Star.
London, England, 1810-09-05 00:00:00

COLD-114171-FIALDS PRISON.

FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE INQUIRY RELATIVE TO
THE ESCAPE OF ROBERTS AND HARPEIt :
During the examination of Mr. Ails, sen. he stated
tint he was ignoiant.of an opinioi% having prevailed
in the prison, previous to the inquiry, that the two
prisoners had been assisted in their escape. It how-
evtr turned out, en the examination of Mr. Haswell,
the pris clerk, Oat he had acquainted hint that
such an opinion did prevail ; and, consequently, Mr.
Ails, scn. examined Daniel Aris, and the boy, M'Na-
mara, on whose testimony D. Aris was committed.
On one of the turnkeys finding all the Fates open,
M,Namara informed him of the conversation D. Ails
had with Roberts on the preceding night, and the
turnkey informed Mr. Hasu el, the Clerk, who com-
municated it to Aris, the Governor, and which led to
the examination.

Mr. MAINWANING upbraided Aris, sen. for such a
shameful denial of a fact which he must have remem-
bered ; and the latter observing he had never done an
act in :iis life of which be was ashamed, Mr. KAY, the
Bank Solicitor, expressed his belie! that Aris never
did fs.el shame.
The conduct of D. Aris was highly inaecorous De.
fore the Committee, and he was reprimanded by Mr.
NitliES, the Magistrate ; he was ordered to be ironed.
D. Aris's salary, as principal turnkey in that part of
the prison where Roberts was confined, was £1 Ws.
per week. There were only two of Aris's sons, and a
son-in-law, who married his daughter, employed in
the prison.
Mr. Newport officiates at present as Governor of
both Clerkenwell prisons.—D. Aris will be examined
again in a few days.
' The affair of the family of Mr. Aris ought to be a
lesson to the Magistrates a Middlesex not to turn a
deaf ear to complaints against their servants, from
whatever quarter they may come.
• The prisoner, who has made his escape, had forged
Dividend Warrants, by which he had received near
£3OOO. He had also been concerned in a robbery
upon Blackfriars Bridge ; in various forgeries of bank
notes ; and he was the man who personated Earl
Percy about a year ago, and swindled some money-
lenders out of £12,000 upon pretended annuity bonds.
The misfortune is, that in this last instance the proofs
were clear against him, and the public have lost the
opportunity or getting-rid of the most perfect adept
in his art, now in existence.
In consequence of the late fabrication of a dividend
warrant, a new regulation has been adopted at the
Bank, by which, when a dividend warrant is presented
for any sum above d:100,-search is to he made before
payment, in a hook provided for the purpose, to as-
certain that the party namei in the warrant is ac-
tually a holder of stock. In the case above alluded
to, the dividend warrant was fabricated with a ficti-
tious•name for a'2,400, presented at the office for pay-
ment, and immediately paii, nor was it discovered
till it was afterwards &•livered over to another office
in the usual course of business, that no person of the
name inserted in the warrant was a holder of stock.
Two one thousand pound notes, part of the sum re.
ceived on the warrant, were immediately changed for
smaller ones in the name of a banking-house at the
west end of the toss a.