The Sun.
London, England, 1820-01-22 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

ROBBERIES AT DRURY-LANE THEATRE.

The Magistrate, after a suitable aclmoeilioa.
and a warning 29 In Iris future conduct and Ilea
company he associated with, told him he was
discharged.

The prisoner and his mother with much gratis
tilde thanked Mr. Ellistott for his lenity:
With regard to the prisoner Brown the Magisft
trate observed, that it was but rarely that a pint%
of his age continued co-mmitting depredations for
the length of time he bad done; it was quite dif-
ferent when an act of felony Was committed :for
want or through distress, but he had continued
his depredations for several months, and had cott.
fessed the whole with great effrontery.
The prisoner entreated for mercy to be sliewu
him, making strOngivoleSsions of repetranee and •
of future good conduct.
The Magistrate inquired if his father was pre-•
sear, to which Mr. Elliston observed, that his
father was employed by him in the Theatre, and
was a very worthy man ; lie therefore spared his
feelings by dispensing with his attendance. '
The Magistrate observed, that it would be
imp
possible to let him go at large in London again.
Mr. Elliston said, as. far as a few ponnds would
go to get him out of the way he would give it.
The prisoner's sister was present, and she on..
dertook that her father should have a private in-
tei slew with the Magistrate upon the subject of
disposing of hint.

In the course of the examination Mr. mato*
stated, that he had now three hundred and fifty
persons employed on salaries at Drury• fame %rhea..
tre, and in addition to them he had tr.-4pentiyl2o
employed as supernumeraries. He said Le Lad,
just before he came to the office, given his Trea-
surer 1,1501. to pay salaries.

tiUILDHALL—Mary Lynch, a well-known coOr-
tezan, and Mary Sibley, the proprietor of a lodg..
ing-hoose, were yesterday chatged, the knitter
with stealing, and the latter with receiving,•a va-
luable gold watch, chain, seals, &c. the property
of Mr. W. H. Brandon.
The prosecutor said, he resided in Fetter-lane.
Ou Wednesday evening, about tell o'clock, he
was returning home, when he was accosted by
the prisoner ilt the corner of Plough court, a short
distance from his own house ; she strongly soli-
cited Will, in the usual strain, to accompany' her
home. He resisted her importunities, and refused
to go with her. She had not parted from bias,
however, for more than a few minutes when be
missed his watch. No individual but the prisoner
was near hies( the time he was robbed of his
,watch.

Margaret Lynch stated, that she was a relatio'n
to the prisoner, and that on Thursday morning
she was sent for to the house of Sibley, whtte
Elie former resided. Mrs. Sibley, in the presence
of Lynch, asked the witness as a favour to pledge
tr gold watch for her at the pawnbroker's ; site
consented, and Mrs. Sibley told her to ask 61. for
it. Witness took it to Mr. Guest's, iii I'le+ta-
market, but there only obtained 41.'upon it.
Stephens, one of the servants to Mr. Guest,
produced the watch which hold been pledged by
the last witrrss ; she said she had been sent to
pledge it for a gentleman, who was in wdoi of
the money upon a very urgent occasion.
Mr. Brandon identified the, watch as bis pro—
per! y.
. ,

The Magistrate was of opinion, that there was
not sufficient evidence adduced in order to fix the
guilt of the prisoner Sibley, and therefore (uttered
her to be discharged:
.Mary Lynch was fully copra' ted for It ial.

COAL MARKET, JAN. 21. •
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BIRTHS.
Yesterday, the Lady of Mr. M. Gilmore, of Stamford-bit,
of a sun.

Same day, in Red Lion-square, the Lady of Jain Bridges,
Esq. of a son.

MARRIED.
On the 17th•inst. at Kimbnitoo, Hunts, the Rev. W. 1),
Ridley, to Maria, daughter of Robert. Tidwell, for-
merly of Oporto.

DIED.
On the 2tst of June last, at Agimere, in the Eitt.
Captain Charles Dunhill, of the 7th Native Bengal Infant'
of lever, aged 00.
.
On the 20th inst., at his house in Calthorpe-street, Meek-
lenhurgli-square, the wife of James Scott Savory, 111,4 , of
the Hon. East India Company's Service, can the Madras
Estatnisliment.
On the DILI' inst., at Ihildesdon, Mr. John La‘sretuT, is
the 6.lth year of his age.

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130W,STRR RT.—Yesterday John Brown and Joins
Spight, two lads, underwent a second examine-
, rion, charged with being concerned in robbing
Drury-Lane Theatre of a great variety of articles,
including several hundred weight of lead front the
roof of the Theatre.
The prisoner Brown• confessed his guilt, styli
implicated his fellow prisoner. He stated that he
had sold the different articles, at au old iron shop
in Wild-street, which Bond, the constable,
searched, and found a Grecian lamp for Ones
burners, which Brown said was sold at the shop
fur 3s,
The maker of the lamp attended, and said it
cost two guineas and a half.
Mr. BifiNlll, the sitting Magistrate, lamented
the ready receptacle this and similar descrip;iera
of shops afforded for stolen property, and declar-
ed his determination to have the shop closely ,
watched ; the purchase of property from lads was •'
highly censurable.
Mr ELLISTON, Mr. Warm, and Mr. WIAiSTOX
attended the examination.
Both the prisoners expressed their contfition.
The proof against Spight was but slight ; tt was
principally front what Brown said ; and Mr. Mills-.
ton, with great humanity, expressed his wish that
every possible leui,y might be 4liewn him, on ,tc
count of his widowed mother, although be was
sorry to say, he had ascertained that he had rob-
bed her.—The afflicted mother appeared in mourn-
ing for her husband, and extremely oppressed
with grief.