The National Register. — London, England, 1818-11-16 00:00:00

566 POLICE. Row STREET. SIWKING OCCritIIENCE, IV...Nevin! Mr. Horsley. of Csaunbitryslant, Islington. wha nn Sunday lost his son. who together with his infant ,had been token ou• by a female servant in a child's chai e, attended before Mr. Hicks and Mr. liirnie, the sitting Tlag;strates, accompanied by a friend, and stated, that they had found a witness who had seen a man lake the infant, whic'i is only a year and u half old, out of the chaise, which was left Heal the Asy Isom, and walk away with it. It an reart-il to the man a singular circumstance, and he was in. duce I to follow rite thief, who, in the Borough, went into a liquor shop, w hel 4 , lie had a glass of :in ; the a ituess also went into the liquor shop, and had a full view (tithe man and the ; and from his olvseri pt inn there is no doubt at' the infant Horsley's. The thief left the litinor shop, and proceeded tmeards Loudon-bridge, where the witness lust sight of him. Mr. Horsley was so much afficted, he was wit able to state his rase; and lirs. Horsley being in a pregnant state, he was learild of the consequences. The circuit'. stances, however, were clearly related by his friend, who state I that they considered dht• seduction of the servant girl away, as au underplot to getting the child; there was nn doubt, however, but that she had been induced to take the children in that direction ; for she was restricted front tak it,-4 them nut of Canotibury.lane, or very near it ; whereas sic had been seen genie away, on Sunday, crossing the Sltepl herd and Shepherdess-field, and pulling the chaise with both her hands, apparently as fast as she could. She had not any preciiiiiion for herself to stay ont, as she had nu oll.er clothes but ii o• 4. slit had on. 1t as strongly simper ted that she went to a iloa+C Of ill fame in Ilea l's-rosv, near the Asylum, kept by a woman of the name of Vetch. Her pa. r its, nor any of her relations or friends, had not heard any t Sin; ofher. suiperteil that she had been nittriles et! or 113.1 destroyed herself, but they did not state their reason fur thinking so. 'Vh•rp stated that they 11841 been to the l'„. •. m roion.street, to give similar information, and they intended to go to the Secretary of State's Office for the Home Department, to apply to the Secretary and trader Serretary of Mare. The Nlaeistrates appointed two constables to go and search the house of ill-forme in Nlead's-row, near the Asylum, and to bring the parties who keep the house betore them, if ne cessary. In a short time after, Mr. Horsley's friend announced in the public office, that the servant was found, and taken from off a etaee coach io I lolborn, and that she had been brought to the office: a considerable degree of exultation ntanaitesl ed all present. 'the Magistrates determined on giving' a preference to the examinatiori of the servant, to any other business which was then waiting, except what was immediate ly before them: but after waiting some time, upon inquiry, it turned nut that 7tlr. Horsley and his friend hail been tilisineo melt ; fur it was ascertained, upon inquiry, that the servant was not in custody ; they then left the office In make further iimniries as to the report winch they had beard of the sereaut having been found. After a considerable search, it was ascertained that she hail been taken to the offiee of the Vestry clerk, of Islington, ',sheer the guard of the Birmingham coat It stated, that the girl had gone by that roach from Cie Saracen's.braol I nn, on So l ose.i t ill, on Sunday evening, to Birmingham, oder peculiar I . :relined:ince.. She presented herself to go by the coach as an noitsille paseetserr, just felin e they were tritely to start, and said her place was taken; he looked at the aay.hill, and (mind that there was no place taken for a female that was wet lint told her that there wits a !dace taken by is Mr. Atkins, who was led yet come, when she replied that lit r name was Atkins, a hereas it is Elizabeth Holbrook t but 110 Ale. Atkins appearing, and the coach being 'early to start. he a-lved her a bete her cloths or luggage were; she replied s h e tail none: the clothes which she had on a., re not ealeu_ fated to Ira I in, vr. tieing very light ; but she minuted the ' , Oath and went to liirminghem, 4her••, on l , er ureic .s a 4• the it Os+ seen that she did not know an Berson Ir ere. She is sixteen years of age, but small of her age, and has a very young apprie:ance: 511 the attention of the people at t I. weer lain het moilve t or 40 t,i g to Bit mitiotain ; and they at length learnt time her that she it as tonne to 111. 