The Sun.
London, England, 1830-10-25 00:00:00

THE AIR-GUN WINDOW-BREAKERS.

SUPPRESSED EXAMINATION OF LORD HAR-
ROWDY'S SON AND CAPT. BAGOT.

On Tuesday last a brief account appeared in one
of the daily papers of the detection and subsequent
examination of two young gentlemen for firing clay
bullets from an air-gun, and demolishing several
windows in the neighbourhood of Richmond. The
examination, however, being suppressed at the desire
of the parties concerned, we have made inquiries
about it, and are now enabled to lay before our
readers the following particulars :
Between six and seven o'clock in the evening of
Friday se'nnight, the windows of Mr. Blanchard, of
the Ilare and Hounds public-house, at East Sheen ;
also of Mr. Thorpe, grocer ; Mr. Barnett, baker ;
Mr. Hammond, of the Bull Inn; and Mr. Payne,
the tallow-chandler ; were broken, by round pieces
of clay, about the size of a sloe, which were subse-
quently picked up by the owners of the houses.
They ran out immediately, expecting to detect the
individuals who bad broken them, but were asto-
nished at not seeing any person • near that could be
challenged with the act. A gentleman's chariot was
seen proceeding towards Richmond at great speed,
but no suspicion arose that the windows had been
demolished by any person inside. When the car-
riage entered George-street, Richmond, a little boy,
named James Haddaway, got up on the seat be-
hind, and as it passed the shop of Mr. Morrile, the
grocer, he heard the glass in his shop window
smelted, and a hula farther the boy heard another
window broken at Mr. Steven's, the stay-maker. The
boy then got down, and the carriage proceeded on ate
rapid rate toward Richmond Hill. Subsequently to
the boy leaving the carriage, the windows of Mr.
Dean, grocer; Mr. Rudwell, the hair-dresser, Mllin,
the fruiterer, and Mungo Dick, Esq., the Magistrate,
were demolished. The circumstance soon became
the subject of general conversation, and numerous
were the opinions of the inhabitants respecting the
manner in which they were broken. At length
Holliday the officer happened to meet with the boy
Haddaway, and the conversation turned upon the
windows. He related the story of hearing the win-
dows break whilst riding behind the carriage, which
he described as being of a green colour and bearing
a coronet. Holliday instantly proceeded to the Star
and Garter, taking the boy with him, and in the
yard he saw a green bodied chariot, with an Earl's
coronet on the pannels, which the lad immediately
recognized as the one behind which he rode. Hol-
liday at once entered the house, and requested the
head-waiter to introduce him to the parties to whom
the carriage belonged. He was shown into a room,
where he saw two tall gentlemen, elegantly dressed.
On entering the room the dicer apologised for his
intrusion, and said,
Gentlemen, there are sad corn-
plaints against you." One of them said,
h"Com-
plaint ! d
what about—what have we ~ one— eve
we committed murder ?" Holliday replied, No,
Sir; you have not committed murder, but you have
been breaking windows." The other then said,
" Oh I is that all ; well, here are our cardcards---
you'llfld us at homi." lie then gave the dicer

two cards, elegantly engraved, one 'hearing the
name of the Honourable F. •D. Ryder, No. 39,
Grosvenor-square ; and the other Captain C.
Begot, Grenadier Guards. Holliday told them corn-
plaint would be made before the Magistrates in the
morning, when they said, " Very well, let it be
early, for we shall leave at eleven o'clock, and we
arc going to the Theatre to-night, with the Duke of
Cumberland." The officer having sifted the matter
thus far, left the room, and on passing the carriam•
again he opened the door, and in the bottom he
found some clay balls, exactly corresponding with,
those with which the windows had been broken.
Holliday lost no time in making his discovery known
in the town and at East Sheen, and in the morning
a summons was granted against the gentlemen, de-
siring their immediate attendance. - They promptly
obeyed the mandate, and came into the office amidst
a vast crowd of • persons, who had assembled to
hear the examination, and amongst them were all
the persons whose windows had been broken, and
also a youth, apprentice to Mr. Hart, the plumber,
who was Amick violently on the arm by one of the
bullets, while standing at his master's door.
The had Haddaway, Mr. Hart's apprentice, .1114
several others, deposed to the above facts, and due
defendants, in answer to the charge, said they Wert
very sorry for being so foolish, and that they were
ready to pay the nmuunt of the damage they bad
done. They then paid for thirteen squares of glass,
compensated Mr. Hart's-apprentice, and the ex-
penses altogether amounted'to seven guineas. The
defendants, having paid the money, left the office. •

The Honourable Frederick D...ityder is the Esti
o f Herron by's son, and resides with his Noble
parent.

- About three months before, many windows were
broken in the town in a similar way, and it is be-
lieved their demolition was the act of the same par-
ties.—Obsciver.