The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-04-25 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREET.

Yesterday, J. Lloyd, a powerful-looking fellow, dressed as
a butcher. was folly committed on a charge of stealing a sovereign
from Wtiliam Beauclerc, a gentleman's servant.
Yesterday week the complainant, a very simple sort of personage,
was walking along Old-street, and the prisoner was walking near
him. They saw a man who was before them drop a small case,
which the prisoner picked up. and found it contained two needles.
'"fhis nine trust be a tailor, and I'll play him a trick." said the
prisoner, and taking the needles from the case, he called to the
stranger, and shearing him the case, asked him what It contained ?
'• Two needles," said the stranger. The prisoner affected to doubt
what he slid, and gave a knowing look at the complainant. The
stranger offered to back his assertion by a bet. The prisoner re-
gretted that he had no change, and asked the complainant to lend
Inn a sovereign till the bet was decided. The complainant said he
had not a shilling. 1. But you have a watch, upon which we can
borrow the money," said the prisoner. The complainant yielded
to the suggestion, and pledged his watch at a shop in the mllO-
- for a sovereign, which he delivered to the prisoner. The
Let was then made, and the stakes deposited in the hands of one
who appeared to be a disinterested person, when the case being ex-
amined, out popped the two needles. The stranger immediately
snatched the stakes, and the whole party ran off, but the prisoner
was pursued and taken.

A fellow named (rocket was also examined yesterday, charged
with playing a similar trick upon a gentleman's servant also, who
wu minus is.

The charge was not satisfactorily made out, and the prisoner was
therefore discharged.

DREADFUL MURDERS.

The following are the particulars of two cruel and eold.blooded
deeds

[From the Cork Souther* Reporter. April 90.1
SKIBREREEN, APRIL 19.
About two months since a wedding took place in the neighbour-
hood of Baotry, to which the principal part of the relations of the
bride and bridegroom were invited; unfortunately the fumes of the
whiskey soon began to be felt by the guests, and a quarrel was of
course the consequence, during which a blow was indicted upon a
man, of which he anon after died. The person suspected ab-
sconded and, notwithstanding the sigilance of the police (although
it is an ascertained tact that he had been lurking and sheltering
very near to this place), he has not yet been apprehended. Ilia
wife determined on disposing of her cattle and other effects prepa.
rotary to accompanying him to America, when opportunity offered,
and for which it appears, by the evidence of her brother, she put
together the sum of 354 All arrangements being finally settled,
shout the Ist lost. she set ofTto join her husband.who was then under-
stood to be in or near Castletownsend, and being a stranger to that
part of the country, she called at the house of a person named
Collins Cambaws, who knew all the movements of the husband,
in order that some persona of his family might aeenmpany her part
of the way, and direct her to the place. Accordingly the eldest
son left the house in company with her, for this purpose. about
four o'clock on Saturday fortnight last, and after escorting her
about a mile (according to his own statement), returned home. The
following day she was missed by her brother, who, it seems, had
also appointed to meet her at the rendezvous ; and after the neces.
sary inquiries were made of the parties whom she had last been
with, suspicion fixed upon them, and naturally enough, as no
other person near the place could know of her having the money.
A vigilant search has been kept ever since without success, till this
day, when, horrible to relate. she was discovered, stink in a lake by
two immense stones, with her skull dreadfully fractured in two
places. The Cambaws, who have been apprehended, underwent a
partial examination, but as yet nothing has appeared by which
this horrible transaction could be fixed upon them.