The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-21 00:00:00

EXTENSIVE ROBBERIES IN LEEDS.

T. Kay. of 10, Pleasant-plac?, Weet-equere, Lam 2
be.h, and W. Green of Hanover-street, Walworth, the two
prisoners apprehended in Landon, and in wham bouts a
quantity of plate, cloth and other stokn property were found,
underwent an examinatien before the Leeds Justices, on
Friday and Saturday. They had been given up by the ma-
gistrates of Lambeth Police Office, and brought to Leeds on
Thursday lest by Inspector Child of the Leeds police, and
Sergeant Goff of the Lambeth police. In addition to these pri-
soners, six others, apprehended in Leeds, viz., Joseph Kitchin,
Matthew Sellers, John Akeroyd, William Rhodes, Benjamin
Wooller, and Christopher Petite, were at the same time
charged with being concerned in several robberies which
have recently taken place in Leeds.
The examination was continued throughout tho whole of
Friday and Saturday, the evidence taken against the prison-
en beieg of a very voluminous description. Three separate
charges were entered into, with the view of showing t at
one or other of the prisoners were implicated in them,
either es the actual thieves, or as receivers of the stolen

property.
The first was the robbery from the house of Mr. William
Wood, of Chapel Allerton, which took place on the after-
noon of Sunday, the 6th of January. Mr. and Mrs. Wood
had attended church that afternoon, after which they
called at the house of Mr. Shier", • relative; but at
five o'clock Mr. Wood called at his cwn house,
to OM if all was right, and when he lett to return to his rela-
tive's house, he desired Mr. Henderson, a neighbour, to look
to his house. About half-past six o'clock Mr. Henderson
heard some one breaking up the kitchen fire, and on his
shouting " holloa," he heard the heavy footsteps of two per-
sons descending the staircase, and on going outside saw a light
suddenly withdrawn from the back bedroom, he then ran
round to the front door, and found it open. Mr. Wood was
sent for, and it was found that from a tin box placed in a
drawer in the back bedroom the following articles of silver
had been stolen : 6 table spoons 6 tea spoons, one pair of
sugar tongs, and a butter knife with a pearl handle.
The second case gone into was the robbery of
the warehouse ;of Mr. James Jackson, a commis-
sion agent for woollen cloths, situate is Bishopegate-
street. This warehouse was entered by means of skeleton
keys between Saturday, the 6th, and Monday, the Bth of
October lest, and three ends of rifle green and three ends of
black woollen cloth, worth about 501., stolen.
The third charge bad reference to the robbery of cloth
from the warehouse of Mr. Benjamin Barker, cloth mer-
chant and manufacturer at Quebec. Between Saturday
afternoon, Dec. 22, and Monday morning, Dec. 24, the ware-
house was entered by means of skeleton keys, and on ex-
amining
the stock it. was found that 12 ends of woollen
cloth, worth 1201., had been stolen.
Mr. Heed, chief constable, produced all the articles
found upon the prisoner Kay, and in his house; and
also about twenty yards of woollen cloth, cut up into
short lengths of about two yards, which had been found
in the house of the prisoner Omen, and then the examina-
tion proceeded.
As to the robbery of plate from Mr. Wood's bolas, no
evidence was adduced to implicate the prisoners William
Green and Benjamin Wooller. It seems that Mr. Read,
bevies obtained information of stolen property having been
sent to London, requested the superintendent of the Midland
station, in Leeds, to inform him of any parcel which might
be left for transmission to the address of Thomas Kay,
Thomas Wright, or William Onus in London. This led to
the detention of the parcel containing plate on
the night of Friday last, which waseddressed to lir. Thomas
Wtight, Pleasant-plice,West-square,Walworth. This parcel,
on being opened, was found to contain all the plate stolen
from Mr. Wood's house, soldered up in a long small tin case.
This parcel was forwarded by the early train on Saturday
mornmg, delivered to Kay, and than taken by the police as
statedabove. When Kay was taken into custody he said
the parcel belonged to a lodger of his, but he neither pro-
duced or gave any other information respecting him. The
large sem of money found in Kay's house was found in •
woman's pocket, placed on the top shelf of a cupboard,
against the door of which the bedhead wu thrust so as to
render it inaccessible. This was the principal evident* ad-
duced against Kay.
At the close of the examination, on Saturday, the Mayor
said the evidence did not reach the ripener* Wainer and
Petler ; and, therefore, they must be discharged. As to the
prisoner Meade, the evidence was also very slight, and he
would be dlscbez led oat of custody, on entering Into his own
recognizance in the slim 0:601., to appear at any time when
called for. All the other prisoners, Kay, Omen, Sellers,
Aksroyd, and Rhodes, he should remand for further cunt-
nation till Monday, the 21st inst.

BRIP-BUILDING AT HARTLEPOOL.—An agent of a
largo ship builder at Hartlepool has visited Sunderland
this week, for the purpose of engaging thirty shipwrights,
for two years, at the current wags—Durham Advertiser.
THE LIVERPOOL DOcKs.—The disposition of the
Liverpool town council, in regard to the question of rating
the docks, wu costaidond to be aimed on Saturday, when
they nominated Mr. LittMiele, a eater, as c►airman, and
Mr. Habord, also a rater, as a scuba of tho dock
committee.
THi HORRE-RACI IN EOTPT.—The Oriental Cont-
rary's steamer Indus, Soy, loft Southampton yester-
day for Alexandria with tM Ibs Slut had a number
of splendid heroes on board, some of whisk, ft ergs stead,
ware shipped to run spinet the Pasha of Egypt's bones
when the len talked-of Taos eases off between Eighth
and Egyptian kerns La Alexandria.