Star.
London, England, 1823-09-08 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET. •
Saturday Samuel Bethany, a porter at the Rack Bear, Pica,
dilly, was brought before G. E. Mnrsnett. Esq. charged whk•
abstracting from a letter £5O in country Bank-notes, the
poly of Mr. Wm. Shirley, a farmer and cattle-dealer, at
leans proved in evidence, that on the 14th of Augvanime.
Shirley enclosed five £lO Bank-notes in a letter mamma es
Mr. George Jordan, of Theme, In Onfordshire, whitfiffietter he
delivered to Hall, the driver of one of the- Soildianignini
coaches, with a request that upon his arrival In Landes, be
*mold put it into the Poet Or Hall undertook to do this, hat
instead of putting the letter into the Post Office himself, he in-
trusted it to a young man nattietf Edward llPCarthy, office-por-
ter at the Black Bear, Piccadilly; and M'Carthy, in turn, in-
tinned ft to the prisoner, Bothatn, with instructions to put it intoo
the first Twopenny Post Office directly. When the letter reached
its destination, it was found that the money had been abstracted;
and on inquiry it turned out that the letter bad never been in the
Tvropenny Post Office at all, but bad beet pot into the General
Post Oiler in Lonthardstreet, on the day after that on which
it was delivered to the prisoner. The prisoner, whose connec-
dons are said to be highly respectable, and who himself once
kept the Coach and Horses public-house at Hrentford End, per-
sisted in affirming that he put the letter into the Twopenny Post
Office at the corner of Albemarle:street, Piccadilly, within three

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minutes after it wavdelivered to him for that purpose.—lle was
fully committed to Newsate for trial.
GUILDHALL.

Jame:Smith, Rebecca Watson, end John Ellis, the driver of '
Wallingtotr's Southampton waggon, from the White Horse Inn
Friday-street, underwent a long examination on ligteeday, be-
fore the Sitting Magistrate, Mr. Alderman Cox, offia charge of
being coticerned in the robbery of the waggon `minthe night of
Thursday, the 28th of August. In the afternoon Or yriday, the
29th ult. Corby, an officer of St. Andrew's parish, got informa-
tion that a hackney-coach had been seen to stop at the end of
Mullin's:sotto, and that a considerable quantity of buffir goods
had been taken therefrom, and lodged in some house in the
rents. He communicated what be had learned to two of the
parish constables, Jones auid Wilde, but as the persons of tl:e
offic.era were well known in Mulliu's-rents, the inhabitants there
being mostly of the lowest order of thieves and prostitutes, they
called in the assistance orFache, an officer of Castle Maynard
Ward, who set himself to watch at the entrance of the Rents;
Corby, Jones and Wilda' stationing themselves in the immediate
neighbourhood,: so as to be ready at his call. Towirds evening
the female prisoner was seen to conic out of the rents with a
bundle, and go down the lane, tostards a pawnbroker's shop.—
Fische, judging her object, stopped her, and examining her bundle
found it to be a piece of about ten yards of new gingham; be
could not get from her in what house in the rents she lived ; but
some of the neighbours soon pointed her out ar a lodger at one
reel. Rift's. I hithet the officers proceeded immediately,.
searched the house' and in the room occupied by Watsou they
found the prisoner Smith, and the whole coach-lead of property,
consisting of several pieces of cambric-muslin, calico, sheeting,
gingham, &c. Having thus secured the prisoners and the booty,
the officers soon found evidence who had seen them both assist
in unloading the coach; and after a short examination before the
Alderman on the next day, they were remanded, to give time
for the officers to trace the owners of the property, of which
Watson and Smith denied all knowledge. After much assiduity
the officers discovered that the goods were part of *package for-
warded from the house of Mr. Alderman Thorp, Aldgate, to
Air. James Divis.tinen-draper, Southampton, by Wallington's
waggon, on the Thursday night previous ; and on inquiry at the
waggon-office on Tuesday, the proprietoes there had beard
nothing of the robbery, though four days had elapsed since it
had been committed.

By the advice of the officers, no alarnAvas then given, but as
the prisoner Ellis, the waggoner on the night of the robbery, was
to go the aame journey that evening, Fache and Wilden set off
to follow the waggon and watch his movements. On their-re-
turn to town, they brought him with them, in custody, and at-
tended on Saturday to give their evidence before the Magistrate.
Watson and Smith were first put to the bar; the evidence
against them was in substance what has already been stated.—
Mr. Steward, from Alderman Thorp's house, identified the
whole of the property, including the piece of gingham found on
the person of Watson, as part of the contents of a truss, the
whole value of which was about £64. The property prodeced
was in value about £27. The truss had been cut, but the re-.
mainder of its contents had arrived safe. Mr. Jackson, from
the White Horse inn, loaded the truss himself on the Southampton
waggon, on Thursday evening. The prisoners, who again de-
nied all knowledge of the rubbery, or bow the property camel
into that room, were then taken from the bar, and Ellis, the
waggoner, brought forward. _ _

P;che and Wildest then told their story they had watched
th► two waggons, for there was a second went out in coonesion
with Ellis's, as there had also been on the night of the robbery,
as far as llounslow. Here they asked Ellis to give them a
lift to Egham, and they rude iu the waggon to that place, where
they much surprised their companions by asking where their fore-
man lived, Mr. Leyland; the waggoners sheered them, and from
their conversation with him, and by what they got from Ellis
himself, it appeared, that although be (Ellis) acknowledged having
discovered the robbery before he got to Brentford, he never
mentioned it to the driver of the second waggon, who joined
him at Hounslow, nor to Mr. Laybted at Kgham, nor to his
own wife when he got home to Longbottont, near Farnham ;
but on his return on the Friday. he then told Mr. Leyland of it,
and also that a chest of tea was gone from the waggon; yet en
his arrival in London he gave no information of either circum-
stance. The account he had given to Mr. Laylaud, and that
be gave to the oMeets, differed in some particulart ; but nothing
else had occurred on the road, or has yet been: discovered, to
implicate him. in the robbery. What bad transpired was, how-
ever, deemed sufficient by the Plagistrate to warrant the re-
manding of him, together with the other two prisoners, till the
frets can be further investigated.