The Sun. — 1850-10-16 (London, England)

BURGLARY AT MR. HOLFORD'S.  1 Yesterday morning information was transmitted from Scotland-yard to the station-house at the rear of this court of the Circumstances attending the bur.. glary at Holford -house, Regent's-park, and the apprehension of one of the burglars. The fact of one of the burglars being supposed to be dangerously wounded, owing to the traces of blood being found on the ground over which he walked or was carried, and the circumstance of a hat being found perforated with shot, and blood upon the inside, supposed to belong to the wounded man, were also mentioned. The Commissioners of Police, with a view to the discovery and apprehension of the man alluded to, have issued directions that particular inquiries should be immediately instituted at this side of the water, in order to ascertain if application for admission to either of the Borough hospitals had been made by any person suffering from gunshot wounds, and suspected of being concerned in the late burglary in the Regent's-park. Agreeably to these directions policeman Squires, of the N division, was dispatched in the course of yesterday to make the necessary inquiries, and upon visiting St. Thomas's Hospital he ascertained that a man named Bryant had presented himself there that morning, and exhibited gunshot wounds in one arm and the back part of one of bis thighs. Upon examination of his condition he was immediately admitted ; and when questioned by Squires as to the cireumstances attending his having been wounded his answers were of a nature to excite suspicion, for he asserted that he was wounded at a place called East Peckham in Kent, and that it was at a beershop where be and four other men " kicked up a row" in the house ; and that the potboy armed himself with a pistol, and shot him in the arm and thigh. In answer to the question as to where he lived, he said that it was at No. 13, George-yard, Whitechapel ; and afterwards, as to the reason he did not give his assailant into custody, he gave an evasive answer. Altogether, there is so much suspicion attached to the man that it is considered necessary to watch him in order that he should not leave the institution before proper inquiries are made with a view to discover whether he might not be one of the burglars either concerned in breaking into Holford-house, or in the Frimley murder, it being known that the late Mr. Holiest discharged a gun at his murderers as they crossed the lawn in front of his residence. The driver of a cab has also come forward and described, that on the morning that llolford-house was broken into, between the hours of 2 and 3 o'clock, while on the rank in Albany-street, Regent's-park, he was engaged by a man without a hat, and bleeding from a wound in the head. The man appeared to be week, and on getting into the vehicle he desired to be driven to the Strand, on reaching which be alighted near Wellingtonstreet, and walked away. Since then no tidings have been heard of the man, and the police have received instruction to trace, if possible, whether he was observed by the toll collectors on the Waterloo or Hungerford-bridges, to have passed over either of them in the course of the morning in question. During the examination of the man already in custody at the Marylebone Police-court, two women were observed to exhibit much anxiety about the result, and as it was suspected that they were friends and acquaintances of the accused, they were watched from Marylebone-lane over to the Surrey side of the water, to a house in Market street, leading into the Boroughroad, which locality is frequented by characters of the worst description. It is strongly suspected that the burglars live in this neighbourhood, and the police are on the alert to discover those at large.