The Sun.
London, England, 1833-11-25 00:00:00

HATTON-GARDEN.

Mark Lozep, a man of colour, was charged with
having robbed Elizabeth Southerby of a pair of
sheets.—Committed.

THAMES POLICE.

TIIE DEVIL !—Christopher Grant, master of a
sailing-barge of Erith, was charged with having
stolen Messrs. Barrand and Welcl,'s devil.

A clerk to the complainants, who are coal-mer-
chants of Whitefriar's-wharf, said that on Friday
morning the devil was missed from their wharf, and
the prisoner's barge having been lying near the
wharf, it was suspected that the devil had been car-
ried away by him. The clerk proceeded to Erith,
and there he found the barge arid the devil in it.
He asked the prisoner how the devil it came there,
to which the prisoner said, " I don't know how the
devil it did—it's devilish odd." He afterwards
said he believed one of the men bad taken the
devil by mistake from the wharf, for which he was
very sorry.

Mr. ComuE—Pray, Sir, what is the devil ? An
Officer—Why, bless you, it's only a devil; its a
portable firegrate.
The clerk begged to observe that this was quite
a new devil. The old one was quite worn out.—
(Laughter.)

The prisoner was fined 51. for unlawful possession
of the devil.

RUSSIAN BARBARITIES. The Polonais
gives the following extract of a letter from Warsaw, dated
the sth instant :—" Three of the confederates of Dzie-
wicki, who has poisoned himself, have been shot at
Warsaw, in the public place of execution, without the
walls. They all died with a display of courage and firm-
ness, hoping that their deaths might be useful to their
unhappy country. Olkowski, in particular, showed great
self command. While on his way to execution, he ea
thered up a handful of the soil, and exclaimed—, For
this we have [night, and for this we are willing to die 1'
The tombs of these young heroes have become objects of
veneration to the people, who strew flowers and garlands
upon them. Many women have compromised themselves.
A youne lady, named Helen Nowakowska, has received
200 stripes, fir having sent provisions to some unfortunate
insurgents, who were dyin! of hunger in the woods. The
horrible punishment was inflicted in one of the barracks
at Lublin, to the sound of military music ; and to render
it mm e severe, they afterwards shaved her head, and
confined her in a convent, and no one can tell when she
will be relea.ed. The wife of Orloatska has been con
demned to teceive 500 stripes, for having sheltered one of
her relations. She entreated that her punishment might
be inflic,ed publicly at Warsaw, in order that it might
inflame the courage of the patriots. This favour, how.
ever, being denied her, on the day her sentence was to
have been executed she was found dead in her prison,
having forced pins into her bmorn

SINGULAR SUICIDE OF A LUNATIC AT
THE LEICESTER ASYLUSf.—On Friday evening an
Inquest was held at the Swan and Rushes, Oxford-street,
before Mr. Alderman Yates, Coroner, on the body of
Thomas Franks, a- lunatic confined in the Leicester
Lunatic Asylum. The case excited considerable interest
from the artful and cunning method the poor maniac had
resorted to to destroy himself, proving the old adage, that
" some men have method in their madness." Ribert
Newberry was a keeper at the Leicester Lunatic Asylum.
On the 13th of August last the deceased, Thomas Franks,
aged about forty, was brought to the Asylum in a state
of mlancholy madness, from Great Dalby, in Leices-
tershire, where witness understood his fsther resided.
Deceased had been under the care of witness ever since,
and on Thursday night, about seven o'clock, William
Wall, another keeper, put him to bed. Witness, as was
his usual custom, went to see it all was right (the
lunatic having been removed to the present cell for
safety), and found him in bed. He had a strait-waist-
coat on, with hopples on his feet ; a long leather strap
passed over his arms, to keep them secure, and another
leat,er strap was fastened to his feet, the whole being
confined by strap fixed in the he stead, to keep him
down. Witness thought it impossible for a men, under
such circumstances, to release himself, and locking the
door, left him for the night. The next morning witness
went to the cell at seven o'clock, and unlocking the door,
found he could nor open it. After some difficulty he
succeeded, and on entering the cell he found the deceased
hanging by the neck from a hole about seven feet from
the ground, and quite dead. Witness then proceeded to
examine the bedstead, and the various articles he had
made use of to effect his end, fie found that the strait-
waistcoat had been completely gnawed through below
the right elbow, and thus having succeeded in getting
one hand free, he with difficulty removed the floppies and
two leather straps from the bedstead, tied up the blankets
and rug in a bundle with part of his shirt, while with
the mattress and strait-waistcoat he contrived to make
another bundle. The strap that bad fastened his legs he
then well knotted round his neck, and pulling a piece of
hoard (about two feet in length and six inches broad)
from a pipe made in the cell to let off the foul air, he
fastened it to the other strap that went over his arms.
On the side of the door, about seven feet high, there was
a hole in the wall, about the size of a brick, made also
to let the air in. The deceased, it appeared, then placed
the two bundles under the hole, and having fastened
both the straps together with the greatest ingenuity, be
put the wood through the hole (and lest the leather should
rub, he had taken the precau'ion to put the remainder of
his shirt on the edge), and turning it round so as to
catch the bricks on each side, kicked the two bundles
from under him. Witness on examining him found that
he must have struggled a great deal, but when found in
the morning he was quite cold and stiff, his toes scarcely
touching the ground. After the evidence of another wit-
ness the Jury returned a verdict of " Insanity."—Lin.
colnshire Chronicle.