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called to look at his -wounds , and he received every attention . He had -wounds on the back part of his head , his ears , and other parts of his person ; and he stated , that some shots were coming from under his tongue . He also said he had shot in his fingers , and in his loins , and legs . Mr . Everest , superintendent of the Rochester police , said he had long known the prisoner , and the others charged with him . He had good reason for believing that Mitchell was connected with a gang who had committed numerous burglaries in the county of Kent .
The prisoner was remanded till Monday , on which day he will be brought up with the other three , who already stand committed . He was removed from the dock by the gaoler , and as he was in a very weak state he was sent in a cab to the House of Detention , where he will no doubt be placed in the infirmary , and there receive such care and attention as the necessity of the case may require . It now appears that instead of four burglars there were five engaged in the transaction at Mr . Holford ' s villa . They form part of a regular gang which freciuent a low beershop , kept by a well-known character
in the Mint , Borough . The entire gang are wellknown to the police , and two are still missing—the man Dyson , nicknamed " the Doctor" ( now in custody ) but who has several other aliases ; and " Artful Allen , " the man believed to be shot in the hand . Some of the gang are known to the police as having been concerned in the robbery of bankruptcy stock , which occurred in Regent-street some three or four years ago . So convinced are the police of the parties being connected with this gang , that the whole of them have been under strict surveillance , as well as some women who have visited Dyson , and who have now moved from Martin-street to
Gunstreet , South wark . The adjourned enquiry before Mr . C . S . Woods , the coroner , at the White Hart Inn , Frimley , as to the death of the Reverend G . E . Holiest , was resumed on Tuesday and brought to a close . The coroner , accompanied by the jury , proceeded to the residence of Mrs . Holiest , whom he examined on several points not embraced in her former depositions . These points related principally to the penny token discovered in the prisoner Jones ' s pocket , and to the
identification of Levi Harwood by his voice . On the return of the jury the coroner proceeded to sum up the evidence , directing the jury to consider Smith's confession as evidence only against himself . The jury having deliberated for a few minutes , found a verdict of " Wilful murder against Hiram Smith , James Jones , and Levi Harwood . " They further expressed an opinion that there was not sufficient evidence to return an adverse verdict against Samuel Harwood , and that there was no evidence to show which of the three men included in their verdict
fired the fatal shot . Last week we gave an account of an extensive robbery which was committed from the shop of Messrs . Clapham and Williams , silversmiths and jewellers , in the Strand . Several parties have been apprehended on suspicion of having been concerned in it . On Saturday , Daniel John Shaw ( a boot and shoemaker ) , James Badcock ( also a boot and shoemaker ) , Eliza Shaw , ( wife of Shaw ) , John Gardiner ( a well-known ' cracksman" ) , Mary Ann Cheruneau ( with whom he lives ) , George Buncher ( another notorious " cracksman" ) , and Mary Ann Buncher
( his wife ) , were placed at the bar of Bow-street Police-court with Clinton , Messrs . Clapham and Williams ' s errand boy , who was charged with being concerned in the robbery . The boy had previously made a confession to one of the inspectors directly implicating Shaw , who was accordingly arrestea . Sergeant Thompson said that on Saturday , about twelve o ' clock , he apprehended Gardiner and Cheruneau walking arm-in-arm in the Westminster-road , near the Circus . He told Gardiner that he was charged with breaking and entering a dwelling-house in the Strand , to which he made no answer , and he handed the woman over to West , another officer . On
the way to the station Gardiner merely exclaimed more than once , "Oh , well , we shall see . " At the station the lad Clinton was brought into the yard , and Gardiner being brought into the yard also , he was asked if lie was not one of the men he had let into the house , previous to which he had seen him through a window , when he held down his head , and said he was very like the man , but being told to hold up his head , and look stedfastly at him , he said , " Yes , he is ; " upon which Gardiner declared he had neve r seen the boy before
in his life . The prisoner then refused to say where he lived , and said his business was that of a hawker . On Saturday morning Sergeant Thompson went to Pearl-row , Borough-road , where he found the prisoner Buncher , who occasionally went by the name of Luxton , and having told him the nature of the charge against him , his wife , who was present , turned out her pockets by the directions of witness , when , among other things , he found a piece of paper and a pawnbroker ' s duplicate for a gold ring , pledged on the 25 th instant , at the shop of Mr , Barnett , St . George's-circus . Upon taking the duplicate from her , she held the piece of paper tightly m her hand ,
and , on attempting to put it into her mouth , he wrenched it from her hand , when she said , ' 'Tis about a loan , and I do not wish him ( meaning her husband ) to know anything of it . " There was a list of jewellery , such as watches , diamond rings , &c , written in pencil , upon the paper . The male prisoner was shown to Clinton at the station , and being asked if he was one of the men who had spoken to him about the robbery , he at once said
