The Express.
London, England, 1857-06-01 00:00:00

CAPTURE OF A FORGER.

An extraordinary seneation has been created in
Bedford and the whole district by the discovery that a man
just apprebendel for borne-stealing turns out to be the
notorious John Thang Harradine, the great bill forger in
Huntingdonshire. For some months pest a heavy reward
has been offered for hie apprehension upon charges of
fmgmy, but to no effect, and It weal generally believed be had
left the country. Strange to my, after en extraordinary
caner he took a trip into Bedfordshire, where he had for-
merly lived, metope trusting to his long beard and alteeed
personal appearance to escape recognition ; but stranger up,
when be arrived there it came aeries his mind that he should
be taken annewhere; BOMB day, and that he would rather be
tried in Bedfordshire, " among his friends." It appears
that he went to Broutham, and took a cob out of the
stable of Mr. Rogers, of whom be formerly occupied •
farm at Indwell, and rode it to London. On the morn-
ing of the 22nd instant he was seen by a policeman
riding through Whetstone, and a few days afterwards this
officer saw a notice of a horse having been stolen, and the
deseripdem convinced him that this was the Bromham cob.
He succeeded in tracing it to Reden-oottages, Upper Hol-
loway, end then took it into Bedfordehire, where Mr. Rogers
immediately identified it. Another policeman of the
division was on the lookout immediately, and the giros
night, between 11 and 12, near the Roden-cottages, he saw a
men crouching down; he went to the spot and the num
started off. The officer pursued, and the men fell down and
was captured. When he was taken to Bedford the super-
intendent of police there recognised him, but did not recol-
lect his erme. He told the prisoner u much, and he
repkied, " If you give me • pieoe of paper I will write
linlart, and all about it. ^ He then wrote to the
dint :—" I give myself up into the hands of this
court. Iliad no idea of stealing the horse. My liminess
down ben wee either* see Mr. Lavender or Mr Higgins.
to give myself up to ems. I shoed my mind, and—took
the hone .nth no hiandos He
Make him. My real name
is John T. Harradiae He salanuently Mated that he
took the home In over that he Walk be tried in Bedford-
shire, sad sat he kW is li~onabire ; that be was
dred of isalbOlis Ile be bed bus leading, and be was
aware dug Ins ma sweeel amid for his apprehen-
ism He vas Wen lien the soglanetee at Bedford on
Miry, and the cheep 1 stealing
.the horse was preferred
=ie. Be 'ankle& taking a, and then made a long
shone his xis[ into Bedfordshire, and then de-
limiting ge gibe Illone to serve two prupoom—fint, to
gel Ist Is Labe, re be had no money left, and he wished
Is akin ass lalliserekk end, esioadly, to secure be.
NY la aikeibbles lie eider, " Untended to give mu&
up se we doe, as mg elk sod family seemed to be more
algid me then any efkerPU and I wee very uncom-
ilselalds." The rims% UM. to • respectable family,
lbseerly weaved • am al Bakeell, near Tedford, but it
suds= bilmlbs kr km is prefer being tried
bol= k miZrerPorting to bs
poem dot urhood. After
ylg~ram" Ike *Adams el mural wttneeets, the magistrates
the Omer kr lebl.

SINGULAR CASE OP IMPOSITION:

