The Sun.
London, England, 1828-10-24 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Yesterday Israel Horrod, who has been in cus-
tody for several days past upon a charge of burglary
and robbery at the house of a gentleman in whose
service he had lived as valet, was brought before Sir
G. FARRANT, the sitting magistrate, for final exami-
nation. The prisoner'is a very fine-looking young
man, and bears with him an appearance and manner
very superior
to what is met with in persons of his
class in life. The prisoner's mother, a very respect-
able-looking aged widow, residing, in good circum-
stances, at Cowley, near Uxbridge, attended the ex-
amination, and seemed deeply affected at the situa-
tion of her son, towards whom she frequently cast a
glance expressive of the most bitter sorrow and
anguish.
Humphrey St. John Mildmay, Esq., being sworn,
deposed, that he resides at Mountclear, near Roe-
hampton, in the county of Surrey, and that the pri-
soner had lived in his service there as valet and foot-
man for some time, but was discharged in the month
of August last. On the night of Saturday, the 11th
of this month, witness, just previously to his going
to bed, deposited three 10/. notes and two 5/. notes
of the Bank of England, together with five sove-
reigns, in one of the drawers of a bureau in his
library, and Jawing locked the drawer, placed the
keys in another open one adjoining, where he usually
left them. When he came down stairs the next
morning, he found the drawer which he had placed
the money still locked, as he had left it, but the keys
missing from the bureau, and could nowhere be
found ; and on the cash-drawer being subsequently
opened, the whole of the money above described was
also found to have vanished. The numbers of
two of the 101. notes thus missing, Mr. Mildmay
said, were 19,266 anti 19,267, both dated the Ist of
August, 1828. Since the prisoner has been in
custody, the witness added, he had acknowledged to
him of his own free word, and without either threat

or promise having been held out to him, that he bad
committed the robbery, and declared that he had no
accomplice whatever in the perpetration of it.
William Bell deposed that he is at present a foot-
man in the service of Mr. Mildmay, and he recol-
lected perfectly well that on the night of Saturday,
the 11th instant, he assisted the porter to Mr.
may's house at Roehampton, in locking up and secur-
ing inside an outer door of a hall which leads to the
kitchens and other Offices in the bottom part of the
house, but that the next morning he found this door
opened, which must have been done from the inside
as there was no appearance whatever of violence
having been-used.
William 'Cole, book-keeper at the, new Bull-and-
Mouth coach-office, in Qxford-street, deposed, that
on the 13th of this month, the prisoner came to the
office and had a place booked for him on the outside
of the Telegraph coach to Hereford, in the name of
ThOmpson, and he gave witness the 101. note of the
Bank of England now produced, numbered 19,2c6,
and dated the Ist of August, 1828. Witness wrote
the name of Thompson on the note, which he after-
wards paid away to a Mr. Saundersori, and gave the
prisoner the change, deducting 1/. 9s. for the coach
fare; but whether the prisoner went by the coach or
not the witness did not know.

Isaac. Nathan, a Jew salesman, residing in Little
Chapel-street, Edgewure-road, deposed, that on the
13th of this month the prisoner came to his shop
and purchased there the blue coat and the pair of
boots now produced, and gave him in payment for
them the 101. note produced, numbered 19,267,
dated the Ist of August, 1828, and the witness gave
him the change, deducting the price of the coat and
pair of boots.
George Dyer, a clerk in the Bank of England, de-
posed that the two 10/. notes which he now pro-
duced, dated and numbered as above described, were
paid into the Bank on the 15th of this month.

