Star.
London, England, 1826-08-11 00:00:00

AI A RLUOROUG 11-STREfit

Mn. Parra* again appeared before the Magistrate (Mr. Dm),
respecting Mrs. Uefres's watch, value sixty guineas, which she was
charged with stealing. Mrs. D. now consented to handbills being
published, offering a reward for the recovery of the watch. She
said It was one of a peculiar construction, and was formerly the
property of Murat. Mrs. Defies and her husband have been in
business as tobacconists, and she complains bitterly of being ob-
liged to remain in this country, on account of this affair. said
they had engagements to attend to on the Continent, and they are
losing tFwu►ands, because they cannot attend to those engagements.
Mr. Dent said be could nor help that; she had preferred a
charge against Mrs. Parrock of stealing the watch, and she niust
appear and subuantlate it. lie should, therefore, postpone the
matter for a week.

" Oh dear,'Sir." said Mrs. Dares, awe intended being on the
Continent in a week."

" Then, if your business is so urgent," said Mr. Dims, " I'll
bear the cage on Saturday."
'• But, Sir," replied Mrs. Defret, " we intended quitting Lon-
don by the steam-boat on Saturday; cannot the watch be recovered
and sent to me?"

" No, Indeed it cannot," said Mr. Drzu, N you must attend
here to claim it. 1 shall postpone the case till Saturday, and ex-
pect ybu to attend on that day."

Yesterday, Hcary Down, a young man who has been souse days
in custody oa a charge of robbing his erttployers, Messrs. Sewed and
Cross, et Compton-street. Soho, linen-drapers and mercers, of pro-
perty to an enormous amount; and a female, with whom he lived
at No. 107, Brook-street, West-square, Lambeth, named Monks
assni, was charged with receiving the property, knowing it to be
stolen, were !troughs to the office.
It appeared that the prisoner Dunn was the most confidential
panto of upwards of forty in the employ of Messrs. Sewel and
Cross, and although for some time past they have missed a variety
of property, they almost suspected every body about them except
the prisoner, and actually discharged several shopmen, clerks,
porters; Ste. to no effect, fot still their property was vanishing. At
length, about thee* weeks ago, Mr. Cross received private informa-
tion that Dunn, although his salary, besides board and lodging, was
only 451. a year, kept a house and a mistress, in Brook-street, West-
square, and in consequence of this information a search warrant was
procured, and Clements, the officer, sent to execute it at the house,
No IC7. After a strict search the officer found a vast quantity of,
property, and pawnbrokers duplicates for a great deal more. The
woman, Smith, was then taken into custody, and she at once coa-
-1 fessed that Mr. Dunn had made her presents of all those things,
bids declared her total ignorance of where they came from. She
also said that Mr. Donn had takes that house for her. and paid .50L
a year, besides taxes, for it; that be allowed her 11. a week pis.
money, besides supplying her with dress and keeping two female
servants, &c. so that net less than about 5001. a year could keep up
the establishment.

Duos, since his apprehension, has confessed the whole of Ws de-
predations, to which, he says, he was mainly instigated by this
woman wbom he picked up at three o'clock in the moroipg at one
of time; infamous bosses called Sash houses or finishes, in the neigh-
bourhood of Cevent-Garden, the fesort of all the vile characters,
both male and fesnale, about town.

Yesterday all the property found at the house in Stook street,
and le the hands of the pawnbrokers, was produced at the °Meet
and Identified by Mr. Cross as belonging to him and kis partner : so
vast was t►e quantity, that the office actually had the appearance
of a sale room; it consisted chiefly of silks of the richest quality, of
various colours, some in dresses and some in pieces, silk stockings,
gloves, laces, 4c. out of number, a variety of muslin' and prints,
linen cloth and broad cloth, parasols, scarfs, shawls, pelisse., and
speneers ; in short, to go through all would be to give an inventory
of the contents of a haberdasher's shop. To stew the gacrifices
made of this property, one pawnbroker had property in silks worth
WO/. pledged fur 20/. Several of the pawnbrokers who attended

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Idenri6:4l the prironer Smith and ►et two servants, as hav:ri
pledted rever,al of she ac icier. •
the primmer% tieeltsseaUrrenterts
built committed for Leah

in .0,4 ditience, and were

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Ildittaliaw Radasay.46-Au aged and' sieficalielei Jet*. dig s 4
Benjamin Harris, of Ebenezer-square, liodirdbtraiskillik
illiffino UP, it, a prioati in the lbf Rogigiesd Pad
stealing his watch from his person, saw the Sistkoeiatioae, tfai
midster, on Monday last.
Harris was pasdng by the Sassitobt Homo about dot edoelti
_is
the afternoon of the day jest stated, when the Wisner etas! OW
ways ap against him, and pulled his ',lath front his fob, silid theli
ran away. Witbria first.called nut tea young min (Rant •Poxli
also a private in the 3d Regiment, to non alter the prZr; *An
was poetised down iting•Otreet to basnmarroworbein
(Demon), tanup, secured Ont. and Caw bids' Hid is
watch bouw.
Charles Demon, of Little Ctsepel-atreet, Virsigdnitrt penises'
the Prisoner i said that he was *treed MR' by a IBettflltian, WWI
wknei4 got to Parliamintestreet, which be erased, and fraud Sift]
wit stealing old
lc,
I in Cannon-row. Ord! was challenged by witness,
HAW. writ*, which be denied, and lit 1# al wit me right and
left, to prevent his taking him, and strnek hbn Obit** loproftdll:
This obliged the Metes, to scald upon his drfetiii, *heft the
prisoner got more calm, and he was given in custody to the lace;..
keeper, 11111.
Orril, the prisoner, still denied the charge; and nwetEined hit
baying been five years in the regiment, and Oat SION billeted at
the Adam and Eve puhlic•house, in Yotl/2 uteri, llirfstininster.
Here the prosecutor (I lan l.) said drat he-wished the prisoner to
be turned over to his resiment ; but this WAS refit by the Sitting
Mazistrate, Mr. Wnirs, as inconsistent with the sinful course ut
justice, and Otril was committed to Tntbill fie) is Mann.