The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-08-11 00:00:00

POLICE.

snd her abject in calming to town wss to obtain tint
sllnwsnce Item her hesband.

cinettm. OF FORGERY.
Muntow HOUSE.—Peter Forman, a person of
respectable appeafance. who bad been onco im pos.
opoinn of 12001. • year, was charted yesterday silk
having fommittni • forgery, by Thomas Bind, of
No. 37, Crooked-lane, fisLine-teckle.Maker.
The following circemstarices were stated is evi-
dence :
On the morning of Theroday, the sth inst., the
Prisoner went to Mr. Bond's shop, produced some
silk-norm gut, sod 'aid he wanted 10 or 20,000
banks of that article. Mr. Bond sent his shoporion
for th. get, and in that prison's absence the Poisoner
said, " ion tiou'i recollect me. I lived at Peck•
ham." Mr. Bond then rocallectrol his customer, mid
said. " How do you do I" A convotsation •rose
immediately upon this recognition, relative to • Gran
ileman mimed Whitaker, a noighhoor to the pis.
saner at Pockhom, and the Prisoner said, " I shall
pay you, Mr. Bond, for this by a bill I have drawn
on Mr. W sraker." The Paton', plonc?-. the bill.
It is,s ;laird Innel.m. 4,1% of Aeroe.l, 1819, drawn
by Pain! r•orm.in upon John Whit.k.r, and pur-
ported to hr accepted by Mr. Whitaker, to whom it
wig fliirrovil at South-street, Peckham. The hill
was for the payment of 301. in two month,. Mr.
Wool oh it, that h. wouileterl that Mr. Whit-
sing had not mail. it ',orbie at his booker'. ; but
' he added, that it did nut asguify. The Prisoner then
' !nohow' oat g Is in the amount of eleven pounds ten
si.iliingt. and Mr. Bond gate him • draft for the dif.,
' (prance.
' Mr. Whitaker sad the acceptance was a forgo-
' 111. and that he king!, nothing *hangar of tho bill.
' I The Prisoner sae (emended till TharoJe), at bit
licolin rey.losi.
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The weichnven said b. had been to Chopel.hoese.
emir( sod seen her helium!, bet he terrified to hot•

any It in; further In do with h►r.
One of the Mirshalmen said the holiness had been
before the lord Mayor sometime since the husloo d
deeded thrill:ld in h► hi., sad it was said the suppos.
ed father had paid she parish a sum of moue, in loot
of all claim upon him.

Mrs. Mensie said, she knew of nn such pave•et,
and had 'sever received bat two hos of threw shilling

each.

'llse Worthy Alderrna• said, wbatever were Au
circumstances, the woman sed her child mast not be
lost, ner selfererl to wander in the streets as Tan
riranta, and directed a aemmons to to istaed

the Churchwardens to shoo shy they serous t•

telieee her, end in the men tine gee;nrditi that Ibil
shoold be ',ikon core of in the Cominet.

ANOTHER GENI.ItAL POST OFFICE CASK.
BOW•STRIET —Yesterday John (loath, a deck in
the General Post-nth'', Lowsbardestreet, was brought
to the Office' and underwent an 'lamination beford
It. Bum., Esq. charged with secreting a letter in-
treated to hi. we.
Fur same time pest complaints hove bees made of
she gni ggggg ise of letters, particularly these contain.
flank.nntea, Bills of Eschange, even at OS
time the two )(tong meth, clerks in the Post.office.
were ender condemnation, end oho were esecotrd
about sin weeks°, ton months sioce„lettees were sto-
len in the office, but oo trace could tv made there of
the robbers, and the efirors of a ce:taln ignomioiuua
death staring them in the face dad not operate to pre.
vent a contingence of the depredations. The Gentle-
men engaged in the molation and managentent of
the Post.esifice hare been taerling themselves In every
possible nay to discover the offinadera, and at length
they suspected the Prisoner. On Monday evening,
when the clerks and sorters were assembled at lbw
p new to sort the letters togs est by that night's
mail•coaches„ it was previously armies:l for Vickery,
to be in at endance in en anteroom; end wets
the clerks and sorters were assembled, he was Intro•
diced, end desired I. smirch the Prisoner, upon whom
he (nand a great sanely of papers, and in his left
hand breeches pocket be found a letter, sealed with
wan, unopened, directed to Mr. William Knapp,
Wrestlingworth, near Patton, Bedfordshire. On
opening the letter, it was found to contain the halves
of Iwo 101. Bletk•notes. The letter had been pot
Into the General l'ust ltereiving-bonne, in Chancery.
lase, by a Gentleman of the name of It)der, who, it
the sth inst., heel put la another lever, with the Ilw•
I other basses of the same Benkenntrs, directed in the
same cavorter : it did not appear whether they had
, been received as directed or not.
The MAGISTRATE asked the Prisoner whet he had
to say in his defence. but at the same time said, h•
had better remain silent, except he bad any saii.fac.
tory answer to give to the charge preferred against

