The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-16 00:00:00

THE -- ROBBERY OF FIFTEEN
HUNDRED SOVEREIGNS.

OXPORD, APRIL 15.—This morning Richard Elliott was
brought up for further examination at Oxford Castle, before
R. Marsham, Esq , D.C.L., and Captain Shephard. As on
fo mer occasions, Mr. Ballantine, a barrister, and Mr. Ro-
binson, an Old Bailey solicitor, appeared on behalf of the
prisoner.
The first witness examined was Thomas Lucas, the
City Marshal, who took Elliot into custody. He found him
in bed at the Crown Inn, Benson, and searched his clothes
and the room. He had 19/. in gold and 18s. 2d. in silver
and copper in his pockets. He told Lucas he was going to
Box, near Bath, and upon Lucas insisting upon his going
back with him to Oxford, he said it would be awkward for
him, as he had to meet persons at Eton and Windsor next
morning. Lucas brought him in custody to Oxford.
Mr. Burgess, of the King's Arms Inn, Sandford, proved the
finding of a blue bag, with a box, with a stone and sand in,
between Nuneham and Sandford soon after the Defiance coach
passed on the day of the robbery. Mr. Martin Mountjoy, groom
of the chambers to the Earl of Chesterfield, was a passenger
at the back of the coach with Elliott, who got up at Ktights-
bridge, and saw him get down and go into the inn at Ben-
son; afterwards saw a passenger who had been sitting on the
box seat get on the side the coachman sits, while the coach-
man was down, and take a blue bag- out of the boot, and
reach across with it, but from the position witness was in
could not tell whether he gave the bag to any one or dropped
it in the boot again. When the coach left Benson a few
minutes afterwards, Elliott was standing in a position be-
hind it. This was the whole of the remainder of the evi-
dence, and the Magistrates, after hearing Mr. Ballantine
for the prisoner, committed him for trial at the next assizes,
or to find bail, himself in 500/., and two sureties in 250/. each.
Mr. Ballantine complained that the bail was exorbitant, and
intimated that the prisoner would appeal to one of the judges.

DREADFUL CALAMITY IN THE
BALEARIC ISLES.

The following dispatch from the Deputy Alcalde of Fela•
nitx to the Political Chief of the Balearic Isles, gives an ac-
count of a frightful accident which occurred there on the
31st ult., by which many hundred persons were killed or
wounded:—

" Constitutional Corporation of Felanitx.—This afternoon,
at six o'clock, a dreadful catastrophe occurred in this town.
On account se the procession which takes place every
year on the evening of this day, an immense crowd of spec-
tators had assembled at the place called the Old Cemetery
(Cinienterio Viejo), opposite the door of the church of Santa
Rosa, in order to hear one of the twelve sermons that are
preached near the churchyard. During the preaching the
wall that peparates the old cemetery from the Calle Mayor
fell down upon the assembly who were congregated in the
street, the whole (more than 300 according to calculation)
remained buried under the wall and the adjacent earth. In
union with the most influential persons of this town, I am
taking the necessary measures. The Alcalde Don Francisco
Bennasser and six of the members of the corporation (who
were only installed to-day) have been buried.
" The Deputy Alcalde JUAN CALDENTE.
" Felanitx, March 31."

Further particulars of this accident are contained in the
Following letter from the same place

" Felanitx, April 1.
" My dear Friend,—This accident has been more horrible
than we at first believed-414 persons killed, 72 wounded,
92 contused, and 27 with fractures ; this is the result of this
dreadful catastrophe, over which the inhabitants of this town
are now shedding tears of blood. What we have witnessed
yesterday afternoon and 'during the last night seems to us a
dream. The Political Chief arrived at six o'clock. I can
give you no further particulars."