George Potts or Page, who WaS examined at Bow Street
on Friday, charged with having been concerned in the great robbery of the Glas- gow Bank in December 1830, and ordered to be committed in the mean
time as a returned transport, contrived to make his escape from the Bow Street cells in a very bold manner. All that is known is, that
while waiting in one of the lock-up cells previous to being removed in the ordinary way to prison, the bolt of the cell was suddenly pushed back, and a boy having thrown Potts a greatcoat, immediately retreated. Potts instantly stripped off his jacket, which he tossed to the other pri- soners that were confined with him, threw on the greatcoat, and darted out. He was almost instantly pursued, but has hitherto escaped detection.
A Mr. Bailey, while proceeding to church last Sunday, gave an elderly woman, whom he saw sitting on a door-step in John Street, Clerkenwell, a half-crown in mistake for a penny. He immediately discovered the mistake, and claimed restitution of his 2s. 5d. : the old woman would return nothing but bad names, of which she was as liberal as Mr. Bailey had been of his coin. Mr. Bailey, in conse- quence, gave her in charge to a policeman. Mr. Laing, of Hatton Garden, before whom the case Mlle on Monday, inquired whether she had been searched. The police constables stated, that on taking the prisoner to the Station-house, they searched her, and found twenty-eight sovereigns in a purse, and a half-a-guinea, sewed up in the top of her petticoat ! She was committed to the House of Correction for one month, and the money ordered to be detained. On Wednesday evening at dusk, Mr. Schild, a master tailor, of Great Barlow Street, Marylebone, returning to town from Acton, was attacked, when a short distance from Shepherd's Bush, by three men armed, who sprung upon him out of a hedge and demanded a bundle of clothes he was carrying; one of the ruffians struck him a blow on the head which felled him to the ground. All three then commenced beat- ing him ; when, fortunately, a Bristol coach appeared in sight, and the ruffians decamped. On Tuesday morning, Henry Taylor, a man aged about forty-two, drowned himself in the Canal in the Regent's Park. The body was found by a lighterman a short time after immersion : it was still warm. The deceased, it appeared, had lived as footman at Mr. Grange's, Nor- ton Street, and left his situation only on Monday last week, for the purpose of setting up in business for himself; in Hampstead Road, as a green-grocer; and the shop was opened last Saturday. For about a fortnight before he left his situation, be appeared deeply affected at the idea of leaving his place, in which he had lived nine or ten years,
and going into business with uncertainty of success. The deceased was a married man; and about eight o'clock on the morning of his death, he darted out of the shop unperceived by any of his family ; and al- though immediate inquiry was made after him, nothing was heard of him until the body was found in the canal.
On Thursday morning, a girl named Sykes, a servant in the house of a baker in Fetter Lane, cut her throat, and died almost instanta- neously. She had, it seems, been accused of robbing her master, and had acknowledged taking three packets of halfpence, containing five shillings worth each. Her master, on this confession, having sent an officer to convey her to the Station-house, the unhappy girl begged permission to go to her room to put on her bonnet ; and there, in a few minutes afterwards, she was found lying quite dead, with a razor which she had used to destroy herself lying by her side. A man Las been amusing the Cockneys during the week by walking 4;1 I the botomi of the Than:es, with a small diving-bell on his shoulders. Preparatm y to his descent, he puts on two pairs of thick woollen stock- iaaa:, nail a tilick woollen shirt, over which be draws two dresses to lit the ho!!)- from the neck (havnwards ; these are made of a thick stuff, r:alered waterproof by Iudian rubber ; be wears a pair of thick Indian
caliber shoes. The bell was made of tin, with three small glass windows," for the diver to look about him. He is supplicl with air by means of a hose from an air-pump kept in continual act;f ni in a boat :thove ; the hose is connected with the helmet. Be walks about the laal of the river at perfect ease at the depth of about fourteen feet.
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