In the Court of Common Pleas, on Tuesday, Colonel Latour
ob- tained a verdict with 1,500/. damages, against Mr. Weston, the son of a banker and brewer at Norwich, for criminal intercourse with Mrs. Latour. Mrs. Latour's name before her marriage (which took place at the age of seventeen, her husband being forty,) was Innes ; and she was brought up partly by Mrs. Hudson Gurney.. The Colonel had three illegitimate children at the time of the marriage.
Henry Field was charged on Saturday, at the Worship StreetOffice, with attempting to knock down a house in Cooper's Gardens, Hackney, belonging to the Reverend Edward Smith, Ely Hall, Essex. It ap- peared that Mr. Smith has five houses in Hackney which had not been tenanted for upwards of a year, in consequence of their being frequently advertised for sale. For some time past, a gang of fellows had made an attack on the houses, for the purpose of stealing the ma- terials. On Friday morning, a constable observed the work of de- struction goilig on. There were about forty persons present, and the prisoner was busily employed hammering away at the brickwork at the corner of the house. He had cut a bole upwards of seven feet high and six wide, so that the house was in danger of falling. The prisoner made a vague and unsatisfactory defence. The Magistrate said it was clearly dune for the purpose of stealing the materials. The prisoner was senteuced to pay a fine of 5/. ; and, in default of payment, was committed to the House of Correction and to hard labour for three months.
William Jackson, or Thomas Hollinshead, as his real name is said to be, who has been several times examined at the Mansionhouse lately, on a charge of having robbed the Bungay Bank, was committed for trial on Monday, as a returned transport. Ile is considered one of the most expert housebreakers on a large scale in the Metropolis. On Thursday, he was tried at the Old Bailey, and pleaded " guilty" to the charge of returning from Botany Bay.
There is now confined in Newgate, where he awaits his trial, a child only eight years of age, named John Walsby, who was committed by Mr. Benett, the Police Magistrate of Worship Street, and is entered in the calendar as a prisoner for trial, for stealing the sum of 2s. 2d. the motleys of Henry Snowden. The boy was on a previous occasion charged with having stolen a penny roll before the same Magistrate ; who, ii is believed, committed him to prison in the benevolent hope that the compassion which the unprotected condition of the poor infant might excite amongst those who superintended the prison of Newgate would lead to some arrangement likely to save him from utter ruin.-- Daily Paper. [It is difficult to imagine how any person could commit a child to prison with the view of saving him from ruin ; and for steal- ing a penny-roll too !] A Coroner's inquest was held on Wednesday in the King's Bench Prison, oh the body of Captain Marcus Hill, a Post Captain in the Navy. From the evidence it appeared, that Captain Hill was arrested for debt at Clifton some weeks ago ; that, although extremely ill, he was not allowed to sleep during his journey to London with the officer, as that is contrary to rule ; and that his death was hastened by this harsh treatment. The Jury found this verdict-
" That the deceased laboured under a form of disease which must be ulti- mately fatal. The Jurors are of opinion, also, that time fatal result was greatly accelerated by the fact that deceased was forced to travel all night, together with the distress of mind caused by his arrest and consequent imprisonment. The Jurors also find, that deceased had every comfort and indulgence which the re- gulations of the King's Bench Prism could extend to individuals in his unhappy situation."
As Captain Lindsey, a gentleman residing at Kensington Gravel- pits, was bathing on Wednesday morning in the Serpentine River, a man stole his coat and waistcoat, in the pocket of which was a valuable watch and gold chain. Captain Lindsey saw the fellow take the coat and waistcoat, but, being in the middle of the river, be could not get out in time to stop him.
On Monday, a youth, aged about twelve, the son of Mr. Fitzgerald, a writing-master, residing in a lane near Cavendish Square, hanged himself in his bed-room. He had been prevented from wearing his best clothes on Sunday, at the christening of his brother, on account of some,ill conduct on his part, and locked up in his room ; when it was opened, he was found suspended to a peg behind the door by a handker- chief, quite dead.
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