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MST Case of Wks reffie, guard to the Swinedi
' Mid,and thus employed to pect public property,
bat who was a short time since Apprehended by Ad.l
kaki, on a charge of himself robbing the mad of a
parcel containing bank notes and bills to the atiegist
Of upwards of £2,300; was fully investigated on MOn-
day. It appeared that in the month of October,
1813, a parcel containing notes and bills to the above
amount, from the house of Foreman, Fothergill, and
Monkhouse, bankers of Newport, in Monmouthshire,
was sent by the mail, addressed to Me*. Downe,
Thornton, and Free, bankers in London, in a box ;
and to guard against suspicion of the value of its con.
tents, the box was put into a coarse canvas bag, and
directed to Mr. Richard Fothergill, a relation of one
of the partners in the bank at Messrs. Joseph and
Thomas Shee's, merchants, Lawrence Poulteney-
hill, London. It was booked at the King's Head
Inn, at Newport, to be forwarded by the mail. The
beet and canvas bag arrived as directed, but without
ttleir contents. On the discovery being made, an ex-
press was sent off to Newport, and every possible ex-
ertion was made to recover the property and detect
the robber. Vickery, the Bow.street officer, was one
of the officers employed on the business. He met
with the prisoner at Bristol, Who admitted that he
was guild to the mail on the Sd of October, 1819,
heirs g the day after it was booked to go to London;
he also admitted his having seen the parcel, and that
'he saw it conveyed from the Kings Head Inn, at
Newport, to Bristol, on its way to London. The
prisoner after this was discharged, and absconded,
there not being sufficient evidence then to detain him
in custody. Vickery, however, pursued his enquiries,
1 and learnt that some bank-notes bad been concealed
during the weeleafter the robbery of the mail, near
Bristol, at a place called Totterdown-hill, by a wo-
man, named Ilicitean, whose daughter the prisoner
was particularly intimate with, the officer went to the
house, and found that the old woman had absconded
soon after the robbery. The prisoner was a short
time since discovered by Adkins, the officer, at the
house of Jacobs, a Jew, in Duke's-place, where he
went by the name of Green, but adMitted to the officer
on his apprehension, that his name was leelkr. After
he had undergone a priiate examination, he was corn-
mined to the-House of Correction in Coldbath-fields.
Mrs. Hickman was also discovered in her conceal-
ment, and committed, but has since been admitted
an evidence. Early in last month, Adkins, the offi-
cer, and Mr. Fothergal, one of the partners in the
bank, visited the House of Correction, when the pri-
soner voluntarily confessed to them that he stole the',
bank itOtes and bills out of the parcel, having taken
them out between Newport and Bristol, and that he.
fastened the box again, and covered it with the can-
vas bag, as before, to prevent discovery, till ' ched
4 . e London. On the day after the robberythe
notes and bills to Hickman, at her house, o con-
nived to circulate some of the notes in Bristol; but
she became aprehensiee of being taken into custody,
and concealed herself in Bath. The pound notes
which he had, entrusted her with, were buried by one
of her daughters in a deep hole in the garden at-
tached to her boa" and so remained till the month of
July following; they were then dug op, and found to
*revery daingeraute, at -Fe resorvaio biing
atm to London to mike the most of them. We
agreed with Hickman to follow him to London to
assist him, which she accordingly did.. They went
to a women who resides at Merlin's-cave, Spa-fields,
Who was-recommended to her by a relation of Hick-
man's as a person who could dispose of tbe notes ; and
they gave.her notes to the amount of 4600 for that
purpose... Sbe passed some of them, and said she had i
uttered them at a linen-draper's, in Old-street-road,
and at another in Sun-street, in the purchase of some 1
linen-drapery. This was proved by the linen-drapers.
They afterwards met two men at a public-house in
Portpool-lane, of the names of Edwards and Marsh,
to dispose"Of some notes, but they received nothing
from them. Last'August, a Mr. Butter, a dentist, of
the Kent 'road, got into company, at Paris, with a
person who tilled himself Captain Johnson, of whom
he purchased one £5 note.* the Monmouth Bank,
and four Chepstow Rafik-notes for £5 each, for the
purpose of making a profit, by them; with that view
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offered them fin sale to several money-changers in
is, but they declined the offer, and said they would
only purchase Bank of England notes. On his re-
Ikrll to England, he gave them to a man of the name
of Crouch, to dispose of. All these notes were part
of those stolen from the Swansea ma. About two
or three months, since the prisoner called upon a ero-
tism of the name of Porter, who then understood him
m be the guard of the Monmouth Ina-coach; he en-
,quired for her husband, who was then not at home.;
*then asked permission to go into a room fora short
Ape I she showed him into one, and soon after he
dallied Mrs. Porter into the room, and delivered to her
*small paper parcel, desiring her to take great care
of it, as it contained Bank notes to the amount of
*AI9OO. While she was in the room with him she ob.
served him to have a great number of other notes,
many of which appeared to be torn ; he told her he
bad taken the notes in the course of his trade. The
next day he called in, and gave her a£s note to
hchanged, telling her what she bought she was to
e for her trouble, only to give him the change;
she got the note changed at a linen-draper's in Old-
almat.road, for a gown piece. The prisoner called upon
* again in a short time after, when she got another
note changed for him at the same shop ; and after that
she got another £5 note changed to him at a linen-
. per's in San-street, but he never called for the
-. . :e. She took a parcel, supposed to contain Bank
notes, for him, to the White Horse public-house, in
Portpool-lane, where be met her ? two men were with
him. He told her to give the parcel to one of them,
and to take care that nobody saw her do it; she ac-
cordingly handed the parcel to one of the men pri-
vately. The prisoner confessed to Mr. Fothergill,
that be was guilty of taking the parcel, but said be
would have rettirned it, but could not get it back from
Hickman, at whose instigation he took it. At the
time he ished to return it, there were only £2O of
.the notes disposed of.
The boles atoned by Mrs. Porter to the linen-dra-
ws were proved to be part of those stolen in the
parcel.' Some of the stolen notes, consisting ef those
If the Monmouth and Cheputow Buns, have been
aced to Mr. Nichols, a surgeon dentist, who received
64 of one Crouch, to tat up some bilk lot him, he