The Sun.
London, England, 1832-07-30 00:00:00

W ORS.HIP-STREET.

A fashionably-attired young man, named Henry
.Browne, alias Williams, alias Jennett, and an old
man named Samuel So/onions, of Ship-alley, Well-
close-square, who has been known for a long period
of time as a general dealer, and who has acquired the
cognomen of " the honest Jew," were re-examined
on charges of having been concerned in robberies at
various hotels, auction-rooms, and taverns, in all
parts of the town. The prisoner Jennett was first
taken into custody on the 3d inst. in consequence
of offering for pledge at Mr. Cassell's, pawn-broker,
in Old-street, St. Luke's, a watch, which it ap-
peared had been stolen from the dressing-table of
Mr. Desborough, at the Burlington Hotel, Bond-
street. When Jennett's lodgings, at an obscure
coffee-shop in Old-street, were searched, an im-
mense quantity of jewellery, handkerchiefs, whips,
&c. were found. He was then committed on the
charge of stealing the watch belonging to Mr. Des-
borough. It would appear that he took fitting op-
portunities to sneak up the stairs of hotels, and
despoil the dressing-tables of what he could lay his
hands on. By the praiseworthy exertions of In-
spector Perry and other officers, a quantity of pro-
perty was traced to those by whom it had been
stolen ; and they also ascertained that various arti-
cles stolen from public rooms had been sold by Solo-
mons, who was now placed at the bar as an accessory.
Amongst those places which have been robbed,
are the Elephant and Castle, Garraway's Coffee-
house, the White Horse, Fetter-lane, the Burlington
Hotel, the Commercial Sale Rooms, the Spread
Eagle Hotel, Oxford-street, the George Inn,
Smithfield, the Common Council waiting-room, and
Joy's Hotel.
The following are the cases in which evidence
has been taken :—Mr. \Varner, of Dover-road, at-
tended for the prosecution, arid Mr. Jacobs ap-
peared for the prisoner Solomons.

FIRST CASE.—In February, Mrs. Anne Long, of
Surrey, came to town, and lodged at the Elephant
and Castle, and a bag, containing wearing apparel
and a check for 204 were stolen from her room by
some person who " sneaked" in during the day.—
Mr. J. Cowan, of the Horse public-house, Bread•
street-hill, said that both the prisoners were in the
habit of meeting each other at his house. He pur-
chased a carpet-bag of Solomons for five shillings.—
Mrs. Long identified it as the one stolen from her.
SECOND CASE.—In March, Mr. Blackett, of
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, who came to town to at-
tend a Committee of the House of Commons, was
lodging at the White Horse Hotel, Fetter-lane. A
surveyor's compass, value eight guineas, was one
day stolen from his room. The compass was
pledged by some person (not identified) at Mr.
Carding's, a pawnbroker, at Ratcliffe-highway, and
the duplicate was found in the house of the prisoner
Solomons.

THIRD CASE.--On the 3d of May there was a
public sale at Garraway's Coffee-house, and a
bracket clock was lost from it. Mr. G. Bland, a
junior partner in the coffee-house, waited on Solo-
mons, at his house in Ship-alley, and told him he
knew him to be " a fence," and to have received a
clock, stolen from Garraway's, which he wished
returned. The prisoner said he had not got it ;
and began talking about his wife and nine children.
Mr. Bland went away without attaining his pur-
pose. From the exertions of the officers, it ap-
peared that the clock had been bought by Mr. 8..
Philipps, of Addle-hill, Doctors' Commons, who
gave Solomons, whom he had known for some
time,. four pounds ten shillings for it. The clock
was Identified.

F?URTII CASE.—Iti January last, there was a
public
Mincing-lane, salean at the Commercial Coffee-house,
kept e
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stolen.
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Philipps deposed to buying a cruet-stand of the
prisoner for 2/. 1.55. Solomons told him he had
purchased it at an auction. It was identified by
Mr. Burridge,
FIFTH CASE _Some time ago, a cloak was stolen
from the Common Council waiting-room, on the
day of a public meeting. Mr. J. 'White, of 200,
Upper Thames-street, a saddler, said he had known
Solomons for twenty years as a general dealer. He
bought the produced cloak of him, in December last,
for one pound seven shillings. An officer said the
cloak
SIXTH
answered the description of the one stolen..
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Oxford
-street,
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quantity of jewellery stolen from his room; he had
no recollection of either of the prisoners.—lnspector
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hadtcl n a ,
of the Spread
Perry, of the G division, produced two rings which
he had found at the lodgings '
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EIGHTH CASE.—A barom

the George Inn, Smithfield, a month or two ago.
4r. Philipps purchased it of Solomons for a pound.
Mr. BROUGHTON said, that as other cases could
be proved against the prisoners, and as it was de-
sirable to show the intimate connection of the pri-
soners more clearly, he should remand them for a
week. They have made no defence.