The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-01 00:00:00

The Extraordinary Mail-bag Robbery.

On Tuesday, at the Hull Police-court, before the stipen-
diary magistrate, Maria Cooke, the lady who is charged
with being concerned in the robbery of the South Cave
mail-bag and a letter containing checks to the amount of
£7OO, was again brought up. Mr. F. F. Ayre appeared for
the prosecution, and Mr. F. Summers for the prisoner. The
following evidence was called :
Douglas Mackintosh, a merchant's clerk, stated that he
remembered being in Whitefriargate, Hull, on Fridsymorn-
ing last, about a quarter past 10 o'clock. The prisoner came
up and said to him, "Are you in a hurry ?" He replied
"No." She said, " Will you get a check cashed for me ?"
He said, "I don't suppose they will pay me." She said,
" Yes they will." He raid, "I shall have to sign my name."
She said, "Oh no, you won't." While she was speaking
she produced an envelope with a:check in, out of a bag, and
gave it to witness. He said he would take it, and he asked
her where the bank was. She said, " The Yorkshire Bank-
ing Company, corner of Parliament-street." Witness went
to the bank with the check, which was in the envelope. It
was for £2B, and drawn by Thos Jackson, of North Shields,
upon the National Provincial Bank of England at Shields.
He presented the check to the bank clerk, who refused to
cash it. He then left the bank and went back to the pri-
soner, and told her they would not cash the check, and he
handed both the envelope and check back to her. He then
left, and immediately afterwards pointed her out to two
bank clerks who had followed him. One of these clerks
went up to her and asked her if she had just seat a check to
the bank. She replied in the affirmative. He asked to see
the check, when she handed him what appeared to be the
same envelope and check. He asked her to step back to the
bank, and she went, witness accompanying them. In the
bank theyasked where she had got the check from, and she
said a gentleman had given it to her in a railway carriage,
as she was coming from Resale the night before by the last
train, and in a second-class carriage. She was asked if there
were many people in the carriage, and she replied thatit was
full, and that the gentleman, who was sitting opposite to
her, threw it across to her. She had not seen him before.
The lady was then taken into custody by a detective who
was present in the bank at the time.
William Reyes, of Beverley, bankers' clerk in the York-
shire Banking Company at Hull, said he remembered Fri•
day last, the 25th inst., when the last witness brought a
check to the bank to be cashed, but it was not cashed, and
it was returned to Mackintosh, and the latter left the bank
followed by witness and another bank clerk. The prisoner
was pointed out to them as the person who had sent the
check to the bank. Witness asked her if she had sent a boy
to the Yorkshire Banking Company with a check on the
National Provincial Banking Company. She said " Yes,
one of Mr. Popplewell's" (the person to whom the check
was payable). Witness asked her to show him the check.
She then produced an envelope in which was a check on the
Ycrk City and County Bank at Goole. Witness told her
that this was not the check he wanted, and he asked her if
she had another. She then produced another envelope with
the check on the National Provincial Bank. Witness told
her there was some mistake about the check she had pre-
sented to the bank, and would she return there ? She said
she hoped that there was nothing wrong about it, but she
would go. When in the bank, the manager asked her the
questions deposed to by the last witness. She said when in
the train the gentleman said to her, " There, young woman,
there's some checks for you ; get some money for them if
you like." She was asked if she had not given something
for the checks. She said " No." She was asked what was
his appearance. She sad he was tall but she would not
know him again. She was then given into custody.
Elizabeth Jane Taylor, wife of Mr. Taylor, of Spring-
arch, Spring-street, was next examined. She knew the pri-
soner, and she came from Ferriby station with her on Thurs-
day evening, in the last train. They rode in a third-class
carriage, and witness sat opposite prisoner, There were
eight women (including the prisoner) and two men in the
compartment. During the journey she never saw anything
given to the prisoner, and if there had been she must have
seen it. Witness went to the gaol on Saturday last, and
identified the prisoner from amongst several other women.
Mary Eleanor Ward said she knew the prisoner. She was
with her between 3 and 4 o'clock on Thursday afternoon
last, and went with her to the Hull Railway Station. She
said she was going to Hessle, and intended to walk back at
night. Witness advised her to return by the last train, and
then left her.

