The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-10-28 00:00:00

EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY

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dagrlinn. isgh committed omre
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dial higni rge: •Lunatio Asylum works, at Fulbourn, about three miles from
on the 30th September last, a glass cylinder, containing one of
each of the current coins of the realm, with a vellum scroll,
on which was written the names of the commi:tee of visitors
and officers, was placed in a receptacle hollowed out of a large
stone, upon which the corner stone, bearing an appropriate
inscription, and weighing at least half a ton, was placed ; this
was also secured by the brickwork and masonry surrounding
and built over it. The whole remained safe till Saturday last.
On Sunday morning, however, it was discov.red that two
courses of the brickwork above the corner-stone, had beers
removed, and supports placed to shore up the remainder, sup-
porting, clear of the stone, at least seven or eight tone
weight ; the corner-stone was forcibly lifted out of its
place by some leverage. Brickwork was then placed
under it, so that a man's hand and arm might be
got into the receptacle of tho lower stone contain-
ing the coins ; and which, upon inspectionJ were
found to have been abstracted. From the skilful man-
ner in which this most extraordinary and impudent robbery
was planned and executed, there is no doubt that the perpe-
trators were parties well acquainted, not only with the situa-
tion of the cylinder containing the coins, but also with brick-
work
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marks
watchman
aiepibieoslnaecelpnoennootontrwdfgintiori
esiyiavyet.ution,
sbenusrxecaotTvo2oluelilo7yintnehi9, , wondero,ci o c Ic. is that the robbers we r 0
not crushed by the fall of the heavy mass of brickwork above
the stone, as the shores put in by them as supports, to
enable them to remove the courses of brick, wore not strong
remaisinlitwtlaell dtooubwt
enough to support the weight, and consequently the buttress
h theici'
i to
fwfeans-
parted from the portion of tthhoe.
labour and toil which the perpetrators of this daring robbery
teffheaerme offered fnnostr beingot' o booty
nr
leytiTeini apprehension ho
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they
f . expectheted
t i et so,
attached,
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had
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done
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may be mentioned
daywapremises
vellum
scroll
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.nTdi.hte
afterwards
dependant found in a hedge
lo ground.—Cambridge lis-
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THE FATAL

ACCIDENT AT HALE,

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to the above fatal accident :
FURTHER PAP TICULA. have collected the f0110w-
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aPPilacil, adeeccoemaspeisiendamthee
particulars (from one of our Reporters,) in reference
was Thomas Byrnes, who was a shipwright by trade. He was
titaakPenwiftrielmotiGierreat George's street stand.
t:ebsoiudeta2sinyeaars ocofuargte,oaffnd
owailsbmeratrrisetdre,ehta,vrinagr
went out with his wife and child, with some friends, on Sunday
afternoon, to enjoy a drive. It seems that a publican in the
it would be unfair to the
man to inculpate him. Tli,! place where the melancholy
affair happened, is about three-quarters of a mile from the
village of Hale, on the Liverpool side; and, as
nvijeenli'gtiliilte'a7furil:Fl°l°:l°4lvseelisnrtiwghaiastsion takes place,
described to our reporter, is a place of a dangerous de
scription. It is stated to he a hole of some sort
on the side of the road, and not protected. It was also stated
that the publican alluded to called out to the carman to avoid
the place ; but whether lie heard him, or through want of
caution,
or by pure accident, it does not appear, hut he drove
into it. The wife and child of deceased 'titnessed the
terrible catastrophe, which deprives the one of a husband, and
the other of a father. The body at present lies at the " Child
of Halo" Hotel, and this day, at one o'clock, an inquest will
be held, and whatever facts may not have transpired will, of
course, be elicited on the enquiry,