The Sun.
London, England, 1833-12-09 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, DEC. 7.

SWINDLING AND CONVICTION.—Jamcs Drewry,
a respectable looking man, was indicted for having
defrauded Mr. Fardell, a butcher, in High•street,
Poplar, of the use of his horse and chaise, a sove-
reign, and a round of beef.
The prisoner represented that he was in the ser-
vice of Captain Drewry, a gentleman of fortune at
Kew, and that his master required the use of a
horse and chaise for a short period. He at the same
time axed his eye on Mr. Fardell's beef, of which
he approved, and he said he would recommend Mr.
Fardell to his master, who had a family, eleven in
number, and " heavy consumers." A dashing livery
servant attended the prisoner, and Mr. Fardell
readily lent him the chaise and gave him the beef.
The prisoner next diddled a tailor named Gooch of
a suit of clothes, and then he went to East Ham,
and bargained with a Mr. Abbott for the lease of a
stylish house, with four acres of ground. Mr. Ab-
bott happening to mention the name of Mr. Judson,
a tradesman at Whitechapel, on which the prisoner,
with an air of surprise, exclaimed " Judson ! Bless
my soul ! Why, he is my particular friend, and
,!
am under an engagement to dine with him to-day."
—(Laughter.) Abbott thought " it was all cor-
rect"
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T but e found
prisonerhe wasc mistaken.
cut a
great
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dash at Kew, where he went over the palace.
It was proved that there was no such person as
Captain Drewry.
The prisoner in his defence said that if his pro-
secutors had not "put a stop to him" he would
have paid them all in time.—(Laughter.)
He was found Guilty of having swindled Mr.
Fardell and Mr. Gooch, and the Court sentenced
him to seven years' transportation.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

SINGULAR CASE OF ROBBERY.—On Saturday
the premises of Mr. Clarke, a respectable fish-sales-
man in Billingsgate Market, were entered and robbed.
On the morning the burglary was committed Mr.
Clarke entered his premises at the usual entrance,

which seemed not to have been attempted from
without. He was astonished to see his desk broken
open, his papers scattered about, and a quantity of
dollars and other silver, which he had taken in his
business, missing. The window, he observed, had
not been raised, but there was a small pane of glass
in it broken ; so that he suspected the thief must
have been one of very small dimensions, and part of
a large gang of young market robbers, against whom
Mr. Goldham, the Clerk of Billingsgate, has been
long waging war. Steps were accordingly taken.
The hour at which the burglary was committed was
supposed to be early in the morning, from the fact
that three beautiful linnets were found in their cages
in the counting-house with their necks wrung; the
thief, in all probability, being apprehensive that
their singing would attract somebody to the broken
window, and lead to detection.
Three or four boys, who have been known as
"striving to live" about the market, upon being
told of the robbery, said that a boy named M'Carthy,
who has been remarkable for entering shops and
robbing tills, even when the shopkeepers were at
their work, had told them, the day before the
burglary, that he was going to " crack," and the
day after it that he had " cracked " a house in
Thames-street, and they had no doubt the house
was Mr. Clarke's. M'Carthy, they said, could get
himself through any sort of opening.
M'Carthy, on being brought up, " knowed " no-
thing at all about such nonsense; had never told
anything of the kind to the boys, who were well-
known thieves, and more likely to "crack " them-
selves than to allow themselves to be " cracked" by
others.

One of the officers soon afterwards brought up a
man of the name of Brown, and charged him with
having induced M'Carthy to commit the burglary.
The ground of accusation appeared to be, that
Brown and M'Carthy were constantly together;
and that immediately after the robbery they were
extremely well "togged," without having any other
visible occupation than that of walking gentlemen.
Brown was an industrious hard-working man, and
was willing to put his hand to any thing, so as
w'ant bad, and he declared to God he " knowed'
nothing of Mr. Clarke's " crack."

A pair of boy's shoes were found on the pre-
mises, and the boys who gave evidence said that
they were convinced those shoes belonged to
M'Carthy.
._

It is believed that the thief got in in the day
time, while business was going forward, and easily
hid himself amongst the boxes and packages, and
that not being able to open the door to his confede-
rates, he pocketed the cash, and, to use the language
of the fancy, "starred the glaze" to get out.
Both prisoners were remanded.

AN UNSOPHISTICATED DUI'E.--Thomas Jones,
a very well-looking jolly countrymen, in a smock
frock, complained to the LORD MAYOR that he had
lost his money and goods. Upon coming into London
he had 8/. about him, and was met by two persons
who pressed him to buy a watch. He didn't loik
to buy it, but they followed he into a pooblic-
house, and they made he give 4/. for it, As
he goed along he thowt he heard people laugh-
ing at he, and Ee taked out his watch and he
looked at it, and he then thowt h a bad un.—
(Laughter.) \Tell, he went into a watchmaker's
shop and he axed the price on it, and he said
four shillin—(Laughter)—so he thowt how for to
get back his money, and he went up to a cab-driver
and told what a scurvy trick he had been sarved,
and the cab-driver said that the two fellows was
what they called Jew duffers, and that he had been
sarved out by them himself.—(Great laughter.) So
the cap-driver axed he what money he had, and he
said 3/. 16s. " Because," said the cabman, " I
know where you will find these fellows; but you
mustn't take any money amongst 'em, but leave it
wi' me."—(Laughter.) The proposition was at
once embraced. The countryman entered the cab,
and the driver drove him about for a long time, and
at last stopped at the door of a public-house, into
which he desired the countryman to go and catch
the Jew duffers. In went poor Jones, and after a
vain search he returned to obtain the further assist-
ance of his friend the cabman, who had, the moment
his dupe entered the house, disappeared.
The LORD MAYOR, who could scarcely refrain
from laughing at such gullibility, gave orders to the
police on the subject.

BOW-STREET.
Mary Anne Robinson and Ellen Smith were
brought up, charged with stealing a diamond ring,
and a gold ring, from Mr. Joseph Harrison, a free,
and accepted mason, on S3turday morning, at three
o'clock, at a brothel in Eagle-court, Drury-lane.
The two prisoners were some time since charged
at this office with stealing 41. from the person of a
gentleman named Smith, residing in Islington, under
nearly similar circumstances, but were acquitted and
discharged at the Old Bailey Sessions before last
in consequence of the non-appearance of the pro-

sE cutor.

The prisoners both denied all knowledge of the
robbery.

Mr.llliNsuuLL remanded the prisoner Robinson
till Thursday next, for the production of further evi-
dence, and ordered that Smith should be discharged.

MARLBORO UGH-STREET.
ATTACK UPON A HOUSE OF BAD CHARACTER.—
At the evening sitting several boys were placed at
the bar before Mr. CONANT, and charged with aiding
and assisting in disturbing the peace, and smashing
the windows of a house in Leicester-street.
The parish authorities have given directions for
watchmen to parade in front of several houses of
bad character with a lanthorn, and caution the
public to " beware" of these places, the result of
which has been to cause an immense assemblage of
persons nightly in front of the houses, among whom
are a number of young urchins, who have so com-
pletely " stormed" the premises that scarcely a whole
window remains in any of them. The outside of
the houses is also covered with mud. At length
it was found necessary to call for the aid of the po-
lice, who on Saturday evening discovered the pri-
soners among the most active of the juvenile depre-
dators, and they were taken into custody.
Mr. CONANT ordered the prisoners to be sent to
the House of Correction until they could find bail.