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

LAMBETH.
Yesterday James Sinclair and John Anderson,
who had been remanded on two previous occasions on
a charge of being concerned in several daring highway
robberies and using the most murderous violence to-
wards their victims, were again placed at the bar
before Mr. Elliott. A third person, who gave the
name of Daniel Fitzgerald, was also placed at the bar
as an accomplice.
Sergeant Hardwick, 7 D, who apprehended the
prisoners, stated that there were in attendance two
officers belonging to the Millbank Penitentiary, who
would prove that the prisoner who gave the name of
Anderson, but whose real name was Ferguson, bad
been convicted and sentenced to transportation, and
had been sent from Miilbaek on board the Warrior
convict-.ship, lying off Woolwich. Some years ago
he (Sergeant Hardwick) apprehended the prisoner
Fitzgerald on a charge of felony, and he was then con-
victed and sentenced to seven years' transportation.
On apprehending him on the present charge, and on
their way to the station house, Fitzgerald told him
that the prisoner Anderson had been a fellow-convict
with him on board the ‘Varrior, and that his real
name was Ferguson. He (Hardwick) was not yet
able to prove the fact ; but he should be able to
show that Sinclair was also a returned transport, and
that he had made his escape from one of her Majesty's
dockyards.
Thomas Barry, the deputy-landlord of a common
lodging-house, No. 16, Short's-gardens, Drury-lane,
who had been examined on a previous day, was again
called, and repeated that the prisoners Sinclair and
Anderson came to lodge at his house about the middle
of the last month, when Sinclair-described himself as
a pensioner, and said he had ls. 11d. a day pension.
On the morning of the 20:1i of that month both the
prisoners were without money, and borrowed a six.
pence from him,,saying that they were going to Green-
wich to receive some cash. On the same night, be-
tween the hours of 12 and 1 o'clock, they returned, in
company with the prisoner Fitzgerald, and at that
time they were much intoxicated, but their companion
seemed sober. Sinclair pulled from his pocket and
placed in his (witness's) hands the sum of
11. 12s. 14(1., and the other prisoner also gave him
16s. The other prisoner spoke to Fitzgerald in a
free and friendly way, said he was a good fellow, and
hoped they had satisfied him, and if not they should
do so the next morning.
John Wilson, a lodger in the last witness's house,
repeated his statement that Sinclair had told him that
he had been transported, but he did not say for what
or when. The same Rrisoner had also asked him if
he thought he could dispose of a watch at one of the
lodging-houses at the outskirts of the town. Both
Sinclair and Anderson always lived very well and
seemed to have plenty of money, though they never
did any work.
John Evans a eabinetmaker, also lodging at the
same house, said that on one occasion, when in con-
versation with the prisoner Sinclair, that person
admitted that he was a native of Gloucester, and that
his name was Robinson. On another occasion, when
the landlord, Barry, was giving a distressed lodger an
order for employment at the Mendicity Society, the
prisoner said he should knock down the first man or
woman he met in the street, rather than work for a
shilling a day. The conversation was subsequently
directed to the landlord of the house, and upon its
being said that he was in the habit of going weekly to
take away the rents collected from lodging houses in
Whitechapel, Union-court, Holborn, and Short's-
gardens, Drury-lane, Sinclair asked where he lived,
and said he would be worth meeting on his way home.
Lockyer, the gaoler to the police. station, said on
that morning, on locking up the prisoner Fitzgerald
in a cell by himself, he was leaving the place when
he heard the prisoner exclaim, " Hallo, Jena! You
are all right." The prisoner Sinclair, from another
cell, replied, "Oh ! yes, I was nailed three weeks
ago in Marrowbone-lane upon three front propping'
(meeting persons and striking and robbing them)
cases. Fitzgerald said, " Oh, yes, I saw it in the
papers." Sinclair continued and said, " Yes, but I
smashed them all. You must say that you were with
us on the night in question, and that we had a drop
of beer together, and that will save you."
The prisoners were all remanded.