The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-12 00:00:00

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DARING ROBBER"! • OF A COLONEL'S WATCH.—James
Atkins, described as a commercial traveller, was charged
with stealing a valuat de gold watch, the property of Col.
George Macan, of th, e Indian army, under the following
very daring circumsts nces :

Col. George ?damn , of the Indian army, and residing at
14, St. James's-squa re, said—l was coming out of the
opera last night, and going up the colonnade, when. I felt
a hand at my waistco at-pocket, in which I had my watch,
and on looking down found the chain hanging down and
the watch gone. At . the same time that I felt the hand
I saw the prisoner j ust making his escape. I seized his
cloak, but he managt ?d to break away from me and to get
among the crowd. I ran after him calling " Stop thief,"
and he turned the t :orner of the arcade and ran down
Charles-street, still being under the arcade, but being
checked there, he ran back into the Haymarket.
and his foot slipping he fell to the ground, and before he
could get up I came t tp to him and underneath him was
my watch, which I I )ossessed myself of. The glass was
broken and the handl( I also, it having been wrenched from
the chain. It is of th e value of about 15 guineas, but ori-
ginallycost me 40. J gentleman was kind enough to as-
sist me till a constable came up. I never lost sight of the
prisoner.
Fish, 331 A, said--; Seeing a crowd assembled I went np)
and the gentleman sa ad the prisoner had taken his watch
from his pocket. The 'prisoner said he was himself run-
ning after the thief to stop him, and hoped I would not
take him into custody. ,

The depositions hal' ing been read over, the prisoner was
committed for trial.

THAMES.

EXTENSIVE ROBBE: ELY BY AN AUCTIONEER'S SERVANTS.

—John Jacobs and G eorge Doman, porters in the employ
of Mr. John William . Burdon, auctioneer, of 274, White-
chapel-road, were brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with
stealing a large quantil ty of miscellaneous property.
Mr. Burdon said th4e prisoners had been in his employ
about nine months. ':fhey had the entire control and cus-
tody of the goods entr' tasted to him for sale, and he placed
of goods from his sale-room last Thurs-
the greatest confidencee in their integrity and honesty. He
missed a quantity
.Thursday) evening, when,
day, and again yest.e.Frday. He did not suspect the pri-
soners until yester& y (
in consequence of it dormatton, he accompanied Dun-
away, a detective
police-constable, No. 129 H, to
the dwelling
of the prisoner Jacobs, No. 97, Back-
church-lane, where he gave him into custody and charged
and
r ela tookted f
to roln a
plated coffee pot
his pocket
him with stealing a plated tea and coffee service. The
prisoner said
two
pawnbroker's
and a tea pot, and the other to two pairs of boots. He then
duplicates—onee was
guihy
searched his house and found it full of his goodsh
from top
to bottom.

--
Mr. Yardley—What sort of goods ?
Mr. Burden—Household furniture and utensils of every
description have been stolen from my sale-room. The pri-
soner said he was not, the only one guilty of robbing me,
and said that Doman had also stolen goods from tho
sale-room. I said I thought it to be impossible,
for Doman was a stupid and drunken fellow, but never ap-
peared t,9 be dishonest. Jacobs wife and family said it was
too true, and I then went along with Dunnaway to the
dwelling of Doman, No. 1, Goodman's-yard, Aldgate, and
accused Doman of stealing a pair of boots and a bundle of
knives and forks. He denied it, and said the property wa
in the sale room. Dunnaway searched the prisoner Dorian
and found several paw nbrokers duplicates upon him relat-
ing to the knives, forks, boots, and other stolen property.
Dunnaway, 129 H, confirmed all the material. parts a
l‘lr.
to.
Burden's evidence, and produced the duplicates re-
ferred

In answer to a question by Mr. Yardley,
Mr. Burdon said Doman had been in his service on and
off three years, but as a weekly servant for nine months.
Other evidence affecting the prisoners and clearly esta-
blishing their guilt wars entered into.
Jacobs said be did take his master's property out of the
sale-room, and pawned it, and was as guilty as a man could
be. He was very sorry for what he had done.
Doman also pleaded guilty.
Mr. Bowdler, the junior clerk, having completed the de-
positions, and read theta over, the prisoners formally pleaded
guilty, and Mr. Yardley, after commenting on the serious
nature of their offence., said he gave them an opportunity
of pleading, and remanded them for the attendance of an-
other pawnbroker.
The case terminated, at ten minutes past one.

ADVENT OF WINTER.-----SHIELDS, Thursday After-
noon.—The weather appears to be breaking up in the
Northern Counties. Yesterday was miserably wet and in-
clement in the county of Northumberland, and to-day the
weather has an extremely wintry appearance. Hail, sleet,
and snow came up from the north in smart showers all this
in,)rning, and the face of the landscape was quite
with the Callen hail. It is to be feared that the farmers
who hays not got their crops into the stack yards will be
great sufferers.