The Sun.
London, England, 1802-09-04 00:00:00

P.UBLIC-OFFICE, BOIP-STREET.

Y! E XII A 'lt 7e7hit 7obbins, the highwayman
tot-unlined 111, PETER fiENDERSON, Esq. of Bed-
'font, for robbing tl e Lady of D.: SCOTT, Esq. on
the zBth of August last, cm the highway, in that
parish, was brought up to this Office for examina_.
tiOn,•kt being expeCted there-would be other charges
against him ; but no _person 'appearing. who could
-identify his person, Mr. tir NDERSDN, who. was
present, committed him to 'Newgate, to take hiS,
trial at the next Old Bailey Sessions.
Ifirghes,• alias Edy, alias Sr.:: the person
examined before the LORD-MAY* on suspicion of
having been guilty of:divers frauds and felonies,
was sent to this Office by his Lordship; most of the
complaints against him having taken place in the
County of 'Middlesex.
Mr. Mackenzie, of Green-street; GinSvenor_
sqUare, charged the Pri3oner with'obtaining -a sin-
gle-horse chaise from him, on hire, • and afterwards
disposing of it for his own gain, which charge being
made our, and the Magistrate judging it- to *be a
felony, -he was committed for trial accordingly, but
will be brought up on a future day, in-case any other
Botnplaint should be exhibited against hint.%

:.Yesterday at Guildhall, Joseph *in, an old
offender, was put to the bar, under the charge of
picking a Gentlemanks pocket. The following ap-:
pealed, from the examination of the witnesses; to
be tke tirEumstancesa. Mr. Murdoch, a Gentleman: .
in a seafaring employment, was paising up New.;
, gate-street about three' o'clock on Thursday after.
noon, with a pocket-book containing eat. in Bank-
notes, in an outside coaupocket. ' Miles, who had
followed him, as it appeared, for some time, at last
made up to him, and walked for a few paces 'by
his side, as if he had been a friend in conversation
with him. Then, suddenly diVitig his hand into
Murdoehls pocket, he snatched out the
poeket.book, and put it into his own bosom.—
The trick was seen. by several persons near ;
some of whom aftually thought that it might be
only done in joke, by One. friend" to another.—
While Miles ran across the streets, Mr. Murdoch,
aware of his loss, looked round, and cried to a ytiung
woman who was coming up behind him—" You
have picked. my pocket." The young woman
having no concern in the theft, answered hastily,
" There goes the thief, that is he !" and pointed
to where Miles ran -down a passage, towards Pater-
noster-row. The cry of ‘r stop thief !" was in-
stantly raised, and-the-peooe who were near, join-
ed i.t the pursuit. i Three of. Miles's companions
were; however, at band.;
.called out that he had
fled by a different ,way ; and
.endeaVottred to save
hint by misleading the pursuit.. But Miles ran un-
wittingly into the very arms of a,stout youngynan,
who, having heard the cry of step thief,, instantly
collared and detained him. Miles then threw the poc-
ket-book from him ; but was-Seen in this aa-by Mr.
Kirby, Bookseller, in Paternoster-row, by whom,
the pocket-book was taken up. A Constable was
called in-; -and the-thief was conveyed to Newgare
Compter. Mr. Murdoch, Mr. Kirby, the young
Man by whom. Miles was taken, and the young
Woman who saw hirn,soarch the pocket-book, gave,
yesterday before the Magistrate, the clearest and
most circumstantial evidence of these fats. Miles
spade neither confession nor defence. - He was fully
committed for trial at the next Assizes.
Wednesday the Coroner's Jury sat on the body
Of the :man who was found drowned in the Serpen-
tine River. There was no proof of suicide, and
as .it did not look like accident, the verdiet was
consequently worded thus..-Drowned by some means
cis jet undisemered., The body was dragged out on
Monday morning about eight o'clock. A gentle-
Man happening to walk that way, saw part of his,
hat and the skirt of his coat above water, and im.
mediately went and procured aisistance, when he
had the body taketti up and brought .ter Knights.
bridge watch-house. From various circumstances
the body. could not have been above three hours
.in the water. The deceased had on a black coat,
bat and crape, waistcoat,, breeches, black worsted
stockings, shoes with strings, and inside' flannel
waistcoat. He had his hat on. He had no paper
about him to lead to a knowledge of who he was.
in his breeches pocket he had seven guineas, two
.small knives in .his. waistcoat-Pocket, and his
handkerchief and two key&were in his coat-pockets.
One key seemed that of a street-door, and: the
other that of a chamber. His age seemed to be
about fifty' six; he appeared to be five feet six
inches in height. The body is now to be seen- in
the bone:house, St. Margaret's-street, Westminster.
There: were
.not three feet water 'where the body
was‘discovered.
. On Wednesday evening at:half past six o'clock,
a carpenter, saving. joists in :a new, building, near
where:the late J3edford House, Bloomsbury, stood,
happening to stand on the end of a board, which
upset, when he fell through between the joists
that werelaid for three floors, -being pitched -from
floor to floor till he reached the ground. He- was
carried in 'a shocking state to Middlesex Hospital,
where' he expired yesterday about twelve o'clock.
His name t-ea'sjatars LAHEY, an Irishman, He
sent his wife to Ireland • about, two 'months ago
with three children, and pregnant with another.
_About five.o'cloclepn Thursday afternoon,,a large"
party of Irish„ from Bambury-street, St. Giles's,
men and women, went to the Hospital for the-body
clf the deceased, with an intent to hold' a wake on
the occasion, at the Ship public house in that
street. 'The. Coroner's Jury had not sat at the
time, and of course ;they were refused the body.
Impressed with the,.idea that it was kept for dis-
selion, they uttered the most horrid oaths, that
if it were not delivered to them immediately, they
would send for a reinforcement to St. Giles's, set
fire to the Hospital, and murder every person be-
longing to it. They, were, however, at last pa-
cified by the Surgeon, who promised that they'
thonld have the. body entire as soon as the Jury
had-given a ierdiEt. They all then returned borne,
swearing, that if the Surgeon 'did not fulfil his
promise, " they would make a gridiron of his ribs
to broil his liven on."

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