactory account
of
EXTRAOiIDINARY ROBBERY.,---JanieS ICUSiCk was
brought to 'the Office by Wilson, one of the• pa-
trole belonging .to the, Office, charged with
rob-
bing the Hose public-house, in Rose,street, Co. •
vent-Garden, under the following extraordinary
circumstances

On' the morning of the 15th of October last,
about half-Past six o'clock, the prisoner, in com-
pany with, another Mari, Went to the door of the
Rose public.4tonse, in Rose-street, at the' above
time and early hour ; the ilDor of the hog se was
just opened by a young man' who rodged in the
house, whom they told they Were Bow-street Of-
ficers, and had a'seaich ‘Varrant, to search the
house for stolen goods ; the young man called up
the. landlord, who immediately came down stairs
with only.his breeches on, when the prisoner and
his ecimpanion repeated who they were; and the
business they hail in, his house. :Arr. Kelly as-
sured them they were-misinformed, but they must
do their duty ; and as they were Bow-street Of-
ficers they knew how to conduct theinSelves, and
requested they would conduct themselves with
as winch decency as possible, as .his wife had
_only been brought to bed the night before, which
they promised to do : they then proceeded up
stairs, and Mr. Kelly attended to opening his
house and'his -business. They returned down
stairs after some time, and told 11r. Kelly they
could not'find the property they were in search of,
nor a man of the name of 'Frank Riley, whom
they were io pursuit of,' and were informed he
liVed in that house.. They assured him. they had
ribt disturbed his Wife, and asked to be treated
With something, to' drink, and he treated them
with some giti After they bad been gone some
time, Mr. Kelly went up stairs, when he found
that they had-been into his wife's bed-room, and
another female's bed-room; and on -going into
hit 'own bed-room, he' missed his watch, chain,
and seals,.:which Were Of the value of about,
201. he had left • on a table when he left the
rood, ;- and no person having' been in the room
alter -he left it, 'he had no doubt but they.
had stolen the., property. . He enquired at
the 'Office, and *found that' the charge of stolen
prOperty being in his house was groundless ; and
thit no Officers, answering the description of
those who had searched his .house, belonged to
the Office.' .0n d6eribing the persons of the
rhen;.one'orthem,,Wifson, the patrole, had no
doubt•of the Tisoner, from the description, be-
ing One of thcsn, and' has' been in pur.suit of him.
iii consequence 'since. 'On Friday night, -lie dis-
eovered biotin a house in aartes-street, Drury-
lane ; he. being a reputed thief for these six years
past: After some resistance, he secured him.
Mr.'Kelly attended at the Office, and identified'him
as `one of the men. The prisoner was committed
for -trial'.