Captain Charles Knatchbull, formerly of the 12th Regiment of Light
Dragoons, and brother to Sir E. Kna:chbull, the Member for Kent, was charged at the Marylebone Office, on Satusday, with having robbed ilia ready-furnished apartments of a quantity of plate, linen, tzse. Mrs. Warren, of Park Street, Camden Town, stated that the prisoner engaged apartments at her house about four months hack, which he oc- cupied for three mouths, and then absconded, taking with him several silver spoons, salt-ladles, sheets, and other property. His person naa advertised, and on Thursday he was appreheeded by a policeman in the Borseferry Road. The property wits found at a pawnbroker's in Camden Town, where it had been pledged by the prisoner in the name of Charles King. Ile was committed for trial.
At the Stray Sessions, on Monday, Thomas Stowell, the informer, was convieted of having obtained money under false pretences, by coat- jesamisiea with a publican for ant alleged violation of the law. Ile was sentenced' to six months' imprisonment, with hard labour.
On Sunday night, John Cannon, a Policeman, found a man stealing fruit and flowers from the grounds of a market-gardener at Battersea, and attempted to take him into custody. The robber defended himself with Ii is knife, inflicting several sharp wounds on the head and face of tine Policeman, from whose grasp be extricated himself, awl ran oil'. Tine Policeman followed, and overtook him : another struggle took place ; and after the robber had cut through his coat and stock, in an attempt to cut his throat, Cannon succeeded in wresting his knife fiom and struck him hard with his staff. The robber was too power- ful for him, however, and got off. He was apprehended the twat day, and committed to Horsemonger Lane Gaol, on tine capital charge of cutting and maiming with Uncut to kill, lie is a very large, strong snarl, by name James Fraser.
At Guildhall Police-office, on Wednesday, a horse-keeper named John Phillips was committed for trial, charged with stealing a German smoking pipe from a foreign Jew hawker, wino had offered it to him in a public•house ; and Phillips, pretending to suppose that it MIS offered
as a gift, thought it would be a good joke to put it in his pocket. Ile treated the affair as an excellent practical joke ; until he fouud, to his surprise, that be was to be committed for trial at the next Old Bailey Sessions. He would not take the Magistrates' advice to settle the affair by compensating the Jew for his pipe and his trouble.
At the Thames Police-office, on Monday, Henry Frampton, of respectable appearance and connexions, lately in the employ of Messrs. Baldwin and Cradock, the booksellers, in Paternoster Row, was charged with having robbed his employers of valuable books and prints to a considerable amount. The prisoner had taken his place on bond the Braman, for Sydney, for winch he was shortly about to sail, when his depredations were discovered, and a large quantity of books and prints by Hogarth found on board. He was remanded for a week, in order to give time to make further inquiries, and to afford opportunity for bringing the charge home to him.
Two men, with faces covered with black crape, entered the house of a carpenter, inn Crown Court, Dean Street, Westminster, between six and seven o'clock on Wednesday morning. The carpenter had gone eat to work, leaving his wile in bed inn a room on the ground floor: The robbers bandaged her mouth, tied her legs together, and her hands behind her back ; mid then forced open a box in the room where some money was kept, which they took, with some Russian Bonds ; and then made off. The Russian Bonds were afterwards thrown down the area. There were lodgers in the house, who hearing a noise, released the poor woman.
On Saturday, a man of respectable appearance shot himself, within a few yards of tine target-ground at Chalk Farm. Several ladies saw him fall.
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