The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-07 00:00:00

MR. M'CABE'S EN7ER7AINMENT.

Mr. Frederick M'Cabe, the incomparable mimic,
having installed himself in the apartment lately
tenanted by Ernst Schultz, is now nightly giving an
entertainment of the most attractive description.
Since we first had the pleasure of welcoming Mr.
M'Cabe to London, he has very greatly improved
the entertainment he then introduced to us, so that it
now may be said to be perfectly unique. It consists,
as it did originally, of a variety of impersonations,
male and female, and whilst we are again intro-
duced to Miss Mary May, and other favourites, Mr.
M'Cabe has given us various others that render
"Begone, Dull Caro" the most attractive entertain-
ment now performing in the metropolis. The great
peculiarity of Mr. M'Cabe's entertainment is the
rapidity with which the changes of character are
effected, hardly has the clever mimic announced the
arrival of t he different visitors than they are at once
introduced to the audience inpropria persona. The
change for Miss Mary May is really astonishing.
Mr. M'Cabe has but just made his bow in full even-
ing costume, the n he appears in the character of the
sympathetic young lady in ball dress, with earrings,
bracelets, gloves, fan, and all the elegant little
etceteras that make up the most piquant
toilette. Sir Roland, the Ruff'un, is a
capital piece of fun and burlesque acting.
The vocal illustrations are also of the greatest
excellence, and that they are of ability the familiar
sound of the now well-known song " Early in the
morning" abundantly testifies. Mr. M'Cabe, being
a clever composer, a talented instrumentalist, and
a capital dramatic performer, is enabled, unaided,
to place before the public an entertainment of the
greatest excellence, and one which, we beg leave
to say, is in every way worthy of universal patron-
'e.

ROBBERIES ON THE GREAT EASTERN
RAIL TVA Y.

To-day three meu ed William Jones, 28,
dealer, who gave his address at Joshua-street,
Poplar ; William Betts, 27, of Stratford, late a fire-
man in the employ of the Great Eastern. Railway
Company ; and Thomas King, of Shoreditch, were
charged on remand at Hertford with having stolen
property to the value of about £lOO from a goods
train on the Great Eastern Railway.
At 7.30 on the evening of August 27th a heavily
laden goods train left the Brick-lane Station on
the Great Eastern Railway, London, and on its
arrival at Bishop Stortford, Herts, was exa-
mined by the guard, who found everything
quite safe ; but at Cambridge he discovered that
one of the sheets covering a carriage had been cut
open from end to end. It was not, however, until
the train had reached its destination, Norwich, that
he was aware that four large bales had been stolen,
two bales of cloth, one bale of leather, and a bale of
silk, the whole being valued at £lOO. Information
was at once telegraphed to Superintendent lledin,-
ton, chief of the Great Eastern Railway Police, and
steps were soon taken to discover the depredators,
but it was not until the 30th that any clue was ob-
tained. On the morning of that day a platelayer,
at work on the line about a mile and a half above
Bishop Stortford, saw indications of something
having been dragged from the line into a hosier
bed close by, and on following up the marks the
man came upon nearly the whole of the miss-
ing property. This was at a very secluded spot, and
only a short distance from aby road. Information
of the discovery having been sent to the police, four
men—two of the Hefts constabulary and two plate-
layers—were set to watch the spot where the pro-
perty was concealed, and at about 1 o'clock on the
same night a horse and cart was driven up to the
spot by three men. After making a careful survey
of the neighbourhood two of them alighted and want
into the hosier bed, where they commenced filling
the sacks with leather, the third man remaining in
possession of the horse and cart. When the men
had completed the operation of filling the sacks,
one of the watchers suddenly slipped out of his
hiding place, but directly he stirred the three
took the hint, and went off across country and
out of sight in no time. The men then went
towards the fellow who was left with the horse and
cart, but he also took to his heels and escaped. The
men then took possession of the horse, cart, and pro-
perty, which they drove to Stortford, where they met
Superintendent Hedington and Inspector Ryder, of
the Herts R. C. C. At about this time the mail train
was due at Stortford, and on its arrival Superinten-
dent Hedington sent an inspector and a platelayer
on to Harlow by it, with instructions to scour th e
London road back to Stortford, two other men
being also sent up the road from Stortford. When
about a mile and a half from Harlow the two watchers
met two persons on the road, who denied all
knowledge of each other. They were the prisoners
Jones and Betts, and were apprehended. On
the following morning they were taken before the
Rev. F. Vander Meulen, by whom they were re-
manded for a week. These two men having been
safely lodged, Mr. Hedington gave a shrewd guess
as to who the third party was, and ongoing to Lon-
don gave instructions to have a sharp watch kept
on the house of theprisoner King.
(King) re-
turned home about three o'clock on Tuesday morn-
ing, and was immediately apprehended. It seems
that all the prisoners are notorious characters, and
their movements have been closely watched for
some time past. It is known to the police that
they left Stratford on Tuesday afternoon, and that
they were picked up on the following day at Ep-
ping, by a Bishop Stortford carrier, who conveyed
them to that place. It is also known that a portion
of the stolen property was conveyed by the same
man to Epping, whither it was traced by Inspector
Ryder, and taken possession of by him. The most
notorious character of the three is the man Betts,
who was formerly in the service of the company for
six years as a fireman ; and a few weeks since he
was committed to Bedford Gaol for loitering about
the company's premises. As it is well known that
he is capable of jumping on to a train, and passing
from one end to the other, while it is travelling at
the rate of 20 miles an hour, the police have no
doubt it was he who threw the property off the train
in this instance. To-day the prisoner will be further
remanded to enable the police to procure evidence
connecting them with other robberies of a similar
character, and one of which was committed at
Bishop Stortford only three weeks since.

DEAD AT HIS POST.--On Thursday afternoon, as
a train from Bury approached a junction, the driver, seeing
the danger signal on, brought the train to a stand. Ho
whistled for some time, and no change of signal being madß,
he got off the engine and went to the pointsman's box,
where ho found the poiutsman, an old man named John
Gregory, dead. Gregory was soon at his post when the
previous train passed, so that Lis death must have been
very sudden.
SAD OCCURRENCE.—As Capt. Chopin, of Romans
(DrUrne), was giving a lesson a few days back to
his two sons in pistol firing, a false movement in the arm
of the elder, a lad of 1-1, produced a fatal result. The
weapon being discharged, the bullet passed through the
eyo of tho father and penetrated the skull. Extraction
was found to be impossible, and the unfortunate gentle-
man expired two days after, without ever having recovered
his senses. lie had formerly distinguished himself in the
African army, and retired from the service 1G years ago
with the cross.