The Express.
London, England, 1865-12-05 00:00:00

ATTEMPTED BUEOLAEY IN THE CITY.

John Norington, a well-dressed young man,
described as a clerk. aged 29 ; Henry Williams, 45, •
grinder; sad William TbewiPkies, 38, labourer, were
brought before Mr. Alderman Stone, at the Ou'ildhall
Police Court, yesterday, on a amigo of burgle:lonely
breaking into the warehouse of Messrs. Waddington
Soo, embroils makers, of No. 1. Colemanetroat, with
intent to steal, and also with having is their poasessiou at
night two picklock keys, • dark lantern, a jemmy, •
gimlet, • chisel, two bradawls, • halter, several pieces of
rope, five bags, • centre-bit, and some inciter matches, with
intent to commit • felony.
The apprehension of these burglary created quite a com-
motion in court. It wee crowded with OM detwotivee, sod
at different times • snore or two of metropolitan detectives.
Colonel Pram, the commissioner of the City police, was
present, as was also the City Solicitor Mr. Hamiltoo, the
chief of the City detective police, and Mr. Superietesdent

Faster.
City Polioesargeant Oliver, 29, said—On Sunday morn-
ing, about five minutes past five, I limed the alarm bell
ringing which is attached to the warehouse beenginfl
to Messrs. Waddington and Soo, No.l, Coleman-street.
went, in company with Polite-sergeant Fisher, to Giffiets
stables, which are in Coleman-street, and by means of
• ladder got on the roof of the stables, and from there went
scream several other roofs to the back premise. of 30 sod 31,
Leedom-wall. I then saw one of the priameen on the top
of the premises of Mr. Story, of 34, London-wall, but I
cannot say which it was. I saw • ladder placed from the
leads to the stoma floor of 30 and 31, London wall, which
belong to I,leeire. Smith, Powell, and Co., carpet msou-
lecturers. We moved the ladder to another window, and
entered the floor, passing through it to the third floor. I
then saw • hole in the roof where I saw the prison's. I
asked them what they were doing there, mud they made no
answer. I told them to come down, which they did, and
I took them into custody. I had to ake them through the
window and down the lease, Fisher assisting me, on to •
small platform, where there was • door leading into Mr.
Mechlin's lithographic printing warehouse, I went through
that, and was obliged to break open the front door in order
to get into the street. On searching Tompkins I found on
him a knife and 'some Inciter matches.
Inspector Arthur Thomas Kelly—A little before five on
Sunday
_morning I was in the station, when Mears. Wad-
&piton's alarm bell rang. I gave orders for all the men
at the staffers to surround their premises, and went there
at once. I went on to the roof of the Blue Anchor pablic.
hour, end awe after heard a voice say, " Here they are
all safe," from some distance off. I went to Mechlin's, and
after some trouble the door was opened, sad I took Tor.
rington to the stations. I searched him and found a knife.
He said. "There is nothing else; you will find them all
behind." I said " What ?" and be said, The tools ;we
have left them all there." I returned with Fisher and
Oliver to Mr. Mechlin's, and from there to Powell, Smith,
and Co.'s. Sergeant Oliver went out along the roof, and
in about half as hour returned with the tools produced.
Police-sergeant Oliver recalled—l pearled along the roofs
until I came to the prosecntoe's premises, and found a door
open there Lod saw the halter produced made feat to •
beam and 'banging down into the third floor. I descended
by it, accompanied by Bailey, another officer,
and went to • the second Boar, through • hole
in the flooring, which bad been made by mesas of • centre
bit. On the second floor there was another large hole,
made by the same instrument, with a rope dangling from
the beams, the same as on the third by which we had let
ourselves down. On the second floor there was a large hole
drilled through a partition at the side of the staircase, and
it appeared to have been doge by • centre bit. I also saw
the door at the foot of the staircase open. There was also
• hole in the flooring leading to the first floor, and, as in
the other floors, a rope attached to one of the beams. I
went through the house on to the first floor, where I saw
soother piece of board cut out of the flooring !eliding to the
ground floor, bat it was not cut quite through.
the I also red
portions of the centre bits on the way leading to ground
floor. I returned to the hole leading to the ground floor,
and found the stock of a centrebit, a chisel, a crawler
(" jemmy "), sod • dark lantern. Is purring through
Smith, Powell, and Co.'s premises I also found two skele-
ton keys.
The prier:leen were remanded is order to ascertain if they
were known, or had any previous convictions agaisst them.
None of the prisoners asked the witnesses soy questions,
neither did they have anything to say for themselves. It
is
said that Williams belonged to the notorious gang of which
Johnson was the head, ad that Tompkins is well known ;
however that rosy be, it would seem that the police have
made • good step towards breaking up a gang which might
have committed great depredations now that the house-
breaking season has commenced. All the prisoners refused
to give any address, and only submitted when they found
that they were thoroughly enviruned by the police through
the precantioos taken. The roofs of the warehouses over
which they went covered such a space, mid led into so
many different streets and alleys, that it required over
twenty policemen to guard every exit which the
facilities of the place afforded either for making
an escape or mitring their booty. The work which
was dome was of the most laborione kind, the flooring
of the different rooms, which were many, being l inch
thick, and the cutting dons entirely by the centre bit, one
of the burglars' boat tools. it appears that the prosecu-
tor have before been victims probably to these prisoners,
for they seemed to understand thoroughly the working of
the alarm bell, and attempted to get at it but could not.
Oo a former occasion they wen successful and stopped
its ringing, but in this instance they came across tell
tale," just as they were completing their work, which rang
the bell for over eight minutes, which ensured their appre-
hension. Had they had time to descend to the ground
floor, which was their object, for nothing else was touched,
they would then no doubt have filled their begs with the
meat expensive silk" which were stored there, and perhaps
made good their retreat ; but in this instance the bell
beiog attended to with the greatest promptness has in-
awed their capture.