that he was . The witness said of Cheruneau that her real name was Leonard , and he had known her for years as a person who assisted men in committing xobberies at night in the streets . Hannah Green , the female searcher at the stationhouse , said that when she was directed to search Cheruneau she took a bag of sovereigns from her bosom , which she handed to her , saying they were her own property , which she had saved up to go to America , and that part of them was given to her by her aunt , as letters in her possession would show . Sergeant West said that when Cheruneau was in custody she attempted to say something , but was prevented by Gardiner ; and at the station-house she said she had nothing in her pocket ; but when she was asked if she had any money about her she said she had , but it was no matter how much ; and , having expressed a willingness to be searched , she took from her bosom the bag produced , containing £ 158 10 s . in gold . The prisoners were then examined separately ; and implicated each other . Cheruneau said that she was the wife of Henry Cheruneau , a
regimental tailor , who was abroad , but she did not know where . She resided in Orange-court , Drury-lane , with her aunt , and was an unfortunate . Mr . Wontner said that as the female prisoner , Buncher , had only recently been confined , he had to apply for her discharge , there being no evidence against her , seeing that she was in such distress as to be obliged to pawn her dress for 2 s . ; and as there was no proof that the list of jewellery was connected with the robbery , he considered she was entitled to be held to bail . Mr . Henry refused ; and the prisoners were remanded till Wednesday .
On . Wednesday the prisoners were again brought up . The principal object of the examination which took place appeared to be to prove Kelly the porter ' s complicity in the affair , but the evidence on this head was not of a very trustworthy nature . Kelly was admitted to bail , himself in £ 200 , and two sureties , one of whom was his employer , in £ 200 each . The other prisoners were remanded for a week . The residence of Mr . Cephas Howard , cotton manufacturer , Brinriington Hall , near Stockport , was entered by burglars on the 16 th ultimo , and a gold
watch , a timepiece , some silver plate , and other property carried away . The persons who effected the burglary were three men named Harrison , Tracy , and Meegan . Harrison was apprehended trying to dispose of the gold watch in Shudehill Market , Manchester , and confessed the whole affair . The burglaiy had been planned at a lodging-house in Stockport . First of all they went and looked at the house during the daytime . They had ascertained that it was the house of a factory master , and concluded that he would have plenty of money . At midnight they set out upon their expedition : —
" "We went up the Ashton-road , and got to the house about a quarter past twelve o ' clock . We got over the fence near the lodge . There was a light in the lobby , and Dennis said he did not think they were in bed yet , as there was a light in the lobby ; so we waited about an hour . The old man stood in front of the house , and Dennis and me went to the window . Dennis pulled his boots off , but I kept mine on . I got up to the window , and opened it , but I could not open the shutters ; so Dennis got up and opened them . I went in first and struck a light . I found a gold watch on the cornice , and the cold spectacles . Dennis then broke open part of the the gold spectacles . Dennis then broke open part of the
sideboard , and took out the spoon and sugar tongs . I got two pairs of scissors and a silver thimble out of a work-basket . We then took the boots and shoes , snuffbox , telescope , and eyeglass . We also took a timepiece from the cornice . The old man then came and took the things out of the window , after we had wrapped them up in a table-cover . We then went into an adjoining field , and cut part of the table-cover to put the timepiece in . Soon after the old man said the timepiece was too heavy to take away ; so I took it back to the house . When I came to them again they were digging two holes to put the things in . We then left them there , and took a walk up the Ashton-road ; when wo got back it was about five o ' clock . The old man put the coat on , Dennis put the shoes on , and I had the gold watch in my pocket . The other things I
carried in my hand in a handkerchief . When we got to the lodging-house it was about six o ' clock The old man told me and Dennis to go in first , as he thought that Mary , a lass who lodged in the house , would be up going to her work . The lass was up , and asked me who had gone up stairs . I told her Dennis . As soon as she went to her work , Mrs . Meegan ran out of a corner , and said that she had been hiding , so that Mary should not know she had been up so soon . Then the mistress of the house came down with Dennis , and the old man came in . Patrick also come down , and we drank a bottle of brandy together . The old man put all the things into a box . The stolen goods were afterwards packed up in a tea-chest and Harrison was sent to Manchester to dispose of them . It was while bo engaged that he was apprehended , and no sooner was he taken into custody than he instantly informed upon his accom-
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Intended Bubglaxiies . — Henry Johnson was brought up at the Marlborough-street Police-office , on Monday , charged with having been found in a house in Falconberg-court under suspicious circumstances . About two o ' clock on Sunday morning the constable , while going his rounds , heard a noise in the passage of a house in Falconberg-court—a place resorted to by bad characters . Recollecting that a burglary had been committed the previous week at the house of Mr . Farton , Three Tuns , Oxford-street , the back of whose house could be reached through Falconberg-court , and that
the thieves had been disturbed before they could secure their booty , he went forward and found the prisoner in the passage of the house . He asked him what he was doing there , and the answer of the prisoner was so unsatisfactory that he took him to the station-house . On searching him , the following stock in trade of a burglar was found : —A jemmy , with a sharp chisel at one end and a screw at the other : a new rope of a strong and peculiar make , a life preserver , and a box of lucifer matches . All these articles were quite new and of a superior manufacture . He was remanded .
