The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-08 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 8, 1849 1

bondholders. What the bondholders wanted was some
ore in Spain to badger the Government. It would re-
quire 2,000/. to send out such a person to Madrid. He
would give 1001. himself, Mr. Tasker would give another,
Mr. Baring wculd give another 1001., and he knew
two or three other gentlemen that would contribute
similar sums.

After some further discussion the memorial was una-
nimously agreed to, and it eras resolved that a subscrip-
tion should be opened to defray the expense of sending
a commissioner to Madrid, and that an advertisement
should be put into the newspapers to that effect, and
that Mr. Tasker, Mr. Capel, and Mr Stokes, should
appoint a committee to take charge of the funds and
instruct the commissioner as to the course he should
pursue.
Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and before
the meeting broke up nearly 1,0001. were subscribed, and
several gentlemen present expressed their determination
to subscribe their mite.

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE OF MR. BAGSIIAW, OF
BRYDGER STREET, COVENT GARDEN.—This morning
information was forwarded to Mr. Bedford, the West-
minster coroner, of the death of Mr. Richard Bagshaw,
the wealthy newspaper agent, of No. 31, Brydges-street,
Covent-garden, who committed suicide under the fol-
lowing melancholy circumstances. The deceased, who
was in the 40th year of his age, was well known in the
newspaper world, and had conducted a most extensive
business for the last 20 years, which had been carried
on nearly half a century previously by his father, whom
he succeeded. Mr. Bagshaw had always enjoyed a good
state of health, but latterly ,he had shown evident
symptoms of a disordered intellect, and appeared to la-
bour under a delusive dread of poverty. By the advice
of his wife and other friends he was induced to dispose
of his business, which he accomplished a few weeks
prior to his destruction, and had resolved to remove
into the country and live a retired life. Up to eight
o'clock on Sunday morning he appeared as usual, but at
half-past ten the same morning he was dis-
covered in his bed-room with a rope tightly fastened
round his neck, and suspended to the bed-post. Life
was quite extinct. Mr. Bedford will hold the inquest
to-morrow evening at six o'clock.
Louis PIIILIPPE IN CHELTENHAM.—A rumour has
obtained currency during the last few days that the
ex-King of the French intends paying a visit to Chel-
tenham, with a view of making it a place of per-
manent residence. The foundation or origin of the
tumour has not yet been discovered.—Gloucester
Journal.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
CLERKENWELL.
On Saturday a young named George Barton was
brought up for the second time. An examination of
two witnesses against him took place on Saturday,
the 29th ult., but was not reported, before Mr. Combe,
at the Clerkenwell 'Police. court, on a charge of
having stolen, on Thursday morning, the 27th tilt., a
bundle of railway parcels under the circumstance
proved in evidence, as subjoined. The accused ap-
peared to be about 20 years of age.
The prosecutors are Messrs. Chaplin and Horne,
the well-known railway carriers, and Mr. Humphreys,
solicitor, appeared for them. Mr. Pelham attended
for the accused. Mr. Horne and Mr. Benchley, his
managing clerk, and Mr. Collard, the police superin-
tendent of the Great Western Railway, were present.
The MAGISTRATE (addressing the prisoner the mo-
ment he entered the dock)—Will you give your name
to-day ? You refused to do so this day week.
Mr. Pelham—George Barton is his name, Sir.
The evidence adduced on Saturday, the 29th ult.,
against the prisoner on the part of William Davy and
Sarah Coombes (subjoined) having been read.
Mr. Humphreys said, he would give an outline of
what he intended to do that day. They were aware
that 22 parcels strapped together bad been left at
Messrs. Gregory and Faulkner's, Bedford-row, by
William Davy, whilst he went to deliver others ; and
that when he cause back he found that a number of
parcels had been left in substitution for the bundles
that he (Davy) had originally deposited at Messrs.
Gregory and Faulkner's. He was not now going to
call on the persons who had sent the parcels that had
been stolen. He would only call persons from Bristol
who would prove that two of the parcels sent, and
abstracted, had been transmitted from Bristol on the
26th of September last, the day before the robbery
in London took place ; that they had been transmitted
by the different channels of conveyance that would
bring them to London. He should call a great num-
ber of persons, but each would give only a very short
account ; sufficient however, he thought, to establish a
proper chain of evidence to justify the committal of
the prisoner on the charge of having stolen 22 parcels.
He would call witnesses to prove the transmission
from Bristol of two parcels—the one sent from the
office of Mr. C. Hassell, solicitor, of Bristol, and di-
rected to Messrs. Lepard, of Cloak-lane, City; and
the other from the office of Messrs. Prideaux and Son,
also solicitors of Bristol, and directed to Messrs.
