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a - SHE PLATE KOBBERY IN THE STBAUD .
Daniel John Shaw , ( a boot and shoe maker , ) Jas . B adcock , ( also a boot and shoe maker , ) Eliza Shaw , ( wife of the first-named prisoner , ) John Gardiner , a well-known . cracksman , ) Mary Ann Cberuneau , ( with whom he cohabits , ) George Bancher , ( another jjotorion 3 cracksman , ) and Mary Ann Buncher , ( his wife , ) were placed at the bar at »»»¦?*""* Police-court on Saturday last , with Charles Chnton , an errand boy , charged with hemg concerned m stealing a qua&y o& and jeweUery frwn the shop of Messrs . Wiffiamsand Glapham , 13 , ana 14 , Strand , on the previous Monday night , value about Charles the
On the examination of Kelly , watchman and porter , on the previous day , the errand bov gave his evidence in such an equivocal manner , that the magistrate thought he had some Su bstantial reason for reserving the whole truth . Inspector Lcsd , of the detective force , having arodnced a voluntary statement in writing made by the prisoner Clinton , said that , in consequence of information he had received , he went to the house Of the prosecutors on Friday afternoon , after the hearing of the charge against Kelly , the porter , where he had a conversation with Clinton in the Craven Hotel , at the rear of the premises , and having told him of circumstances that he had very recent ly collected , he stood for a few minutes
without uttering a word , and then said , " "What Badcock eaid about my meeting him on Saturday I think is jyse : I hardly know what to say , but the best way is to confess it . I was to meet the party ; I don ' t £ now what they were , or where they lived . Mr . Shaw was certainly implicated in it . He told me that they "were to meet on Hungerford-bridge . I met him a fortnight ago for the first time for the purpose of the robbery at the place on Saturday evening , and then arranged to meet them on Monday to let them in . I did so , and admitted two men shortly after Kelly left the shop . I admitted them before Kelly , the porter , came in , and that was the way it was effected ( the robbery , I mean ) . Charles Kelly was innocent of it , and I said nothing to
implicate him at the examination . One of the men \ ras under the counter and the other under the mats . I got the impression of the fceys , and gave them to the two men . Imetthemenonthebridge , and they knew me . The first one of the men was introduced to me by Shaw . I met them in TUliers-Street . Mrs . Shaw told me she had seen her husband in the city the last time . The last time I Saw Shaw was Saturday week . I told Badcock it ¦ was coming off on Saturday night , ( I mean the robbery . ) Badcock was to have a share of the produce . They were to meet some night going home , and they would give me something , how much I don't know . I have not seen Badcock since the robbery . I cannot describe the men . but should
know them again . They are about five feet seven inche 3 high , respectably dressed in dark clothes . Oi course I hope that Kelly will at once be set at liberty , " upon which witness conveyed him to the Station-house . —Mr . Henry inquired if the prisoner made any farther remarks on Ms way to the station . —TYitness said he did not , as they came In a cab , and he could not very well hear him if he was so inclined . On leaving the station he proceeded to a public-house over the water , where he went into the parlour , the prisoner Badcock being in front of the bar , and the moment he left the parlour , the prisoner seemed to know what was about to take place , and hastily left the house , but he overtook bin at the corner of the street , and when the
prisoner returned to the honse he apprehended him , when he said he knew nothing of the charge , and remained silent all the way to the station . Witness then went to the "White Hart , Fetter-lane , where he found Shaw In the parlour , and having called him Out and told Mm his business , he said he knew nothing whatever about the robbery , that he had not seen Clinton for some time ; upon which he searched his lodgings , but found nothing relating to lie property . The prisoner Shaw said , that ho could bring forward witnesses to prove that he was either at Ms lodgings or at the "White Heart every day during the last fortnight . The witness said , that from inquiries he had ascertainad that the prisoner left word at his lodgings that he was going to Southampton , and that he had done no work for a considerable time .
The prisoner Badcock said , he had not seen Clinton for some time , and he had no question to put to either of the witnesses . Sergeant Thompson , F division , said that on Saturday last , about twelve o ' clock he apprehended Gardiner and Chcruneau , walking arm in arm in the Westminster-road , near the Circus . " He told him that he was charged with breaking and entering a dwelling-house in the Strand , to which he made no answer , and he handed the woman over to TVest , another officer . At the station the lad Clin-¦ J on was brought in the yard , and Gardiner being brought into the yard also , he was asked if he was hoc ene of the men he had let into the house , previous to which he had seen Mm through a window-,
when he held down his head , and said he was very like the man . but , being told to hold up his head , and , and look stedfastly at him , he said , "Yes , he is ; " upon . which Gardiner cried out , " Good God ! I never Baw the boy before in my life ; " and , seeing that Clinton persisted in identifying Mm , Gardiner declared that he knew nothing at all about him . The prisoner then refused , to say where he lived , and said his business was that of a hawker . On Saturday morning witness went to Pearl-row , Borough-road , where he found the prisoner Buncher , who occasionally went by the name of Lnston , and having told him the nature of the charge against him , his wife , who was present , turned out her pockets by the directions of witness , when ,
among other things , he found the piece of . paper produced , and a pawnbroker ' s duplicate for a gold ring , pledged on the 2 d ~ ih . inst > ,: at the . shop of Mr Barnett , St . George ^ SHEJrcus . Upon taking the duplicate from _ hex , Jhe held the piece of paper tightly In her hand , and , on her attempting to put it into her mouth , he wrenched it from her hand , when she Eaid , " 'Tis about a loan , and I do not wish him ( meaning her husband ) to know anything of it . " There was a list of jewellery , such as watches , diamond rings , &c , written in pencil , upon the paper . The male prisoner was shown to Clinton at the station , and , being asked if he was one of the men who had spoken to him about the robbery , h& at once
said that he -was . —Mr , Henry inquired if he made any observation upon hearing himself identified ? The Witness : He - exclaimed , " Lord Jesus Christ !" Mr . Heskt asked if . the prisoner Cheruneau said anvthing when she was apprehended ? .. ¦ Sergeant We 3 t said that when Cberuneau was in custody she attempted to say something , but was prevented by Gardiner ; and at the station she said she had nothing in her pocket j but when she was asked if she had any money about her she said she had , but it was no matter how much ; and , having expressed a willingness to be searched , she took from , her bosom the bag produced containing « £ loS 10 s . in gold .