John Wilson, of South Cave, clerk in the branch bank of
the Yorkshire Banking Company at that place, was next
called. On Thursday last ho made up a letter containing
seven checks, addressed to the Yorkshire Banking Com-
pany at Beverley. The two checks found upon the pri-
soner when taken into custody were two of the checks he
placed in the letter. The letter was sealed and posted be-
tween a quarter and half-past 5 o'clock. He knew the pri-
soner, having seen her at South Cave.
Henry Michael Daly, 54, Saville-street, Hull, said he
was clerk in the General Post-office, Lcndon, and acting
postmaster of Hull. (Witness was here shown the envelope
in which the checks were placed before being posted at
South Cave.) This envelope, he said, was again posted in
Hull on Friday morning, between 915 and 10 15. There
was a South Cave postmark on it for the 24th inst. It did
not bear the Brough postmark, which it ought to have done
in its transit from Cave to Beverley. (This evidence was
to show that the letter containing the 7 checks was stolen
at South Cave and re-posted at Hull, for Beverley, minus
the two checks found in possession of the prisoner.)
he evidence of how the robbery was effected, and the
receipt of the 5 checks at the Beverley Yorkshire Banking
Company, was postponed until next Tuesday.
Bail was applied for, but refused, the magistrate remark-
ing that there was too much mystery about the case.

ROUGH WEATHER IN THE NORTH SEA,

LOSS OF A BRIG AND ALL HANDS.

SHIELDS, Tuesday.—The vessels recently in our port
from the Baltic report that they have encountered fearfully
rough weather in the North Sea. Not only gales of wind,
but storms of thunder and lightning, and fears are enter-
tained for the safety of laden collier vessels which were out
in the storms. Some particulars have reached this port to-
day of tha total loss of the collier brig Capt. Cook, of North
Shields, with all hands. This vessel left the Tyne in the
early part of the month for Hamburg, and she has foun-
dered in one of the gales off the coast of North Europe.
The body of her master, Mr. Fisher, and the bodies of some
of the crew, have washed up on the Danish coast. The
master had his eldest son on board the vessel with him, and
he is lost of course, His widow and another son are lying
dangerously ill at home, and the widow is not expected to
recover. While the weather has been so rough and stormy
out at sea it has been tolerably tranquil upon our coast.
Torrents of rain must have fallen in the west of Northum-
berland on the Sunday, as the Tyne is very much flooded,
and some damage has been done by the river rising so ra-
pidly, and by the strong ebb tides.
SCARBOROUGH, Tuesday.—At an early hour yesterday
Morning, during a heavy gale from the SSW, the schooner
Maria, of Yarmouth, was driven ashore on the south point
of Cloughton Wyke, a few miles north of Scarborough. The
vessel was bound from Newcastle to Caen, in France, with
a cargo of cement and firebricks, and while working up the
coast, almost against the wind, the master (Henry Sewell)
unfortunately kept too near the land, and the schooner,
missing stays, was driven upon the rocky beach. The mas-
ter and crew, considering themselves in imminent danger,
availed themselves of a lull, during which they gained the
shore in their small boat. They were speedily obliged to
betake themselves for shelter to the cliff above them, against
which the sea beats up at high water, Here they remained
from a little after midnight until about 8 o'clock in the
most deplorable condition. The situation of the master was
even still worse. After reaching the cliff he endeavoured to
return to the vessel. His crew positively refused to accom-
pany bin], cud while proceeding alone in his foolish at-
tempt he was carried in his boat by the wind and surf toi,7
reef of rocks, where he was obliged to remain for fr
hours, exposed to all the severity of the storm. Thor'. Pw.
of
tiona were descried by a passing fishing smack, th,ee:rer.
which, with much difficulty, rescued the suffereelooonerhas
in a benumbed and exhausted condition. T.lle°c.
been got off the rocks, but she is greatly irel are,.

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