The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-10-21 00:00:00

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II trrrr-r: moot. —Tuesday two llevarrection men, =mad
n; id were caarged liv the Sol: rime ai:d
(),:ieis; of St. Gild, with having stolen tiaree dead badles unt
of three cultinv, placed over ecru other to one grave, at .t.tt'lr
btirying-ground, with only half a fait or earth ov•-r
the al/pc...nest eudin: Ligid was lately iadicted the a similar
oil ere, and Hartnett wai Ais bail ; bat he absconded frcint:i4
l le was ordered to tiad double bail, and Hartnett tit find Stil:te
6311, 111:.. former !wing taken op, router a Bench %Varraot, far
eluding trial. Beth were co.onlittet 'for want of bait.
fbree well-dressed young men were appreheaded on Fiiday
et-eating last, by the l'irii,t•ihir.A of St. Iti:tri.-le-linne itatist,
aidet by Wood, the Olicer, und-r ictLsr;,;eof iadug rm,rl to
the act of roat eying a saint: tmale, col:mining a varie-y 4
gold seals. a gold (halo, and a wateb, whit set erilsit.
ver spuoiv, the property of Mr. Nor ,b, of th-slate Sirret, .4°o.
keeper, with bib rtane and whirrs.. taertsin ea:tra ed, wrirat.
aon,led this day far the firs, tine. foe spotoil were besot duatde,
and twisted in a suite tit for reshot.

The ,ervAnt nia:d Al :hat Ltc span; were stules wi!it's
the la,: thn e weeks. C.trittg tier C,,w-hr,hritt. Oa*
of the Prtioners sated, tau be lionvit the ,poons in the dine at
lii trade, as it n ork jog jeweller or . (void 6.al nip
person he bUltgill theta from. There were any it.ink.nateiatnr
found opal' Incas. nit eh they now claimed as their ov.o pro•
perry, lint Ihey were del:Ailed for itirpeetion at the hark.
Hancock, In, °Neer, now preferred ;lowlier cliarge ur a es.
pital imbue against the P. iminer4, having ,eized a t.oa d a
person earl.) ing it into the of one n. the Pri,unets which
ho coot:tined four or live ho wit ell pound- noun of uu btu-
len froin !lit raiughatii. 'lle Prisoners %vete retnanied.

UNP)N-RA —.hit.s l.rg,n(o: and 1y,..-,:•1 tiorwts Were
brought before the Sitting Magistrate. cleaged hy klr. 4. (Lb.
boo:. of the Surrey Ttteatre, with fraud and Awr,fry. It :40
pealed that on Mmiday evening !ma, it being Mr. t,ebbomi. to.
nett, two ;memos were stopped ti the tale entrance. otrerilig
forged ticket:, to the door-keeper; 0:1 caquiring how they ot.,
gained tacos, they stated that they boor them of WalIC4l3 yt
the door, •w e. persmi they desert:set . They then neat BE,
aai puiat:d mit a woman nattiest !( irby, who was immediately
taken unto cus ody ; wilco el.* stated that a man mimed Low:sta.,
who tesire pointed ant not far of, cone to her, and ',erred her silt
box tickets for twelve ; sue hougia theta of him, Mid
had sold two of them. I.egAmte was iminedi,,tely taken imo
custody, and on the tickets tieing stsev.l: to him he aekcoss le.lged
having forged them. It was:waled that IS it by.should keep her
station, to see if ;ill V more dealer s would preteit hessitelve-; ad
soon afterwards thi to her l'rivonci liarues cause up, and tarred
her pie pit ticke s at half price.
Mr Gibbons attended, and pr•ved that both the 1 it as box-
tickets were Cowries. The i'rimiters were both telly commit,*
led for the fraud.

FATAL ACCIVVIIT.—M Sunday last, between ten and clever
o'clock, Robert Armstrong, aMiner, residing at a public-bitose,
at ..lactic in t:levelaial, kept by Win. Waster, bitoight proper,
unsolicited, to ask a companion of Ms to let bhu door a by the
hncket into Win. Webster s well, which is aboat GU fret hel ow
the virllice, bilkeourrias only about two feet of water. to two
up two small a oodeu dishes, a Inch had been in the a ell fur
live months; he WAS accurilingly let down, and had not been
lowered more than 33 feet, before be fell out of the bucket hi:*
the well ; his companion who lowered bins down, eotititiu.ll ee
lower the bucket to the water, and called to It. Armstrong, bat
obtain •st no answer Au alarm was given, when .1. Ingledow, a
blaCkililith, was lowered dots nits a bucket, w ithout Heine tied. •
vrbiels he refused to have done, in order to save, it' possi.deeit•
Armstrong. :le was scarcely lowered "!U feet before he fell ;a
like manner ; a ladder was then procured, and .luseph Feitison,
of Martin, a labourer, was immediately, at his tam request,
lowered by the ladder into ilie well to endeavour to sta.r t,e
other two; when he h been lowered a few yards, he a tot no-
served to fall on the side of the ladder senseless. It now oc-
curred to the h,ystatiLlers, and not before, thut the mote of th
disasters arose from foul air in the well; when a fourth 111
William llardwicke, of Martin, latiourer. went down' on Me
ladder from which Joseph Fenison had f.dleis senseless in,o the
well, with a rope tied round him ' • Wiliam Ilardn lcke had not
gone &sou more than twelve feet before he became sell. eless
fell, when be %%24 immediately hauled up, and on bis arrival at tae
top of the well was black in the face and apparently dead, bat
soon after recovered. Every effhrt wa' now used by a iatmlwr
of men with grapple-irons, to bring op the three hurtles. but
without effect. A well-sinker was then sent for, who elides,
calmed to take out the fouPair a Ith which the well aas till, .1,
hut in vain. An improvement was the', suggested. and ncea.
in
the grapple-irons, when, after much difficulty, the three but; jet
ere brought tip to the by ; a surgeon examined theta. ;out, '
found them to have been dead for some hours. A Coroner's Is.--
quest bag sat on the bodies, and tileir verdict was-3,-etrariat
de..:th by snafocalion in the well jinni foul air. 'l' his air is called
by chemists, carbonic arid gas.
No per Sion should venture down e draw well of any (!epth. lug
fore Ile tries whether a caudlr ar ill burn down to the eater ur
not ; if a candle will burn, a asan may go down with safety,—if
not, it is certain death. ,

• - DILI/ •
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At alrietStans, near nn Wednesday the 7th Wt.
aged 74 )ears,, the Rev. James Robinson klaynard, A.
tunny year► Rector nfahat parish and St. Mar) -le-Strand, XI id-
dlesex. • . '
Yesterday morning, at Islington, after a lingering and paisfd
illness, in the filth year of her axe, Nlary, the amiable and h.-
estiinahle wife of Jourph Brow M. l).
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LONPON t P►inted and Published by I). 1 aevt.t, at h.'
• SISTIIIMAII ONSICII. 67. Fleet-scut.