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a female servant delivered to them 

 the plate, of the value of near 

 300/. ; they then left the huuse. 

 Soon after they were gone. Miss 

 Bakewell went to a neighbour to 

 inform him what had happened. 

 A Bow-street officer was requested 

 from London, and Pearkes was 

 dispatched ; information was sent 

 to the police officers at Birming- 

 ham, where there are supposed to 

 be more thieves than in London, 

 according to the population of 

 the two places : advertisements 

 were inserted in several news- 

 papers, and bills printed, offering 

 a reward for the apprehension of 

 the robbers. By these exertions, 

 Samuel Dickens, Daniel Lynn, and 

 a woman, three of the gang, were 

 apprehended at Birmingham on 

 Saturday, with a great part of the 

 property stolen from Miss Bake- 

 well's house in their possession, by 

 the officers of the police of that 

 place ; and on Sunda)' morning 

 early, William Smith and Thomas 

 Cook, the two others of the gang 

 were apprehended at Leicester. 

 They have since been examined 

 before a magistrate, and commit- 

 ted for further examination. 



The gang robbed a poor farmer, 

 in the neighbourhood where Miss 

 Bakewell resides, on the same 

 evening they robbed her house. 



8(1). Owing to the culpable 

 negligence of leaving fire-arms 

 within the reach of young people, 

 the following accident happened 

 lately : — The son of Mr. Shepherd, 

 mason, near Widcomb Church, 

 Somersetshire, look up a gun, and, 

 not knowing it was loaded, shot 

 his sister in the head; she suffered 

 great agonies, and expired the fol- 

 lowing day. The lad is about ten 



years old, and the unfortunate girl 

 was thirteen. 



Whilst one of the victuallings 

 vessels was delivering fresh beef 

 for the use of the French prison- 

 ers on board the Canada, in the 

 Medway, six or seven of the pri- 

 soners, who were assisting, sud- 

 denly seized the master and boy of 

 the vessel, who were below sling- 

 ing the beef, and at the same time 

 cast off the rope by which the 

 beef-boat was fastened to the ship, 

 and immediately hoisting the sail 

 proceeded down the river. A num- 

 ber of shot were fired from the 

 Canada, the Crown Prince, and 

 other ships, as she passed bylhem; 

 and from the state of the weather, 

 which was very favourable for such 

 an enterprise, it is probable that 

 they would have escaped, had they 

 not run ashore on the shoal off 

 Commodore's Hard, Gillingham. 

 They left the vessel immediately 

 after she grounded, but were so 

 closely pursued, that the whole 

 were secured in a few minutes af- 

 terwards. One of the prisoners 

 was wounded in the thigh, but not 

 dangerously. 



Two men, named Ruddock and 

 Carpenter, neither of whom has 

 yet attained the aj^e of 20, being 

 in custody as the perpetrators of 

 the horrid murder of Mr. Webb 

 and his female servant, near 

 Frome, Carpenter has been ad- 

 mitted King's evidence, and has 

 disclosed the following particu- 

 lars; — Carpenterborrowed the gun 

 with which the murder was com- 

 mitted, of the father of a young 

 woman to whom he paid his ad- 

 dresses. He went with Ruddock 

 to Mr. Webb's house, where he 

 asked for work, — "Ah! you 



