The Sun. — 1849-01-27 (London, England)

LEBONE.  Robert Frost, a guard in the employ of the Great Western Railway Compny, was brought up at the instance of Mr. Collard, sup,:intcnclent of the said cornpany's.police, upon t'-:o ehari4e of robbery, and it will be seen frJrn the subjJinill evichnce that the prisoner hod made up his mind to wreak vengeance upon the person by whom hi guilt was discovered, but who fortunately escaped injury. The accused, owing to the hut t which he had sust:.7n,d by jumping from a truck in  which he was ri:litly„ nas eolanie and weak as to be unable to stand dur•i• g the inquiry, and he was therefore allowed to Fit clown. •  John Murcia the chief guard in charge of the goods train from Bristol to Paddington on the previous morning, deposed, that while proceeding from Bath to Chippenhara he suspt cted that there was something wrong, and accordingly looked into the basket of the prisoner, but saw nothing therein but his (prisoner's) own pro• perty; the prisoner had shifted his position several times, and taken his place in a part of the train it was not usual for guards to occupy, but he rode with witness from Reading to Slough. Witness again searched his basket, and found therein some habit-shirts, a child's robe, and a quantity of satin neck ties.' After the train had started from Slough, witness asked prisoner what he had which did not belong to him; when he begged that he might be allowed to destroy the things alluded to, and which he admitted he had taken from a box. He told witness that he might keep the articles. When near Bull'sbridge, about ten miles from town, he fellupon his knees and begged that nothing might be mentioned respecting the matter as it would be his ruin, and when within a mile or two of the station, and while the train was going at the rate of fifteen miles an hour, he threw himself out into the road. Mr. Collard said, that the prisoner was dreadfully bruised, and it was a great mercy that he was not killed. A great deal of other evidence was gone into, from which it appeared that no doubt could exist with regard to the prisoner having abstracted the articles found in his basket from a package which, amongst others, was deliveied at the station at Reading; the prisoner was ultimately taken into custody at his lodgings, in Princess street, Portman-market, by Brooker and Acason, two of the railway company's officers, when he raid it was lucky for Murch that there waa another person riding in the truck; had not such been the case he woull have been pitched out of it on the line; he bolted from the premises, but was rocaptut el, and after being conveyed to Mr. Collard's office was locked up in the stationhouse. In his room was a pistol, which he said was intended for the guard Burch, Mr. Collard added, that the prisoner told him that there would have been murder but for the presence of a third person, who had, under circumstances of a peculiar and pressing nature, beet, allowed to travel by the luggage train from Slough to Paddington. The capture of the prisoner was not effected until the evening of Thursday, malty hours after he had made the leap from the truck, and no doubt could exist as to tbe intention of the prisoner to attempt the life of the witness Mureb.  The articles of haberdashery, &c., as also a egsel found in the prisoner's basket, were produced: the implement alluded to had in all probability been used in the opening of the box. - • Mr. Collard was asked by the magistrate if he had any further witnesses to produce, and he replied in the negative; he had not time to make the necessary in• quiries to complete the me. The prisoner was remanded till Wednesday next. His application to be allowed to put in bail for his appearance on that day was refused, and he was then locked up.