Star.
London, England, 1827-12-29 00:00:00

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APPREHENSION-OF A GANG OF 20130E4
100 M THE LIVIIOIPOOL 0011011111 07 I,OOIIB3DAY.
• It will be in the recollection of our readers that fora
had been crested, and underwent se% oral es amine-
t' before hit Worship the Malior and other -Magi*.
'trite., on presumptive grounds ot being colcerned in
the late robberies in this to .n. The Police having since
learned that two of the prkor.ers had resided in Circur
street, proceeded thither, where they found the wives of
the prisoners, with two trunks in their possestion, whic;)
*refound to contain a quantity of jewellery, since ider-
tilled to be the property of Mr. Nightingale, Manchester,
whose house war robbed on the night of the 3d ultimo, cf
stock to the amount of 4001. On the persons of the
women were found several skeleton keys, AG and in
the pockets of Adam Simpson and Jahn Jones, two of
the prisoners, were two penknives, value Ills. each,
alleged to have formed part f Mr. Nighingale's pro-
perty. Mr. Miller having also ascertained that two
trunks Lc, been forwarded, by the same party, to Lon.
don, from one of the coach offices in Dale-stree., lost
no time in communicating with the pioptr author itie,
in the Metropolis, which, we have great pleasure to
state. has had the desired effect. The trunks we c in-
tercepted, and ser.t down to Liverpool. In them were
found a large quantity of miarcellaneous jeweliery, with
two dad: lanterns, and other articles for nightly depre-
dations. On Monday, the prisoners were brought up
for final eniamination, when the following evidence was
adduced :

Grace Guilland keeps a lodging house, No. 80,
Gerard-street ; about six weeks ago the prisoner, A3sn,
Simpson, and the wr man calling herself Ann Ler, who
then sent by the name of Mrs. Sinipso.., came to her
lodgings, and to,.k up 0..4 abode there; during the
time they were there sire saw in :heir possession a paper,
trunk aint basket ; about a torte igf t after they came,
the hu band went away fog three night., and a id he
Wad going to Manchester ; a black lea'. en trunk wa •
afterwards brought to ter hin,e for them by a boy,
I which resembled that now produced by Ellis ( he Bow
11 Street Office.).
Sarah Sneed keeps a lodging house in Circus-street,
Ito which the prisoner John Jones, who called himself
Malcolm, and thcp: ironer Eliza Thompson, who called
herself Mrs. Malcrim, came abort six weeks ago; they
were accompanied by Mi. and Mrs. Simpson; about a
fortnight afterwards Jones was absent for some days;
a black leathern crock and a trunk covered with paper,
were in their post-ession, and they were sent away by the
female prisoner; the trunks produced resembled tl.e:u.

. Thomas Hanby, a tailor, who lives under the house
of Mrs Cruilinad, altered numerous articles of dress for
'the prisoners, Mr. and Mrs. Sampson. and carried a
black leathetn trunk and a brown leathern portmanteau
for Mrs. Simpson to the Saracen's Head coach office in
Dale-street. The prisoner Thompson went with him,
sad saw the trunks sent off by the coach. The trunk and
portmanteau now produced resemble.l them.
—Mr. William Fox, book-keeper arthe Saracen's Head
coach ,office, received from two Wciriteri—one of them
is the prisoner, Eliza Thompson—the trunk and port-
manteau, on Tuesday, the 11th instant, to be stnt to
London. The trunk was directed to Mts. Bird, 15,
Pancras-street. Tottenham court-road, and the port.
manteau to Mrs. Cha, lin, Portland-street, Soho. They
went by the Sovereign coach, which runs to the Three
Cups, Aldersgate-street.
James Bird, a boy employed at the Three Cups, Al-
dersgate street, L ndon, to-deliver parcels, de;ivesed the
trunk and portmanteau now produced, as they were
respectively addressed, on Wednesday the 12th inst.
George Allen, di iv r of a hackney coach, drove the
pris .ner Ann Lce, mri.e than a week ago, from Gerard-
street to Higlifield-s-eet ; she had several boxes. He
identified the black trunk new produced as one of them,
and a trunk covered with pater, which has been shown
him before, as another.
William Thornton, hackney coachman, drove the
prisoner Anne Lee, to Ilighlield-street, wont the same
time; a large box, covered with paper, and several other
boxes, were put into the coach.
Mr. Edward Nightingale keeps a jeweller's shop in
Market-street, Manche ter. On Saturday night, the
Sri of November, he left his shop locked up, and on the
Monday morning folioa ing, he found that it bad been
broken open. and robbed of watches, seals, and other
jewellery„,to the amount of 4001. He identified the fol.
lowing articles of property found in the possession of the
prisoners, and produced tI e other day. Two gold seals,
a watch chain, several pocket knives, found on Simpson,
Jones, and the two women: some toothpicks, silver tea-
spoons, salt spoons, &c. Of the articles fourvi in the
brown leathern portmanteau, produced by Ellis, he
identified as his pros erty a neck chair, some rings, a
locket, a breast pin, a thimble, some ear-rings, drops,
and smaller articles. Of the articles found in the black
leathern trunk, he identified as his property a gilt chain,
a locket, a pair of ear rings, a pearl ruby ring of his
own mar ufacuie, two wedding rings, one of whic!t bore
his initials, &c.

Mr. James Ellis, an officer of Bow.street, stated that
he went, on the 15th instant, to the two houtes in P.n.
cras s reet, Tottenham•court-toad, and in Portland•
street, S •ho, to which the nooks were addressed, and
found them both. They contained two crow liars,
chisels, a phosphorus box, 75 skeleton keys, many pick-
lock and other keys, a dark lantern, wax candles, cigars,
many articles of jewellery, some silk handkerchief-, and
some woollen cloth. The box and articles now pro-
duced were those which he found.

Mr. William Mounteastle, batter, Manchester, stated,
that he sold to the pri,orei s Jones and Simpsoa the bats
which they now wear, two or three days before Mr.
Nightingale's robbery. They were in his shop nearly
half an hour.

The Mayor now called on the four prisoners, Simp-
son, Jones, Anne Lee, and Elizt Thompson, for any
thing they might have to say in their defence, at the
same time cautioning them that what they said would
be taken doses.

&nom and Jones said nothing on the charges against
them, but applie.l for the money which had been taken
from them, that they might he enabled to make their
,lefence by Counsel.
The Nhtyor s.id there were three other charges
against them, and the money might be identified as
having been stolen ; he, therefore, could make no order
lon the subject.
The four al' nners bnve named were then cum mined
p as _ _

to the llous.e of Correction frir trial at the next Kirkdale
Sessions, and George Wood and John George were re-
manded till Wednesday (this day).
The Magiiirates then proceeded in receive the ex
aminations taken on the robbery of the Cly.le and
Mersey Steam Packet Office. Watet-street, as men-
tioned in a former paper. Several of the valuable
-dresses and a piece cf the cloth, which formed part
of the articles stolen, were found in the trunk which
contained Mr. Nightingale's property. After the wit-
nesses present had been examined; it was found ,that
the person to whom the property belonged had not
I arrived lrom Glasgow, and as it could not be identified