Star.
London, England, 1829-01-02 00:00:00

GUILDHALL

Swnsos.nro.—An elderly man, named Charles Was, was re-
examined wt a charge of defrauding a poor widow of several pigs.
or the value of MU. and also with defrauding Mr. Johnson, a farmer,
at Highgate, of three cows.
The widow, Mrs. Cowin, of Salamanca-place, Lambeth, stated,
that she took some of the pigs in a cart to Eyre-street, I.eather..
Idle, where the prisoner resided, on the 4th of October, and left
them in the street in charge of her lad, while she west into the
pismires house tis settle the bargain witb him, intending to take
care she received Ike cash before she parted with her property.--
She was amused, however, by White, while a confederate went
out told the lad the pigs had been settled for, and drove them
away. White had proposed to pay her with a bill, hut she bad
refused it steadily till she beard the pigs were guise, when boding
' she was not likely to get any thing else, she consented to take the
bill, which was for sixteen pounds, payable four days after date.—
This was dishonoured when due, and had never been paid. About
three weeks after, White and a confederate called on bet to buy
thy rest of her pigs, promising to pay her for the best kit as well as
the present. She accompanied them to some house, driving the
pigs before her, and leaving them outside the kitchen window I.
full view (determined not to be tricked again) ; but the parties again
proposing to pay her with a bill, and pressing her a great deal about
Ir, hi r att. ntiois was ..t length distracted from the window, the pigs
were driven out of the street unobserved by her, and she was
reduced to the same strait as htfore—eitber to take a 20/. bill or
nothing. She agreed to take the bill, which, as before, was dis-
honoured. and bad not been paid ; her landlord distrainal her goods,
and she was entirely ruined.
In the other caserthe complainant believing the prisoner's re-
presentation, that be was an extensive cowkeeper in Great Garden-
street, Whitechapel, tank his bill in payment for three cows, value
sixty-eight pounds, without making any previous inquiry into the
prisoner's circumstances. Whets the bill became due he could not
be found.

There were now other compislats of attempting to get fraudu-
lent possession of some sheep; of defrauding a farmer at Sutton of
a horse, value lel. which be had exposed for sale at Croydo• Fair,
and of cheating a gentleman of the Corn Exchange of 304 worth
of grain ; but none of these were formally entered into, having
occurred out of the jurisdiction of the Alderman. The corn dealer
said be had traced the prisoner from one part of the town to atmo•
thee, and had found he had every where obtained the reputation of
being a swindler.
111 r. Alderman VENABLE,' remanded the prisoner, in tbe expecte-
dun that other charges would be preferred against him.
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Yesterday Mr. Gates, the Solicitor to the Society of Bankers,
and Mr.-Cope the City Marshal, appeared at this Office for the
purpose of having a warrant, granted by the Lord Mayor for the
apprehension of Mr. Rowland Stephenson, the banker, who has
absconded, backed by Sir llicomin MIMI&
Mr. Gates then stated that he wished to have the assistance of
some of the principal ufficers.
Sir Ilicelaso—You shall have every assistance which we can
afford you , but have you been unable to discover any clue yet?
Mr. Gates said not, although a reward of 40th. had been offered
in the first instance.

Sit Barna an—The affair is one of immense magnitude, and
01. is a comparatively small sum.
kir. Gates said an addition of 7001. had been made to the reward
only that niorning.
Sir liicitaao thought that more likely to accomplish the desired
object.
Two experienced officers were ordered to lend their services to
Mr. Ga es, who with them sod Mr Copt departed.
h will be recollected that Mrs. Cooke, alias Stamp, aline Saller
den, alias Sutton, the wife of the person who was for years ' on
the town" under the names of the lion. Jas. Stamp Sutton Cooke,
and like her, " lived on hi. wits," or, more correctly speaking, by
duping the cieduluits part of the community, was convicted at the
Old Batley Sew.ions at.uut four months ago, for stealing a piano-
forte, the property of a Mr. Itatlimacher, and that she was sentenced
to transportation for seven years for the offence. Ye►terday a
Gentleman came before Sir Itscwaao Mame, and asked that Ma-
gistrate whether be was aware that in coosequenee of the
'lntioessce of a certain Catholic Nobleman in behalf of Mrs.
Cooke, with Mr. l'eel, her sentence was not to be carried into
effect, but she was to be banished to one of the West India
Islands (her native place), where her father, who was a coffee-
planterolied sonic years ago, and left her considerable property?
Sir It. Boma said, that be knew nothing whatever of the sen-
tence of Mts. (lake having been commuted.
The Gentleman said, that a Mr. Cubit, who had married a sister
of Mrs. Coke's late husband, bad called upon him. and informed
him that Mrs. Cooke was about to go to the West Indies, and was
about to apply to the Chancellor to allow her to take her two
children with her, which site had by the late Stamp Sutton Cooke.
Sir It. Ittaiiis inquired if Stamp Sutton Cooke was dead?
The Gentleman replied, that he died in the early part of the last
week in the Marshalsea Prison, and was buried only two dayssgo.
Sir H. Univac told the Gentleman that he might learn of Mr.
Capper, at the Secretary of State's Office, if there was any truth in
the statement Mr. Cubit had made, and the Gentleman withdrew.