The Sun.
London, England, 1857-07-18 00:00:00

THAMES.

A. THIEF DISCOVEUING HIMSELF. —SINGULAR ROB-
BERY.—Williara Hawkio., a singular looking man,
without a c'at and about 40 years of age was brought
before Mr. Yardly charged with stealing a pair of boots,
value ss. 6d., from the shop of Mr. Young, boot and
shoe maker of Langley Place, Commercial Road East.

Mr. Saunders said he was foreman to Mr. Young.
Yesterday evening about belf-past seven o'clock the
prisoner came into Mr. Young's shop with a begging
petition and said he wai a boot-closer labouring under
illness and out of employmen4. The prisoner Lad a coat
packed under his arm, and although his appeal was
declined he remained in the shop for some time. About
half an hour after the prisoner was gone he missed a
pair of blucher boots from that part of shop where pri-
sorer had been standing. About half-past 9 o'clock,
and after the shop was closed, there was a knock
at the door, and upon opening it the prisoner again pre-
sented himself and said, "Have I been in your shop to-
day ?" Witness replied, "Yes, you have." At that
time there were several others who appeared to know
the prisoner, standing in front of the house. The pri-
soner said, "Have you lost a pair of boy's boots."
Witness replied, "Yes, I have ; a pair of boy's boots of
the 4 size." The prisoner said, " I have been done out
of a pair of boy's boots, and I shoal like the right one
to know it. A man named Allen has taken them away
for one of his son-, and has not paid me. I will shew
you where the place is." He immediately sent for a
police constable, and gave the prisoner into custody.
Police-constable Tames Macdoriabi, 102 H, said the
prisoner told me he took the boots into a beersh ip, and
was " bested" out of them. He laid down and kicked
me severely, and swore be would do me a serious injury.
The prisoner, after pleading guilty to the charge of
stealing the boots, made a long and pltu,ible statement.
He said he was very ill, and he was troubled with a fis-
tula and two absces-es, one on his neck which the police-
man opened by his roughness and caused it to bleed.
The prisoner, after mentioning the names of dm medical
gentlemen who had operated upon him half a dozen
times, said he could not set to his work, and sought re-
lief from his trade.

Mr. Yardley was very sorry if the prisoner was afflict-
ed in the way stated, but was afraid a man who had told
so many untruths in his beg4ing petition would toll
falsehoods about his infirmities. The prisoner had
adopted a most impudent mode of proceeding, and after
stealing the boots went to a beer shop to dispose of them,
and found a man as dishonest as himself The prisoner
then, from the most mischievous of motives, went back
to the shop where he committed the robbery to obtain
the punishment of the other thief, Such a strange cor-
ruption of morals he had never known before. He sen-
tenced the prisoner to be imprisoned and kept to hard
labour for two months.
FRIGHTFUL CAS/ OF STABBING.—Miguel Derenis,
man of colour, a native of Cmli, who has been in cus-
tody a month on a charge of cutting and wounding two
English seamen named Bishop and Webster, was brought
before Mr. Yardley fur the fourth time on remand.
The prisoner stabbed the two Englishmen in Ratcliff
Highway with a long sheath•knife, and without the
slightest provocation whatever, as they were quietly pas-
sing along the street. One man was stabbed under the
left arm-pit and on the right slaulder ; the other, Bishop,
Watwounded on the thigh and thisllnrotum. - He is in a
precarious state in the London Hospital.
The police-constable, Payne of the H division, who has
eharg,e of the case, said that neither of the prisoner's
victims could appear.
Mr. Yardley said the prisoner must be again remanded
for another week, and if necessary, he would go to the
London Hospital to receiye the depositions of the wounded
men.