New-York daily tribune., 1858-11-17

dence he found Mr. Donnely there claiming posses.
sion, ard demanding Lis removal from the prem
hes Mr.. Donuely Lad gained iDgress TO t5e house
ard was about breaking open ar iasle hall door,
when Mr.. Clarke pushed her s,ide. Mr. C. sto. ped
TO rebo; the door and while in scch position Dounely
csme belrd him ard With club struck him several
times over the head. knocking him serse.ess. Sone
neghbors opposite who saw the transaction raised
a.. IN OF murder. vhereupon DonreLy ran off down
the First avenue. Mr.. Clarke received a severe cut
on the soap. over the frontal bone, together with
other cuts on the back Of tie head. Upon recovering
his Consciousness he Lad h. wound dressed, ami then
obtaining the assistance OF officer hai NJ. Doe
rely who still remained upon his premises taken into
custody. Donnely is still a: large, though attici-
pars 81 arrest, he sent word TO The Jedersou Market
Police Court thst he would appear voluntarily, aud
give bal Yesterday afternoon.
Tie wound. Mr. Clarke received are very severe
but no. dar gerous. and he thinks ha, but :cr the
alarm given by the neghbors Donnely "oull have
beaten h.s brains out. NJ. Clarke was able to x;
about Yesterday, though suffering severely with pain
I in the head.
! MurM.TED B,ss BIIs.-Mr. Samuel Hall Presi-
/ dent of the Maverick Bank, Boston called at the
Office Of the General Superintendent OF Police to obtsn
help in ferreing ont individual engaged 10 putting
worthless bills Of that institution into circulat)n
Officer Tiemann, detective, accordingly detailed
for that service He stated the method by which the
bills were obtained. Some months ago. lie aui several
Of the Directors had taken $50 900 of mutlstei
bills to an iror foundry belonging Of the bank
officers and there consigned them TO the furnace.
/ Nothing further was thought Of the occurrence till
some time since - bill, with buried edges. paid
in at the desk, when investigation it traced 20
workman employed in the foundry who scknow-
edged that q bundle of these charrci bulls had been
obtained few days ago aIother was sent from this
city for redemption with apology for its condition.
which occasoned, the letter stated by accidental
burning with candle 1t quickly seem however,
that the edges coresponded precisely with the bill al
ready in possession Of the bank. leaving doubt that
the two bad been in the package end forge together
1t il apprehended that considerable number of these
bills in circulation, and the officers of the bank
determined to ferret out the mater Some time sirce
it will be remembered, washer-womsn obtained bill
upon one of the banks in Wal street, which had been
placed in CRATE and carried up the hue by the
draught One or two analogous occurrences hsve been
mentioned in exchanges indicating that there is often
carelossness in this matter.
CAPTURE or TWO HorYL THIFyEs.-Between 3
and o'clock yesterday morning, Mr.. John h. Hack
EFT. residing with his family at the Gramercy Park
House, vas awakeled by noise in a room adjacent
to bis bedroom, and Immediately sprang out of bed.
His bedroom door stood aiar, and the gas, which he
had left burning upon retiring, he found partially
turned down. Not discovering anything wrong about
bis room, further than above stated, Mr. Hackett
again retired. Upon rising in the morning, he
discovered that lady's gold ensmeed watch, pair
Of seeve.buons and $50 in money altogether of the
value Of $780, had been taken from his IL the
toe of of his boots which he had left outside the
door, he found his porte-monnsie minus the $50 it
contained
1t subsequently appeared that during Monday even
irg two rather welldressed entered the hotel and
applied to Mr.. Crocker, the proprietor for rooms.
They registered their A. L. Morris aud c. 5.
King, both of Brooklyn. Mr.. Crocker assigned them
rooms on the third floor and then told the night watch
man to look out for them, he did not like their ap
peaIance. About clock, G. +. Ingraham, the night
watchman, saw King leave his room and proceed
to Morriss room and knock the door. Receiv
ing no reply, King went back to his room.
IngrahaIn called in Officer Sprague OF the Eighteenth
Precinct, and informed him of his suspicion About q
o'clock Morris let his room aud came down stairs.
lngraham beard him in the hallway and noticed that
lie tired several doors as he passed along. In
little while thereafter Morris returned to his room
Officers Hutchinson and Arneson were then called in
and with Officer Sprague went up to Morriss room,
but found no one there They then went to the room
that had been assigned to King aud there found both
King and Morris in their night clothes. Upon search
ing them the officers found pair of nippers and come
skeleton KEYS, also the gold watch and money about
their clothing One of the sleeve. buttons WAS found
on the stone window casing outside, aud the other in
the hotel yard The acct sed were conveyed to the
Eighteenth Precinct Station House, and locked up for
the remainder Of the night. Subsequently they were
taken to the Jefferson Market Court. aud upon the
evidence of Mr. Hackett, Mr.. Crocker, Mr.. Ingraham
and the officers committed to prison by Justice Kelly,
in default of A. 600 bail each. The prisoners y
years OF age ard natives of the United States They
,aid they had no occupation at present. and pleaded
not guilty.
CHARGED WITH BLING PIcKPoC KET.-Y yesterday
afternoon, Mrs Mary Childs, residing at tie Ban-
croft House, passing through Union square,
young fellow stopped her at Of the gates aud n-
qured the way TO Fourteenth street. Mr.. Chids was
giving him the necessary directions to that street, when
two other fellows up and osted against her.
The three Il en- passed on, and 10 moment or two
there after she discovered that her port onnae, con-
tanning f., had been abstracted from her pocket.
There being no policemen in the neigbborhood Mrs.
Childs called upon cartan to pursue and arrest the
fellow who had first addressed her. At the time OF his
arrest the fellow talking to the other two who
jostled Mrs. Chld. The prisoner was handed over to
al officer, and taken to the jefferson Market Police
Court and committed to prison for trial. Mrs. ChIds