The Sun. — 1829-09-28 (London, England)

MARLBORO U GH-STREET.  Stephen Sandford, a desperate-looking fellow, about thirty years of age, was brought before Mr. CONANT, from St. James's watch-house, charged with having committed the following extraordinary burglary, on the premises of Messrs. Stultz, tailors, in Clifford-street, Bond-street :  It appeared that on the persons in the house rering to rest on Friday evening, all the fastenings were considered secure. About two o'clock on Saturday morning, two young men in Messrs. Stoltz's employ, named Medscar and Rossitor, who sleep in the cutting-room, in the front of the house, where property to the amount of upwards of 20,0001. is deposited, were alarmed by an unusual noise proceeding from the door of the room, which momentarily increased, and resembled the blows of a hammer against the wood-work. On Rossitor rousing himself, he beheld a ruffian (whom he believed to be the prisoner) introducing himself into the apartment through the panels of the door, which he had succeeded in removing. Rossitor instantly exclaimed, the fellow having still his right arm and leg outside, " For God's sake, who are you ?" To which he replied, producing a pistol, " Curse you, be silent, or I'll shoot you directly." Rossitor, who acted as porter, was still undaunted, and knowing that he had a blunderbuss near the bed, rejoined, " But I have a blunderbuss here to fire at you," and in endeavouring to find the weapon in the dark, he knocked down the candlestick, when he requested Medscar to search for the fire-arms, on which the ruffian, who held a lighted candle in his hand, retreated in the same direction as he entered. Medscar immediately ran up stairs to alarm Mr. G. B. Stultz, who slept in the house, whilst Rossitor proceeded in Pursuit of the prisoner, calling" Murder !" " Thieves !" Watch !" Bannister, a watchman, saw the prisoner running up Burlington-mews, towards the Burlington Hotel, and on attempting to secure him, he produced a pistol from his pocket, and presenting the weapon, polled the trigger; but happily for Bannister, it flashed in the pan, or he must have been shot dead on the spot. The prisoner then beat Bannister in a cruel manner with the butt-end of the pistol, and after knocking him down, ran off towards Regentstreet, which he crossed, the watchmen being in full pursuit, and he was ultimately secured in Little Marlborough-street by M'Donough, having on the way contrived to throw something into the hands of a female he designated as" poll," who instantly made off. The pistol was picked up in Old Burlington-street, on the spot where he snapped it at Bannister. It was a common pocket pistol, loaded with slugs, and appeared somewhat rusty. On examining the premises of Messrs. Stultz, it appeared that the gang (for it evidently consisted of more than one individual) had effected a burglarious entrance into the house from Burlington-mews, where they had removed two wooden rails from the outer door leading to the workshop, and afterwards cut away the pannels of. two other doors, before they reached the cutting room. A large iron crow-bar, a chisel, and one of the rails, were picked up in the passage leading to the cutting-room, and a small wax candle was found burning in the workshop, the fellow to which was taken from the prisoner, as I well as a phosphorus-box, used by housebreakers. ,  Auckland, the beadle, also observed that the prisoner's hands were covered with blood, occasioned apparently by breaking into the premises. Adams and Clark, two watchmen in Cork•street, deposed to the fact of seeing persons lurking near Messrs. Stultz's house, at one o'clock in the morning, who endeavoured to draw them into conversation, and wished them to have something to drink, but they did not identify the prisoner as one of the party. Bannister, however, swore positively to the prisoner as the man who presented the pistol at him, and it appeared he was only lost sight of for a moment on turning into Joubert's-passage, Regentstreet.  Schofield, the officer, said that on Sunday night a most determined attempt had been made to break into the premises of Messrs. Nichols and Rowan, tailors, of No. 12, Conduit-street, by picking the lock of No. 23, Maddox-street, where they cut through a fourteen-inch wall, and he thought that the instruments employed were exactly similar to those used to break open Messrs. Stultz's house. It appeared that no property was removed from Messrs. Stultz's, though the thieves evidently contemplated a rich booty. The prisoner declined saying any thing in his defence, and, on the applicatio❑ of Messrs. Stultz's solicitor, he was remanded for another examination previous to his final commitment.