The prisoner Gabdixeb denied that the boy identified him , in the firrf instance , until he was prompted by the officer , when he shook his head . Sergeant West added , that Cheruneau said she had got part of the money from her father , who was in America , by a post-office order , or something of that kind . Mr . Hesbt directed that the prisoners , except Clinton , should be removed from the bar and kept separate ; and , in answer to questions put to Clinton by the Court , he said he was seventeen years of age , and lived between two and three years at 56 , iJrunswick-street , Blackfriars , and had nothing to Say to the charge except that Gardiner and Buncher were the two men ; but , on the night of the
robbery he did not see Buncher , another man having come with Gardiner , whom he placed under the mats , and the other not in custody behind the counting-house door . The prisoner Buncher was first brought to Mm by Shaw , and then they met over Hungerford-bridge , when Shaw was not present , but Puncher wa 3 , and the man not yet in custody . The man not in custody came to buy a pencil-case , and it was at a public-house turning out of the Borough-road , where they told him he wa 3 to take the impressions of the keys . Be next met Bancher and the other on the bridge , and on Sunday evening , he met Gardiner and Buncher with the third man , and that was all he had to say about It for the present .
Mr . Hesbt desired that ihe prisoners should be again placed at the bar singlv , to give an account of themselves . ° " 6 The prisoner Shaw said he was thirty four rears of age , and resided in Plough court , Fetter-lane , and being cantoned in the usual way , said he would reserve what he had to say till the next examination . Badcock said he was twenty yeat 3 of ape and hadresidedfivemonthsatlS , Charles-street , Blackfnars-road . Had : nothing to sav to the charm * except that Clinton told him , ' when the robbery came off , he wonldmake himapresent of something -handsome , but ho did not know when it was or -where it was to be . Gabdkek said he was twenty-six years of aee and a hawker without a license , residing in Martin Street , Blackfriars-road , but he could not tell the number of the house . He was innocent of the
Cbbebseau said that she was the wife of Heurv Chernneau , a regimental tailor , who was abroad * but she did not know where . She resided in Orange-conrt , Drurv-lane , with her aunt , and was ^ n unfortunate . Bbkcheb said he was twenty-eight years of faee and a butcher , hawking meat in a basket to the different pnblic-honses ; and declined , by the advice of his solicitor , to say anything to the charge . The prisoners , who were remanded , werethen removed from the bar , with the exception of Eliza Cheruneau , against whom the inspector said he eonld produce no further erideEce , and she wasdisf harged .
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On Wednesday the prisoners were again brought ¦ ap for further examination , none of the stolen property had been discovered , and the only evidence of moment was that of Henry Little , brass finisher , living in Banbury-row , Blackfriars-road , who said he worked in the same shop with Shaw , and he also knew Badcock , with whom he had frequently saen him . He recollected hearing a conversation outside their door , when Badcock told Mrs . Shaw that he had seen Ch a rley , and that the robber y would come off on Saturday evening ; that Charley had told Mm he had taken impressions of the keys , and had given them to the men . He also said that he ( Badcock ) was to meet Charley on Saturday evening and he would give him ( Badcocfe ) something . —Kelly , the porter , was admitted to bail , himself in £ 200 and two sureties in £ 100 each , one of whom was his employer for several years , to attend in a week . The other prisoners were remanded .
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THE BURGLARY IN THE BEGEXT'S-PABK It appears that the man supposed to have been killed by the pistol shot and slugs fired into hie head by the butler , Mr . Paul , has been traced to the house of an old woman , with whom he and others of the gang to which he belonged was connected , and it was the report of this old woman that " Jem " was dead , which misled the police into an impression that such was actually the case . This has since been proved to be a falsehood , and was a rase , no doubt , adopted to enable the burglar to seek further security . On being interrogated , she admitted that she received him into her house , and that a medical man took seven shots from his head , a number exactly corresponding with the amount of perforations in the hat found on the lawn after the burglars had escaped ; but she refuses to state who the medioal man was , or where the party shot is .
Her tale is , that he left her place on Monday evening , and that as she has not since seen or heard of him , she therefore supposed him to be dead . The way in which the two men ( both believed to be wounded ) effected their escape is thus accounted for : —The loud cries of '' police , " ' and the springing of rattles , naturally drew all the policemen in the direction of the noise and towards Mr . Holford ' s grounds ; and it is presumed that they managed to conceal themselves until the police had all arrived , thus leaving the roads in the direction of London clear of the police . It is also surmised that they crossed the Suspension Bridge over the Regent's Canal , which is but a short distance from the eastern side of Mr . Holford ' s villa , and the Macclesfield Bridge , and , having climbed the fence , got into the-Albert-road , leading up . to the York and Albany Tavern , near which they met the cab into wMch both the men got .
Two additional men were on Sunday night apprehended by Sergeant H . Barry , 455 M division , assisted by Evan Jones , 250 , a constable of the same division , on suspicion of being concerned with Dyson in the robbery at Mr . Holford's , Regent ' s-park , and were immediately conveyed to the Albany-street police-station . The prisoners were brought up on Monday at the Marylebone police-court . They were well dressed , and looked strong healthy young men . The magistrate having read the charge , Mr . Paol , the butler , recounted the events of the robbery , and the firing at the robbers , with which onr readers are already acquainted .
Superintendent Hay . ves . —These two men who are brought this morning were seen in company with Dyson in a house in the Mint at ten o ' clock , and the woman who lived with Dyson , has been in daily communication with the other two prisoners . There is a cabman here also . Hexrt . Barry , sergeant in thoM division . —About ten o ' clock on Sunday week , the 13 th , I went to the George , Lombard-street , in the Mint , accompanied by 250 of tho M ' s , and saw the three prisoners in the tap-room with several others . I was in plain clothes , as well as the other officers . I know them all . Dyson keeps a house , a receptacle for thieves , in Martin-street , and I had a man who lodged with him in custody in the case of Mr . Cureton ,, Dyson was present at the examination of the man charged in the case of Cureton . Mahon has been in custody for bavin ? skeleton keys . His right name is James
Holindale . I have seen him daily since in company with thieves . I know Robinson also , and he is an associate of thieves , but not in custody . They were all drinking in the George / and know me . I took them into custody at a quarter to twelve last night at Hoxton . I told them why I took them , but nei ther of them said anything about the robbery , but they said they would go with me anywhere . I apprehended Mahon first , and he said he had no one with him , but . the other constable took Robinson afterwards . —Mahon : Was this man in my company ? Witness : No ; for he went . away round the corner . Was not in your company , but he had been in the beer-shop with you . The woman that was . in the house with them was the woman who kept Dyson ' s company . From information I received I . was told Mahon was wounded in ihe hand , and on examining it I found the mark of a shot—a long stripe , as of a spike .
