The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-24 00:00:00

(LEFT SITTING.)

CAPTURE AND COMMITTAL OF
TWO LADY THIEVES AT BRISTOL.
Two females, dressed in the first style of fashion, and
of lady-like manners and address, were npprehended
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yesterday by the Great Western Railway Company,.
police, at Bristol, upon a charge of robbing a lady named
Barnard of a parse, containing bank notes of the value
of 251. Mrs. Barnard, who is the wife of a gentleman
residing at Cheltenham, was proceeding to a watering.
place on the line of the Bristol and Exeter Railway,
called Weston-super-Mare. She had stopped in Bristol
for a short time, and finding when she got to the Bristol
and Exeter station that she was a little too late for the
train she had intended going by, and having to wait for
the departure of the next, she sat down and began to
amuse herself- by making entries of some payments for
purchases which she had made. Soon after her arrival
elle observed the two females in question enter the
waiting-room where she was, and commence a con-
versation. In a few minutes Mrs. Bernard felt her
person pressed against, and upon looking round she
saw the ladies whom she had seen enter, and whose
elegant dresses and manners had struck her atten-
tion, close behind her. She did not for a moment
suspect them, and supposing that they had pushed
against her accidentally, she went on with her calcula-
tions. Soon afterwards they again pushed against her,
and as she observed that upon her looking up they re-
tired rather hastily, and at once quitted the office, she
thought that something was wrong, and upon examining
her pocket, found that she had been robbed of a bag and
notes of the value of 25/. She gave information of what
had occurred, to the company's officers, who immediately
went in search of the thieves, whom, after a while, they
found in the London booking-office, where they were
probably looking for fresh plunder. They were cap
tured, and expressed great surprise and indignation that
ladies of their appearance and respectability should be
suspected. The police, however, removed them from
the London to the Exeter booking-office, and on their
way one of them was observed to pass her hand behind
her and drop the bag and notes, which, upon being
shown to Mrs. Barnard, were at once identified as having
been stolen from her. The prisoners were conveyed
before the Bristol magistrates, by whom they were com-
mitted to take their trial for felony. There is reason to
believe that they have been earning a handsome living
by picking. the pockets of passengers by the different
railway trains.

DARING ROBBERIES OF PLATE, &C.—Yesterday
the police received information of the following robbe-
ries:—On the 21st instant, from No. 43, Mount-street,
Lambeth, a japanned cash-box, containing a chased gold
neck-chain, with gold locket and key, a mourning rine,
a fang& gold ring set with turquoise and pearls, a chased
gold ribg, turquoise in the centre, a gold garnet ring,
a handsome bead purse, containing ten shillings in
silver, and 41. 10s. in gold. On the 20th, from 59,
Great Queen. street, six plain silver forks, three dessert
ditto, two salts, pepper-caster, must ird spoon, a double
cased gold antique watch, with the royal arms on the
outside, sixty silver-handled knives (crest, a cat's head,
with mouse in mouth), a silver foreign drinking cup, two
silver table-spoons, two plain ditto, seven teaspoons, a
silver milkjug, and other articles, including medals of dif-
ferent orders. On the 20th, from 57, Lower Grosvenor-
street, Grosvenor-square, five silver table-spoons, four
silver teaspoons, pair of sugar-tongs (crest an arm in
armour, with a ring in the hand)
A HINT.—HOW TO READ WHEN ON THE RAILWAY.
—By holding a card or slip of paper, over the line below
that which yon are reading, the eye is freed from the
disturbance caused by the motion of the carriage, you
then may read with comfort.