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      Tbs Plate Robbery In The Strand. - ¦"Dan...

      TBS PLATE ROBBERY IN THE STRAND . - ¦ "Daniel John Shaw , ( a hoot and shoe maker , ) JaB . _jjjdcoek , ( also a boot and shoe maker , ) Eliza Shaw , ( wife ofthe first-named prisoner , ) John Gardiner , a _^ e ll-known cracksman , ) Mary Ann Chernneau _, ( with whom he cohabits , ) George Buncher , ( another _noto rious cracksman , ) and Mary Ann Buncher , / his wife , ) were placed at the har at Bow-street Police-court on Saturday last , with Charles Clinton , an errand boy , charged with _being concerned in _ctoding a quantity of plate and jewellery from the gjj 0 p of Messrs . Williams and Clapham , 13 , and 14 , Stran d , on the previous Monday night , value about £ 2 000 . - - _nrrt- -or . _ATTS -RnRRRRV TH TOTS _STPAYn _

      , . . . . _ „ .. On the examination of Charles Kelly , tbe _watchman and porter , on tbe previous day , the errand hoy gave his evidence in such an equivocal manner , that the magistrate thought he had some s ubstantial reason for reserving the whole truth . Inspector Iuxd , of the detective force , having _produced a voluntary statement in writing made hy She prisoner Clinton , sold that , in consequence of in formation he had received , he -went to the honse 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 recently collected , he stood for a few minutes

      without uttering a word , and then said , " WhatBadeoek _gaid about my meeting him on Saturday I think is false : I hardly know what to say , but the best way is to confess it . I was to meet the party ; I don ' t fcnow what they were , or where they lived . Mr . _ghaw was certainly implicated in it . lie told me -thatthey were to meet on Hungerford-brid ge . I met him a fortnight ago for the first time forthe 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 _"Eell y was innocent of it , and I said nothing to

      implicate him at the examination . One ofthe men Was under the counter and the other under the mats . I got the impression of the keys , and gave tbem to the two men . I met the men on the bridge , and the ; knew me . The first one of the men was introduced to me by Shaw . I met them in Tilliersetreet . Mrs . Shaw told me she had seen her husiand in the city the last time . The last time I Saw Shaw was Saturday week . I told Badcock it -Was coming off ou Saturday sight , ( I mean the rob-¦ faery . ) Badcock was to have a share of the pro-¦ duce . They were to meet some night going home , and they would give mo _something , how much I don't know . I have not seen Badcock since the - jobbery . I cannot describe the men , but should

      know them again . They are about five feet seven inches high , respectably dressed in dark clothes . Of course I hope that KeUy will at once be set at liberty , " upon which witness conveyed him to the Station-house . —Mr . Henry inquired if the prisoner made any fnrther remarks on his way to the station . —Witness 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 ofthe har , 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 him at the corner ofthe street , and when the pri

      soner returned to the house he apprehended him , when he said he knew nothing of the charge , and remained silent aU the way to the station . Witness -then went to the White Hart , Fetter-lane , where he found Shaw in the parlour , and having caUed him out and told him his business , he said he knew nothing whatever about the robbery , that he bad not seen Clinton for some time ; upon wliich he searched his lodg ings , but found nothing relating to the property . The prisoner Shaw said , that he could bring for-• ward witnesses to prove that he was either at his 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 ie had done no work for a considerable time .

      The prisoner Badcock said , hehad 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 la 3 t , about twelve o ' clock he apprehended _tJardiner and Chernneau , walking arm in arm in the Westminster-road , near the Circus . He told bim that he was charged with breaking and entering a dweUing-house in the Strand , to which he made no answer , and he handed the woman over to West , another officer . Atthe _Btation the lad Clinton was brought in the yard , and Gardiner being Brought into the yard also , he was asked if he was not one of the men he had let into the house , previous to Which he had seen him 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 , nd , and look stedfastly at him , he said , "Yes , he Is ; " upon which Gardiner cried out , " Good God ! I never saw the boy before in my life ; " and , seeing that Clinton persisted in identifying him , Gardiner declared that he knew nothing at all about "him . The p risoner theu refused to say where he lived , and said his business was that of ft hawker . On Saturday morning witness went to Pearl-row , Borough-road , where he found the prisoner Buncher , who occasionaMy went by the name of Lnxton , 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 xing _, pledged on the 25 th inst ., atthe shop of Mr . Barnett , St . George ' s-circus . _TJpon-taking the duplicate from her , she held the piece of paper _tishtly 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 , sueh as watches , diamond lings , & 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 , he 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 . _Hexht asked if the prisoner Chernneau said anything when she was apprehended ? Sergeant We 3 t said that when Chernneau was in custody she attempted to say something , but was prevented hy Gardiner ; and at the station she said she had nothing in her pocket ; but when she waB asked if she had any money ahout her she said she had , but it wa 3 no matter how much ; and , having expressed a willingness to he searched , she took from her bosom the bag produced containing £ 1-5310 s . in gold .

