The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-12-03 00:00:00

POLICE.

BOW-STREET. •
FooTpAps.— Riehard Nerds, James Gill, Jo-
seph Fortllium, •and George Cogden, -were brotight
ill custody by sonie_of the horse patrole, who ap-
prehended them on suspicion of robbing Win. Wes.
ton, on the Edgeware.road, and underwent an ex..
ainination before Mr. NARE4. '
The Prosecutor is a carter belonging to Mr. Pigg,
of Hendon, mud had been to Siaithfield marlfet
with a load of hay up ,Thqrsday, when, on his. re.
turn home in the.oveuing with his cart and horses,
lie was stopped near .the fifth mile.atone on the
Edgeware.road by three men, wh'o tubbed kiin of
71. he had received for the hay. Ho identified the
person .of the.prisoncr Gill.
Wright, one of the horse patrole, stated, that
About the time of the robbery he met the Prisoner,
Fordham, on the road near the spot, and detained
him in consequence of some .suspicious circumstan-
ces ; and learning the residence of the other Pri.
soners was at IVilstion, he went the same night and
took them into custody, when Norris confessed
that he, Cogdon, and Gill, had perpetrated the
robbery, and sheaved the witness where the whole
of the money taken from the Prosecutor was con-
cealed in the garden of the house where he (Norris)

lodged.
The Prosecutor identified a letter, which was
found in the parcel with the money, as being taken
from him at the same time. .
Norris, Gill, and Gogden admitted the fact, but
denied Fordhatu's being concerned. in it, though he
had been in company with them a short time before
the same evening.

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They were all committed for further examination.
A few days since, as Limberick antl•Black.
. man were passing through St. Giles's, they observ-
ed a man with a large sack, on his back, the,con.
tents of which appeared extremely heavy, %Olds ie.
duced them to watch him, and they followed him
to a large sited or . warehouse, in George-yard,
Crown-street, which :they discovered, contained .a
very !elle quantity 4,04 ixop, lead,. 41;c5 npd that.
I the sack which the man had taken contained art's.
cies of the same description, in consequence of
which they came to the Office, gave information,
and obtained a seareh.wairant, on the ground of
L their suspecting that the whole, or part of the pro-
yperty, had been stolen,. and afterwards procured a
constable belonging to• the . parish of St. Andrew,
In which the preeaises were situated, to execute it,
and they accompanied diime there; they.found, two
men acting as masters of .the .premises, one -of the •
name of -William White,. and the other,Soosstei'
Foroler ; and they nut being 4ble,togive a Nagai...,
tory account how they became possessed of the
property, the Qffscers seized the whole, amounting
to upwards of four tons weight, which they brought
away in two carts to the (Mice.
. On investigation before Mr. READ and Me. BER..
titc, White and Fowler, the proprietors of the pre-
mises attended and pleaded Not Guilty to the oils.
demeanour with which they were charged.
Mr. AzLey attended for them, and very ably
contended, that no ground had been stated by the
witnesses why they suspected the whole or any part
of the property to have been stolen. lie also ob-
jected to the competency of the evidence of James
Stone, the parish constable, on account of his be-
ing au inhabitant of the parish, paying rates, he
being interested in the question, as to case of a for.
feiture of the property half of it would go to the
parish.
The Magistrates allowed this objection, but
.overruled that of there not being ground stated by
the witnesses why they suspected the property to be
stolen.
To prove that Cae Defendants came properly by
the property, hlr. ABLEY called a number of wit-
nesses, consisting of those who keep small old iron
shops in dilfertnt parts of London, from whose tes-
timony it appeared that the Defendants are whole-
sale dealers in old iron, &c. purchasing it from the
small shops and selling the different articles to foun-
deries. •
On the part of the Prosecution Mr. Thomas Car-
penter, the clerk of the works (under Mr. Smirlce)
to the building of Covent-garden Theatre, attended
and identified a uuasber of brass knobs or the doors
of the boxes, locks, hinges, &c. which he had no
doubt bad been stolen from the Theatre; this was
confirmed. by Mr. John Crick who drew the
sketches for the mapufacturing of those articles.
The Niagistrat4,4Onvicted the Defendants of a
misdemeanour suikdeVille 29th of George 11. for
having lead, brats, Won, bell metal, &c. in their pos-
session, without being able to give a. satisfactory
account how they became possessed of the proper-
ty, ordered them to pay a fine of 40s. each, and the
property not identified by the retailers as having
been sold to them, to be forfeited.

The King of SW FEEN received BERNADOTTE in
the very room where G USTAVCO A nol.pnos was ar-
rested ; this circumstance was afterwards mention.
eft to iERN A DOTTE by Baron L—, when he re.
plied, " 1 cannot conceive how a King can be ar-,
rested, he may be killed. I remember the time
when an order was issued by BARR AS to arrest me
—the infer was announced, I drew my sword and
told the Officer who was charged with the arrest,
that the Directory might, have my body."
The French Minister et Stockholm lately made a
formal coMplaint of a dinner having been given by'
the English resident at ,Gottetibiirgh, to celebrate
Lord WELLINGTON'S victory. The Court entered
.warmly into the Complaint, but after every inquiry,.
they were unable to ascertain where tits timer was
held, or the persons that attended it.,