The Sun.
London, England, 1838-10-15 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

On Saturday a man of respectable appearance, named
William Walsh, was brought before the LORD MAYOR in the
custody of Daniel Forrester, the officer, charged upon sus-
picion of having been concerned in plundering the Aberdeen
Bank on the 6th of May last of notes upon the following bank-
ing houses :—The Aberdeen Banking Company, the National
Bank of Scotland, the Aberdeen Town and County Bank, the
Bank of Scotland, the Commercial Bank of Scotland, the
North of Scotland Bank, and the British Linea Company.
The amount was upwards of 16,0001.
There were, it is believed, three persons concerned in this
robbery, and it is calculated that they must have been most
busily engaged for some weeks in making preparations, by
procuring an accurate knowledge of the habits of the inmates,
and making wax impressions of the keys, &c , before they made
the attempt which had succeeded so completely. The cashier
lived in the house, and two servant girls were kept there,
with instructions never to be absent from it at the same time.
On Sunday, the 6d3 of May, however, the cashier being
absent, and one of the girls having gone to Church, the other
forgot the obligation upon her to stay at home, and went
gadding, and between eleven 'and one o'clock, the thieves,
who no doubt had taken up their residence in the neighbour-
hood, got into the house, and stole the immense property
above mentioned. The thing was done in so neat a style,
however, that it was not supposed that any stranger had been
in the house until ten o'clock on Monday morning ; for the
thieves, knowing it was most important to them to be able to
get to town in► the mail, which was to set off at three o'clock,
and might be overtaken if their enterprise should be discovered
at that time, took care to lock up every cupboard, desk, and
safe they had opened, and to leave behind them no trace of
hurry or confusion. It is rather an extraordinary circumstance
that some boys, who were playing with their shoes off at
three o'clock in the afternoon of the Sunday, in a field near the
town, found a bundle of keys and some bags, with the words
" Aberdeen Bank" marked upon them. They immediately
took the bag to their father, who handed them over to the
police, by whom they were conveyed to the Bank, but as
-every place for the deposit of money on the premises appeared
to be quite secure, no suspicion was at all occasioned by the
incident.

Daniel Forrester, in consequence of inquiries which he bad
made, and information he had received, believed the prisoner
to be one of the persons engaged in the robbery of the Aber-
deen Bank, and apprehended him at Liverpool. •
Mr. Humphri.s, for the prisoner, asked the witness whe-
ther he had gone to Liverpool to look fur the prisoner?
Witness—No; but I apprehended him there from the descrip-
tion I had received. He was described to me under another
name. _ .

Henry Goddard, the Bow-street officer, went to Aberdeen
to investigate the circumstances of the rcbbery, and from all
he had been given to understand the prisoner's appearance
corresponded with the description given of one of the parties.
Witness would have apprehended the prisoner if he bad seen
him anywhere.
Mr. Humphries—What were the particulars of the descrip-
tion ? Goddard said that the party was represented to him as
about 32 or 33 years old, alaciut five feet seven inches high, and
quick in his movements.
Mr. Humphries submitted that the evidence was entirely
of too general a nature to sanction the detention of the
prisoner.
Mr. Bush, the solicitor to the Committee of Bankers for
the prosecution of forgers and robbers, attended for the
prosecution, and asked Forrester how long he knew the
prisoner?
The officer replied—For sixteen years. I have been
looking for him this some time, and I apprehended him the
first time I saw him after I received information of the rob-
bery of the bank.
The LORD MAYOR considered that there was quite suf-
ficient evidence to justify him remanding the prisoner.—
Remanded.