The Sun.
London, England, 1809-10-18 00:00:00

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Z,TAIL-ROBBERY, . .
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• MARLBORM;CU-STREET.—William Treble ~ , ajias
,
Ebert, alias Thornton, underwent a 're-examination
'ye,terday, on the charge of having stolen from a
mail Coach Fordingbridge Bank notes:to the aniqunt
of 7001. the property of Messrs. Kalaway and :Co.
Bankers. Some particulars of this p4te, which is of
ja very cotnplqc_and curious nature iv re laid before
the public at the last examination. Mr. Lane; the
`Arundel banker was anadditional witness yesterday,
who stated that the Prisoner called at his banking-
house at Arundel,. SasseJE, onthe 29th of Sepzenaber,
and requeSted clilingefor a fol. Fordingbridge note.
One of the Clerks discovered it to be one which had
been stolen from the mail, and on informing the
Prisoner of its having been stopped payment, he
produced a 501., note of the Bank of Eni.e.yland, for
which he obtained change and decamped..' The
Clerk apprised Mr.• Lane of the circumstance of_ :one
of • the Forclingbridge notes having been tendtired
for pyrnent, and the latter went to a Magistrme
Ya know it he Might venture to take the Prisoner,
-into co4t6dy• ti he should meet, with , On b 7..
ing answered in he attirtilativV, and.understanding
the prisOner wtire a light flaxen wig, he 'found hien,
at the: Norfolk -Arms, and' on being interrogated, he
-confessed he was the person who had
_.-changed the
'pole, but he then Wore hi% own 134 r. Mr. Lane
asked the Prisoner about the 'lOl. rotldingbridgenote,
and he then appeared a little embarrased, and hav-
ing fir,t sod it was in a letter ninth laid sealed 'be-
tore him; .he afterwards said-it was 'up-stairs in: his
p .rttrianteail. Mr. Lane regriested to_ see the con-
tents of the letter, which eras granted. It was ad,
dresSed ro a Mr. BarroW, Alit-street,. Goodthan's"..
fields. The letter.stated, 'that things were flat, and
that Snsse:,-. was a' wrong county.-, General Grab
'(.meaning .I),en taken) had called on .him at Brigh-
ton, trat.:AlajOelknince (meaning hiS qWn boister-
ous coridua) had enabled 11'11.13 to travel on.
true ,purport; hbwever, of the letter was, that he had
sent the halves of forty tank notes to Loniion ,by
the coach, and that tit Should send the rent:tinder by
the next Post. Mr. Lane took chaise immediately
for London, and found the. parcel at the Cenci) Inn,
which teas opened in the presence. of J. Foy and
Hamilton, and it did. contain the halves of notes as
described in the letter, nireoted ro Mr. Barrow. Pre-
vious to leaiing Arundel, the Prisoner. was watch-
ed, and in his side liacket were found Fordingbridge
notes.to the anaonnt of between two stud there bun-
dred pounds, and in hi's -portmanteau diSgUi'sed Wgs,
&c. about 30 counterfeit shillings were also found
in his pockets, and on their being diScovered, he
observed that looked bad, The Pei-toner Was again
remanded.

