The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-11-17 00:00:00

":13.0 LICE.

STREET-ROBBERS.
• • Boworritspr.-11/eaday. by a* eseniogis of the misers,
the conductors, and the patrol', no lees lbw eight well-kuowo
thieves, who were suspected of being concerned in committing
the late daring street robberies, were placed at the bar, and all
the persons known to have been robte I in the Mont manner had
written notices to attend to view their persons and examine the
property found on them. .
The above robberies, on entering into r°' !ail ,1* them, have
hero awried on to a much Treater. stein, :aid the ciordtict of
the perpetrators of them has hen much mere audacious than the
public art apprised of. Tire investigation occupied nearly thy
whole of the morning.
The pnrties attending, who had been robbed, examined Pie
watches, chains, seals, and other property fwind upon the Pri-
soners, and also that produced by pawnbrokers for dnplicates
Mond upon tlifin, hut none of them were able to identify any of
Alse properly. They.inspected the Prisoners as-originally pineed
at the hat. and afteMards with their hats an, being tlw state.
of course, the rubbers were in when the robberies were cum-
j mitted.

Mr. Raster, n gentleman who resided :tt Tortsham-green,
said, tb tt almost three weeks skier, on all evening. as Ivr was
passing along Piccadilly, on his *way home, he was hustled by
a eat% of men under the wall of the Albany, and robbed ot• his
watch. chain, and seats, nod he ;ielieved the Prisoner, Jobe
;eel: •s, alias Lindlev, to he UDC of the robbers, but would not
swear positively to his person. •

He was one of the gang (if iieven whom Kicknlc apprehended a
for evenings since in Ilemming's-row, iu couipany will/the %ell-
' known ./ippet liolubeitto anti James. Ilainiitun, alias /''t-•
1-411. alias Young Snuff:

Saturday afternoon. the 14th, T. Limberiek and tiodfrey went
to a prize-figiu at Paddington, in expectation of findim: some
thieves wior are suspected of being concerned in the street rob.
bcries. They ohkervetf four melt-known thieves, and entlea-
vtioriiii to a•cure them, but they made o:1' among the critud ;
they afterwards, however, secured two, but one of them was
rescued.

The, one they Fectired was George Ron. ITo frac placed nt the
bar on Monday. but none of theirties having ally knowledge
of him, Limherirk and Godfrey ve evidence against him.
They stated, that they totweryed huh attempt to ”ict: titur pock7.-ts
nt the tigbt, xis in and oat amodg the crowd as pickpocket*
always do, and mid frequently seen him in the company of
thieves.

Mr. RFAD, the Sittin; MagiJtrak, et:tinkled IlimAs a repnkd
thief under the Police Act.

On Saturday evening the 14th, about a quarter pact seven
o'clock, as Nichols and Humphreys were out in pursuit of more
of the above description of robbers, near the corner of Old
Compton-street, the spot where they hilt! received ;affirmation
that a robbery had lately been committed, they met lime✓
C.4esa,Aervl a well-known thief, had latt•ly. been convicted
ns a reputed thief, and a luau of the name of John EaZanle in
his company. •

Titi•y took them both into custody. On Illoaday they were.
placed at the Insr among the red.
Mr. Sutton, of Solthamptini-street, Bloomsbury, said that
on Sunday evening se'imigltt. beteen eight and nine o'clock,
he was passing through St. Giles's • it being very foggy he kept
his handkerchief to his month. tie crossed the way to go daii-ti
Ikamark-street ; when he got to the gale of St. Giles's Chnrch-
ard, commonly called the ltisarrection-gate, he mei% ed si o-
lent blows, on his stomach and on his bowels, from some person
or persons on his side. The blows were so violent, th.st he should
h.tre fallen against the iron rails, had it not-been for a female
pa sing at the time, who kepi him from faHing, Be immedi-
atele pot his band to his pocket, thinking his pocket-hook
had been taken, but found that not to be the ease, hut di,
covered his watch, chain, and seals were gone. The female
pointed to a man it ho was mining across the street, whom she
believed to have taken the watch, tie. tybom he believed to be
the Prisnner Hamilton, alias Fitzgerald, alias Young Snot.—
Ile also believed Chambers, taken by Nichols and Humphreys •
on Saturday night is Old Compton-street, and anott.,^r of the
Prisoners, to be two of the men; hut he had got the address of
the female who was present at the dinelie was robbed and had a
full view of their faces, awl he would procure her attendance on
a futnie day, lie slated that he sate the gang run away across
the street taco a yard that went parallel with l)yot-street. His
watch, Chain, aid seals, were w ortb 5.5 gtrine:v.

