The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-27 00:00:00

MAR YLEBONE.

Robert Frost, a guard in the employ of the Great
Western Railway Company, was brought up at the in-
stance of Mr. Collard, superintendent of the said com-
pany's police, upon the charge of robbery, and it will
be seen fr,an the subjoined evidence that the prisoner
had made up his mind to wreak vengeance upon the
person by whom his guilt was discovered, but who for-
tunately escaped injury. The accused, owing to the hurt
which he had sustained by jumping from a truck iu
which he was riding, was so lame and weak as to be un-
able to stand during the inquiry, and he was therefore
allowed to sit down.,

John Murch, the *chief guard in charge of the goods
train from Bristol to Paddington on the previous morn-
ing, deposed, that while proceeding from Bath to Chip-
penham he suspected that there was something wrong,
and accordingly looked into the basket of the prisoner,
but saw nothing therein but his (prisoner's) own pro•
party; the prisoner had shifted his position several times,
and taken his place in a part of the train it was not usual
for guards to occupy, but he rode with witness from
Reading to Slough. Witness again searched his basket,
and found therein some habit-shirts, a child's robe, and
a quantity of satin neck ties. After the train had started
from Slough, witness asked prisoner what he had which
did not belong to him; when he begged that he might
be allowed to destroy the things alluded to, and which
he admitted he had taken from a box. He told witness
that he might keep the articles. When near Bull's-
bridge, about ten miles from town, he fell upon his knees
and begged that nothing might be mentioned respecting
the matter as it would be his ruin, and when within a
mile or two of the station, and while the train was going
at the rate of fifteen miles an hour, he threw himself out
into the road.

Mr. Collard said, that the prisoner was dreadfully
bruised, and it was a great morcy that he was not
killed.

A great deal of other evidence was gone into, from
which it appeared that no doubt could exist with regard
to the prisoner having abstracted the articles found in
his basket from a package which, amongst others, was
delivered at the station at Reading; the prisoner was
ultimately taken into custody at his lodgings, in Prin-
cess street, Portman-market, by Brooker and Acason,
two of the railway company's officers, when he said it
was lucky for Murch that there was another person
riding in the truck; had not such been the case he would
have been pitched out of it on the line; he bolted from
the premises, but was recaptured, and after being con-
veyed to Mr. Collard's office was locked up in the station-
house. In his room was a pistol, which he said was in-
tended for the guard Murch. Mr. Collard added, that the
pasoner told him that there would have been mur-
der but for the presence of a third person, who had, un-
der circumstances of a peculiar and pressing nature,
been allowed to travel by the luggage train from Slough
to Paddington. The capture of the prisoner was not
effected until the evening of Thursday, many hours after
he had made the leap from the truck, and no doubt could
exist as to the intention of the prisoner to attempt the
lite of the witness Mureh.

The articles of haberdashery, esc., as also a chisel
found in the prisoner's basket, were produced; the im-
plement alluded to had in all probability been used in
the opening of the box.
Mr. Collard was asked by the magistrate if he had
any further witnesses to produce, and he replied in tha
negative; he had not time to make the necessary in-
quiries lo complete the ca-e.
The prisoner was remanded till Wednesday next. His
application to be allowed to put in bail for his ap-
pearance on that day was refused, and he was then
locked up.