The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-07 00:00:00

GAROTTE ROBBERY,-SEVERE SENTENCE,

Charles N'lan an. Sarah Ann Clarke were indieced for
robbing Benjamin Bunn of £2 2s, at Birmingham, and
using personal violence to the said Benjamin Bunn.

The prosecutor was returning home late at night, and
turned into an entry for a natural purpose, when the female
prisoner accosted him, and he told her to go about her busi-
ness. She, however, put her hand into his pocket, and took
out his purse. He seized her, and the other prisoner then
came up and garotted him.

Both were found guilty, and a previous conviction °gains
.he female was proved. _ _

His lordship sentenced her to seven years' penal servi-
tude—the lowest punishmegt h could inflict; and Nolan
to five years' penal servitgs and to receive thirty lashes
with a " eat."

The Burglary in Lombard Street.

Up to last evening no clue had been obtained with respect
to the great robbery of bullion, bills of exchange, and other
valuable securities, on the premises of Messrs Baum, bullion
dealers and money changers, at SS, Lombard-street, and the
thieves were still at large. In the course et yesterday the
firm published a circumstantial account, filling two sides of
a folio sheet closely printed, of the various bills of exchange.
the gold, silver, and notes represented to have been stolen,
and offered a reward of £5OO to any ono affording info,-
mati,n lealing to the recovery of the property. This
document recites that the premises in quest ion were bur-
glariously entered between the hours of 9 p.m„ December
3d, and 9 a.m., December 5, and property, of which a list is
given, stolen, and it states that the reward will be given to
any one affording such information as will lead to its re-
covery. The primary object with Messrs Baum, and not
unnaturally, appears to be the recovery of the lost treasure ;
but it is usual on such occasions to make the payment of a
reward depend upon the apprehension and conviction of the
thieves. The robbery excites much public interest, and
the prevailing impression appears to be that it was com-
mitted by some one or more persons familiar with the pre-
mises, and was the result of long and careful premeditation.
The general bend also is that the thieves had concealed
themselves on the premises before they were closed for the
night on Saturday evening. The character and appearance
of the crowbars found in the house after the discovery of the
robbery puzzle the police not a little. They are not the
neat little, but still formidable, instrument of that kind
which burglars crn conceal about their clothes,
and can often put in the breast pocket of a
coat t but they are ponderous weapons—three of them
at least—being about 4ft. in length and of enormous
thickness and strength. They are, in fact, regular crow-
bars, such as masons use; but they appear to be suite new,
or to have been little used, if at all. Then, again, what is
to be said of the door of the iron safe having been removed
by the hinges, and the lock inside of it broken in pieces,
and yet no marks having been found about the safe to lead
to the inference that the crowbars had been used in prising

it open ? The whole affair, in fact, is a mystery from be-
ginning to end. The firm have published a list of the bills
of exchange which have been stolen, with the names of the
drawers and acceptors and the days on which they will
arrive at maturity; but a reolar professional thief never
encumbers himself with articles of a nature calculated
to connect him with a robbery in which he has been con-
cerned, and which, moreover, he could never, as in this
case, turn into money, or crly at great risk to himself,
That is another circumstance, among others, suggesting
the belief that the robbery was not commuted by profes-
sional burglars, but rather by sovices, and, if so, then it will
be all the more easy to discover the thieves, sooner or later,
It is needless to slate that the detective police of the City
havo been put in motion. By them, or for them, credit is
often taken for being far more a Lute and skilful than their
rivals in Scotland-yard.