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ings, and pass the night with him. He let her in
with his latch key unknown to the inmates of the
house. He awoke about five o'clock in the
morning, and found the prisoner had left the house; he also
missed his watch and appendages from off the dressing-table,
where he had placed it over-night. He gave information of
the robbery at the police-station in Vine-street, Piccadilly,
but no trace of the prisoner could be obtained. Between six
and seven o'clock on Wednesday evening he met her at the
end of Great Windmill-street, and gave her into custody.
The constable stated, that on taking the prisoner into cus-
tody she at once asserted that the prosecutor had given the
watch to her. She also stated that she was a married woman,
and gave the address of her husband, who is butler in a gen-
tleman's family in the neighbourhood of Covent-garden.
Witness called on him, and on his being made acquainted
with the nature of the accusation against his wife, he pro-
duced two pawnbrokers' duplicates, which he said his wife
had given him, alleging that she had found them. He denied
most strongly any knowledge of the watch affair, sad seemed
most painfully shocked at the untoward discovery that had
taken place. One of the duplicates was of the watch pawned
for 1/. 18s. and the other of the chain and three seals for 18s.
on the same nay, at the shop of Mr. Ravener, of No. 18,
Queen's- build ngs, Chelsea, pawnbroker, by the prisoner, who
was then living in the neighbourhood, and gave her right
name and address.
Mr. IlAnDwfac asked the prisoner if she wished to say
anything?
The Prisoner, with much firmness—lt is true I met that
gentleman as he had stated, and he persuaded me to take
supper with him; after which he produced the watch, and
asked me if I did not think it very pretty. I said I greatly
admired it. He said he would give it me if I would pass the
night with him. I was tempted by the watch, to my shame
I consented. At his lodgings he wound up the watch, and,
putting it in my hands, said, "There, it is now your own."
He knew when I left in the morning. His money and things
were lying on the table. I did not pawn the watch until
four or five days after.
Mr. HARDWICK asked the prosecutor if there was any
truth in the prisoner's statement about his giving her the
watch. The prosecutor said—Certainly not."
The prisoner was fully committed for trial.
WORSHIP-STREET.

11Iary and Jeremiah Roscoe, mother and;on, who already
stand committed for trial upon the charge of stealing mis-
cellaneous property of the value of nearly 1,500/. from the
premises of their late employer, Mr. E. Rowlandson, a carpet
warehouseman, in Whitechapel were again placed at the bar,
charged with stealing articles of a similar description, of the
value of nearly 20C1., from the premises of Mr. Joseph Jack-
son, an upholsterer, in Shoreditch.
The prosecutor stated, that both prisoners had been in the
habit of calling at his warehouse to purchase goods,to manu-
facture at the house of the female prisoner's husband, who
was a mattress maker, and that on entering the warehouse
early one morning in March last, he found the younger pri-
soner in the act of packing up a large bale of cotton; but
seeing his foreman with him, and being assured he was mak-
ing a purchase, his suspicions were then lulled, and he went
away. Having subsequently received information, however,
than the shopman in question was deeply implicated with the
prisoners in an extensive system of robbery from his premises
he examined his stock, and discovered that amongst other
property which had been stolen, were four feather-beds and
a writing-desk, which had been since found at the house of
the prisoners, and were now in the care of the police. He
bad since discharged the shopman who had been in collu-
sion with the prisoners, but he was afterwards seized with
a severe illness, which precluded his proceeding against
him also.
A cabman named Norman proved that he had been em-
ployed by the male prisoner to remove the property in ques-
tion front the prosecutor's premises at an early hour in the
morning, before they were opened, to the house of the
woman Roscoe, who received them ; and Smith and Day,
two policemen, deposed to finding it there, with a large
quantity of other goods since identified ; the latter officer
adding that he had seen the male prisoner in conversation
with Norman after the last examination, when he begged
him, "for God's sake, to know nothing of the beds."
The prisoners, by the advice of their solicitor, Mr. Pelham,
reserved their defence, and were then fully committed for
trial upon both charges.

SOUTHWARK.
Several respectable. looking young men attended before
Mr. Coningham to solicit his advice and assistance under the
following circumstances :
One of the applicants, a Mr. Bailey, stated that he lives at
No. 20, King-street, Tower-hill, and that about ten days ago
he saw an advertisement in the Times stating that several
assistant surveyors were required for the York and Carlisle
Railway, and that inquiries respecting the same were to be
made at his (applicant's) residence as abovementioned.
Applicant not having given any person permission to refer
for information on the subject at his dwelling, was much sur-
prised ; but in the course of the day he was waited upon by
a person giving his name and address Mr. England, No. 11,
Queen's-row, Spa. road, Bermondsey, who said that he was
the author of the advertisement alluded to, and that he
availed himself of the liberty of requesting the persons who
wished to answer it either to call at, or write to, the address
in King- street, it being more centrally situated than his own
residence in the Queen's-row, Spa-road. He further stated
that he was principal surveyor of the York and Carlisle
Railway, having had his appointment from a Dlr. William-
son, of Cannon-row, Westminster; and as there was consi-
derable work to be done in his department of the company's
service, he was authorised to engage a number of assistants,
and that his terms would be at the rate of three and five
guineas a week each tor their services. Applicant, from the re-
spectability of the man's appearance, and the apparent truth
of his statement, saw no reason for preventing inquirers
calling there; and having a son of his own that he was
anxious to provide with a situation, the advertiser, on being
spoken to on the subject, readily undertook to employ the
young man, and claimed a guinea for placing him in the si-
tuation. Applicant readily consented to the agreement, and
accordingly handed over the money, and the " surveyor "
promised to call on Monday last to take the young man
down to the scene of operations in the north, together with
several others, whom he had engaged under similar circum-
stances.
On inquiries being made it was found that England had
been employed by Mr. Williamson, but was afterwards dis-
charged, and that the company knew nothing of him or his
transactions.