Holme, Loftus and Young, of New Inn, Strand. He
would also prove the contents of the two parcels.
s "Davy, examined by Mr. Humphreys—l am a
porter in the service of 'Messrs. Chaplin and Horne
for the delivery of railway parcels in London. They
are carriers of country parcels coming by the Great
Western Railway to different parts of London. lam
particularly engaged in the transmission of small
paper parcels, which I am in the habit of strapping
up in bundles. On the morning of last Thursday
week, the 27th of September, I received from the
Great Western Railway 24 parcels to deliver. .1
fastened them with a strap and made them into a
bundle, and when I had so made them up I put them
into one of our vans, and went down with them to the
corner of Brownlow-street, Holborn, and there took
out the bundle of parcels and left the van, and I then
called at Messrs. Gregory and Faulkner's, at 1,
Bedford-row, where I frequently leave parcels.
When I got there I had no parcel to leave there, but
I left the bundle of parcels on the form in the hall, in
the presence of Mrs. Coombes, the housekeeper. I
have occasionally done that before. I had two parcels
out of the 24 to deliver in Bedford-row. I separated
from the bundle those two parcels, and then went
to deliver them, leaving the 22 other parcels on the
form at Messrs. Gregory and Faulkner's. 1
was gone about ten minutes or a quarter of an hour,
and on my return I found some parcels done up simi-
larly to mine, with a strap in a bundle. (Bundle
produced.) There were eight paper parcels done up
in this bundle, and there was one loose, directed to
Guildford-street, which Mrs. Coombes told me the
person who had left it said I was to deliver immedi-
ately. She also gave me this book (producing a small
account book), and gave me also another message
from the party who gave her the book. None of the
nine parcels, though strapped in the same way,
formed part of the bundle I originally left, and I
never saw one of them before. One of the 22 parcels
I left at Messrs. Gregory and Faulkner's was ad•
dressed to the Messrs. Lepard, Cloak. lane ; and
another was addressed to Mr. Holme, New Inn. No
one had any authority whatever to exchange the
bundle I had left for that I found, or to exchange it
for any other bundle.
Mr. Humphreys—Did you know the prisoner ?
Witness—l had seen him once before.
Mr. Humphreys—Where did you see him ? Wit-
ness—Just by Gregory and Faulkner's private door
in Bedford-row. Their office door is round the
corner.
Mr. Humphreys—When was this ? Witness—
About a fortnight before the 27th of September, but
Ido not know exactly. It was between 8 and 9
o'clock in the morning, and I was on that occasion
engaged in delivering parcels. I had some parcels
similar to those in this bundle now produced, and
bound round with a strap in a similar way. He was
standing looking about, and I spoke to him.
Mr. Humphreys—Why ? 'Witness—Because I
thought he came from the North-Western Railway.
I asked him if he wanted Gregory's ? He said,
" No, I want Parker, Hayes, and Parker." I did not
know at the time that they were the solicitors of the
Great Western Railway Company, but I was aware
their offices were at No. 1, Lincoln's Inn- fields. I did
not then tell the prisoner where their chambers were,
` because I did not recollect at the time. On that
morning I had left a bundle of parcels at Gregory
and Faulkner's whilst I went to deliver others, and it
was on my return to get back my bundle that I saw
the prisoner.
Cross-examined by Mr. Pelham—ls there any
doubt in your mind as to this being the man you then
spoke to ? Witness—Not the slightest—l only saw
him once, about a fortnight before the 27th of Sept.
I never saw him before or since until he was in
custody.
Mr. Pelham—You are called on to speak to his
identity. Do you solemnly swear that that is the
man you addressed in Bedford-row ?—Yes.
Mr. Pelham—Has he been pointed out to you by
the police ?
Witness—No; I saw him last in this court on Sa-
turday last. He was in the passage when I recog-
nised him. I was with Mr. Boulton, who did not
say, " That is the man." I first said, " That is the
person I saw in Bedford-row." I spoke first, though
I do not know whether the prisoner was first seen by
me or Mr. Boulton. I saw him in the custody of an
officer walking along the passage of this court. I
had no intimation, either by winking or pointing, as
he entered the passage—no intimation given to me
that be was the man I met in Bedford. row. lam
quite satisfied he is the man.
Re-examined by Mr.Humphreys—Before you saw
the prisoner in the passage, did you see Smith, the
police officer (the officer who had the prisoner in
custody) ?—No, Sir.
By Mr. Pelham—lt was between 8 and 9 o'clock
in the morning that I left the stolen parcels at
Messrs. Gregory and Faulkner's, and I was gone
about 10 minutes or a quarter of an hour.
Sarah Coombes examined by Mr. Humphrey s—l
am housekeeper or charwoman at Messrs. Gregory
and Faulkner s. On Thursday week I received from
the last witness several parcels tied up together.
There might have been 22. I saw the last witness
take away parcels. Afterwards the prisoner called at
the house. He had on his shoulder, strapped up to-