Star.
London, England, 1830-10-22 00:00:00

SINGULAR DETECTION Or TUE BURGLAR.

On IVednesday, the Magistrates of Greenwich, Col. Foreman aad
Richard Smith, EM. were occupied a length of time in the examination
of a desperate housebreaker, named Jack Cann" who, with his gang,
has been for some time the dread of Kent, upon the charge of burglary
and robbery on the premises ofJames Russell, Esq. at East Greenwich,
on the night of Thursday or morning of Friday last, and stealing plate
and other articles. _ _ _

_The circumstances under which the burglary was effected arc of a very
singular nature, and the ultimate apprehension of the burglar still
more so. _ _

The dwelling-house of Mr. Russell stands alone in the Marshes,
upon the brink of a mill dam which branches out front the river
Thames. The burglars purloined a wherry front the stairs at East
Greenwich, in which they proceeded up this creek or darn, from whence
they found an easy access to the back part of the premises. They forced
open the kitchen window, and proceeded up stairs into the parlour. an
entrance to which they gained by taking out one of the door pannels with
a centre-bit ; here they ransacked all the closets, stole several articles of
plate, and broke up several plated articles to ascertain if they Were silver.
They then forced a lock of an adjoining room, in which was deposited a
considerable sum of money, but in this act they made such a noise that
they awoke Mrs. Russell, who aroused her husband, but he believ-
ing it to be his wife's imagination, went to sleep again. At this mo-
ment, it is thought, the robbers escaped In the same manner they had
entered, leaving the most valuable property behind them. In the room,
the lock of which had been forced, a piece of a yellow cotton handker-
chief was picked up near the door, about three inches in sire, which
had belonged to the rubber, and which is supposed to have been torn
off in forcing the lock. This piece of handkerchief was the principal
cause of the capture of the burglar, and his subsequent committal for
trial.
Serjeant Phipps, division R, No.lB, having gained possession of the
scrap of handkerchief, went immediately in search of the robbers, and
laving learned that a man had been inquiring in the neighbourhood, on
the day previous to the robbery, as to what dogs were kept on the pre-
mises of Mr. Russell, and as to what time at night the domestics retired
to rest, he obtained the description of the man, and knowing it corres-
ponded with that of the prisoner Cannon, he at once suspected him to
have been implicated in the business, and therefore went in search of
him amongst his old haunts. On Sunday morning lie received infointa-
tion that he wa. at a house in Lewisham-lane, kept by a woman with
whom he cohabited. Serjeant Phipps disguised himself and repaired
thither, when, upon opening the door, he saw the woman making a
pudding upon a table, whim was placed against a closet-door. The offi-
cer inquired if " Jack" was there ? The woman coolly replied, " No,
d—n him, he don't come here now." Phipps, however, was not to be
deceived, and suddenly throwing over the table from the closet-door, he
there found concealed the object of his search. The prisoner swore
with a tremendous oath that be would not be taken, but upon being
told that no quarter would be given, he surrendered, and Phipps car.
Tied hint to the statiomhouse, where he was searched by Mr. Stevens,
the inspector, when in his hat was found a handkerchief. Upon the dis-
covery, the prisoner's courage forsook him ; he turned pale, and his lips
quivered, and with a feigned indifference he said, " I)—n the hand.
kerchief, burn 1., it is so very dirty." His request, however was un-
attended to • and upon the piece found on Mr. Russell's premises being
compared with a vacuum in the handkerchief found upon the prisoner,
it was ascertained to correspond exactly, and the prisoner muttered,
" It's all over." The prisoner, when before the Magistrates, denied
with strong asseverations having any knowledge of the robbery,and de-
nied also that ibe handkerchief belonged to him.
A man named Cobb, a waterman, proved that he met the prisoner at
the Pilot public house, in the Marshes, on the day previous to the rob-
, sad he asked him several questions respecting Mr. Russell's house.
IThe prisoner denied having seen the witness before.
The .ates laid the evidence of the handkerchief alone was
'sufficient to send the prisoner for trial, but the evidence of Cobb made it
a:complete came against him.
The prisoner was then fully committed to take his trial at the next
Maidstone Assam.

POLIC.S REPORTS.
GDILDIIALL.—SoIomon Bersame was brought before Mr. Alderman
Copeland yesterday, on suspicion of having stolen a watch.
The complainant, Abraham F. Nemo, stated, that some time since,
an aged Hebrew asked him to get a metal -watch repaired. He did so,
and returned it ; but on the following day his Mend asked him when
he should bring the watch back. He was astonished, and endeavoured
to bring to his recollection that he had delivered it to him the day
before, but all he could get from his Mend was, that he had not seen it.
After diligent inquiry, he traced that it had been pledged by the
soner in the Liverpool-road, Islington, and he brought him before the
Magistrate, that his own character might be justified in the eyes of his
Mends.

