The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-01-24 00:00:00

1-01IGED TOTES.

Iherrie Skelton armm charged with ',Hering nf.rtnd Wink
emir for M. to Itichar.l • roof.. 1i0n... of Issvhitura
airvel,on 11w tß!h I. st.g Twvlrils-01..v, 11l th.
■ h .:f guisiva eakt, aho gave her thr chaaar. hi. .,
stn.' the ransir of Wis. , .o. 11,(;..1.h.i. voria, r," JL.I ml.ll r
it hat hero that thr note aas a hag. Iv. Ihr mak-
ing iiiiiiiir) ilt that loom., it was town taintil that nu .uth
hvv.l
on. of the law:that% of Bank Note, prey-
id 51w sa.h. *As a tit:re!.
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of heint conferee& in the utterance of forgeil notes of
the same manufacture, and also Harriet Skelton, who is
sishitecied to hare uttered a similar note about a month
since, at the shop of Mr. Francis, a linen-draper, is Holborn.

opizeir-sqvaas.

ROBBERY,
Brujrnuis Curtis was brought op for a further examine•
Lion, ou a charge of robbing Mr. John Slater, of the Horac•
ferry-road, 11't stationer, ale-brewer, of a sack of malt. He
was before remanded from the non-attendance of some prin.
elp:11 P itnesses.
Mr. Joseph Keil!, clerk to Mr. Slater, staled, that he.
twees..lllC and two o'clock in the tuns gof Tuesday last,
as he a tIA going into ilie lirew.how.e, he saw a man with a
sack of malt on his al Mem c 1111 l iug out. On
hr threw down llo• ,;11:k, and rais away. Witness fol.
lowed him thrissigh the lirew.house, a hen he get over a wall
into the yard of the White Hart public-house, in :gasket.
sheet ; witness ininiesliaiely called a watchman, desired him
to get USAiStRUCC. and go its pursuit of him.
Matilda Mansfield, servant to Charles Gaston, who keeps
the White Hart. deposed, that she went to bed on Monday
night last, a little before twelve o'clock ; that some time
after she was awakened by the barking of a dog, which
always lay mot her soon door, in the passage; she heard a
I siAling, and asked'' Who's there'!" and was answered by
some man," Hold your 'se ;" she called out to alarm her
master, and heard the watchman in the yard, calling to her
master that there was a man in the house; at the same time
the mon in the renege said," What shall I do! for God's
sake let me oat, m• I'm dome for!" nearing her master go
dwell stairs, she followed him, awl saw the Prisioner stand-
ing um him in the passage ; the watchman said they had
' been searching fur bola an Mow.
Charles Golston deposed, that between one and two
o'clock he was alarmed by his female servant calling out
that them was a man in the pasture. He gut up, and on
going down stein, found his yard.rtoor on the raids, which
he always locked, sad it must have been opened by sone
one inside. The !Simnel. had beets in his home a great part
of the tensing, but lie thought he had gone away about
likens o'clock. On his going lows stairs, however, he saw
the Prisoner standing in the passage, and heard the watch
Stan calling 'fur adUsinion, saying there was a man in the
house.
Patrick Leonard, a watehnissi.after searching Mr. Skier's
ors miss, gas over the wall into the White Hart yard, at the
same place Mr. Keay told hint he saw the man pass, whom
he hail pursued. He found the Prisoner iii Mr. Gulalutes
house, amal look him lust, csibt..dy,
The Prisoner was folly committed for trial, sad the pat-
ina buuud over to prosecute.