HEjmr Locock , cabman , 5 , 417 . —The cab I drive is not my own . I know Mr . Holford's house , and heard this day fortnight there bad been a robbery there . Lockerby had taken him to St . Thomas ' s Hospital to identify a man that was there as . a man ¦ who gave him a job at the York and Albany . The middle prisoner , Mahon , was passing , and I asked him if he wanted a cab , and he said no ; and added , " I have been bit by a dog , " and the blood was running down from the palm of his hand very fast . I said to him here is a pump , and you had better wash your hand ; and while I was speaking to him a man came across from the railing without a hat , and bleeding . Mahon said he would , go to the pump , and did so . The other man who was bleeding from the head -got into the cab , and said , drive me to the Strand . They did not speak to one
another . Robinson is not the man who was bleeding from the head . He got ont of the cab and said he was so faint te would rids outside , but he did not do so , but ran on . There was a cab coming behind . He then rode on the box , and said , for God's sake drive on as fast as you can to Waterloo ^ bridge . I pulled off my handkerchief to put round bis head . I asked him what was the matter , and where his hat was ; but he gave no answer ., I said to him you had better go to a doctor , and he said he would drive on . When we got to Wellington-street , he gave me Is . 6 d . and he went . away . The bleeding man- was left at the bottom of the bridge , and I was hailed by a lady and gentleman . I asked 2 s . 6 d ., hut he only gave me Is . 6 d . He never explained anything to me at alL He was bleeding very much from the side of the lace .
Mahon ' s hands were examined . On his left there was a cut , and a shot mark on the right hand . He said he had received them by falling on tLe gravel when he was going . home drunk the other night . Mahon denied that he ever saw the witness . The witness when he saw Mahon instantly recognised him . ; Jokes , police-constable 2-50 51 . —On the evening of the 13 th , I visited the George at teno'clock . The burglary took place on Monday morning . I saw the three prisoners in company with three or four others . Dyson nodded at me .. They were sitting . Mahon and Robinson were close to Dyson . They were in conversation , but I did not hear , what they said . There was a quart pot on the table ; they
were all sober . I said nothing to them . I know them well ; they are associates of thieves . I always suspected them . Robinson did not work , and when I took him last night he said be was unfortunate . We went to the Beanstalk , in a back street at Hoxton , and took Mahon . Barry told him he was in custody on suspicion of the burglary , and he said he would go with him quiet anywhere he liked . I then returned and took Robinson into custody . I saw him coming out of the beer shop before we took Mahon . I told him he was in my custody , and that Mahon was in custody with Barry . He said he had nothing to do with others if they were wrong , and it was no reason that he should be taken because he was unfortunate . When I brought
the prisoner Robinson into the Featberstone-street station , Mahon said , "You had no business to bring that man here ; he has nothing to do with it . " Robinson iept saying he was innocent . When we were all in the cab eoming to Albany-street , Robinson said , " That ' s not my racket ; that ' s a scale Mgher than my doings . " Mahon said nothing in answer . I handcuffed both of them . I looked at Mahon ' s hand , and saw a wound , and ho said , " It is a mishap I had falling on a glas 3 . " Mr . Joseph was of opinion that the wound was the result of a spent shot . There is an orifice , but no shot underneath . Something round must have produced the wound ; and the wound on the other hand must have been done within a fortnight .
JosBB —Mahofl lived in Friar-street . I saw Mm with a female . Iheard of thei burglary on Monday , the 14 th , and I have since then been looking for Mahon , but could not find him , although we visited the Georee two or three times a day . He and Sttife&tt ' . SB ? s ? % SL ^ &'ersgS ; *^ not know that Robinson was rat of ^ on When I told Robinson about the burg lary , he said 1 was at Southampton at the tune . , to whh * - ?
---Robissox . —I can prove you . * •« that night . I left the George at a quarter to eleven that night . The hat was here produced . Jones . —I know to whom the hat belongs . SEnOB 4 si 31 D . —Went to the house on the morning of the robbery , and saw Dyson on the ground . I did not see any traces of blood . I produce a hat which is shot through in several places in the forehead . There is blood on it . I picked it up near Holford House , where Jones fired , under the bush . Paul recalled . —I did not see it picked up . Sergeant 31 D . — "When . I found tte hat , the blood was running from it ,
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Mr . Bbouohion . —There u a great deal more evidence , but there ia no necessity for going into that . Do you wish to say anything . . . Mahon . —I have no wish to say anything . % Robinson . —I know nothing about it . Mr . Broughton . —The appearances are very strong against you both , particularly Mahon . You were found together at the George , and Dyson is found on the spot . You are afterwards missed from your usual haunts , and you two are again found together in a difierent part of the town on Sunday night , and what Robinson said in the cab is very important , and a remarkable thing for a man to say , and more especially what Mahon had said at the station-house , that Robinson knew nothing about it . The blood is traced from the house .
The Inspector . —The blood on the paddock of the Zoologioal Gardens is supposed to have been from one of the birds . Mr . Bkouohion . —Mahon goes up to the cabman and washes his hand at the pump , and then another man comes up and is faint , and brought to the Strand in a cab . I shall commit you all to prison , and | you shall be brought here again this day week . The prisoners were then remanded . On Tuesday , a man who gave his name John Mitchell , was brought up to the Marylebone polioe court from the Albany-street station-house , Regent's-park , and placed at the bar . on the charge of
having been concerned , with three others under remand , in the above burglary . The prisoner was described on ihe police-sheet as a labourer , and was so weak as to be unablo to stand while the evidence was being gone into against him . His left arm was in a sling , and he presented altogether the appearance of one who had been seriously injured . Mr . Paul , the butler , repeated the statements which he bad made upon former occasions relative to the affair . He could not identify the prisoner in connexion with the burglary , although he was about the same height .
The prisoner hung down his head as if about to faint , and was supplied with a glass of water . The hat perforated with shot was produced , and placed upon the prisoner ' s head , when the prisoner said , ¦ " It is of no use trying it on any more , for I know , it fits me . " - Henry Locock , the cabman , was re-examined . — Mr . Broughton : Look at the prisoner closely , and tell me if you know him . Observe him well , and take time before you . speak positively ! Witness : He is the man , and I can swear it , who got into my cab and ordered me to drive him to the Strand . — Mr . Broughton : When he ordered you to drive him had he a hat on at tho time ? Witness t Ho had not , sir . —Mr . Broughton : Was he bleeding ? Witness : Yes ; blood wa 3 running down his face , and it appeared to mo that it came from wounds in his head . —Mr . Broughton : Was ho sober ? Wit * ness : I think he was ; he seemed very weak and fatigued .
