The Press.
London, England, 1856-11-29 00:00:00

NOVEMBER 291 1856.

THE GOLD ROBBERY.

THE examination of witnesses was resumed on
Monday, when some curious facts were elicited in
evidence. Charlotte Painter, the servant-girl who
lived with Agar, corroborated his statement in some
points, such as his intimacy with Pierce. Before
she left in May, 1855, she remembered Pierce
and Agar bringing home two heavy boxes, and being
busily engaged for some days at work in the wash-
house. She also saw there a leather bag.
Ellis, a cab proprietor, who drove his own vehicle,
gave important evidence :
In the spring of last year he was out in one of his cabs
near Chalk Farm. lie was driving along the road about
seven o'clock in the evening, and was called by a man, and
went to the corner of Prince of Wales's-road, Haverstock-
hill. The man walked or rode there, but he did not know
which. Witness stopped there a quarter of an hour, and
the man who called bun went down the Prince of Wales's-
road to Crown.terrace. When he returned there was
another man with him. They brought two or three carpet
bags. One appeared to be a bag with a square dressing-
case in it. They both got into the cab, and ordered him
to drive to the London-bridge station. When they got
over the bridge they ordered him to pull up on the right
near the Bridge Hotel. The shorter man of the two then
got out, and went towards the station. The other man
ordered him to go to St. Thomas's-street. He drove there,
and when near Guy's Hospital was ordered to pull up.
The man who But got out had a cloak or mantle on when
he got out, and he did not know what he took away. He
had no mantle or cloak on when he got into the cab. He
had been preparing to get out as witness inferred from the
shaking of the cab. After he had remained in St.
Thomas's-street about half-an•hour the first man came
back, apparently from Tooley-street, through the arches.
He got into the cab and spoke to the other man, after
which he got out again and was absent about a quarter of
an hour. Witness did not hear what they said. When
the first man came back again they ordered him to drive
back to the Prince of Wales's-road, bat they were to go into
the road by another entrance, round by the Mother Shipton.
He took them to within '2OO yards of Crown•terrace. They
paid him and took their luggage away.
Two or three days atterwards they hired him again, when
be was on the Chalk Farm rank. It was the same abort
man who hired him again, and it was about the same hour
in the evening, seven o'clock. He told witness to drive to
the corner of the Prince of Wales'a-road. One gentleman
went away for the other as before, and returned with their
luggage, consisting of two carpet bags and a small leather
bag. He believed that one had a brown frock-coat on, and
the other was dressed in dark clothing. Both had cloaks
or mantles on their arms. He drove them again to St.
Thomas's-street, and the shorter man got out, but he did
not notice that he took anything away. He went towards
the arch, and returned in about half an hour. The other
waited for him. He drove them back to the Prince of
Wales's-road, by Haverstock-hill. A third time he was
hired in the same way, went to the same place, and back
again in the same way, with the luggage they had taken
with them. On one occasion he lifted one of the carpet
bags, and found it very heavy. All this took place in April
or May of last year. Of the two men, one was shorter than
the other. (Pierce is some inches taller than Agar.)

Carter, another cabman, swore positively to Pierce
and Agar being the two men who hired his cab from
the rank in Camden-town one evening sixteen or seven-
teen months ago:—
He was hired by two men. The man at the dock (Pierce)
was one of them. He saw the other man at the court last
Monday. It was the man called Agar. When he was
hired the men had two or three bags with them. Each
man had a bag, but be did not notice how they were dressed.
They put the bags, which were very heavy, into the cab,
and when they got in they desired him to drive to St.
Thomas's-street, in the Borough. He passed between the
two hospitals, and pulled up at the bottom, not many yards
from the railway arch. On stopping, Agar got out and
went round to the left, leading to the arch. He took no-
thing out of the cab. He was gone about half an hour,
and Pierce remained until he returned. When Agar came
back he said to Pierce that "it was not going down that
night." and upon that he got into the cab and ordered wit•
ness to drive them to the Mother Shipton, on Haverstock-
hill. He stopped there, and they then discharged him.
They took the bags out, and, on looking round shortly
afterwards, he saw one of them carrying the bags towards
Crown-terrace, from which they were distant about 150
yards.

Cross-examined by Mr. WONTSER : He had not read
Agar's evidence in the newspapers, nor any account of the
proceedings. He did not hear Agar's evidence in that
court. He saw Agar in an adjoining room last Monday
with a short man, but he did not know whether he was an
officer. He did not recollect the precise hour at which
Agar and Pierce hired him, but he knew it was not so late
as nine or so early as five in the evening. The two men
put their own luggage into the cab, and he could tell that
it was heavy from the way in which it was lifted. It made
the cab sound when it was put in. He was sure that
was one of the men. He had seen him frequently
iden•town.
wig Pierce disguised himself in was traced to
Honour, a hairdresser, who had known the
er Pierce four or five years :
often came to witness's shop, and on one occasion
' a wig. Witness made him a dark wig, ♦ery nearly
He said it was for a friend of his, an elderly
Itleman. He gave the wig to Pierce.
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