Star.
London, England, 1817-05-22 00:00:00

THE. WING V. DUDFIELD AND OTHER.%

77:.flas Duqfdel, Hannah Du'/n /d, Crop Du4fieli,l
E4zalalt Durffield, ahaez ila_tiley, and or• er, were
indicted to a conspiracy to defraud the credit. rs of •
Thomas Diidtield, by means of a fictitious commis
skin of ban!:ruptcy.
The Diidtields have long been well known as the
keepers of a noted brothel in Shire•lane, and Bayley
was their attorney. The elder Dudfielil being in•
debted to a person of the name of Taylor, and ano-
ther of the name of Creed, they were obliged to bring
actions against him, and Mr. Bayley, as his attor-
ney, procrastinated the trial by all means in his poster.
In the mean time, before they could be brought to
trial, the parties concerted a commission of bank.
ruptey, in which cue Clarke, a mere pauper, became
the petitioning creditor. Mr. Awl:ley, a ragged
hac! clerk of Bayley, also proved a Farce debt.
Petty, a journeyman smith, brother in-law to Dud-
field, also proved 3110111 Ct large debt ; and Mr. Bay-
ley, the attorney, also proved a large debt—all of
which debts were without the lean foundation ; but
there four debtors elected Clarke arid Petty assie-
tiers. Radford and Taylor, who were Gana Pe
creditors of Dutifield, seeing this iniquitous 1-..roceed-
ing was done to defeat then; of their just debts, em-
ployed Mr. Hill, of Chancery-lane, as their attiirney,
who, during an investigation of ab we a year, and
after twenty-nine private mee:ino, disclosed this
fraudulent transaction, upon which tl:c Chancelior
made an order for the removal hi Linke and Petty,
as assignees, and Mr. Taylor was elected. Dud-
field, finding himself thus foiled in his fraud, came to
Mr. Hill, observing, is that I.e was dead fe•af, bet,
like Bonaparte, they could not say Le h scl
neral, although lie had•been beaten, and theretore
now he supposed he must pay his creditors." lie
then proposed to secure all his real creditors the.,
debts, it Mr. Hill would g.ve him time, and consent
to supersede the commission. Tl.is Mr. Hill agreed'
to; but, instead of doing it, a year afterwards, Mr.
Hill, his son, the assignee, and all who had any thirg
to do under the commission, were presented with an
indictment for a conspiracy to defraud Georgiana
Dudfield, or Lynn, daughter, who claimed
all the father's property as hers, which indietnient,
however, they had never brought to trial.
This tissue of fraud occupied some hours in deve-
loping, but at length, by the proceedings under the
commission of bankruptcy, and by Mr. 1-iill's evi-
dence, being fully proved, Thomas I)udfield, the la-
ther, Hannah, his- repined wile, George budfield,
his son, and Abraham Bayley, the attorney, were all
Jolene! Guilty—the others, whom the evidence die
nut reach, wbre Acquitted.

Thursday evening a melancholy accident occurred
not tar from the White Hart Inn, in Wakefield.—
Some voters were setting out in a chaise, on their re-
turn to Pontefract, when the horses became unruly.
The Boots, at :he White flirt, tried in vain to stop
them : he was thrown down, and the wheels passed
ever his neck, inflicting a-deadly wound. The horses
proceeded rapidly forwards, and in• their progress
killed a child, which attempted in vain to escape.
Yesterday John Dnrrnou, a paviour, was unload-
ing a cart in Piccaoirly, which was full of stones, and
in takinirout one of them the whole gave way, and,
shocking to relate, he was honied under a ton weight
of stones. He was released from his shocking situa-
tion by the spectators in a very short time, and car-
ried to the Hospital in a dangerous situation.
Thursday morning the servant of Mr.Wippell, gro-
cer, in Fore-street, Exeter, having incautiously placed
a chair on the ledge of the window, and was standing
on it cleaning the glass, when her hand slipped from
its hold, and she was precipitated to the ground. Her
arm was broken in two places, and her skull
.also
fractured : there is hope of her recovery.
Extract of a letter from Newport, county of Mayo.
—" lam sorry to say, that a shocking accident oc-
curred at Newport, on the night of the lath inst.—
A number of rersons had assembled in Denis Ho-
ban's house, to see a Play performed, when the floor
gave way, and they were precipitated into the street.
four lives were lost ; poor Mr. Duff, a Miss Kearns,
daughter of an Orlicer in the 6Sth, and two women
whose names have•not been mentioned to me. Great
numbers were severely hurt, but none mortally.—
Young Wilson is one of those how'
Exnerriote.—On the 9th inst. David Edward,,
convicted at the late Breconshire Assizes, of cottieg
the throat of Gwenllian Morgan, who was pregnant
by him, with intent to murder her, was executed at
Brecon, parsnant to his sentence. lie was '23 years
of age. About two years ago he became acquainted
with Gwenllian Mori an, et the same patish, to whom
he paid his addresses : About tun months since she
:hewed symptoms of pregnancy ; and, alarmed at
the idea of let socailrn the chili, he endeavoured
to dissaade her horn it ; but rot succeeding, after
many prutestatiors of love, ke lured her to a stable,
where he began to upbraid her with per Edy, and co:
her thrtoo raorly iro:n car to ear. He had secured
the stoble door iuside, and got cot threugi: s;e win-
dow or a hayloft. The unfortunate female w:.s un-
able to open the door ; but a person, in attemptiq, to
put his horse in the stable, heard her groan's, and on
;;Ircing the door, with the assistance of a neighbour,
found :or weltering in her blood ! She was just
able to name the perpetrator of the brutal act, who
1
setts immediately pursued to his father's house. On
the following morning he was committed to Brecon
1 jail. Alier receiving a respite, he was in full expec-
station of a repoeve, until tne moment his death war-
I rant arrived. The young woman is recovering.
RUVTURED PATIO:TS, &C.....1)11.00OPER, MUNROE',
I
and Co. of Charlotte. House, opposite the Rev. Row.
land Hril's Chapel, have established a Medical Board
in Won.istock.street, Oxford-street, adjoining New Bond street. 1
where a Physicals and Surgeon, Members of the Royal College of I
I.coldoo, of -birty years experience, reside, and where all the
Members of the Board alternately attend. That thousands Lave
heat restored to health by them, without confinement, is in.
' &spit-W.le, after hospitals bad failed. Eruptions on the head,
face, and body, ulcerated throat, dtc. &e. are the conseve,nees
of a certain complaint improperly treated.—Messrs. Cooper,
M unroe, and Co. are consulted daily, at both houses' until Nine
. at night liscre are side doors at each house, and private rooms
for fensales.—•. • The Piles and FLtula cored withc.ut cutting.
—,1,-. • Ruptured Patients attend at Charlotte House on Mondays
and Fridays, and at Woodstock House us Wednesdays, who ate
radically cured of reducible Ruptures on scientific and anato-
mical principles, without surgical opts ation or the least excoria-
tion. Patients at a distance describing their case,•may have the
curative process sent to any part of the Kingdom, by which
means they may obtain a radical cure. Letter; containitig at: en-
closure immediately attended tes