Mr. Nesbitt, of Cutsitor-street, said, that on Saturday eves-,
lag seeetaight, about a quarter past seven o'cloek, be was passing
through the Temple, accompanied by a female, w hen they got
into the Court where the Middle Temple Hall is, leading to the
Fountain„.he was surrounded by a number of men, and received
h violent blow frets one of them, which would have knocked 'I
him down had he not been saved by the Lady who was in car-
pany with him. He at the same time had the gulf chain I
snatched at, which broke, and saved his watch. He hie, NSW-
ever, part of his chain, with seven gold seals and part of ameher.
The robbers ran of in different direction:. A man came up t,„
him, who he has now no doubt was one of the gang, and of
to show him the wav the man was gone who bad robbed him ; he I;
accompanied him Lir a short time, bat on reflecting, he de-
clined going any farther. He proceeded Tutu the &rani. and
when he got near St. Clement's Church he observed four of the
gang who had rokbed him. The man oho had.gone up t.. him
in the Temple, and pretended to chew him theway the men who i
bail robbed him were one came up to bin about the sametiror,;
cue of them exclaimed to the man •' d—n your eyes Bill, wh.ere
have you been all this time." Mr. Nesbitt at this moment met
ith ai patrole helongiog to the parishes of St. Clemetit's anti St.
Mary-le-Strande and told him what had happened. The patrole. ;
had noticed them heft:ire, and in consequence went up to them
again, but on his approing them they ran Off and made their
escape. The patrole informed Petty, and his party of the pa. ••
trole belonging to the it ove office directly ; after describing the
men, they an consequence went in pursuit of them, suspecting
one of them to he a thief of the name of Wit,. Nightingale. who
. has lately been liberated from a eons iction as a reputed thief.—
. On Saturday evening, as Ituthen and 'Townsend were lensing
through Leicester-square, they met Nightingale in company with
a man of the name ofsWilliams; as soon as ihe., had passed, the
Officer recollected that Nightingales was wanted for-the rob-
here in the Temple, and followed them into a pablie-house in
Ryder's-court, where they took them into custody, On Monday '
; they were placed-at the liar among the rest; and after they
put their hats on, Mr. Ne..bitt said he helieved Nightingale to
be one of the men, but was very cautious of swearing against
him. He also made similar observations respecting two others
of the Prisoners; but as a future examination; the female, who,
was in his company at the lime of the robbery, and the parish
patrule, will attend ; the latter has no doubt bat be shall know
the robbers again. •
The Prisoners were committed :or further examination.
listros-Ilan.—A man was. on Monday (wangle before the
Sitting Magistrate, by Goff, charged with defrauding different
tradesmen. In Ilse Borough, of various sums of money. It 21).
peared that die Prisoner had been in the habit of going to di& ;
ferent shops, and representing himself as a seaman returned front a
lung voyage, in want of some article in which they deed. line-
ing selected what he wanted, lie would offer some foreign coin,
generally pagodas, in payment, throwing doe n rasa ter three.,
oast tirade/ they might be sent to tome goldenidis. to ascertain,
their value. The answer esaally returned was, that they were :
worth from is. 101. to Bs. each; and the tradesman, satisfied in
this respect, itsually took then In pa mutt for his goods. In
some ins:anew, the Prisoner went tardier, and requested the
tradesman to take a number of his pagodas, and give his Baal:-
notes for them, ()hiring to make him a liberal allowance for his
treuele; at one shop he obtained 181. in this way ; at auotlier
5.)1.; and at uaothrr 91.; always leaving a number of pagodas,
purporting to amount to a greater. sum than what he received,
and appointing some time at which to call for the balance. This
appoiutment, however. he invariably forgot to keel!, and the
I tradesman as invariably found that the scold. agodas was not
wortlione penny each. -In all cases he delivered the. eke/it pa-
' codas to be sent to a goldsmith, but always cam rived that they
should not he left behind. lie r corimiued for n•-examina-
tion• when it is expected v •...arr emerges will.be preferred
against him.
! 11 urea HAPICI..—A baker, residing in Ale parish of St.
George's East, far selling bread under weight was mnivieted,
on Monday, in the penalty of Is„ per ounce, this being xis first