1114111 Cd, but that her intended husband was not in Birmingham, she having lett him in I.ondon, and lie was to bottom her to Birmingham to marry her. This 1 atement was sufficient to convince any reflect ing person that she had been the dupe of some designing villain. and they used their exertions in endeavouring t o persuade her to the same belief; and her supposed lover not arr: yang at Birmingham by I iiesday afternoon, she w a s convinced that site had been deceived, and agreed to return to 1.4,11.10111)y the coach that afternoon. Some money was collected bs several liniumie persons for her there, as well by some ladies who came in the coach with hr r; and it so happened, that the same guyed came with that coach Iron. Birmingham as attended the coach she went by from London. He, therefore undertook the rare of her, and the ciictimslances of Mr. Horsley'e children being carried oil by a servant girl, ha•ing become 4 subject of great no toriety, la: ascertained that sloe was the girl alto had ab• 'reunited with them, He there fore, sietertnitte.l on not let. bog her Co OW of his eietil. on his arrival it, Liqi iin , till he had dull% red her safe into cesiody :Ind lie delivered her to Ire palish uNi , era of I.lington, where she was kept in an ex', aie dimity way, instead of to Ii„.„. ley's or taken bethre a Police Alage , trate for investi gation. She was even taken to Lamm th, w cons ctitt ",„ c a the ', T au. or a man being strut lieu atilt the tee. t .ing child. Tits cis comat,ence being known iet Mr. little y's tioilfrey, the constable, went tiff with ail s l ,l to tilllua her froze Islington to Lamle th. Oil his arrival in Lower Laintietli.marsh, he met Godwin, le•lmiging to this °thee, who h a d a lso been employed upon this distressing business, and learnt from him, that the persolis who had brought the girl from Ishiegioti had taken her to Billingsgate, In 1 - 11. dC3VOIII - to find 1411 a loan eiho had been sect, thew with a child 311110t . 1 in:: the description uf Mr. Hoorsley's; lie pointed 0111 a 1,4344•-08/11:•1` 111 1-1111111:111.11141.11, where be 11.141 Merl .1111110yt . 4 111 the (robing were broneht berme her, to a•ceitviii it any of throe w as the mars a lio had sectored her to Mr. Horsley• children in the chaise; but she k new i t ,,ti t i oe of any of them. It did nut appear upon what ground auy 01 . thel,e melt were sforpc vie it, except from vsiwial report.);,,drily Plocceded to the- to: die-house in I.ambeth. marsh do descillocil, a here lie ((mood Ekzabelli Holbr ook io the custody of Mr. Brown. the beadle of Lambeth parish ; he claimed her as his pirsom r havilig preolmed his warran', the treadle resigned his charge of her, and in a shor t time after Godfrey, by for desire of the persons who had brought her flout Islington, was prevailed on to take b r to the tier culy. public house, opposite the Asylum; the landlady of THE NATIONAL REGISTER y humanely tuck the infant gill out of the chaise which ha -I been left under the garden-wall of the Asylum, on Smolay evening, and probably saved the innocent's life.— Here Mr. Carter, who is employed at Astley's theatre, was sent for, and on h is arrival at the. Hercules public-house be folly described to the servant the man whom he had seen take the child out of the chaise. 1e ; but she declared stir 'lid not know such a man, or any thing of the child being taker out of the chaise. She was interrogated by several persons there, as to her knowledge of the children being left in the chaise near the Asyl .in that cruel manner, late on Sunday even• lug, but no satisfactory information could be obtained from her, ►he denying all knowledge of leaving the children in that deplorable state. Among the persons present was a female elegantly dressed, who inlet fared, and interested her. self very h respecting the servant; she endeavoured to get her away front the officer privately to herself; but God frey refused to consent to let her go out of his sight ; she tried various stratagems, such as to give the girl tea, assigning prnate reasons; but Godfrey was not to be removed from his resolution, saying, wherever the servant went he would he present ; and the girl also declared she had no occasion to wish to be absent from him. It did not appear who this mysterious female was, or what her object was in interfering with the servant ; and the girl declared that she did not know any thing of the lady. They left the Hercules and proceeded to Itow-street office, where they arrived about a quarter helot'. 