COACH FRACAS.-The line of...
The Times, 1824-04-19T00:00:00

COACR FRACAS.-The line of the new road from llmin- seer to Eloniton has, for several days past, been the scene of an ex- traardinary fracas. Itseems that All r.Loaring, jun.,the landlord of the Heathfield arms, Yarcombe, was part proprietor of one of the Lon- don and Exeter coaches, but it was stipulated among the proprietors that any one of them was dismissible froti the concern bv receiving a month's notice from the others. Loaring having patronized a re- cently established opposition coach, he received bis notice of exclt,- simn; but not having, as he conceived, forfeited his interest in the partnership, he insisted on continuing to supply the horses as usual. Accordingly, when the coach was passing his inn, he forcibly, with the assistance of a number of persons collected for the purpose, op- posed its further progress until his own horses were attached to the coach. The driver was dismounted, and one of Loaring's servants stationed on the box. These daily altercations having impeded its due course, the passengers-and their luggage have been forwarded from the Heathfield-arms to Exeter in cbaises. The contention be- tween the parties has been so furious, that waggons have been drawn across the road in some parts of, the route, for the purpose of block- ading it up at the time the coach arrived. It was attemuted to go rourid a by-road, so as to accomplish the igurney without molesta- tion, but the activity of the opnonent baffl the design, and inter- cepted the " leathern vehicle." The traces were cut-pugilistic en- counters ensued, in one of which Bond, of Honiton, one of the pro- prietors, lostpnrc of his thumb. and constant benguprows have been the disorderly ` order of the day" for the last fortnight. In the mean tirme the public are scared from the coach, and a valuable pro- perty is thus, for want of harmony and co-operatioa among its owners, in a fair way of utter destruction.Tat rnton Courier. The late William Calderhead, Esq., merchant in Glas- gow, by his latter will left the follnwimg handsome legacies to cha- ritable institutions in this city, viz. :-To the Royal Infirmary, 5001.; North Parish Church Session, 1001.; Lennox's School, North Parish, 1001.; Lunatic Asylum, 1001.; Dcaf and Dumb In sticution, 1001.; and ,Magdalene Asylunt. lOOL-Glasgow Free Press. A report that the infamous Probert.had taken up his residence in Crook's-place, in this dty, under a feigned name, hav- ing excited a considerable sensation in Norwich, the Mlavor thought it a matter of duty to inquire into the fact. He has personally con- ferred with the individual thus scandalously calumniated, and vie have the worthy magistrate's authority to assure the public that there is not the slightest foundation for the suppo3ition.-Norwieh Mercury. The person calling himself Charles Samsuel Cave, of Tborney Abbey, and whose injurious conduct to the daughter of a respectable innkeener at Carlisle we meiitioned last week, we find is well known in the neighbourhood of Stamford, where he married two former wives, one of whom is stillliving. Ii-s first partner was a woman of King's Cliffe, named Nicholls; by her he had two chil- dren; and he was a widower with that family, settled as a cooper at Wisbeadc, when he married, secondly, a preditable voung woman from Thornhaugh, near Stamford, named ChaTlotte linham, whom be basely deserted a fevr days before she was confined in cbildbed, leaving her, and children by his former wife, chargable to the parish of Wisbeach. The children were disposed of among the family of their owv mother, and their mother-in-law returned to her friends at Thomhaugh, where she continueil until she obtained a place of ser- vice in a respectable family in London. There she is at presenL We understand it has been resolved by the family of the innkeeper at Carlisle, whose daughter the profligate fellow has so greatly in- jured, to proseca,e him for bigamy, and the necessary measures for that purpose are how taking. As Cave is as illiterate as he is impu- dent, itis surprising that he should have so successfully carried on his imposture in the north. His detection arose from an aliplication to a professional gentleman at Visbeach, to whom he had the as- surance to refer for the transfer of " 6,0001. funded stock," which lie had engaged to advance on a mortgage near Carlile ! ! The promptness of the application, and of the answer to it, probably pre- vented Cave's flight to some other part of the kingdom, where he might have re-acted his nefarious tricks. He is held fast in the pri. son of Carlisle.-Statnford Mzercuxry. The following mysterious affair came before James B3rier- ley, Esq., at the New Bailey Court-house, Mllanchester, on illonday se'rtnight :-Simon Platt and Ralph Brown, two labouring-looking menm resident in NVesthoaghton, were placed at the bar to answer for the possession of a quantity of stolen title-deeds. It appeared the about 11 years ago the house of a Alr. Bailey, now deceased, a farmer residingnear Altrincham, was broken into in the night-time and a great qutantity of property stolen, includingthe deeds produced ib Court. lr. Bailey, who was an old man, cl-arged two respect- able persons (one of them well known in this town, and lately de- ceased) as parties cnmmittng the robbery; and they were, in cor- sequepce, tried at the Chester Summer Assizes, of 1813, but honour- ablyaacquitted. The parties so indicted.subsequentlv brought an ac- tion against Mlr. Bailey for false imprisonment, or for a malicious prosecuition, in which action they recovered heavy damages. Il r. Bailey died soon afieswards, and nothing more was heard of the property stolen until a shore time since,' when the twvo prisoners called at the house of a gentleman to whom Alr. Bailey had left, by Ml' the estate to which the stolex deeds related. They gave jnt=t they knew where the deeds could be procured to be re- store 'the rightful owner; but modestly demanded as a recoin- Oense aOL for every 1,0001. that the estate was wvorthl. Bv consi- derable ingenuity a scheme was contrived, in consequence of which theprisOonrs brought the deeds to a place at Westhoughton, where they were seized, by virtueOf 5a Magistrate's search-warrant, that had been previously obtained. T'he two prisoners were taken into cu;stdy at the same time. The housekeeper who resided with Ir. ailey when he wzas robbed attended that day at the New Bailey, bat she cou!d not identify the two prisoners as parties in the robbe- ry; . and the sitng Magistrate, conceiving that the bare possession of the deeds stolen so long since would not be sufficient to commit thetwvo prnsosCrs as parties in the robbery, they were discharged. 1he deeds have now been delivered to the rightful owner.Aailnfau- chcster Chronickc. ExzeuTtON or TLtaEE BROT'Ers.-Yesterday (Mon.' day, the 12th instant) the three Cremins, brothers, for the mtirder of theFranks, met their fate at one o'clock, attended by the Rev. 3earr5. O'C;onnor, Scannel, and Henderson. fDltting the short time allowed them for prepsratlon, they were flly alive to their aw- fiji state. Tber distracted fdther, hliving been admitted to see them yesterday morningo implored them to acknowledge to the world their guilt or innocence.. They then, after receiving the last consolations of religion, solelmnly declred, in the preseticeof the Rev. Art. O'connor anti others, that they never even heard oif the murder till the dy afterits occurrence. 1faurice Cremin, the youngest, beiiig ill was aken in a vehicle to the plsce of execution, attended by the e. Mr. Henderson. John and Denis walked, and increased in ;firmiess as they advanced. At the scaffold, or, their knees (the cer- eman having explained to them the consequences of falsehood at fE awful moment), they all three declared that they were well aware oftheirfiate if they spoke f.*Isehood, hetving nothilng now tohope for from man, and less from Ood, if they-spoke not truth Itheycalled feaven to witness in amost solemn manner, th,t they nothing of the murder till next morning; begged the mnercy of O!d'or their prosecutor, and the prayers of thepeop e; diseended the '1g#>61ld .sd:eontThued to repeat the 6ame declhration till tleiritten. tirtnjadirected to a more important concern by the rev. qergymen. biy di. in shout one mninute.-Cork Chornicle.