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but happened to make the attentpt.upoti one *his was
acquainted With the prosecutris, woo communicated
the circumstance to her, and that die had agree i to
meet him on Thursday night, ;n St. J on,s's s!reet,
where Humphreys, belonging to the Oilice, was ap-
plied to for the purpose of I tying in wait to appre.
' henil hint ; but the prisoner being understood to have
m.utiea the prosPeurris, no felony would have he-n
committed in that c.tse, as he had a right to do whit
he pleased with her property. however, on qu4s-
tiioring the credulous . ignorant girl, it was satisfac-
torily ascertained, from what she described to have
passed in St. James's Church, that the marriage cc-
eemony bad not been performed, and that Ins con-
do 7.t was a Pros, fraud upon the poor girl ; l itim-
ishreys therefore had no hesi•ation in taking hint into
custody, when he came into St. J.,mes's.strect, on
Thursday night, to meet the other girl. On search-
ing him pla nbroker's duplic.ites for part of the ;Icor
girl's clothes were found ; also three ball cartridges
and three bullets. O.: his being brought to the Of-
fice for cx.truination, he said his Immo was !()!11l
Evervt, and not Win. Palmer, that be Kett:tided to
marry Julia Leary by. He was committed for fur-
t r examination.
UNION-HALL.—Ja:n Silva, a man of colour, was
brought before Mr. E.VANCE, by Goff, charged with
assaulting and roLbing Hannah Brown. The Pra-
secucrt% stated, that about three o'clock in the morn-
ing she WAS going along the Borough to her work,
she bele", a washerwoman, when the prisoner accost-
ed her, and wished her to go with him, which she
refused ; be continued to follow her, until she came
to a place called New-Alley, when he seivrd her, bit
her arm in a dreadful manner, and tore from her
side a pocket, containing two shillings and four pence
in copper ; she called out " Murder !" when the
Officer, who happened to be near the spot, came to
her assistance ; the prisoner attempted to rush by
him) but the Officer succeeded in securing him t the
pocket was found near the spot, rifled of its contents.
Patrick Murray, a sailor, who happened io be pass-
ing, deposed that he saw the prisoner throw away
the pocket, when being conveyed to the watch.house.
—The prisoner denied the charge, said the pocket
had never been n his possession ; that the prosecu-
trix wished him to go with her, and it was in re-
venge for this refusal that she preferwd the present
charge ; the bite on her arm, he said, be knew no-
thing about. Fully committed for trial at the
Quarter Sessions.
fiarroN-GannEN.—Jame.: I.7ini was finally exa-
mined, being charged by Mr. Francis Latran,l,
shoemaker, in Aylesbury-street, Cleakenwell, who
stated, that on Tuesday evening the prisoner came
into his shop, and stole, off a hook, two pair ti La-
dies' boots, and walked away with the property ; the
prisoner was pursued, when he dropped them, but
was taken, The charge teeing sworn to, he uas fully
committed for tri.,l.
PARRICIDE.— Mon day last Richard. Russell WAS
committed to Horsemioger-lane gaol, on suspicion of
having murdered his father, who resided at Esher, neat
Kingston. He was discovered at his lodgings in that
place, with his head most dreadfully beat with a ham-
mer, or some other weapon, and his throat enc.—
Suspicion was attached to his son (who is a Jailor, just
returned from sea), from his having accompanied his
father to the bedroom, in order to get money to go
and drink together; and it is supposed he was
prompted to the dreadful act in order to get about £3O,
which he knew his father to be possessed of. Immedi-
ately alter the murder he absconded, and a aett note
which he changed at a public-house in the nos: a, upon
which were marks of blood, led to his :apprehension
in London. He had procured a licence, and married
a young woman the day before he WAS taken.
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Coy ass mo.—The different meetings are about to start for the
ensuing season. The Mahon Cuursi•sg Meeting Assemble on the
6th of November; the Louth Mee ing, in I.i,scolosii,re, on tl e
20th of the same month; and she Newmarket Members have
advanced thein Irons the Ist of December into November, vesy
prupeily, that they may be more certain of goo,' weather.
There are at this time not less than twenty thou.
s.tnd bushels of apples, in Covent Garden nirkets of
various kinds, which h ive been recently imported in
biirrela from the Nethellanda.