The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-11 00:00:00

REMARKABLE CASE OF BURGLARY.

At the New Bailey Court-house, Salford, yesterday, four
burglars were placed before Mr. Robert Brandt, the
sitting magistrate, under remarkable circumstances.
Their names are Joseph Goodier, spindle turner, aged
23 ; Ralph Catterall, aged 17 ; Wm. Gregan, aged 22 ;
and Robert Goodier (brother of Joseph), shoemaker,
aged 28 ; and the charge against them was, that on
Thursday night they had gone, with their faces
blackened and armed with bludgeons, to Carlton-grove,
Moss-side, on the boundary of the city of Manchester,
rad there effected a burglarious entry into the house of
Mrs. Sarah Taylor.
Mr. Superintendent Taylor, of the D division of the
Manchester police, being sworn, said on Tuesday last the
prisoner Robert Goodier, was brought to his office by
Mrs. Taylor's son, who said that Goodier had come to
his mother's house that morning to inform her that four
men, of whom he was one, were going to rob her house
that night. The prisoner persisted in his story, and
witness, after giving him to understand that if he was
one of the burglars he would be apprehended as well as
the rest, planted himself and four officers in Mrs. Tay-
lor's house to receive them. The prisoners made an at-
tempt on the house, but went away suddenly, without
accomplishing their purpose. Being warned of their in-
tention to renew the attack on Thursday night, witness
again made arrangements for them. This time, how-
ever, he placed officers in ambush outside to take them
if they made a retreat without effecting their purpose.
Witness himself and four officers (Inspector Gosling,
Sergeant Bramhall, and police constables Sutcliffe and
Sandford) secreted themselves in the house of Mrs.
reason to suspect, from what took
night, that the burglars would at-
tempt the Taylor.
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left in that room, and had a hole pierced through a
burglars before pouncing
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window witness saw the prisoners enter the garden at 9
on Thursday night and conceal themselves in a summer
house. Here they remained in concealment until a little
after 12 o'clock, allowing the watchman on the beat to
pass the house twice, and then they advance() in a stoop-
ing position to the front of the house. They had each a
heavy bludgeon, about two feet lung, square in shape,
but rounded at one end for the hand, and notched in the
handle, to give a better purchase of the weapon. The
heads of the bludgeons were studded with large nails,
projecting about half an inch from the wood. The pri-
soners took a square of glass out of the front window,
and then, lifting the sash, entered the room. The first
who entered was Gregan, who was armed with a sharp-
pointed shoemaker's knife in one band, and a bludgeon
in the other. Catterall entered second, and these two
having cautiously examined the room, they were joined
by Joseph Goodier (alias Howarth), and all three iensoved
their shoes or clogs, and were proceeding to open a chest
of drawers when witness and his men opened the door,
and rushed in upon them. J. Goodier leaped through
the window, but was secured by the constables in am-
bush outside. Robert Goodier also slipped away, but
the; constable inside secured Catterall and Gregan,
after a short struggle, in the course of which Gregan
aimed a blow with a knife at Inspector Gosling, from
which the officerhad a narrow escape. The blade of the
knife went through the officer's top coat, close to one of
his sides, near the breast, but did not wound him. R.
Goodier was pursued to his own house, in Hulme, and
there taken. A piece of wood was there found similar to
the bludgeons with which the burglars were armed. In
the summer-house in Mrs. Taylor's garden was found a
quantity of lamp black, part of which they had used, no
doubt, to black their faces with.
The other officers corroborated the evidence of Super-
intendent Taylor.
The prisoners, in defence, told a long story, showing
that the traitor, R. Goodier, had planned the burglary, and
seduced them into its commission, and it appears there
is reason to believe their story is true.
Mr. Bent, solicitor, defended Robert Goodier, and ap-
plied for bail, on the ground that he bad given informa-
tion which led to the apprehension of his associates
whilst in the act.
Mr. Brandt said he saw no reason at present to show
greater favour to him than the rest. The question would
no doubt, be properly raised on the trial of the prisoners.
They would now stand committed fur trial at the next
assizes.

QUEEN'S PLATE AT THE CURRAGH.--By order of his
Grace the Duke of Wellington, Master of the Horse to
her Majesty, the following alteration has been made in
the Queen's Plate, usually run for on the Thursday of
each September meeting at the Curragh : —Two-yr-olds
in future to carry 6st ; three-yr•olds, Bst 101 b ; 31b to
mares and geldings. One mils and a half.

THE LONDON GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT.

WINDSOR-CASTLE, Nov. 6

This day had audience of her Majesty, the Baron Hoch-
schild, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
from the King of Sweden and Norway, to delivery his
credentials, to which he was introduced by the Earl of
Clarendon; K.G., her Majesty's Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs.