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

EXTRAORDINARY CONFESSION.

There are at present in the custody of the Hull
police three youthQ, who have been apprehended
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, ironmongers,Mialthata-
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 was 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 aban-
doned the safe, which contained about £lOO, and
began to examine the premises for the purpose of
carrying off anything which they might be forty
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 articleat
and with this booty they decamped. After'
wards they went into a jeweller's 011°P
and asked if the spoons were silver, and they
were informed that they were merely electro-plated'
After having been in this shop they formed a Ple°
of robbing it, one of them being deputed to make
observation as to the best mode of carrying out this
design. As the stolen spoons were of little value the/
determined to bury them, and a hole was accord'
ingly dug in the yard of the North Eastern Rail'
way Company, Paragon-street, but as one of the
prisoners resided near that place he did not feel
comfortable about their remaining there, and 8°
they were afterwards taken up and reburied about
a mile and a half on the Humber bank. Before a°
opportunity offered of robbing the jeweller's sl.cP
he lads determined ro rob the offices of the Electric
Telegraph Company, where one of them had been
employed. They arranged that when the robbed
had been committed they should engage a dorcerS
and drive to some place in the country where they'
might hide until the affair had been forgotten. the
robbery was perpetrated, and about 1.10 taken off'
It was agreed to leave the town on Sunday morn'
ing last, and for this purpose a dog-cart was duly
engaged. It was decided that they should set
og
at an early hour, and two of the lads missed their
i
trip by lying in bed too long. The two left behind
agreed to take a cab, and before starting they con'
spired to take possession of the cab between Beverld
and Driffield. They were to mount the box,
seizing the cabman, his throat was to be cut. Di!.
body they were to dispose of by throwing it into tcvd
roadside ditch. The cab and horse they determinea
to sell when they arrived at Driffield, and go °
with the proceeds. It appears that the youths Yley
took the dog-cart managed to break it before they
reached Driffield, and they left it in a field on the
roadside. On Monday morning they took the hell:
into the stable at the inn where they had put up, end
went to a horse dealer, to whom they offered to ae';
the animal, which of its class was a valuable one; f°.,
£5. The dealer's suspicions were at once arouse°
and he handed them over to the police authoritili
who conveyed them to Hall. The youths who ht.
engaged the cab, and had conspired to murder to'
cabman, got the cab, but just at the moment 0
starting one of them became afraid, and he told tb,
cabman what he and his companion had determint;
to do. The lad who was to have perpetrated t.°,.
deed then jumped out of the opposite door of tiav
cab and took to his heels. He was soon after cero
tured by Detective Jones. The names of the thre
boys in custody are J. W. Wrigglesworth, Richer
a
Lord, and J. I. Reynolds. They have been re;
mended to gaol until the evidence in the sever;
cases against them has been made complete. the
prisoners are said to have been led to this extract'
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, t°
crown all, murderers. Their career, however, boo
been cut short, fortunately for them.

COUNTRY ,MARKETS.

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COLCHESTER—DEC. 5. L.„t to-
There was a moderate supply of wheat at our rottri—
day, and the demand was good. No change in prices' 3,
Wheat, white. 44s 50s Beans, Mazagan ..28° 30
red 40s 44s middle & 5ma11.320 354
Barley
Oats

GLOUCESTER—Dnc. 5. ft%
There was a fair show of English wheat to-daY;;„el,
which the currencies of last week were firmly maint'ne of
Foreigu wheat held for an advance of is on the Prl; pat
last week. Oats, barley, beans, and peas were dui',
unaltered in value.

CHELMSFORD—DEC. 4. bool'
At this corn exchange to-day there was an inactive
_oily
ness done. The prices of las week were barely 2!).,0er
tained. Barley also dull, and prices is per quarter c_S;s9l
for inferior sorts. Beans and peas a very limited 0'
and prices unchanged. 394
360 390
Wheat, old white 30s 47s , Peas, Partridgo....oBo io
new 44e 48s White .......... ',2,0$ 4.,,
old red 34s 40s Boiling ... ...... ..,,,, 5U°
new 38s 42s Dun 30' ~.-9
Barley ..27s 36s Ditto new ...-0 399
Chevalier .......28s 39s Beans, Tick, old 34! ,•-.4
Grinding 22s 31s new. 40;
Malt....
Chevalier 64s 69s new. •305 354
Oats 2os 28s Mazagan ......°

KIKCALDY GRAI—DEC. 5. 1311 r
We had large supplies of all descrNiptions of grin o 10t
market today, which sold freely at the currencies
week.

