Star.
London, England, 1821-10-15 00:00:00

POL ICE.

GUILDHALL—Saturday,. a decent-looking yOting
man, named Thomas Johnson, underwent as exami-
nation at this Office, on a charge of being concerned
in a robbery of an extraordinarily daring nature.—
From the evidence adduced it appeared, that just
about dusk, on Friday evening, a small taxed cart
was driven up by the prisoner into Bread-street; and
stood for a few minutes near to the door of Mr.
Green, who keeps a blanket and carpet waiehouse,
at No. 58, in that street. The shopman at Mr. Far-
rer's, a neighbour, observed the cart draw up, and
seeing it drive off a few minutes after with a bale of
,goods in it, and followed by two men, thought it a
little suspicious, so much so as to induce him to step
into Mr. Green's, and 'ask if it was all tight? On
this inquiry, Mr. Green's young man immediately
missed one of three bales of blankets which had been
unloaded in the passage that afternoon. Mr. Farrer's
man having watche.l the way the cart went, the two
immediately followed in pursiiit, and overtook the
cart with the bale of blankets in it, and the prisoner
driving, in St. Paul's Church-yard. They observed
two men run off on their stopping the cart; but,
being anxious to recover the property, did not pursue
them; but compelled the prisoner to drive back to
Bread-street, and, having secured the property, lodged
him in the Compter. The bale was of an immense
size, too large to be got through the door of the
Justice-room, and was valued at £2l 10s. The cart
was desiribed as having on it the name of W. Hands,
15, Twister's-alley, Ilunhill-roa•. The prisoner's ac-
count of the transaction was that being in Sibith-
field-market for the purpose of selling a mare, about
five o'clock in the afternoon, his father came to him,
accompanied by two Gentlemen, and desired him to
take the mare and borrow a cart, and go with the
Gentlemen to remove some goods out of the City,
they being Afraid that an attachment was about to be
issued against the property. lie accordingly did so;
the Gentlemen took him into bread-street, told him
where to draw up, put the bale into the cart, and
were on the pavement near him, when lie was stopped
in St. Paul's Church-yard. The prisoner's father,
who described himself as residing in King's Arms-
yard, Whitecross-street, and getting his living by
letting out carts and horses, corroborated his son's
story. The two Gentlemen came to him to remove
some goods out of the City, and his son having the
mare with him in Smithfield, they went together to.
him to give him directions to do the job ; he (the fa-1
ther) desiring him to borrow a cart, as their own was
engaged. This was all he knew of the circumstances.'
He was unacquainted with the names of either of the'
two Gentlemen, but he knew the person of one of
them exceedingly well, having had some transactions
in business with him before. Though this story was
told with great simplicity and every appearance of
truth, it did not remove the suspicion of the Magis-
trate, Mr. Alderman Cox, that the son at least must
have been privy to, and an accomplice in, the robbery.
therefore, directed the horse and cart to be de-
tained, and remanded the prisoner for a future hear-
ing, in order that farther and full inquiry might be
made into the circumstances.

Bow-STREET.—Fonoaniss....-Saturday, a young
man, of respectable appearance, calling himself Henry
Thompson, was brought before the sitting Magistrate.
charged with uttering a number of forged- checks, for'
vat ions sums of money, upon the banking-house of
Jones, Lloyd, and Co. in Lothbury. It appeared from
the evidence of several persons who had been de-
frauded by the prisoner, that he has been in the habit
for several months past of uttering checks upon the
house mentioned, to tradesmen, in payment for pur-
chases of such an amount as would leave him a con-
siderable balance to receive in cash ; and his appear-
ance and demeanour being well calculated to deceive
even the cautious dealer, he uniformly succeeded in
obtaining the surplus, and no doubt was entertained
of his respectability until the checks were presented
at the banking-house and declared to be forgeries.—
They appeared to be taken from a regular check-book
of the house, and were signed Henry C. Lloyd,"
the name of one of the partners in the firm in Loth-
bury. As long ago as the 2d of May last, the pri-
soner passed a check of this description to Mr. Court-
ney, a tobacconist, in the purchase of some snuff and
tobacco ; and on the sth of the same month lie bought
a quantity of hay, to the amount of £5, froth a sales-
man of the name of Hook, to whom he gave another
check for £9, and received the difference. When
asked by Mr. Hook where he should send the hay ?
he said, " To Mr. Lloyd's, to be sure, who has just
given me the check to pay for it." The hay was sent
as directed, but very speedily returned, Mr. Lloyd
knowing nothing of the order or the check. On Sa-
turday morning the prisoner went to the shop of Mr.
Thomas, a butcher, at Charing-cross, and having or-
dered meat to the amount of about £2, he presented
a check for £lO, and desired to have the change.—
Mr. Thomas, however, suspecting that it was not a
genuine one, took it over to Messrs. Drummond's'
banking house, where he was informed that it was
beyond doubt a forgery, and he was advised to detain
the utterer. Mr. Thomas immediately procured an
officer, and gave the prisoner into custody. Messrs.
Drummonds, it appeared, had some time before re-
ceived a similar check in the course of business, and
it was afterwards returned from Jones and Lloyd's,
as a forgery. This it was that induced them to advise
the detention of the prisoner. Five persons now at-
tended to prefer their charges, but two only weie
gone into, those of Mr. Courtney and Mr. Hook. The
prisoner, when called upon, declined saying anything
at present. He was remanded till Wednesday next.
Quniisi-sounaz.—Saturday Sarah Hopkins and R.
Offer, whose case was reported in our last, were put
to the bar, along with H. Wiggins and C. Walker,
privates in the Ist Guards, and Eliza Stevens, a loose
woman, for robbing Thomas Hunt, a lame pedlar,
of razors, knives, scissors, &c. It appeared that Hunt
met the two girls, and invited them to a public-
house, where he treated them with porter and some
dinner. Here they were joined by the three soldiers,
and the whole party continued drinking some time
longer, when Hunt had occasion to retire for a few
minutes, and on his return found his bundle, con-
taining his merchandise, in the lap of Sarah Hop.
kips, and she busy in delivering the articles it con-
tained.to Offer. Hunt recovered a part of his pro-
petty at the time, and the rest was found on Hop-
kins and Offer when apprehended ; indeed the latter
was taken in the act of pawning some of them. They