23 JUNE 1933, Page 15

A Hundred Years Ago " TELE SPECTATOR," Jurne 22xn, 1833.

Andrew Macarthy, a child eight years old, known as one of the most experienced among the forty thieves of the Whitechapol gang, was sentenced, at the Middlesex Sessions, on Monday, to two months' hard labour, and two whippings, for stealing a tea- caddy containing £2 13s. out of a house in Whitochapel. . . . On the same day, another boy, eleven years of age, was sentenced to be transported for fourteen years, for robbing a boy in the streets, of some books belonging to his father. This lad cross-examined the prosecutor with coneiderable ingenuity, and was said to be the most -impudent rasc,a1 that the Magistrates had ever seen at the bar. The march of intellect, with a vengeance I