9 o'clock. Mr. Hicks was then sitting, and the investigation co 11111 l enced, which lasted about two hours. Among the gentlemen who addressed the Magistrate was one who stated himself to be a neighbour of Mr. Horsley's, and that he was one among, a number of others, who had taken a lively and active interest in his loss, and that he and several friends loot been out night and day making inquiries for the still undiscovered chid at the watch-hottses, and at every placew het e la' ge assemblages of people wet' collected, On the fires ions night (Tuesday) they had been to Wapping, and about t at; o'clock tot Wednesday morning, they met with %eve' al sailors, stone of whom recollected being at a public home in Sunday evening, in a lane in Lower Thames .street, near Billingsgate, where the • pass•mgers by the Gravesend boats assembled ores i , k111; to the s.tilnng of the boats, and they tecollected seeing a man with a child exactly answering the description of Mr. Horsley's, is person as well as die's. elan $l6O answered tile description, except as to his dress and Mr. Carter suspected mint to be in a disguised die's, and it is supposed he chanced his dress again to avoid being traced or discovered. He laid his head on a table in the room in the public house where he was wailing, and went to sleep, keeping the child close to him, and at tell o'c:ock that night he went on board the Gravesend boat, taking the child with him. The aeponnt Elizabeth Holbrook gave of herself is, that she had *red as a nurse girl to Mr. Horsley for two years and several months. There were three young children, and when the weather was fine she was in the daily firar•lie•r of taking them out in a child's chaise, two at a time. Abort two months since, when she was nut with the children in their itemise, she met with a voting Man, with whom she became intimately acquainted ; in fact, she acknowleged that impro per familiarities turd taken place tretwr•rn them. He very frequently met heKdirlien she was out with the children; he made love to her, called her his sweetheart, and pr. veil to marry her ; but 'lie acknowledged that she neither knew who he was nor what he was; all that she professed to know f him was, that his name was George Faulkner, and she con sidered l,iw to be a young gentleman, by his di ess, eke. Ili told her that 104 relations and friends lived at Birmingham, and they would be married there; and desired her to leas, her place on Sunday for that impose, and that he would make arrangements for her journey, and therefore she need not make any arraugeruents herself'. He enjoined her to strict secrecy; that she was not to tell a single person what she was going to do, and that she was to meet him in Smith field on Sunday afternoon, and he mide her promise to bring, the diddles. with her. According to angements with lett her master's house al t two o'clock, taking the chil dren le the chaise, as her mistress supposed, to give term an mime. Sir proceeded with all possible speed to Smithfield, anti drew the chaise about their, between ao hour 411.1 an hour and a half, wailing fur Mr. Faulkner ; and nn his enuring to her, he gave her a 21. bank note, and told her he had taken her plare, skewed her the inu where thecoach went from, and told her he would follow her to Birmingham by the next coach. The inn she went from was the Saracen'.. Head, on Snow Hill. 311 . . Faulkner took possession of the child's chaise, promising to deliver the children back to then parents, whom he would infurin.that she was going to bi married, and would explain every thing to them. She gave him the key of tier master's street dooros hick she had brought out in hue pocket, which he also promised to deliver safely, The adventure of her journey to Birmingham, and her re turn to London, is already described in the guard of the co.ich's account. She was not sworn to her statement, the Magistrate de dining to do that, lest it might torn out hereafter, that she was concerned in a conspiracy to carry oil the children. She was interrogated very closely by the Magistrate, and by se wer,il gentlemen, as to her more particular knowledge of the supposed Mr. Faulkner and the Mall who carried off the boy from the chaise, and went by the Gravesend boat w itlt it but no jai - womb oo could be obtained lien her respecting them, she denying that she knew any mote than what sin had told. Gotlftet said, before he hi might her to the office, she told him she knew where Mr. Faulkner lived, and that he did not live far from her master's house. She explained this by saying, that about a fortnight sitter, when she was out with the children it, the chaise, slit met with Mr. Faulkner, atm the weather linVifig the appearam r of rain, he said he ninthl on and feielt an umbrell.