The Sun.
London, England, 1829-02-23 00:00:00

COMMITTAL OF A WITNESS FOR PERJURY.

James Shgh, aged 27, was indicted for stealing°
coat, value 55., the property of - Styles.:
The prosecutor and prisoner were lodgers in the
same house, when the latter, on the 20th December',
absconded with the coat, and was-not again beard
for several weeks. At the time he was epprebencreu
he had the coat on his back.

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The prisoner called a witness to prove .tb‘4.he
bought the coat of a Jew, who
.swore that he "14:
present at the time, but be could not say in Ghat
part of the town it was, on what day, or whether
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was a black' or blue one.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty.

Mr. Sergeant ARABlN—Gentlemen, do you be:
lie ve one word the witness for the prisoner has spoken r
The Foreman said they were unanimous in th°
opinion that every thing he had stated was false.
Mr. Sergeant ARABIN immediately committed
him for wilful and corrupt perjury, and he was cones
ducted by the officers into Newgate; the Learn
Judge said it was necessary examples should- 10
made, the interests of the public must be protected;

A DELICATE FEEDEII.-Last week
butcher residing. in Nuneaton undertood for a wager °
2a. 6d., to eat half-a-pound of scratchiuga-cake or grave,
from the chandler's shop, and drink two pint.' of ale'
which feat he speedily accomplished.—Coventry Observer,

MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.— A most dis-
tressing and melancholy event occurred on Thende/
night at Moulinearn, Perthshire, near Dunkeld. Ayo _„,
man, aa Officer of Excise, and a native of England, was
to have been married to an amiable young woman of the
neighbourhood, on the following day, Friday. His irg'
tended mother-in-law having had occasion to call for WO
on Thursday evening, he accompanie I her to the water
side, to see her across to her residence. The boat WAS °II
the opposite side of the ricer (then much swollen) when the
young man imprudently resolved to swim across to fetch
the boat for his friend. He had nearly made good hie
landing, when he was heard to utter one or two screaelg,
and his friend saw no more of him. She hurried to the
next house, and alarmed the neighbourhood, but their
efforts were unavailing; the night was dark, and search
was fruitless. Next morning, as the Caledonian coach was
passing, the passengers observed a crowd hurry to a SP°t
about two miles from Moulinearn, where, doubtless, 1."5
body had just been found. A more affecting visitation
cannot be imagined. She 'who fondly expecting on the
following evening to be his bride, was the same day called
to behold his lifeless corpse.—lncernese Courier. •
A BAND OF ROBBERB.—On Wednesday
night, the 11th inst. four fine rams were stolen from the
farm of Mr. Silvester, about half a mile from Wien
Suspicion immediately fell upon a gang of thieves who had
their haunts in the caves and fastnesses in the vicinity,
hail been the terror of the neighbourhood for several 7°l
pod. A line and cry having been raised, a number 0'
the inhabitfints collected, and under the direction of Mr'
Andrews, an active constable of Helston, the house of
man named Jore, of Landewednack, was searched, where
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they found 82Ibs. of mutton, cut up and salted, part °`
which was conceded in a bed. In another house belong'
ing to a • man named Hocking, two legs of mottet,
and some sheep-skins stripped of the wool, were lotted'
—Jose and flecking were apprehended and sent to
ston, when the latter gave such hints as indnced a party t°
set off early on Tueialay morning, with intent to appro'
hend Stephen Jose, brother of the prisoner, James Jose,
and William Harris, who were concealed in the caves„
among the cliffs. The party were eo disposed as to cut on
! all retreat on the land side, and on their approach they 83'1
Jose and Harris at a distance near Kynance Cove. Chace
was instantly given, when these desperate characters, find-,
ing their retreat cut off, made towards the sea, into which
they desperately plunged. They continued to float for
about 20 minutes, when they sunk arrd were both drownekl,.
—Devonport Telegraph.