The Sun.
London, England, 1838-03-15 00:00:00

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE

BOW-STREET

Thomas Edward Edwards, alias " The Yorkshire Bite,"
a well-dressed dapper little man, with a physiognomy of a pe-
culiarly knowing cut, was brought before Mr. TWYFORD,
charged with having stolen ten sovereigns and a half from a
young and simple-looking countryman named Erasmus Pill-
ing, who happened to be " from Yorkshire too," although
evidently not so far north as his more accomplished acquaint-
ance, who stood at the bar very much at his ease, and evi-
dently enjoying his own dexterity and skill, as his unsophis-
ticated victim-described the manner in which he bad been
" diddled" out of his money.
Erasmus Pilling about three weeks ago alighted from the
Leeds coach at the Saracen's Head, Snow-hill, and being new
to town, he accepted the offer of the prisoner to act as his cice-
rone, and conduct him through the dangerous rocks and quick-
sands of the "great metropolis." They soon after adjourned to a
public-house in the Blackfriars-road, and were joined by an-
other man apparently a stranger to the prisoner, and after
some conversation about farming matters, and Murphy's Al.
manack, the tricks of London sharpers became the chief topic
of discourse; when, after some time, the prosecutor, in the
belief that his new acquaintances were perfect gentlemen, and
were instructing him in the arts of the town for his especial
good, suffe.red the prisoner to fold up his ten sovereigns and a
half, and deposit them for safety in his fob. The trick,.
although a stale one, succeeded to admiration, and, after thcc.
prisoner and the stranger left the public-house., the too-con•
fiding Erasmus found, upon examining the contents of his fob,
that some new copper farthings had been substituted for his
gold. The facts of the case having been deposed to by the
several witnesses, the prisoner was fully committed for trial.

SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—Tuesday morning, 'be-
tween nine and ten o'clock, a boy, thirteen years of age,. was
crossing Piccadilly, near Clarges-street, when he was: run
against and knocked down by a gentleman on horseback..and
sustained very dreadful injury. He was taken up insensible
and covered with blood. The gentleman refused to give his
name, but had the boy conveyed to his residence in Norfolk.-
stt eet, Park-lane.

THE MINISTRY.—It appears, by the report of ale
Glasgow Chronicle, that there was a general and strong core-
viction in that city that Sin William Molesworth's motion won aid
deal the death-blow to the present Government, and that a
change in the Ministry would be the inevitable result of the i 70-.
cent trial of strength.
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