offence.
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Coventry
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thri:tti;Ah ccioe
tillead eveningn ansdrf gtahvtes t adiaeyet,urieu awtlitithlet ';‘likti:::u '
tai:re;::diaii r;.,tem of Educatien in Etiet:sisd and I -.14
the sue -rosins
most gratify
Ile stated,rcet"i
t.iiit‘i:htiqizai:ossen(Lisailotdiouisiaitirulgst,sio. oenS:fe.
i4liist.:2l7;:itftri:lllo.3
nheiiirtst.clip,i,,,ifric
41al'iteE,:t'asidl several others were ere ring, sii;"P
caster seemed to he peculiarly impressed in that' ;
couf mil isst al:: c1.:(7. that,wh
iicti: related
ofto thrio''sellipdiacweiut:,il.,
had been taught to expea the greatest oppaiie
had met with 'the most liberal reception ;.4,nen'
his visit to the sister kiaedom Lad been tr.,%.
with success beyond his most sanguine ese,,ctie ...'
Ile found, generally speaking, that the Ilene:I:1C:
tholics of Ireland did not object to their citildre'i ?
tending his %clients. Ile accounted for thit, a,,d :he-
yery general adoption of his plan, on the ground
that his system wal not calculated to maio pro., t„t
to the religion he professed. The Scripture;
e
read by the children without note nr corinetsle, a,,ci
all denominations of Christians were rerer„,.; i,"„
ahled to send their *children for instructiott uith,;:t*
endangering the sentiments which their pirents e,,
tertiiised, acrd wished to have idwulcato.t in their
children's minds. Of course the members ..; 0 F.:stablished Church, every 'tlestorniseviots of i-: , e
tern, and even itoman Catholics, *ceisld as ail th es.
selves of the same Tesintain for instrAeion witarle the possibility ereoatimination. He 3:1,!;•;1, um,
among thelutsdreds,.or ttooAa's of 0..i1d,,,.w4
been instructed'hi his schools, there was !tot a sin Tie
instairce' of any' child adoptisg that professi.es of 0.
ligiou of. which he.was Emernbere Ile concludNl !is
Lecture, by exhorting his hearers to dO all in tlic:r
pow'er to heal the' disputes and* rnisundeers,:ings
which had .prevititecin,Coreatry at the late Election,
and to unite teget* in Christutsipharity and Chris-
tian real, in the promotion orthe general good; and
said, thet the. Oh. nearest-to his own.beart was,
that he might le, able with (nfl, to say, " that he
,had not 'an itaimy that he did not eutirely forgiie„
or an injury wide!) he wished to reseist.7. .
CHAP:4 M,TII alu aDEttEß.—Thil inikti,Who. Is in ills.
i4:4y fox the murder, of his wife, .d.lifrtday last would
hive added to the catalogue of Ida crimes by another
murder, bat for the interference Of iVard,..oneof the
turnkeys of the Compter. it appears, that since his
' commitment he has been double-ironed a,sul hand-
cuffed; Ifaiting, however, bagged to be uncuffzd for
some necessary purpose, he asked a Chinese who is
'hi thwCoMpter, for a knife to cut his throat. The
Chinese having said he had riot got one, he instaistiv
rushed upon hins tore his clothes, and searched
every part of him for the weapon; and being disap.
pointed, he geed a wooden bar, six feet long, and
four 'inches g i thickness, and raised it with an intent
to inlliot,i'... y blow on tire poor' Chinese's head,
t
whin the, rpiek renee of Ward prevented his fell in.
teat. via Wii then again handcuffed ; :lad on !wine
a
asked the cause of this atrocious attempt, he .aill,—
" The devil had ordered him to wash the Al all with
the Chinese's brains; and that he had only him and
two more to kill, when he shoold be pet•foctly easy."
lie is now coufiped in a straight waistcoat. lt,tOrns
Out, that (Ills very mart was brought before the Sit-
ties; Aldertnan on Friday se'nnight, charged by his
wife with maltreating her ; and from the peaceable
manner in which he conducted himself, and his posi-
tive assurance of future good behaviour, the Attl:l.
wan, was induced.to let him go at large. His wife
then emphatically said—" If he was let loose, she
should be a dead woman before the end of the nest
week,"—H,er words were unhappily prophetic, for
on the Wednesday evening she was murdered!
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muttin, •
Last week, at Hallow, Dr. Itoliihsso; M. I). of Finchury.
place, London, .q Elko, daeghtee of the We Benjamin Gorki,
I:sq. of Worcester.

1)11H). •
On Thursday last. Mr. .11!W Smith Brooking. in Prie..-'s
passage, fleet-street, aged 21, after au illness of three days
Hia lava is universally regretted by all who kuew him.
On Friday last, at his house in Nicholas lane, Mr. Henry
ilasssell, aged 66.