      The prisoner Garmxer denied that the boy identified "him , in the first instance , until he was prompted hy the oScer , when he shook his head . Sergeant West added , that Chernneau said she liad got part of the money from her father , who was ia America , by a post-office order , or something of that kind . Mr . _Hesev directed that the prisoners , except Clinton , should he 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 55 , Brunswick-street , _Blaekfriars , and had nothing to say to the charge except that Gardiner and Buncher were the two men ; but , on the night of the

      rob-Jjery he did not see Buncher , another man having come with Gardiner , whom he placed nnder the jnats , and the other not in custody behind the _connting-houso door . The prisoner Buncher was -first brought to him by Shaw , and then they met over Hungerford-bridge , when Shaw was not present , hat Buncher was , and the man not yet in custody . The man not in custody came to buy a "pencil-ease , and it was at a public-house turning out of the Borough-road , where they told him he was to take ihe impressions of the keys . He next met Rancher and the other on the bridge , and on Sunday evening , he met Gardiner and Buncher with "the third man , and that was aU he had to say about _^ t for the present . Mr . _"Hessv desired that the prisoners should he : _agamplace-dat the har _singly , to give an account of themselves . °

      The prisoner Smw said he was thirty fonr years Of age , and resided in Plough court , Fetter-lane , . _andjjieing cautioned in the usual way , said he would reserve what he had to say till the next examination . _t , _^ - ° _^ fM he _£ J ? cnty _5 _ear 3 of age , and _hadresided five months at 15 , Charles-street , _Blackihars-road . Had nothing to say to the charm -except that Clinton told him . _Iht { £ _SKy f _™ off , he woiridmake _hunapresent of something iandsome _, but he did not know when it waa or -where it was to be .

      _GiKniKEn said he was twenty-six years of age and a hawker without a license , resiaine in MarMn ' street , Blackfriars-road , but he could not tell the ' Dumber of the house . lie was innocent of tho charge . " _' . _Chektoka-c said that she waa the wife of Henry Chernpeau , a regimental tailor , who was abroad hut she did not know where . She resided in Orang _^ eoart _, Drary-lace , with her aunt , and was an unfortunate . _Bc-Vchee said he was twenty-eight years of { age , _andanuteher , hawking meat in a basket to the different public-houses ; and declined , by the advice Qf his solicitor , to say anything to the charge .

      The prisoners , who were remanded , werethen removed from the bar , with the exception of Eliza Chernneau , against whom the inspector said he could produce so further evidence , and she "was _dis-Sfctrged ,

      Tbs Plate Robbery In The Strand. - ¦"Dan...

      On Wednesday the prisoners were again brought up 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 Banhury-row , Blackfriars-road , who said he worked in the same shop with Shaw , and he also knew Badcock with whom he had frequently seen him . He recollected hearing a conversation outside their door , when Badcock told Mrs . Shaw that he had seen Charley , and that the robbery would come off on Saturday erening ; that Charley had told him he Had taken impressions of the keys , and had given them to the men . He also said that he ( Badcock ) was to meot Charley on Saturday evening and he would give him ( Badcock ) 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 . An _WaJnAoilow . _tlift _rn-inntio _.. _v > m _. _»»;_ t . v .

      The Burglary I"N The Regext's-Park. It A...

      THE BURGLARY I"N THE REGEXT'S-PARK . It appears tbat the man supposed to have been killed by the pistol shot and slugs fired into his head by the butler , Mr . Paul , has been traced tothe 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 ruse , 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 medical 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 tbe police had all arrived , thus leaving tho 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 tbey met the cab into which ' both the men got .

      Two additional men were on Sunday night apprehended by Sergeant H . Barry , 455 51 division , assisted by Evan Jone 3 , 25 d , 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 . Paul , the butler , recounted the event 3 ofthe robbery , and the firing at the robbers , with which our readers are already acquainted _.

      Superintendent _Hatxes . —These two men who are brought this morning were seen in company witb 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 . HesrtBarrt , sergeant in the M 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 the 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 aU . Dyson keeps a house , a receptacle for thieves , in Martin-street , and I had a man who lodged with hira in custody in the case of Mr . Cureton . Dyson was present at the examination ofthe man charged in the case of Cureton . Mahon has been in custody for having skeleton keys . His right name is James

      Ilolindale . I have seen him daily since m 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 , hut neither 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 iny company ? Witness : Jfo ; 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 Mabon was wounded in the hand , and on examining it I found the mark of a shot—a long stripe , as of a spike .

      _Hesbt Locock , cabman , 5 , 417- —The cab I drive is not my own . I know Mr . Holford ' s house , and heard this day fortnight there had 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 , " Ihave heen bit hy 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 yon 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 out of the cab and said he was so faint he would ride outside , but he did not do so , hut ran on . There was a cab coming hehind . 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 his 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 be said he would drive on . When we got to Wellington-street , he gave me ls . 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 ., but he only gave me ls . 6 d . He never explained anything to me at all . He was bleeding very much from the side of the face .

