The Sun.
London, England, 1867-02-13 00:00:00

--P01.1(121 INTELLIGEAVE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET. •
A CAB-DRIVER CHARGED WITH STEALING A GENTLE-
MAN'S LUGGAGE.—CharIes Boyd, a cab-driver, badgo
15,249, was charged, before Mr. Tyrwhitt, with stealing a
portmanteau, containing articles of wearing apparel of the
value of £2O, the property of a gentleman named Phipps,
residing in Albemarle-street.

The Prosecutor said—On Monday evening, at a quarter
to six, I engaged the prisoner on the rank at Hyde-park-
corner, and stopped and took up a portmanteau and some
parcels at different places. The prisoner then drove me to
Piccadilly, where I got out and went into a shop to settle
an account ; and on my leaving the shop, not being there
more than five minutes, I found the prisoner had driven
away with the portmanteau and parcels. The portmanteau
and parcels contained wearing apparel of the value of £2O.
I afterwards gave information to the police.
. _

Henry Putnam, cab-driver, said—On Monday evening I
was on the stand opposite Baron Rothschild's house in
Piccadilly, and saw the prosecutor get into the prisoner's
cab. Yesterday the prisoner came and asked mo if I knew
the man who took him up the previous day. I said I did,
and that ha worked for Mr. Morson, of Smith-square.

Henry Dawson, 301 A, said -I wont to Smith-square
yesterday, and found that tho prisoner had not been to
work. I afterwards saw the prisoner in Victoria-street,
and asked him what he had done with- the portmanteau
and other articles belonging to the gentleman he had taken
up near Hyde-park yesterday, when ho denied all know-
ledge of the transaction. I asked him if he was driving
on Monday; and he said he was. I then took the pri-
soner to the last witness, and he identified him as hav-
ing taken up the prosecutor, but said that he was
differently dressed. I then went to where the prisoner
lived, but could find no trace of the portmanteau or the
things. I found in their place a 'Air of leggings and a coat,
which the prosecutor identified as being those worn by the
prisoner at the time he engaged him.
Mr. Tyrwhitt remanded the prisoner.
UNPROVOKED AND RUFFIANLY ASSAULT.-11cIlry Wheat-
croft and Charles Bland, the former a groom, and the latter
a coaohman, and who were said to have come from New-
castle, were charged with assaulting Joseph Crooks, a
potato salesman, of No.. 4, Exchange-c.Jurt, Strand.
The complainant was going through Berkeley-square
with a truck load of potatoes, when one of the prisoners
came up to him, and struck him in the face, and on his
asking him why he had done ro, both prisoners struck him
some severe blows, ho not having given them the least
provocation.
The defendants said they had been drinking ?
Mr. Tyrwhitt said it was the duty of magistrates to
mark these unprovoked assaults very severely. Such as-
saults might be very amusing to the persons who com-
mitted them, but they were not so to Otl;rs. The pri-
soneis would have to pay 40s. each or be committed for 14
days.

THAMES.
A MARINE BURGLARY.— DARING ROBBERY IN TILE LON-
DON Docx.—Charles Wilson, a lad about 17 years of age,
the catins and storerooms
.of two ships in the London
was brought before Mr. Paget charged. with breaking into
the.tlEo,
Eastern
d London
uDfoueaku, adnadst
Cologne,ealin andfour
other prop
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therefrom. co, w o bottles
Dock, and asked him his business there. The prisoner
llaLmaislttonn,igfhotnnadt tBhoo'cplroicsko near icn°ll
"(ado no answer, and the constable secured him and
searched him. There woro four coats on him, and in the
pockets two bottles of eau (le COlogne, and 31lbs. of
tob(tcco. The constable asked him where. ho ob-
tained the property, to which. he replied . on board
ship. At the same time he pointed to the ship Ocean
Gondy in the basin. The constable wont on board and
discovered that the cabin docr and the store robin door had
been forced open. The cabin room had been ransacked
and plundered. The tape and Customs seal on the out-
side of the store room was removed, and the tape and seal
were found on the floor. Threo coats, which Captain
Taylor, the master of the OceanG-uz-,,, valued at £l6,
were identified by him. lie also stated that there were
10Ib. of tobacco and many bottles of eau de Cologne iu
store under the Customs'. seal, and ho had no doubt the
tobacco and the one de Cologne found on the prisoner had
been stolen from the store room.

Hamilton said tho fourth coat and a cap taken from the
prisoner belonged to the malt() of the ship Night Watch,
which was broken into and robbed on Sunday last. The
Night Watch was to sail on a foreigu-going voyage this
afternoon.

Mr. Paget—What is tho prisonor ?
llt►'nilton—l bellow) he is a sailor boy. He broke open
the ship's cabins with a bayonet, found on board the Ocean
on(ly.

Mr. Paget said it would be as well to make some inquiry
relting to the prisoner before the ease went before a jury.
He committed the prisoner for trial.