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but in the mean time the 'parties had disappeared, and
the house was shut up, v.nd the complainants being, a
few days since, applied. to by Sergeant Dubois, found
the prisoner in custody; at this Court in the name of
Thomas Smith.
The bill was produced, and the acceptance identified
as having been writ tea by the prisoner.
Mr. Healey, of Newington-green, stated that he is
owner of the house 'referred to at Hoxton, and in the
month of July let it upon a written agreement for
three years certain, to a person who then called him-
self Henry Dewar. That person, however, was not
the prisoner now at the bar, but the other prisoner in
custody, of the name of Henry Miller. The witness
had never received ELny rent, and had lately regained
possession of his home.
The prisoner now said he did not deny what had
been stated, but he handed in a letter and another
paper purporting to be a written authority to accept
the bill in that name.
Police-constable Wood, 277 N, proved that when
he and the other officers were in possession of the
house in Harvey-street, Hoxton, to which Miller and
Sarah Dewar, who passed as his wife, were traced
after they had decamped from Hammersmith, the
prisoner now at the bar knocked at the door, and,
seeing the witness there, became agitated, and said
he wanted to see Mrs. Dewar. When told that he
must be detained, he declared that he was a respect-
able tradesman at Mitcham, and his name Richard
Apsell. An officer being dispatched to Mitcham
without loss of time, found that the prisoner had re-
cently taken a house of business there, and obtained
possession of a heap of letters and papers relating to
the proceedings of the swindling gang in various
other places.
Mr. BROUGHTON said that, in his opinion, the charge
now before him was a clear case of forgery, and he
should remand the prisoner, to be ultimately com-
mitted upon that as well as the other cases.
The prisoner was identified as having, in the year
1832, been committed from Worship-street to New-
gate, with a person named Frost, for stealing a quan-
tity of wine and brandy, which they had ordered from
a house in the City. On that occasion he gave his
name Richard Sheldrick, and he and Frost were trans-
ported for seven years,
William Thompson, alias Johnson, with his wife and
daughter, another party of the numerous gang of
swindlers, were brought up for re-examination, and
committed upon several charges, but remanded upon
others.
The male prisoner in this case was stated to have
been before committed, and his son, Charles Jones,
alias Fetch, alias Thompson, who is in custody at this
Court upon a separate charge, has also been convicted
and transported.
Alfred Edwards, the young man who has been a
considerable time in custody, and repeatedlyexamined
upon a charge of having murdered Jane Gregory, by
infusing poison in some brandy and bitters that he
had given her, was brought up yesterday for some
additional evidence.
The Coroner's jury returned a verdict of " Mur-
der" against the prisoner several weeks since, but the
evidence was very defective, and last week the body
was exhumed, and some of the viscera extracted for
further chemical analysis.
Mr. Leeson, lecturer on chemistry at St. Thomas's
Hospital, who had, in the first instance, extracted some
metallic lead from the coats of the stomach, stated on
Nlondayithat in the kidneys he had, by the application
of chemical tests, discovered what appeared to be
minute traces of some combination of mercury and
lead, but unless he could produce the metals them-
selves he would not positively affirm their presence.
He stated yesterday, however, that he had since Mon-
day completed an analysis of a portion of the kidney,
from which he obtained a distinct globule of mercury,
and was now enabled to sav positively that some pre-
paration of mercury and of lead had been taken by
the deceased. These metals combined would cause
death, and he had no doubt, under all the circum-
stances, that the deceased had died of poison.
Mr. BROUGHTON said that, upon the Coroner's jury,
the prisoner must be tried for murder, but it was such
an important case, requiring such minute investiga-
tion, that it could not be properly prepared for trial
at the present session, and he should therefore remand
the prisoner until the next. The witnesses were
bound over by the Coroner for the present session, but
the Court would be moved for a postponement of the
trial, and it was intimated that the law officers of the
Crown would act for the prosecution.
The prisoner, who seemed exceedingly dejected,
was then removed from the bar.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS

The following are the results of " A Table of Mortality
in the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from
all Causes registered in the Week ending Saturday, the
19th of October, 1844." The Table is issued from the Office
of the Registrar-General:—

Weekly
Total. Average of
Five Years
Epidemic,Endemic, and Contagious Diseases 226 178
Diseases of variable or uncertain seat B5 111
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 133 157
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiratiou
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 35 21
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other
Organs of Digestion ..
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c 8 6
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c.
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 4 6
Diseases of the Skin, &c
Old Age, or Natural Decay 63 71
By Violence, Privation, or Intemperance
Causes specified...
Deaths froin all Causes ...... . 895 946
DICATIDS FROM THE rraNctrit. DISEASES LNCLUDED UNDER

THE ABOVE HEADS.

Total. Weekly Average
of Five Tears.
Consumption 133 147
Scarlatina Bl 34
Pneumonia .......... 74 79
Dropsy .. ... .. .. ......
looping Cough .... ....... ..
Typhus 3B 31
Small Pox 35 15
Disease of the Heart
_ _

_..„..
Meagan ... 2l 28
Apoplexy
Diseases of the Brain ...... .... 10 9
_ _

Diarrhcea..
Sudden Deaths
DISTRICTS.

West 145 138
North
Central
East . 180 207
South 245 242

Total ••• 000000 0000........ 895 946

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