The Sun.
London, England, 1829-10-31 00:00:00

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THE ENFIELD BURGLARS.

Yesterday, at twelve o'clock, Henry Dodman
Wood and Thomas Scales, the two youne. men who
were apprehended on Tuesday evening last with a
quantity of housebreaking implements in their pos-
session, underwent an examination before the Rev.
Dr. CRESWELL and - GUTTERSON, Esq., two of
the Magistrates for the counties of Middlesex and
Herts, at the office of Mr. Sawyer, the Magistrates'
clerk for the division of Enfield, on suspicion of
being the principals engaged in the extensive rob-
beries committed in the houses of Henry Carrington
Bowles, Esq., Major Moody, George Rougemont,
Esq., and several other gentlemen, in Cheshunt,
• Enfield, and their vicinity.
Watkins, an officer of the Bow-street mounted
patrol, stated that on Tuesday evening last, while
on duty in the Green-lane, Enfielsl, he observed the
prisoners drive up in a fashionably built one-horse
chaise to the door of the Jolly Butchers public-
house. Having some suspicion that one of them,
Wood, was the man who was wanted for the rob-
bery committed in the house of Mr. Rougemont, in
Herts, he stopped the chaise, and asked him if his
name was WTood. He denied its being so, and gave
another, btu haying some knowledge of his person,
and :comparing it with the description in the bills
;foaled for his apprehension, he found them to cor-
respond, am! with the assistance of Mr. Watson,
the landlord of the Jolly Butchers, he secured and
handcuffed both him and his companion. On effect-
ing this he searched them, and found on the person
of the prisoner Scales a quantity of skeleton keys,
a phosphorus box and matches, and a complete set of
housebreeking implements, all .of which he then
produced. Besides these he discovered four pack-
ages of powder,which he had ascertained to be com-
posed of ?lux vonuca, a bottle of oil, and a bottle of
laudanum, and in the gig he found more house-
breaking implements, and a piece of boiled bullock's
liver carefully wrapped up hi paper.
Dr. CitEswELL here asked if the liver had been
exanined, in order to ascertain if it was impreg•
limed with any poisonous matter. •
Watkins had not as yet submitted it to auy test,
but from a casual examination he did not think that
it f;as; at the same time it was his belief that it
was the intention of the prisoners to place the ?lux
vondra on it. In continuation he• said that though
the prisoners. refused to give him either their name
or address, he, by (Ming on them a ticket for the
hire of the horse and gig from a Mr. Mady, a livery
stable-keeper in the neighbourhood of the Coburg
Theatre, and a duplicate, discovered that they lived
and cohabited with two notorious prostitutes in
Lock's-fields, Surrey. . .

George Rougemont, Esq., deposed, that on the
sth instant the prisoner Wood was in his service as
footman. Ott the morning of that day he came to
town, leaving hint with two other servants in charge
of his country house at Bury-green; and on his re-
turn in the evening he learned that he had absconded.
On examination of the plate several articles were
missing, though he had a short time before, in con-
sequence of the numerous robberies in the neighbour-
hood, given him directions to lock it .up and guard
it carefully. On the same morning he sent him with
15/. to pay a bill of 141. ss. Gd. to a Mr. O'Brien;
but he had converted the balance to his own use, and
never accounted for it.
Mr. O'Brien proved haring received the 15/. from
the. prisoner, and having given to the p:isoner, en-
closcd for his master, the sum of 14s. Gd.

This being the chief evidence at present adduce(/'
Dr. CRESWELL first addressed the prisoner, Wood,
and told him, that from the testimony then before
him, two distinct offences, though of a minor de-
scription—the one the embezzling his master's pro-
perty, and the other for stealing his house-Frien—
weri dearly establisher!, and on these he felt it hs
duty to commit him for trial. The prisoner was then
removed from the office ; and Settles was brought in,
Nvlicn the Roc. Magistrate informed him that he and
his brother Magistrate had come to a determination,
instead of dealing with him summarily under the
vagrant laws, to send him before a jury of his
• country fer a misdemeanour. The prisoners were
then removed in custody of Watkins and a posse of
the local constables.

SINGULAR DREAM.—About three weeks
before the accident happened to the mail at aingsdown
Ilill, by which Mr. CHARLES WEBB, the coachman, lost
his life, a young female, to whom he paid his addresses in
Oxford, dreamt that he was thrown from the box in con-
sequence of the upsetting of the. coach, and killed on the
spot—an event which was unhappily

A paper has commenced at Paris under the
title of the Times. Its politics,like that of nearly all the
French Journals, are liberal and constitutional. fly the
prospectus which we have seen, it would appear to be es-
tablished by a kind of joint stock company, in,which nearly
all the liberal members of the Chamber of Deputies are
shareholders.