On the night of Wednesday week, as Mr. Rolestone, auctioneer,
of
Newton Bushell, was on his return from Torquay, and near Newton, he heard the cries of murder, and at the same time saw two women come out of a field and pass him on the road. He asked them what was the matter : to this they gave an indistinct answer. He then went into the field from whence the cry proceeded, and near a hay-rick he found a man lying on his back, his head bleeding profusely in several places, and his pockets cut from his breeches, which contained six so- vereigns, some silver, and a note of hand for 180/. As soon as the man, who proved to be Mr. J. Mitchell, of Sidbury, was able to stand, Mr. Rolestone rode in pursuit of the robbers, who had fled ; but the constables being soon on the alert, succeeded in apprehending three men and two women. Mr. Rolestone identified the women as the per- sons be had met coming from the field. They were all taken before a Magistrate on the following morning, and committed to the county gaol to take their trial at the ensuing Assizes.— Western Luminary.
Mrs. Crofton's house on Woolwich Common was broken open during the night of Friday week ; and property, principally plate, to a large amount, was carried off.
A gang of horse-stealers go prowling about the fields in Kent and Surry at night, and steal fast-speed horses, with which they hasten to a !clinker's in town, where in less than an hour the horse is slaughtered. The skin is dyed, and the carcase thrown into a furnace to boil for cats and dogs. The knackers give about two pounds per carcase: Mr. Crumpe, a young Irish gentleman, with his mother, sister, two younger brothers, and another young man, were sailing in an open boat in Douglas Bay, Isle of Man, on Thursday week, when the boat was upset by a sudden squall, and all perished except Miss Crumpe and the young man. They were saved by the assistance of some parties in another boat, which was near at the time of the accident. The name of the gentleman who saved Miss Crumpe was Dr. Flume.
John Hedger, an old man in the employ of G. and H. Hodston, farmers of Kendall Green, drowned himself on Friday week. He had been charged, a few days before, by a fellow labourer, with the com- mission of a nameless offence ; but previously had borne an excellent character.
The Macclesfield Herald contains a curious story of a marriage, which took place at the Collegiate Church in Manchester about a fortnight since, of a married man with a young woman, who had agreed to marry him for three pounds, to be paid her by the real wife, who officiated as bridesmaid on the occasion. Of course the clergyman knew nothing of the parties.
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