The National Register.
London, England, 1814-09-18 00:00:00

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

Attempted Suicide.—On Surdav evening Maria Barlow, a woman
of the town, was taken to Sr. Clites's watch-house, for being drunk and
-disorderly in the street, and on her arrival there she was taken seriously
but recovered by the aid of those abnut her. Daring the night.
yurzman, one of :he parish officers, went into the lock-up place, and
fouad the prisoner suspended from the iron hare by a piece of linen.
She was cut down in nine sufficient to save her life. the linen by winch
she suspended herself not having drawn close enough to effect her in-
tended purpose.
Abo it five o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, as Mr. James Howard,
painter and glazier, iesiding at Middleton-street, Spa-fields. was gobs!!
vsNards Pentouville. he was met close by the dead wall at the reser-
voir, near the Belvidere Tavern, by three men ; and whilst two of
them held his arms, the third rubbed him 01 his Watch, with which

they ran off.
Thursday evening, as M. Trasimore, of Limehouse, was cro.ising
Stepney-fields, two men with bludgeons demanded his watch and rho.
nev. Mr, H resolutely resisting, one of them attempted a blow at his
head, which he warded of with Isis cane. wrested the bludgeon from '
the fellow, ably defended himself, and kept them both at boy, until
some persons appeared, hen the thieves ran off.
Friday morning, a blnek man, a mulls's% fell, or was thrown from the
second floor window of a hotiise of ill-fame in Clement's hone, Clare-
mai Let, and received a severe fracture in his loud : he was taken up
nearly lifeless, and carried to the watch•house, in order to be ten to
the hospital, and a constable was dispatched to sow-street, to inform
the police officers.
About one o'clock in the mcroing of Tuesday se'isnight. a {tarty of
%%let their face!, blacked, broke into the ihouse id' Mr. Fletcher,
At Great litiatosa, hear 9l iiii,eton, I.ancashire, pnl!ed Mr. and Mr...
F; out of bed, beat them stith the butt end of a guts, until they br..kr
it to pieces, and set a roan to watch the sou, whom they thr on a
bed, and heaped drawers and boxes upon hi w. Pies then tansacked
the house, cutting oven the beds, &c. and made use of the lan.fly
writinga to light tliens.elvea about the house, whence they decamped,
after remaining there son hour sad an halt, cut all the mimes
pl•oe, &c.
About nine weeks ago, a finale vamrsist, io the moq disraiied nod
avretchA state, was tousid lvits; in the road in the pir:ds ut E tipino-
irmo, near Stamford. and was huiti:thely take', care of by the ,)v:n wer
of the poor of that place, who ordered her advtee. and pl.seeci
iter under the roof of a woittau i•. t; it village hawed P.-tiitor„ Hiving
optickly, recovered her health and strem:;,:i, was requested to sweat
to her settle's:rot (.111 MilTl•till/ hist. pmepinatory t m her helot passtsA to
her ',wish,, lit the nio,niug of that ci,iy 11.1 A ever, by way ofshewiloi
rafts:ode for the feiv.nirs At• hid received, sviiikt 134-tifor a:.(1 her fa-
mily were o,ut at hat vest v.,sok, she broke op-s, a chest in she flotroi,
in which were deposited twenty guine .s ated three crown mid
ten of the guineas and .sf the c..,,en psecei, der:n.iiped, car •
tying with her also a silk some haudkervisi•ifs, and ,s•her arti-
cle.
[he situation of l'etiifor is really n bird Ott, as ohe. has Mar
childreii, for whom the lutle pillAlX,' had b•itits s;sv-cl by her and ;ler
husls.ond. who is tsipsii.g matt to Mr. I %vtey .of ()Alia wretch
who behaved with such gross tittdravity yet e,c sped
AVeditesrlay eveuiin, last, a valtiatotae hro•tri anti-..., with a evil by her
side, at grass, near !South tooto,sts, was in.dicia.oly stahlted ,titit a yea',
hook, which cau,eli her itocuodiute death. 'I He mare was the properts
of Mr lioldern-yo, v Por ; mid bad eiahned the Tided of Cite
inhuman wretch who.eoraissitted the act, through a ~ap in the fence,
ttcuut kYll.lcll he druve Ltat t4lo a hints ad,,j ,twine, ay.d tbore laded hers