The Sun. — 1849-12-12 (London, England)

LAMBETH. Yesterday James Sinclair and John Anderson, who had been remanded on two previous occasions on a charge of being concerned in several daring highway robberies and using the most murderous violence towards their victims, were again placed at the bar before Mr. Elliott. A third person, who gave the name of Daniel Fitzgerald, was also placed at the bar as an accomplice. Sergeant Hardwick, 7 D, who apprehended the prisoners, stated that there were in attendance two officers belonging to the Millbank Penitentiary, who would prove that the prisoner who gave the name of Anderson, but whose real name was Ferguson, bad been convicted and sentenced to transportation, and had been sent from Miilbaek on board the Warrior convict-.ship, lying off Woolwich. Some years ago he (Sergeant Hardwick) apprehended the prisoner Fitzgerald on a charge of felony, and he was then convicted and sentenced to seven years' transportation. On apprehending him on the present charge, and on their way to the station house, Fitzgerald told him that the prisoner Anderson had been a fellow-convict with him on board the ‘Varrior, and that his real name was Ferguson. He (Hardwick) was not yet able to prove the fact ; but he should be able to show that Sinclair was also a returned transport, and that he had made his escape from one of her Majesty's dockyards. Thomas Barry, the deputy-landlord of a common lodging-house, No. 16, Short's-gardens, Drury-lane, who had been examined on a previous day, was again called, and repeated that the prisoners Sinclair and Anderson came to lodge at his house about the middle of the last month, when Sinclair-described himself as a pensioner, and said he had ls. 11d. a day pension. On the morning of the 20:1i of that month both the prisoners were without money, and borrowed a six. pence from him,,saying that they were going to Greenwich to receive some cash. On the same night, between the hours of 12 and 1 o'clock, they returned, in company with the prisoner Fitzgerald, and at that time they were much intoxicated, but their companion seemed sober. Sinclair pulled from his pocket and placed in his (witness's) hands the sum of 11. 12s. 14(1., and the other prisoner also gave him 16s. The other prisoner spoke to Fitzgerald in a free and friendly way, said he was a good fellow, and hoped they had satisfied him, and if not they should do so the next morning. John Wilson, a lodger in the last witness's house, repeated his statement that Sinclair had told him that he had been transported, but he did not say for what or when. The same Rrisoner had also asked him if he thought he could dispose of a watch at one of the lodging-houses at the outskirts of the town. Both Sinclair and Anderson always lived very well and seemed to have plenty of money, though they never did any work. John Evans a eabinetmaker, also lodging at the same house, said that on one occasion, when in conversation with the prisoner Sinclair, that person admitted that he was a native of Gloucester, and that his name was Robinson. On another occasion, when the landlord, Barry, was giving a distressed lodger an order for employment at the Mendicity Society, the prisoner said he should knock down the first man or woman he met in the street, rather than work for a shilling a day. The conversation was subsequently directed to the landlord of the house, and upon its being said that he was in the habit of going weekly to take away the rents collected from lodging houses in Whitechapel, Union-court, Holborn, and Short'sgardens, Drury-lane, Sinclair asked where he lived, and said he would be worth meeting on his way home. Lockyer, the gaoler to the police. station, said on that morning, on locking up the prisoner Fitzgerald in a cell by himself, he was leaving the place when he heard the prisoner exclaim, " Hallo, Jena! You are all right." The prisoner Sinclair, from another cell, replied, "Oh ! yes, I was nailed three weeks ago in Marrowbone-lane upon three front propping' (meeting persons and striking and robbing them) cases. Fitzgerald said, " Oh, yes, I saw it in the papers." Sinclair continued and said, " Yes, but I smashed them all. You must say that you were with us on the night in question, and that we had a drop of beer together, and that will save you." The prisoners were all remanded.