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asked them if any person was suspected ; and added that he wished some heavy misfortune would fall on him , if he had been guilty of the deed . Some other conversation passed between them , all of which tended greatly to confirm their suspicions . A piece of rope was then produced , found in the tool-house of the prisoner , which was proved to be of the very same manufacture , texture , and size , as that found about the neck of the deceased . The Jury , after a short deliberation , found him Guilty . He was ordered for execution
, and his body afterwards to be dissected . PUSLIC-OFFVCE , BOW-STREET . A few days ago were brought before the sitting Magistrates here , charged on the oath of a Mr . W . Headly , with having defrauded him of Bank Bills to the amount of iool . Richard Probin and William Hodges . —The Prosecutor stated , that on Thursday , as he was walking along the Strand , he was accosted bv the Prisoner Probin , who , on passing a house where some scaffolding was erected , observed to him
, they were going to pull down the houses . On advancing a fewyards further , he saw at his foot a small parcel , which the Prisf-ner picked up . They went to a public-house near Lincoln ' s-inn-fields , to examine the contents , of it , where he saw the other Prisoner Hodges . —The parcel contained a small Morocco case , in which was a paste cross , together with a receipt for the value , amounting to 370 I . After some conversation respecting it , Probin got up , and said , he would go to his Banker , and get money sufficient to pay the Witness his share . —He went outand returned in a few minutessavingit would not
, , , do ; he could not get the money till next day ; and pretended to hesitate about leaving the cross in the possession of the Prosecutor , as he was a stranger to him : to obviate which difficulty he ( Mr . Headly ) produced a hundred pounds in Bank Bills , which Probin took up , and went off with . A young woman , of the name of Brown , likewise swore to the person of Probin , as having swindled her out of some monev in March last , bv a similar pretence of finding a cross . She produced the case which contained itand it
, exactly corresponded with that produced by Mr . Headly , the prosecutor . They were both fully committed , for feloniously stealing to the amount of iool . YOUTHFUL DEPRAVITY . - The Janus of Sunderland , lately sailed from that port on a voyage to the Ba ! -. ' tic , but had . not been out more than three hours , when to the astonishment of the Captain and the crew , the vessel filled so fast with water , as tq leave thein scarcely time to return .
On examining the vessel , a large hole , bored by an augur , was discovered ai the bottom . Suspicion falling on the cabin boy , of the na , me of Wake , he was questioned , and after some hesitation , acknowledged himself to be the perpetrator , alledging , that he was induced to do so from a dislike to the voyage . MATRIMONY . The following whimsical circumstance lately took place . A cobler , 63 rears of age , was married to a laundress of 62 . their first meeting was on Sunthe 15 th of
day , May on Sunday , the 5 th of June , the bans were published for the last time and on Tuesday the loving pair were joined in holy wedlock ; but strange to relate , this youthful couple disagreeing over their wedding supper , they separated without consummating the rites ; a " nd the son of Crispin the next day demanded back the -wedding ring , which was resigned by the heroine of the wash tub . BULLS . The air of Irelandis perhaps favourable to the making of Bulls soldier in
, : a the camp at Lauchlinslown , near Dublin , lately wrote to his wife as follows : ' If ye are in health , write me as soon as ye can ; and if the Lord hath taken you to himself , I hope when ye receive this ye will send me word—and I am , Your loving husband till death , PAT . MURDOCK . ' ?
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asked them if any person was suspected ; and added that he wished some heavy misfortune would fall on him , if he had been guilty of the deed . Some other conversation passed between them , all of which tended greatly to confirm their suspicions . A piece of rope was then produced , found in the tool-house of the prisoner , which was proved to be of the very same manufacture , texture , and size , as that found about the neck of the deceased . The Jury , after a short deliberation , found him Guilty . He was ordered for execution
, and his body afterwards to be dissected . PUSLIC-OFFVCE , BOW-STREET . A few days ago were brought before the sitting Magistrates here , charged on the oath of a Mr . W . Headly , with having defrauded him of Bank Bills to the amount of iool . Richard Probin and William Hodges . —The Prosecutor stated , that on Thursday , as he was walking along the Strand , he was accosted bv the Prisoner Probin , who , on passing a house where some scaffolding was erected , observed to him
, they were going to pull down the houses . On advancing a fewyards further , he saw at his foot a small parcel , which the Prisf-ner picked up . They went to a public-house near Lincoln ' s-inn-fields , to examine the contents , of it , where he saw the other Prisoner Hodges . —The parcel contained a small Morocco case , in which was a paste cross , together with a receipt for the value , amounting to 370 I . After some conversation respecting it , Probin got up , and said , he would go to his Banker , and get money sufficient to pay the Witness his share . —He went outand returned in a few minutessavingit would not
, , , do ; he could not get the money till next day ; and pretended to hesitate about leaving the cross in the possession of the Prosecutor , as he was a stranger to him : to obviate which difficulty he ( Mr . Headly ) produced a hundred pounds in Bank Bills , which Probin took up , and went off with . A young woman , of the name of Brown , likewise swore to the person of Probin , as having swindled her out of some monev in March last , bv a similar pretence of finding a cross . She produced the case which contained itand it
, exactly corresponded with that produced by Mr . Headly , the prosecutor . They were both fully committed , for feloniously stealing to the amount of iool . YOUTHFUL DEPRAVITY . - The Janus of Sunderland , lately sailed from that port on a voyage to the Ba ! -. ' tic , but had . not been out more than three hours , when to the astonishment of the Captain and the crew , the vessel filled so fast with water , as tq leave thein scarcely time to return .
On examining the vessel , a large hole , bored by an augur , was discovered ai the bottom . Suspicion falling on the cabin boy , of the na , me of Wake , he was questioned , and after some hesitation , acknowledged himself to be the perpetrator , alledging , that he was induced to do so from a dislike to the voyage . MATRIMONY . The following whimsical circumstance lately took place . A cobler , 63 rears of age , was married to a laundress of 62 . their first meeting was on Sunthe 15 th of
day , May on Sunday , the 5 th of June , the bans were published for the last time and on Tuesday the loving pair were joined in holy wedlock ; but strange to relate , this youthful couple disagreeing over their wedding supper , they separated without consummating the rites ; a " nd the son of Crispin the next day demanded back the -wedding ring , which was resigned by the heroine of the wash tub . BULLS . The air of Irelandis perhaps favourable to the making of Bulls soldier in
, : a the camp at Lauchlinslown , near Dublin , lately wrote to his wife as follows : ' If ye are in health , write me as soon as ye can ; and if the Lord hath taken you to himself , I hope when ye receive this ye will send me word—and I am , Your loving husband till death , PAT . MURDOCK . ' ?