The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-02 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 2 1849

twice before that, when the female prisoner M'Donald
came and took him away from her. On Monday he
received a letter telling him to go to the French
Ambassador's, and about six or seven in the evening
she inquired how he got on, when he replied he had
good news to communicate ; he had got his money
and signed the books for some trunks belonging to
him, which he had not yet brought away, but which
he was going for on the following day. She next
saw him at about seven on the following morning,
running with a girl in search of Mrs. M'Donald.: He
complained of her having robbed him, and the girl
wss with him in order to find her. After that he came
home and laid down for a short time, and at about two
on that afternoon left the house hastily, and she had
not seen him since.

Catherine Conway, a very decent-looking woman,
living in William street, Chelsea, said she met Mr.
M‘Guire about eight last Monday evening, near
Bolton's-gardens, when he invited her to take some
refreshment, and she accompanied him to the Royal
Hospital, and subsequently to the Snow Shoes,
public-houses in Royal Hospital row. He showed
her while at the Hospital his purse full of gold, told
her of his good fortune, and said he was going the
next day for his boxes. After this, while at the
Snow Shoes, the male prisoner, M'Donald, came in,
when M'Guire observed that he was a bad man because
he was jeslous. The two female prisoners and another
man and woman were also present, when some trifling
words occurring, M•Guire said he would make them
comfortable and would pay for anything they liked
to drink. When they left the public house, Mrs.
M'Donald took M'Guire home with her ; she was
so fond of him that she would not let him go
from her. After providing themselves with some rum
and beer, the witness, Mr. and Mrs. Fitzgerald, Mr.
M'Guire, and the three prisoners, went to M'Donald's
house, where, after remaining a short time, the male
prisoner turned witness and the Fitzgeralds out,
M'Guire remaining in their room, but witness re-
turned in a few minutes afterwards, in order to take
M'Guire home. He was then sick, and was about to
quit the house, when she inquired why he was going
away from her, adding that he should not leave her,
and that if he went to the devil she would follow him.
bl‘Guire, however, started from the house, accom•
panied by the female, M'Donald, and near the Col-
lege-walk she clung round him, and swore she would
not part with him. Witness was leaving them, when
M'Guire called out to her to take him away from Mrs.
M'Donald ; but, as the police came up at that
moment, and as she (witness) supposed they would
safely see him home, - she did not turn back, but left
them. The prisoner Fox struck witness while she
was in the scuffle at M'Donald's, trying to get
M'Guire away. She in the course of the evening
told Mrs. M'Donald, that from her knowledge of her,
she believed she wanted to rob the man (M'Guire).
Elizabeth Berry, of 20, Queen-street West, Chel-
sea, keeper of a chandler shop, proved that on Monday
night, the female prisoner, M'Donald, came into her
shop and said how unfortunate it was that M`Guire
had left her house, as he had now got his money, and
as she had supported him for a great length of time ;
adding at the same time that she was going in search
of him, as she heard he was at the Royal Hospital
public-house. In the night she was awoke by a
noise in the street, and saw the prisoner M'Donald
with her arms round Mr. M'Guire 's neck, and heard
him ask to be taken away from her. The police
loosed her arms from his person, and he went across
the road, but shortly afterwards stumbled, when she
again went up, caught hold of him, and wished him
to come home with her. Al'Guire, Mrs. M'Donald,
and Fox then returned down the court to the pri
soner M.Donald's, and shortly afterwards she heard a
desperate quarrel and fight. About eight o'clock
that morning Mrs. M'Donald came to her shop and
left six sovereigns for her to take care of, and to take
a score she owed of Bs. 90. out of it. She also threw
about thirty sovereigns, all new, upon the counter.
She said M'Guire had given her the money to pay her
way, but told her (witness) not to talk about, or tell
him or any one about it. She had a good many
sovereigns in a purse besides the others witness had
spoken of.
Charles Chinn, 255 A, after stating that he had
made some inquiries by direction of the superintend-
ent, stated that on apprehending the prisoner
Millonald on Saturday night, and telling them it was
for stealing a quantity of gold and two watches from
Mr. M'Guire, the female replied she knew nothing
about it, and declared that she had no money at all.
The male prisoner made the same reply as his wife,
and the latter, upon being requested to produce the
money she had, turned out 1 Is.; she was subse-

