The National Register.
London, England, 1815-11-12 00:00:00

POLICE.

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Yesterday, J. Woolley was charged with stealing ten volumes of the
Statutes in qu►res, 4to. the property of Messrs. Eyre and Strains),
printers. It appeared than the prisoner was in the service of the pro..
secutors, and had gone to the house of Mr. D' rcy, the bookseller, of
Holhorn...nd i ffered the property in question for sale. The sum he
demand-d was ten guineas, but Mr. b'Arcy knowing their value to
be more than thirty, suspicion was excited, and information given,
when the robbery was traced, and the books identified by the prose-
cu►ors l'he prisoner was fully committed for trial.
Thoma. Cooper was also committed, it,ton a charge of stealing some
linen, muslin, &c. from the shop of Mr. Tingle, of Holborn, on Fri-
day last.
BOW-STREET.

Monday, John Everett, alias W. Palmer, was brought before R.
Biruie. Est; for re-examination, charged with having stolen a bundle,
containing two gowns and other articles of wearing apparel, the pro-
perty of Mary Morris.— The prosecutrix is a girl only 15 years of age,
lately arrived from Ireland. Her appearance is interesting, and it
enabled her to obtain a situ ition in the family of a respectable gentle.
man, in the Edgware-road In the course of her going on errands for
her mistress she was frequently importuned by the prisoner, who ap-
pe red in the character of a lover, and swore by all the celestial attri-
butes that she was the " idol of his soul," and that unless she con-
sented to be his, " his life should waste in cloistered solitude." The
poor cvedulout female, fully open to the base insinuations of this wolf
in lamb's clothing, at length consented to leave her situation and ac.
company him to the holy altar.—The hour was accordingly fixed for
her depa-ture; the prisoner, however, did not forget to tel ter to
bring all her wearing apparel with her. On the morning appointed he
met her, and went to a church, where he spoke to a person for a few
minutes, and returning to the young girl put a ring upon her finger
(this turned out to be a brass on ), and told her they were married ;.
they them set off for Epping, where they continued as man and ;vile
for throe days.—The prisoner then suggested their return to town, and
en their arrival in St. Paul's Church-yard, he begged to carry her
bundle; he then pretenied shat he must call on a friend, and begged
her to stand at the corner of the street for a few minutes; she did so
for hours, and no lover returned; he was fled, and with him every
valuable the poor girl posseised.—Humphreys however, a police offi-
cer, soon succeeded in apprehending him, and upon his person was
found the du; licate of two of the gowns, which the prisoner pawned
at the shop of Mr. King. of Edmonton. In his defence lie said, that
be only left her for a necessary occasion and when he returned lb the
spot where he left her she was gone, anti that she shared with him the
product of the pledge. This the prosecutrix positively denied.—Mr.
Birnie observed to him, that he was a poor pitiful scoundrel, and that
he should feel it his duty to h.ve him transported if possible. He
was fully committed tbr trial.

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ere.,

Mr. Richard Hellen, of Birch, Essex, on proceeding from Chelms-
ford market last week, in company with Mr. Root, of Great I.eichs,
towards the house of the latter, who on passing a pond, formerly a
gravelf-pit, was somewhat in adtance on the road, owing to the dark-
ness of the night, drove his gig into the pond. Mr. Root, on hearing
him call loudly for assistance, instantlYeeturned • but not finding him,
and apprehend* the disaster that had occurred, he procured a light
and assistance ; when, after much search, his unfekrtunate friend was
discoveted at the further end of the pond, bereft of life ; the horse and
gig at a short distance from him. Mr. Hellen has left a wife and five
young children to lament.this melancholy caPastrophe.
On Saturday evening, at the early hour of half-past five o'clock, as
Mr. Rich, of Inner Temple-lane, was returning home in a gig to his
€4OtTY hesssein Hendon, he was stopped by three footpads, at North
End, near the five mile-stone. It being so early he did not at first
consider them all rebbC4 and was dogging hiS ho:sc to go on, but they

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