The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-02-06
Extraordinary Robbery.
[From the London Times, January 10 ]

very remarkable circumstances. Beyond
the police authorities (who are investigating
the matter) and the parties immediately
concerned, there was no knowledge of the
outrage until Saturday, and it is exciting
much interest. On Thursday last about 4
o'clock in the afternoon 4 well dressed man
alighted from Hanson cab at the shop OF
Messrs. London & Ryder, jewellers and
goldsmiths, in Bond street, and, walking
and rings, remarking that he had
lately come into the possession of
some property, and was about to ex-
pend six thousand pounds in jewelry.
He carefully examined the necklaces and
other articles, and then left the shop, Civ
ing the name of Mark Tyrrel, and request
ing them to be sent to his house, No. 1
Upper Berkeley street, Portmansquarc, at
half-past O'Clock that evening, in order
that they might be shown to Il lady. The
diamonds lie had seen, with others he
had not seen, and of the value together OF
between $4,000 and $4,000, were carefully
packed in Il bag and entrusted to an assist
ant to be taken to the address stated. Ar
irving there at the appointed time, the
door, to his surprise, was opened, not by a
servant, but by Mr.. Tyrrel himself, who
asked him to walk in, explaining that his
errand. The shopman was conducted to
the drawing-room, where he found
a we'll. dressed young woman, prepared
for his visit. She and Mr.. Tyrrell took seats
ut the table, with the shopman on the op-
poStc side, who then produced the neck
laccs and rings he had been asked to bring,
Of the value together Of about $500, leav-
ing the rest in his bag, which he had placed
ut his feet on the floor. The lady examined
them minutely, and appeared to admire
them much. At length Mr.. Tyrrell sug-
yeSted that she had better bring her sister
in to look at them before she decided, and
she left the room apparently for that pllr-
pose. Returning in a few minutes alone,
and going unawares behind the shopman,
she steathily placed Il pocket-handkerchief
partly saturated, as he believes, with chloro-
form, over his month, holding it tightly by
the ends. The diamonds still lay on the
table, and the rest Of them were in the
bag below. A great struggle immedi-
ately ensued, and the shopman was
at length completely overpowered. As
he lay helples>ly exhausted on the
floor, partly from the effects of the drug
applied to his mouth and nostrils, the man
and woman proceeded to pinion his arms
by the elbows behind-so, at least, the
story goes--and to tie his legs together by
the knees and ankles. Bound thus hand
and foot, they placed him upon sofa in tt G
room, the man telling him as they did so
that if he dared to stir or speak he would
murder him. This would probably be
about o'clock, and he was then lett alone
in the room in that helpless plight. How
long he remained there is not exactly
known but, from what afterward became
known, the interval was probably little
short of two hours. Gradually recovering
consciousness, he managed by slow degrees
to release himself, and taking up poker
he violently smashed window 10
raise IN alarm. The costly diamonds
he had displayed on the table had by
that time disappeared, but those he had
left in his bag on the floor, and which were
almost twice the value of.hc rest, remained,
as good luck wottld hare 1.-THE thieves
probably overlooking them in the their
haste to escape. Making his way down
stairs to the street door, the shopman gave
an alarm, which brought Il policeman, and
they went over the whole house together,
but only to find it completely deserted. and
no trace Of either the man or woman who
had committed the outrage. It T;:S then
about S o'clock in the evening. While the
police and he were SO engaged they heard
4 knock at the front door, and, going there,
admitted a woman VINO said sill was Il ser.
want in the house, and who appeared
greatly surprised to find it IN the hands ol
strangers. She explained, in effect, that
about , o'clock that day her master, into
whose syr1cH she had entered only on the
previous day, had sent her n5ith i letter adj
dressed to Il lady at TuSe Hill that she
went there accordingly and spent several
hours in trying to find the address of the
lady, but altogether in vain, and that she
had brotigllt bari. the letter, which she
now showed to the shopman and to the
constable. The inference from this cir
cumstlncc Is that the man Tyrrell, her
master, having deliberately planned the
robbery, had sent her on foot to that dis
tant suburb upon 4 fools errand, III order
enough, earlier in the same afternoon the
same man called ut the shop Of MesSrs.
Emanuel. jewellers, in Bond street. which
adioins that of Messrs. London Il Ryder,
and ordered some diamond necklaces and
rings which ne had seen there to be sent to
him at the same address, Upper Berkeley
street, for inspection. In this case, how.
ever, the precaution was taken to send
with the Jewels not one, but two assistants,
one Of whom WAS a man Of great height and
physique. The door was opened to them
by Mr.. Tyrrell himself, but they were
not admitted, he explaining that the Lady
for whom the diamonds were intended was
not then in the house, and they left. 1t is
presumed that on seeing two assistants with
the diamonds. and one of them of such
formidable appearance, he suddenly altered
his mind, and that Messrs. London IL Ryder,
instead of Mcssrs. Emanuel, became the
victims from that circumstance. Subsequent
inquiries have elected the fact that the
house in question, in Upper Berkeley street
which is Il furnished one, WAS taken only
on the preceding day by the man TyrrelI,
and that ut his request the landlord en-
gagged him female seryant-the same who
was atterward absent on the needless errand
10 Tulse Hill while the robbery and out
ranp wern hninv committed.