Thomas Clements, one of the officers. belonging
to this office, deposed that he apprehended the
prisoner on the night of the 15th of this month, at a
• public-house called the Bricklayers' Arms, in Park-
street, Grosvenor-square. He told the prisoner
that he apprehended him for the robbery at Mr.Mild-
may's house; but the prisoner then
,denied all
knowledge of the offence, and he was lodged for
that night in St. James's watch-house. The next,
day the prisoner was brought before Sir George
Farrant, the Magistrate of this office, to whom the
prisoner expressed a wish to make a private commu-
nication, and he was permitted to do so. After
that, in the course of the same day, while witness
Iwas conveying the prisoner to gaol for re-exantintt
titan, he asked him if he had told Sir George Farrant
the truth, and the prisoner replied, " that so help
him God he had ;" and he then went on to tell the
witness that be had had no accomplice in commit-
ting the robbery at Mr. Mildmay's house, which he
confessed he had committed, but did it all by him-
self alone. One of the 101. notes, be said, he had
passed at the Bull and Mouth, in Oxford-street,
where he took a place by a coach, for Hereford,.but
he never intended to go by the coach, as his only
object was to get the note changed in paying for
the place ; and another 10/. note he said he had
passed to Mr. Nathan, a clothes' salesman, near the
Edge ware-road ; but all the other notes, he said, he
had thrown into the river Thames, as he was going
over Vauxhall-bridge. Witness afterwards told the
prisoner that he did not believe that he had thrown
any of the notes into the river, for that he (the wit-
, ness) knew where a third 10/. note had been
changed, and the prisoner they admitted that he
had not thrown them, as he had said, into the
river, but that he had changed the 51. notes at the
livery-stables of a Mr. Coates, where he had hired
a gig and horse, and that the third 10/. note he had
changed at the Gloucester coach.:office, where
he took a place for Dover, but did not go.
'Witness asked the prisoner how such a thought
could have ciente into his head as to commit
this robbery ; and he replied that he could not
account for it, but that he had been Miserable
and unhappy ever since Mr. Mildmay had discharg-
ed him, and he knew that he could never expect to
get into another place. On the Saturday, he said,
that he committed the robbery, he was sitting alone
at the Bricklayers' Arms public-house in Park-street
when the thought suddenly came into his head to go
down and commit this robbery, mad he started up
en the instant, and walked all the way to Roehamp-
ton. When he got down there, he hid himself, he
said, behind one of the trees in the lawn, where he
remained until he saw the carriage drive away from
the house, and he then quietly, when there was no
one about, stole in at the street-door, which leads to
the lower apartments of the house, and which gene-
rally stands open during the day, as there is an inner
door kept closed, and this passage has no direct com-
munication whatever with the chief entrance hall to
the body of the house, the door to which is up a
flight of steps, and over this lower hall. Having
got into this passage, the prisoner said that he con-
cealed himself in one of the coal-cellars off the pas-
sage, until about three o'clock in the morning, when
taking off his shoes, he climbed up to the top of the
inner door, which still obstructed him, and there
worked himself in through an unglazed fan-light, for
the admission of the air to this part of the house.
Thus lie got into the kitchen, and from thence easily
proceeded, as he knew every inch of the way, up to
the study ; turd, knowing where the keys of the
bureau were generally deposited by Mr. Mildmay,
he easily found them, and opening the drawer where
' the money was, he took out all the cash, and again
locked the drawer as he had found it ; but carried
the keys away with him altogether. Having thus
accomplished the robbery, he made his way out again,
through the fan-light, as he had entered ; for although
he might easily, he said, have opened this door, being
then on the inside, he would not do so, because be
knew by experience that the door creaked on its
hinges, and he could not venture to open it without.
the risk of disturbing the servants who slept in the
neighbourhood of it. Having got over this door, he
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and
opening very gently the outer door of all, which, had
been fastened at night-time, be made his final exit
that way, but did not hazard closing the door after
him, lest it should make any noise.
Henry Goddard, another officer of this office, de-
posed, that he found the pair of boots and the. blue
coat now produced, and which Mr. Nathan had
proved to have sold to the prisoner, at the residence
of the prisoner's mother at Cowley, where the pri-
soner was living at the time.
The prisoner said nothing in his defence, and was
fully committed for trial on this charge.
Mr. Mildmay was now swore again, and deposed,
thatin the month of July lest, he was residing in
Piccadilly, and the prisoner Has then in his service;
and in that month he (Mr. Mildmay) missed a vast
quantity of wearing apparel of all sorts; indeed, to
an extent that almost stripped his wardrobe at the
time ; but not wishing to prosecute the prisoner, al-
though he had no doubt but he was the thief, he dis-
missed him from his service, and let the matter drop.
The four shirts and other articles now produced
were part of the things then stolen from his house.
Clements and Goddard, the officers, stated that
they found at the residence of the prisoner's mother,
at Cowley, where he lived ever since he was dis-
charged by Mr. Mildmay, an immense quantity of
wearing apparel of every kind belonging to Mr.
Mildmay, including no less than 21 beautiful shirts,
chiefly cambric, and all marked with Mn. Mildniay'x
name in full ; but Mr. Mildmay gave them all up
again to the prisoner's mother, except the four
shirts, &c., mentioned in his evidence.
On this charge the prisoner was also committed
for trial.

Clements, the oflicer,• added that on searching
the prisoner's person, he
.found in one of his pockets
the very keys of Mr. Mildmay's bureau which he
had taken away, and a French snuff-box which Mr,
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on him a silver watch, which his mother said had
belonged to her husband, and which she had herself
given, she said, to the prisoner.
The prisoner denied that the snuffbox belonged