•t, which he accordingly did, and wip, not gone above tit cllllllllle9,illlll he appealed In her to go 1. , a house in a muss of houses called Sere' buildings, but she did not know which house lie %%tilt 11110. A of gontleinen lute' log:dill her, lint nothing more of imp.' 1.u.c0 COilld be obl.liovil fiool l:( r, and the Magistrait• rnn•ad.•acd her to have been an ignorant dove of sunac log clil.un orrillaiu..A,p. lot.. lit. µI I ° appealed tAlrcon ly alerted :Intl grirved at the rondoet of 16 , 4 'laugh tor. .1 he ts,esitienseti ' , resent, the mend. of Mr. and Mr.. Ito she, , spu6r iu the highest terns of his hi,. wife's eon. duct. The 31agistrale in C1 , 11,4 . (i11e1i VP .1; ranged that her I.ither,hoold take her home 's li ke , cp her in el• sr ginitiurnittitt,.not solferiog iirr to go taut, ui lo have intercom st with any perede ; 2iui that lie , sll,.ttoit be ans%%erohte furlhconriul whets the bohoin who stole the (Ain't %%as /purr 'trotted s ow , l at er tbis asisegeinent had been matte, Mr. lior,dey anti his friend, so Its entmegly exerted himself, chtor eil the office, from l liegluu. %% lien the itivestipit,uu %cis 11. sumed, for the satisfaction of Ms. Hos Acy, who, As %%cii as 4ts Nnra 1 1 friend, ye' y closely interiugaied the girl ; as • ol :11 . 1 CI be them, she acknowledged ilia , had talked tit .11 r. Faulkner, as to what a fine child the boy was, And a hat a great fortune lie would have. She also acknowledged that MI I'aniko r, soh( n lie arranged with her to go to Mr. 'unfelt:nu on snuday, and told her to bring the children with her, said the boy was to be 011 e of them, and her IllistreSS •ent her out a little before one o'clock with two girls, she, ul ciiii•i quent c of Mr. Esulkaer's direction, returned home at two O'ClOek, left one of the girls, anti brought out the bob - , and put him into the chaise. Mr. Smith here addressed the Magistrate, and submitted, that the gill might not to be allowed to go to her father's, but should be sent into confinement; and Mr, Horsley also urged this, but at thr same time allowed that he could not but con soler her the lop of some designing villain. The 'Magistrate accordingly agreed to send her to the House of Correction, with a direction dud her father shoald have free access to her, but no other person ; and the clink aecont ugly prepares] tie wind information, but Mr. Horsley refused to sign it. He said le could charge her indirectly, but not directly. The Nlagistrate, w th a temper and disenmination which did him infinite himour in this distressing situation, hummed him, that he then could not send the girl to prison, as there was no way of making out a commitment to prison but on a charge upon oath. Mr. I torsley's friend offered to make the charge upon oath.: a ha had no doubt but that she was concerned in carrying With: child ; but a charg: from him was not de teed sufficient. Mr. Horsley pro' *Jed that she should be kept in confinement aft the Brown Bear public house • but this was also refused, and Use Magistrate ordered that the girl should be taken under the care of her father, as he had originally arranged. tic feelingly regretted the callous manner of the girl, who appestat, diming the whole of the late investigation, to he totally insensible of her improper condur and when giving an account of herself and her conduct,. apt): e as unconcerned as it' had been about sonic ordinary business ; and when on the eve of being sent to prison did not appear at a. t affected. _ _ _ The elegantly dressed female who endeavoured to get the girl privately to herself from Godfrey, the constable, at the Heicules public honk, folios/0d her to the officz, and remained at the hack ut the crowd during the whole of the investigation, but did not attempt to interfere. Mr. Biraie on Thursday sent again for Elizabeth Holbrook, the serval'', and examined her apart, and very minutely, as to the whole of her transactions with the man, who said his name t 544 George Faulkner. Upon a full investigation, it tarns out not to be true that an improper or criminal connec tion bad taken place between her and the supposed George Faulkner, which is a very great satisfaction to her father and mother,as well as to Mr. and Mrs. Iturslev,who have the can dour to feel that she has been the dupe of a malignant villain. She promises to render every possible assistance to reeve' r the child, and to bring Iho robber to condign punishment ; but still to judge by her countenance, she is unmoved by any thing that