The Sun.
London, England, 1829-02-25 00:00:00

GUILDHALL.

John Walker, a hackney-coachman, was brought before
Mr. Alderman FA arintoTur R. on suspicion of having been
concerned in the following robbery :—Sometime in the
night between Saturday and Sunday last, the warehouse of
Mr. Hugh M'Culloch, No. 94, Watling-street, was en-
tered by thieves, who broke open all the desks and drawers,
and carried off eighty pieces of printed cotton, bills Of ex-
change, silver, and other property to 'the amount of 1121.,
&r. The robbery'was not discovered until Monday morn-
ing, when Mr. M'Culloch inunediately gave notice r,f it
at the Mansion •house, and also at the Public Office, Bow-
street. In the course of 3londay, Mr. Cope, the deputy
City Marshal, learned, by some meant, that the prisoner
had been seen with his coach waiting at Mr. M'Culloch's
door on Saturday evening, and he therefore sought for
him, and took him into custody ; when he readily ad-
mitted that he had been there, awl gays the following
ci-count of the matter :—He was called off the stand at
Temple-bar, between six and seven o'clock on Saturday
evening, by tw o men who got into his coach and told
him to drive to Dark-house-lane, Billingsgate. Ile
did so ; and at the corner of Dark-house-lane they were
boiled by two other men, who seemed to he waiting there
for them. These two men also got into the coach, and he
was then ordered to drive back to Wailing-sweat. lie
did as he was directed ; and when they arrived oppo-
site to Mr M'Culloch's warehouse, one of the party put
his head out of the coach window and desired hint to pull
up there. Then they all fr,t,t out ; and, having desired
him to wait, they went into the warehouse ; and after a
time they returned, each laden with a large black bag,
which they put into the coach, anti, having got in them-
selves, they ordered him to drive to John's-court, St.
John's-street; at the end of which count he set them down,
and having paid him his fare they went away with the
prof;:rt:•, and that i 733 all he knew about it.
This account not being saiisfactory to the Marshal, he
detained him and brought him before the Magistrate,
who was about to remand him for further examination,
when lie requested to be heard further in his defence.
" Mayn't I be allowed to speak, your Worship ?" said he.

6' To he sure you May,' said :qr. Alderman FARE-
BROTHER. ; " hut this is a very serious affair, anti I caution
you to he cars ful in what you say. It may be that you
may be indicted as an accomplice in this robbery, or po,:-
sibly you may be made a witness against others; but in
either case it will he my duty to detain you in custody for
some days, and therefore, as you do not appear to have any
legal adviser present, I again caution you to be very careful
in what you Dow say, lest you should implicate yourself."
" I have only this ere to say," responded the prisoner—
" that the gentlemen paid me my fare. That was all I re-
quired of them ;—I wanted nothing else of them ; and as
for anv thing of the like of this, I never thought of such a
thing."

4:We11," said the Alderman, " you may be innocent for
aught I know ; and perhaps I may take bail for your fu-
ture appearance. Have you anybody here to give bail for
you, or to speak to your character ?"—The prisoner re-
plied that his master was present ; and thereupon a person
came forward who gave his name and address " Stephen
Mortis, Castle-place, Whit,chapel." Ile said the prisoner
had been (hiving his coach for several months past, and he
believed him to he " a chap of good character."
Unfortunately fur the "chap of good character," it was
now communicated to the Alderman that several of this
"chap's " brothers, and ether relatives, all hackney-coach-
men, had been employed in similar robberies ; and there-
upon, instead of being admitted to hail, lie was com-
mitted to the Comprer, for further examination on Satur-
day neat