The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-15 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A SYSTEMATIC ROBBERY. —TWO women, named
Maria Bishop and Annie Kent, were charged before
Mr. Tyrwhitt with the following robbery :
Police-constables Carter and Chamberlayne, two
plain clothes officers of the G Division, saw the
prisoners go up to the shop of Mr. Davis, linen-
draper, No. 72, Tottenham Court-road. Kent stood
in front of the show board and lifted her dress, and
then lowered it over some goods, and took up under
her dress a large piece of Mohair, and walked
away, joined by Bishop. The officers went after
the prisoners, and on Carter saying to Kent, " I
think you have got something about you that don't
belong to you," she replied with apparent surprise
at being taxed with such a thing, " I can assure you
I have not." Carter then told Kent that he was a
police officer, and should take her into custody,
aud, after walking a short distance, she dropped
from under her dress the piece of mohair. Cham-
berlayne then took the prisoners to the station.
Frank Danvers, an assistant to Mr. Davis, iden-
tified the mohair as the property of his employer.
Carter said that when the prisoners were searched
at the station by the female searcher a pair of
scissors was found upon one of them.
Mrs. Charlotte Howe, warder at the House of
Correction, Westminster, said that both prisoners
had been convicted of felony.

Mr. Tyrwhitt committed the prisoners for trial.

THAMES.

SHARP YOUNG MEN.—Two youths, named James
Walker, who said he was 25, and John Smith, who
declared he had just reached his majority, and was
entitled to money and houses, were brought before
Mr. Benson, charged with stealing a copper boiler
and a quantity of gas-pipe and fittings from a
house in Brook-street, Ratcliffe.
The prisoners, mere lads in appearance,
were
stopped a few mornings since in Copley-street,
Stepney, by William Carter, No. 78 K,
and Richard Talbot, 102 K,
,having in their pos-
session a copper and a quantity of gas piping, and
on being asked to account for their possession of
verythe same were impudent, and said the police
constables bad no right to stop them. Carter and
Talbot said the hour of the morning was too early
for them to be carrying such things honestly, and
they were taken to the station-house. They then
declared to the inspector that they were on their
way to the London Docks to work, and picked up
the things at the door of a house in Brook-street,
Ratcliff. The property was now identified by Mr.
Solomons, gentleman, from the neighbourhood of
Portman-street, l\tarylebone, and who said his
house, which was unoccupied in Brook-street, had
been broken into and the property stolen. The
house was greatly damaged in tearing away the
copper, gas piping, and fittings.
The prisoners in defence said they were on their
way to their daily employment in the dock when
they picked up the copper and fittings at the door
of the prosecutor's house.

Mr. Benson—What business had you in Brook-
street?

The Prisoners—Why it was the very direct way
to the London dock.

Mr. Benson—Very good ; but you were a mile to
the north of the London dock when you were
stopped by the constables with the property.
The Prisoners—Yes, to be sure, that's quite
right. We were looking for a station-house—a
police station-house.

Mr. Benson—You went close by the one in
King David-lane, and passed by the one here o n
your way to Copley-srreet.

The Prisoners—We don't know the situation of
station-houses. We don't know where they are.
Mr. Benson—Do you plead guilty or not guilty,
or will you be tried by a jury ?

• The Prisoners—Tried by a jury, to be sure. We
claim our rights both of us.

Mr. Benson—You shall have them. You are
both committed for trial.

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