A 11U-BAND :SEAM Y MURDERED BY 1113
MIFF..
GatLouAt.t. —Yeeteetley Ana reveler, the wife
of • law.st.ti 111 l yr, residing in Chancery-laae, was
hi/night before the timing Magistrate, Alderman
ROTH WELL, by Turner, rate of the constables of it.
Dost.tsret parish, charged with an assault of the
most violent a ol dreadful actors upon her bus-
band.—From the dangerous state in which the
man now ben, it was isnprrsible to take his evi-
dence at potent ; the circamstanres of the as.
sash were therefore narrated by Mrs. Mary Curtis,
who keeps the house, No. P 29, Chancery-lane,
warm the Prisoner and her husband mule. She
*toted, that the parties occupied furnished lodgings in
her house; that she went up to their room about
four o'clock on Monday afternoon to asls for her
rent ,• Mrs. Farmer was not at bonne, Baden looking
round the room she mired the two pillows from the
toed ; she enquired of Mr. Farmer whet had become
of them, who frankly confessed that his wife had
paw ties! them: nothing further occurred at that time,
but as soots as Mrs Farmer came in, she (the witness)
rent up agrio (this was about 10 o'clock), and ask-
ed her ho. Cie came to pawn her pillows. The l'ri-
loner •t first denied it ; but on being told that her
husband had acknowledged it, she look.d at him for
a moment • ith it.. most foam's and malignant aspect,
end immediately, slalom uttering a word, seized
the tve.ketile from the ire-place, and began beating
him in the most 'intent manner over the face end
head. The poor man being unable to defend himself,
or
even to move off his chair in consequence of his
being dreadfully 'glided with the rheumatic gout, the
witiorts became alarmed for his safety, and tan nut
of the room, alarming the whole origlisnorhood
with her cries of murder. &sera' persons imme-
diesel, came to her and-railee, and on entering the
room the hushand was tourist lying on the door,
weltering in his Mond, the Prisoner ito the interim
has ng kiss cher, him off his chair, sod nearly split
his tread open wish • large brown earthen jug which
she held in her hand, the bottom of • hich was CP..
pletely shattered to pieces with the violence of the
Mows. The husband was with greet diffirolly rescued
from her fury. Turner was then sent fur, lib* con-
veyed the Prisoner to the Centiliter.
Mrs. Curtis described the husband as a very in..
&wrings. good sort of man, end although obliged to
be ilflrd in and not of bed, surf unable to move from
his chair when catered in it, worked night and day at
his be-iness as a writer for a stationer. The medical
Gentleman who had been called in, she said, thought
him in veal danger, end es he was a very poor man,
It would be en act of charity to grant him a letter fur
she liospitsl; the necessary directions were accord-
intly given by the Magistrate for his removal to St.
Harthelonte•'s Hospital-
The Prisoner appeared quite stollen, exprevsed no
contrition for her outrageous condole, bet said it was
all in ronoeqeence of his own ill-treatment of her :
he had beat her some time ago with the poker. As
her husband was described to have been in his pre• I
sent decrepit state for many mouths, each ass act mit rit
eg.:inst a strong healthy young womau arra?' to be i
P. dee lotk intl. It hi. hrothor'. twat, Wnaleterino, the 1.141,
Very iriir"111)1 0. 1 *Ori*tnivis 15i11....rt,:s dll'ituocoh:::rtf, seat Dahlia, she Lad) en.
The Prisoner was remanded till lb* situation of Mould. f.4..4 a dariglokr.
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her husband should be correctly ascertained. 'I, 1— MA It Rll-.1)-.-
John Farmer, the husband, was stated to he about , 01 me 7.h in set. at L &Amu. Middletet. Godfrey Fitter.
30 years old : the Pristine?, whose countenance is 1.-‘l. to y, second daughter, of toeurge Dasteell. LK- of
by no means prepossessing, appeers to be between 27 . 114'1'
end 49.
Jam MeN:ie, a female of very respectable apperir-
once, with a lovely infant in her arms, very itr-atly
dressed, was brought up by one of the oarchmen of
Forringdon Ward Within, as a 'grant. lie found
the Prisoner warrileriog shout in ratetnoster.rois, is
COAL-SANK ET. Aersese 9.
near twelve o'clock on Monday pieta ; right learn• : %I.i pp 0 *MM. Ships nsid. Priem
log from herself that she hail no home or Voice -;s rtemeume .A 4
O.
1 114 14 $l.
to go to, he look her to the watch-house for the 1 5 11.1111"11"•. a
night. COMM fir roccuANl:
The Poisoner said, her Mish,ml had separated it:Z."ll:l°e mib"1:11,. V. /
from Mrs, and was now living in Chspel.hoose•cnatt, I amurmgs..
Paternoster-low, with 111.11111Pc woman, who hill rnn• i nittep.ot AO.
siderrble property of hey own ; that since her hes- i :::,,enisakerp. sr II
hand deserted her. she bad been living on slit hoon• I Ileeettreett. 11
ty all friend at Old Beentfnril, who had now pro. I f. 19•04.. MI I. ,_,...
.a,.
cured her a situation, but which she was unable to iy:,.:,7 ga,47"l"''''''
undertake without some position for her ciiild. tierrobsues.l,3 en
Her settlement lilt in the parish of tit. Nichols., L'aat.r. :rills', IN
Cely.obbew ; end her husliai.d had riere.4l with the rea,e. :;,k
churchwarth•ne of that parish t, allow her 34. per Blihnl• 3t;
week for She support of the cl..ild, Unit for the NO n',l,/,T:,:,56.,g
two or three months be had entirely nithl:vlll it. S'At
eneld maintain herself in. her place, bet wet 110 stile '
to r 7 li- 6.1, per oeek for the cite of het Joke ;