ROYAL INSTITUTION OF GREAT BRITA
TORT ARRallolitZlerls FOB THE MIMI° SZABON.—Chriat-
mas Lectures, 1866. (Adapted to a juvenile auditory.) Pro-
femor Tyndall, F.R.S.—Six lectures "Oa gonad." Bdore
Easter, 1866. Professor Tytidall, F.R.S.—Twelve lectures,
"On Heat." Professor Freckles& F.R.S.—Eight lectures,
"On Chemistry." Professor IL. Westmacott, R.A., P.R.S.
—Six lectures, "Oa the Way to Obeerve in Fine Arts."
Rev. G. liesslow.—Four lecturer, "On Structural and
Systematic Botany, considered with reference to Education
and Self-instruction." After Easter, Professor Fraokland,
F.R.S.—Four lectures, "On Chemistry." G. Scharf, Eat.,
Secretary and Keeper of Neikirk' Portrait Gallery.—Three
lectures, "On National Portraits." Rev. 0. Kiepley. M.A.
—Two lectures, "On Science and Superstition.' Professor
Huxley, F.R.S.—Twelve lectures, "Oa the Physiological
Methods sod Reunite of Ethnology." Professor Abated,
F.R.S. —Five lectures. "On the Application of Physical
Geography and Geology to the Fine Arta." An extra course
may possibly be given by Dr. Du Bois Raymond, "On
Electric Fish."
MIJRDER AT SCARBOROUGH. —A coroner's jury
found a verdict of " Wilful Murder" last week against
Arthur Flood, George Black, Ann Oxley, and Ellen Sands,
who are committed to York Castle for trial at the next
assizes, for the murder of Mr. Richard Race. On Tuesday
night, the 21st ult., deceased, who was a ebipowoer, was in
the company of three or four dissolute women, with one of
whom he walked away. He and the woman were seen to
enter a by-lass in Aberdeen-walk. and after being lost sight
of for about a quarter of an hour, the prisouer Oxley made
her appearance alone at the bottom of the lase. She
beckoned to another woman (the prisoner Surds), and the
two returned up the lane tofietber. Mr. Race was not
seen again that night. At about eleven o'clock the
two women were seen in an adjoining street, soil
only a few minutes after they had gone up the lane re-
ferred to. The prisoner Flood was also seen in the im-
mediate neighbourhood at the same time. He, the two
women, and Black all live at the same house, the landlady
of which swore to their having had no money up to
between 11 and 12 o'clock, when the three first named
came home, and finding Black is the hones the whole party
went out to a dram shop and spent money freely. This
they continued to do next day, the two women also buying
venoms articles of dress. Early the next morning Mr.
Race was found in theism be had been seen to enter with
Oxley the night before in a totally unconscioas state. His
hat was off, hie waistcoat was torn, his clothes very much
dirtied, one of hie pockets turned out ; hie puree and money,
which he was known to carry, were gone. On examination
he was found to have a large contused wound on his right
hip, a large discoloration on his shoulder, and marks of
discoloration on his neck. He wes taken home, where
he remained insensible until his death, which took
place or the following Friday evening. The pri-
soner Oxley has confessed to having robbed Mr.
Rare, but she denies any knowledge of video°e
having been done to him, alleging that while with her he
because quite incapable, which condition she attributes to
drunkenness. On the other hand, several witnesses deposed
that deceased was sober when he went with Oxley ; and in
behalf of the prisoners the hypothesis was mooted that de
ceased had an attack of apoplexy while in the woman's
company, one of the medical witnesses at the inquest also
describing the symptoms presented by the deceased as
throe of apoplexy, and alto accounting for the bruises on
the body by supposing them to be caused by a fall or by
convulsively strugglieg on the ground while is a fit The
undoubted participation of the four primates it, the money
Oxley admitted she had stolen from Mr. Race's person ;
the fact of Flood being sees in the immediate neighbour-
hood both before and after Mr. Raos went with Oxley,
together with the known character of the prisooars, led the
jury to take the worst view of the case, and to return a
verdict of "Wilful murder" against them. Mr. Race was
65 years of age, and was a strong, healthy men.
CITY OF LONDON HOSPITAL FOR DISRAiIIiS OF
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relieved at this institution during last week was 1,256, cf
which 261 were new cam.
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