quently thoroughly searched at the station.
Mark Loom, sergeant 11 B, produced a quantity
of new male clothing, including a waistcoat found
upon M'Donald, which had been recently purchased,
and which he found in the possession of the M'Donalds.
The female M'Donald told him at the station that
M.‘Guire—hiui &mem her sixteen sovereigns on Tues-
day, and that she had swallo-TroA three of the ball-
sovereigns cn Friday. She subsequently altered her
story, and declared he gave her fifty-five sovereigns.
She informed him that she was to have met him on
Monday (yesterday) at the Foreign office, and that
she was to have gone off with him to France.
Evidence was given to show that the female
M'Donald had undergone a proper search at the
station when first taken there, by a female searcher;
but there still being reason to believe from some-
thing that money would be found, the females who were
locked up with her in the cell were all directed to
be searched yesterday, when a girl named Tapson,
detained upon another charge, produced a purse, con-
taining thirty-four sovereigns, which the prisoner
M'Donald had given her, to pass money unobserved,
if possible, to her husband.
Catherine Conway was recalled, and said the purse
resembled the one she had seen in the missing man's
possession.
The whole of the prisoners said they were inno-
cent, Mrs. M'Donald stating that M'Guire, who
never liked to see her husband in the place, but was
very partial to her, had given her from fifty to sixty
sovereigns as a recompense for having kept him a
great length of time.
Mr. B2ODERIP said he should remand the prisoners
upon this very serious charge for a week, by which
time he hoped something might occur to throw a
light upon this most mysterious affair.
The missing gentleman, whose name is Thomas
M'Gauran, or MiGorham, although he appears to
have been known by that of M'Guire, at Chelsea, is
fifty-five years of age, about five feet four high, grey
hair, round full face, fair complexion, dressed in a
brown overcoat with pockets at the side, black cloth
trowsers, blue or black waistcoat, black hat, and cloth
boots. He was so much endeared to many poor per-
sons at Chelsea, by his extreme kindness of disposi-
tion, that he had acquired for himself in the hour of
his adversity the general appellation of " Father."
So UTHWARK.

Yesterday James Perkins, an athletic young man,
was charged with a daring highway robbery, attended
with violence.

Mr. Robert Barnett stated that he was a brass
finisher, carrying on business at No. 184, Union-
street, Southwark ; that between one and two o'clock
that morning, he arrived at his house in a cab, with
his wife and two children. On alighting from the
vehicle he knocked at his door, and white standing
there he took out his purse in order to pay the cab-
man his fare. He, however, had scarcely time to
draw out the money when he received a violent blow
on the side of the head from an unseen hand, which
knocked him down, but he quickly recovered himselt
and sprang upon his feet, when he observed the pri-
soner at a short distance running in the direction of
High-street. He immediately pursued his assailant,
and having seized him by the collar, a violent struggle
ensued, during which they both fell down, and in the
prisoner's efforts to escape he struck him right and
left on the ground, but he held him firmly until a
policeman came up, and on missing his purse, which
contained some silver, he gave him into custody.
Policeman Gordon, 87 M, stated that at the hour
mentioned he was passing Union-street, and saw the
complainant and his children alight from the cab and
knock at the door of the house. He (policeman)
walked on, but had not proceeded further than about
200 yards when he heard the cries of the children,
which induced him to return to see what was the
matter. When he got back to the spot he saw the
complainant and the prisoner struggling together on
the ground, the latter making the most vigorous
efforts to escape, while the former called out that he
had been robbed and assaulted. He (policeman) se-
cured the prisoner, who denied the charge, and as-
serted that he had been struck and knocked down in
the first instance, and when they arrived at the
station-house, be (the policeman) saw the sergeant on
duty take a purse from the prisoner, who affected to
be quite astonished at .the circumstance, at the
same time saying that it must have been de-
signedly placed where it was found, in order to get
him into trouble.

Sergeant Baker, 18 A, stated that when the par-
ties arrived at the station-house, and while he was
engaged in making an entry of the charge, he ob-
served something projecting out from the breast of
the prisoner's coat, which wus buttoned up in front
to the top. lie (the sergeant) immediately rose from
his seat, and, seizing it, found it to be a purse with
money in it, which was claimed and identified by the
prosecutor as the one which had been forcibly taken
from him by the prisoner. The purse and its contents
was produced before the magistrate, who, having
warned the prisoner in the usual way, asked him if he
wished to say anything in answer to :the charge.
The prisoner, however, said that at preSent he should
decline making any defence, but that on a future
occasion, if it was deemed necessary to send the
case before a jury, he should be enabled to establish
his innocence of having intentionally robbed the com—
plainant. . •
Mr. A. BECKET said that the prisoner should
hare the opportunity-if 'wives a condition •to do
so, and committed him for trial to the Central Criminal
Court.