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been. rubber( th, re, who mewl:sc. di the c 'on. •

Townsend, the °lacer of A)lrsf •
bad no doubt but she was nabbed by a F hoot s.t
llodeme) also inform d Townse4d a the ro4: ..•

*onion: illy committed in t►e .hurrh; in eiS •
which, Townsend weal to t►r church, yrstcrday ne..
and, as 11j011 as Wintered it, he obssrved n. the 4.11;e U•
.1
Btakenkin, slim& Hall,, a well-kdoan teni tie
ginsteelly dresaed in ■ black select yeli,.e awl a cottage straw
Unmet, who is celebrate/ for rubbing frnialer He beckons.,
to he► to cornetist, which she instantly c rn ithed with; and
Hato addressed Townsend with, " Nv t:n•ul soul, I am 13.. t
ensue here to de any thing."—Towitsend " Ikit yun
have already dune something." H• ~'•k htr
room, sad seserbed, aline fri.ked, I.t r rropetti won
Goad which was inspected to have been st.iieu !be W a
tati►fysd to t►e shove Hake, and oink rweitt ial casnionatiati
before Mr. l'i • Res.

The clerk of the church proved hie hzeine seen her se.
recd times these ; as dog the lwa.lle, s hu af;si raid he
sees her several linos in the inenurs leading to the
chareb; particuiarly when the crowd was coining in, w hen she
doors were opened, sotto(' the es/um/alien goats est. •
Townsend said, he had ksown her in be a thief far toasty.
Eve 'Cala &aye, s, the 406c.,-. also had Weems her se he dr
thief for 'bourne length of
She WISs committed fn. thrt tler firallilliatie. east Teephy.

ESBEX d6W 6.9.

CKOWN SIDE.

DC4IIII. alias White, awl Wilts* Ns.
@hulls, were capitally iedicted for steahng. in the
night of the 10th of fehruary lost, one gallamay
Scot ox or bullock, value •'..101. from Hideo 11,11
Park. et Rumford, the property of Alexander
Black, Esq.
Mr. PuoLee stated the. case to the Jiffy, and •
afterwards proceeded to support it by evidence.
The first witness examined was Nathaniel Kiog.-
bury. who stated, that he was bais:ff to the late
Mr. Jackson Barwis, whose premises were within a
quarter of a mile from Gidea Hall, the seat of Ma.
Black. Ile kuew Nicholls very well, becou-e
had
.put him into Mr. Barwis's farm. a. looker, cote
in witness'. al.seliCe he WS. accustomed CO luallagit
the attire Ltu.itiess of the farm. He was a married
man, and heed in the house. An the 11th of Fe..
bruary last, mitoses was making a search about the
premises. and found coin, beef. Hi. attention
first &nen to the tow-house, where hefound three
pieces of meet, of about ten pour hi weight each,
uncovered and exposed. Not suspecting any thing
amiss, he called the wife of Nicholls and cave her
the beef. desiring her to take care of it. Oa look-
ing further, however, he found two hindquarters
of an ox's carcase, cowered over with straw. Whits
led to this discovery woe. the.disturbed appearance
of the straw. which induced him to take some iins
lice of it. The beef was still warm, .antlilletletee
to be rather mangled, in a very untautcherly man.
nrr, end rectally slaughtered. These rxtraordias
nary circumstances venting. in ths !duel a tram
dead of 'tomtit:eon, lie had the .loor 'secured. sad ialw
niedintely went to inform Mr. Ashton, the conada.
ble. cf what he had seen. Mr. Ashton retenicd
with him to the farms and they made a fluthtz
search. Behind the barn they found the entrails of
a bullock, neatly covered up with earth ; but wl.st
struck the witness as most extraordinary was, the
removal of all the bloody straw. and tracks et
blood. which he had seen in the cow-house, befits
he went to the constable, and fresh straw placed
there iu its stead. After directing hia.curiasity fur..
ther,he discovered some small bits of an K's skin
but, ou searching more closely, the whole skin, cut
into different parts. was found. Ity mesns of a dog,
who rooted it out of a cavity in the cow house.
This skip was afterwards sheen to Mr. Buck:an ,
Mr. Biack's bailiff, who recognised at to be the pip.
petty of the Prosecutor.
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John Ashton, a consbible, of Rumford, stated,
that he went in company with Kingsbury. the last
witness; to Mr. Barwii's farm. on the day men-
tioned by him. for the purpose of searching the
premises. it was sbout two o'clock when be first
went there. On approaching Mr. Earwis's hour...
he saw a nano digging in a geld ; he believed hint
to be Dean, the prisoner ; and saw another ►unnin4
away from the spot where Dean was. This was
near the burn, and witness went up to the barn, and
fonnd Demi propping up the door with a shovel.
lie (the witness) pulled the shovel away. and via
opening the door, found Nicholls the Fri.o;:cr there,
just coming away from the straw. Hr secured him,
and brought him away immediately to flare-street,
where be was confined. He returned afterward.,
and on searching the spot where Dean had been
digging, he found the intestines of a bullock cons
reeled in a hole. along with a bullock's hen!, with
a little of the skin upon it. He took it and put it
into the barn, along with part of the skits whip h
had been found therein. When wituera•was
ing Nicholls before the Magistrate, in some eon-
vsrsation he had.witli him, he told him, that two
or three butchers land entrust-d the carcase of the
buttock to his care, to keep fora night in the b.rii,
for which they were to reward him with half-a-
crown. Witness said, that the parts of the bullock
he hail seen, were mangled in a very nubsitchev...
like manner. He knew Dean beAbte ; he h.id us

John Etiri'rkho, bailiff to Alesa-ider Reek. E g.
stated, that his master had, at the time alibis role.
bery, stz horned 'sod twenty..tour pollrd
making, in all, thirty, lie had counted acts all
on Satuid,y night, and found them wile. 0;,
Sunday morning follooing, he did not enunt ttne-in
again, accurding to his wins) some
other biriiness to mind. Ilooever, uliwut four
&duck in the afternoon of Sunday, nu ...n'erio4
his initi.tees field, he found the gateit-tken ofi its
hinge., and lying ou the ,round. and, upon count-
Mg the tattle, snisi.ed one of the 1,110,04.-
Ife aficro its saw the skin, and the I•eael of tic
hulloek, foe on Mr. Marries's premi•• s, and, fron.
his I .!_7 of eerriliu marks spot it..,,,. n. r S
ptet:v 11.- belonged is the 1,u1.n. k
ii•, . . ••

J olur., .ii A^ •'o `icv is the rohls:rir.l,..;ei
agora and to ••• •hr ”ad kkewe Nichuils
far • loug 11 •.1 o k V. hue. al4 D
havaag ou,ke.l with Lau at air. !Stadia Err about*

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