In the Central Criminal Court, on Tuesday, Frederick Dawson Bundock,
who also had assumed the names of Reed and Moffatt, was found guilty of stealing some clothing, a clock, and other articles. He was transported for life : being an old offender, though a young man, and, it Nu as said, son ofd Colonel of the Army.
At the Marylebone Office, on Tuesday, James Norton, a tailor, was committed on a charge of extorting money from the Reverend Gilbert Chesnutt, curate of Trinity- Church, Southwark, by menacing him with " an accusation " of an infamous offence. It appeared that Mr. Chestnut had for some time been in the habit of seeing the prisoner, and giving him money, before he could summon courage to bring him before a Ma- gistrate. The prisoner was tried in the Central Criminal Court on Thursday ; found guilty, and sentenced to fifteen years' transportation.
At the Queen Square Office, on Wednesday, Edward Cotton, the lad who was ilium] in Buckingham Palace, was again brought before the Magistrates. 31r. Thomas Griffiths., of Coventry Street, Haymarket, said that the prisoner entered his service as an errand-boy in August, and left him without notice on Tuesday week. Ibis real name was Edward Jones : his father was a tailor in Bell Yard, York Street he was sixteen years old. He had often said he would go the Palace and see the grand staircase. Evidence was given to make out a ease of theft against the prisoner; and he was committed for trial. When the Magistrate's decision was given, the lad said composedly-- Oh, very well." [It thus appears, that all which gave peculiar zest to the story of last Saturday was fictitious.] A fire, on Thursday night, burnt down the extensive premises of Bowman and Son, sugar-bakers, Duncan Street, Whitechapel. Pro- perty said to be worth 120,000/. was consumed. A man was thrown down and trampled to death in the crowd, On Tuesday night, a woman, who lived with her father in Kenning- ton lame, stabbed the old man, in a violent passion, with a table-knife. She is in custody ; but the father, who is seventy-six years old, and called by the penny-a-liner " an independent gentleman," refuses to prosecute her. His life is in danger.
A large timidity of spirits, intended to be smuggled ashore, was seized off Woolwich, on Saturday last on board of a French schooner. The value of the capture is about 1,5004
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