The National Register.
London, England, 1818-11-15 00:00:00

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which very humanely took the infant girl oat of the chaise.
which had been left tinder the garden-wall of the Asylum, on
Sunda evening, and probably saved the innocent's. life.—
Here Mr. Carter, who is employed at Astley's theatre, was
sent for, and on his arrival at the Hercules public-house he
fully described to the servant the mats whom be had seen take
the child out of the chaise. .vc ; but she declared she did not
know such a man, or any thing of the child being taken 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 Asylum. in that creel manner, late on Sunday even-
ing, but no satisfactory information could be obtained from
her, she denying all knowledge of leaving tke children in
that deplorable state. Among the persons present was a
female elegantly dressed, who interfered, and interested her-
self very much respecting the servant; she endeavoured to
get her away from the officer privately to herself; bet 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,
private reasons; but Godfrey was not to be removed from
his resolution, saying, wherever the servant went be would
be present ; and the girl also declared she bad no occasion to
nista 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 thingol the lady. • They left the Hercules public-house,
and proceeded to Bow-street office, where they arrived about
a quarter before 9 o'clock. Mr. Hicks was then sitting,
and the investigation commenced, which lasted about two
hours.

Among the gentlemen who addressed the Magistrate was
one who stated himself to be a neighbour of Mr. Henley's,
and that he was one among, a number of others, who bad
taken a lively and active interest in his loss, and that he and
several friends had been out night and day making inquiries
for the still undiseovered child at the watch-houses, mid at
every placewhere large assemblages of people were collected.
On the previous night (Tuesday) they had barn to Wapping,
and about two o'clock on Wednesday morning, they met with
acmel sailors, some of whom recollected being at a public-
house on Sunday evening, in a lane in Lower Thames street,
near Billingsgate, where the passengers by the Gravesend
boats assembled previous to the sailing of the boats, and they
teeolleeted seeing a tnan with a child exactly answering the
description of Mr. Horsley's, is person as well as dress. The
man also answered the description, except as to his dress ;
and Mr. Carter suspected him to be in a disguised die-s, and
it is supposed he changed his dress strain to avoid being
traced or discovered. lie laid his head on a table in the room
in the public home where be was waiting, and went to sleep,
keeping the child close to him, and at ten o'clock that eight
he went ow board the Gravesend boat, taking the child with
him.

The account Elisabeth Holbrook gave of herself is, that
she bad lived as a tonne girl to Mr. Horsley for two years and
several months. There were three young children, and when
the weather was fine she was in thedaily practice of taking
them out in a child', chaise, two ■t a time. About two
months since, when she was out with the children in their
chaise, she met with a young man, with wham she became
intimately acqmtiated ; in fact, she aeknowlegeil that impro-
per familiarities bad taken place between thrm. He very
frequently met her when she was out with the children; he
made love to her, called her his sweetheart, and promised to
marry her ; but she acknowledged that she neither knew wh,
he was nor what be was; all that she professed to know t
him was, that his name was George Faulkner, and she con-
sidered him to be a young gentleman, by his diets, &c. H,
told her that hi■ relations and friends lived at Birmingham,
and they would be married there ; and desired her to leave
her place on Sunday for that purpose, and that he would
make arrangements for her journey, and therefore site need
not make any arrangements herself. He enjoined her to
Strict secrecy; that she was not to tell a single person what
she was going to de, and that she was to meet him in Smith-
field on Smidtry afternoon, and he made her promise to brine,
the children with her. According to arrangements with him-
she left her master. house about two o'clock, taking the chit.
dren in the chaise, as her mistress supposed, to give
them an airing. She proceeded with all possible epee's
to Smithfield, and drew the chaise about there, between au
boor and an hour and a halt; waiting for Mr. Faulkner; anti
ou his coming to her, he gave her a 21. bunk note, and told
her he had taken her place,shewed her the inn where thecoaeli
went from, and told her lie would follow her to Eirtuinatham
by the next coach. The inn she went from was the Saracen's
Head, on Snow Hill. Mr. Faulkner took possession of the
child's chaise, promising to deliver the children back to their
parents, whom he would inform that she was going to be
married, and would explain every tiring to them. Site gave
him the key of her master's street door,which she bad brought
ont io her 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
coach's account.

