The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-07 00:00:00

It appeared that the prosecutor was a railway-guard,
travelling between Carlisle and Stranraer, and on the
sth of last July he went to bathe in the river Eden, near
Stoneyholme. He had been bathing about five minutes,
and had just come out of the river and begun dressing,
when a man came up to him with a black mask on his
face, and asked him if he had any money in his pocket.
Prosecutor said that was not his business, when the man
stepped back and pulled out a six-barrelled revolving
pistol, and said, " Give me your purse, or I'll blow your
brains out." Prosecutor not liking the look of the pis-
tol, thought it better to give up his money, and handed
the man 32., all the money he had, and the man then
demanded and got his watch, and went away. Tho
man was very like the prisoner Monteith in person, and
was dressed like him. Information was given to the po-
lice, and suspicion fixed on the two prisoners, who were
seen together at the railway station, going to Dumfries,
on the 12th of July. They were followed there, and
the prisoner Tinning was apprehended at a lodging-
house at • Maxwell-town, near Dumfries, and in
his pockets were found a brace of loaded pis-
tols, three signal whistles, a bullet mould, ten
bullets of different sins, powder, and caps. On
being searched by the officer, he said, " Are you going
to take my bull-dogs from me?" Afterwards a small
parcel was found in a cradle in the room where he was,
which was found to contain the works of a watch, which
the prosecutor identified as his. The other prisoner was
also apprehended at a lodging-house in Dumfries,. where
he was found in bed. On the officer entering his room
he sprang out of bed and endeavoured to get his coat, in
the pockets of which a six-barrelled revolving pistol was
found, each barrel loaded. He said, had he known it was
the officer he would have put three bullets into him. He
then asked, if the officer had got Tinning.
This was the case for the prosecution.
The prisoner Monteith put in a written defence, ac-
knowledging that he. in company with Tinning, had
committed two other highway robberies, but denying par-
ticipation in this particular one.

His LORDSHIP having summed up,
The jury found both the prisoners Guilty.
They were afterwards charged with robbing at mid-
day a chemist and druggist travelling in his gig, about a
mile from Carlisle, on the 11th day of July last, present-
ing a pistol at his head and demanding his mosey.
To this charge Monteith pleaded Guilty. The other
prisoner was found Guilty.
There were two other similar charges against the pri-
soners, to which they pleaded Guilty.
They were sentenced to be transported for 15 years.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Aug. 6.
(Before Mr. Sergeant ADAMS, Assistant Judge, and a
Bench of Magistrates.)
AN EXTRAORDINARY CAREER OF CRlME.—James
Williams, 17, \vas indicted for having stolen a pair of
silver spectacles, value 215., the property of William
Blackhouse, from the person of Jane, his wife.
Mr. Spicer appeared for the prisoner.
Michael Haydon, the well-known detective officer of
the City police, stated that he left Cremorne Gardens by
the last boat on the night of the 21st of July. The pri-
soner came in the same boat. The prosecutrix quitted
the vessel at Hungerford-pier, when she wasimmediately
followed by the prisoner. Witness, who was close at
hand, saw the prisoner put his right hand into the
lady's pocket, and draw it out again. Witness then
stepped forward and seized his hand, and the contents
fell to the ground, which proved to be a pair of silver
spectacles, upon which he took the prisoner into cus-
tody. On the way to the station-house the prisoner
asked him whether they had not better "square it,"
and added that if he would call upon the old man he
would give him a pound for himself; as he had not got
him to rights.
Mrs. Blackhouse proved that the spectacles were her
property, and that they wore safe in her possession five
minutes before her attention was called to her loss by the

officer.
Mr. SPICER cross-examined. the witnesses, but de-
clined to address the jury for the prisoner, believing it to
be impossible to struggle against the evidence.
The jury instantly found the prisoner Guilty.
William Combe, police-constable 94 L, then gave the
following history of the prisoner, whom he stated he hed
known for a number of years:—ln -February, 1841, he
was convicted at the Surrey Sessions, and sentenced to
imprisonment for three months; on the 9th of August,
1843, he was again tried at the Westminster Sessions,
and sentenced to be transported for seven years. (This
sentence was afterwards remitted by the Secretary of
State.) On the Bth of October, in the following year,
he again appeared at the Surrey Sessions, and was sen-
tenced to imprisonment for three months. He appeared
a third time at the Surrey Sessions, on the 6th of No-
vember, 1845, when he was fortunate in being acquitted
of the charge. Nothing further is traced as to his doings
until the 7th of August, 1848, when he, for the fourth
time, was brought up at the Surrey Sessions, and sen-
tenced to be imprisoned for three months. The next
that is heard of him is at the Central Criminal Court, on
the 11th of June, 1849, when he was convicted and sen-
tenced to bo imprisoned for twelve months, but had been
out of prison little more than a month, when he was
again tried at his old quarters at the Surrey Sessions,
for the fifth time, but was again fortunate in obtaining
an acquittal. The next offence, on the 21st of July,
brought him before this Court, but in the intervals that
had elapsed between one imprisonment and another, at
various times he had been frequently summarily con-
victed, and sentenced to terms of imprisonment varying
from seven to fourteen days.
The Learned JUDGE said that this lad, who was now
only 17 years of ago, was eight years ago one of the
boys who was transported for seven years, for the pur-
pose of being sent to Parkhurst, but it appeared that
tie did not tall under the " qualifications" required for
admission to that establishment, which were that he
should be 13 years of age, 5 feet 4 inches in height, and that
he should be a great rogue. He was then Ynnas ionf
' years and in crime, and the effect was,
being kept out of harm's way, and put ttOi
s°lnoef State,
employment, he was pardoned by the Secrets Y
at
t useful
to pursue that career that had broughtehnir
er
utoinstenebeasr,
this day. He should, therefore, under th
sentence the prisoner to the longest term in the power
of the Court, and that was, that be be transported for the
term of ten years.
posinst
, KENSINGTON
ROBBERY AT M. SOYER'S SYX- -•--
Williant Hayes, 42, was indicted for having stolen a table-
cloth and other articles, value 305., the property of Mr.
John Simmonds.
Mr. Hardinge Giffard conducted the prosecution; Mr.
Metcalf defended the prisoner.
From the evidence it
a hm appearedan that the prisoner was
employed asv on the premises of II;
ap
on sifuhmt watchman
House, Kensington, the em-
ployment eofSa;mwa- watchman ma n being deemed necessary in conse-
quence of articles o value being left about utter parties had
dined in toots on the ground. On the night of Fri-
day, the Ist of July, one of the lodgers coming to M.
Soyer's at a late hour, and finding the front gate
open and the watchman not in his box, together with
the fact of a woman being seen just leaving the premises
with a bundle, some suspicion fell upon too prisoner, and
on searching his residence in Field-street, 14 tumblers
and 14 wine glasses were found, which were identified as
belonging to the contractor for linen, glass, &c., at M.