The Sun.
London, England, 1832-12-01 00:00:00

BOW-STBEET.

Yesterday an old man, named John Guest, who
for many years has been known to the police as a
receiver of stolen property, was brought before Sir
F. ROE for a final examination, charged with having
in his possession a great variety of goods supposed
to have been stolen.

Mrs. Eames, wife of Mr. Eames, an upholsterer,
proved that an oil painting produced (found at the
house of the prisoner) was her husband's property,
and that in the early part of July last it was stolen
from their shop-door, where it had been hung for
sale. The value of the painting was four guineas.
The name of the artist who painted the picture had
since been obliterated.

The prisoner, in his defence, obtained the painting
with other effects belonging to an old woman who
died some months ago in Cock•lane, West-Smith-
field. He was committed for trial on this charge.
Mr. James Younger, a jeweller, residing in Jane-
street, Blackfriars-road, identified four cut pebbles
from amongst a great variety of cornelians and other
stones, which were found in a box in the prisoner's
bed-room. On the 25th of December last, his
house was broken open, and these articles, with
other property, stolen. He also lost between 6s.
and 7s. in farthings. (A great number of farthings
were found at the prisoner's house.)
The prisoner, in answer to this charge, said that
the stones had been in his possession for twenty
years, he having followed the business of a jeweller.
With respect to the farthings, he said lie had had a
wager with a friend as to which of them should col-
lect the greater number within a given time. The
Person with whom he laid the wager died, and he
(prisoner) had kept the farthings ever since.

He was committed for trial on this charge also.
A gentleman named Carvick identified the lid of
a snuff-box, but he was unable to prove when or
how he lost it.

Mr. Thomas Lawrence, of Hercules-hall, Her-
cules-buildings, Lambeth, proved that his house was
broken open on the Ist of March, 1831. Amongst
the articles carried off by the thieves were two small
pistols, one of which (found at the house of the
prisoner) he positively identified as his, and his evi-
dence was corroborated by the gun-smith, who had
repaired both pistols a short time prior to the robbery.
The prisoner on this charge was sent for trial.
Mr. Philip Wilmott, of Church-passage, High-
street, Whitechapel, proved, that about a year ago
he was passing over old London-bridge, when his
watch-ribbon, to which were appended a gold seal,
and a key set with stones, was cut, and the property
stolen. The witness positively swore, that a blood
stone, found in the box containing the cornelians,
was one of those of which he had been so robbed.

The prisoner was also committed for trial on this
charge.
A boy, named Spti/4, about 14 years of age, was
then placed at the bar, charged with having stolen
from the person of William Holmes, jun. son of
William Holmes, Esq., the Member for Queenbo-
rough, a pocket-book, containing bank-notes to the
amount of 16W., a promissory note for 1001., and a
patent silver perch-case, having a stone at the end,
on which his crest was engraven. The prisoner Guest
was charged with having received this property,
knowing it to have been stolen.
Mr. Holmes, on the morning of the sth of July
last, placed his pocket-book, containing the pro•
perty mentioned, in his pocket, and proceeded from
the city as far as Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. Here
he found that his pocket had been picked of the
pocket-book in question. The silver pencil-case now
produced was in the pocket-book at the time he so
lost it. The stone at the end had been removed.

Mr. Lloyd, a silversmith, in the Strand, sold to
Mr. Holmes the pencil-case produced. The stone
at the end having come out, Mr. Holmes sent him
the pencil-case, in order to have it refixed. He po-
sitively swore to the pencil-case, from certain marks
which were left in fastening the stone a second time.
Inspector Adamson, when he went to search the
prisoner's house, he (Guest) said, " Oh, dear, I am
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question, and also the keys of his boxes and drawers.
A young man named Frederick Watts was then
sworn, and stated that one day, early in June last,
between 12 and 1 o'clock he was standing at the
bar of a public-house kept by his sister, when the
prisoner Smith and two other, lath entered in a
great bustle and went into the back parlour. They
remained but a few minutes and then went out
again. Witness, knowing that they were bad cha-
racters, had:the curiosity to follow them, and traced
them to a house in Eagle-street, kept by a son of
the prisoner Guest. The door stood ajar after they
had entered, and witness saw one of the lads,
named Kennedy, with a bank-note in his hand,
while Guest was examining two or three notes.
Kennedy had a pencil-case in his hand exactly like
the one now produced. The prisoner Smith ob-
served him looking in, and asked him what business
he had there. He then went away. The witness
in answer to questions by the Magistrates said he
had frequently heard the prisoner Smith boast that
he had robbed Mr. Holmes of his pocket-book in
May-fair, and that Guest had given him 901. for the
bank-notes it contained.
The witness was cross-examined at some length
by Mr. Clarkson, but although the account which
he gave of himself was not satisfactory, nothing was
elicited to shake his direct evidence.
Mr. Holmes had succeeded in tracing the notes
lie had lost up to a certain point, but could not get
beyond it.
The boy Smith was fully committed for trial for
the robbery, and the prisoner Guest was also com-
mitted for receiving the property with a guilty
knowledge,
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age, and of very diminutive stature, WE S yesterday
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patently a hard-wo►kiug couple, came forward and
related several extraordinary instances of the incor-
rigible depravity of the boy, and begged most ear-
nestly that the Magistrate would recommend some
institution to which he might be admitted, in or-
der, if possible, to correct his evil propensities.
The mother stated that the boy possessed a dis-
position of singular artfulness, and such was his
propensity to theft, that if he was sent out
upon an errand, he was sure to abscond with
the money. She had got him admitted into
the national school, and for three months he
came home regularly to his meals after the usual
school hours, but upon inquiry she found that
he had not been near the school for that period.
Among other thefts he stole a sovereign from her
landlord, and absconded with it. The Magistrate
before whom he was taken sentenced him to two
months' imprisonment; hut this punishment ap-
peared to have had no effect, for the morning after
his release he contrived to steal first half-a-crown
and then ss. from the landlord. He then again ab-
sconded and went to his aunt, who lived a little
distance from town, telling her his parents had sent
him to live there, and they were to pay her a certain
sum for his board and lodging. He stopped a fort-
night without the falsehood being detected, and he
then absconded, after pilfering everything he could
lay hands on. The father-in-law declared that the
repeated robberies committed by the boy had nearly
beggared him, as he had, in most instances, paid the
money to screen him from punishment.
Mr. CONANT regretted he could not suggest any-
thing by which the boy would be reclaimed, and, as
he had at present committed no offence, he was
compelled to discharge him.