The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-18 00:00:00

THE £7OO. ROBBERY.

It is satisfactory to mention, that the police have
succeeded in getting a trace to the perpetrators of the
extensive theft, which we briefly noticed in yester-
day's publication, as having taken place in Edin-
burgh, on Tuesday evening. The party who was
robbed is a Mr. Gordon, from Glenlivat, who, we be-
lieve, had been attending Hallow Fair that day. After
returning from the market, he was standing near the
mouth of the White Hart Inn-close, Grassmarket,
when he felt himself jostled by two females, who
brushed past him, and very shortly thereafter, he dis-
covered that he was minus a pocket-book containing
7001. in bank-notes, most of them large. The police
were instantly apprised of the occurrence, and used
every endeavour to discover the thieves—information
being transmitted by telegraph to Glasgow the same
evening. Nothing, however, was discovered of them
that night, but the Edinburgh officers ascetained
through some channel, that two females answering
the description of the suspected parties, bad left for
Glasgow per the eight o'clock train, yesterday morn-
ing, having with them a small cocker dog. There
being still time to intercept them before getting
beyond the Queen-street terminus here, a second tele-
graphic dispatch was instantly transmitted to the au-
thorities here, conveying the information stated above.
Assistant-Superintendent Mackay, with other of the
detective officers, at once repaired to the terminus of
the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, and had not
long to wait when the train arrived, bringing with it
its usual quota of passengers. As these were passing
out of the gate, two young ladies, rather showily
dressed, attracted the attention of the parties on the
watch, one of whom was endeavouring to conceal
under her shawl a lap-dog she was carrying. She
was, moreover, recognized as an old friend, having
been previously convicted, and both dmsels
were accordingly escorted to the Central-office, where
they were searched, notwitnstanding their protesta-
tions that they had little or no money on them. The
reverse, however, was found to be the case, about 401.
being found concealed on their persons. Under these
circumstances, it was resolved to transfer the sue-
' pected thieves to Edinburgh, with a view of following
up the trace which had in this way been obtained of the
stolen money. They were accordingly taken through
in the course of the day. Another discovery, as it
is confidently expected, was also made in a rather sin-
gular way last night, of a considerable portion of the
stolen m
money. About seven o'clock in the evening,
the police in Argyle-street were so much annoyed by
the conduct of a tipsy fellow there that, although he
appeared respectable and was genteelly dressed, they
took him into custody for protection. When being
searched at the Central-office, as is always done
previous to locking parties up, a pocket-book was
found on his person containing, besides a number of
miscellaneous documents, a deposit receipt with the
Union Bank for 2301., and the sum of 301. in small
notes. The receipt, it was ascertained, had, from its
date, only been obtained that day. The document
referred to also declared the fact, that he was in cor-
respondence with some of the most notorious of our
Glasgow thieves ; and this, coupled with the circum-
stance that he was on familiar terms with one of the
girls who was apprehended at the railway station yes-'
terday; seems to afford pretty conclusive suspicion as
to his connexion with the robbery, and of the money
found on his person being a portion of the spoil. The
name of the party is John Main ; he is from England.
—North British Mail.

BURGLARIES and ATTEMPT at MURDER.

The, town of Chapel en le Frith, Derbyshire, was
early on the morning of Tuesday, the sth instant, the
scene of a series of burglaries, wbich, for boldness of
design and audacity of execution, are seldom equalled,
but which, fortunately for the unfortunate victims,
were not in any case attended with much pecuniary
loss. Not the slightest trace of the depredators could
be found the next morning; but, about half-past seven
o'clock at night, Mr. Thomas Shepley, currier, went
down to his " shippon," which adjoins the lower end
of the churchyard, for the purpose of milking ; when
he came to unlock the door he found that the lock
had been broken off, and on entering the " shippon"
he found three strange men therein. They asked him
rather civilly whether he would allow them to remain
on the hay loft all night. lie told them he did not
know ; it was rather unpleasant to have strangers
amongst the cattle and hay during the night, but he
would consider of it while he milked, for which pur-
pose he sat himself down beside a cow, when one of
the ruffians punched the lantern out of his hand. He
immediately jumped up and seized one of them, a
scuffle ensued, and some of the villains produced a
jemmy, or short-crow-bar, and struck Mr. Shepley a
violent blow on the head, which stunned him greatly,
but he had sufficient energy left to wraq the crow-
bar from the ruffians grasp, when they all three
made off in different directions, leaving their victims
on the spot bleeding profusely. His cries had, how-
ever, attracted some neighbours to his assistance, and
the news having spread with great rapidity that a
fellow-townsmen had been thus brutally maltreated,
the whole neighhoarhood wits up in arms, despite the
midnight darkness, scouring the country in all direc-
tions, and searching every nook or place likely to
prove a receptacle for such dastardly villians. The
search was for a long time abortive, but information
was given that twor strange characters were in biding
in old forge at fown-epd, and off the whole corps of
volunteer thief-catchers ran, and after a struggle suc-
ceeded in capturing the two strangers, and lodging