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itikft WD a POLAR
A person of gentlemanly anPearartee,
self Sir Thomas Macklin, Km. of the , .Polar .Star,
was-brought- up tor examination the Second time,
charged upon the oath of a 'waiter named. William
Death; belonging to Hatcbett's Hotel;
.with attempting to rob him of his silver watch. it
was stated in evidence tint the Prisoner cattle to die
Hotel, and desired to he aCcointbodated with a bed,'
proposing to remain there some dayS'. lie *as ac-
cordingly suited, and on the frillowingm9riting,
Death Was lyiag, on r his bed perfedly alive, though
do4ng, his -attenticn was rouged by some person en.:
to ring hie room, and stretching across him in, the
bed, to seize his watch, which hung over his head.
He imMediately started up, and the person, who
was the Prisoner, and was "'ithout his shoes, with,
drew in some eonia-sion,. and left the house before.
any
.alarm was given. It was afterwards discovered,
that the trunk of a Coloriel Young, who recently re.=
turned froth Spain, had been 'robbed of several ar-
ticles of apparel. •
ThePriso4er returned to the hotel abed one the
next d'ay, in going up stairs,. suspe&ed from the
phisiognomical aspect Of the VVlant waiters, that,
all was not right ; heram, therefore, up to the attic
story, and concealed himtelf fdr a considerable time
its the water-closet-,, from whence, hoWever, he'was
'at length unkennelled, and taken into custody.
The -Prisoner was reManded fiirthei
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Guern:SiiaLt,.;--I'eitefday a iban; of the name of
Green, and his daughter, were charged by Mr.
Admits., silversmith,; St. Ann's-lane, Falcon-square,
With Stealing a ...-fuantity at silver, his property. •
The Prosecutor stated, that unwroul.;lit•silver be-
ing missed froth his 'Workshop day atter day, his
Workfrien; for. their :Own vindicatiOn, and for the
satisfAion master; 'had' laid a plan fOr the
discovery 'Of the :thief, by marking several small
pieces of silver; and living the Prisoner, Green;
WhO was also one ,of his workmen; and whom the
:others anspeded, an opportunity Of carrying them
away. He :was obServed to leave the shop yester-
day morning, and several pieces of silver; which
had been so marked', w'ere,at the sane time, missed
from the bench where they had been kid, . The
,Pri!.
stiller was tollowed home, and. an OffiCer sent for.
On•searching his:own room nothing was found ; btit
on Searching 'A rd'arn beneath, in which the Prisoner'
and his daughter were 'in, dompiny together, and
Which he declared to be his danglitei's-rocnn; there
*as found"silver spoon in au unfinished state,
whiCh the PrOsecl.inir proved to be of his manuisc-
tiire. The father kva, accordingly, carried 'away
by the others , It occurred to, one,of then!; how-
ever, on the way to Guildhall,
,that.the search had
not been sufficiently minute. He therefore return-
ed, and., on again searching the daughter's dra'wers,
there were found,:coneetded in a cup and saucer, the
`voriouS pieces of silver mat ked on purpose by the
Prosecutor's workrpeu, and which had that morning
been carried otifforn his workshop. The Officer
• was certain that the articles so found by him had riot
been in the same spot during the former search.-
The datighter was, of course, also brought before
the Magistrate.
The father being asked what he bad to say, of-
fered nothing in his own defence, contented him-
self with declaring his daughter's innocence.
The Worthy Alderman (ScaoLeT) did not, how,
ever, find himself at liberty, alter the evidence
which had been adduced, to discharge the dabghter.
Her participation in the guilt of the father would
more properly fotax a question for the consideration.
of a lay: Both prisoners were accordingly com-
mitted for trial.
Bow7salle4r.—Ort Monday James Callan was
charged with beeaking open the dwelling-house of,

Mr. Mahony, the sign of the Cock, in Tottenhamf•
court-road.

• mThoas }IBC; of John-street, Tottenham-court.
roadu'painter and'glazier, that:about- half-past
two o'clock, on Saturday morning, as he i.v-as passe
sin 4. through Tottenham-court-road, be. saw, the
head and shoulders of a man,. in the cellar Mr.
Mahony ; in consequence of which, he went clasp
up to the cellar, und saw one of the flaps of the
cellar lifted up, and three 'bottles of wine on the
other flap, and the prisober in the ad of getting-out
of the cellar; he attempted to lay hold of him, bat
lie made a spring and ran away. The witness purl
sued him, and called out, " stop thief," and was
never five 'yards from him, till he was stopped and
secured. . - . .

Thomas Syks, a watchman, said, that hearing
the cry of « stop thiet," and seeing the Prisonrc
`lnuning, he endeavoured to stop him, but the:eri,m
soner knocked him down. He got up again,as quick
as possible, fdllOwed hli and was present when he
was secured.

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Mr. iVlabony proved hiS Cellar', which is part of
his dwelling-huuse, to
.have been broken open, an
cil
a quantity of sue stolen. The Pris'oiler was com.
ftir