      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 wa 3 going home drunk the other night . Mahon denied that he ever saw the witness . The witness when he saw Mahon instantly recognised him . Joxes , police-constable 250 SI . —On the evening ofthe 13 th , I visited the George at ten o ' 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 ; tbey 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 he was unfortunate .

      We went to the Beanstalk , in a back street at Hoxton , and took Mahon . Barry told him ho was in custody on suspicion of the burglary , and he said ho would go with him quiet anywhere he liked . I then returned and took Robinson into custody . I saw bim coming out of the beer shop hefore wo 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 takenbecause he was unfortunate . When I brought the prisoner Robinson into the Featherstone-street station , Mahon said , " You had no business to bring that man here ; he has nothing to do with it . " Robinson kept saying he was innocent . When we were all in the cab coming to Albany-street , Robinson said , "That ' s not my racket ; that ' s a scale higher than my doings . " Mahon Baid nothing in answer . I handcuffed both of them . I looked at Mahon ' s hand , and saw a wound , and he said ,

      " It is a mishap I had falling on a glass . Mr . Joseph was of opinion that the wound was the result ofa spent shot . There is an orifice , hut no shot underneath . Something round must have p roduced the wound ; and the wound on the other hand must have been done within a fortnight . Jones . —Mahon lived in Friar-street . I saw him with a female . I heard of the burglary on Monday , the 14 th , and I have since then been looking for Mahon , but could not find him , although we visited the George two or three times a day . He and EobinsoH used to be at the George . When I heard of tho burglary , Ihad a suspicion of them . We have heen all over London seeking for them . 1 believe the landlord does serve Mahon . I did LondonWhen

      not know that Robinson was ent of . 3 told Robinson about the burglary , he said I was at Southampton at the time . _. , RoMxsoN .-I can prove to you that I was m bed that night . I left the George at a quarter to eleven that night . The hat was here produced . _Joxus . —I know to whom the hat belODgs . _SnaOEASi 31 D . —Went to tbe house on tbe mornmg of the robbery , and saw Dyson on the ground . I did not see any traces of Hood . I produce a hat _* hich is _Bhot through inBeveral places in the _fore-™ / here is blood on it . I picked ifc up near Holford House , where Jones fired , under the bush . I _™ . _? ca _* _M _<** -i flitt n ° _t see it picked up .

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      _^ Mr . Broughxok . —There is a great deal more evidence , but there is no necessity for going intothat . Do you wish to say anything . Mahon . —I have no wish to say anything . _RoBiHsoN . —I know nothing about it . Mr . Bbouqhtok . —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 UBual haunts , and you two are again found together in a difierenfc 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 ifc . The blood is traced from the house . _-.,.. -r . ... . .. . ; . -

      The _Inspectob . —The blood on the paddock of the Zoological Gardens is supposed to have been from one of the birds . Mr . Baououxos . —Mahon goes up to tho cabman and washes hia hand at the pump , and then another man comes up and is faint , and brought to tho 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 police court from the Albany-street station-houso , 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 the police-sheet as a labourer , and was so weak as to be unablo to stand while tho evidence was being gone into against him , His left arm was in a sling , and he presented altogether the appearance of ono who had been seriously injured . Mr . Paul , the butler , repeated the statements Which ho had made upon former occasions relative to the affair . He could not identify the prisoner in connexion with the burglary , although ho 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 . " ' Hb . v'by 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 hefore you speak positively ? Witness : He is the man , and I can swear it , who got into my cab aHd ordered me to drive him to tho Strand . — Mr . Broughton : When he ordered you to drive him had he a hat on at the time ? Witness : He had not , sir . — _%% Broughton : Was he bleeding ? Witness : Yes ; blood was running down his face , and it appeared to me that it came from wounds in hia head . —Mr . Broughton : Was he sober ? Witness : I think ho was ; he seemed very weak and fatigued .

      Mr . Broughton ( to the prisoner ) : Have you anything to ask of this witness ? _PmsoKBR . —I don't deny that I am the man . for I'm guilty —( great sensation in court)—bufc 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 Barry , 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 wbo 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 desperate thieves aud prostitutes of the lowest grade —he ( Galloway ) had been many times fined . —Mr . Broughton : When Dyson ( one of the prisoners 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 the 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 had become of him , not seeing him at his usual places of resort . —Mr . Broughton ; When and at what time was he takem into custody 1 " _WitneBs 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 . Afemale at tho 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 , " Yery well , I'll go . " He _seomei * extremely ill , and asked me to hand a 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 his wounds , and he received every attention . He had wounds on the back part of his head , his ears , and otherparts of his person , and he told me that some of the shots were coming from under his tongue . He also told me that he had shots in his fingers . Sergeant _Buexfobd , 12 M , corroborated this statement .

      Mr . _Evesest , Superintendent of the Rochester Police , said that he had for a long time known the prisoner , and the others charged with him , and he 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 , tho 13 th ult ., I visited the George , and saw Dyson there with the prisoner . To the best of my belief prisoner had on tho 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 different 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 with the other three who already stand committed .

