The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-18 00:00:00

AN EXPERIENCED BURGLAR.

Luis Peter Nicolal Ernst, a native of Elsinore,
was brought before the borough magistrates at
Leeds on Saturday last, having been remanded
from a previous day, charged with committing
a burglary at the residence of the Rev. W.
Williamson, incumbent of Headingley, near
Leeds, and was committed for trial at the next
Yorkshire assizes. On the night of the 30th
ult. an entrance was effected into the prosecutor's
house through the drawing-room window, and a
gold watch, a quantity of silver plate, and other
articles, worth between £3O and £4O, were stolen.
The prisoner was apprehended a few days after-
wards at Liverpool, and he admitted having com-
mitted the robbery. He appears to be a very
daring character. He was convicted of burglary
at Gloucester in 1858; at Worcester assizes he was
ordered to be imprisoned for two years ; he was
convicted at the Glocester assizes, still more recently;
and since his release he kas been scouring the
country. He is " wanted" at Birkenhead for a
desperate burglary. He broke into a blacksmith's
house at Bramham, sear Leeds, on the 14th inst.,
and some of that property was found upon him
when apprehended at Liverpool. On the 22d of
March he assisted in a burglary at Blackmoor, near
Leeds, in the house of Mr. Thomas Shires, farmer.
On the day previous he was at Manor Heath, near
Halifax, inspecting the plate basket of Mr. John
Crossley. He was at Scalby, near Scarborough, on
the 11th of March, and will be prosecuted for a
robbery there ; and on the 30th ult. he was at the
Headingly parsonage, near Leeds, where he com-
mitted the burglary above mentioned. Such is the
web which has at present been unravelled by the
Leeds police, and it is not yet known how far the
catalogue may extend. Ernst appears to have a
spice of romance in his composition. He is about
38 years of age, of sallow complexion, middle
height, wears gold earrings in his ears, and
has many scars about his body; the right lower
arm is marked, in blue ink, with the figures
of a sailor and a woman joining hands, and
underneath are the letters " ANA LINE" and
a ship with three masts ; the left arm is marked
in blue ink, with the figures of a woman, a mer-
maid, and the letter " M" in the centre of a heart ;
underneath, the letters "M.M" and a tree, a man, a
woman, and a sea-horse, in red and blue ink inter-
mixed, and the words " Anna Maria Gonzales ;" a
serpent on the left wrist, a man's head in centre of
a ring on the back of the left hand; a ring with
diamond on the third finger of left hand ; he has a
small silver ring through the nipple of each breast,
and on the centre of the breast, in blue ink, the
figure of Christ on the cross, and a man on the
one side and a woman on the other, weeping ; on
the front of the left thigh, in blue ink, the figures
of three men and a serpent in a tree; on the front
of the right thigh the figure of an Indian warrior :
calf of left leg marked, in blue ink, with the letters
"PLSMMSS ;" right calf marked, in blue ink,
with a crown and the letters " MK MS WLPNE-
HSCS ;" he has also a red and brown mark near
the bend of the left elbow. Several persons who
were found dealing with the property he had stolen
at Headingley were taken into custody, but some
of them were discharged, and others were admitted
evidence against Ernst.