Mr . Broughton ( to the prisoner ) : Have , you any thing to ask of this witness ? Pbisoseb . —I don't deny that I am tho man . for I ' m guilty —( great sensation in court)—but the cabman has sworn falsely ; it was not his cab that I rode in , and I know nothing about him . However , although he has sworn what is not true , I say that I am guilty . Sergeant Bahry , 432 . M ,. next stood up . —Mr . Broughton : Do you know the prisoner ? Witness : I do , sir , by sight ? but there is an officer here who has known him for some years . ¦ _ ; He . ( prisoner ) was one of a party who bad been in the habit of frequenting the George public-house , in Lombardstreet , Mint , Borough , kept by a man named
Galloway , whose house was the constant resort of deflperate thieves and prostitutes of the' lowest grade —he ( Galloway ) had been many times fined . —Mr . Broughton : When Dyson ( one of the . prisonera who stands remanded ) , was taken in the house of Galloway , did . you see the prisoner there ? Witness : I did . —Mr . Broughton : What were they doing ? Witness : They were talking . together in ths taproom . —Mr . Broughton : Did you speak to them ? Witness : No , sir . —Mr . Broughton :. Had you seen the prisoner frequently in the neighbourhood before the burglary ? Witness : Yes , your worship . —Mr . Broughton : Since the burglary have you missed him ? Witness : Yes ; and I have wondered , what bad become of him , not seeing him at his usual places of resort . —Mr . Broughton : When and at what time was he takes into custody ? Witness At , twelve o ' clock on Monday night , at 23 , Little
Surrey-street , Friar-street , BlackfriarS-road . ; I and Sergeant Brentford went together in plain clothes , and in the first-floor back-room we : found . the prisoner sitting up in his bed . A female at the time was poulticing his wounds . I told him he must consider himself in custody for the burglary at Mr . Holford's , and that we ; must take him away with us upon the charge . He said , ;" Very ; well , I'll go . " Beseemed extremely ill , and asked me to handa bottle to him , which was on a chest of drawers , close by . I . did so , and poured out , at his request , two glasses of port , which he drank ; At the station-house a doctor was called to look at bis wounds , and he received every attention . He had wounds on the . back part of his head , his ears , and other parts of his person , and be told me ; that some of the shots were coming from under Ms tongue . He also told me that he had shots in his fingers .
Sergeant Bhenford , 12 M ,: corroborated this statement . ¦• . ^ . Mr .. Everest , Superintendent of , the Rochester Police , said that he had for a long ' time known the prisoner , and the others charged with him , andjie had good reason for believing that the prisoner was connected . with a gang who had committed , numerous burglaries in the county of Kent . Evans Jones 250 M . —On the night of Sunday , the 13 th ult ., I visited the George , and saw Dyson there with the prisoner . To the best of my belief
prisoner had on the hat ( the one before mentioned ) produced . Since the burglary I have not seen the prisoner until this time . . When I last saw him with Dyson he looked quite fresh-coloured , and as differ rent as possible from what he does now . Other evidence corroborative of that which had been previously gone into was given , and the prisoner , who had nothing to say , was remanded till Monday next , upon which day he will be brought up witk the other three who already stand committed .
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THE LATE MURDER OF AN OLD LADY NEAR ABERYSTW 1 TH . The death of Mrs . Jones , supposed to have been caused b y arsenic , administered to her by her daughter-in-law , has been the subject of a searching inquiry by the magistrates , and the following additional particulars have been obtained : — ¦ John Jones , of Caenmeur , who , it will be remembered , gave at the previous inquiry some contradictory statements , has added tho following to his former . evidence , saying that he remembered it all when before examined , but did not like to name it . He admitted that ho went to tho shop of Mr . Humphreys , druggist , and stated that the arsenic which he had previously purchased for the prisoner had been bought by him for himself . Ho did this at the instigation of Mrs . Hopkins ( prisoner ' s
mother ) , and who promised him a cheese , and who went with him , to the shop . The cheese was to be given to him for " say ing he had bought the poison for himself . . After he purchased the arsenic of Mr . Humphreys' shopman to . kill rats , he went the samenight to " . Bronberran ,. and . saw the prisoner . Told her that ho had got the stuff , and asked what she intended to do with it . He then took it homo with him to Caenmeur . The following day the prisoner Elizabeth Jones came over to him at Caenraeur , -She told him that she was free , enough to do something to Ann Jones . He said to her , " What is it you intend doing ? " and she replied , ' . 'Be you silent . " Witness told her that he feared that she had some evil intention , to which she
replied , " Never you mind , there will be no call after you . " AH ' this took place on the Tuesday before Mrs . Ann Joneses death . On the day afterwards witness went over to Cronberrllan for -the purpose of grinding a reaping-hook , and as he waa grinding it Elizabeth Jones ( the prisoner ) came and spoke to him . la the coarse of the conversation , lie said " The old woman ( meaning deceased ) and Charles Jones want to make a sale , but I will prevent them doing it . ?' * Witness said to her , " that he hoped she would do no evil , " and added , " that if she did so , Cardigan ( the county assize town ) would be the place where it would be found out . " The prisoner said , " If I was to do so , there ia _ no one to swear upon me . " On the Friday morning
the deceased was taken ill , and the prisoner sent for witness to Cronberrllan , and told him that she wanted him to go down to Cecklas , and inform them there of it . He said he hoped she had not done anything to the old lady . She replied that she had done something , and said that it was her brother who had first put the notion into her head . She also said that it was in the teapot , and she had put itin . When witness gave the arsenic to the prisoner , he did it in the field by his house ; it was before the time when he had the . conversation . While grinding his hook , his brother , Richard Jones , his sister , Mary Jones , and Jeremiah Jones , of Caemady , saw them in the field together , but
were at a distance from them . After the prisoner was arrested , she spoke to him ( witness ) , and said if he would circulate a report that he had purchased the poison for Ann Jones ( the deceased ) , he would save her life . The policeman did not hear this . He was standing by the fire , and she was at the table . The fireplace is three or four yards from tho table , and she spoke in a whisper . The witness was questioned as to the reason why he withheld tMs testimony at the previous examination , but he gave no satisfactory explanation . The magistrates have , adjourned the examination for several days to procure the attendance of Mr . lera p ath , the analytical chemist , « f , $ mtol , n&&to afford time for jfurttor iu < iw « 2 .
