The National Register. — 1814-09-18 (London, England)

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.  Attempted Suicide.—On Surdav evening Maria Barlow, a woman of the town, was taken to Sr. Clites's watch-house, for being drunk and -disorderly in the street, and on her arrival there she was taken seriously but recovered by the aid of those abnut her. Daring the night. yurzman, one of :he parish officers, went into the lock-up place, and fouad the prisoner suspended from the iron hare by a piece of linen. She was cut down in nine sufficient to save her life. the linen by winch she suspended herself not having drawn close enough to effect her intended purpose. Abo it five o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, as Mr. James Howard, painter and glazier, iesiding at Middleton-street, Spa-fields. was gobs!! vsNards Pentouville. he was met close by the dead wall at the reservoir, near the Belvidere Tavern, by three men ; and whilst two of them held his arms, the third rubbed him 01 his Watch, with which  they ran off. Thursday evening, as M. Trasimore, of Limehouse, was cro.ising Stepney-fields, two men with bludgeons demanded his watch and rho. nev. Mr, H resolutely resisting, one of them attempted a blow at his head, which he warded of with Isis cane. wrested the bludgeon from ' the fellow, ably defended himself, and kept them both at boy, until some persons appeared, hen the thieves ran off. Friday morning, a blnek man, a mulls's% fell, or was thrown from the second floor window of a hotiise of ill-fame in Clement's hone, Claremai Let, and received a severe fracture in his loud : he was taken up nearly lifeless, and carried to the watch•house, in order to be ten to the hospital, and a constable was dispatched to sow-street, to inform the police officers. About one o'clock in the mcroing of Tuesday se'isnight. a {tarty of %%let their face!, blacked, broke into the ihouse id' Mr. Fletcher, At Great litiatosa, hear 9l iiii,eton, I.ancashire, pnl!ed Mr. and Mr... F; out of bed, beat them stith the butt end of a guts, until they br..kr it to pieces, and set a roan to watch the sou, whom they thr on a bed, and heaped drawers and boxes upon hi w. Pies then tansacked the house, cutting oven the beds, &c. and made use of the lan.fly writinga to light tliens.elvea about the house, whence they decamped, after remaining there son hour sad an halt, cut all the mimes pl•oe, &c. About nine weeks ago, a finale vamrsist, io the moq disraiied nod avretchA state, was tousid lvits; in the road in the pir:ds ut E tipinoirmo, near Stamford. and was huiti:thely take', care of by the ,)v:n wer of the poor of that place, who ordered her advtee. and pl.seeci iter under the roof of a woittau i•. t; it village hawed P.-tiitor„ Hiving optickly, recovered her health and strem:;,:i, was requested to sweat to her settle's:rot (.111 MilTl•till/ hist. pmepinatory t m her helot passtsA to her ',wish,, lit the nio,niug of that ci,iy 11.1 A ever, by way ofshewiloi rafts:ode for the feiv.nirs At• hid received, sviiikt 134-tifor a:.(1 her family were o,ut at hat vest v.,sok, she broke op-s, a chest in she flotroi, in which were deposited twenty guine .s ated three crown mid ten of the guineas and .sf the c..,,en psecei, der:n.iiped, car • tying with her also a silk some haudkervisi•ifs, and ,s•her article. [he situation of l'etiifor is really n bird Ott, as ohe. has Mar childreii, for whom the lutle pillAlX,' had b•itits s;sv-cl by her and ;ler husls.ond. who is tsipsii.g matt to Mr. I %vtey .of ()Alia wretch who behaved with such gross tittdravity yet e,c sped AVeditesrlay eveuiin, last, a valtiatotae hro•tri anti-..., with a evil by her side, at grass, near !South tooto,sts, was in.dicia.oly stahlted ,titit a yea', hook, which cau,eli her itocuodiute death. 'I He mare was the properts of Mr lioldern-yo, v Por ; mid bad eiahned the Tided of Cite inhuman wretch who.eoraissitted the act, through a ~ap in the fence, ttcuut kYll.lcll he druve Ltat t4lo a hints ad,,j ,twine, ay.d tbore laded hers