Oats.
Wheat. Barley.
16s Od
Firat....34s Od I 25s Gd 17s 6d
Second —378 Od 27s 0" l• 19s Od
Third....4os Od 30s Od

COAL blAftgEle
rrioes of Coal per Ton at tne olose of them arket.
0. Jo
m. d.
15
Buddle'sWest Hartley 16 01 West Hartley ........
13yass's Bebside West
Hartley ...16
Cowpen Hartley 16
Davison's West Hart-

ley.. l6 0
Holywell 17 6
Ships at marl

Walls End.
.20 6
Hatton .............. is Y 6
Tunstall .• .• • • ......2O a
Haswell ..............18
Gosforth ...........
et, 7 ; sold, 7.

MILITARY BALLOONING.—Mr. CoXWell's
pb
will ascend from the Royal Arsenal at WOOlllOl,
for experimental military purposes. On the 10th o vemceto
ber it will be inflated with 75,000 cubic feet of gas fr°l'4oo
Arsenal, and General Sir Richard Dacres of the Wor'7o
authorities will be present. The troops in garrison
marched some miles over the country roads, in Oru°lo'
give the aeronaut and the scientific committee whop i'di
company him an opportunity of reconnoitring theiro
ments.

Births.
a son. ~i k 141'.1
Gst.hMinuartie.:,aEtssqu.,totofus,
DUNDIS.—On the 3d inst., at Carron Hall, Faila- f
Wickhamm tchzasi:ar k e -
the wife of J. Dundas, Esq., of a son. ;00/14
M tilb: lEL.:oo:tthhee
4th3cl inst.,inat., attt
smtihleirw, ~h 00
Lady Smug
eon.o
Guildford}
.i--feOnWthe.
wif„: Arthur Holme Sumner, Esq., of a 011'
,Suusrvit.
Marriages. g cur:
savasT—PLYWELL,—On the 3d inst., at St. Bee'''' 4)1
berland, John Henry,l if
rY eldest son f Dr. Jame° 0 eve
late of Camblidco-square, London,to Olive Al332;sl°'
daughter of Cla.nrieS Powell, Esq., Ab v°°''' t
of erga
mouthshire.at Glatt
BUCHANAN—HungifisoN.—On the 3d inst., O,-1.
Stephen's, Dublin, Lt. W. R. Buchanan, BBcli jaagr
son of Andrew 0'
Buchan,ml,_ Esq., of Greefield,„.,o,o,4l
shire, N. 8., to the Lady Kathrine Alicia 11019 P'etlt $
son, daughter of the late. and sister of the prey
of Donoughmore.
Deatiul• Tliti°'
ALLEN.—On the 3d inst, at New 10.1111 s, Henley 00
di'
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Mr. James Allen, aged 60, t. moco
ATSCOUGH.—On the 2d inst., at Narlrood, '
jjOico
Esq , Admiral ot the ed. cCaptainft
COMBE.—On the sth insßt., at Cheltenhanly
j°so'
Combe, late Madras N. 1., aged 78. pole'
DUMMETT.—On the sth inst., at Longfleet,
Oetlrj,
Dummett, Esq., aged 82. ON Sir A
MAnTriv.—On the 4th inst., at Tunbridge-we
.„o,3for'.
Martin, Bart. ~i gall, P
MAGENIS,--00. the 4th inst., at Harretu m 4. 4,4
shire, Richard Wm. Magenis, Esq., aged_ri Les TIPP'
E.T.TTTEIL,—On the Gth inst., at Hackney, Jaw
Rutter, Esq., aged 30.
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