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Cn-AnoE or Assabmino the Police . — Two highly respectable-looking elderly meii , one of them 76 years of age , named John Brooks aiid : William lurcness , were indicted , the . latter for assaulting tw 0 Pwwo constables in the ~ execution of their duty , and the former for assaulting one of the constables , and preventing the lawful apprehension of the prisoner Purchess—The facts of the case , both for the prosecution and the defence , maybe detailed in a f w owls , although the investigation of them lasted , from ten in the morning until nearly six in the evening . On the part of the police they were proved to be these : —Between tho hours of eleven and twelve on the night of the 5 th of last month .
as police constables Cooper and Fisher , 112 and 117 of the G division , were passing along Great Warner-street , in plain clothes , having two pickpookets in their custody , tho defendant Purchess , who was coming along in a different direction , drunk , run against Cooper , and then collaring him , said , You are not an officer . " He then followed him , and struck him on' the hat , and tripped him up . Cooper having given the two prisoners to Fisher , followed Purchess , who ran away to his own house in the same street , and saw him run down the area , and he called out to some one inside , ' Here is the police coming . " Cooper no sooner got into the kitchen than he was seized by Brooks and some womenwho commenced
strug-, gling with him ; and in his attempt to follow Purchess , they forcod his hand through a window in the back kitchen door , by which his band and arm were much injured ; and it was not until , some further assistance was obtained that he . wasreleased , and the parties taken to thestation : house . —For the defence it was proved by several respectable witnesses that , aa far as the assault iu tho street was concerned , it arose in this way : —Purchess accidentally ran against Cooper , who struck him on the head and tripped him up , and then handed his prisoners to Fisher ; again struck him , and upon his remonstrating and going down the steps home , Cooper followed him in a minute or two after , and Purchess having passed through the kitchen to his
bed-room , Cooper—who , according to the various witnesses' statement , was . mad or drunk—seized hold of Brooks ,-5 » ho was having his supper with his family , and began beating him about the head , saying that he wits his prisoner , and in the scuffle his hand got forced through the glass . The persons in the house and some of tho neighbours , hearing the cries of murder from Brooks' wife and nieces , who were also assaulted by Cooper , who struck at them with a pair of handcuffs he had in his hand , cutting the women . on the face and hands , came into the kitchen , and Cooper seized one of them , a
man , and tried to handcuff him . Some one then , not knowing Cooper to be an / pfficer , and to provent further violence , called in the constables on duty outside . —The witnesses , upon cross-examination , contradicted themselves , in manj material points , but agreed generally as to Cooper ' s conduct being like that of a violent madman . —A medical gentleman of Gray ' s-inn Hospital , to whom Cooper went within a short period after ho had got his hand hurt , said Cooper did not appear to have been drinking . —A number of highly respectable tradesmen gave the defendants ( who are half brothers , and had been in business as master builders for
many years m Warner-street ) the highest character for general good conduct . —Mr . Gurney having summed up , the jury consulted for about a minute , and acquitted them . —Mr . Clark said Cooper had been some years in the force , and had been rewarded for his good and itemperate conduct ;—The defendants were then discharged , and upon getting outside the court were greeted with loud cheers from their friends . : . '¦ Charge of Manslaughter against a Policeman . —Nathaniel Eaton Bushell , 25 , surrendered to take his trial upon a coroner ' s inquisition , charging him with the manslaughter of James Geary , by striking and beating him- with a policeman ' s ? staff , and bv casting him on the ground and kicking him .
—A bill of . indictment had been preferred against the prisoner for the same offence , but it was ignored by the grand jury . —Several witnesses . were examined on behalf of the prosecution , from whose testimony it appeared that at twelve o ' clock at night on Saturday , August 17 th , tho prisoner and the deceased man , who was a . plasterer , and resided in Conway-court , Marylebone , a place inhabited by the lower order of the deceased's . countrymen-were seen in High-street , Marylebone , the latter being , in custody of . the prisoner . At thia time the deceased was presented to have been lying upon the ground with his head over the kerbst ' ono , and the prisoner was stated to have been kneeling upon his chest . with his hand in his neckerchief .
The sister of the deceased went up and endeavoured to assist him , but the prisoner ordered her off , and told her she had . better keep out of trouble . ¦ Some other constables then came up , and the deceased got upon his feet , and he : was then shoved against the : street railings , and ,, according to the evidence , the prisoner , struct : him a great many violent blows with his staff upon the head , shoulders , and almost every other part of the body , and ; 8 ome of the witnesses stated that he also kicked him with great violence . It was also deposed to , that while the man was being used in this manner , his brother Maurice Geary interposed by telling the . prisoner that he would report him on the Monday following , and upon this the prisoner , making use of a
bad expression at the sametinw , 'ordered one of the constables ^ to . take h im into , custody , and he was also lodged in the station-house . * The next morning the deceased man was ' bailed out , and when . he came homo he : complained ; of ; great pain all over his body , and he was found ; to : be - severely bruised . He . was in bed the greater part of Sunday ,. and on the following morning the deceased arid his brother Maurice were examined at the police-office ,, when the magistrate discharged the deceased on account as it was alleged i of his having received some injury during the affray , but his brother was fined ten shillings for resisting the . police in the execution of their duty . The deceased man , it appeared , was unable to go to his . work fora fortnight after the
occurrence , when he again resumed his occupation , but could not continue at it more than ten days , when he again took to . bis bed and remained very ill until the 26 th of September , when he died . These were the main facts of the case , but some parts of the story told , by the witnesses were very improbable , and there were also many glaring discrepancies in their evidence .- ^ -During the crossexamination of the witnesses by Mr . Ballantine , several of them gave such evasive answers and fenced with the questions that were put to thenvin such a manner that the learned judge thought it his duty several times to interfere , and insist that they should give direct answers . —Mr . O'Flaherty , a surgeon residing in the neighbourhood ¦ of
Conwaystreet , . said he did not think tne injuries in tnis case had anything to do with the denth . If one of the ribs , had been broken , : nnd'had injured the pluera , that would have accounted for the inflammation at once , : but that : was not the oase in this instance ,. and in his opinion if ihe deceased had not caught ccold : when he went to ¦ . his work after keeping his- bed . for a fortnight , he : would have' survived , and the injuries he received hadoertainly nothing . directly to do withhis death . Mr . Ballantine , having addressed the jury , called James M'Craw , a sergeant'of tho same division as the prisoner , who upon the night in question was the acting inspector . It appeared from his evidence that while coiner Ms rounds on the night in question
he heard an alarm by the prisoner , and upon going to a' place called Grotto-passage , some distance from High-street / he found . Bushell lying upon tho ground and the deceased was on the . top . of him , and they were : struggling ; together .. . He ; pulledthe deceased off Bushell , and the latter said , ' . ?' . See-how this fellow has been serving me , " : at the same time pointing to his coat , which waa torn quite away from the collar . They then laidihold of the deceased , and were about to take him to the station house , but when he had gone a short distance he became very violent , and struggled and kicked and tripped them both up at least a dozen times . They succeeded in getting him as far as High-street , and up to this time no violence whatever had been used to him . In that street , however , a crowd of the deceased ' s countrymen had collected , and they , were hooting and yelling , and the deceased again struggled desperately to get away from them , and repeatedly
exclaimed , "that no two of policemen should take him to the station . " He then put his hand into witness ' s stock and neavly choked him , and not having a staff of his own , he called out for one , and another constable who had come up , gave him a staff , and he struck the deceased on tho arm with it to make him loose his hold . Deceased then caught hold of Bushell in the sumo manner , and he struck him again on the arm , to make him leave go . During this time , Bushell and himself wore struck several times , and the deceased ' s brother was exciting the mob to attack them , and release the deceased ; and upon his saying to . the prisoner , " Bushel ^ you , you shall hear of this another day , " and at the same moment laying hold of him , ho ordered him into custody . He denied most positively that the prisoner Btruck the deceased . —Several other constables were examined , after which the jury returned a vevdict of Not Guilty .
