Hannibal journal. (Hannibal, Mo.) 1852-1853, 1852-09-16

as increasing its circulation, and growing in
public favo rapidly--as so excellent journal
should. sit is said that John G. Treadway
OF Brunswick, has bought the Jefferson City
~hefroPoIaas and will here after conduct it.
EDlNBURou REvIEw.-We have received
the Edinburgh Review for July. Th. very
large quarterly is filed with useful and inter-
e'ting matter. The following extract from one
of its articles shows the practical working and
perfection Of the
POLICE SYSTEM or LONDON,
We now come to the Holford House burglary.
Mr.. Ho!Eord having gone to America, left his
mouse, IN Regent Park, under the care of SER
wants. About two o'clock in the morning Of
the l4th Of October, 1850, the butler heard some
person affecting an entrance iuto the dining.
room. He Weakened the other servants m IA
having armed thems elves, they went out ofl p
Pssite sides Of the house and suddenly atsa kco
the four robbers one Of whom was kht cEed
down and secured, the other three escspt It,
Several shots had been frcd oAg servant
erned WIN pissolvtv&th a spring h. ohet, had
, bc6arged it across a smaIfN~NGsh gone OF the
robbers, and at so short distance Ni6atVsGe bay
Onet actually touched him. Ira fes Of nSSnd
were found and it was supposed'that he had
been mettaly wounded, and having run some
way had been unable to go farther, and had pro-
bably been thrown by his companions into the
Regents canal. The flct, however, was, that
in the darkness and confusion, the burglar had
trpped and fallen just as the trigger was pulled,
and had received no injury, except that his hand,
striking the end of the bayonet, had been slight
ly cut, as we'll as grazed by couple of shot and
blackened by the powder, and the blood came
from one of the robbers, who had been severely
wounded in the head and neck by a random dis
charge of small shot. The third man was unhurt;
and nothing was found or the premises but
htwith some very small holes in it. The mode
iIwhich the police detected and arrested these
tree men will illustrate our previous remarks,
ad show the working OF a system which CLEANS
iformation over wide area, and combines it
practical application.
Next morning the prisoner was brought up
fC examination: he gave his name as VIM. Dy-
So; but among the criminal population names
at assumed enc day to be discarded the next,
ad afford no clue to the identity of the individ-
uI.i The first step taken was to place among
th crowd some keen observers TO watch not
th case, but the spectators. As the examina-
lin proceeded, and the feelings Of the listeners
beame excited by the dramatic way in which
tfftory unfolded itself, and their varying G.
ni2ons were more openly manifested, it was
noticed by the police that two women were
watching the proceedings with an intensity of
anxiety which betrayed personal interest in
the issue. Slight as the chance was it was not
neglected. and they were Immediately marked
for observation. After the examination, one Of
these women went to a beer-shop, the other to
see Dyson in the House of Detention, where he
Lad Ial ha H.,
companion, and both were tracked across the
river into Southwark: there they separated !;
but from house TO house the persevering detcc-
tives followed the trail of each until they reached
their respective homes. Local knowledge being
now wanted, the Southwark, or NJ, division was
called into action. The woman who had gone 10
the prison was recognised by them as the mis-
tress of a houscbreaker commonly known by
the soubriquet of the Doctor;' the other was
soon after ascerlaincl 70 be living with, and the
active assistant Of, notorious ruffan of the
name of James Mahon. This of course direct
edSuspicion towards Mahon, and now was felt
ths power gained by systematic watch over
thu criminal population. All the prisons with
inthe Metropolitan Police District are visited
byan intelligent constable from every division;
boides which it is the custom whenever an Of
FEEDER is arrested and taken to the police station,
tht he should be brought out Of his cell and
plced in such position that every man Of the
80 DIVISION, as he went on duty, had good view
of him, so that in time their faces became per-
iectly well known. Moreover patrol visits
Ebe thieves houses of resort every night, and
records in detail all those whom they find there
Whea il was circulated through the division that
one Of the Holford House gang, probably the
Doctor had been arrested and that Mahon was
suspected, oae Of the patrol recollected that at
ten o'clock on the night Of the burglary, they
had found in public house the Doctor, Mahon
two other men, Mitchell and Robinson, and q
~- woman, all apparently in earnest consultation
The sergeant Of the patrol went at once TO the
House Of Detention, and there in the prisoner
Dysol he recognized the Doctor During th'
following nights it was also ascertained tha
none Of the three suspected men appeared al
their usual hauns. 1t was clear, therefore, tha
the first point was gained, the gang was known
the range oil inquiry was at once limited TO three
known individuals, and the police now turned
their undivided attention to the discovery o
Il their places oi conceament Our readers vii
recoect our explanation of the abundant sour
ces Of information that may be opened up b,
iudcious management: money being wanted,
was under the advice of the magistrate, sup
piled by friend of Mr.. Holford, and the Who'll
az the Southwark division being on the aler
feeers were put forth in every direction On
man was successful. He was acquainted wit
O woman who had formerly lived with Mahol
but had been deserted by him, and he soundC
her. Whether there had been a quarrel, {
whether the womans jealousy at being SUI
planted was stirring within her, or whether Il
rewsrd alone was motive enough, she consen
ed to give her assistance, and the bargain WI
struck She could not, however, learn whe
MahOn was concealed, for his present compa
ion was faithful TO him. But il is the curse
criminal that friends and foes are alike da