Fredemiek Chapman, Deputy Clerk of St. George's, Hanover Sommare, decamped
on Monday, with 701. belonging to Mr. Powell, felerk of the Vestry.
Three young men, employed as clerks in the offices of the Eastern e7ount'es Railway Company at London Midge, absconded a few days ago, with a considerab:e emir of money belonging to the Company. -They had acted in concert, and are supposed to have left the country. Co,uicr.
Joeeph Reiteaboffer, Cm German courier, who was the originator .t the stork s ab JUG the Downshire family, for publishing which Teuton 4.i hied and convicted last week, was captured on Saturday, at a house hi Phalle°. He w isied the officer to let him have his razor and pen- lade ; but this reTast wes refused, in consequence of' something in his manner whicii created the suspicion that he meant to kill himself. fle was taken to the New Prison, Clerkenwell ; and on Monday morn- ing was found nearly insensible, from the effects of some opium con- mike' in his clothes. He was curried to the chambers of Baron Gamey, and ordered to give bail for his appearance at the next session of the Criminal Court. On being taken back to prison he was care. hilly searched, and a liege opium pill found in his pocket. It appears, however, that he managed to conceal some poison about his person ; for, on Tuesday morning, he was found with his arms resting upon a able in his cell, quite dead.
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