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which he said was all the motto, he hatl about him-i
this, however. ►lid not saltily them, and th►y pro.
ceedeit to his cart, and foinall amongst the pota-
toes the money he hail attempted to conceal, which
consisted entirely of silver ; the Prisoners then
retreated, hut in order of battle, presenting their
arms, and threntre,ing to fire if they were pursued,
and they succeeded for the time in making good
their retreat. 'rite 'text morning, in consequence
of some conversation which the witness had with
the constable (Mr. Shaw), a warrant was obtained to
search the house of the elder Primmer, who resided
at IVaketield ; upon searching the old man, they
found upon him the six notes which had been taken
from the person of NIT.. Serle ; and upon the son
was 10010 the eighteen-penny piece *Vlach had been
taken from Mr. Lord, and which lie was enabled
satisfactorily to identify : upon the person of the
Fotiogrr Prisoner was also fowl(' the key of a pis-
tol. and Noodlee key which 'whinged to the stat►le
of the elder Prisoner ; they elan found in a basket
in the chamber, a considerable quantity of silver.
Upon this discovery both the Prisoners were appre-
hended. The Coustahle and Mr. Serie then pro-
retitled to search the stable belongisig to the elder
Prisoner. where they found, concealed tinder some
hay, a basket Calltaalllll44 two pi•tuha, both or which►
were loaded with ball, eight lead bullets. a powder-
Bask filled with line powder, two maskg,:tottl a paper
containing some soot. There were also found in
the house of the Primmer, two stick•, one of which
contained a sword, soil the other a dirk, which
sprang out on ruceivilig si sudden jii k, and two
smock frocks. The elder Prisoner during his con-
finement at 1Vakel1?1,1, admitted to Stolle, the
constable, that he hail lobbed Seilr, and he di-
rected him to the place where the rest of his money
was deposited, which was nndi•r the bed he had
occupied in tt town prison.
Mr. Lord gave a similar account of the robbery,
and Mr. Shaw corroborated the part of his state-
ment which respected the searching of the house and
stable of the Prisoner.

One of the notes was identified by Mr. Serle,
t:ho also stated that he recognised the voice of the
younger Prioner, anal the gait or au: rof walk-
ing of both the Prisoners, which, he Paid, was very
peculiar. All the articles found ma the search were
produced its Court, and the I•.stol key, which wss
fonbil on the younger Pro:timer, was tried on the
pistols, winch it exactly fitted. It is but justice to
the Prisoners to state, that tl ghc they were pro-
vided with sn :ar•.rple :an apparatus for carrying on
the professimi they unfortunately 'adopted, yet
that it was 3p1)11:1' Ili which had not been much
in use; il.e masks mere evidently new, as were also
the pistols, which Mr. Shaw, the constable, said
had never been tired. The pistols were also pro-
vided with locks to prevent their going off by ac-
cident.
After a vert militate summilig nio of the evidence
by the Learned .1 iiilge, the J dry, without besitutiov,
found both the Prisoners

itonnEra OF TIIE WETIIEII.IIY
Thntnas Robinson was char,r,d with striling, on
the 3Uth of January last, at IVetherbv, the mail-
bags, containing the letters fur linareArough,
ll irrogate, and ; :inch bags being in the
pospeseion of a person ensployed by the post-office
fur the cutive) duce of the wait from IVetherby to

fling. ',laces.
The trial occupied the Court from Moe o'clock
in the morning unlit about two its the alleruoon ;
hut all that is material or interesting in the case,
may he crow es.ed into n narrow compass. At the
time this rubbery war coinmitted, the 'nail front
IVetherhy, containing the letters for the shove-
named placer, was conveyed on horseback, by a
person of the name of lleojainin Dubroit. These
hugs coot:tilted twill the 1.01111011 amid country
letters. On Saturd .y. the 30th of Juniairy, about
half-post five o'clock in the morning, Dobson re-
ceived from Mr. Iluuslry, lite post-master of
Wetherby, four bags containiug the letters, whirl'
lie put into the portmanteau used for that pur-
pose. and fastened it upon his horse, which was
standing at the stable door, about thirty yards
from Alr. Huosley's house ; being lonic in his arm,
he left the horse to get Mr. servant to assist
him to put on his great coat. Oct his return, although
he lord not been absent inure than two or three
minutes, he found that the straps had becia cut, and
the portmanteau containing the mail, taken away.
Au ularm was instantly given, and a search alter
the rubber commenced. In the course of I°c1°c
same day, the bags, with the *hole of the letters
and newspapi re, titre found in a ouod, about two
sulks and a half from Wetherby, culled Notile
%Viotti. The letters litirl been opened, and Orem,.
tents taken nut. The person who found them took
them the same evening to the Pust-office, worse they
were reeled with the office seal, awl torwarded to
their respective destinations. About three hours
after the rubbery hail been committed, the Pis-
tuner was teen coining out of Noble Wool, and go-
nig in a &mutton towaids 1001, where lie was seen
at a public-Moist, its company with a permit of the
name of Rhodes, who again saw him at a public-
house at Askatii Bryan, item this city. The Pri-
soner. upoti this OCLabll/11, l:%111111tell1 to itlaalth
2001. Ballk 1100 11111, awl the half of a 301. Batik
note, which. lie said. were the fruits of a Clcomsery
suit, is which lie had beets so, cr.stuf. lie was
then traced to this city, and found in • public-
house, froiu whence lie escaped, and endeavoured
to conceal himself lit a hay-chamlier, in en adjoin-
ing yard, but was iininediately discovered; in the
saute 'dace was found a pocket-book. (*onto 1111 l a
1001. Bank post MO, four 31. note". the half of a
501. Batik mite, alai a great variety of other
bills mud notes, to the amount of about 530/. The
Batik post bill had been transmitted Irons the
!souse of Messrs. Smith, English. and Co. of Lou-
don, to Mr. Delay Fisher, of Knoresbrough ; and
the four country noire had heels *rut front NOltlinl-
lesion to the house of Welton, Oats, and Co. of
Knaresbrough. These were proved to have been
put into the respective 'wet-offices at London
and Northallerton ; and the letters purportiog to
contain these note* were received a day Icier than
they ought to have Leto, slid without their eitclu-
sures. The Prisoner tuade a circumstantial coo-
legato's of the manner us which the robbery had
been effected, and in which he implicated dove
other PartaalS. After this Cusitroiom, lie in-as yawed
the Castle by the Surveyor of the Post.ollit•e,
who wished to °Mein from loin some disclossiers re-
specting souse other tiautaclions the uattile of