Two other persons, named Roughton and Young, stated
that they had paid England a guinea under the same repre-
sentations.

Mr. CornsGrum stated that he regretted he could not
grant the applicants any redress, as the false pretence could
not be sustained in either of the cases. The man complained
against, it appeared by what Williamson said, was engaged
on the line, and for some reason had since been discharged
from his situation. There was no doubt that the applicants
had been deprived of their money, but they had parted with
it of their own accord, and without making such inquiries as
they were bound, for their own sakes, to do beforehand.
He (the magistrate) added, that the applicants could recover
the money they had given the person complained of by pro.
ceeding against him in the Court of Requests. He again
regretted that he could not assist the applicants in the re-
covery of their money.
The applicants then withdrew.

THE MURDER in W ARWICKSHIRE.
KINETON, WEDNESDAY.—The magistrates of this division
of the county held a special meeting here yesterday, which
was very numerously attended, and at which it was re-
solved that an application should be made to the Home
Secretary of State to offer a reward for the apprehension of
the person or persons engaged in this diabolicalisatffraliciyr.
tE,fvethrye possible exertion has been used by
neighbourhood to unravel the mystery in which the transac-
tion is involved, and one or two circumstances have trans-
pired since the Coroner's inquest to confirm the opinion so
decidedly given by the surgeon, Mr. Brown, upon his exami-
nation—namely, that the deceased had died of an extensive
fracture of the skull, occasioned by several severe blows
from a blunt instrument, such as might have been inflicted
by the piece of timber found under the person of Chater
when he was discovered in a senseless state, bleeding from the
mouth, near to Pittern-hill, which is about half a mile from
Kineton, a very quiet secluded market town, containing a po•
pulation of about 1,400 inhabitants. It has already been stated
that near the body of the murdered man a quantity of coffee
was found spilled about the ground, as though in the course
of a struggle it had fallen there, from the bursting of the
paper in which it was wrapped ; but it has only just tran-
spired that this piece of paper, upon which are printed the
name and address of the tradesman from whom the coffee
was purchased (Meddoms, Kineton), was very carefully
folded up in the deceased's pocket, as if put there after an
attempt had been made to rob him, and with a view of pre-
venting any clue being given by it to the guilty parties.
With the exception of a few spots upon the piece of timber
spoken of, no blood was found near the body, or anywhere in
the vicinity, and this goes far to strengthen the supposition
that, being a man of spare frame and weak habit of body, the
deceased was carried to, and placed on, the spot where the
carrier's son discovered him after the outrage had been perpe-
trated. It has also been stated that onlY a few pence were
left in the pockets of the man, and there is no reason for sup-
posing that he was in possession of more than a very few
shillings throughout the day, notwithstanding the attempt
since made by rumour to give undue weight to the affair in
this respect, in the conjecture that he had raised money that
day by mortgaging some cottages belonging to him at the
village of Cornbrook, where he resided. It appears, how-
ever, his real object in coming to Kineton was to procure an
under-bailiff's situation, which had fallen vacant by death,
on Lord 11 illoughby de Broke's estate, at Compton Verney.
Mr. Roby, the well-known and active superintendent of
police, has arrived from Leamington, and is now engaged in
a thorough investigation of the whole circumstances, in the
chain of which there is apparently one link to be suppliea,
namely, where the deceased, who was last seen in the town
by a groom, named Fennell, about a quarter w pastve o'clock,
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two individuals connected with the Warwickshire
kennels passed the spot at half-past eleven, and described
the
night to be so light that they " could see rabbits run
across the road," but saw no man lying down, which they
consider they must have done had any one been there, as
they had to drive a horse which shied at any dark object In
the road.
Suspicion has fallen upon some inmates, on the night of
the murder, of a lodging-house, kept by a blind man, who
lost his sight in Egypt 45 years ago, under the military
generalship of the celebrated Sir Ralph Abercromby, and
now enjoys a pension ; he also keeps a lodging-house in
King-street, Drury- lane, from which metropolitan establish-
ment one of the suspected parties married his wife. It is
thought that the inquiries now in course of being made
by Mr. Roby will terminate in a result that will materially
lessen the excitement which the melancholy occurrence has
occasioned for several miles around the neighbourhood of
Kineton.