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      ' ¦ ¦¦ THE LATE MURDER OF AN OLD LADY _SEAR ABERYSTWITH . The death of Mrs . Jones , supposed to have been caused by arsenic , administered to her by her daughter-in-law , has been the subject ofa searching inquiry by the magistrates , and tho following additional particulars have been obtained : — John Jones , pf Caenmeur , who , it will be remembered , gave at the previous inquiry some contradictory statements , has added the following to his former evidence , say ing . that he remembered it all when hefore examined , but did not like to name it . He admitted that he went to the shop of Mr . Humphreys , druggist , and stated that the arsenic which he had previously purchased for the prisoner had heen bought by him for himself . He 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 bo given to him for saying he had bought the poison for himself . After he purchased the arsenic of Mr . Humphreys' shopman to kill rats , he went the same night to Bronberran , and saw the prisoner . Told her that he had got the stuff , and asked what she intended to do with it . He then took it home with him to Caenmeui _* . Tho following day tho prisoner Elizabeth Jones came over to hira at Caenmeur . She told him that she was free enough to do something to Ann Jones . Ho said to her , "What is ifc you intend doing ?'' and she replied , ' . ' Be you silent . " Witness told her that he feared that she had some evil intention , to which sho replied , " Never you mind , there will be no call

      after you . AU this took place on the Tuesday before Mrs . Ann Jones's death . On tho day afterwards witness , went over to Cronberrllan for the purpose of grinding a reaping-hook , and as he was grinding it Elizabeth Jones ( the prisoner ) came and spoke to bim , In the course of the conversation , she said " The old woman ( meaning deceased ) and Charles Jones want to make a sale , biit I will prevent them doing it . " Witness said to her , "that he hoped she would do no evil , " and added , " that _ifshe 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 is no one to swear upon me . " On ' the Friday morning the deceased was taken ill , and the prisoner sent

      for witness to Cronborrllan , and told him that she wanted him to go down to Cecklas , and inform them there of it . ne said he hoped she had not done anything to the old lady . She replied that she had done something , and said that itwas her brother who had first put the notion into her head . She also said that it was in the teapot , and she had put it in . When witness gave the arsenic to the prisoner , he did ifc in the field by his house ; it was before the time when ho 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 hy the fire , and she was at Iho table . Thc 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 this testimony at the previous examination , but he gave no satisfactory explanation . . The magistrates have adjourned the examination for sev eral days to procure the attendance of Mr . Herapatb , the analytical chemist , _oiBrifiip 1 ., _sni te afford time for further _mmy . |

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      . Charge Of Absavmim The Pomce. — Two Hi...

      . Charge of _Absavmim the Pomce . — Two highly _respectable-looking elderly men , one of them 70 years ol age , named John Brooks and William Purchess , were indicted , the latter for assaulting two police constables in the exocution of their duty * _UJS _™ elorn ? er for assaulting one of tho constables , and pi eventing the lawful apprehension ofthe prisoner Purchess . -Tiie facts of the ease , both forthe prosecution and tho defence , may be detailed in a 1 _i At ' aIthougb tbe investigation of them lasted irom ten in the morning until nearly six in the evening . On the part of the police tbey were proved to be these .- —Between the hours of eleven and twelve on the night ofthe 5 th of last month .

      as police constables Cooper and _Fiaher , 112 and II ? 01 tne u division , wero passing along Great warner-street , in plain clothes , having two pickpockets m their custody , the defendant _Purcbess , wno was coming along in a different direction , drunk , run against Cooper , and then collaring him , said , You are not an officer . " Ho then followed him , and struck him on the hat , and tripped him up . Cooper having _gWen the two prisoners to risner , loiiowed Burchess , who ran away to his own house in the samo street , and saw him run ° i _'* « . _£ ' ca ' _hecalled oufc to somo one inside , Ilore is the police coming . " Cooper no sooner got into the kitchen tban he was seized by BrooKs and some women , who commenced

      strmrg ing with hira ; and in his attempt to follow _PurchosB , thoy forced his hand through a window in thc back kitchen door , by which his hand and arm were much injured ; and it was not until some further assistance was obtained that ho was released , and the parties taken to the station-house . —For the dofence it was proved by several respectable witnesses that , as far as the assault in the street was concerned , it arose in this way : —Purchoss 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 tho various witnesses' statement , was mad or drunk—seized hold of Brooks , who was having his supper with his family , and began beating him about the head , saying that he was his prisoner , and in the _scufiie his hand got forced through the glass . The persons in the house and some of the neighbours , hearing the cries of murder from Brooks' wife and nieces , who _wera also assaulted by Cooper , who Btruck 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 officer , and to prevent further violence , called in the constables on duty outside . —The witnesses , upon cross-examination , contradicted themselves , in many 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 he _Ih _^ _got his hand hurt , said Cooper did not appear to havo been drinking . —A number of highly respectable tradesmen gave tho defendants ( who are half brothers , and had been in business as master builders for many years in Warner-street ) the highest character for general good conduct . —Mr . Gurney having summed up , the jury consulted forabout a ininute , and acquitted them . —Mr . Clark said Cooper had been some years in the force , and had been rewarded for his good and temperate conduct . —The defendants werethen discharged , and upon getting outside the court were greeted with loud cheers from their friends .

