The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-04-05 00:00:00

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-asked-permission to view the vacant apartments India hotel,
IN Rd eirserit'byhis twayiloyeritti seekluteetdonodellotithere
fora family of wealth'. and rank, who *me hourly etpdenkd
ia town from the country ;. his request was sec./stied to; and
he was conducted over the suits of rooms, where he express-
ed.httnself highly settsfieli; and begged to be allowed time to
alone the bargains Hitchcock carelessly said he ihmeld
have time, and on the following day the young man again,
made his appearance, saying that a young gentleman of the!,
wealthy family was in town, end would take paskession of
the rooms that evening. Accordingly, they were prepared!!
fee his reception, and about 9 o'clock on Wednesday eves-'
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in a hackney-coach drove up and the prisolter &lighted;
4 very heavy trunk and portmanteau were carried td'hia
rooms ; a dispute arose about the coach-fare, end the driver;
'departed without being paid, The prisoner gave orders to
ageontmodated with every thing in the most splendid
style. and bin food, die., was served'idaz Ina, molt saftrfitii-,
sus manner. Something occurred which induced Mr. Hitch-
cock to inquire at Mr. Bower's, in Clifford's-inu,.and that:
gentlemaro, with great surprise; deelbred that none of himd
clerks were ever ordered by him to seek apartments for
person. On Mr. Hitchcock's return home, the young man s
bill *as sent with a peremptory demand' for instant payment ;
bid he declined being arprompt in'performitig the order, and
finally refused to remove himself or trunks, and was, after a
long altercation, consigned to St. George's wetchhouse,
'where the-night constable took the liberty of opening Vie
trunks, and found thetn fail of bricks. •The prisoner very
composedly threatened Mr. Hitchcock and the constable
with an action. The Magistrate asked the young tutu his
. hems 7—lie a: plied Frederick Tboruiey.
' Mr. CoastaT was proceeding to interrogate him as to
the natnre of his employ, resource*, and motives of con-
duct, when Mr. Sass, a portrait and historical painter,
steprd forward and said, that altlioneli unwilling to
identify himself in any way with the young man's present
situation, We thought it necessary to say something rela-
tive to him. His father was a gentleman of property,'
and had sent the young man to him to receive instruc-
tions in the art of painting., and lie very regularly attend-
ed. his lectures and lessons. His conduct appeared irre-
proachable until the publication and subsequent perform-
ante of "Tom and Jerry," entirely disarranged his mind
and all the pursuits of study 'rider awhile neglected; the
young man's whole amo4etnetit bsib comeentrated
night bran Is and other pieces of folly and inconsistency.
In this, the gentleman did not think him singular, as
hid' the 'rang Men of' the metropolis were seized with
the sanie mania, and were.proCii-ding in a course which
they never would heels troneliad &Caro* nevir ippeared.
The present act of the young Man be believed 'was *Wire
a foolish frolic than any intention of fraud ; in fact, it
mild not have proceeded from any other motive, in his
opinion. He bad kent for lois father, and hoped the Ma-
filtrate would consider the .pdionir as a youth led by
foolish companions to the commission of such fully. -
Mr. CONANT certainly concurred with the gentleman
•in believing that the publication to whice he alluded bad
done a great deal towards the injury of youth; blithe
never 'odd suppose the prisoner had any innocent ia-
'tendon of taking splendid apartments; and conveying
trunks loaded with bricks to 'theta ; on the conteary, he
was of opinion, his intention was more that of fraud than
anythi g, else. • •
Mr. 'Hitchcock said the young man had lodged in Hu-
rrstreeti.Bloomsbury, where his character v,.as not con-
sidered of the
-best hind.
Mr. Sass hoped, at all events, the best interpretations
wottlel be put upon circumstances nut proved.
Mr. CONANT said be Wei 'afraid the voting man had
leagued himself' with a gang 6f swindlers. He then
asked An young men several' questions, to which be re-
plied, limvers,ayoung wan, who lived in the Surrey-read,
bad taken the apartinente fur lam, but for what purpose
he either cttdld hot or to explain. It was
Isere intimated that Mr. HitcheoCk would hot proceed
against the prisom-r criminally. The hackney-et:mb-
man mane forward, but the priennerpeid hint his (till*de-
mend, and 'he was satisfied. . .