She was sot sworn to her statement, the Magistrate de-
clining to do that, lest it might tarn out hereafter, that she
was concerned in a eonspiracy to carry off the children.
She was interrogated very closely by the Magistrate, and
by several gentlemen, as to her more particular knowledge of
the supposed Mr. Faulkner and the mean who carried off the
boy from the chaise, and went by the Gravesend boat with it ;
but no information could be obtained from her respecting
them, she denying that she knew any more than what she bad
told. Godfrey said, before he brought her to the office, she
toldjiim she knew where Mr. Faulkner lived, and that he did
net live far from her master's house. She explained this by
saying, that about a fortnight since, when she was out with
the children in the chaise, she met with Mr. Faulkner, and
the weather having the appearance of rain, he said lie would
rim and fetch an umbrella. which he areosolisigly did, and was
not gone above five 1111.111111 M and he appeased to her to go to
a house in a row of houses called Severn's Buildings, but she
did noiknow which house lie went into.

A number of gentlemen interrogated her, but nothing more
of importance could be obtained from her, and the Magistrate
considered her to have been an ignorant dupe pismire design-
ing villain or villains. Her father eras present, who appeared
extremely affected and grieved at the conduct of his daugh-
ter. The gentlemen present, the friends of Mr. and Mrs.
Horsley, spokr in the highest terms of his autl his wife's con.
duct. 'the Magistrate in consequence arranged that her
father should cake her home with him, and keep her in close
confinement, not sisfieriug her to go out, or to have intercourse
with any person ; and that he should be answerable for her
forthcoming when the villain who stole the child was appre
bender!

Soon after they arrangement had bren made, Mr. 'Londe!,
and his friend, who lias so strennuni4y exerted himself, enter.
ed the office, from Islington, whet, the investigation wa• re-
sumed, for the satisfaction of Mr. Horsley, who, as well as his

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friend, very closely interrogated the girl; and upon her ceosa.
examination by them, she acknowledged that she had talked
with Mr. Faulkner, as to what a fine child the boy was, sad
what a great fortune he would have. the also ackaowledged
that Mr. Fanlkntr, when he arranged with her to .go to Hie.
minghans on•Sundey, and told her ,to bring the children with
her, said the boy was to be one of them, and her mistress hay-
kis: scut her out a little before one o'clock with two girls, also,
in consequence if Mr.faislkner's direction, returned house
et awe o'clock, 'ensue of the girls, and brought out the boy,
and put him into the chaise.
Mr. Smith here addressed the Magistrate, and submitted,
that the girl ought not to be allowed to go to her fatlisor's,.bnt
should be sent into corifinement ; and Mr. Horsley alsteurged
this, but at the same dine allowed that be could Dot but con-
sider her the slope of some designing villain.
The Magistrate accordingly agreed to send her to' the House of
as Correction, with a direction that her father should have free to
Reg, bat no other person; and the clerk accordingly prepared lhe
%suet information, but Mr. Horsley refused to gip it. He said he
could charge her indirectly, but not directly.
The Magistrate. w th a temper and discrimination which did him
infinite honour in this digressing situation, intonned hint, that he
then could not send the girl to prison, as there was Mo way .8f
making out a commi:ment to prison but on a charge upon oath.
Mr. Horsley's friend offered to make the charge upon oath, as he
had no doubt but that she was concerned in carryiug off the child ;
but a charge from him was not deemed sufficient.
Mr. Horsley mortised that she should be kept in confinement at
the Brown Bear public house; but this was also refused, and the
Magistrate ordered that the girl should be taken under the care of
her father, as he had originally arranged. He feelingly regretted
the callous manner of the girl, who appeared, during the whole of the
late investigation, to be totally insensible of her improper conduct a
and when giving an account of herself and her conduct, spoke
as unconcerned as if she had been about some ordinary business ;
and when on the eve of being sent to prison did not •appear at all
affected.
The elegantly dressed female who endeavoured to get the girl
privately to herself from Godfrey. the constable. at the Hercules
public house, followed her to the office, and remained at the back of
the crowd during the whole of the investigation, hut did nocattimapt
to interfere.

