The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-15 00:00:00

THAMES•

DARING HORSE AND CART ROBBERY. —J ohn
Davis and William Dooley, mere lads
.in appear-
ance, and Henry John Beckley, a notorious re-
ceiver, aged 40 years, whose bill-heads described
him to be a dung- dealer, drysalter, and bankrupt
stock-dealer, of No. 14, Itydon-street, New North-
road, Islington, were brought before Mr. Benson,
charged, the two first with stealing, and the last
with feloniously receiving, knowing to be stolen, a
horse and van, 20 loaves of refined sugar, in
weight about 2201b5., and 18 bags of other sugar,
about 18 cwt.
The horse and cart robberies, with loads of refined
sugar, coarse sugar, tea and coffee, have been
hitherto generally committed in the course of the
dark days of the year, but latterly they have com-
menced, or rather revived, with the light days, and
a large amount of property has been stolen from
the neighbourhood of Whitechapel and the London
and St. Katherine Docks. On the 26th of last
month a carman, named Lewis Smith, was driving
a horse and van in Denmark-street, St. George-in-
the-East, and was on his way from a sugar house
to the South Devon Wharf. The van contained
20 tillers, large sugar loaves, and 18 cwt. of sugar
in bags. He saw the prisoner Davis hanging
about Denmark-street and the sugar house for
some time.

Davis here interrupted the witness, and said
" Are you sure it's me ?"
Witness—Yes, I am.

Davis—Might not others take the horse and van
and sugar as well as I did ?
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Mr. Benson--He didn't say you stole the horse
and van.

Th© Prisoner—T-Inw was I dresigorl
Witness—You had an overcoat and a leather
apron on. The witness then proceeded to state
that he was sent back to the sugar house after he
left it with his load, and upon his return the horse
and van were gone. He discovered his team again
the same night without the sugar in the neighbour-
hood of Islington.

Edmund Jackson said he knew Davis and Dooley,
and saw them in Church-street, Mile-end New-
town, with a horse and van loaded with sugar on
the 26th of March last.

Peter William Dunaway, a police sergeant, No.
11 LI, stated that in consequence of information
he went yesterday to No. 1, Hale-street, New
North-road, and in a shed in the rear of the pre-
mises he found nine bags of raw sugar, which the
witness Smith believed were those stolen from his
van. The shed was in the yard of a cow-keeper
named Liddiard.; He sent a man to No. 14, Rydon-
street, the prisoner Beckley's dwelling, and saw him
knock at the door. Beckley answered the knock,
and he went towards him. The prisoner immediately
shut the door, got over a wall at the back, got
over a fence and ran into a back street, where he
was run down by a police constable named Foster,
No. 207 11, he had stationed there. After he had
searched Beckley, who was only half dressed, he
wished to return to his house to finish his toilette,
to which witness replied, "No, no, Mister Beckley,
I will not let you stir an inch from me till you are
locked up. You should have dressed before you left
home."

Mr. Benson—You did perfectly right, Dunaway.
Mrs. Sophia Liddiard, of No. 1, Hale-street,
Islington, said she was the wife of Henry Liddiard,
a cow-keeper, and said the prisoner Beckley rented
the shed where the ten bags of raw sugar were
found, and that the prisoner deposited them in the
shed.

Mr. Benson—What is Beckley ?
Dunaway—A noted receiver of stolen goods.
Mr. Benson remanded the prisoners until Wed
nesday next.

MARKETS—(This Day.)