The Sun.
London, England, 1813-08-23 00:00:00

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itotWEIVIt t!IF THE LEEDS m
13ow-sTatET.-•-•00 Vritlay tnornin., a Man MI-
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ed at Praed to
and Co.'s hatiking-house, in .Flect-
street, and presented three lit notes of the Buck-
ingham Bank, and one for 101. of the Aylesbary
haak, all payable in London, at the bank of Pracd
and Co. and retplestedto ha‘,etlietn escha»ged for
Bank of Eogland notes of It. etteli. The clerk,
after examining the country notes, asked the man
''where he had got them, who re: lied he had taken
thelit of a ohm at Yarmouth. • 'lee clerk told hiet
Alicy, Deere part of tiu. notes that the let:.
tern that hail been gtalenfroni the :..'gels mail in
October last, and for which iluk, dnd
Kendal haul he :it lincly ext t dot d. 1 a Min In
al"W" SnidAif they had beta stolen from 1.-. mail
knew ninhitii; about it. The man having a
rcsper api.oarance, the e-rk did not attempt
todut,in tii,ti, Init Aopi;eci the nitres, and tolithim
he must trouble hint to Call again for the change
on Satitrday - mornin. After he was
.gone,
41ressi's:Praed's Sent information to flow-street of
the circionkiinee, trhicii was also communicated
to the tiviieral,l:ost-office. Ott Saturday inor.tiag,
soon after ten o'clock, the man calla at Messrs.
Praed's for thechange, when he was detained, and
a Messenger sent to Bove-street upon which
LI vender went oil' to take him into custody. Vu
the ofileer's arrival at the hankers, he disctivered
the to he an old aeptaintance of the name of
-'The')4nliers. had also detained another
man, hp called to inquire after Jeffries during
the time the atesSenger was gone to fetch Laven-
der. This marl said his name ,was if /fn, and La-
vender took hint also into custody; and conveyed
them to the above office, where .Mr. Kra\ ,that
the,siiting :Magistrate, examined theta separately.
'Jeffries repeated the story he' hail told at. the
Banker's, on Friday„of Lis having taken them of
a man at Yarmouth. WU%) stated himself to he
is the employ e,F. Jeffries, anti that he had taken
the notes in question of it !Iran of :the name of
Smith, who resides at ~Bethnal-green, in part
ofintyment for some linen, . amounting to 11Gt
and load paid them to Jeffries ; but, on being
closely questioned, he said he did not know any
thitn4 of Smith, nor what part of Bethnal-green
he lived in, but only that lie bred taken the lineu
in a c;:rt, end delivered it to Smith in the street.
,A it er thia separate examination, tilt-.prisoners
were both placed at the bar together;: and on
jetfries being informed of the inconsistent ac-
count Wait hod been giving of himselt and the
notes, and being told. they were both:about to be
committed, he frankly acknowledged that both
the accounts were false, and that the truth was,
he had got them front a Jew; of the name of Su-
010e18,
,
trim, !t•a
understood, received them of
convik now under sentence of death in Newgate.
Mr. 111,.:Ied attended, and pro, 0.! that the notes
of: t Backingham and Aylesbury Bank, pre-
sented on Friday at his shop for change by the
prisoner .)eirries, were in the coorse of transmis-
lion to his house from Messrs. Keep and Gooch,
of the Kettering bank, on the .night the Leeds
mails was MAN! in .October last.
the soot or the sidicitorto the
Post-otlice, attended on the part of that office,
and :stated, that a atria, answering the description
of ijorriet, had lately been at Margate; uttering
notes that had I),:en stolen trout the Leeds Mail:
and asked the nr;soner when he was last at Mar-
gate. The lU:,,;;ist rate told him he might answer
that quer:tion or not, just as he thought proper.
The Fisoiler declined answeriog thequestion : but
tavendtr, on searching, him, found a great variety
of }Avers' him, ~nao..! .f which ei•hictitly
provci that he had hem Margate latch'.
Tie weer. bott committed to' the
11,,,v,„ Of Correct:on tar furthvr evunination.
:!..:•itturday last, a. wretched-
,woulan, of the tonne of Awl Ifilliams, was
brougat before Alilmiman Cox.c., the Sitting Ma-
gistrate, on the following charge:---On Thursday
morning :last, at fine new-burn itade child was
round murdered in a pt ivy •situated in a'cellar in
Baguio-court,. almost' itt , the very same place
whc.. re, a ,TICW-borp child 1141, Found murdered two
years agd. Some time during , the, efteritoota of
the aame day, the prisoner was observed strolling
,atnnit the court, and placing beraelf on the
threshold of one of the doors. Site sat mutter-
ing to herself, " Sure it was not my child that
was.loand mardered in the privy !'' These:mut-
terings:attracted the attention of several people,
,who inquired w:lo she was, and what she wanted ?
She said she lived, ia a street, oppoSite Mouniauth-
street—her husband was in _Wales, and she was
pregnant ; she wished to.be, shown to a privy;
upon which she was informed that n child had
been intind that morning murdered in one' of the
privies in that court. A constable was Oct! called,
who conecivell it highly proper, under all the- cir-
Tottoitances of the case, to take her into custody,
as she had CORM twice to that cuurt; pretending
the same errand,, on that day.
TheNestry Clerk sent ai message to the Magis-
trate, desiring that Ann Williams's- examination
might be put off till 'Monday, am: in the mean
time particillar inquiries would be made concern-
ing the murdered child, nod all the circumstances
attendhtg :the conduct of the prisoner.: The Ma-
gistrate complied with this repteat ; and the pri-
sooer.was: remanded till Motoiay.,:
-GAD
REN.-011 arday several inha-
bitants of the neighbourhood of SiilfrOn4iiit at-
tended, and lodged, at complaint' agairtat 'a ttiFirt of
thentuneof Maw:gala, Wito. tlnv suited), ept is
very dangerous dog, wi)ith dew at'e' ory.one that
came in his Way, and had hit several pets ;t) ;
and 'that on rite trlntiflainalitA re-attnlt,tr;itiri!, with
the owner, he Iwoied thein
who k'pre;ornot,, staitcit that the ‘telliril,;-,1 hilt)
liWst.ll at and bit her and when she tirade a coat.'
Obi:114 to Flanegan„ he inintediately struck anti
knocked her don't). The Magistrate, Mr..Litacm,
ordered theaifrieers, CoOk and ThiSeltOtr, to bring.
up the offender) when the otlit'ers Came to the
'place, the ferocious animal flew at thrall, l.mt: they
immedigtely killed him k.'‘oll their cutla§ses. 'rhe
officers brought tip yhhegan, who beard tbe'cont.
plaint made al;ain4t Inns, whielt not being ahie to
dotty; he trail ordered to find intil:for the assamit
„poll the woman, anti' satiStY ail parties: woo
Lad been injured,