The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-12 00:00:00

NORFOLK CIRCUIT.

The Right Hon. Sir Frederick Pollock, Lord Chief Ba-
ron, and Mr. Baron Rolfe.
Buckinghamshire—Saturday, March 3, at Aylesbury.
Bedfordshire—Thursday, March 8, at Bedford.
Huntingdonshire—Monday, March 12, at Huntingdon.
Cambridgeshire—Wednesday, March 14, at the County

Courts.
Suffolk—Tuesday, March 20, at Bury St. Edmund's.
Norfolk—Monday, March 26, at the Castle of Norwich.
City of Norwich, and(3ounty of the same City—The same
day, at the Guildhall of the same City.
HOME CIRCUIT.
The Right Hon. Sir James Parke, one of the Barons of
the Court of Exchequer, and Mr. Justice Wightman.
Hertfordshire—Tuesday, February 27, at Hertford.
Essex—Monday, March 5, at Chelmsford.
Kent—Saturday, March 10, at Maidstone.
Sussex—Monday, March 19, at Lewes.
Surrey—Saturday, March 24, at Kingston-on-Thames.
NORTHERN CIRCUIT.
Mr. Baron Alderson and Justice Coleridge.
North Lancashire—Tuesday, February 13, at Lancaster.
Westmoreland—Friday, February 16, at Appleby.
Cumberlaud—Monday, February 19, at Carlisle.
Northumberland—Thursday, February 22, at Newcastle-
upon-Tyne.
Town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne—The same day, at the
Guildhall of the said Town.
Durham—Tuesday, February 27, at Durham.
Yorkshire, Saturday, March 3, at the Castle of York.
City of York—The same day, at the Guildhall of the
said City.
South Lancashire—Saturday, March 17, at Liverpool.
CIRCUIT OF WALES AND CHESTER.
Mr. Justice Cresewell and Mr. Justice Erle.

Glamorganshire—Tuesday, February 27, at Swansea.
Pembrokeshire—Thursday, March 8, at Haverfordwest.
Town and County of Haverfordwest—The same day, at

the Town of Ifaverfordwest.
Cardiganshire—Tuesday, March 13, at Cardigan.
Carmarthenshire—Saturday, March 17, at Carmarthen.
County of the Borough of Carmarthen—The same day,
at the Borough of Carmarthen.
Brecknockshire—Friday, March 23, at Brecon.
Radnorshire—Wednesday, March 28, at Presteign.
Montgomeryshire—Monday, March 12, at Welshpool.
Merionethshire—Thursday, March 15, at Bala.
Carnarvonshire—Saturday, March 17, at Carnaryon.
Anglesey—Thursday, March 22, at Beaumaris.
Denbighshire—Monday. March 26, at Ruthin.
Flintshire—Thursday, March 29, at Mold. ,
Cheshire—Saturday, March 31, at the Castle of Chester.

EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY AT
ST. PANCRAS WORKHOUSE.
A robbery of a very mysterious character has been
perpetrated on the directors of the poor of St. Pancras,
by the abstraction, on Thursday evening, of the sum in
silver of 1551., and 201. in gold, making a total of 1751.,
which had been deposited in the " strong room" of the
newly erected vestry-rooms adjoining the workhouse,
in the King's-road, Camden-town. This money had
been deposited in the place from which it was taken for
the purpose of paying the permanent weekly poor on
Friday, and it was not until the assembling of the board
on Friday morning that the robbery was discovered.
The following facts relating to this acrair mn437 be re-
lied upon as accurate:—
In order that the plans for effecting the robbery may
be perfectly understood, a slight description of the
building known as the new vestry rooms is necessary.
The front of the building faces the west, where
of course is situate the principal entrance; imme-
diately on entering which, on the right hand, is a
passage leading to the closets and wash-hand stands,
from which there is a small window looking into the
front court-yard. On the left, as you enter the building,
is a passage and door leading down a flight of steps into
a front garden of the workhouse, and immediately ad-
joining the lodge at the workhouse gate. This door is
invariably kept locked, and the key deposited with Mr.
M`Gahey, the vestry clerk, and clerk to the directors of
the poor, and kept by him in his private room to pre-
vent communication between the vestry rooms and the
workhouses. From the grand entrance is a long wide
passage with apartments opening from it on either side,
used as offices for the vestry clerk, the accountant, and
various officers employed in administering relief to the
poor; the vestry clerk's public office being No. .3 on the
left-hand side, and his private room communicating with
the public office by a door in the south-eastern corner.
At the extreme end of the main passage eastward is the
" strong room," a large fire-proof vault, entered from the
passage by a massive iron door. In this was a cup-
board, or rather four cupboards in one piece, and in
these it was the practice to deposit the cash brought
from the bank for weekly disbursements.
It appears that, as was customary, Mr. M'Gahey, the
clerk to the board, accompanied by his son, a young
man about twenty years of age, who acts as clerk in his
office, proceeded on Thursday afternoon to fhe Blooms-
bury branch of the London and Westminster Bank, and
brought away the sum of 1554 in silver, in three bags,
and 501. in notes. Mr. M`Glahey had previously placed
the 20/. in gold in the cash box, and on their arrival at
the vestry rooms (keeping the notes in his pocket) he
went away, leaving his son in the office to count the
silver, in which he was assisted by another clerk, Mr.
Plews.
Mr. M'Gahey, jun., stated that when he had counted
the money he went into his father's private room, and
took from the drawer of the inkstand on the table the
key of the " strong room," this being the place where it
was usually kept, a fact known, it is stated, by all the
officers of the establishment. Having got the key, he
went and deposited the money in the cupboard in the
" strong room," locked the door, and put the key back in
the place in the:inkstand drawer in his father's room. It
must be here remarked that it was the custom of
Mr. M'Gahey, jun., to request Mr. Plews to assist him
in placing the money away in the " strong room ;" but
on this occasion he did not do so.
The first discovery of the robbery on Friday morning
was occasioned by the demand of the board for money
to pay the poor, and the absence of the key of the
" strong room" from the drawer of the inkstand. The
" strong room" door was found locked, and a duplicate
key having been obtained, it was opened, and it was
then discovered that the cupboard referred to had been
broken open, as also the cash box therein, and the silver
and gold to the amount stated stolen. Information was
instantly forwarded to the police-station of the S divi-
sion in Phenix-street, Somers Town; and on the arrival
of Inspector M'lntosh and Police constable Lockerby
(employed as one of the detective men of the division),
an investigation took place, and the following suspicious
facts presented themselves. In the " strong room there
were no traces of any implements, nor had there been
any violence used to the lock ;of the iron door. The
door of the vestry clerk's office was found unlocked, as
was also the private room of Mr. M'Gahey; and on
search being made, not only was the key of the
" strong room" gone, but the key also which opened
the door leading from the vestry room into the work-
house garden. Whilst this investigation was proceeding
Mr. Jaques, the chief clerk in Mr. M`Gahey's office, had
occasion to go to the closets, and to his astonishment
found the outer door from the passage locked, a circum-
stance which created great astonishment, it having been
known that no key had ever been in that door for two
months past. Another key, however, was found, and on
this door being opened the window alluded to as looking
into the court yard in front of the building was found
half open, and on the washhand stand immediately under
it were found, ranged all in a row, the key of the
" strong room," which had been taken from the vestry
clerk's inkstand, the key of the door leading into the
workhouse garden, the key of the outer door to the
closets (found locked), together with a regular
"jemmy," or thieves' crowbar, and a screw driver. On
the window sill were discovered tour finger marks of
each hand, but, on minute inspection, the officers are
convinced that these had been made from the inside, but
were intended to lead to a belief that the robber had made
his exit by getting out and dropping from from the win-
dow—a circumstance rendered impossible with the sum
of 1551. in silver on his person.
Mr. M'Gahey, jun., states that when he deposited the
money in the " strong room" he immediately went, after
locking the door, and placed the key where he found it,
and then left the premises, the time being, to the best
of his belief, about a quarter past six o'clock. There
is some doubt about which of the beadles locked up the
place, but the last person in the vestry clerk's office was
Mr. Jaques, the chief clerk, and he, it appears, recollecting
after he had got out into the road that he had not locked
the office door, told Lamb, the porter at the gate of the
workhouse, to go up and do so, but which Lamb omitted
through forgetfulness, not thinking, as he states, at the