takes place or any thing that is said to her. The poor thing is evidently stopitied by the overwhelming mag nitude of the distress of which she finds hersellto have heels untlesignedly the instrument; and this stuff erection, which is nothing more than the natural consequence of sudden and great calamity, operating upon an ignorant inexperienced mind, is most ancharitably construed iuto callous iusensibilits fhc first thing Mr. Dimly employed her a bout was to send her to endeavour to thud out Seem'''. Row, Islington, whence Faulkner fetched the umbrella. She was accompanied by Godfrey and Goodwin, the constables : they proceeded to Severn's Row, Islingtoil ; and after making inquiries at a I 7-n houses, they entered one, when after examining the house, Elizabeth Holbrook observed au umbrella hanging up, which slir recognised as the same which the tutu who had dumped If:r fetched, about two or three weeks since, whe• he was going out to walk with her and Mr. Hersley's children : it was red silk of French mantifecture, and there fore sufficiently remai kable to have attracted her notice ; and she positively asserted it to be the same so the constables. They coosequently proceeded to make very strict inquiries resit 'cling essay person in the house, and 'carved that the umbrella belonged to a female lodger, whose husband had left the house to go into the country last Sunday. (bum his persuu being described, Elizabeth Holbrook had no doubt but that he was the mall 0110 pw, ed himself to her as a single man, by the name of George , Faulkner, who had duped her by promising her marriage, and sending her to Birmingham. The constables proceeded to interrogate the woman, and from her answers and general conduct, they suspected her to be an accessary with her husband ; they took her into ells. ludo, and brought her to the office, together with the um brella. She underwent a long examination, when it appeared that her 111111ballil'A name is not Faulkner, but Rennet( ; that he Was of no direct or regular profession, but that he freipiently went to France and other torcigu parts, it is supposed, for the purpose of ; he was ftegnently away from her foe months at a time. He hail lately returned 11010 Chapelle, and had been in England shunt two months, and on his return had taken the lodging in Sev for the purpose of being in the neighbourhood of Mr. Hoisley's residence, and Ores enabled to carry into execution his scheme of cart ying oil' Mr. Horsley's son. She acknowledged that they lived very iniconifortably together; but that un Sunday, when he asset off. they parted ft ierels, and its took leave of her between I and 2 'o'clock. taking vs ills him two portmanteaus anti n 1 , 1110 01 money; he said he was ;piing to France, and she would toot see him again for tw o months.— She denied all knowledge of his going to catty off Mr. Hui, ley's child, or that he had any scheme for that purpose. Mr. Horsley was sent lot. to the office on her being broug!it titer, ; on his arrival anti si chug her he appeared exttemely shocked, she beitig the wife of one of his relation*, (we nod( stand Ins cousin :) lie confessed, hawever, that it slid not altogether surprise him that her listsband, Charles 14111101 t, was the wretch who had committed the horrid deed ; iu fact, lie said, that he thought he was the man who had C 4111011141 tl • child fi OM the imaeorons malignity of has clini alley, and fruits the dreadful threats that be had ilintle Ilse of towards him and his family ;he assigned as hot reason for suspecting I* , that some time shire he hail a law-snit with Clouts s Rennet' le xpecting the heirship of an estate, and east him ; a n d his sort, who was now, by a th•ep laid stratagem, cat tied oil, was heir to the estate. About four years since, at the time Mrs. Horslt y was ',regimen with the said boy, 1 err.% letter stating that Mr. Horsley had suet with a must dreadful acrid' ut liver Lundno.l,u idge : that in consequence be (mind not sun viva, mitt it' she wished let M . o . him alive,she most hasten to the spot is:staidly, which stir at to:Juttingly did, in the gleart rst 'listless and eriguish of mind. alien she teal at that ha ar 'debt had befallen Mr. Horsley, and that the triter was U 1 1 0.1% a Falun-antral. The said Clan les Rennet! aas suspects d to be flu an hot of it, for the dieaolica: ri pose of causing a toir.e a wage, 14 at the chid might pi use a boy. This base desi g n, however, has been pros Went iaby itust ated . Untlcr all the se eirenmetances Cherie* lie 00000 let was Oral geil wall cruse 01 strafing the child, and Mr. klitnie laJtetti wana u te