The Sun.
London, England, 1810-09-01 00:00:00

BURGLARY.

• Thomas Walker, and Christiana his 'wife; were
next placed at the.bar,.on suspicion of trinity...
The ;first. witness examined was, Mr. Baxter,
watch-maker, of Bethnal,Gieen., who stared, that
on Wednesday night, h:s family and himself went
to bed at a; quarter past tweLve o'clock, ha% ing pre-
. vicusly fastened the house in the usual way. In
the morning
,when he arose, he found. that tie pan--
• nel of of o(the shatters of the shop-windoW bad
been broken open, and, on examining further, he
missed thirty-six silver .watcheS and three valu,hle
time-pieces, which were all finished and really for.
sale, fie had' no suspicion w hatever of any parti-
Cqlai per opt;; and.. was theietore completely at a
loss to whom to ascribe the ro:bery, until he was
d by Thomas Sapweil, one of the most aaive
of the City. Officers, who shewed_ him apart of the
stolen property.
Thomas 'Sapwell was next examined. He de-
posed th t he was sent for on Thurs Jay evening
by Mr. Clirke, pawnbroker in. Bishopsgate-street,
where, on his arrival, he saw the prisoner Chris-
tiana Walker, who had offer,d a new gown to
pledge ; but Mr. Clarke suspeCting from her appear-
ance that she had not obtained it honestly, very pro=
perly sent for the Officer. When-witness entered
the shop he accosted the prisoner; said he knew
her,-asking at the same time, it her name was'uot
Walker, and if she did not live in. Angel-alley
(one of the most notorious hives for thieves in
London); she replied in the athunative. 'Wit-
ness then requeSted Mr. Clarke to detain her in
custody, while he went to examine her lodgings,
and she wai accordingly accoMmodated with a
temporary seat in the parlour. Witness- imme-
diately proceeded to a house, well known to him,
in Angel-alley, where Walker lied ; and, on
gOing up stairs, he met Thomas Walker. at the
door, with whom be solicited a private conference ;
and having entered the room, he searched his
pockets, in which he found two new silver watches,
with a seal attached ta it, and the other in a
leathern case, similar to .those used by watch-':
makers. This circumstance gave rise to new suspi-
cions, and he searched every part. of the, room,
and found in a_cbest of • drawers six
.other new
Watches, in Lathern cases, and on a shelf three new*:
time=pieces, elegantly mounted in marble. Such
furniture not being usual in such houses, he deemed
it prudent to convey Mr. Walker to .the Compeer,
froM whence he returned to Mr. Gar ke's, and con-
duaed Mrs. Christiana. to her husband. He now
• examkned the watches, and discoverell the maker's
name to he Baxter, whose address he soon learnt,
and to whOm he instantly proceeded, and was in-
formed of the burglary committed the night before.
Mr: Baxter recognized all the watches and time-
pieces found at the lodgings of the prisoners, as
those which had been stolenirom him ; he had also
some slight recullettion of the male prisoner, whom
he th,ught he had seen at two different times peep-
ing into his shop window.

Thomas Walker said he belonged to the first regi-
ment of Tower Hamlets Militia,_and that two men,
whom he did not know, left the 'properly- found in
his room in his care. He denied all knowledge of
the robbery, and craved mercy.
The Loon MAYOR observed,' that the defence of
the prisoner was too stale to meet with much
credence ; but as the robbery had been committed
in the County, it did -not come under his juris-
diCtion ; he therefore diredted the parties to go to
Worship-street Office, -whither they accordinOy.
Went.

Three persons, after dining, a few days ago at
Buxton, were suddenly seized with a violent in-
ternal attack, oire of whom died almost immediately ;
the other, with apparent great difficulty survived.—
It appeared, that they bad, in a mistake, eaten of
the root of hemlock, scraped' with some horse-
rad;sh, to roasted beef.

Tuttnaps.—Ati old praaical farmer suggests to
agtiCulturi4ts the advantages they may derive ,from
sowing their wheat arishes at this season with turnips,
to sow immediately alter costing their wheat, and so
thin, that they may not require hoeing, and a harrow
to be run lightly over them by this means, large
-fields, which produce little or nothing through the
winter, may be made to ykld abundant food for sheep
or 'bullocks.