Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1831-03-24
No. 41.-WHoLE No. 249.


ter-there were, twelve recommends, and
they all run out the very day lost my
pocket-book.
Nag. How did they run out?
Comp. Why, because that dayI got a
little whisley. was as regular as clock-
work in Newburg but since came down
here, I've been pretty bad, tell you.
Nag. What makes you drink SO
Comp. Why. just to stop my bad feel-
ings, that's all but don't drink any thing
in particular, only just as it happens
sometimes one thing and sometimes anoth-
err. Now l don't call that drinking.
Nag. advise you to leave off drinking
you see what you have lost by it.
Comp. Why yes, that's true, and may
be | will, when go home to fathers.
Nag. There is Hays sitting within the
railing-you had better talk to him.
The complainant turned round and ac-
costed Mr.. Hays with an apparent feeling
Of commingled admiration and ave.
Lowering the tone of his voice, which had
previously been pitched upon high key,
and with it his hat, he inquired if the per-
son he was addressing was Hays.
Hays. Yes sir, what do you want ?
Comp. Why ! lost my pocket-book.
Hays. have heard that, what else do
you want?
Comp. Why, how did you know that,
never told you afore!
Hays. / heard you tell the Justice this
minute. What kind of bills had you, fives
OIL the U. S. Bauk, were they not2
Comp. Why yes, to be sure; how the
mischief did you know that? Now that's
what call astonishing. You must know
something about it.
Hays. To be sure do, have heard
your story, and that's all know about it.
You had better be going home before dark,
| if you are going to Newtown to night.
Comp. Well will, but if you should
happen to hear any thing about my recon-
mend, do for gracious sake try and get it
for me, because between ourselves, may
have good deal Of trouble to get another.
The complainant here took his depar-
ture, with a promise to call again and in
| quire about the fate ofhs lost pocket-book.
A few days afterwards the pocket-booA was lodged
at the Police Office, with the note, "recommends aud
money-havng been picked up by honest as
| he crossing Franklin Square.
An ingenious Thief-A complaint was
made yesterday in the Police Office by a
Charcoal vender, under the following cir
cumstances: the complainant was passing
through Broadway with his Wagon loaded
with charcoal, when middle aged man
whom he describes to be of fashionable APP
pearance, asked him the price Of charcoal
the vender replied it was six shillngs bar
rel, and the other Immediately requested
him to leave barrel Of it in the house be-
fore which he was standing, and which hap
pened to be one of the most respectable in
Broadway the purchaser at the same time
handed the charcoal man bill for three
dollars, and requested the change, as he
was in a great hurry. The unsuspecting
vendcr gave eighteen shillings change, and
proceeded to deliver the charcoal as direc-
! ted, but at the house nothing of the order
for the charcoal was known; the proprie-
! tor was within and he had not directed any
person to make such purchase-and OH
examination it was discovered that the bill
for three dollars was d counterfeit. The
ingenious swindler had of course taken hin-
self away. The police could afford no
remedy except to direct the charcoal man
to keep look out for the purchaser.-Ib.
W. tiC <AONCIttSGts
that on the 10Th ult. came on the trial of the
Spaniard who killed another Spanard in a
fight with knives, on the evening of the 9ti,
January last. 1t appeared in evidence, that
the accused and the deceased had been
drinking together during the day, and quar-
relied: that the deceased challenged the
prisoner to mortal combat with knives,
| Ohe instruments used by the lower order of
Spaniards to decide private disputes,) when
the prisoner wounded the deceased, and
expressed desire to arrange matters for an
amicable adjustment of the quarrel, but the
unfortunate deceased insisted on the death
of one or the other of the parties. The fa-
tai Tencontre was again resorted to as the
only means of settling the dispute, when
the prisoner gave his antagonist a wound
| in the jugular, which caused his immediate
death. He was ably and zealously defen-
ded, (says the Advertiaer,) by Messrs. Ros-
elus, Worthington and Wharon, who en-
deavored TO find Justification for accused
in the rash conduct of the deceased. The
jury retired at six o'clock and after few
hours elaboration, returned with a verdict
Of manslaughter.
John Brown nicknamed the lack of