IN pursuance of his plan Robert Pounds was at the General Post Office when the York stagecoach, which he had been following, arrived. He saw Martha Jopling and the red-haired one alight. He saw the red-haired one engage the services of a hackney carriage driver, and he followed that hackney carriage to a notorious street in Westminster. It stopped at the door of a house in the street; the passengers alighted; their luggage was conveyed into the house; they followed. The street had an evil reputation. What of the house? It did not take Robert Pounds long to get the answer to that question. The records in the archives of Bow Street supplied it. The house was in the occupation of a “Monsieur Favre;” nationality, French-Swiss. He resided there with a woman, who passed as his wife. Record of bo