Mr. Rirnie on Thursday sent again for Elisabeth Holbrook.,
the servant, and examined her apart, and very minutely, as to
the whole of ber transactions with the man, who said his
name was George Faulkner. -Upon a full investigation, it
turns out not to be true that animproper or minium! connec-
tion had taken place between her and the snppoaed George
Faulkner, which is a very go eat satisfaction to her father and
,nother,as well as to Mr. and Mrs. Horsley,who have the came
dour to feel that she has been the dupe of a malignant villain.
She promises to reader every possible assistance to recover
the child, and to urine the robber to roitmlige onnishmeut ;
but still to judge by her countenance, she is unmoved by any
thing that takes place or any Miter that is said to her. The
poor thing is evid-ntly stupified by the overwhelming mar
nitude of the distress of which she finds her self to hay.. been
tinclesignedly the instrument; and t!u:s stn. carrion, %ankh is
nothing more than the natural roar/hence of sudden and
great calamity, operating upon an i cuora ei-xperienced
mind. is must uncharitably eonstrumeel mn'o callow' insensibility.
Fite first thing Air. Be air employed her about was to send her
to endeavour to find out Severn's Row, Islington, whence
Fanikner fetched the umbrella. She was accompanied by
Godfrey and Goodwin, the constables : they proceeded to
et-sem', Row, Islington ; and after tusking inquiries at a
dozen houses, they entered one. when after examining the
!misuse, Dumbed' Holbrook observed aim umbrella hanging up„
which she recognised as the same which the man who bad
dumped her fetched, about two or three weeks since, when •
he was going out to walk with her and Mr. Horsley's
children : it was red silk of French manufacture, and there-
fore sufficiently remarkable to have attracted her notice ; and
she positively asserted it to be the same to the constables.
'Firey coimiemenently proceeded to make very strict inquiries
resp•eting every persan in the house, and learned that the
umbra* belonged to a female lodger, whose husband had left
tbe house to go into the country last Sunday. Op hie 'Jerson
being described, Elizabeth Holbrook had uo doubt but that
he was the man who passed himself to her as a single man,
by the name of George Faulkner, who had duped her by
promising ber marriage, and seeding her to Dietningbam.
The constables proceeded to interrogate the woman, amid
from her answers and general conduct, they inspected her
tube an accessary with her husband ; they took her into cue.
tody, and beoright her to the office, together with the um.
brelia.
Sims underwent a long examination, when it appeared that
her husband's name is not Faulkner, but Rennett; that be
was of no direct or regular profession, hat that be frequently
went to France and other foreign parts, it is supposed, for
the purpose of smuggling; he was frequently away from her
for monde, at a time. He had lately returned from Aix-la.
Chapelle, and had been in England about two months, and on
Iris return had taken the lodging in Severn's-building, for
Site purpose of being in the neighbourhood of Mr. Horsley',
residence, and being thus enabled to carry into execution his
scheme of carrying off Mr. Horsley's son. She acknowledged
that they lived very micomfortably together; but that on
Sunday, when lie went off, they parted fi iends, and he took
leave of her between I and 2 o'clock, taking with him two
portmanteaus and a sum of money; he said he was going to
France, and she would not see him again for two months.—
She denied all knowledge of his going to carry off Mr. Hors-
, ley's elsild, or that he had any scheme for teat purpose. Mr.
Horsley was sent for to the office on her being broughtthere ;
011 his arrival and seeing her he appeared extremely shocked,
she being the wife of one of his relations, (we understand b e
COlOOll :) he confessed, however, that it did not altogetin r
surprise him that her husband, Charles Hewlett, was the
wretch who had committed the horrid deed ; in fact, he
said, that lie thought he was the man who had carried otitis
child, from the rancorous malignity of his chat actor, and from
the dreadful threats that he had made use of towards him and
his family ; he assigned as his reason for suspecting him, that
some time since lie had a law-suit with Charles Rennet' ic-
specting the heirship of an estate, amid cast hire; and his son,
who was now, by a deep laid stratagem, carried oil, was heir
to the estate. About four years since, at the time Mi..
Horsley was pregnant with the said buy, she received a
letter stating that Mr. Horsley hail met with a most dreadful
archivist near London-bridge: that in consequence lie could
11111 sues ice, and if she wished to see hint Alive,slie must hasten
to the spot Matantly, which she accordingly slid, in the great-
est distress and anguish of d, when she learnt that no
accident had befallen Mr. Horde", and that the letter was
wholly a fabrication. The said Chau les Itennett nits suspects J
to be the Author of it, fur the diabolical purpose of emitting •
'Marini 'mire, lest the child might loose a buy. This base
design, however, has been provieleinialiy frustrated. Under
all these circumstances Charles Iteminet was charged with
the crime of Stealing the Chilli, and Mr. /Inuit issued nail Audi

