Glasgow Courier. — 1857-08-27 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

SURRENDER OP A CONVICT. EXTNAORDINEEY CONFESSION.  On Monday night, between nine and ten o'clock, a man, who gave the name of James Ainsworth, went to the Parliament Street police station, Hull, and martendered himself as an escaped convict from a chain gang In Van Diemen's Land. He stated that he had been transported from Lincoln as long ago as March, 1844, for housebreaking at Great Lumber, and that he escaped In the month of April, 1854. When he went to th• station-house he saw Inspector Cocking, who was on duty at the time, and he asked if the sergeant or inspector was in. Inspector Cocking said he was eimself the inspector, and the man then said be wished to give himself up, as he was an escaped convict, and he made the following extraordinary statement :  My name is James Ainsworth ; I am 29 years of age. I am a native of Leeds, and was born in Grantham Street, near the Selby Railway Bridge. I was transported from Lincoln on the 12th of March, 1844, along with a man named William Johnson, for housebreaking at Great Lumber, in Lincolnshire. We were both sentenced for life. I was removed to the Millbank prison, and was sent out in the ship Hyderabad to Norfolk Island seven months after I was convicted. I landed there in January, 1845. I served there two years and eight months, and was then tried and convicted for attempting to murder my overseer, named Skinner. I was sentenced to two years and nine months' extension on the island for that offence. I was also sentenced to two years' more extension, and was several lime. flogged for other offences. I remained on the island nine years, and was then removed by an order foam government, along with others, to Port Arthur, a penal settlement. I remained there four months, and was then transferred to the barracks at Hobart Town, and was shortly after turned over to a master at Spring Creek. I remained with him about a month, and then 'insulted him, and was tried and sentenced to three months in a chain gang, and was removed to another part of the settlement, but shortly after made my escape and took to the mountains. I afterwards winked for myself in the bush for seven week., splitting timber, and made about £BO. I then got myself disguised and went to Hobart Town and Launceston, to try to get a ship, but could not get one. I then returned to Hobart Town, and engaged for £6O to go to Melbourne, wl thirteen others. I went from there to the diggings, and made a little money there. I returned to Melbourne, and got a ship to go to Calcutta, and wh.n there shipped In the Ocean Eagle for New-York, Captain Somes. I then went from New:Yoik • Boston, and paid my fare to come in the Ni steamer to Liverpool; she put in at Halifax II evening to receive the mail bags; I went on sly fell in with two men, one of whom I had kno‘ convict, and they proposed that we should all  shore  . . Windsor to rob a schooner lying there that had on board. We went, but did not succeed in then. I then got engaged on board of her to as. the river with her, and when at Black Rock I her of £175. I then went to Halifax, and was there and committed for trial at Renville Count, was sentenced for three years to Halifax Penite; I remained there 13 days, and then made my e £lO reward being offered for my apprehension. came to New-York and joined the American 1 'Black Ball' line packet, for Liverpool, an rived there about three months since. I to Hull at seven o'clock on Monday mot, Grintsby.—lnspector Cocking having this s. down in writing, Ainsworth signed It, and WI locked up for the night as a prisoner. He had the 'J. A.' on each arm. On Tuesday morning h taken before Mr Travis, the police magistrate, thi fession was read over, and the man was asked if was anything he wished to add to it, or if there w part of it which was not true, and he replied negative. He was then remanded for eight days, in that inquiries as to the truth of the singular stet may be made, and he was removed to the burgh Bute= Counties Herald.  morning