The National Register.
London, England, 1822-07-28 00:00:00

ItOUBERY or THII WIIITSY MAIL.

YORK, JULY 'lb.—Roger Dobson was capitally in.
dicied for a rubbery committed on the person of Ltiward
Coss, on the Itiirliway, and forcibly taking irons him the
nt ill bags trout Wimpy fur London, York, 111altuti, Lid
Pickering.
The post-mistress at Whitby, Mrs. A. Rogers, gave
the prelonstraly es silence of delivering the bags to the
mail bust-boy, nn Monday morning, the 11th March.
Else. Cab§ was employed it conveying the mail-hags
above mentioned. On the road from Whitby to Pick-
ering, between lb and 17 miles from Whitby, his horse's
bitille was seized by the prisoner, who said, " If you
don't immediately give use your money and 'your watch,
11l kill you." Witness said, " I have tun gut any, our
mn watch j" on Which the prisoner dragged him down,
and, 11111iUlallIA his horse, rode off lull speed with the
Lags. Witness saw some men at work in a field—he
wen: and told them what had happened to lbw, and
bow the planner was dressed. Ile told every body he
(mild see all the way to Pickering, where the postmaster
printed smite bills, which were sent about in all three.
I,olls. A few days alter lie saw the prisoner lii a chaise,
and knew him again directly, although he never saw hill&
before the rubbery.
T. Kitchen was at work on the road oil the 1 ith of
March, and recollects the priAoier asking litin wizen the
mail passed, and which way it would go. lie went the
road that lie was told it came by. NVillicss had said It
would Lome about three {,'clock,

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EEC ISTER

Thomas Coulter —Saw a man on that day near the
top of the hill, crossing the road on horst-Luck. lie
wis at work in a Soon alter the man gut off and
ran away Iron his horse mwarkls timeoinhe Hole, user
the moor. 1\ lien he heard of the rolinery he told this.
of the rubbery, went in quest
of the robber. Two wen went with ono. They went
to I lurcom be I I Me, where it was sail he was seen eoilig.
—l, a labourer. Going along shy found the horse
tied to a gate. When they got to Iloreoutbe Hole they
billowed a mall's lOotsteps to retired place, and found
the bags in the little brook that rims mere. IN, xi day
they went again, and in two holes in the dry dyke tuund
a great many letters, but they were all opened; th.re
were no loose papers its them.
The landlord or the Hare and Hounds public-house,
near Airkby Nloorside, of the name of Noun ; remem-
bers the prisoner hating route ale at Ins house (which is
at S:iape), about five °clock its the afternoon of the
Monday; he wanted change for a 51. note, but he could
not give it, and lie went away.

To a question from the Court, he said the prisoner
was known to him. lie had lived at a gentleman's
house ut the neistibourhood, as servant to Mr. Green.
A constable, named John Clarke, went, on hearing
of the robbery, to Hambleton, and tomtit the prisoner
at the Butcher IMO. lie was in the act of iburtsning a
note in hi, hand when witness entered, 3 Ittol. note, And
eras a:reaping with a travellin4 doctor about it. Said he
wou:d hold Will a Watp r he would be back again at that
house in 3 week. Took the prisoner before a justice,
and, on seaming% Intu, they found a heap of notes to a
great value.

Mr. Lawson and Mr. Pardue proved their having sent
letters f %V hithy, where they lived, by the post of the
I tit of March, enclosing notes, &c. which were not re-
cei‘ed by the persons to whom they wire directed.
The prisoner, who throughout the trial showed an
utter disregard of the evidedice, on being called upon for
his defence, said nothiug—nor were any witnesses called
on his behalf.

Mr. Baron Wood, shortly recapitulating the evidence,
said the prisoner's guilt admitted of no doubt, and the
Jury immediately brought in a verdict of Guilty.
The prisaner appears to have been a daring offender,
as he was also under confinement for burglary.

A few days ago, William Goodwin, a mechanic, and
his family,
,consisting of a wife and lour children, had
been intrusted with the care of the house, late of Sir
Nlattliew 13loxam's, in the IVr[worth-road, for some
time. About seven weeks ago the eldest daughter, who
is about 15 years of age, had been in service, tenoned
home ill, and was soon pronounced to be in a brain
Inver, which speedily affected the whole faintly. '1 he
father who was the last and the most violently attacked
with the distemper, before Ite felt the effects of it, ap-
plied to the officers of Newington work house to take ills
outlet titeir care, but the malady was of too for
mutable a nature to justify the I•artsli in permitting the
unfortunate persons in ht were afflicted to come us colt.
tact with their poor. The wife and chilitren began to
recover, but Goodwin began to feel the disease in its
most violent shape. When the fury of the lever had
abated, a iierso.i no fortunately called olio.' Min and spoke
on some pecuniary subject, which, wneil the tisuer dim
appealed, so violently affected poor Goodwin, that h.:
dashed his head against the wall, becatm: on.rageoudy
mad, jumped out of the window upon the lawn. anti
threw b>nystll into a pond. Smite persons saw thus
dreadful occurrence front Inc road, and oluer•ed his wile
struggling in her feeble state with him to prevent him
trout destroying Mansell; btu was overpowered in a short
time from his great strength. A young man who was
amongst the spectators contrived to enter the lawn,and
leaped into the water a:ti rGood win, who had sunk, and
remained about lime ttt tt Lbws under the water before he
was reach,d. Life was for a short time preserved. Pour
Guthman was made to breathe again by We means sug-
gested by the Humane Society, but Ins fever returned
with aggravated violence, and lie died ou Wednesday
last in a state of delirium. The wife is wretchedly poor,
but we believe the respectable in the nen.libouritood
hate beeo kind to her and her cbildreu, and supplied
their presets wants.

ATTRAIPT TO DROWN.—On Thursday last, a man of
very sham/ appearance was seen to soma, 'outsell from
the feeeSs on the tilhd arch of Waterloo-bridge. when a
couple of wateranen row nig up, Caine just in time to
rescue the unhappy man from his perilous Inflation.—
On one of thy watermeti seizing him, he exclaimed, let
me alone—let me alone, and Wade J desperate struggle
lo escape from his grasp. lie said lie had been to SO-
itierset-imisse, in hopes of 13, tling same money, in which
lie was disappointed, Distress was not the cause, as he
tad some silver in his pocket. A subscription was im-
mediately set On loot fur the waterineii, which amount-
ed to seven or eight

I)ngt..-011 Friday morning a meeting took place at
IVorniwood Scrubbs, between Mr. B—k--, a medical
student Intnic within less lil.lll a hundred miles of
Sloane-►tern, aiul Air. K—, a private gentleman, tea-
ptettitic a dispute winch took place at a billiard-tams at
the west end of the town. Mr. IS. had lust a large sum
at on! ;pine, Mr. K. king his parlour at the 11111 e, anti
WV thy it was talked of Ma the latter had been paid to
sell him On other words, to lure the game.) All ACCIISI.I.
lion followed; Mr. K.'s explanation was nut thouglit
satisfactory, and a challenge WAS the result Mall. They
ltred two snots, and in toe LA fire built being slightly
wounded, ilk affair terminated.

Alt Alum, hostel, who resided with his siste.., in
Ru,stil-street,Covetiogartlen. was found drutvite,l in the
liegent's Canal on %Veil iies4lay afternoon. lie 11.14 i grille
out to dine with a party of Int:tills on Sunday, at Isiing.
too, and had not been heard of until the autcal Os
a i tent% intelligence. llts death was, no doom, occa-
si JJJJ eil by accident. His body now lit.* at liattic-badge
fur the torpectiou of the Jury.

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