      Charge of _Mansuughteb against a Policeman . —Nathaniel Eaton Bushcll , 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 by casting him on the ground and kicking him . —A bill of indictment had been preferred against tho prisoner for the same offence , but it was ignored by the grand jury . —Several witnesses wore examined on behalf of tho prosecution , from whose testimony ifc appeared thafc afc 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 tho lower order of the deceased's

      eoutitvymen were seen in High-street , Marylebone , the latter being in custody of tho prisoner . Afc this time the deceased was presented to have been lying upon the ground with his head over the kerbstone , and the prisoner was stated to have been kneeling upon his chest with his hand in his neckerchief . The sister ofthe 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 struck him a great many violent blows with his staff upon the head , shoulders , and almost every other part of the body , and some ofthe

      witnesses stated thafc he also kicked him with great violence . Ifc was also deposed to , that while the man was being used in this manner , his brother Maurice Geary interposed by telling the prisoner that ho would report him on tho Monday following , and upon this the prisoner , making use of a bad expression at the same time , ordered one ofthe constables to take him into custody , and he was also lodged in the station-house . The next morning tho deceased man was bailed out , and when he came home 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 and his brother Maurice were examined at the police-office , when

      the magistrate discharged the deceased on account as it was alleged , of his having received some injury during the affray , bufc 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 for a fortnight after the occurrence , when he again resumed his occupation , but could not continuo at it more than ten days , when ho again took to his bed and remained very ill until the 20 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 then * evidence . —During the crossexamination of the witnesses by Mr . Ballantine ,

      several of them gave suoh evasivo answers and fenced with the questions that were put to them in 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 the injuries in this case had anything to do with the death . If one of tho ribs had been broken , and had injured the pluera , that would have accounted forthe inflammation at once , but that was not the caso in this instance , and in his opinion if the deceased had not caught cold when he went to his work after keeping his bed for a fortnight , he would have survived , and tho injuries he received

      had certainly nothing directly to do with his death , Mr . Ballantine , having addressed the jury , called James M'Craw , a sergeant of the same division as the prisoner , who upon the night in question was the acting inspector . Ifc appeared from his evidence that while going his rounds onthe 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 Bushel ! lying upon the ground and the deceased was on the top of him , and , they were struggling together . He pulled tho deceased off Bushel ! , and the latter said , " See how this fellow has heen serving mo , " at the same time pointing to his coat , whioh was torn quite away from the collar . They thon laid hold of tho deceased , and

      were about to take him to tho 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 violonce whatever had been used to him . In that street , however , a . crowd ofthe 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 tothe station . " He then put his hand into witness ' s stock and nearly choked him , and not having a staff of _hta own , he called out ior one , and

      another constable who had come up , gave him a staff , and ho struck the deceased on the arnvwith it to make him loose his hold . Deceased then caught hold of _Bushell in the same 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 tho deceased ; and upon his saying to the prisoner , •¦ Bushell , you _—r-, you shall hear of this another day , " and at the same . moment laying hold of him , he ordered him into custody . He denied most positively . that tho prisoner struck tho deceased . —Several other constables were examined , after which the jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty .

      Tiik _Robbert . of BnicKS . —Charles Onloy , 34 , labourer : Wm . Goddard , 54 , labourer ; and John Savage , 26 , carman ; were severally indicted for stealing a large quantity of bricks , tho property of George Locke and Thomas Nesham ; and William Robert Coomer . was indicted for receiving thorn , well knowing them to have been stolen . —The jury acquitted Coomer and Onley _, against whom-the evidence was very weak . —Goddard , who hadi < been seventeen-years in Mr . Bugbee ' s service , _» was sentenced to six , and Savage to four months' imprisonment and hard labour . ......... ¦ ;¦ Serious Charge of . Assault . —Henry Denham , 33 , was indicted for feloniously assaulting Thomas ] Miller , being at th etime accompanied by other per' _sons , and ' armed * with aa _tftolye _-weapon _.-Mr .

      . Charge Of Absavmim The Pomce. — Two Hi...

      • Thomas Miller , the prosecutor , deposed that he carried on the business of an artists ' .. colourman in _Long-acre , and on the 2 nd of August he was on his wav home at night , after having been to Chelsea on business , and he waspassing the end of _Eoso-street , in Long-acre , about a quarter or twenty niinufcos past twelve o ' clock . Just as ho was upon this spot he was accosted by three or four mon , one of whom pinioned hia arms from behind , Ho then observed a man standing in front of him , and three men on his left hand , and a fourth , who held what he called " 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 nock ; tho effect

