The National Register.
London, England, 1821-11-18 00:00:00

CHILD STSALING:The Fork Herald says,--"We last
wcck stated, that an old and lame hawker of tracts had
t: :Deed a little girl from her parents near York. The
has been Inc cause of the fellow's apprehen.
s ..•i roe Wowing are the particulars :—A letter dated
N -.wiek, near Drittield, was received, announcing that
the old in to and chid had been seen to that neigithotir-
litioA. They were atterwards seen at Braudshutton, by
an Mier person who causea the isle 11 to be taken op and
log,it in the House of Correction at Beverley. IttiOr-
an.mo:i was instansly sent to this city, and a Police-
olliccr to Beverley to convey them here. On
Thursday he was eXiltilliell. Sarah Morris, of Middle-
thorpe, the mother of tile child, said, that her daughter,
not yet ten years of age, was in the'.obit of aft:eating
lii.nselt front home, and going to the house of her aunt,
W Ito resides at Tadeaster ; that on Tuesday the 23.1 ult.
he went to Tadcaster, and was urn again seen until her
recovery. The child 6el.osed, that after remain with
her aunt until Thursday the 15th, she left Tadcaster to
worn home; the prisoner on anass, overtook her on
the road, and taking lire by the hand, said she was go
with him, and that he would use her better titan her
another. She proceeded to York with him, and he told
her to call hint hertmele, which she did. She had been
with him at Pockington, &c. That she had told him
her name, also that of her parents, and where they lived.
Frani Mr. Carrall, of whom the prisoner boualst some
trans on Fri hay, the 26tli ult. and from Mrs. Brown, at
Warringate, at whose house he slept with the little girl,
it ape eared that he described the child to be the daughter
ui ilks sister, who he said was a widow with four chil-
dren. The ptistmei M. Jolly, a wretched looking man,
endeavoured to justify himself by stating, that as he was
cointog to York front Brothertun, where he usually re-
sides, he overtook the girl crying ; that he said—" Me
girl, what is the matter 2" S.te replied, My mouser
has run away and left me.' He said, " Where dost
t.me come front ?" Site answered, " Front Tadcaster,
dud am going to York, to my aunt's." lie said—" I
am going to York also; don't cry my little girl." She
came along with him to York; he never took her baud
except to lift her on the ass to ride. As they passed by
tne Bishopthorpe-road, site pointed towards it, and he
:advised her to go home. She replied, that as her mu.'
ther had left her, she would go to York to her aunt,
although she did not know the name of the stEet in
which she resided. He told her 'het he would pay fur
her supper and lodging, and that he should reek her
aant in the morning. Finding, however, that she had
na where to go to (and from no other motive), lie had
kept her ever since, and she had travelled with him until
lie was apprehended. lie was a widower, has one child,
at:d merely kept this out of pity's sake. During the
tithe the prisoner was relating this story, the little child
kept exclaiming—" It's a story—it's a story !" Toe
:Lord Mayor, after a very minute exatnination, fully
~mitted the °Binder in the New Gaol, to take his
r.ai at the Assizes.
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MELANCHOLY 4SIUDIINT AT ST. PAUL'S CATHE-
D"AI..-011 Thursday morning, about a quarter beore
t else o'clock, a melancholy accident happened in this
c heclral ; one of the labourers, named Colley, in the
etuployment of Nlessts Crake, in moving a board missed
It;s unto rut from the scaffold to the
tlaot, a iseipt of sixty feet, and was killed on the spot.
00 F iday teenit.g. the 901 inst. the cottage of Robt.
Krum, an industrious labourer of Swine:head, Lincoln-
which is situated at a d stance from that village,
wa beset by three men, who attempted to make an
eit.ry at die window. Jlrs. Kirtou being at home by
h was at first notch alarmed, but soon became so
c wageotts as to take down a loaded gun, the Contents.
of .4 huh she discharged at them. Alter re-loading, she
bred a second and (reit a third • . When the villains
fou:,u tier at resolute, they made off; but, as it is sup-
pos zd, out until on of them had been wounded, as many
trac.s of blood were treat morning observed Lear the
remises.