Star.
London, England, 1826-11-10 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE:

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BOWSTRERT.

Boater R 011211115 ON LORD bIRTOR'N Day.—ln consequence of
its being exceedingly fine yesterday, the multitudes who congre-
gated in various parts of the metropolis through which the civic
procession passed, were immense, and upon no former occasion were
there more audacious robbeiies committed by organized gangs of
well dressed thieves who took advantage of the denseness of the
crowd to rob with impunity.
Mr. Richard Morley, who resides at NO.IB, Wood-street, Cheap.
side, came to this office about two o'clock yesterday afternoon, and
gave information, that as he was passing through Wellington-street,
Strand, on his way to Waterloo Bridge, he was beset by a gang of
thieves, and on his arrival at the Bridge gate, the gang surrounded
him, and hi pn instant his pockets were rifled, and he was robbed
of a gold watch, seals' chain, etc. and fifteen sovereigns. He des-
cribed the robbers to be men of respectable appearance, and so well
dressed, that he had no suspicion they were robbers till be was
hustled by them. When he found that he had been plundered,
he looked round for the thieves, and they had vanished amongst
the crowd.
Scarcely had the above Gentleman left the Office. before Mr.
Joseph Snow, of No. 4, Lincoln's Inn-fields, the Secretary to the
Literary Fund Institution, came into the Office almost out of
breath, to give information of a daring robbery committed upon his
person a few minutes before, at Temple-bar. Mr. Snow's state-
ment was, that he had been to Drummond's Bank, and had there
received, in five and ten pound Bank of England notes, the sum of
one hundred and forty pounds, which he deposited in his small
clothes pocket. On leaving the Bank he walked towards the City;
on the way he observed a man, whose person he particularly re-
marked, walking before him ; he sometimes walked fast to get be-
fore the man, but still the nun kept ahead of him. He thought it
strange, but at the same time thought it was merely accidental. On
arriving at Temple.bar, the man passed under the narrow archway,
the footpath on the right hand side of the street, and Mr. Snow',
followed. The man, before be bad quite passed through the arch.
way, turned round, and in an under tone of voice, as if speak-
ing to himself, said (sufficiently loud to be heard by Mr. Snow),
" which way shall I go ?" and then looking Mr. Snow in
the face in a most impudent manner, rushed against him.—
In an instant, Mr. Snow was surrounded by a gang of seven or
eight men, who hustled him, and it struck him, at the moment, it
was an organised gang of thieves, who, probably, watched him
from the Bank. He put his hand almost instinctively to his small
clothes pocket, and found that the Bank notes were gone. The
audacious boldness of the villains, for several seconds, quite ap-
palled him; he was struck motionless, and had not presence of
mind to seize hold of any one of them; and they all escaped in dif-
ferent directions. The numbers of the notes being known, the
officers received instructions to do all in their power to discover
the robbers.

A man, named Jrona, was brought before the Magistrates of.
this office, on Wednesday night, charged with stealing a cloak from
the shop door of Mr. Rumble, in Cranbourne-street, Leicester.
square, that evening. The wife had been committed to New gate
that morning, for stealing a handkerchief in the shop of Mr. Ma-
ther, in New-street, Covent-Garden (as stated in yesterday's SrAs),
and upon the clearest evidence, he was sent to the same place, at
night, to await his trial.