The National Register.
London, England, 1817-10-27 00:00:00

M:\RLBOROUGH•STREL•'T.

EXTR AORDIN AR Y CASE.—Moulluy,Jubn Morgan, a young
man about one or two and twciity years old, was brought nir
to this office miller circumstances of avery singular nature,

iu company with another person named Bt
Mr. Brookes, sin gem', of Blenheim-street, Oxford-14feet,
was the first Witness examined. He stated, that about seven
o'clock ou Sunday evening, while sitting ia his ttrawing.tooin,
the soau-bervaot Locked at the door, and informed ham,

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that there was a person come from Chapsnau, th, celebrates'
11-Nlll'l'l.olols Mall, with A subject. Mr. Brookes gave orders
that it should he taken in atilt conveyed to the dissectinc
town. 111 live minutes sifter a coach strove up to the door,
and departed Sinissediatety. A man then, whom he suspected
to Bottomley, entered the house with a sack upon his shoulder
auJ 11.1111114 depu,itrd built the Sark and the euntenis upon
she ground, neat away in a weal burry. Mr. Bruukrs was
,19ilis after vs ry much 8'14.6,441 by his servant exclaiming
that the mass sis the Aack a, alive, and said that if lie was
alive his had to uu.urr.s there. lie CAMP alit of the parlour,
411,1 tit'l'illg iv hal hr cousidered a corpse lying near the step,
Trading to the ilisseetisig room, he gave it a kick for the pur-
pose of rolling it stoats. 'Ds- sack, with the person in it,
tumbled AA tar as the thirst ,tep, when, much to Isis astonish-
most. he heard a voice " I Min put dead I law
not dead!" mid by ,time dexterous mauagessient, the subject
li
for ilissertion iississeiliately loosed the string, and poppe his
head Ills ough the upper part of alie stlck, sitting very com-
osedly upou the step where he hail lauded in Ids fall. Mr.
p Brookes, apprehending that the fellow had entered the house
for the purpose of robbery, or pm haps murder, was very
hutch alarmed, and arming himself with an iron shatter-bar,
the first weapon that presented itself to his view. hr threat-
ears' to knolls out the inains of the man in the sack, if' he
attempted to stir ur make any resistance. Fortunately
' sNacre happened to tie twu pupils in the house at the time,
and they having furnished themselves with pokers, came to
lit, assistance, and kept guard fur a time over the man iu the
sack. One of them was dispatched fur the keeper of a pub-
he house, who lives near, and upon Isis arrival, the other was
,cut. tit t in search of an officer or constable. Mr. Brookes
its the. mean time armed himself with a case of pistols, with
which, though not charged, he ondeavoured to keep this ex-
traordinary visitor in awe, until the arrival of the Coll`
,stable, woo took him into custody. When first he made his
appearaure from the sack, Morgan showed some disposition
to resist, and the witness had nu doubt that he must have
beets overpowered. were it not for the Sate' ference of Isis
pupils, who happened fortunately to Ire in the house .at the
time.

Toe Magistrate.—ls it wont with von, Mr. Brookes, to see
or to pot any goestiona to time persons wit° bring sub-
jects to your hunse? . .

Mr.llrookes—Somet;mes we do see, and spook to them
but it often happens that they come and leave a subject, as
this person leas been left, .r throw it over the back wall into
the yard, calling for payment at some 'Aber time.
The witness went on to state, that on his return home from
the watch-house he ohserved two suspicious looking charac-
ters standing near a post ant for from his house. One of
them, Ilottuiuley, the prisoner, wore a blue jacket, with red
plush breeches; and the.llll7ll/fWIIO bad deposited the sack
with he. servant hieing d d iii Ilse same manner, he was
convey ctl to the viateli-hquat on suspicion.
One of the pupils resident iu the house detailed the circum-
stances in neatly the same words, and said that, from the
dress of Buttoulley, lie should suppose him to be the person
a lin brought Morgan in the sack.
Mi. Brooke's footman gave the same account of the
t ransaction.

The prisoner Morgan stood all this time at the bar with no
'other covering on him but the sack. He appeared quite un-
concerned ; and being called upon for his defence, he said,
that he went souse time back to the country, nut tar from
London, for the purpose of procuring work. He remaii.ed
dare fur two or three days; and on his -retard to town
Sunday, drank a little porter and gin upon the road,
which niade him somewhat merry. In passing through the
Pink, he met a luau *hum be had never seen before. They
got into conversation, mud this person invited him to take
something at a public house iu Osford-read. They went in
bat lie could not recollect where, And took seven quarterns
of gin. 110111 that munieut he recollected nothing of what
occurred to him, until he was frightened out of his sleep at
the place from which he was bikers to the watch-house. He
war surprised, and almost frightened to death, on seeing
three or tour people standing with pokers and pistols, and
only begged ut them to spnri his life, and that he would do 110
harm. He hail three shirts and half a crown in his pocket
when he met 111 e SIMI ill the Park, and was uow left quite
without a single penny. Übe intended to do any mischief,
it was not likely that lie shonld enter the house either with.
out clothes or arms.

The MastiStiatc.— Tilough you had no arms, .you • might
have admitted your assoeiates in the course of the night to
rob or murder the family of Mr. Brookes.
Bottomly said he was a coachman, stud drove No. 1052 for
a Mr. Magher, of Leatlier-latie, in whose employment he
had been fur tour years. He and his brother, with Harry
Stuart, another coachman, had been talking If:tether at a
watering-house opposite to John-street, Oxford-street. He
believed it w.us edited the Feather!. His brother went in
there, and they were waiting fur I • when Mr. Brookes
came tip, amid had them conve)rd to the watch-house. He
made no resistance, :mil could swear most so'eninly that lie
knew nothing more of the business. He never saw Morgan
'mil he met kiln in confinement
A person present stated, that he knew Bottondey to be a
companion ot• Chapman's the resurrection man.
'f Ile Magistrate ordered this man to be brought forward
when he could be Sound, and after a few words on the serious
and very dangerous nature of the charge. remanded the pH
molter for auother exa iii iii atioo, desiring that the keeper of the
Feathers public-house and other as itnespes should attend.

N lON-HALL.
Itlnas been lately stated that several families in the neigh•
bourhood of Wandsworth, Brixton, &c. had been defrauded
of articles of plate &c. by a young woman representing
herself the servant to certain friend* of the parties to whom
she Applied, that they were aboot to have panics, and re-
quested the luau of plate, &c. On Thursday she applied
to a Mrs. Field of Itrixton-place, requesting to borrow a
dozen table and desert spoons; hat Mrs. F. saspecting .1
trict, sent her under the care of her gardener to a Mis. Child
of Stockwell, who had been defrauded of IYsiher spoons
in this manner, who immediately recognised her, and she wa.
given in charge of a constable. Monday she was bi•oiagle
to the office ; when several pawnbrokers, with whom she had
pledged plate' identified her. In Addition to the evidence
of Mrs. Child aforementioned, was that of Mrs. Dowson, of
Acre-lane, of whom she obtained six desert and a gravy
spoon ; and Mrs. Desburongli, of Wandsworth-road, whom
she had defranded of a dozen silver table spoons. On
Thursday she was brought ap fur re-examination, win i a
great ;umber of persona attended who had been ileiraii"ed
in a shaileir way : but as the persons who appeared on Mon•
day were not in attendance, she Was remanded to be brought
up again.
SHOCKING DlSTlMA.—Thursday two respectable diessell
perm= applied to Mr. Evaace, the Magistrate, f, r I;is ad.