Mr . Thome , gutta percha manufacturer , New Bondstreet , passed a social night with some friends on Monday , and about two o'clock in the morning he went home . He was let in with a Bramah key , and went up stairs into the drawing-room . Fancying he heard a noise , he called out " Jane , " intending to awaken his domestic . No answer being returned , and hearing footsteps in the room above , he made his way down stairs , flung open the street door , and vociferated ** Police ! " Until the constable arrived , he began walking backwards and forwards in the passage / but seeing a man coming down stairs , of whose features he had a distinct view , he immediately ran to the street door and closed it . A constable having made his appearance , he let him in , and went with , him to look for the intruder . He found the thief had made
his escape through the staircase window , which was open . In a few minutes afterwards , a man was stopped as he was making his way out of the premises at the back , and on seeing him , he immediately rocognized him to be the same man who was coming down stairs when he shut the door . The man , whose name was William Hicks , was brought up at Marlborough-street police-office on Tuesday , when the above facts were stated . Mr . Leadlev , the chief clerk : "When you shut the door , on which side
were you ? Mr . Thome : On the outside , to be sure , holding on by the knocker . { Laughter . ) A constable proved that he went after the prisoner , and came up with him just as he had been stopped . The prisoner flung away something , but the act betrayed him , as it was found that what he had thrown away was a box of lucifer maches , which the shock of falling on the ground had ignited . A dark lantern was also picked up , which the prisoner had also thrown away . The prisoner denied the charge , and was remanded .
BUKOLAKY AND ROBBERY AT A RAILWAY STATION —The South Wales Railway station at Newport was broken into , and a considerable robbery effected , on Monday morning or Sunday night , evidently by some one who had a thorough acquaintance with the private business of the office . When the clerk and porters entered the office on Monday morning , they found that one of the octagonal windows looking out on the platform had the top and bottom squares of glass broken in the corners next the slides ( which were let into the sash , and were
not easily discernible ) . The slides were open , and the windows slightly ajar . This , of course , awakened instant suspicion , and on looking round it was discovered that a drawer , in which the clerks kept the keys of the iron safe , had been forced open , and the keys were gone . This led the way to the room in which the safe was deposited—a small private room on the platform side of the station . Here they found the office-door unlocked and open , and within , the safe was discovered to have been opened in the ordinary way by keys , and rifled of its contents , which amounted to about £ 45 .
Muiideh op a " Wife by her Husband . —A horrible murder was committed in the island of Jersey lost Saturday night . The victim was a woman named Mary Carleton , the wife of a pensioner . She and her husband had returned from market in a state of intoxication ; and , a quarrel having ensued , it terminated in the murder of the unfortunate woman . The husband denies all knowledge of the murder . He states that he heard a noise in the house , and , upon going to see what was the matter , found his wife lying weltering in her blood . He has , however , been lodged in gaol on suspicion .
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MISCELLANEOUS . The Queen and Prince Albert , with the rest of the Royal Family , arrived at Windsor Castle , from Osbornehouse yesterday . The royal party and suite travelled by the South-Western line of railway to Basingstoke , and from thence by the Reading branch to Windsor , on the Great-Western line . Her Majesty's private band , which has not played before the Court since the death of Sir Robert Peel , received orders to meet for rehearsal at the castle yesterday . The Duchess of Kent , who came to Frogmoro on the 18 th instant , is enjoying excellent health , and takes her usual carriage airings when the weather is favourable . She drove as far as Claremont last week .
It is said that her Majesty and Prince Albert have planned several alterations and improvements to bo carried into effect at Balmoral during the winter and early part of next season . She has also given directions to a ' thrifty gudewife , " with whom she was in the habit of taking a " rest" when in her walking excursions , and who is famed in the neighbourhood for her " spin-
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plices , who were taken up that day . Harrison has been committed to Chester Castle for burglary ; and Patrick Meegan , Dora Meegan , Patrick Tracy , Ann Tracy , and Margaret Keen , for feloniously receiving .
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JNror . 2 , 1850 . ] tRffB ILtaHet * 751
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 2, 1850, page 751, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1857/page/7/
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