The Sun. — 1802-07-10 (London, England)

SWINDLING.--A chargler, who has. acquirid some notoriety in the Swindling World, was on Thursday committed from the Mansion-house by the LORD MAYOR, ti take his trial on no less than seven .separate charges, for defrauding different tradesmen. This adVencurer—, whose name is John Hawkins, appears to have reigned on the town forthe last twelve months, and to have been very successful, as well as very adroit in the execution of his plans. The names which he has most frequently assumed, are Wells, Gilchrist and Co. Fisher, Cary, and Magrath. - The principal charges against him are by Mr. John. Haydon, Cheapside, from whom he obtained 3o ells of silk2mode,'worth ss. 6d. per ell, pretending to come frOm his neighbour, Mrs. Magrath, in whose shop he said a lady was waiting for it; by Mr. Baker, of St. Paul's Church. yard, for procuring in'the same way, lace to the value of sol. ; and by Mr. 'Wilson, 'silk-merchant, for having, in a similar manner, Obtained silk to the amount of 271. He was apprehended in consequence of a circular letter published by Mr. Gilchrist, ofFleet-street, in whose name he procured different articles .in .November last • and upon his apartments being searched by Mr. HOLDSWORTH, the City Marshal, eighty pawnbrokers' duplicates, Were found, including the befOre-mentioned goods, and others equally valuable, which are supposed to have been procured by the same means. The different pawnbroker's, attended with the utmost readiness, and were, with their cl6rks, bound-over to give evidence at the next session, which commences on Wednesday.  A most shocking, and almosfunprecedented, aa of murder and suicide, was committed on Monday night last, about eight o'clock, in a yard near the bottom of Cecil's Gullet, between Lichfield-street and Stafford-street, Birmingham. During the service of her husband in the army, a woman of the name of Yeomans had cohabited with John Jee, a steel-grinder, who resided in the place above-mentioned ; and her husband having returned home about a month since, she left Jee, and went to live with him again., On Monday night the woman went to fee's house to settle, or justify herself from a small debt, which he reported she had left unpaid ; but as soon as she entered his door, the monster, in a paroxysm of jealousy and resentment, seized her, and cut her throat. in two places in a most dreadful manner, with a razor. The unfortunate creature gave a lound shriek, and ran into the yard, endeavouring to close the mortal wound with her hands ; she fell almost direlly. Jee followed her to the door, and seeing her fall, immediately, with the same instrument, cut his own throat so terribly, that he instantly dropped down near her, and they both died in a few minutes, with very little struggling or convulsion. The alarm the woman first gave brought several persons to the spot, but the business was so terrifying and instantaneous, that there was no time for any one to prevent the man from murdering himself. Several medical gentlemen attended, but of 'no use, for the sufferers, though warm, had then ceased to breathe. They both bled very much. After lying in the yard till a recognition of the aa had been taken by proper persons, they were both removed into JEE's house, where the affair now waits the legal decision of a Coroner's Inquest.—The- woman appears to be about 40 years of age.—To avoid that confusion which must have ensued had the precaution not been taken, parties of the King's Dragoon Guards were stationed in the avenues leading to the house, to prevent the great number of people that assembled in the street, from reaching the spot where this extraordinary crime was committed.