THE KIDNAPPED CHILD.-We C...
The Times, 1824-07-26T00:00:00

TPist 1DVNArPED CIItID.-Ve have the satisfaction to state, thtat a clue has been fotnd which will probably lead to the dis. covery of the child stolen from Hunslet onl the 23d of June last, in the fate of which the public have felt so livelr a sympathy. Tihe following narrative and correspondence will explain the history of the little wanderer since it!s abduction, as they would say in Ireland, but we in Engsand have, happilv, no noun substantive to express the odious crime, probably from its rarity. It onpeari that Charlotte Skaw, immediately on leaving LXeeds, repaired to Liverpool, where she took the steam-packet anti saUed fur the Clyde. On her arrival at Iiverary, she vwas apprehendedby the police o-~ that place, from sonne suspicious circumstances in her conduct; and, on beinr in. terrogated as to the child, she sai it beonged to a brother of hers lately returned from America, who was now deceased, and who died at the house of John Smith, gardener to Squire Greig, at Carshal- ton, near Croydon. in Surrey, having confided his child while lie wag upon his death-bed to her, in the presence ofSmith and his wife. On the2d inst. Duncan Paterson, Esq., a Magistrate of Inverary-wrote to Sir Henry Bridges, one of the Surrey Mlagistrates, stating these facts, and requesting that he would, in his magisterial capacity, in. Stitute the proper inqa.ry regarding srhat was said of Smith and his wife being present wlhea thte child was placed in the care of Char- lotte Shaw by its father. Wre are not informed what answer was re- turned by Sir Henry Bridges to Alr. Paterson, but the Baronet having read in the London newspapers of the 12L1 instant, the piragraph copied frogst the Leeds iMfercus-g of the 10th, wrote a letter to iIMr. Pihr Nevins, of this place, the mnaster and the benefacter of William Rogers, the child's father, dated the 13th inst., in which he said tisat the womnan and child appeared to corre- spond with the description given in the paragraph in the newspapers, and he at the same time enclosed to Mr. Ncvins Air. Patersoni's let- ter. On the receipt of this letter, Dfr. Nlevins wrote without delay to llr. Paterson, describing the woman and child, and requesting that he would inform him whether they were still in custody5, as WiUiam Rogers would, if that was the case, proceed forthwith into Scotland to take the necessary steps to identify and recover his child. On Thursday last, the 22d instant, Alr. Nevins received an answer to his letter, dated the 19th instant, from Inverary, in which M1r. Paterson says-" I cannot have a shadow of a doubt that the child inr, pssession of the woman who has been detained here belongs to Williarn Rogers. It is a mrale child; h;as a omole on one of its shoulders, as you descibe, and has been heardI to lisp its surname to be Rogers, for which Charlotte-Shawacconated by saying that its rmiotber's maiden name was Rogers, and it took her name. After detaining the woman and the child here eight days, they were set at libe2ty ; and on Friday, the 9th inst, they went in a steam.vessel to Glasgow, where diligent Search has been made for them but hitherto wvithout success. I have, however, a letter from lUr. Neorge Salmond, Procurator-fiscal at Glasgow, in which he says, that ic has every reason to believe that the woman and child are yet in G1lasgow, itd that he has people upon the alert searching lbr them." 1llr. Paterson adds, that he has sent a warrant to laes. gow, to seize the woman wherever sshe may lie fbund, end that he shall be happy if he can be made instruasental in removing the af. fliction of the distressed parents. In this state the matter stands at present; and last night Villfanx Rogers, assi8ted by the liberality of the public, left Hunslet for Mlasgow. whence, ive trust mostfer- vently, he will bring back with him his child, and the wretch who has occasioned all this distress-the former to be restored to the embraces of its almost distracted motler, and the latter to receive at the hands of pithlic justice that punishment td which she is so well entitled. Theecause of this wretched woman's unnatural offence is yet unexplained.-Leed Merrc-try. On Wednesday last, as the Hon. Lieut.-Colonel Fiueb was returning to town from Lucan, and driving a cabriolet with four horses, he and three^ladles who sat in the vehicle, werc overturred, and, we regret to state, the Colonel's leg was fractured in two places - oae of the ladics itas hurt in the arm, the other tntch bruised in the face, One lady escaped totally uninjured. The Co-. lonel-v%as removed. to the Spa-house, Lucan. 'e are hlappy to find that-heis in} a fas* way ,of recovery.~-Dtblnpaper. On M0nday se uight, ai horse, the property of Mr. Andre*rs, of the Britantifa Imr, Castle Cary, whslst grafing in a field Daost a mile from the town, was stung by an adder; and sO vit:tleut ws the poison, that the animal died in tbse course of an hour, in t.ht most dxoodfal agony. Dor:et Chsr'cke,