The Roubeut of BmcKS .--Char ] es Onley , 34 , labourer : Win . Goddard , 54 , labourer ; and John Savage , 25 , carman ; were severally indicted for stealing a large quantity of bricks , , the property of George Locke ' and Thomas Nesham ; and William Robert Coomer was indioted for receiving themj well knowing thorn to have been stolen . —The jury acquitted Coomer and Onloy , aganiet whom-tne evidence , was very ¦ weak . —Goddavd , who had been seventeen years in Mr . Bugbee ' s service , was sentenced to eix , and Savage to four months' imprisonment and hard labour . Sebiovs ' Charge of Assault . —Henry Denham , 33 , was indicted for feloniously , assaulting Thomas Mjller , being at th ctime accompanied by otber pers » as , aad armed , wtu an offensive we » . jon » -Jfli %
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' , " ¦""" ,, ner : the prosecutor , deposed that he car- ,:. h . omas ™« . , ; £ 3 of an artists * colqurman in iied on the ton * .. - , 2 nd of August he was on hia long-. acre , and on thi > . » , aviDg i , eeri to Chelsea on way home at night , aftef £ « vj pf Roae-street ,, business , and he was pass ing Jne ;" , V ,. iV , ,: ' in Long-acre , about a qu **" - ° J S ^ 3 past twelve o ' clock . Just as hv ™ P on th . * P he was accosted by three or four Ju > ' ono ° / whom pinioned his arms from behind . He then observed a man standing in front of him . and thiv men on his loft hand , and a fourth , who held what fl 9 galled " an infernal machine " was on his right hand . The man who he identified as the prisoner , who came up to him , and while he was pinioned in the way described , placed something round his neck ; the effect of which was to cause almost immediate suffocation .
His coats were then forced open , and he felt his waistcoat pockets being rifled ; but , as he imagined , upon some alarm being given , he was dashed to the ground against tho curb-stone , by which one of his teeth was broken , and his chin was severely injurod , and his assailants then ran off . He was a short time before ho recovered ; and he then saw one man in tho act of running away . He gave chase to that man for a quarter of a mile , but he succeeded in effecting his escape , witness being unable , from tho injury he had received upon his neck , by the instrument he had roferred to , to call out or to give any alarm . The gas lamp of the street shone directly upon the face of . the man who used the instrument to him , and ho was quite positive tho prisoner was
that man . In consequence of reading an account in the newspapers of the examination of the prisoner at tho Mansion House , upon the charge of being concerned in a similar outrage upon Mr . Cureton , in . tho city , ho went to tho Mansion House , and the moment he saw the prisoner he recognised him as ono of the gang of ruffians who had attacked him in the manner described . —Mr . Bodkin here handed to tho witness a twisted floxiblo stick , loaded . heavily at one end with lead , and which was capable of being twisted quite double ; and lie said he had no doubt that it was by means of such an instrument as that he was nearly suffocated under the circumstances described on the night in question . —Michael Haydon , one of the city of London detective
policeconstables , deposed , that he apprehended the prisoner upon another charge on tho 2 nd of October . At this time he know nothing of the present prosecutor , but from information he afterwards received , he communicated with him , and it was arranged that he should go to the Mansion House to see the accused party . The prosecutor gave him a description of the man who had attacked him , but witness did not in any way describo the prisoner , who was in custody . There were two other persons standing in the dock with the prisoner , and the prosecutor identified him immediately . The instrument that had been produced was found in the house of a man at Hoxton . This man wa 3 taken into custody upon suspicion of . being concerned in the attack upon Mr .
Cureton , and the prisoner waa also charged with that offence . —The learned Judge then summed up , and the jury immediately returned a verdict of Guilty . —The prisoner asserted his innocence , and declared that at the time he was alleged to'have committed the offence ho was ill in bed with a fever and liad his . head ahaved . —He was sentenced to be transported for twenty years . ' , Assault rrois a Child . — Henry Johnstone , 21 , was indicted for a felonious assault upon Catherine Davis , a child five years of age . Mr . Platt prosecuted , and Mr . Ribton defended the prisoner . The evidence completely established "the charge . ; The jury found the prisoner Guilty , and lie was sentenced , to be transported for life . !' . ' . ' . ¦
Robbebv op Plate . —Henry-Collins , 30 , ' servant , was indicted for slealWgVa .. coffee-pot ; sixty-one forks , fifty-six spoons / arid other plate , valued at £ 180 ,, the property of Edmund Rushworth -arid another , Ms masters . —Mr . Edmund Rushworth , of the firm -of . ' Rushworth and Jarvis , auctioneers , Saville-row , said that about three years ago the prisoner entered their service , and remained so until June , 1849 , when the articles in question were sent from Mr . Thomas , of New Bond-streqt , to them for sale , They were broueht on Saturday ; the 30 th the
of Jane , by a porter , and delivered to prisoner , who took them into the wareroom and locked them up . When witness got there on Monday he found the priaoner gone and the place locked up , and the plato taken . —Robert Cheekly , 1 C H , said he met the prisoner the 16 th of this month in' , the Whitechapel-road , and took him into custody . On their road to the station-house he asked what , the plate had been valued at , and was told £ 200 , He added it was a good day ' s work for the man who had it . —• The jury found him Guilty , and he was transported for seven years . ' _ .....