      of which was to cause almost immediate suffocation . His coats wove 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 the curb-stone , by which one of his teeth was broken , and his chin was severely injured , and his assailants then ran off . He was a short time before he recovered ; and he then saw one man in the act of running away . Ho gave chase to that man for a quarter of a mile , but ho succeeded in effecting his escape , witness being unable , from the injury he had received upon his neck , by the instrument he had referred to , to call out or to give any alarm . The gas lamp of the street shone directly upon the faco of tho man who used the instrument

      to him , and he was quite positive the prisoner was that man . In consequence of reading an account in the newspapers of tho examination of the prisoner at the Mansion Ilouse , upon the charge of being concerned in a similar outrage upon Mr . Cureton , in the city , he went to tho Mansion House , and the moment ho saw tho prisoner he recognised him as one of tho gang of ruffians who had attacked him in the manner described . —Mr . Bodkin here handed to the witness a twisted flexible stick , loadod hoavily at one end with lead , and which was capable of oein _« f twisted quite double ; and ho said ho 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 the 2 nd of October . Afc this timo he know nothing of the present prosecutor , but from information he afterwards received , he communicated with him , and it was arranged tbat he should go to the Mansion Houso to see tho accused party . The prosecutor gave him a description of the man who had attacked him , bufc witness did not in any way describe the prisoner , who was in custody . There wore two other persons standing in the dock with tho prisoner , and the prosecutor identified him immediately . Tho instrument that had been produced was found in the house ofa man afc Hoxton . This man was taken into custody upon

      suspicion of being concerned in the attack upon Mr . Cureton , and th 9 prisoner was also charged witb that offence . —The loarned Judge then summed up , and the jury immediately returned a verdict of Guilty . —The prisoner asserted his innocence , and declared thafc afc tho time he was alleged to have committed the offence he was ill in bed with a fever and had his head shaved . —He was sentenced to be transported for twenty years . Assault upon a Child . —Henry Johnstone , 21 , was indicted for a felonious assault upon Catherine Davis , a child five years of age . Mr . Piatt prosecuted , and Mr . Ribton defended the prisoner . The evidence completely established the charge . The jury found tho prisoner Guilty , and he was sentenced to be transported for life .

      Robbery of Plate . —Henry Collins , 30 , servant , was indicted for stealing a coffee-pot , sixty-one forks , fifty-six spoons , and other plate , valued at £ 180 , the property of Edmund Rushworth and another , his masters . —Mr . Edmund Rushworth , of the firm of RuBbworth 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-street , to them for sale . Thoy were brought on Saturday , the 30 th

      of June , by a porter , and delivered to the prisoner , who took them into the wareroom and locked them up . When witness got there on Monday he found the prisoner gone and the placo locked up , and the plate taken . —Robert Cheekly , 16 H , said he met tho prisoner the 16 th of this month in the Whitechapel-road , and took bim into custody . On their road to the station-house he asked what the plate had been valued at , and waa 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 .

      Retubnino from Transportation . —Edward G . Barrington , who was convicted last session of returning from transportation , was brought up for sentence . The prisoner , ifc will be recollected , had almost served the term tor 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 Bomean 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 be transported , and tho sentence was that he be imprisoned for six months , and then to be transported for seven years . He would , however , be able to lay his case before tho Secretary of

      State , who would havo the power to mitigate it . — The prisoner , who was dreadfully agitated , no sooner heard the sentence than ho struck his hand violently on the front of the dock , and said ho would sooner be dead than again transported ; and drawing a penknife he had secreted , mado an attempt to cut his throat . The _ofiicers in the dock , however , managed to seize him before ho could do himself any grievous injury , but it was not without much difficulty that tho weapon could bo 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 bo his wife , and who could scarcely be restrained from throwing herself over into the dock . Edward Lovell Dwyer , who was convicted of a similar offenco , was sentenced to be imprisoned for twelve months , and again transported for seven

      years . _BunoLART . —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 snuff box and a quantity of plate , valued at £ 70 , his property , and gold and silver monies of the value of £ 30 , the property of Fanny Plowman , in the same house . —The statement of tho witnesses , nearly twenty in number , went to prove that the prosecutor is a publisher in the Strand ,, and proprietor of the Weekly Times and London Journal , and resides at Streatham-place , Brixton , near to which place be had a printing office , where the rinted the

      latter mentioned publication is p . On Saturday preceding the day ofthe robbery , the 21 th September , the prosecutor was from town , and remained away for somo few days , leaving the two Misses Plowman to take care of tho house ; and it was known to the prisoner that the only person in the houso during the daytime was Fanny Plowman . On'the 24 th of September , the prisoner left his work about fivo o'clock in the afternoon , the other workmen not leaving until nearly six o ' clock , and about a quarter-past five , somo men wont to prosecutor ' s house ; and asked if that was Air . Stiff ' s , and having been told that it was , said to the housekeeper , Fanny Plowman , •' Some one you know in tha Strandin _ffetthiK out of an omnibus , has had

