The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-08 00:00:00

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EXTRAORDINARY CONFESSION.

There are at present in the custody of the Hull
police three youths, who leave been eppreheeded
on a charge of committing a burglary by breaking
open the offices of the Electric and International
Telegraph Company in Lowgate, Hull, and stealing
a sum of money. A youth concerned in this rob-
bery is yet at large. One of the three in custody
has just made a most extraordinary confession.
When taken to prison by Detective Jones, he
stated, in the presence of his mother and the officer,
that he and the other boys broke into the premises
of Messrs. Young and Pool, iroomongere, Waitham-
street, Hull, a few evenings ago. He held the
light while the rest of the boys were engaged in
trying to break open the iron safe. They used
oyster-knives and crowbars, but, failing in opening
it, it wes suggested that they should use a file'
With this instrument they worked on the safe for
more than an hour, but the hardness of the metal
baffled all their attempts. They therefore abane
doned the safe, which contained about £lOO, and
began to examine the premises for the purpose of
carrying off anything which they might be fortu-
nate enough to meet with. In the cupboard they
found some bottles of wine, with which they
refreshed themselves, and they then went into
the shop, from which they took a number of
large knives, spoons, forks, and other articles,
and with this booty they decamped. After-
wards they went into a jeweller's AO
and asked if the spoons were silver, and they
were informed that they were merely electroplated.
After having been in this shop they formed a Plan
of robbing it, one of them being deputed to reeke
observation as to the best mode of carrying
out this
design. As the stolen spoons were of little value they
determined to bury them, and a hole was accord'
ingly dug in the yard of the North Eastern Bill-
way Company, Paragon-street, but as one of ‘the
prisoners resided near that place he did not feel
comfortable el
comfortable about their remaining there, and -;
they were afterwards taken up and reburied shot'.
a mile and a half on the Humber bank. Before tin,
opportunity offered of robbing the jeweller's sh°'
the lads determined to rob the offices of the Electric
Telegraph Company, where one of them had been
employed. They arranged that when the robbery
had been committed they should engage a dogcart
and drive to some place in the country where they
might might hide until the affair had been forgotten. eu;
robbery was perpetrated, and about 110 taken °l4'
It was agreed to leave the town on Sunday morn
ing last, and for this purpose a dog-cart was dove
engaged. It was decided that they should set
at an early hour, and two of the lads missed their,
trip by lying in bed too long. The two left behin"
agreed to take a cab, and before starting they e°e.
spired to take possession of the cab between Bevel
and Driffield. They were to mount the box, en
seizing the cabman, his throat was to be cut. Ili:
body they were to dispose of by throwing it into tha
roadside ditch. The cab and horse they determillee
to sell when they arrived at Driffield, and g°
with the proceeds. It appears that the youths We"
took the dog-cart managed to break it before the/
reached Driffield, and they left it in a field on the
a
roadside. On Monday morning they took the hcelici
into the stable at the inn where they had put UPI ling
went to a horse dealer, to whom they offered to do.
the animal, which of its class was a valuable Oneffo:
£5. The dealer's suspicions were at once arotiee°'
and he handed them over to the police authorities,
who conveyed them to Hull. The youths veil° had
engaged the cab, and had conspired to murder tef
cabman, got the cab, but just at the moment
starting one of them became afraid, and he told the
cabman what he and his companion had determined
to do. The lad who was to have perpetrated the
deed then jumped out of the opposite door of the
cab and took to his heels. He was soon after cAP
tured by Detective Jones. The names of the three
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boys in custody are J. W. Wrigglesworth, Richard
Lord, and J. J. Reynolds. They have been re;
manded to gaol until the evidence in the several
cases against them has been made complete. the
prisoners are said to have been led to this extraore
dinary course of crime by reading the lives of Dick
Turpin and other such characters, and they had de
termined to become burglars, highwaymen, and, to
crown all, murderers. Their career, however, heti
been cut short, fortunately for them,