The Sun. — 1833-06-06 (London, England)

UNION-HALL.  Captain Henry Nicholl, who stands indicted with having committed a disgusting offence, was brought up in custody. The prisoner absconded at the time of the apprehension of Lieutenant Beauclerk, who, it will be recollected, committed suicide during his incarceration in Horsemonger-lane gaol. Captain Nicholl was on very intimate terms with the deceased Beauclerk, and upon the examination of the latter at this office, evidence was adduced of such a nature as to implicate the former on a charge of a similar description, and a true bill was found against him for a capital felony at the following assizes for Surrey. Since that period Captain Nicholl has managed to elude the vigilance of the police, and his apprehension now was chiefly attributable to the circumstance of his having been left a considerable sum of money, which was bequeathed to him by a deceased relative, arid to arrange which his presence was necessary in London. The money, it seems, he was to have received in a few days after his arrival, and it is said, that upon the receipt of it he intended to have emb irked for America. He was ap prehended on the preceding evening by Glennon and Jefferson, two officers of this establishment, while walking along Lincoln's lon-fields. He was shabbily dressed, and on his being placed at the bar seemed to be labouring under no little mental suffering. When first taken into custody he was searched, and only a few shillings, together with some pawnbrokers' tickets, found in his possession, evincing that he must have been reduced to very straitened circumstances since he absconded. There were also two knives found in his pockets, one of which had a blade sharpened off at the point like a lancet, both of which were taken from him, and he was carefully watched so as to prevent any attempt ss a ownid , placedTfaeth, e t officershe b a r , haveM rthat lv hhee nm ti gh heat dmpd rraiesksoestilune gpr upon was CHAMBERS, been looking after you for 4 considerable time; do you admit that your name i 4 Nicholl Prisoner—My name is Henry Nichol], and I am aware that inquiries have 4een made after me. The officers have at length Own me into custed y, and I  am fully evrin,4 of the clisgracefv! charge upon lam placed at bar. I fei.,l it most sensitil  Jefferson, the officer, then placed the'few he had found on the prisoner on the desk, fr Magistrate's inspection, upon which the p said," The production of the pawn-tickets wil the state of distress to which I have been since this dreadful charge was brought againr He added, " I have lost every thing—my nam' been erased from the Army List, and the hr which I earned in the service of my count been stopped, and I have been degraded in way possible." Mr. CHAMBERS having directed that part indictment specifying the nature of the offenc which he was charged to be read, then ask( prisoner if he was desirous of saying any th the subject of it ? Prisoner—l have no at► and, in fact, have not the means of employi] You have the whole treasury of the county disposal to prosecute me, and here I am, w the means of affording to pay the expenses of fence to the accusation made against me. Mr. Warner, who is in the habit of atten this office for parties, undertook to attend behalf on the present occasion, and the prism committed to the county gaol.