'Mr. CONANT told the young moan that he might con-
sider himself very fortunate if 'he eirsplif ; 'bdt out of Vim
office be, should not go, until he gave an accrinnt•of him-
self sod his companions. The prisoner said he bad no-
thing to tell bete.
Mr. Scott, of Holborn, stepped forward, and stated
that a few days since the prisoner ordered homer° Bory-
street two paint boxes, with colours, a portfolio, and a'
bracket; and on their being delivered, he sent the boy
back for a case of instruments, and on his return lie was
gone out. One of the boxes was found with him ; it
was prodneed.
Mr. CONAN r.—Well, Sir, what have you done with the
other articles.
Prisoner.---I have sent one box to a gentleman named
Phillips; the other things are in Bury-street.
Mr. CONANT pressed him for a clearer statement, and
at length he confessed he had pawned the box, and he
gave up the duplicate; he also confessed that his name
was Thornley Abrahanis.
Mr: CONANT animadverted on the foolish conduct of
tradesmen in sending goods to mere strangers; he even
thought a case would not stand under such circumstances.
The worthy Magistrate asked the prisoner if he would
make a return of all the property? He replied certainly,
and the pawnbroker being sent fur, an arrangement with
all parties was accomplished. The Magistrate gave him
a very serious admonition on discharging him. The
until:s were cleared of their rubbish in the street.

Errenstva CIttIICIIYARD Roanaatas.—Six or seven of
the most desperate resurrection-men in the metropolis lave
been for a conaiderabltitime employed in stealing dead bo-
dies in the burial-ground of Ildllywell-chapel, in the Mir-
tain-road ; but it has been ascertained that since the hue
and cry was raised through the whole country, the depreda•
Lions In the abote-nientiohed burial-ground have greatly In-
creased. No Suspicion had ever been entertained that the
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Curtain-road graves were subject to the visits of the obnoxf-
bus trade ; but a quarrel which took place on Wednesday
night about the division of the amount of a corpse, blew up
the whole of the plots which had been laid against the dead
and the dying. One of the snatchers, who laid claim to a
quid (205.) more than his confederates consideted him enti-
tled to receive, vowed that if the ghost did not apper—that
is, if they did not glee him his detuand—he would go and
split to the parish. His companions defied him, and he was
as good as his word. Word was left at Several houses of
mourning that those who were lamented no longer lay in the
earth, but had risen, with the assistance of " the shovel end
the hook," and never would return. The consternation
caused by this dreadful intelligence cannot be described.—
On the following morning, hundreds of persons, most of
whom were respectable, ran to the burial-ground, and caus-
ed the earth to be removed to a considerable depth. The
distress of fathers and mothers, and other relations to those
who had lately died, was then apparent indeed. The burial
ground, in a few hours, contained no less than between two
and three thousand of the neighbours. No less than 19 cof-
tins, without corpses, were dug up. They were most of
them open at the head, and the death clothes remained in
them. The plates were, for the greater part, removed from
the respective coffins, and thrown together in a heap, and if
was calculated thatthe depredators raised the bodies through
holes dub a few folit.froca the mould over the graves, in a
sloping direction. Those Unhappy persons who missed
relatives or friends became, after the first ebullition
grief, completely unmanageable. As the burial groan,
appears to he inaccessible to thieves, however ingeoiom
without the assistance Of the person in charge of it, a f
rious attack was made upon the house of the grave di
ger, which is close to the ground, and all the windo%
were speedily demolished. The grave digger hinisel
WAS seized, and thrown into a grave, and would has
been actually buried alive, had nor the police arrived at
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protected him. Many of the parishioners once moi
4aw the pale and now mortified faces of those they ha
fulltieed to the grave, and went away contented. T'
police found great dithe.ulty in .preventing a serious ri
put fortavately no serious consequences followed daisy,
distressing ezposate of'sitch o'dioui robberies.'
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