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The Prisoner did not utter a word loTtply, bat
trembled extremely.
WANTON OUTRAGE ON A FEMALE.
MAltutoontrair .TWLCT. Yesterday, Gawp
Dodd, a decent looking ,oeng Olin, residing at
No. lA, Clem street, Ratlibrine-place, was brooglit
up from Marrile.bonne wstch.hoose, on a charge,
preferred by a Miss Harmer, of having set In to bet
clothe, and thereby endangering tier life. Mies
Hamer stated, that on Monday night last, at dark,
she was returning home along O►ford•street, when
she was followed by the Prisoner, wha at length laid
hold of her arm, end said, " Where are 'no going?"
She replied, oho was on her way hose. He said to
her, 4 Do you not know that I am your master?'"
She r.id, she did not know that she bad one; when
the Prisoner pot his hnnd to his waistcont pocket,
and pulled net something of a bright uature, and,
laying hold of her arm, commenced robbing her with
• what he pulled from his pocket, ishich harped
the sleeve of her pellisse, went through to her skin,
end scorched her very much. ID ao instant her Lows
and petticoats were in a blaze; she used out;
I the satchmsn, who ran to the spot, succeeded in
I Wive sot the frames, and took the Pri s loto
eas►erly to the watck•boese. Several witnesses cor-
roborated the shove. The Prisoner received a good
character, and said is his. defence, that he purchased
the staff as phosperns, bat did sot know the injury
it w cold ola.
Mr. BALLS, the Magistrate, told the Prisoner,
that the charge was of a sellout nature; there was
en Act of Pediment, which made she burning or
destroying a poison's clothes maliciously sad inten-
tionally, a capital offence, and it lay with the Lady
to lumen,e or out. It was an soravaied offence,
and be 'book' make some amends to hot n Ind good
bail.

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On the Snb ai Ktrkby Law'leie, is
the h;I par nt ..t. ace. Mr. W. /Wotan, rufirwri:t 01 doe
Overbears. in itollnit. rear Laraeter, and tier Kit* Ire-
Me. Sri, rev g h • &alb sag orrosioard h, ibe
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terabit of the Laa.aatts uppniiesa coach Croak heacaAle the
pricrains tiny.

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