The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-23 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, AUG. 22.
Lord Russell and family leave for London this
morning by the Holyhead mail steamer. His Lord-
ship returned yesterday to the Royal Marine Hotels,
stated that his sudden departure has been occasioned
by urgent despatches relating to Italy, which re-
quire his imme hate presence in London. He en-
joyed a number of excursions to the beautiful
Wicklow scenery during his sojourn at Bray.
The Tuscarora again arrived in Kingstown har-
bour on Thursday night, at 1 30 p.m., after having
got in 100 tons of coals in the Belfast Lough. An
official communication passed yesterday between
the commander of her Majesty's ship Ajax and
the captain of the Tuscarora, which was soon
after followed by an order for her departure in
24 hours. She was expected to have sailed this
morning for the coast of Spain ; her destination is
said to be Gibraltar, but little reliance can be
placed on the statements made as to the movements
of this vessel, as they are kept a profound secret,
lest her plans should be frustrated. Her cora-
mender, Captain Craven, has been admitted a
member of the Royal Western Yacht Club of Ire-
land.

The convict Herdman was removed from Belfast
to Dublin yesterday, en route to Spike Island. He
wore the gray dress of the convicts, and looked
much worn and emaciated. His son, a boy, took
leave of the unfortunate man, and the parting was
distressing to witness. His wife, through whose
exertions mainly it is owing that he will not be
banged, accompanied him in the steamer to Dublin.

EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY AND
EXCLIINO PURSUIT.

Last Thursday evening, a robbery of gold and silver
watches to the number of eight or ten, was effected on the
premises of Mr. Edward Mills, watchmaker, Oldjetty-road.
The robbery was followed by the apprehension of the sup-
posed thieves within an hour afterwards, and with the ex-
ception of one of them who gave the police an extraordi-
nary chase °vet some house tops, and was not captured
until nearly five o'clock this morning. Two of the
watches were found secreted in a house occupied by one
of the prisoners. From inquiries we have made the par-
ticulars of the robbery appear to be as follows :—Between
eight and half-past eight o'clock last evening while
Mrs. Mills and her daughter were sitting in a none
immediately behind the shop, the door of which was
open, they observed a man leaning against the
front door post, but took little or no notice of him
as they supposed it was Mr. Mills on his return from chapel.
Within half an hour Mr. Mills came home, and on the
circumstance being stated to him his suspicions were ex-
cited, and on examining the shop window he found that
the watches usually hanging there, to the number of about
eight or ten, had been taken. The robbery must have been
perpetrated by an experienced hand, for though Mrs. Mills
and her daughter were sitting within less than three yards
of the front door—the shop not being more than six feet
deep—and had a full view of the shop, either through the
room door, which is opposite that leading into the street, or
through a large window in the partition, which partially
flung the light of the apartment into the shop, they neither
saw anyone enter,or heard anynoise on the premises. In fact
both sat within two yards of the thief or thieves at the time the
watches were being disengaged from the hooks. It is rather a
curious circumstance that Miss Mills was preparing her
mother at the time for something unusual that was to hap-
pen, from the fact of a dream the previous night, which
strongly impressed her imagination with the idea of
danger.
Information of the robbery having been conveyed to the
police, those clever detectives, Sergeants Berry and Barnes,
were at once despatched to ferret out the perpetrators.
From inquiries made, they ascertained that a number of
notorious thieves, several of whom had run the gauntlet of
the Quarter Sessions, were seen lurking about in the neigh-
hood during the evening. They therefore went in pursuit of
the gang, and first paid a visit to a house in Row 25, where
one of them named Hindle, alias Douglas, lived with a well-
known professional thief named Emma Richmond. After
knocking for some time they were at last admitted, and stated
that they came in search of some stolen watches which
they suspected were concealed in the house. She, of course,
denied that there was anything of the kind in the house.
The officers then made search, and having examined down-
stairs next commenced above. Berry turned his bull's-eye
up the chimney, and looking up perceived some appearance
of the bricks having been disturbed. " Halloo," said he,
we have got something here, on which the woman gave a
shriek of alarm. He pulled out a loose brick, and putting
his hand into the hole drew from it a couple of rags, and
next a geld lever and a silver lever watch, both of
which were going at the time. Leaving an officer
in charge of Richmond, they next went to the Prin-
cess Charlotte public •leouse, where they captured Elvin,
another of the gang, who was, at the last Norwich Assizes,
tried on a charge of highway robbery. Having
made over Elvin to another officer, they next went to the
house of another of the gang named Newson, whom they
found in the act of going to bed. They next went in Fur"
suit of Hindle, but could find nothing of him. They, holy-
ever, observed a notorious character named Cockerel, spy'
ing about, and suspecting that he was sent out as a scout
on the watch, proceeded after a while to his house in the
Conge. After a good deal of difficulty and threatening to
break open the door, they obtained an entrance, Mrs. Cockerel
assuring them that there was no one in the house but her-
self, and " did they want to disturb a lone woman I" They,
h o wever, found Cockerel in the bed-room, and Berry, oet
looking about perceived a quantity of fresh soot in the fire-
place. He turned his lantern up the chimney, where he
perceived his man snugly ensconced in the soot. As
he refused to come down the officer lighted some brown
paper to smoke him out, which had the effect of driving
him up into the aperture, until its narrowness prevented
further progress. As he was now firmly embedded and
ran some risk of suffocation he struggled desperately, and
at last broke a hole through, by which he escaped into
an adjoining attic. Berry made a hole in the ceiling, and
actually caught the fellow's leg, but Hindle released himself
by dealing the officer a violent blow on the hand with some
weapon, apparently a poker, and next tore his way through
the ceiling and got on the roof, on which, having his boots
off, he ran about with the agility of a cat, and gave the police
who attempted to follow him by means of ladders, an excit-
ing chase of three or four hours, keeping them at bay by
stripping off the tiles and hurling them on their heads. One
of these missiles struck police-constable Brown on the head
and cut him fearfully,and it is surprising that more mischief
was not done, as an immense crowd of men and women,
awakened by the unusual hubbub, were collected in the
streets below. The police at last got on the roof, and pure
suing the fellow very closely, he leaped across the row, a
distance, we are told, of nearly 15ft., down on the roof of a
house opposite, on which he alighted with such force that
his leg went through, maiming him to such an extent as
to considerably impede him in his further gambols.
Ladders were again obtained, and Hindle being now closely'
beset by the police on either side, and driven for refuge
against a chimney stack, at last fairly surrendered to Se"
geant Berry, after an exciting chase of four hours. fle
was soon transferred to terra firma, where he presented 0:
highly-coloured appearance, from having been embeddeu,
in the chimney, and was marched to the station, followed
by an immense concourse of people who had witnessed the
pursuit. Cockerel was also taken into custody.
Richmond, Elvin, Hindle, Newson, and Cockerel, wee
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brought before the magistrates this morning, and retnande!
until Thursday, on the charge. The two watches are, Nl.o"_
understand, fully identified by Mr. Mills as part of tre
missing property, the gold lever being worth £2O, and
silver about £6.— Yarmouth Independent.