EXTENSIVE DIAMOND ROBBERY IN DUBLIN.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2033, 10 July 1875, Page 2

EXTENSIVE DIAMOND ROBBERY IN DUBLIN.

An extraordinary charge of robberywas heard on May 11, at the Northern - Divisional Police Court, Dublin. Three men, named James Reynolds, William Butler, and John Hanley, described as betting men, were charged with having stolen thirty dozen of diamond and other rings, of the value of £3000, the property of Messrs George, of Kings-terrace, London, jewellers. 'Mr George deposed: that he was a passenger on board the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company's steamer St. Patrick, from Liverpool, on Monday, , and had brought with him three valises, - containing six cases placed under the cabin table. From what he learned from the steward, he looked for the valises about midnight, when the steamer wainearing ';" .Bailey Light, and found that two of them Tiad disappeatcd^and < _thj|t_tihej!)thei.had. been tampered with; that all the rings amounting ,"to'^thirty dofcenj ,ijrej« gope...-: Charles Davis, steward of the St. Patrick^ ■ stated that he saw*Mr George placevtheV valises under the table in the cabin." About twenty minutes .:before - midnight he noticed Hanley and Butler sit down 7: at the table, and after a" short-»perigd. rise and,remove the three valises. After.-,, some little time they * returned and brought back one valise. Witness: hid: feigned sleep, and from a Sofa watched '- the proceedings, ■ and -- immediately' informed Mr George, whose Jberth was in the same compartment -with Hanley. The captain was also sommunicated with, and, after-some-consideration, it was determined to arrest the prisoners, who were found standing "together on"" deck, near the stern.. The captain and some of the crew accordingly surrounded them, and as they did so, Butler_ fell; back, and dropped something, which ap- ; pcared to be a large handkerchief, rolled "- up, overboard. , Witness heard the parcel' strike the side as if it" contained something very heavy. The steamer was then abreast of the Bailey - lighthouse. The prisoners were kept in custody until the arriral of the vessel-at North Wall, where they were handed over to the police. The prisoners were remanded. >•