Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1863-09-19 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

DARING BURGLARY AND CLEVER CAPTURE.—OD  1110-n—d-tr3; evening the premises of Mr. James Clark, umbrella mannfacturer and warehouseman, Candleriggsstreet, Glasgow, were broken into, and a cashbox and £44 stolen. The premises were locked up at the usual time, a little past seven o'clock, when it was believed everything was secure. Shortly before eight, however, a girl observed three boys making their exit from one of Mr. Clark's back windows, and accordingly gave information of what she had seen. On entering the premises no one was found, but it was apparent that facilities for the entrance of the thieves must have been given from within. It was found that a desk in the countinghouse upstairs and one in the shop on the street flat had been forced open, and the money they contained, amounting to £44, carried off. A pair of boots had been left behind, ant' these were carefully preserved by the police. Suspicion was at onee attached to John Maitland, a lad of 13 years old, who was employed by Mr. Clark as a message boy, and who was in the habit of closing the back windows. Hence Detectives Stewart and Harley were sent to Whitevale to apprehend him. To apprehend the other boys, who must have taken part in the robbery, was now the duty set down for tho detective police. About midnight a little light was thrown upon their pathway, by the inquiries of a woman named Ramsay, and a man named Moffat, at the Central Policeofiice for boys belonging to them, who had not come home as usual that evening. Sub-inspector Audley Thomson, who took a note of the description and names of the missing boys, shrewdly guessed that the youths might have had something to do with the burglary, and therefore produced the boots which had been found in Mr. Clark's warehouse, inquiring whether either person knew them. Mrs. Ramsay at once identified them as belonging to her son. When Maitland was brought to . the stationhouse, he confessed that it was he and two other boys who had committed the depredation—the Stamm IN Tim Srassr.—On Wednesday night Mr. . S. F. Langham, deputy coroner, for Westminster, held s an inquiry at King's College hospital, touching the death of John Hunter, aged 41, a tailor, lately residing at 41,  Lower Whitecree.s7street; who Cornruilted suiCide on Monday last. Catherine Hunter, wife of the deceased, t said her husband had been in bad health for the last six ' months, and had threatened to commit suicide before he ' left home on Monday morning. He also threatened witness, and said they had better go out of the world together. She did not see him after he left home on Monday morning, until she saw him dead at the hospital. lie was not in want, but had been so reduced by illness she believed as to affect his mind. Thomas Grant, carman, in the employ of Messrs. Chaplin and Haile, deposed to finding the deceased on Monday morning, about 8 o'clock, inside the gateway of the George and Blue Boar-yard, Holborn, with his throat cut. No one was near him at the time. A shoemaker's knife was lying by his side. There was a great quantity of blood lying at his feet, as if he had fallen backwards. With assistance he put deceased in his van' and brought him to the hospital. He was not dead then. NVitnees had previously s,mt for Mr. Williams, a surgeon. Police-constable Sutton said he was called by the last witness to the George and Blue Boar MI Monday morning. Ito found dec,mseil as described by the last witness. lie asked den' ased wily he had done it, and be said because he had a bail wife He tried to seize the knife, arid N% sited ivituess to timmish him at one. He also expressed the same wish to time surgeon. Mr. Williams surgeon, Gray's inn-road, , proved being called to the deceased. He attended to the wounds in his throat' and advised that he should be removed to the hospital. There were also some stabs in the stomach. Charles Antonini, house-surgeon at King's College Hospital, said deceased when admitted had a large gash in his throat about seven inches long, and was very much blanched from loss of blood. He was put to bed, but he died the same day. Death, no doubt, resulting from the wound in the throat. After further evidence 7 the jury returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity."