The Sun.
London, England, 1829-11-07 00:00:00

NA RLBOROU Gil-STREET.

THE BURGLARY AT MR. BuildHAßT's.—After
the otOpe business was over Mr. RoE desired. the
ciCrspj wyj)!tooti rc.rnantied on suspicion of being

engaged in the burglary at Mr. Burghart's upon the
15th of last month to be brought up for final exa-
mination.

The prisoners, who were seven in number, were
brought up singly, and the two first who were
placed at the bar were George Williams and Thomas
Brockley, when the evidence of the officers went to
prove them to be idle and disorderly characters, and
unable to give a good account of themselves. They
were seen in Piccadilly on the morning of the robbery.
Mr. ROE committed them as rogues and vagabonds
to the House of Correction for two months to hard
labour.

The prisoners' solicitors intantly gave notice of
appeal.

John Kilpatrict. was the next prisoner placed at
the bar, when it appeared from the evidence of Mr.
Fairburn, bookbinder, of Duke-street, and Ballard,
Clement, and Schofield, that the prisioner had lived
with Mr. Fairburn for a period of seven months, and
during that time several valuable prints were missing.
On the prisoner being apprehended the officers dis-
covered, on searching his lodgings, the prints of the
Florence Gallery, " The Chastity of Joseph,"
" The Penitent," and several landscapes, all of which
were identified by Mr. Fairburn. Independent of
these a coat was found, which Mr. Burghart de-
posed to as being his father's property, and worth
6l• The coat had been made for the Marquis of
Londonderry, but had been returned by his Lordship.
The prisoner, by the advice of Mr. Humphreys,
declined saying any thing to the charge, upon which
he was committed for stealing the prints, and also for
receiving the coat, knowing it to be stolen.
William Kilpatrick, who was in the employ of
Mr. Burghart, and on whom considerable suspicion
rested, was ordered to find bail, himself in 1001.,
and two respectable housekeepers in .50/. each, and
to give twenty-four hours' notice of bail, to answer
any indictment at the sessions.
Samuel Harwood, the hackney coachman, who
was supposed to be engaged in carrying off the pro-
perty from Messrs. Burghart's, was ordered to find
bail. The defendant's master instantly offered him-
self, when he was accepted.
John Vandevalde and J. Nunn,two other persons
who have undergone repeated examinations, were
brought up and discharged.
Thus ends this extraordinary burglary for the
present, Mr. Burghart not being able to swear po-
sitively as to the identity of any of them being those
persons whom he saw on the morning of the burglary.
One of the above-named prisoners, we understand,
fills the office of secretary to the society of burglars
which infest the metropolis, and so extensive are the
ramifications which this body possesses that it is
spossible for the police to overturn it. Their in-
fluence is nearly equal ; and so certain are they of
succeeding in their plans, that, previous to a large
bank or coach robbery or burglary being committed,
they are enabled to go to some of the first monied
men in the city, and raise any sum they may be in
want of to enable them to carry their plans into
effect. In many of the bank robberies they have
had as much as 600/. or 7001. advanced to them,
thereby possessing the power of buying over atiy
needy person of any establishment whose cupidity
is paramount to his duty to his employers, and
which accounts for the ready way the property is
disposed of. Clothes, and other articles of a more
substantial description, are not sent, as in general
supposed, to pawnbrokers, but to houses of respecta-
bility, from whence they are consigned to respectable
merchants on the Continent, and thus have the ap-
pearance of being sent through the usual routine of
commerce.

Great credit is due to Plank, Clements, Ballard,
Schofield, and Avis, who have been unremitting in
their exertions to apprehend the burglars and bring
them to justice.