Returkixg . from Transportation . —Edward . G . Barrington ,. who was convicted last session of returning from transportation , was brought up for sentence . The prisoner , it will be recollected , had almost served the term lor which ho had been sent out , and had received what was stated to be a free pardon , which he had destroyed upon leaving tho colonies ; ho had served as a seaman against the Bornean pirates ;; and returned . to this country , bringing with him an excellent character and " a large amount of prize-money , with ; which he had gone into a respectable way of business . —The Common Sergeant said he had no alternative but to again order , him-to tto transportedTand the sentence was that he be imprisoned for sixmonths , and then to be transported for seven years . .. He would , however , be able to lay his case before the Secretary of
State , who would have the power to mitigate it . — The prisoner , who was dreadfully agitated , no sooner heard the sentence than he struck his hand violently on the front of the dock , and said he would sooner be dead than again transported ; and drawing a penknife he had secreted , made an attempt to cut his throat . The officers in the dock , however , managed to seize him before ho could do himself any grievous injury , but it was not without much difficulty . that the weapon could be got from him , and he forced from the dock . The excitement was much heightened by the frantic screams of a woman in the gallery , said to be his wife , and who could scarcely be restrained from throwing herself over into the dock . , , ... Edward Lovell Dwyer , who was convicted of a similar offence , was sentenced to be imprisoned for twelve months , and again transported for seven
years . . BuROLAHT . —Henry Thomas Taylor , 17 , printer , Charles Gosling , 24 , painter , George Adams , . 32 , lighterman , and James Costello , alias Adams , were indicted for breaking into and entering the dwelling house of George Stiff , and stealing therein a gold snuffbox and a quantity of plate , valued at £ 70 , his property , and gold and silver monies of the value of £ S 0 , the property of Fanny Plowman , in the same house . —The statement of the witnesses , nearly twenty in number , went to prove that the prosecutor is a publisher in the Strand , and proprietor of the WceMy ' limes and London Journal , and resides at Stroatham-place , Brixton , near to which place he . had a printing office , where tho latter mentioned publication is printed . On the Saturday preceding the day of tho robbery , the 24 th
September , the prosecutor was from town , and reniamed away for somo . few days , leaving , tho two Misses Plowman to take care of the houao ; arid it was known to the prisoner that the only person in the house during the daytime was Fanny Plowman . On the 24 th of . September ,, the prisoner left his work about fivo o'clock in tho afternoon , tho other workmen not leaving until nearly six o ' clock ,, and about a quarter-past five ; some men w ont to prosecutor ' s house , and asked if that was . Mr . Stiff s , and having been teld that it ' was , said to the housekeeper , Fanny Plowman , " Some one you know in the Strand , in getting out of an omnibus , has had something fall upon hev head , and you must tako a cab and so there . " The consequence was , that
she . took a cab , and came as . quickly as she could to the Strand , where sho found the statement to bo false , ' upon which ' sue went back with . her sister and one of the men from the office as . fast as she could , and found that the place had been broken into by forcing an entrance into a stable at the side , and then bursting tho door insido with a crowbar . The place was in great disorder , and the house rifled of all that could be found ; and amongst other things was a gold snuff box that had been presented to prosecutor by his workmen , and which , for safety was kept hidden in the top of tho piano . Upon an inquiry about tho robbery being instituted by the police , circumstances came to their knowledge which led to tho apprehension of Taylor , who it appearod had sent a letter to Costello ( at one time a workman of the prosecutor ' s ) on the ; morning after him said
the robbery ; but when questioned about he did not know where he lived , and beat the boy whom he had sent to post the letter for having said anything about it .-At Costello ' s house , when searched , seventy-two skeleton keys were found .-Tho only evidence against Gosling was that he looked like a man who was leaning on the railings of tho prosecutor ' s bouse at the time . —Taylor , who is the son of a highly respoctable tradesman ,. had several witnesses called to his character . —The jury , under tho direction of the learned judge , acquitted Gosling , convicted the others with a reoommendato meroy on the part of Tayloiv-Cpstello , it was further proved , had been convicted m 18 ± b tor obtaining goods with forged orders . —He . was now sentenced to ten years' transportation , Davis to seven years , and Taylor to twelvemonths imprisonment with hard labour .
; RonBERY FROM A Dwelling-house . —• Edward Smith and Thomas Hardy wero convicted of breaking and entering into the dwelling-house of Mary Hi "g ins , . and stealing a quantity of wearing apparel . —Mr . Carteen proseouted , and the case , excepting the characters of the men , was of ordinary description . Hardy had been transported in 1839 , and served seven years , had since then been in Reading gaol , besides other convictions and soino acquittals ; The > other was equally well known . Tbivial Charge , —Joseph Cohen , 29 , was indicted for feloniously receiving a small quantity of brass , the property of ' John Spooner . —It appeared from the statement ot the learned counsel for the prosecution ^ and the evidence that was adduced in
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support of it , that the prosecutor was a coaohmaker , in Whitechapel , . arid , on the 18 th of October , a little boy , named Fox ,, was taken into his service , and the same afternoon he stole an axletree-cap and two axletree-nuts from the workshop , and tools them to the defendant , who keeps ft marine BtorS -jno , and sold the articles to him for fivepence . la cross-exa £ Un&tion of the witnesses it turned oufi that the article * , ? in question were old and aliiiosfe useles " , and the little , rascal who stole them had broken up one of the caps in order ' . la tnnke it
utterly worthless , . except as tfd metal , and in that state fivepence per pound would" . have been its full value . The prisoner appeared to have previously borne a very good character , and when ho wasquesi tionednpon the subject . he immediately admitted having purchased the brass of the boy , and said that bo told him that his father had sent him to , sell it , and that he was very ill in bed , and wanted ihe money . —The jury , under these circumstances , stopped the case , and returned a verdict of Not Guilty . —The prisoner was ordered to be imme-. diately discharged .
