Lord William Lennox attended at Bow Street Office on Wednesday,
and charged joseph Cohen, a noted thief, with stealing a frock coat Lord William Lennox attended at Bow Street Office on Wednesday, and charged joseph Cohen, a noted thief, with stealing a frock coat
from his lodgings in Regent Street. The man said the coat was his own ; and he was remanded till IVednesday next, in order to prove his tight to it. After lie had becit removed, Lord William told the Magistrate, that he had received some private information by which lie was enabled to ascertain where the coat was pledged, and also that the duplicate was in the hands of the constable. He had also learned from the same source, that some of the prisoner's companions had planned that very night to rob the houses of two tradesmen in Regent Street ; and so ac- curately had the thieves informed themselves of the state of the pre- mises, that they knew the apartments in which the inmates slept, and could describe the keys, locks, bolts, &c. His Lordship added, that he should not divulge the name of the party from whom he bad derived his ioformation ; but be had warned the persons whose premises had been marked out by the thieves, in order that they might take the ne- cessary precautions to prevent their design.
Two well-known thieves were charged at the Queen Square Office on :Saturday, with stealine the pockethmdkerchiel of Mr. Ex-Whip- per-in Holmes. The following particulars of the examination are t tken front Monda2,'s Standeml.
Mr. llohm, t! it lie was passing down Parliament Street about & quarter past six o'clock in t!.e evening, with his friend Mr. ('ruker, when he hit somethiog at 1,i, e i.u-,socket ; ;UPI, Ott turning round, be saw one of the prisoners with bi- I. unlit :'eldel in his hand, in the act ta throwing it to the other prisoaer, aria.. r:a=1:: it and ran elf, He immediately collared hint; and Mr. Critter ran prisoner, and succeeded in taking him with the
handkerchief in his p,--0,ion.
31r. John Wilson ('cuter confirmed the above statement ; and added, that lie never lost sight of the prisoner, but called out " Stop thief," and a Police con- stable laid hull him.
The prisoners, in defence, said that they had been over the water to see a sister; and as they were returning, the handkerchief was blown to them. Mr. Burrell committed them both for six weeks to the House of Correction, as reputed thieves. Edwin Wright was charged at Hatton Garden Office, on Monday, with having obtained money under false pretences. The prisoner kept an office for hiring of servants ; and offered to obtain employment for those who made application to him, upon the payment of .5s. Several witnesses proved having been duped out of their money under pretence of getting them situations, but which were never procured for them. More than a hundred persons were in attendance to Prove that they had been duped by this inan. He was remanded. Mr. Joseph Gibbon, son of Sir John Gibbon, the Magistrate, was proceeding along Holborn, on Sunday afternoon, when he observed a gang of young pickpockets following a gentleman, and making several attempts to rob him. He interfered and prevented their design; when he was instantly surrounded, and two of them, not more than sixteen or seventeen, swore they would " mark him," and then commenced beating him. He resisted as well as he was able ; and collaring one of them, he kept his bold until the arrival of some Policemen ; when two of the gang were taken into custody, and brought to this office. The Magistrates sentenced them to three mouths' imprisonment. At the Thames Police-office, on Monday, three Irish coalwhippers, who assaulted William Mums, a waterman, in the most brutal manner (as was mentioned in last week's Spectator), were ordered each to find hail, themselves in 2001. and two sureties of 1001. each, to take their trial for the outrage.
Henry aughes, a labourer, has been committed to Horsemonger Lane Gaol, for an assault of a most shocking description on a girl eight years old, in Penge Wood.
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