The Sun.
London, England, 1867-02-23 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

STEALING A PARSER MERCHANT'S TURBAN. —AN OLD
OFFENDER.--Wm. Burton, describing himself as a porter,
but well known to the police as a carriage thief, was
charged before Mr. D'Eyncourt with stealing from a car-
riage, in Oxford-street, a turban of the value of £lO, the
property of Sorabjee Darashaw Captan, a Parsee merchant,
residing at 16, Holland Villas, Kensington.
The prosecutor identified the turban which was pro-
duced as his property, and stated that it coat him £lO,
having had it sent from India to him. He left it in his
carriage in Oxford-street yesterday.
George Ellaway, cabman, badge 8481, said that on the
previous night he was coining along Oxford-street on his
cab when he saw the prisoner walk round a carriage
standing at a door, and take a parcel out of the carriage.
He told the coachman in charge of the carriage what hap-
pened, and to follow him, and they went after the prisoner,
who dropped the parcel, which was picked up by a man,
and stopped him and gave him into the custody of Hands,
374 A.

David Bourne, coachman to the prosecutor, proved going
after the prisoner on being spoken to by the cabman, and
seeing the prisoner drop the parcel.
William Allan, a labouring man, proved picking up the
parcel, containing a turban, and putting it into the
carriage.

The prisoner said ho was not in Oxford-strnt at all.

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Mr. D'Eyncourt asked if the prisoner was known ?
Sergeant Cole, 23 C, said there were several convic-
ions against the prisoner for similar offences.
Mr. D'Eyncourt committed the prisoner for trial.

TRAM ES.
IMPORTANT CONVICTIONS.—WARNING TO PAWNBROKERS.
—Louis Losblinier, a foreign Jew, carrying on the business
of a licensed pawnbroker at No. 117, Kerby street, Poplar,
appeared before Mr. Paget to answer five surmnonscs,
charging the defendant with as many infractions of tho
oOth section of the Metropolitan Police Force Act, 2 and
8 Vict., cap. 47, which prohibits all pawnbrokers iu the
pollee distriet purchasing, receiving, or taking in pawn
any pledge, goods or chattels, from any person apparently
under 16 years of age.

Mr. Richard Ring, solicitor, appeared for the defendant.
of the stolen The complainant in this case, Sarah Rance, is the wife
of a carpenter and joiner, dwelling in poplar; and it is
their
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questions about his ago or auythi?g else.
Mrs. Rance, the complainant, said the duplicates relating
to the stolen property were found under her son's pillow.
She waited on Mrs. Losblinier on Monday evening last,
and expostulated with her for taking in goods from her
son, and she said she could take anything of a boy or fool
over twelve years of ago. _

Mr. Ring said that was so under the 21st section of the
pawnbrokers' act, but the police act extended the age to 16.
Mr. Paget said the police act bad been many years in
operation, and must be generally known to every pawn-
broker. _ . _

-111 r. Meg then called a boy in the service of the dofen-
dant, who swore positively that his mistress asked the boy
Dance on every occasion when she received anything from
. .
abfflimrnifahtievew. as 16 years of age, and ho always replied in the

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2dr. Ring ttrgttod that the principal 'witness against the
defendant was, on his own confession and upon the state-
ment of his-mother, a thief, and that his evidence was not
to lie depended upon. tin the other hand, the boy called
for Mr. Losblinier was a person of Untainted character,
whose tcstintonyought to be preferred to that of a dishonest
lad who robbed his own parents.

Mr. Paget had no doubt whatever the defendant and his
wife knowingly violat3d the provisions of a very wholesome
statute, and he had as little doubt that the statement made
by the defendant's boy was utterly untrue. There were
five cases, and lie should convict the defendant in the miti-
gated penalty of 40s. in each case, and 10s. costs. The
to

tmount which the defendant would have to pay
would be 10 guineas.
The money was paid.
Mr. Rance—We will give up the goods, and not put Nr.
and Mrs. Ling to any-more trouble.