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ANOTHER FIRE AT GRAVESEn ) .-SUPPOSED INCENDIARISM . At about two o ' clock on Sunday afternoon lasfc smoke was discovered by several persons _ passing at the time proceeding from the iron grating over ' the front cellar of the house No . 5 , in IJarmer-BtrelLXii'iwesend . g © much suspicion was attached to tn ^ WTgin of this fire , that on the information of the police superintendent and his officers the borough magistrates thought it incumbent on them to instituto an inquiry , into the matter . Accordingly , on Monday , Messrs . Oakes ( chairman ) , and Spencer , Smith , and Tickner held an investigation , when the following facts were elicited;—Mr . Samuel Marder stated , after the usual caution against saying anything that might tend to criminate himself , that about seven o ' clock on the . previous ( Sunday ) morning , he had , ; with his wife , servant , and a gen *
tleman who lodged with him , got up and prepared * to go by _ the train to London , but on arriving at , the station they'found themselves too late for the train . They then returned to No . 5 , the house ho occupied , and prepared to go by the nine o ' clock boat from the Terrace Pier . Whilst so preparing , betook a candle : in a bedroom candlestick , and went down to the cellar to" get some coals ! and woodj to have ready to make a fire when they should return in the evening . While in the cellar - he heard the bell announcing tho time of the boat ' s - departure from the Terrace Pier ringing , an d ; hurried up , leaving the lighted candle he did not know where in the cellar . Mr .-Marder went on to give a statement of all that he alleged to have occurred between seven o ' clock and the time of
going by the steamboat on Sunday morning so in- - coherent that it was impossible . to find out from it . anything that could fix ttie time of his and his - family's departure from the house and the origin of . the fire . —The first witness . called was a porter in ' the DianiondSteam-packet Company , who deposed that oii . Saturday evening , late , he was called to ' attend , at 5 , Harmer-street , an d t o remove f rom there three large Doxes to tho Diamond-packetoffice , to be sent up by the first boat on the follow- ¦ ing morning . He removed them with the assistance ' of another porter j and on the following morning , at "' a quarter-past eight o ' clock , the man ( a tall ; and ' thin man , no $ at all like Mr . Marder ) who delivered the boxes to him at No . 5 , came' to the : office , and superintended their removal to the boat about to start for London , no should know the
man again if he . saw him . He went by the boat ' on' . board of wliich tho boxes were put . —Mr . Mardor . here said that he was the last person who . ' left the house on Sunday morning , and that the other man , whose name , as his lodger , he could nofc recollect ; and left that morning by the railway . — . Mr . Oakes again cautioned . Mr . Marder not to say anything that might commit himself , as it would bo taken down in evidonce against him . —Mr . Marder ' proceeded ' to state , in reply to Mr . Oakes ,. that he had'insured his stock ( haberdashery ) for £ 250 , Ilia furniture for i' 200 , and some glasa cases in his Bhop for £ 50 , on or about the 5 th ult ., through the medium of Mr . H . Newman , of Grave- send ,: agent for tho-Phcjnix office , and was also insured , but to what amount he did not mention , in
the Metropolitan Insurance-office . The receipt for the . premium of insurance in the Phoenix-office he ' produced , and said , his wifo had it in her pocket , and that he had not preserved any other receipt , or voucher , or document whatever . —Police-constable Wickham deposed , that ; about two o ' clock on the : afternoon of Sunday , the 27 th inst ., hia attention was drawn to smoke issuing from ' the grating above - the cellar window of No . 5 , Harmcr-street . Findingthere was nobody in the house , he calledfor as * sistance , and entered the house through a window - at the rear opening into the garden ; Finding . the smoke proceeding from the basement story he went down aud opened a door which " led info an intermediate cellar between the back and front kitchens , and which formed also a sort of lumber-room . The smoke rushed with such violence out of the door that he was forced to go back , and ho then went into the back kitchen , found a bucket of water in it , returned to the cellar , and poured the water on
where he saw some fire . He then had assistance , and the fire was put out . - The Urge box now produced by him , and partially burnt , was the first thing bo . removed out of the cellar . The smaller box he found close by the partition , with the candlestick in it as it now appeared , and with the remains of burnt wadding oxtingmshed-by the water he had thrown on io . The candlestick was quite hot . ( The candlestick , a brass chamber one , was inserted into the side , or it might be the upper end of ' the box , of which two sides or ends , and the stuff contained in it , were burnt or reduced to tinder or cin- . der . The candlestick couldby no apparent possibility have accidentally got into the position in the box in which it was found . ) Witness went on to state that he found a quantity of books and other combustible materials lying on the floor round and in contact with the box in which the candlestick and th © ; expirod snuff of a candle were found by him and the other persons who came to his assistance .. In the bedrooms he found the wardrobes—three in
number—all empty ; one bed was tumbled as if slept on , but . there . were no bed-clothes but an old blanket and counterpane . On a bedstead in another room there was a mattress ,-but no bedding . In the Bhop he found nothing but a few trifling articles of little value , such as gloves and some bonnet frames . - The whole house seemed to have been left in a state of great confusion , and with but little value in it . ' Mr . Marder had returned late in . the night , but-ha ( witness ) had hai no communication with him , other than telling him how the fire : was discovered , Witness had no doubt that , but for the timely discovery of the fire , the house would have been soon in flames . There was a quantity of broken timber and other combustible materials behind the
partition against which the box with the candlestick in it lay . Above the box , on a sort of shelf , was a quantity of books and papers . Some of them were partially burnt . Some of the books and papers on the flour , wore partially burnt . The partition itself was burnt through nearly up to the ceiling . It was immediately under the shop . —Other witnesses having been examined , the prisoner was remanded . The prisoner waa . brought up for further examination . on Wednesday , when the above evidence , was recapitulated . ' Application was made to admit Mr . Marder to bail , which was refused , the magistrates expressing their intention of committing him for trial on the charge of arson . ' The prisoner was again remanded . . , . ' . ; .
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A Cacxian ' s Trick .- ^ The rewards paid cabmen upon tho immediate restitution of property left in their vehicles accidentally , lead to the exercise of the ugly ingenuity of that brotherhood in many ways , A gentleman had occasion to write to the depot in Broad-street some days ago , under the following circumstances : —He hired a cab to take him and his laggage , amongst whichj was a gun case , from Euston-squaro , to the railway station at . Paddington . "When ho arrived at " the station the cabman , with the most obsequious . activity , proceeded , to unload , and very quickiy drove off upon receiving his fare ; but scarcely had the cab disappeared when the gentleman missed . his gun case . The con- . sequence was , that the JDurney was postponed , and , the gentleman returned to his own house , but on , his way ho was informed by a policeman that tho . cabman who had iust left him at the . Btation was by
that time in Broad-street , depositing the gun cases which had been loft iu tho cab , and to a considerable portion of the value of which the driver w ould be entitled for his honesty in giving it up . The owner of tho property wrote , to the commissioner . in Broad-street , representing the fact that the cabman had made the " mistake" intentionally , for the purpose of establishing a claim to the reward , and received an answer from the depot expressive of . positive belief that the caise was exactly aathe complainant had described it , but submitting that the delinquent mu 3 t still be rewarded , in the apprehension that a refusal w . ould aggravate the system of robbing which the plan of restitution had been made to diminish . The complainant was then obliged before he received his gun case , to pay the ( under tho circumstances ) reduced penalty often shillings , as a recompense to the fellow by whom ho had baea put to expense and subjected to disappointment . j
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 2, 1850, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1598/page/7/
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