The Sun.
London, England, 1819-01-01 00:00:00

CIRCULATING FALSE NEWS.

Bow-STaear.--=Wednesday evening Mrs: Kat-
nab, the printer of the bills, stating the murder
of Mr. Thomas Lane,. his wile, three children,
and his-mother, on South-greea, near Dartford,
which is supposed to be entirely grounnlest, and
which Thomas Love, and Thomas Hewlett, two
men who annoy the inhabitants of the Lest end
-of the town by blowing horns, were imposing
upon the inhabitants of Chelsea and' its' neigh-
bourhood, under pretence of selling these papers,
giving an account of the murder of Nit.. Ellis, or
Elliot, of Sloane-street, the preceding night, in
the Five:Fields, Chelsea, no such an event having
taken place,
.appeared at the °thee. The only
account sire, could give of the statement of the
murder of Mr. Lane. and five others, near Dart-
ford, was, that. ti man, brottght it to he'r.to print
abont`a fortnight since, but she did not know. hiS
flame,. where he liv,ed, or any` thing about him,
nor did she iniluire, nor did- she ask whetbet (he
account of ,the murder wits true or' false. She
printed the statement, and sold the papers which,
contained it at sixpence a quire to the nien,, who
sold them at a.„ halfpenny each about the/streets
by blowing horns, &c. She accounted for her
[rime and address at the bottom of tire bills being
minted in an unintelligible manner, by say,ng
she could not get any more letters into the line:
The only excuse siA.. set up for printing and 'pub-
lishing such fabricated statements of pretended
murder wars to provide for lierfamily.
The ThiL6strate, Mr. Hicks, severely con
dembed her conduct ; and,
,after a reprimand,
dismissed her, assuring her, that if she dirt • not
desist from
.such practices, he would commit her
to Newgatc, and she should_ be most severely
punished.
The iwe horn-men,. Love and Hewlett, were
alsOdiscliavred after a suitable tenrimand from
the Magistrate, they promising not to be guilty
of a similat offence_again,,and assuring the. M
strate that they considered the contents 01: the
papers to he true which they bought, of Mrs.
Catnalt„or•they would not have sold them.
Mrs. Catnap admitted that her son bad been
imprisont d ,nonths for printing and publish-
ing a false and, linellons statement respecting. the
pork-butchers, in the njghbourhood of Clare -
market.
ROBBERY OF MARSHAL BERESFORp BY HIS
SERVANT.

MARLBOROUGH-STRERT.—Yesterday Domino
PobeOn, a foreigner, was charged by Marshal Be-
resford with robbing hint of 'various 'articles of
property; and gank notes.--r-It appeared fi•om his
Lordship's\'Statement, tiiat the prisoner has been
his valet for nearly a dozen years, and possessed
his confidence in a great degree'. He had at-
-tended hint on the Peninsula, and on his return to
Vngland he renOwed his services. From the fa-
Cility which he had at all times to his dressing-
room, &c. it was easy for hint to have taken
trifling articles without exciting any particular
degree of suspicion ; but it appears that he being
emboldened-by his success in petty acts of thiev-
ery, made at once a transition from it to pilfering
of a more extensive kind, and even• took money
at varirms times out of the Marshal's pockets.—
His Lordship having 'at last missed various sums
irt. this manner, put some marked notes and mo-
ney in his pockets, and lett the 'clothes in the
prisoner's way ; but when be examined the
again, part of the money was gone.- He then
sent for T. Foy,- the officer, who took the pri-
soner into custody.—His Lordship expressed•his
unwillingnesi to prosecke theprisoner, and thus
the case eroled.