The Sun.
London, England, 1826-08-30 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW- STREET.—Ann GrUjith and S'aruh Bather were
charged by Mm. Mary Hatch, of Great Queen-street, Long-acre,
and Mary Brown, her lodger, with robbing them of three silver
spoons, a necklace, and Various articles of wearing apparel to a
considerable amount. It appeared that the prisoner Griffiths was
hired by Mrs. Hatch to nurse a sick child, and that Barker was
employed at the house at the same time as ehar-womaii.. MM.
Hat& missed several articles front time to time, but never sus-
pected either of the prisoners, until her lodger, Mrs. Brown,
complained that she also had lust, within a very few days, several
matters, chiefly articles of dress. About' this time, however, the
child of Mrs. Hatch died, and the mother was so grieved at the
circumstance, that she did not immediately consider the necessity
therUwas to inquire into the robbery, and the prisoners had thus
a second opportunity of abusing their trust, by continuing their
system of plunder. To such an extent, however, did they carry
on their-nefarious dealings, that Mrs. Hatch and her lodger, in a
very short time, were nearly stripped of their wardrobes, and sus-
picion naturally falling on the prisoners, an , officer was sent for
from this office, who, on searching them, found upwards of 100
pawnbrokers' duplicates on their persons, chiefly for goods stolen
from the prosecutors.
Several pawnbrokers came forward with property pledged with
them from time to time by the prisoners. The majority, how-
ever, gave up the articles they took in, sooner than be obliged to
undergo the trouble and inconvenience attendiug on a prosecution.
Mrs. Hatch and Mrs. Brown were also, from =flees of hu-
manity, extremely unwilling' to have the prisoners committed for
trial; but the Magistrate (Mr. Minaltull) said that the robbery
was by far too extensive, and the circumstances under which it
took place of too aggravated a description, the prisoners having
taken the advantage of a domestic misfortune to pursue their work
of plunder, for hint to take any other course than to 'commit them
for trial, and accordingly Mrs. Hatch and Mrs. Brown, together with
two of the pawnbrokers, were severally bound over to prosecute. -
MARLBOROUGII-S'f 1 tEE --- Timothy. Donovan, John
Glover, John Ilarris, john James, John Lancaster, John
Brady, Thomas Baynes, and Michael Broohley, except
the latter, well known to the police of the metropolis ai real and
reputed thieves, were brought from St. Giles's watehhouse, and
placed at the bar in one lot.
Furzman, the watchhouse-keeper of St. Giles's parish, and a
very active constable, stated, that the first seven prisoners he had
long known, as, indeed, every one else. belonging to the police
did, as part of a numerous gang of thieves that for a long ,time
held their meetings at. the Cross Keys public-house, in Belton-
street, Long-acre.: but after great exertions. by the police in
watching and reporting the house, they were banished from it,.
but were immediately accommodated at the house of one Sullivan,
who keeps the White Hart nublic house, in a court called the
Coullard, in St. Oiles's. Repeated hut unavailing complaints
have been made to this Sullivan, •of his harbouring those thieves.
He has, ever since their expulsion from the Cross Keys, had them
in numerous gauge regularly every-night at his house,• lie himself
presiding amongst them as chairman of their club ; and almost
every night there is a subscription amongst theta for the relief or
the defence upon trial, of some robber or pickpocket. On Monday
night Forman got information that there was to be a large congre-
gatiou of thieves at the White Hart, to get up a raffle for the benefit
of a man now under sentence of death for burglary, and cards of
invitation to the raffle were regularly printed, and sent round
amongst all the thieves, stating the object of the meeting. They
accordingly assetnbled with a number of, prostitutes and a fiddler,
to have a dance after the raffle ; but amidst their jollification,
Furzman rushed into the club-loom, where,. on this occasion too,
the landlord was in the chair and, after a desperate resistance by
Many of the thieves, he took these eight into custody, but about a
dozen more at least escaped.. The greater number of these in cus-
tody have been tried and convicted, and two of them are not above
a week out of prison, after undergoing their sentence. Brookley,
the last mentioned, generally works very hard during the day
with his brother, who is a fishmonger, but he is always at night
to he seen in the company of thieves. •
The Magistrate ordered all the prisoners to be committed for
want of bail, and directed that an information should at once be
laid against Sullivan's house for harbouring thieves, and that a re-
port should be made by the Vestry Clerk of the parish to the li-
censing Magistrate% that this house should be deprived of its
licence

Plank, the chief officer, called Mr. Conant's notice to the obser-
vation* in The Times of yesterday on this subject, during the in-
vestigation of this case, and the Magistrate after attentively
perusing them, 41i:dated ;bat none mote just or applicable could be
imule, au' this subject, mesa one which deserved attention.
11A.TTON4is ARDEN.---Yesterday an old man, named Joseph
Toplor, together with his wife, and son, were charged with pre-
paring for circulation different denominations of spurious coins,
purporting to be the genuine currency of the country.
Messrs. Powell 81141 Chippendale attended on behalf of the Mint.
The examination, which lasted upwards of three hours, was con-
ducted in private, but we learned that the prisoners were appre-
hended in the neighbourhood of Walworth, and form part of a
gang who carry on the traffic to a great extent, embracing not
merely the metropolis, but in confederation with smaller parties,
who-rtravel all over the kingdom, distributing the issues of this-
Mint.