      , something fall upon her head , and you must take a cab and go there . " Tho consequence was , that sho took a cab , and camo aa quickly as she could to tho Strand , where she found the statement tobe false , upon which sho went back with her sister and one of tho men from the office as fast as she could , and found thafc tho place had been ; broken into by forcinn- an entrance into a stable at the side , and then bursting the door inside with a crowbar . The placo was in great disorder , and tho' houso 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 safoty was kept hidden in tho top of tho piano . Upon au inquiry about tho robbery being instituted by the

      police , circumstances came to thoir knowledge which led to the apprehension of Taylor , who ifc appeared had sent a letter to Costello ( at one timo a workman of tho prosecutor ' s ) on the morning after the robbery ; hut when questioned ahout him Baid bo did not know whero he lived , and boat the boy whom ho had sent to post the letter for having said anything about it . —At Costello ' a house , when searched , seventy-two skeleton keys wero found . — Tho only evidence against Gosling was thathe looked like a man who was leaning on the railings of tho prosecutor ' s house afc the time . —Taylor , who is the son of a highly respeotable tradesman , had several witnesses called to his character . —Tho jury , under the direction ofthe learned judge , acquitted Gosling , convicted the others with a recommendato mercy on the parfc of Taylor . —Costello , ifc was further proved , had been convicted in 1 S 48 for oborders

      taining goods with forged . —Ho was now sentenced to ten years' transportation , Davis to seven years ; and Taylor to twelve months' imprisonment with hard labour . . Robber * from a _Dwelliso-house _, — Edward Smith and Thomas _Hai-dy were convicted ot breaking and entering into the dwelling-house of Mary Higgins , and stealing a quantity of wearing apparel . —Mr . Carteen prosecuted , and the case , excepting the characters of the men , was of ordinary description . Hardy had been transported in 1835 ) , and served seven years , had since then been in Reading gaol , besides other convictions and some acquittals . The other was equally well known . _Triviaii CnARqE . —Joseph Cohen , 29 , was indicted for feloniously receiving a Bmall quantity of brass , the property of John Spooner . —It appeared froin the statement of the learned counsel for the prosecution , aa *} the _eYideM-i _thfty "was adduced in

      Support Of It, That The Prosecutor Was A...

      support of it , that the prosecutor was a coachmaker in Whitechapel , and , 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 took them tothe defendant , who keeps a marine store shop , and sold tho articles to him for fivepence . Ia _^ _oss-examina ' tion of the witnesses ifc turned out tnat the articles in question were old and almost _usele-j ., and the little rascal who stole them had broken up one of tho caps in order to make it utterlworthless

      y , except aa old metal , and in thafc state nvepence per pound would have been its full value . Ike pnaoner appeared to havo previously borno a very good character , and when he waB questioned upon the subject ho immediatel y admitted having purchased the brass of tho boy and said that he told him that his father had sent him to sell it , and that he was very ill in bed , and wanted the money . —The jury , under these circumstances , stopped the case , and returned a verdict of Not Guilty . — The prisoner was ordered to be immediately discharged .

      Another Fire At Gratesei'd. — Supposed I...

      ANOTHER FIRE AT GRATESEI ' D . — SUPPOSED INCENDIARISM . At about two o ' clock on Sunday afternoon lasf smoko was discovered by several persons passing at the time proceeding from the iron grating ovei the front cellar of the houso No . 5 , in Bannerstreet , Gravesend . So ranch suspicion was attached to the origin ofthis fire , that on the information of tho police superintendent and his officers the borough magistrates thought it incumbent on them to institute an inquiry into tho matter . Accordingly , on Monday , Messrs . Oakes ( chairman ) , and Spencer , Smith , and Tickncr held an investigation , when tho following facts wereelicited ;—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 , ho had , with his wife , servant , and a gentleman who lodged with him , got up and prepared to go by the train to London , bufc on arriving afc the station they found themselves too late for tho train . They then returned to So . 5 , the houso he occupied , and prepared to go by the nine o ' clock boat from the Tcrraco Pier . Whilst so preparing , he took a candle in a bedroom candlestick , and went down to the cellar to get some coals and wood , to have ready to make a fire when they should return in the evening . While in the cellar he heard the boll announcing tho time of the boat ' s departure from the Terraco Pier ringing , and hurried up , leaving the lighted candle ' ho did not know whero 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 steam boat on Sunday morning so incoherent that it was impossible to find out from it anything that could fix the time of bis and bis family ' s departure from the houso and the origin of the fire . —The first witness called was a porter in the Diamond Steam-packet Company , who deposed that on Saturday evening , late , he was called to attend at o , Harmer-streefc , and to remove from there three large boxes to tho Diamond-packet office , to be sent up by the first boat ; on the following morning . He removed them with the assistance of another porter "" and on the following morning , afc a quarter-past eight o ' clock , the man ( a tall and thin man , nofc at all like Mr . Marder ) who

      delivered the boxes to him at No . o , came to tbe office , and superintended their removal to the boat about to start for London . He should know the man again if he saw him . He went by the boat on board of which the boxes were put . —Mr . Marder here said that he was the last person who left the house on Sunday morning , and that the other man , whose namo _, as his lodger , he could not recollect , and left that morning by the railway . — Mr . Oakes again cautioned Mr . Marder not to say anything that might commit himselt , as it would be taken down in evidence against him . —Mr . Marder proceeded to state , in reply to Mr . ¦ Oakes , that he had insured his stock ( haberdashery ) for £ 250 , his furniture for £ 250 , and some glass oasos in his shop for £ 50 , on or about the 5 th ult .,

