The Northern Daily Times. — 1856-11-25 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SURREY GARDENS. committed a violent assault on him, and with having robbed him person to get an impression of the keys, Pierce knowing of a Crimean medal. The facts were these :—The " hero" the man." The whole project was to assume a quaternion form. "It was to be divided into four." The plot was arrived here, for the first time, on Saturday night; ho had ' to be n .aid at Folkstoforwe, heretwo, in rivat thee na apartments were Adams, two Crimean medals—one the usual one, the other with clasps, l taken , by the witnessnforwtwo, and for his " distinguished bravery in the field"—that is, for having killed, or supposed to have killed, a certain number of and where Pierce and Agar resided for a fortnight or Russians. Being, as he said, a " teetotal" stranger in Liverthree weeks. The plan adopted was to walk to the station when the gold train arrived, to get a sight of the pool, he knew not where to go. He met the woman iron chest in which the bullion was carried, which was in the street ; and, seeing her a decent, respectable. sometimes opened, and sometimes not. The policeman body, lie asked her where he could get a decent, of the town appears to have known the parties, there• respectable, lodging like. Is it a lodging you want, says she? fore Pierce left Folkstone, and Agar remained a week That's the very thing Ido want, says I. Oh, then, come behind. At the end of the week he met Pierce at a along with me gra maehre, says she, as you're a bould soger public house in London, when he told Agar the police boy, and maybe I wont 'commodate yen to aT, says she. meant to arrest him. There were two keys to the iron They went to a house in Peter street, and when he entered it, safe, and Pierce thought he could get one to take an he did'nt like the looks of it, so in order to get out of it he impression from. One of the keys was lost, and the gave her a shilling to go out for some ale, thinking, when she chest was sent to London to get another key. It was went out, to get out without any more noise about it. Just as at this point in the affair that Pierce knew Tester, who she went out, the man rushed in with a poker in his hand, would have possession of both, Tester being a ticket- crying out, you soldier, I'll murder you, as I hate all clerk in the service of the company. Pierce was desirous soldiers, at the same time giving him several blows on the that Tester should take the impression, but Agar pre- head (the head was bandaged up, • and the poor fellow seemed ;erred taking it himself, and for this purpose be met to have suffered much), which cut him terribly, and nearly Pierce and Tester at a beershop at the corner of Tooley- stunned him. He struggled with his assailant, and both came street, kept by one Willis. Here Agar took three or four down together, when the prisoner called to the woman for a impressions in wax, of one key, and returned the keys to knife, swearing be would stick him (complainant) like a pork Tester; Agar giving the chambermaid sixpence to go up pig' The woman begged of him not to do so, as they would stairs to a bedroom to enable him to perform the be hung ; the woman at the same time kicking him furiously operation. in the ribs. They then stole the medal from him, but he It was at Sterne's in Tooley-street, and at the Greenstuck to them like a leech until the police came to his Man, near the station, that Agar met Burgess. The assistance. The prisoners were remanded. next point was to consider how the impression could be