The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-05 00:00:00

THAMES.

THE HONEST WAGGONER AND THE BOW-ROAD
THlEF.—Robert Bradley, a Spitalfields thief, who has
been for some time past loitering about the Bow-road, with
a lawless gang of ruffians, was brought before Mr. Selfe,
charged with stealing a cheese, weighing 281b5., and
valued at 175., from a cart belonging to George James
Harvey and Co., wholesale cheesemongers and buttermen.
George Beasley, of No. 14, Roupell-street, Lambeth,
said he was a carman in the employ of the Great Western

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Railway Company. Last evening he was proceeding west-
ward with his van, containing 3 tons 15 cwt. of goods, and
on reaching Bow Church, he saw a cart and horse
proceeding eastward. The prisoner followed the cart
and took from the t Ail of it a large cheese,
with which he started off at full speed down a
side street. He stopped his horses, and said to his
companion, "I'll have that fellow." He pursued the pri-
soner and soon came up with him with the cheese in his
possession. To make sure of the prisoner he said to him,
"Read this direction for me, is it right," and put a piece
of paper before him. While the prisoner was looking at him
he said, " You are the man that stole the cheese," seized
him by the collar, and conveyed him to the station-house.

Samuel Holland, servant to George James Harvey and
Co., identified the cheese which was stolen from his mas-
ter's cart in the Bow-road.

The prisoner pleaded guilty.

Mr. Selfe said the witness Beasley had acted most
creditably and discreetly, and would make an excellent
police-officer. He should award Beasley ss. for his good
conduct. He sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned for
six months, and kept to hard labour.
DARING ROBBERY AT A LINEN-DRAPER'S SHOP._
Ann Collins, a morose and dissipated-looking girl, aged 18,
was bronght up on remand before Mr. Selfe, charged with
stealing a roll of flannel measuring ten yards, and valued at
205., from the shop of Mr. John Sanders, linen-draper, No.
127, St. George-street, alias ltutcliff-highway.
On Tuesday evening last, shortly before sunset, the pri-
soner and another female entered the prosecutor's shop,
looked at some goods, and then left without making a pur-
chase. Directly afterwards Mr. Sanders missed a roll of
flannel, and immediately left his shop and followed the pri-
soner and her companion. The girl Collins exclaimed,
" Hero he comes," threw down the roll of flan-
nel, and ran away. She was soon overtaken,
and she then turned round, put herself in a fighting atti-
tude, and struck at the linendraper. A struggle ensued,
and the prisoner was overpowered and secured. The roll of
flannel was recovered. On the first examination, on Wed-
nesday, the prisoner said she had been staying two or three
nights at 3 French-alley, Goswell-street, a very question-
able locality. She was remanded, and a policeman stated
this morning that she was a person of very bad character,
and had been in custody before.
Mr. Selfe—l suspected as much.
Police-constable—She is connected with a gang of shop-
lifters.

Mr. Selfe said the prisoner had committed a most auda-
cious robbery, and as she had pleaded guilty on the first
examination, he should now dispose of the case by sentencing
the prisoner to four months' imprisonment with hard labour.