The Salopian Journal of Wednesday gives an account of a
burglary of peculiar daring. The house broken into was that of Mrs. Beddoes, at the Barn near Minion, about three miles from (laurels Strutters. The house is in a very lonely situation, and Mrs. Beddoes's two sons live with her and manage the farm, On Wednesday night at half-past nine, the family retired to rest. After they had been in bed about an hour, they were alarmed by a loud knocking at the door, and heard men's voices out- side. The noise continuing, the sons got up, and put the dog on; which the robbers killed. They then went down stairs. Just as they reached the bottom of the stairs, the door was burst open, and four or five men rushed into the house. Mr. George Beddoes and his brother James retreated into their mother's room ; when they heard the burglars com- mence breaking open a cupboard which was in the parlour. After they had been in the house ten minutes, the ruffians went up stairs to the room where the sons had been sleeping, broke open the boxes, and took what property they could find. They then went into the room where the family was assembled, one carrying a lighted candle in a lantern, another an axe, and a third a large bludgeon. With many oaths and curses, they demanded Mrs. Beddoes's pocket; and one of the gang went to the bed, took it from under the bolster, and threw it to a man in the next TOM. After they had broken all the boxes in the rooms, and taken what they could find, they left the house ; and on Mr. George 13eddoes trying to get out of the house on to the porch over the door in order to give the alarm, some of the gang threw stones at him, which made him retreat back again. The family were so much alarmed that they remained in the room all night ; and in the morning when they went to ascertain their loss, found they had been robbed of about ninety sovereigns, five old guineas, a gold ring, two silver watches, a waistcoat, a shirt, three silk handkerchiefs, a cloak, and a ham of bacon. Four men have been apprehended and committed for trial ; agaiust whom the evidence, direct and circumstantial, is very strong.
A woman named Mary Anne Tucker was last week committed for trial at Exeter, charged with having murdered her husband, and along
with him her own brother, by giving them poison at breakfast. She is not quite twenty years of age. Her motive is supposed to have been jealousy.
An inquest was held at Manchester on Monday, on the body of a boy who was either suffocated or burnt to death, in the flue of the steam-engine at a factory in the town. The skin was completely burnt off both legs of the child. The inquest was adjourned.
For some time past forged Bank of England notes of 5/. each have been circulated to a very considerable extent in the neighbourhood of Windsor and Eton, by some men, who, until within the hist day or two, have managed to escape detection. One of them, however, has just been apprehended, after having exchanged a forged 5/. note with Mr. Hetherington, of Eton, in the purchase of some lea. He is now in
prison.
On Monday night, four convicts made their escape from the Levia- than hulk, in Portsmouth harbour, by effecting an entrance into the steward's room ; out of the port-hole of which one of them dropped, and swam towards a boat, of which he took possession, and came back for his comrades, who accompanied him to the shore. On their escape being known, search was made for them in all directions ; and in the course of Tuesday morning, they were discovered in the game-pre- serves of Mr. T. Thistlethwete, near Southwick, by the gamekeepers, who, conceiving them to be poachers, took them into custody.—Thump- shire Telegraph.
On Tuesday, a man named Joseph Cook, a scithe-grinder, lost his life from the bursting of a stone upoa wide% he was grindlies. Tue deceased was lying down; consequently his head was over and 'near to the stone when it burst ; and a portion of it hitting hint on the face, forced one eye from the socket, and otherwise greatly injured his head, so that the poor fellow never spoke after.- II-mu:vier Chronicle.
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