The prisoner said he had purchased it for four shillings from the
complainant's friend.
The latter being in attendance, the Alderman proceeded to examine
him through an Arabic interpreter. The old man, who gave his name
Moses Asoli, stated, that he brought the watch from Brasil, and that it
was true he had sold it to the prisoner, as he had represented.
The Alderman immediately said this testimony put an end to the
charge of felony, and justified the complainant's character.

Bow.swairr.—Mury Ann Pearce, alias Lady Barrynoore was
again brought up by a policeman, charged with riotous and disorderly
conduct.

The worthy Magistrate, Mr. Bloom:ILL' considering it useless to
send her to prison, desired her to sit down in the front office, and he
would give an order on the parish of St. Paul, Covent-garden, that she
might be passed to her parish. Her ladyship was, however, insensible
to the kindness intended her, and left the office as usual, lifting up her
hands, deploring her melancholy situation.
Cuatous FRAUD.—dI person who represented himself as • pawn.
broker,waited on Mr. 311318litiLL, to give information of a singulat
fraud which had been practised upon him a short time since.
A rrspectably.dressed individual came into his shop, and purchased
a gold watch, a wedding-ring, and some other articles, in payment for
which he tendered a SOL Bank of England note, which appearing to be
genuine, was received by the applicant, who gave the change. Thus
the matter rested for some days, when the note was returned from the'
Bank as a forgery, and the% applicant then ascertained that the word
" five" had been cut out of the note, which originally was for that
amount, and in its stead was substituted the word " fifty," which was
so cleverly executed as to be capable of deceiving almost any one.

The applicant said he feared the party from whom he had received
the note had left the country.
Mr. ftliwsuum. declared that it was a most ingenious contrivance,
and ordered Ellis, the principal officer, to go with the applicant, and
render him all the assistance in his power.
The applicant and Ellis then withdrew.

MARLIOROUOH.STREET.--ATTEXPTED ROBBERY AT CHES-
TERFIELD HoUSIL--YeSterthiy two well-dressed young fellows, who
gave their names, John Watkins and James Jordan, were brought
from the police station of this district before F. A. Roe, Esq. the sit.
ting Magistrate, on the following charge.

John Bishop, who had been an old soldier in the army, stated that he
is employed by the Earl of Chesterfield as a private watchman to look
about his Lordship's 'ptemises and gardens at Chesterfield House,
Mayfair. Between twelve and one o'clock on Wednesday night, he
though the heard a alight noire, and saw two heads raised above* bush in
the garden ; he called out, and " challenged" the bush-rangers,
but he received no answer ; he again on them to know
whn they were, and what their business there was, and was proceeding
to approach the bush behind which the enemy was concealed, when the
latter rushed in upon him, and both men having closed with him, got
him down. A desperate struggle now ensued between himself and the
two men, the latter endeavouring to grapple him by the throat and
cover his mouth ; and in their efforts to accomplish this they tore his
cheeks and face severely wish their nails t however, be succeeded in
calling out " Murder ! and the villains quitted him and got over the
garden wall, but leaving behind them a dark lantern and some house.
breaking implements, together with a hat and pair of shoes belonging
to one of them.

Mr. Murray, a lic.enced victualler, residing almost opposite to the Earl
of Chesterfield's gardens, said, that between twelve and one o'clock on
the night mentioned, he was up stairs going to bed, and partly un-
dressed, when he suddenly heard a cry of " Murder !" as if from the
direction of Lord Chesterfield's gardens, and tinging up his window.
sash, he saw two men, one of them without a hat, clambering over the
wall from the gardens, and still heard the cry of " Murder" continued
inside: he instantly ran down stairs, undressed as he was, and got
into the street just time enough to seize the prisoner Watkins, who
was running towards his house from the direction of the garden wall,
and without a hat ; and after a severe struggle, in which the prisoner
made great efforts to escape, he secured him until several police con.
stables came up, who arrived promptly on the spot and took charge of
him. Witness had not the least doubt but the man be secured was one
of those he had previously seen from his window, climbing over the

A police constable, belonging to the division, letter C, heard a call of
murder from the gardens, and ran instantly towards the direction from
which it seemed to come; and as he approached the garden wall, he
saw two men jump from it, and one of them, who was without a hat,
ran towards Mr. Murray's house, and the other in the direction that he,
the witness, was coming. Witness immediately grappled with the man
who approached him, and speedily secured him, and that man was the
prisoner Jordan ; the other prisoner, who was without a hat, Mr. blur.
ray and some constables afterwards brought up in custody.
Bishop, the watchman, said that Watkins, the prisoner, when taken
in the street, was not only without a hat, but was also without shoes,
and the hat and shoes found in the gardens exactly fitted him.

