The Sun. — 1836-04-11 (London, England)

STEAD BURGLARS.-(THIS MORNING.)  Thii morning., a little after nine o'clock, the awful sebtence of the law was carried into execution upon James Harlcy, alias Hartlett, alias Ballchin, who was indicted with James Hill and William Fisher, for a burglary, under aggravated circumstances, at the house of Mrs. Mary Ann Long, of Chipstead. Fisher was acquitted by the Jury, but Hills and Harley were ordered for execution. In consequence of Miller, the constable who apprehended Hills, concealing the fact from the Cor.rt of the prisoner making a voluntary confession, whereby he'was enabled to trace and capture Harley, the case has been. represented to Government ; and the consequence has been, that a respite was sent to the gaol on Saturday night. Owing to a misprint in the Sunday Papers, whic/., stated the hour of suffering to be seven o'clock, a dense crowd had collected long before that hour, many of whorr, expressed great disappointment, when they fosrod that the .execution would not take place until nine ; but several of thi*: group went to work, and emptied the oockets of many ger.llemen. The prisoner was attended, at P:n early hour, by the venerable Chaplain of the Gaol (thP Rev. W. Mann), but he had been attende", during the night by several religious gentlemen to where exhortations lie listened with passive, rather than earn'o.st attention. As he was strongly suspected of having b. 'knowledge df several murders, and even that he was a guilty participator in them, it was hoped that he would make a confession; but this he refused to do; yet he made his denials with that apparent mental reservation, that he cannot be exonerated from the suspicion which rested upon him. A little before nine o'clock the Sheriffs, attended by their officers and the executioner, proceeded to the Chapel, where: the hands of the prisoner were pinioned. During the night and in the early part of the morning, the prisoner appeared to be so debilitated that it was thought that he would require to be carried to the platform ; but, strange to say, as his last moment approached, his physical power returned, so that he not only walked through the avenues of the prison with a firm step, but he even attempted to run up the staircase to the lodge on which the scaffold was erected. When the rope was put round his neck, he groaned loudly, and then responded to the words of the Chaplain in a firm tone of voice. After a short. interval the bolt was withdrawn, and, after some severe gles, the malefactor ceased to live.  The prisoner was 32 years of age, and of an athletic snake and well featured; but it appears that, during the whoh his life, he has been a most desperate character, and depredations at almost all the fairs that were Zimitted /-ie).d in the southern counties.  He was visited by his father yesterday, vbo expressed a wish to have his body ; but the prisoner serAy _A careless as to whether it should be deposited in the chutela_yard of his native village or not.  We are glad to find that the inh=;oltants of the counties of Surrey and Sussex have entered irwo a liberal subscription, in order to present Captain liank.n with a piece of plate ; as, by his courageous resistance to att.ack, a desperate gang of seven burglars, at the dwelling-bsuse of his aunt, he has been the means of breaking 0 a, some years have bee„k• P;ang of hardened villians which for 'organized tbr the purpose of plunder.