The Sun.
London, England, 1828-07-05 00:00:00

OLD BAILET.-(TITIS DAY.)

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OLD COURT.
THE POST-OFFICE ROBBERY AT HOUNSLOs'
• William Bull, aged 30, and William Smith, slu
Cox, aged 30, men of respectable appearante,-
indicted for stealing, on the 19th of Febittit4',:fql
the Hounslow Post-office, 29 mail bags,' thblitotier'
of his Majesty.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL stated the ease to
Jury. It was usual on the country mails, When
ceeding to London, to stop at Hounslo*i-Wrh er .
Window was raised up that the bigslitEiiiit'
pa
might be thrown in. About six o'cleat: 4/4.
coach generally calls, and in less than in 'h6iir v
last of them passes. Twenty-nine . bags 'vie
missing shortly after, when a ladder, and, the Ne %-vhul
hag were found in the street. The ladder was ide
rifled as one that was seen at the lodgings
prisoner. Bull. A key that had been stolen ttom
Coach and Horses public-house that morterig
found in the possession of Smith.
Mary Ann Watson, postmistress of Souti)imnitO,
John Hutton, of Bristol, MarY Wh4e, of Iteao
and several others, deposed liaiing mail t.bags
Hounslow on the 18th of February last. T. .
The Guards of the Southampton, BrisAol, Bst
Gloucester and Stroud rails, deposed h Aving
vered a number of bags on the Morning o t the 1911,
A female servant employed at the Hot) nslow Po
Office, stated that it was usual after th, t. first guar,
had called at the office, to leave the w ihaoW open
for the other guards to throw in their bags.
Mrs. Bickham, the Hounslow postantstress, Lit
posed, that she slept in a room adjoining the office:
on the morning of the 19th of February, .Ihe :0;
not in the least disturbed that moritin:g,neviL7Thear'
the guards throw in the bags; did not. misAthel24"
till half an hour after she rose.

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Mr. Joseph Dyer, licensed victudder, residing a'
the Pembroke Arms, Kensington, stated, that be
had known the prisoners some time, they rented '
stable, loft, and dwelling-room al: him, as !kw!
stables. Prisoners took in horses to bait. The
stables were situated at the back of witness's.house
and there was a ladder on the premises belongiai
to witness. The ladder produced by the officers
which was found at Hounslow, is his ladder, and tl.)
one appropriated for the prisoners' use. Witnes'
missed the ladder on the 16th of :,March:
Several other witnesses identified the ladder il'
Mr. Dyer's property.
John Brown, the coachman of the Devonpo ri
mail, recollects the morning of the robbery; he
changed horses at Hounslow, and observed two mere
standing against the wall opposite the post-Office,
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but it appears about the size. He did not /milieu- 'nes uncle
larly notice the men, they seemed about the size pay the fee
and bulk of the prisoners at the bar. qualifying 1
George Tucker, hostler at the Coach and Hers& "
Carr
at Hounslow, deposed, that on the 19th, two men, two y°n a
much like the prisoners, frame to their house in a defen
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green light cart, they went into the tap-room arid s n.dant f
took some porter, he looked into the cart, and sew a withinship
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ladder, thinks that the ladder produced is the same, had 0
practice wi
as he observed the iron work upon it. .
By Mr. CLARKSON—It was five o'cloCk in the
morning when the green cartr'drrived at the COach thepuled
benefit
ed his
and Horses; could not swear to the cart again ; it
had pannels ; could not swear either to the
prisoners. When you were before the Mkt-. Th
his late
strates at Bow-street, and desired to piiint i Pra
out the two men to the best of your knowledge; did in
oil 'isi]
you not point out two innocent. men ? Pollee tr.' afore oi
Officers." Yes, but those men were something like 1" was rm
the prisoners." Who refuse(
James Curtis, another hostler at the Coich and thought the
Horses, recollects the cart and the Men; they took Aired with
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gin and porter. The men were ranch like the pri-
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soners at the bar. He observed scmething in the grant the in
cart, covered over with a matting. Cannot speak t. 'ee-Chan,
diice of the
positively that they' are the men. There was'a key
of the-stable-stolen that morning. Witless missed is treeted no
three minutes after-the depertuie of t 4 ivticiniaii. sittings.
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By Mr. Anor,Prrus—Wheii you siiii.; the men' at
Bow-street, did you think they were the men who
came to the Coach and Horses ?—I could not sayY Tin
they were. i x,„ ,;(
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Mr. Justice BURRoUGH—Now, look at the' pri- Perjury, arisi
soners at the bar, do you believe that those are the 4atley, in the
men who took the liquor at the Coach and Horses, dt.uleY, on t
on the-19th of February ? Witness—l cannot say p '-'ll)tain Gar
they are, though they ate much_ like them. n:lll°S, and
John Ruthven, a police-officer, who apprehended wasu crowded,
the prisoners, produced a box of keys which he had Upon Lori
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found on searching the prisoner Smith's apartments, stated
aniongSt which was a key of a particular make, fondants, • t L
which fitted the lock of the stable door of the Coach
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Mr. Woodford, landlord of the Coach and Horses,. Milian. GI
swore, that-the key exhibited in Court was his pro- for the defen
petty; that it belonged to the stable door ; he knew L „„'adthb_ileenra,wingu
it from the brazing, and its very peculiar. con- Sir J. ScA
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Mrs. Collins deposed, that about the middle of
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February, she was at Bull's apartments in Pero-, llot brou bt d
broke-square, Kensington; Bull had a ladder in ,his Itr„ ,5,
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hand and a pitchfork, which she saw him take to a such
cart and put it in; witness asked Smith for some intentioi
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money for the hire of a horse and cart, which they , Lord TENT
had hired come time previously; Smith replied Lett said, he
he could give her no money then, but in a week or I:7l.linot fix
a fortnight, or, perhaps, that very night, they might ',T,A remain
have a good put-up job at HounsloW, and then 'they he case ti
could do something for her.
..4satitntee—oe;
Cross-exatnned by Mr. ADoLPHUs.-1. am net ,r, - J.,
married ; my husband is dead. Collins is not Tny 5;4,4 WasN a
husband, though he passes as such. Pray how Co
many husbands have you had ? Only one.--Cannot re
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I assist your memory a little,—did you. net live
out 4 a with a man named Thompson, who was tranaported *u-
ri pat,.
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for robbing the Birmingham Tally•Ho coach ? cultural Gard
Yes. Aial a Mr. Wright Walker, who was also 0.4. C3ll
transported at the last January Sessions—you knew L;l4tift w„„
a little of him, eh ?—I lived with him a short time.
p,h/loUld sup
Were you not apprehended for a felony once, and
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committed by Mr. Hardwicke to prison ?—Yes, but latiori.lirrin st
I was not guilty. We have our doubts. tea,
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Other witnesses were examined,' but little fresh fart ,To this
evidence was elicited. „iv 4e intend
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Mr. Justice BtIIRCAIGII then summed up the evi-
dence with great perspicuity, aiter which the Jury *4, finall)
retired for a few minutes, and returned a verdict :e°llation at
of Not Guilty. (441 two
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