The police constable said that on searching the prisoner Watkins,
several pieces of candle and a phosphorous box were found in his
pockeL
The prisoners, on being questioned by the Magistrate, denied that
they were the persons who were seen to get over the gsrden-wall, or that
they had any knowledge of each other, but both of them refused to give
any, further account of themselves.
The prisoners were then remanded until Thursday next.

HATTON-GAADEN.—Yesterday Catherine Pryer was re-examined,
with felony.
r. James Collier, landlord of the Two Chairmen, Wardour.etreet,
St. James's. Clerkenwell, stated, that on Wednesday, Oct. 6, about
half past six in the morning, his servant informed hint that the bar had
been broken open. He went down stain and found the till emptied, and
a number of other drawers had been ransacked of money, plate, and
wearing apparel, and other things, to the amount of upwards of 121.
The door of the bar had been forced by means of a wrench. The back
door of the house was open. Information was given to the police, and
in the course of the following day all the pawnbrokers were apprised of
the robbery.
Cuish, pawnbroker No. 65, Museum-street, stated that the
prisoner pawned on the 6th instant sonic !liver spoons and linen, and
she returned twice the same day with other articles, alleging, as a rea-
son, that her mother had a sum of money to make up. She gave her
address No. 25, Compton.strect. On the 7th She returned with more
articles. but in the interim Mr. Cuish had gut information of the rob-
bery, and be caused the prisoner to be detained till Sir. Collier was sent
fur, alio identified the property. The prisoner made no declaration.
but appeared to he surprised that she was stepped. As the whole of
the articles stolen bad net come to light, Mr. Collier went, accom-
panied by Ballantine, an officer of Marlborough-street, to Compton.
street, where the prisoner had given her address, but no such person
was known there.

Thomas Buttress, constable 142, div. E, took the prisoner into cus-
tody ; she made no disclosure.
The prisoner in defence said, that she was an unfortunate girl. She
received the articles that she had pledged from a man whom she did not
know any thing about in the street, about one or two in the morning,
and she spent the remainder of the night with him. He gave her all the
articles to be pawned. and received them from him not knowing them
to be stolen.
She was fully committed fur trial.

QUEEN•IKWARE.—Ridtard Mint. Iknry Stalker. and G. Co.r,
were charged witit attempting to rob the granary of Jr. Roiling, a corn
dealer, Blitekfriara. . _

Air. Resling stated, that for a series of years his premises were con.
tinually plundered of corn. Edward Temple iratson, clerk to AIL
Holding, stated, that he was appointed with John Green to watch the
granary. They concealed themselves behind the sacks in the granary,
and about four o'clock in the mornim; a person opened a door of a room
above the granary, and presently saw a light flub from the ceiling, and
a small board removed, and the prisoner, George Cox, dropped through
into the granary; he then opened the shutters of a window, and the
other prisoners, by means of a ladder from the outside, ascended into
the granary. The prisoners were then about to remove a sack of corn,
when he came out from his hiding place. and gave them in charge of
Green, while he went and brought a police constable, who took them to
the watch-douse.

Mr. WRITE said, that the intentions of the prisoners to rob the pre-
mises were manifest, and he should therefore s, ntenee them to the full
penalty of the law, three mouths' imprisonment and hard labour.

A moat dreadful accident occurred on Tuesday afternoon,
nff Cumbetland.wharf. A brig, laden with corn, from Hemet. Speck
and Redman'a granary, was just getting under weigh, whena poor fellow
belonging to the brig's new went aloft for the purpose of setting the
topgallant sail, when by some means he lost his hold, and fell with hie
head downwards, and the middle of his shoulder came in contact with
a cleat, or belaying pin. one inch and a half in diameter and eigl3
inches long. the whole of which was entirely buried in his shoulder,
which was extracted with a pair of plyers by Dr. Randal, junior, of
Hotherhithe. The poor fellow was placed on the tap-room table of the
Spread Eagle Tavern, near the Thames Tunnel, and groaned dread.
fully, but still sensible; and was sensible when he arrived at Guy's
Hospital, where he now is.