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him, and despatched the most Active, intelligent and per-
Z,iring principal officers in pursuit of bin. to Dover, Margate,
Brighton. and ether parts; and to pursue him wherever they could
in any information respecting him. They were accompanied by
Mr. Horsley and some friends, who can identity Charles Henaett and
die child.
It is fearod'tbat he has succeeded in getting out of this country
with the child, and earned it into France but the known dilligence
of the Prench police encourages strong hopes. that before many tiara
shall have elapsed, this monster of atrocity will be in the hands of
justice. It u swot, that upon the life of die child depends the awn
Of 20,0001.
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A man in tattered garments. named M• Vie. was charged.wiC
nepeatedly annoying Messrs. Gra:lnwood. Cox. and Co. army agents,
and refusing to leave the house when desired. The unfortunate man
had heen an officer in the 77th regiment. and fancies that he has
ewe demand upon the house in question, but for which there is net
lona:aim. He has been for several years in the constant habit of
ring to the office. using threatening language, and otherwise ans.
conducting himself.—Committed for want of sureties.
A young mail, genteelly dressed, calling himself the Hen.
W. R. G triton, of the Royal Navy, was charged with feloni-
ously stealing 1., Bank of England notes and lbs. from Mr.
Richard Mono, a haberdasher and hosier, in Great Russel.
street, Covent Garden; also with obtaining from I various
articles of hosiery.
It appeared that the prisoner went to the New Humusums,
in Covent.garden' on Monday, and ordered a bed, *Sec. by the
name of the Hon. W. B. Gordon having handsome cardi, ele-
gantly engraved, with this address. On Tuesday morning
between nine and ten .':lock, he desired it. Jones, one of the
porters belonging to the New Huntsmen* to send a hosier to
him with some black and white silk stockings, some cotton
stockings, Ste. The park:Eh/ consequence went to Mr. Motto's
shop, and gave the order. On his return. the prisoner sent
bunt with a draft fur 51. drawn on Messrs. Esdaile and Co.,
in Lou,i mrikareet, which was refaced payment, the answer
bring •• No effects." Mr. Munn waited upon the prisoner, in
bit bed ruoni, and sold him several pairs of slot kings, also
drawers, ice., to the amount of 41. 2s. The prisoner desired
hien to fetch tam change for a 201. Rank uote, which he ac-
cordingly did, aii4 gave the prisoner fifteen it. Rank notes,
and eighteen The prisoner counted the notes care.
fully over, Mr. Munn remaining at the dour, when the pri
*otter suddenly that be insist run owa ter the wa
ter-closet, and left his room. Mr. Munn waited about three
or four minutes, when a suspicion arose in his mind that the
prisoner was an imposter; anti lie went to the water closet
and found he was not there : he then proceeded down to the
coffee room, where he learnt from the head waiter, that the
prisoner had ordered breakfast, but bad left the house in haste,
saying he should return in a few minutes. The suspicions
against him were directly afterwards increased, by a porter
belonging to the holm h I i arm sat him in T4siMitek.l.llll,
with great speed. H • s returning. Mr. !I t.ris..o
Ike rs• .5 ,e •: r f the New Hu.n
pr:ntsliti 0ZC1441i.41, .01. !I ••••ii •
several at tir.PS 01 wcariP • , .• • • •:
cnoi a 1.. Iss-.45 5.. . 1,1041.

11 roved to be wt., ;ie had .•t):A.::,ect fra,:-. Mt.
M:::r.:. in the evening, onr t„c w4ite:it neouging 14,
New iltitainnias was pasting along the wile!) ae earl
1:..:;)!..pi0a0r enter the Sans Parcel rheatre, .7f, which i.e

:n:itipre to Mr,. Hatrkos and Hr. Munn, VllO

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cation at the office, and Thomas Slaylaew, constao at,co‘n.
panied him to the Sacs P3rei: Theatre, where, on cleat riOtog
his person, they %vet t:if 'rood be bad just left the theatre,
but was expectel to return; and after wailing in the assarye
a short time, the prisoner returned with two dashing females,
one on each arm. He was token by Mayhew to Coeent-g..r.
den watch house, where he hed him, and fmind seven I
Bank notes; five of them proved tit be part of those he ob
seined front Mr. Munn, who could out identify the other two.
On his being asked what he had done with the remainder of
the money he had obtained. from Mr. Mann, he replied, he
had given three of them to one of the females who was with
him, and had paid his landlady is Cross-court, be ween two
and three pounds. On his being brought to the oni,.e, and
placed at the bar, be said his name was Thomas Baldwiehe.
He did not make any answer to the charge. He was Ma.
ruined for trial.