Star.
London, England, 1810-04-23 00:00:00

POLICE.

BOW-STREtT.—For some time pagt some of the
most daring robberies have been committed in the
Strand and Fleet-street we ever heard of, between the
hours of ten and one o'clock, and only one of the
robbers have been taken till within these few days,
although from the description of one, who had pawn.
ed a watch, that a Gentleman had been robbed of by
a Jew, there was no doubt where he was.

On Thursday evening, as Mr. Jones, the vestry-
clerk of St. Paul's)-Covent Garden, was passing
through Charles-street, Covent Garden, be heard a
female voice proceeding from a coach the corner of
York-street, screaming violently, calling" murder,"
and entreating assistance to come to her, which in.
duced him to go to the coach. A man was in the
coach beating the woman ; he said she was his wife,
but the woman denied it. Mr. Jones advised them
to go to the office in Bow-street, to settle their dis-
pute, which the man refused to do. He jumped out
of the coach and got upon the box, and was driving
off, the coachman having gone to pledge a silk hand-
kerchief the man had forcibly taken from the woman.
The horses were, however, stopped ; the to endea-
voured to make his escape to avoid going to Bow-
street, but Adkins the officer hearing the noise, came
up at the time, and recognized the man to be a well-
known character, whom he had wanted for above
a fortnight, on a charge of being one of the street
robbers. He underwent an examination before Mr.
NARES. His name is Abraham Hart Braham.
The woman said her name was Sarah Watson, that
she had some time since cohabited with the prisoner,
but finding him to be a bad character, she had left
him. On Thursday morning, she met the prisoner
in Fleet-street, when he, with the assistance of two
men, forced her into a hackney coach, and drove her
to Oxford-street, where she screamed so violently, and .
called " murder" so loud, in consequence of the pri-
soner beating her, that the coach was stopped, and a
number of people were collected round it, which
caused two men to jump out of the coach and run
away. The prisoner told the people she was his
wife, which prevented the people from rescuing her
from him. He then told the coachman to drive to
Covent Garden. He was committed on the charge
of stealing the woman's handkerchief. On Saturday
he was brought to the office, and underwent an exa-
mination on a charge of a street robbery.
Lewis Trumff said, that on the night of the 50th
'of March, about ten o'clock, as he was passing along
Fleet-street, on his way home to Great George's-
street, a man ran violently against him, and at the
same instant he felt his gold watch and chain go from
his pocket, he called out for help, but the man made
his escape. The prisoner resembled the man.
An apprentice of Mr. Barker's, a pawnbroker, of
Houndsditch, produced a gold watch, which was
pawned at their shop by the prisoner the morning
after the robbery for £B, and at the same time he
produced a double gold chain to be weighed. Mr.
Barker discovered in a few days afters that the watch
had been stolen, and was prepared 'co stop the priso-
ner when he called for it: Last Mond4y the prisoner,
calledbutit is
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he perceived's,adoredthteti y sell the
going to
thewatch,
take him into custody, as he tau but of the shop and
made his escape.
Mr. Truniff identig-ca the watch produced by the
Pawnbi.ol'.6 to 3:ie the same he had been robbed of, and
the chie;'a he had weighed, answered the description
of the one he was robbed of. The prisoner had said,
ne received the watch from a man of the name of
Smith, who resided at No. 14, Charles-street, Black-
friar's•road, but Adkins had made enquiries, and no
such person lived there.
The prisoner was committed for further examina-
tion, as several other charges are expected to be exhi-
bited against him.

GUILMIALL—Saturday an elderly man, a fo-
reigner, was brought up for re-examination,• being
charged by a wholesale dealer in poultry, belonging
to Leadenhall-market, of the name of Potts, with
stealing a drake, and a variety of other fowls, his
property. A poor illiterate Irishman, named j
Dennis Harragan, had been tried at the last Old Bai.
ley Sessions for the same offence, the drake in ques-1
tion having been found in his possession, but was ac-
quitted. He now came forward, and charged the
prisoner as the person from whom he purchased the
drake, in Newgate-market, on the morning of the
24th ult. being the morning on which it, and a n um- ;
ber of other fowls, had been stolen from Mr. Potts.
A young man, who was present in the market when
Harragan, who keeps a stall there, made the pur-
chase,
corroborated this statement ; in consequence
of which Harragan was acquitted at the Old Bailey.
Similar evidence had been given before the Magis-
trates at Lambeth Police Office, who had committed
Harragan, but unfortunately did not obtain that de-
gree of credit to which it subsequently appeared en-1
titled. The worthy Alderman (ScuoLev) observing
that one mistake had already occurred in this busi-
ness, bestowed particular pales on the investigation,
lamenting, with that humanity for which he is so pe-
culiarly distinguished, the hardships and disgrace to
which poor Harragan had been unjustly exposed.—
The prisoner, through the medium of an interpreter,
acknowledged that he had sold the drake to Harri-
gan. He told an improbable story as to the way in
which he had, on three several occasions, been em-
ployed by a stranger to sell fowls for him ; in conse-
quence of which, the depredations of this kind hav-
ing been very numerous, the worthy Alderman found
it incumbent en him to commit the prisoner for trial.
Umon HALL.—Saturday a man named Bonham,
and six of his children, aiz.—Alice aged 21, Mary
17, Caroline 16, Ann 13, Henry George 11, and Wil-
liam 10, were committed for trial from this Hall, to
the New Gaol, charged with having stolen various
articles from the shops of Mr. BOA, Mr. Sharp, Mr.
England, and Messrs. Keates and 'Williams, in the
Borough. The property W4straced'to eight different
pawn-brokers.

'tc r.7I.EVASTICAL PROMOTIONS.
The Reit. Mr. Ptak is appointed to the Vicarage of Fia.?d,i;
Northamptonshire, !mart by the decease of Sir C. Cave.
Rev. Thomas Powys, to the rectory of Fawley, Locks.
Rev. Thomas t owen, to the perpetual ct.racy of Temple Cuit-
ing, Gloucestershire.
Rev. 1. W. Viven, M. A. of All Souls College, Oxfcrd, to be
evening lecturer at St. Michael Royal, London.