The Sun. — 1823-05-07 (London, England)

ESCAPE OP DARING BURGLAR% AND THEIR RECAPTURE.—Last night Islington was thrown into the greatest alarm, owing to the firing of pistols in one of the main thoroughfares, and the report that the police-officers were in pursuit of two persons concerned in the murder of Mrs. Richards, at CaMberwell. For the last three nights and days the officers, Pace, Handley, and Cooper, have been lying in the fields near Islington, watching for them, and last night, as they approached a field near the Britannia, a suspicious character rushed by them towards a skittle-grountl, and instantly Hicks and Gloyd were seen by the officers running along Britannia-row, the officers cried murder, and on Pace approaching the robbers, he fired, and the ball passed by the face of one, and the back of the others head, and Gloyd was, after a desperate resistance secured. hicks escaped, but was taken this morning within a few miles of Tottenham. They were both examined this morning at Queen-square, and committed for the burglary.  RonnEnrEs.—Monday night, between 11 and 12 o'clock, some thieves broke into the house of Doctor Atkins, near Euston-square, and carried off all his wearing apparel ;, they also broke open and robbed the footman's box. It is sup. posed they got in at the garret window, as it was found open, and escaped out at the staircase window, next the fields, there being a ladder set against it; all the tops of the adjoining houses were searched for them, but to no effect, but in a new building at the corner of the street, one of the Doctor's waistcoat's was found. The robbers left a chissel behind them. —About four o'clock yesterday morning, the maid servant at Mrs. Loaf's, an elderly lady, residing at No. 1, Morganplace, Back-road, Islington, got up to wash, when she threw open the shutters of the parlour window and left them so; she returned to the parlour about seven, when she discovered that the sash had been lifted up, and that a brass-mounted writing desk, and a set of cut glass castors, with silver stands, had been carried off:  Yesterday us Mason, one of the Bow-street, patrol, was shaving himself up stairs in his house, Little Russellstreet., Covent-garden, he heard a noise below as if some person had entered the house ; he instantly went down, halt' shaved, without coat or waistcoat, and with a razor in his hand. lie saw a fellow in the passage, who had entered by picking the lock of the street-door. On seeing Mason he ran off, but the latter pursued him razor in hand, and calling out " stop thief!"— the fellow, taking advantage of the state in which Mason appeared, roared out " Murder ; for God's sake seize him—he is a madman wants to murder me." The passengers, thinking there was some truth in this, suffered the thief to escape a considerable distance, but Mason meeting with some of his brother officers who recognized him, they kept up the pursuit and suc. ceeded in apprehending the offender. Awrtm OccuriumicE.---Two men having, quay. relied at Shepton, near Tavistock, they determined to end their dispute in a pitched battle; when one of the combatants, with horrid oaths and curses, Threatened to wreak his rancour in his rival's blood. Heaven, however, arrested his progress ; and, with curses on his tongue, he fell senseless to the ground I He was conveyed home, and medical aid procured, but in vain, his mouth which he hud so prostituted was Closed in eternal silence ! About three days after he died, without having uttered a single word from the time of the dreadful visitation.—( Dceoushiee Papert) ,