The Sun.
London, England, 1829-12-29 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

Yesterday two well-known duffers, one of whorl.,
is the brother of the celebrated Dick Bowers, whc,
is now serving his time across the water, were
charged by a young man from the country with
having attempted to impose upon him under these
circumstances :

The complainant was passing through Clement's-
lane, in the Strand, when he was accosted by a
genteel-looking wan, who naked him if be wanted
any prime India silk handkerchiefs, India shawlz,
cigars, or some prime Irish linen, adding, that he
had just smuggled over a great quantity of these
articles, and could afford to sell them at less than a
third of the sale price. The complainant was then
induced to accompany the man to a public-house,
where he was introduced to several men, and was
treated to a glass of brandy. His new friend soon
after showed him several silk handkerchiefs, shawls,
cigars, &c., all of which, however, the countryman
was knowing enough to see were spurious commc►-
&ties, made up to deceive the eye; and hinting hil
suspicions respecting them, the party of duffers im-
mediately separated, while the complainant went out
to look for a police officer. In about half an hour
he returned to the parlour of the public-house with
two police constables, where he immediately identi-
fied the prisoners as two of the gang, and they were
taken into custody. A parcel, containing some imi-
tation silk shawls, &c., and a piece of glazed calico
made up to resemble French lawn, was found on them,
One of the defendants said he had purchased the
articles that morning for the purpose of selling again.
The other described himself as a " barker," and
said he was in the habit of going about the country
to make sales for those who employed him.
Sir R. BIRNIF. regretted that there was not suffi-
cient evidence to detain the defendants, who no
doubt belonged to a gang of duffers by which that
part of the Strand near Clemetit's-lane had been so
long infested. He advised the police constables to
have an eye upon all such fellows, whe were always
on the watch to palm their spurious trash on the

unwary.
The defendants were then discharged.
M A RLBOROU ON.STRIET.

On Thursday last two respectable•looking men,
named Anderson and Shenstone, occupying as part-

ners the lower part of a house, No. 12, Orange-
street, Leicester-square, were brought before Mr.
ROE, the sitting Magistrate, under the following
circumstances :

It appeared that Mr. Laing, the proprietor of a
shooting gallery and billiard rooms in the Hay-
market, had occasion to employ a plumber and
glazier to make some trifling repairs at his house,
and in passing through Orange-street observed that
the front shop window of the prisoner's residerwe
had rolls of lead in it, and all the other appearances
of a glazier's shop; besides that, the fumes of the
prisoners were over the door as belonging to that
trade, and Mr. Laing, without knowing any thing
more of them, called in and employed them to dO
the required repairs. The prisoners accordingly
sent a person to Mr. Laing's to do these repairs,
but soon after this person left the premises Mr.
Laing discovered that the place had been robbed of
a quantity of wearing apparel and other property,
and upon this discovery a search-warrant was pro-
cured and placed in the hands of Clements and God-
dard, the officers, to search the premises of the pri-
soners for this lost property; and on the officers
having proceeded to make the search, although they
did not find any of Mr. Laing's property, they dis-
covered a large quantity of lead, upwards of a ton
weight, concealed in a dark back parlour, which
from the appearance of it they felt convinced had been
stolen, and in this impression they were coptirineil
by the immediate entrance of two men, who, trot
knowing the officers, but no doubt supposing
them to have come on the same business, pro-
ceeded to strip themselves and unrol from around
their bodies whole sheets of lead. The officers !hen
took all the parties into custody, and,
on further in-
quiry, it MS ascertained that instead of Andersen
and Shenstone being plumbers and gl.:z:ers, they
were tailors by trade, and merely kept in the shop