      through the medium of Mr . H . "Newman , of Gravesend , agent for the Phoenix office , and was also insured , but to what amount he did not mention , in the Metropolitan Insurance-office . Tho receipt for the premium of insurance in tho Phoenix-offico he produced , and said his wife had it in her pocket , and that he had not preserved any otber receipt , or voucher , or document whatever . —Police-constable Wickham deposed , thafc about two o ' clock on the afternoon of Sunday , the 27 th inst ., his attention was drawn to smoke issuing from the grating above the cellar window of No . 5 , Harmor-street . Finding there was nobody in the house , he called for assistance , and entered the bouse through a window at the rear opening into the garden . Finding the smoke proceeding from the basement story ho went

      down and opened a door which led into an intermediate cellar between the back and front kitchens , and whioh formed also a sort of lumber-room . The smoke rushed with sueh violence out of the door that he was forced to go back , and he then went into the hack kitchen , found a bucket of water in it , returned to tho cellar , and poured the water on where he saw some fire . He then had assistance , and the fire was put out . The Jargo box now produced by him , and partially burnt , was the first thing ho removed out of the cellar . The smaller box he found close by the partition , with the candlestick in it as ifc now appeared , and with the remains of burnt wadding extinguished by the water he had thrown on ifc . 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 ifc , were burnt or reduced to tinder or cinder . The candlestick could by no apparent possibility havo accidentally got into tho position in the box in which it was found . ) Witness went on to state that ho 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 the expired snuff of a candle wero found by him and the other persons who came to his assistance . In the bedrooms ho 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

      shop 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 he ( witness ) had had no communication with him , other than telling him how the fire was discovered . Witness had no doubt that , but for the timely discovery of tho fire , the houso would have been soon in flames . . There was a quantity of broken timber and other combustible materials behind tho 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 wero partially burnt . The partition itself was burnt through nearly up to tlie ceiling . It was immediately under tho shop . —Other witnesses having been examined , tho prisoner was remanded . The prisoner was brought up for further examination on Wednesday , wlien the above evidence was recapitulated . Application was made to admit Mr . Marder to bail , which was refused , thc magistrates expressing their intention of committing him for trial ou tho charge of arson . The prisoner was again remanded .

      A Cabman's Teiok.—Tho Rewards Paid To Ca...

      A Cabman's Teiok . —Tho rewards paid to cabmen upon the immediate restitution ol" property left in their vehicles accidentally , lead to the exercise of the ugly ingenuity of thafc brotherhood in many ways . A gentleman had occasion to write to the depot in Broad-street some days ago , under the following _ciroumstances ;—IIo hired a cab to take him and his luggage ,- amongst which" was a gun case , from Euston-square to tho railway station at Paddington . When he arrived afc tho station the cabman , with the most obsequious activity , proceeded to unload , and very quickly drove off upon receiving his faro ; but scarcely had the cab disappeared when tho gentleman missed his gun case . The

      consequence was , thafc the journey was postponed , and tho gentleman returned to hia own house , but OR his way he was informed by a policeman thafc the cabman who had just left him afc the station was by that time in Bvoad-street , depositing the gun case which had been left in the . , and to a considerable portion of tho value of which tlie driver would bo ontitled for his honesty in giving ifc up . Tha owner ofthe property wrote to tho commissioner in Broad-street , representing the fact that the cabman had made the " mistake" intentionally , for tha

      purpose of establishing a claim to the reward , and received an answer from the depot expressive of posifcivo belief that the case was exactly as the complainant had described it , but submitting that i tha delinquent must still . be rewarded , in the apprehension thafc a refusal would aggravate the system of robbing which the plan of restitution had been made to diminish . The complainant waa then obliged before he received his gun case , to pay the ( under the circumstances ) reduced penalty of ten shillings , as a recompenso to the fellow by whom he had been put to expense and subjected to disappointment .

      A mas should never put a fence of words . around his ideag . because many , who would ot herwise give him a fair hearing , lack resolution to climb over such a rugged enclosure . _How . owa _*' s Pills , as _lnFtxuaa . fima _TotImm Complaints- Women at different _^ 0 j _£ | £ | _£ _£ _iecttocomplaints wldoh _Wg e _^ r _™*» _^ _$£ remove , _mirt-tenowon estab si . earn _« y _^ . _^ so suitable : as _Hollowuy * _^•^^ ¦ the motuer , and the _middle-ogea . tney « r may take them hw _^ a _^ _»** _* _SK ° ; ui , _astonishing to liad Urn wiUi perfect -safety - ana ui j doses ,. which Sft _KU _X _^ _Sjs _*^ _^?? " » _RtabUsh health on a firm basis , r

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 2, 1850, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_02111850/page/7/