The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-06-16 00:00:00

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larrottiterty 100 et Woo s serious
adansoitiod to bonnie of the repetition of the effeace. A
wassrgste4_to appewhead the other individual
Owe Mr. Maras had preferred a similar sew
had am atteaded agreeably to the saw
, Mee.
Timm Wood was charged with
4 glass decanters, of the valee of three
property of lionsoei Mena, of Megrims
ilovesitionles, where be weal on the lstb of
cad ordered the demisters for Mrs. Lee, the
.1 the Staatrollee, to wham the/ were to
ito look at. The shopwoman took them I
to prisoner coadaeted her down the area of the Stamp-,
sad said be midi take them up to Mrs. Lee; bat,
indeed of that, thine N a• doubt but that he merely
walked up seam aid weal mit of the principal es.
cranes to the Stamp-Glace. Yesterday morning, as
the sloops/man was passing thre4i Notahumberldmd-
street, is the Stroud. she •kery the prisoner, when
she in the most spirited and Arm moaner seised him,
called for -assistasee, sad he was Neared and brought
to the Ake.

Atwitter charge of a similar aatare was ezhiltimod
against him, sad it is supposed he has bees carrying
tra depredations foe some time, by similar sans,
the Stampollice being admirably adapted for such de.
• I he preteaded that he was a

1161.4,
the evideuce
About a fortnight since, the children of Messrs.
Evans. Manning, and Nicoll', (all under five years of
age) obtained leave of their respective paresis to play,
near their own dwelling-houses, on Paddington-green:
while they were amusing themselves, a woman came up
to them, and ;rave them some cakes and playthings, and
by appearing tio partake of their little sports, enticed
them, insensibly, a considerable distance from the spot
where she first met them. Then, under pretence of
taking them back to their homes, she led them across
,the fields to St. John's Wood, and when they arrived in
a field war Primrose-bill, she stripped two of the chil-
dren nearly naked, bet was prevented stripping the
Skied by the appearance of a gentleman sear the spot,
which caused her to decamp. In this condition the
children were left to wander about the field, where they
remained crying till • late hoar of the night, when.
Stickily their moaning. attracted to the spot a woman.
All attempts to trace the thief were ineffectual, till, a
sheet doe after the above affair, the prisoner had the
tillbeglary to mid= her appearance aver the *ph is
ny with an elderly woman. The moment Mr.
= child saw her, it cried and ran away, screaming
out, " Here is the woman that tool' as away." Hum-
phries was, fortanatel, passing at the time; and,
knowing that some children had been stolen, he asked
the child which woman, and it pointed to the prisoner.
whom be immediately took into custody. The old
woman, her companion, was lost sight of in a moment.
The prisoner was remanded till Friday next.
MILLIViRT ASVIA'AI, CHELSEA.
QURRN SQUARR.—This was an information under the
58th (leo. 111. against a Contractor to the Military
Asylum Chelsea, for furnishing bread to that establish•
meet deficient in weight. He was convicted in the full
penalty of 10.. per ounce, in MO ounces, which amounted
to IMM.
The Defendant prayed for time to pay the penalty;
bet the Magistrates told him the Act of Parliament re-
quired it to be paid within twenty-four hours, unless he
appealed, or cave security for the payment.
Colonel Williamson said he was paid 20001. a year for
bread by the Commissioners, and if he chose, he had the
power to allow the penalty to be deducted from the
bill, and it might afterwards be disposed of u the act
directs.

,etpdoss. In more rapes he pretended that be was a
clerk la the Stant . He was remanded.
MA1111.1011101:011117T.—INIPAIIIOUS Casa OW COILS
STOOLll4o.—YoltOrtilly Elisabetk Mar a yoaag wo-
man *boot twenty-two , ~., asd . 4,4 respect'
able appearance, was
..•., ~.- - sastody
of Humphries, a coast - gad, by
several respectable i • bourbood
in suspicion of at - Swbbiarthele:
of them wearier woro--Hr.
Evans, of thealfarr '
road ; Mr. Nichullk, • Mr. Smith,
farrier, of Stifle- tethers. Some
of the complainants a With them
to give evidence agal . • . „ he crime was
"
attended by cirramsta . . oltleg and atro-,
eious ; the peer childrewhavi • kept away from'
c
their afflicted . fee weeks her, and tamed et
by the brutal e rain a state of perfect gadfly aid
yearly starved. T e following to date adbatases of