The Sun.
London, England, 1834-01-30 00:00:00

QUEEN_SQUARE.

Henry Harper, Mary, his wife, and Susan
Palmer, were placed at the bar before Mr. BuR-
RELL, charged with robbing a Mr. Tomkins of a va-
luable gold watch, chain, mourning ring, and seals,
under the following circumstances :
The complainant on the previous evening, be-
tween ten and eleven o'clock, got into the•company
of some females in the New-cut, Lambeth. He
went into a private house with them, and he sent
for some ale. During the time they were drinking
it the male prisoner came in, and they got into con-
versation, and he sent out for more ale. After re-
moining in the house some time he went away ;
but no sootier had he got out of the house than he
missed his watch, chain, and seals. They had been
taken from him like magic. A police constable was
passing at the time, and he told him that he had
been robbed. He said that he had just seen a man
and two females pass, and he suspected they were
the thieves. Witness was rather fresh at the time
he went to the house with the females, and could
not swear that the females at the bar were the per-
sons he went home with. Through the exertions of
the police constable the ptieoners were apprehended.
He could swear positively that the prisoner Henry
Harper was the man who came into the room, and
with whom he entered into conversation.

Police constable Lucas, of the L division, No.
165, was on duty, about two o'clock in the morn-
ing, in Carlisle-lane, New-cut, when he saw the
prisoners come oat of a place called Brookes-court.
He spoke to them, and said, "It is a cold morning."
They passed on, and he went up the court, where
he found the complainant, who said he bad lost his
watch, a mourning ring, and handkerchief. Witness
suspected that the party who had just passed were the
thieves, and gave immediate information to the dif-
ferent constables. In about two hours afterwards
the prisoners were all apprehended. As they were
taking them to the station-house the male prisoner
Harper dropped something down an area in the
Waterloo road. He immediately charged him with
it, and on searching the place he found the pro-
perty. -

The prosecutor, on being shown the watch, Etc.,
which had been dropped by Harper dow►► the arel,
identified them as his property. . .

. . .
Police conqable, Watling, of the L division, No.
1.55, from the description he had received of the
prisoners, apprehended them at the foot of West-
minister-bridge. He confirmed the statements of
the last witness as to the prisoner himself throwing
the property dowry the area.
The prisoner Swan Palmer was here admitted
King's evidence. She stated that she took the
complainant home with her ; that when he went
up stairs he took his watch and ring out of his fob
and placed them on the bed ; when he went away
Mrs. Harper came up stairs and found the things
on the bed.

Henry Harper, in reply to the charge, said that
the witness who had just given evidence was
the person who committed the robbery. He was
quite innocent. _ _ .

- Mr. BURRELL committed'Harper and his wife for
trial, and the parties were bound over to prosecute.
THE ROBBERY OF JEWELLERY AT THE MAS-
QUERADE AT THE KING'S THEATRE.—Yesterday
afternoon William Manning, who stated himself to
be a waiter at the late masquerade at the King's
Theatre, and John Bovey, a coffee•shop keeder, in
New Compton-street, Soho, attended at the Office
with the various articles of jewellery which were
alleged to have been stolen by a youth, named John
Isaacs, from Mrs. Elizabeth Davenish, of No 4,
Hereford-street, Park-lane, at the masquerade at the
King's Theatre, and that upon her evidence and
that of a Miss Arnold, of No. 57, Poland-street,
lie was fully committed for trial, the particulars of
which appeared in the papers of yesterday.
William Manning was one of the waiters at the
masquerade, and lived at Mr. Bovey's in Compton-
street. On leaving the theatre he found a glove
containing several articles of jewellery under one of
the seats of the stage ; when he got home he told
Mr. Bovey that he thought he had found a prize,
and showed him the jewellery. He had read an
account that morning in the newspapers of a lady
having been robbed of her jewellery, and that a
person had been committed fur trial for the same,
and he thought it right to bring the property which
he had found to the office. _ _

In answer to several questions Manning had not
made the circumstance known to the friends of the
prisoner Isaacs, nor had he communicated it to Mrs.
Davenish.

_ .
Mr. Bovey confirmed the statement of Minning
as to showing him the jewellery.
Mr. Perry took charge of the property, which is
worth about 501., and desired the parties to attend
before Mr. White.