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W. and her father, and brother: she 
was fortunate enough to obtain from 
the jeweller's shop jewellery to the 
amount of about 26]. the day after 
she had entered her apartments, which 
she desired immediately to pay for. 
A bill was delivered, when she re- 
collected she had not sufficient mo- 
ney to spare until the arrival of her 
husband in a day or two, and she 
paid 101 in part. The next day 
she looked out a gold watch, value 
20 guineas, and appendages, and 
other jewellery, to go to the ball of 
a lady of distinction. Many arti- 
fices were resorted to, which would 
be too voluminous for detail, to 
cover the frauds; but the jeweller 
at length suspecting his customer, 
and finding that Mr. Wakefield did 
not appear, sought means to recover 
the debt, which was nearly 1001. 
aod put an execution into the house. 
Mrs. Wakefield was arrested at this 
moment, and on searching her apart- 
ments, the property had been re- 
moved. She, convulsed with laugh- 
ter, was surprised that the jeweller 
should be such a fool as to expect 
to recover the property, and she 
informed her mother, her house- 
Keeper, that had it not been for 
her meanness in attempting to savea 
few shillings, she should have left 
the apartments before she was ar- 
Tested. Mr. Wakefield was a stu- 
dent at law, and separated from Mrs. 
By extraordinary artifices, she 
procured him to marry her under 
a false name, which renders the 
marriage void. It was stated by 
one of the witnesses, thatin one in- 
stance a tradesman in Mortimer- 
street was referred to by the pri- 
soner, and he represented her to be 
the wife of a man of 50001, per 
annum. He would have been glad 
to have let his first floor te*her, had 
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it been unoccupied. Mr. Layton, 
a milliner, in Berkeley-square, had 
supplied Mrs. W. with goods to the 
amount of 401. He gave her credit 
from her appearance and equipage. 
Her valet and footman wore liveries, 
with a silver band to their hats, and 
they represented her husband as a 
man of considerable fortune. Mrs. 
W. when she got the goods, at dif. 
ferent times spoke of many ladies of 
distinction, some of whom Mr. L. 
supplied, and the lady expressed 
her satisfaction at getting to a fa- 
shionable shop. Mrs. W. ordered 
her bill, and on its being delivered 
she had fled. It would be impossi- 
ble to enumerate the various arti- 
fices resorted to by this family to 
carry on their frauds. The two 
prisoners were proved to have been 
in the coalition by various circum- 
stances, and they were remanded, 
whilst methods should be used to 
bring up Mrs. Wakefield. ; 
After the examination of M‘Eavy, 
and Henry, his son, on Wednesday, 
the mother, Ann M‘Eavy, and Wil- 
liam, another son, the footboy to 
Mrs. Wakefield, were apprehended. 
The mother, who, it has been stated, 
acted as housekeeper to Mrs. W. re- 
presented herself to have been merely 
a companion to Mrs. Wakefield, at 
161. per annum. On being ques- 
tioned whether she was not the mo- 
ther as well as the housckeeper of 
Mrs. W, she said relationship had 
certainly tied her to her. The son 
was examined apart from his mother, 
but he refused to answer questions 
without consulting her. He did not 
know what relationship Henry, the 
footman, was to him. On being 
asked if M‘Eavy was not his father, 
he said ** he was his mother’s hus- 
band,” and he believed Mrs, Wake 
field was his eousin, ‘The two pri- 
soners 
