The Sun.
London, England, 1870-11-07 00:00:00

LAW AN]) POLICE.

SYSTEMATIC WORKSHOP ROBWIRIES. —Mary Ann Jack.
son, dressmaker, of No. 15, Harrison-street, Grays-Inn,
road, was charged before Mr. Knox, at the Marlborough.
street Police-court, with stealing from the workshop of
Mrs. Elizabeth Edwards, dressmaker, of No. 71,
Margaret-street, Cavendish-square, several pieces of cloth,
trimmings, &c., the property of her employer. The pro.
secutrix said that in consequence of finding she was being
systematically pilfered, she kept a watch on the prisoner,
which resulted in her discovering that the latter was
robbing her, and at her lodgings some pieces of cloth, her
property, were found. Detective Francis Beetlestone,
E Division, said that on telling the prisoner he was about
to search her house, she tried to prevent him doing so.
He searched the room and found some pieces of
cloth, &c., which the prosecutrix identified as
her property, and also some trimmings, which
the prisoner hal put on her landlady's dress.
The prisoner, who had denied taking anything,
then admitted that she had taken some of the things, but
said that others were given to her, and begged to be for-
given, stating that she was very sorry, and asked not to
be locked up. On the way to the station she dropped
some pieces of duplicates, bnt as some of the pieces were
not found, he was unable at present to ascertain to
what they related. Mr. Knox remanded the prisoner, to
give the officer an opportunity of making further
inquiries.

AN EXTRAORDINARY MARINE SWINDLER.—A tall and
rather dashing looking fellow, named Robert Gray, was
charged at the Thames Police-court with swindling various
persons in the port of London by representing that he had
arrived in the ship Calodyne, from Calcutta, and had
£154 to receive. Ho exhibited great assurance to hie
numerous dupes. He called upon Mr. James Henry
Feist, a chemist, in the East India-road, Poplar, who
keeps a post-office receiving house and money order
office, and after making a few trifling purchases, he per-
suaded Mr. Feist to fill up a direction form for the
payment of £96, and enclosed it in an envelope, and
asked Mr. Feist to address it to Mr. Robert Gray, at
the Well-street Sailors' Home. Ho gave an order for a
medicine chest to be fitted out for sea, and told Mr.
Feist that, as he had been so kind to him, he meant to
give him extensive orders, and that he was going as
chief mate of a ship on a foreign cruise. Ho obtained
money, board, and lodging of various boarding-house
keepers, and a quantity of new clothing and a sovereign
of Mr. Emberly, outfitter, of 177, High-street, Poplar, by
the same representations. Mr. Emberly's account was £ll,
and the prisoner took him to the shipping office on
Tower-hill, and to other public offices, under pretence
of getting his post-office order cashed. He also called
upon Mr. Lilly, ship's accountant, London-street, City, and
said he had been paid off with an order of £96- He said
the owners of the ship Clifton, in which he came home,
were in Whitehaven, and induced Mr. Lilly to telegraph
to that town to the firm of Dunstan and Wells. The
answer was that no such persons as Dunstan and Wells
were known in that town. Mr. George Walker, an
officer of the Calodyne, said the prisoner came home in
that vessel as a distressed British seaman, and had not a
farthing of wages. A host of persons pressed forward
to prefer charges against the varlet scoundrel, swindler,
card-rubber, and other names which they applied to the
prisoner. Mr. Paget, after going into the cases of Mr.
limberly and Mr. Feist, gave directions to the police
to summon more witnesses, and remanded the prisoner
for a week.