Star.
London, England, 1826-07-28 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BO W-STREET.

Yesterday an elderly man, whose real name is George *der, but
who thought proper to give the name of Bartlett when he was ap-
prehended, and a young man named Ames lkok, who is respect-
ably connected, were charged with being ucessaries to the robbery
of the Birmingham Post Coach, in the night of the 11th of April
last, and stealing a parcel containing Bank of England notes, value
5351. the property of Messrs. Baton Watt, and Co. of the Soho,
Birmingham. The son of the prisoner George Archer was con-
victed at the last Old Bailey Sessions, under the name of Edward
Archer, of stealing the parcel in question • and Rothven, the offi-
cer, subsequently discovered that the robbery had been previously
planned by the father, who had seduced Foyle, then one of the
clerks at the Spread Eagle Coach-office' Gratechurch-street, to
become his coadjutor in the execution of the project.
On the night of the 11th of April. the parcel in question was
given by Mr. J. B. Larkntan, a clerk to Messrs. Chaplin, of the
Spread Eagle, Gracechurch-street, to Evans, the guard of the post
coach, to convey to Mr. Robinson, at Messrs. Bolton and Watt's,
Soho, Birmingham. The prisoner, Foyle, who was a clerk in the
Aire, stood by Larkman when Evans received the parcel. Edward
Archer, the son of the old man, took an inside place in the post
coach on that night, and he travelled as far as Market-meet, and,
having got possession of the parcel, containing five hundred 11. and
seven SI. Bank of England Notes, he left the coach, and returned
by another coach the same night to London with the stolen pro-
perty. On the following morning he presented himself at the Bank
of England with two hundred of the one pound notes, and received
sovereigns in exchange for them. The evidence taken yesterday
against the prisoners was as follows :
Messrs. Boquett, Hickman, Gunner, and Kingston, clerks in the
Bank of England, deposed that on the 12th April last, the prisoner
George Archer, alias Bartlett, exchanged three hundred an Bank
of England notes, and seven aes Bank of F.agland notes, for
sovereigns. He wrote on one of the notes " Tooga." The notes
he exchanged were part of the stolen property.
Ruthven, the oScer, stated :—I apprehended the prisoner Foyle
on the Ittlaof July, at Hull. I told him that I knew ell about the
robbery, and where he got the 200 sovereigns. I also told him that
Archer was inclined to tell all about the affair. I afterwards
searched the house of Foyle, which is some distance front London,
and found a letter and a card.

Ruthven then related several particulars of the robbery, ex-
tracted, as Foyle's solicitor contended, from the priscicer under a
threat and a promise. A letter from Foyle's wife, which the 62c-et
got possession of, seemed to leave no doubt of the prisoner's parti-
eipation in the robbery, she advising him to ten all about it, and a
sum of money being found In his possession, which be confessed be-
longed to Mr. Chaplin. Archer, he said, eontrived the wholeafair.
Mr. John Brooke Larkman, the Clerk at the Spread Eagle, said,
that the letter and card found ►y Ruthven at the house of Foyle,
were in a feigned hand, very much resembling the band-writing
of Foyle. _ _ _

Dornington. a fishmonger in the City-road, stated that he
knew the prisoner Bartlett to be a Mr. Archer, a butcher, residing
in Plummer-street, City-road, and he remembered Archer buying
some fish at his shop, one day in April last.
Mr. Smith. landlord of the King of Prussia public-house, Holton,
said that in April last Archer came to his house with some fish and
some beef steaks, which he cooked for dinner, and a stranger came
and dined with Archer, but he could not identify Foyle as the person.
The prisoners were fully committed to Newgate. Old Archer
has been what is termed a "family man" for years, and it appears
that most of the coach robberies have Leen committed through the
information previously obtained from Coach-office Clerks.