The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-21 00:00:00

THAMES.

STEALING RACING Cup.—Edward Brown, aged 22,
Charles Brown, 38, and Elizabeth Painter, 26, were
brought up on remand before Mr. Partridge, charged with
stealing a silver cup and cover, valued at £5O, the pro-
perty of Captain Franck Cutler, a gentleman, now residing
in Brisham, in Devonshire.

Mr. Humphreys, solicitor, conducted the prosecution for
the London and St. Katharine Dock Company, who had
charge of the property when stolen.
A few days since the female prisoner offered a silver
cup of French manufacture, in pawn, at the shop of Mr.
Folkard, in Upton-place, Commercial-road East, and
asked 30s. upon it, Mr. Folkard questioned her, and
said the cup belonged to her brother, who bought
it in France. Mr. Folkard detained the cup
and told her to fetch her brother. She left the shop and
returned with Charles Brown, who said the cup was his
property ; that he bought it of a stranger in France, and
that he gave £5 or 110 for it, he did not know which. Mr.
Folkard at once gave both prisoners into custody, and de-
livered the cup to the police. Charles Brown then said he
knew nothing about the cup, and that it belonged to another
brother. After Charles Brown and his sister were locked
up Edward Brown waited upon Inspector Griffin at the
station-house of the K division, Nutbourn-street East,
Stepney, and said he wished to give himself up for stealing
a silver cup, and get his brother and sister out of trouble.
He then made a statement to the following effect,
which the inspector took down in writing :—I have
come to this station-house to explain all about a
silver cup. I let my brother and sister into it. All lies
with me. I found it stowed away in the wheel-room of
Nos. 3 and 4 shed, North-quay, London Dock. It was
among some wood. I found it either on Monday or Tues-
day last, and brought it out of the dock on Thursday or
Friday last. I had a package of elastic wire threads to
take out of the dock to Ilaydon-square railway station for
Messrs. Hall, the shipowners, and was sent on the errand
by Mr. Reed, their dock clerk. I opened a package, took
the silver cup out, and sewed up the package again. I
had a pass tor the package, and went out at the wicket-
gate principal entrance. I asked my sister to go to Mr.
Folkard and pawn the cup for me, and she agreed to do so.
The silk handkerchief in which the cup was wrapped is
mine.

John Pattison, a lad in the service of the London and St.
Katherine Dock Company, stated that on the 6th or 7th of
the present month he saw Edward Brown, who was in the
company's service, in the lock-up, which was a part of the
examining office of the London Dock Company. The
prisoner took a silver horse from the cover of the cup pro-
duced and screwed it on the cover.
Mr. Richard Empson, in the service of Cutler, Perron,
and Co., merchants, of No. 44, Mark-lane, identified the
racing cup. It was the property of Captain Frank Cutler,
of Brigham. The following inscription was on the cup—
" Course de Hares, Bourdeaux, 1846. Rachel aM. Franck
Cutler. Monter par M. Joseph de Courayon la Tours." He
saw the silver cup warehoused by the London Dock
Company.
Charles Brown, in defence, denied that he knew any-
thing at all about the cup. He told a falsehood about it in
the first instance, which he contradicted at the station-
house.

• Tho female prisoner said she was asked by her brother
Edward to pawn the cup.

Edward Brown, in defence, said—l am the guilty party ;
it is all through me.

Mr. Partridge committed the prisonersior trial, and said
the conduct of Mr. Folkard, the pawnbroker, who had
often detained stolen property and brought offenders to
justice, • was highly creditable to him. He wished all
pawnbrokers would act in a similar manner.