The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-04 00:00:00

THA MES.

ROBBERIES BY A WORB3rAN.—Vatenti2li Zerabra, an
Italian, aged 29, late in the employ of Mr. Barnett
Moss, looking-glass and picture-frame maker, in Leman'
street, Whitechapel, was brought before Mr. Selfe, oe
rernan 1, charged with stealing a variety of property
from his master's workshop.
The prisoner had been in the employ of Mr. Moss for
some yew:, and in the course of that time veneered
looking-glass frames and other goods had been contintr
ally missed. A few days since Mr. Hall, foreman to the
prosecutor, in passing the shop of Mr. Antonio Blanes,
in Shorediteb, saw one of his master's large circular dreso
looking-glass hames exposed far sale there. ne went
into the shop and spoke to Mr. Bianca, and in coney
queries of what he st ited the prisoner was given iet°
custody. Mr. Bianca said, in his evidence, that the
prisoner called upon him and said he was no longer
working for Mr. Moss, and made up frames on his own
account, and, producing a small circular model frame,
said he had some large ones of the same pattern to sell:
Mr. Bianca agreed to purchase two large veneered
frames with stands complete, and the prisoner brought
one to his house on the 30th or. June and the other oe
the 18th of August, and Mr. Bianca gave 21s. for the
Frst and 20s. for the second, which it was agreed was
tolerably fair price. Mr. Moss and his foreman ideeti;
fled the framo and stand, to which Mr. Bianca had added
a dress looking glass, and produced another from their
workshop of precisely the same pattern and made of the
same wood. Mr. Bianca had disposed of the first frame
he bought of the prisoner. It was of the same patter°
as the other, and must have been-stolen from Mr. Mod°
flctory, for none of that pattern had been manufactured
by any other frame-maker. The prisoner had also sold
a circular frame to Mr. Farnham, of the City-road'
which was produced and identified by Mr. goso'
Mr. Farnham had purchased it in a hurry
one morning while his horse and chaise was waiting
his door to convey him to his country residence. Tbi
prisoner one day informed Mr. Bianca, that he sold tb".
smaller sized frames as fast as he could make them, to
Mr. Farnham and Mr. Towers, but no other,
could be traced. It was proved that the prisoner bad
not been away from the prosecutor's workshop for Pre:
years, and that he could not have made up the Irate •
at home. A large quantity of tools belonging to tb
workmen in the employ of Mr. Moss had been stole's
and a plane, which the prisoner had pawned in Church'
street, Spitalfields, was owned by Edwin Owen Sati°
ders. There were other charges against the prisoner;
who was in the receipt of good wages, and an exceltelia
workman, but he had pursued a long career of vice 0
plunder, and had distressed his fellow-workmen.
Mr. Selfe committed the prisoner for trial on three
charges of felony, and he left the dock protesting in the
face of positive evidence that he had male up his O
wood and that the plane was his own.

SOUTHWARK.
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AN IRISH Row.—Samuel .Rickards and Mary Ititft
Rickards, husband and wife, were brought before
Combe, charged with committing a violent assault Ca
Ann Downes, the wife of a bedstead manufacturer,'
Ewes-street, Gravel-lane. The complainant, whose fl
wes much scratched and otherwise injured, said WI,
the prisoners re,ided next door, and were always
L'ia;
noying her. On Monday evening she was passing tuve
door to fetch her husband, when the female prisoo,o
rushed out of her house and struck her on the face 04
a jug she held in her hand. The male prisoner oil:
hold of her and pulled ter down, and in her attempt
get away from them they tore her fall. She also lay;
her purse containing her money, a railway ticket, and
cab ticket. ail
dary Ann Webster, roliding at 1, Ewes-street, 0
she witnessed the assault, and she thought they vr°o
have murdered Mrs. Downes.

-The prisoners denied the charge.
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Mr. Combe found the prisoners guilty of the as 33 41
and fined each of them 20s. with 12s. damages, or
days.