At the Glasgow Central Police Court on Thursday,
John Cameron. 40, a stout, square-built man, with strong
to.q suborn hair and whiskers, and dressed in bins blot
cloths*, was brought up before the sitting magistrate (Bailie
C 1011161.), en a charge of wilfully defrauding • woman, named
Janet em= or Campbell, a widow, reading in West
N 10a., by moans of false representations. Panel
, and stated that he was a pkiughman. Eel-
=ln n wag, heard. from Which it appeared
I Moss tunday the prisoner called on Mrs. Campbell, and
cgslkkittut of her whether she had any friends in Auer-
who had geese there, bat from whom she had not heard for
want yam, be represented to her that he was her
bed, Robert Thomson—that he was a ship-carpenter,
Wm Armed for nineteen yeas*, bad Just arrived
tom Drew York. Their brother John, he paid, had died
with his hand gimped in his ewe. Its likewise poke of
baring sent bar money, which, of course, she had never
received. Fancying =sr saw in him the family likemese, and
sa he viscid the poet intimate knowledge of the circum-
-1 IMMOM of the family—with which he must undoubtedly
, ban iris care Wombs= to make himself conversant, shit
men =I without suspicion, believed his story. A
Imp ems acendingly ensued ; the pretended brother,
ssolog his sister Janet, after so long an
lain" bar affectionstely. After partaking
lofts
bad the generosity tosappy
letiewsl soigot to in readiness, over which, alaeg
;0117lig.Ren, tumor tad, who was no doubt both eurpcked
and sled at nmempected appearance of his uncle, the
tommediss am& test and -featly. It was arranged
that be droll stay with his sister for three weeks, and
that WI tat tiolit, containing his tools and clothes, should
he km& gp M her buses directly from on board the TONI
A(gbore dry ins sit Is be lying) at the Broomielsw. To
tor des winverpros of the luggage, he made a show d
writes imp clar a 61. nets, which his sister was unable
es• trw shillings were all he requited at the
as, to are the troubled going in quest of cirn M
was Wend =hesitatingly glen ham first U. fi
tbsa end
After sitting In the tow for some tints, and
loin had kit beeta brothel ad his appearance otherwir
!lea, Sabin tot lie soplow to raster Sarah sr
Ikea au* whore asethor seine of embracing, tram,
sod kiwi. took plaott. Aker kook* tide. the uncle, a
plea of going after the luggage as was originally
propmeaL look hie nephew from ens public-home to another
She arse== some cock and ball errand, the sle sad
Wm. messy segily_ disappearing. Ultiately,
tag is • oglithoditiia when. after der
asall am mate *gave he bade his nephew stay fa a
immamit, as fta meld fte aisa NOM mates outside, end would
Mans knotalinab. Tie Li whoa till his patience was
fairly esimeral. but bin tar ,chitin mow =tuned. On
the hiss& foling duty bog bon dtspel, hilhemation of the
circumstances was eemmosnlceted theatk with • do'
scription of the kapok., wbe ire* fell into their
hands. A man was In= in the drab is a state of intoxi-
cation, who, on bd=breught team otedral office, ,ria than
recognised tad kified as the part 7 of whom they were in
queat. After heating evidence, Bailie Condos sentenced
the panel to sixty days imprisonment,na-hal with haid
labour. The cam created considerable amusement in court.

Flan AND L 099 OT LIFE AT GLASGOW.
Friday morning apatite and pieces of burning wood IMO
dimmed by some panics who were in bed descending from
the aft; of a ground floor apartment at the coon cI
Debbie's Loan and Ann-street. Cowcaddens. The alarm
was immediately conveyed to the district polies-office, sod
the firemen turnod out. On entering the home above the,
found it fined with smoke, and the floating en fire. Whin
the Woes were extinguished they found a woman ling
dead on the floor. Bhe bed been suffocated by the
dense mune, and her body exhibited MUM marks of Inning
been burped. Among the retina of • bed was found the bay
of a boy about three years of age, who had sloe met he
death by the some means. When the greater part of the
flooring above gave way • lump of apparently chaired wood
fell through, and it war afterwards (Mind that this was the
body of an infant about fifteen months old, cheered to a cinder.
The supposition regarding the cause of this eatestmhob:
that ea the worms had only entered the apartment
'breams on Thursday night, she had left a candle
after having fidlen asleep through fatigue, snd thatbitirl
had been ignited. It would also appear that she had rime
frees bed in an endeavour to makaffier the door, but that dm
was baton back with the smoke. We are loosed that de-
ceased went wile end children of • boatman on the Fail
sad Clyde Canal, named David Forrester, and that he woe st
13:21.1 when the melancholy occurrence happemd. The
whom tenant Mrs. Monster eras preview to lorr
removal, gives her • good character so far as be bad ever
. fibs Ins only twenty-six yews. of ege, and lately
from the Higtilanda—Obregew Daily Ma.
ADMISSION OF Jcws INTO PARLIAMENT..--
'IL Oaths Bill is fixed to be read a second time on Monday, the
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