The Sun.
London, England, 1850-03-02 00:00:00

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Yestereay, Thomas Dale, an athletic young man, was
brought bt.f me Mr. Binghale, charged with being con-
cerned, with le-i other men, in the commission of a daring
highway robbery, on Tuesday evening last, in Bruns-
wick-street, Dover-road.

The particu'ars of the outrage and robbery were de-
tailed in the newspapers t f the fallowing day, since
which the prisoner has been taken into custody.
Mr. Burroughs, of tf e Emigration Office, Thames-
street, the complainant, stated that in the course of the
morning he was sent for to the station-house, and in-
formed that a second man was apprehended on the
charge of being one of his assailants. That in order
that their might bo no mistake in the identification of
the prisoner, the latter was placed with several other
men, and he (complainant) was then directed to point
out the man concerned in the outrage, upon him, it he
was enabled so to do. Complainant examined the men,
and selected the prisoner from amongst them. In reply
to Mr. Bingham, the complainant said that he believed
the prisoner to be the man that he saw cross over the
street when his two first assailants left him, and it was
his impression at the time that the prisoner was on the
watch while the outrage was being perpetrated.
Policeman 156 M alted that on the evening in ques-
tion the three men suspected of the offence ran from the
direction where the complainant was rebbed and mal-
treated, and passed him (the policeman) before he heard
the alarm given by the former gentleman, but they all
escaped at the time.

Mr. BINGHAM— Have you any reason to believe that
the prisoner is one of the men that ran at ay from the
direction where the alleged outrage was committed?—
YeF.

Sergeant Watkins stated that he took the prisoner into
custody on the previous night, coming out of the Black
Henke, in Kent-street, the house in which Skinner, tha
man examined at that court on Wednesday, was cap-
tured. He (the sergr ant) had known the prisoner for
a length of time to be the constant associate of Skinner,
and also had known him to have been frequently in cus-
tody, and summarily convicted cf offence,.
Mr. Brticltim said that the allexed robbery appeared
to bo one f a very darirg character, and that it would
be most important for the ends of justice that the offenders
should b? apprehended. The magistrate then asked
the prisoner it he was desirous of saying anything?—The
prisoner said he was a cooper by trade, but out of em-
ploy, and that he knew nothing of the offence with which
he was charged. He could not deny that he knew
Skinner, but that they were not together on the night of
tho robbery.
The prisoner, wbo declinel saying anything further,
was remanded.

William Saunders, a man of respectable appearance,
who describ:d himself as a watch and clock maker, in
Webber-stret t, Lambeth, was charged with stealing a
purse containing 151., together with a gold Spanish
piece, and two half-crowns, from the person of William
Aldouw, a coffee and eating-house-keeper, in Fore-street,
Cripplegate.
The complainant stated that being about to dispose of
his house and business, the prisoner called on him on
Friday last on the subject, and a meeting was proposed
at a house in Blackfriars-road on the following Monday.
Complainant was there at the appointed time, and saw
the prisoner, who induced him to accompany him to the
Flying Horse beer-shop, in Webter-street, to witness a
bet that was made by two men on throwing heavy
He(complainant) was then taken to the skittle-
ground of the above house, where he observed other
men, who appeared to be acquainted with the prisoner,
and they all endeavoured to prevail upon him (com-
plainant) to drink and to play skitt•es, both of which he
refused to do, and the latter game was commenced by
two of the men, one of whom appeared to be losing a
great deal of money. He (complainant), not much re-
lishing the aspect of things, and suspecting ho had
fallen into dangerous company, was about to
quit the place, but before he had time to
carry his intentions into effect a row was pur-
posely got up, when four men suddenly rushed
upon him, and in an instant be vas robbed of his
purse, containing fifteen sovereigns, a gold Spanish
piece, and two half-crowns. The next moment ho saw
his purse in the hands of the prisonearn,datnhde
phreismonaedregaont
rfoibtadded
effort to go towards him in order to insist on his deli-
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complainantpst o:oSanSne do possession igOtal Ihveeo
the other men, who held him back,
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went
to t b e robbery.
Flying
Sergeant Gough, L division, stated that having re-
ceived
b‘er-shop, and found an empty purse conceaPd
in the skittle-ground. The parse was here shown to the
complainant, who identified it as the one which con-
tained the money of which be had been plundered.
The prisoner said that a nephew of his beebneing
re-
cently left some property in the country, and that
purchase
was about to enter into a negotiation for. the
this unpleasant
of complainant's premises,
whenwent on t 3 say
affair occurred. The prisoner then
informationer uytthhlleaet
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left restrained
the
houseby
business as a watch and
that ho was in respectable
anxious to set up in business in London ho (prisoner)
clock-maker Flying
Horsesand yi
men-
tioned be and the complainant went
into the Fl
although the latter asserted that he did not
play at any game while there, he (the prisoner) could
assure the magistrate that he did, and lost in bets be-
tween
81. and 94, which was won fairly from him, but
that he wanted the money back again, and this being
in Webber-street, and that on the day
raused, he trumped up the present charge; that he
(prisoner) was informed only that morning by the land-
lord of the hesr•shrp that the complainant had been
there and accused him (prisoner) of stealing his purse
and money, and that, acting upon this information, he
immediately proceeded to the station-house in Cripple-
gate, in which ho heard the complainant resided; and
having stated to the inspector on duty the nature of the
charge alleged against him, he voluntarily gave himself
into custody, and was rent over to this court. He
added most emphatically that he was entirely innocent
of the charge, and that it was untrue that he had the
complainant's purse in his hands.
The complainant was recalled, and he repeated that
his statement was perfectly correct in all particulars; and