The execution of the die is so ingenious is topuside the, inspec-
tor of coins, and the proCess by which the metal is coloured, is de-
cidedly a- new one. The finished shilling or half-crown,- Would
elude the most rigid examination, so far as external appearances
go, but when compared with the genuine coin they are much
lighter. The senior male prisoner is an old hand, who has eluded,
the vigilance of the police, who have been in pursuit of -him for
some time.

hi hits apartment where he was taken, a considerable quantity
of various coins in different stages of preparation were found, some
iu process of colouring, and others rough front the mould • there
were also found several bottles of muriatic and sulphuric acids, and
some powder used in the new-invented method of whitening the
metal, which gives a durability of colour hitherto unattainable.
The prisoners made no defence, and were fully committed for
trial, on the capital charge, at the next Surrey assizes.

EXECUTION OF W.'MILLS AND T. GARDINEII.
—These two victims to the offended laws of their country termi-
nated their mortal career sport the scaffold, on Saturday, as we
intimated in our last. Their behaviour, up to the fatal moment,
was strictly in unison with that contrition end repentance which
they had manifested from the time of condemnation, en interval
which they devoted almost exclusively to the duties of religion.
They made a full confession of their crimes, acknowledged the
justice of the fate they were about' to undergo, and, as the best
proof of the proper state to which they had subdued their minds,
repeatedly expressed their entire forgiveness. of the accomplice
whose testimony had led to their conviction. With Mills peril.-
cdtarly the latter feeling was predominant, and he frequently inti,
mated kwish to have a friendly interview with hie !Avatar before
he sneered. This, however, did not take place, as Thomas Mills
could not be induced again to face his miserable,brother and asso-
ciate. On the day previous to his execution, Mills took a final,
leave of his wretched parents. The old man was dreadfully af-
fected, but the mother did not manifest a similar degree of feeling.
On Saturday morning both culprits attended. in the chapel, where,
after the usual service, the sacrament .was administered to them.
They afterwards again made confession of their offences, and about
half-pest twelve o'clock were ushered to the fatal beam, where
their earthly takings were terminated in the presence of so int,
' Meuse concourse of spectators. After hanging the usual nibs, tie
bodies were taken down, and delivered to their friends for inter-
- anent.— Gloucester Journal.
IRE IN AN kE4-1011sE I—A few days ago, about
ten o'clock in the morning, a little alarm, not unaccompanied
with some mirth, produced by occasional efforts at humble wit,
preluded in the neighbourhood of Grove-street, Bath, under-
neath part of which is the ice-house of Mr. J. Tolley, of Milsom-
street. An old woman, who hid observed some smoke issue from
the ice-house door, gravely reported that "the people had been
there wi' a lighted candle a'ter ice, and they dropped, a spark and
bet Ore ta't." The former part of the report appears to have been
correct
or ;parestndrvitin tgcoidd seem that " the people" had dropped the
candle on the straw, l,y which the ice is surrounded fur the pur-
pose; but there having been in the house only
two, cwt. of straw, and about ten tints of ice, which on every
approach of its rival element assumed its original state, the odih
onflo,Wiantgermuagrailinst fire were ton considerable to allow of the hitter's
progress. Two or three hundred weight of ice
waaloi4 ; when, with the essistanee of some engioee, the fire Was
extinguished.

ISISTItRiSING CASE.-011 Monday afternoon an
Inquest was held at the Cherry Tree, Com mereitroischl,
woman,
W.
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trnWino ~ on Sarah Solomon*, an, old
years of age. Adam Edwards deposed that between one and two
in the morning he was alarmed by the cry of 14 pire,.. be got
up and dressed himself, and on going Into the street perceived Mr.
Solomon's house in flames, and Mrs. Solomon*, his moth",
lying on the pavement. !fa clothes, &e., were all stained with
blood, anti she was considerably burnt. She was intmediatelY
conveyed to the hospital, where she died after lingering a few
hours. SoloitiOns, who was confined to his bed with aise-
vere illness at the time, jumped out of a two pair of stairs window
ahospital. ud broke both his legs,' he now lies in a dangerous Matt at The Humes were , got under in a short time, thed
9teily 'arrival of engines. The Coroner summed up the evidence,
mutt the Jury tour* a verdict Mt:Wilma path."