Star. — 1829-08-29 (London, England)

MET.  A fellow named Thaws Tuft, who is an itinerant vender of pamphlets in the employment of a London bookseller, who goes about the villages in the vicinity of the metropolis to vend his works, was brought before Sir RICKARD Mons last night, charged with committing the following atrocious outrage Mrs. Sophia Coleman said, that she and her husband resided at Turnbam Green in a cottage of their own, which was isolated from other buildings. On Monday last the prisoner came to the front of the house with a parcel of books and pamphlets, which he offered for sale. She told him that she wanted none of his books. He offered to leave various numbers of works for her inspection and approval, but she peremptorily refused. He left the door, and went round to the back of the house where a watch-dog was kept ; the dog barked at him, and he struck the dog with a stick; the animal bit him, and he ran away. On Wednesday morning, be. tween eleven and twelve o'clock, the prisoner came to the house again armed with a two-prong pitch-fork, and went deliberately to the dog's kennel, and stabbed the faithful animal repeatedly.— She (witness) cried out " Murder! " and entreated the prisoner to spare the poor dog's life ; but be continued to thrust the weapon into the dog till he fell dead. When she attempted to interfere to save the dug, the prisoner lifted up the fork, and struck it forcibly at her person, and if the prbngs had not caught some articles of wearing apparel which were hanging on the line, she would have sustained considerable injury. The prisoner bad got the fork sharpened at a smith's shop in the neighbourhood a few minutes before.  Sir R. Bianca—lt appears that the fellow came with the most cool deliberation to kill the dog, and it is lucky for him he did not wound Mrs. Coleman with the fork, or he would have been committed on a capital charge. The prisoner attempted to justify his conduct, but Sir R. BIRNIII told him that he deserved the severest punishment, and committed him for the assault on Mrs. Coleman, in default of bail.  A young man came to this Office yesterday, and stated that he had been robbed on the preceding evening of St. all the money he possessed in the world. By his account he had been a clerk to an attorney at Lincoln, and he came from Lincoln to London, on Thursday night, for the purpose of engaging as clerk to a solicitor, who bad been the agent of his former employer. When he got off the coach, he was spoken to by a young woman, who asked him if he did not come from Lincoln ? He replied that he had just come from that place by the coach; she made inquiries about different persons and streets well known in that city, and expressed bench very much delighted at meeting a countryman. She led him up a passage; and while she was conversing with him, she contrived to extract his money from his pocket. He did not discover his loss till some time after he had parted with her ; and, to add to his distress, he found on inquiring at the office where he had expected employment, that the gentleman had suddenly died, and his establishment was broken up. The young man was asked what he applied for ? He replied, that as he had not a penny in the world, he only required a pass to carry him ba.k to Lincoln, which be obtained, and kit the Office.