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were put in his pocket. There was 

 no blood found near the body. 

 Some suspicions being entertain.^d 

 respecting a neighbour, who had 

 attempted to borrow money from 

 the deceased, he was apprehended, 

 and stands charged with the mur- 

 der by the coroner's inquisition. It 

 appears that tlie prisoner lived 

 about a mile from the deceased, 

 and one of the neiglibours staled, 

 that she saw Bailey go by her 

 house towards that of tlie prisoner 

 about five o'clock on the night 

 wlien the murder was comaiiUed. 

 Another witness said, she saw the 

 prisoner, about nine o'clock on the 

 same night, dragging something 

 from a new-built l)ouse, in which 

 he carried on his business of a 

 cooper — that he left his burden on 

 the steps wliile he looked up and 

 down the road, and tiien dragged it 

 round the house. Upon examining 

 these premises, much blood was 

 discovered upon tlic walls, and on 

 the floor in the cellar ; the former 

 had been scraped, and the latter 

 was covered with sand: the pri- 

 soner accounted for this blood by 

 saying, that part of a horse had 

 been left there. A shirt was found 

 under the coals in the cellar, iiaving 

 the initials of the deceased upon 

 it. In the prisoner's house a 

 cooper's adze was discovered, with 

 marks of blood upon it, and the 

 edge of which fitted the wounds 

 on the top of the head and over 

 the eyes of the deceased ; the 

 fractures on the skull corresponded 

 with the hammer-formed part of 

 the adze. The prisoner was com^ 

 mitted to Shrewsbury county gaol 

 on Monday. 



l^. Letters received yesterday 

 from Manchester state, that several 

 of tlie most respectable manufac- 



turers had been recently threatened 

 with the conflagration of their pre- 

 mises. The villains, it is added, 

 had even the audaciiy to send a 

 circular letter to several houses 

 which they had marked out for de- 

 struction. The first house on their 

 list was that of Messrs." Haigh, 

 Marshal, and Co. ; and on Sunday 

 night, these gentlemen's premises 

 were set on fire, and entirely 

 destroyed. Every precaution has 

 been taken to prevent further mis • 

 chief; and a strict inquiry is mak- 

 ing to trace out the incendiaries. 



17. On Tuesday, an inquest vvas 

 held at Otlcy, in Yorkshire, on the 

 body of a gentleman, who, on the 

 preceding Sunday, had put a pe- 

 riod to his existence by a pistol. 

 It appeared that he first came to 

 Otley in April last, and had divided 

 the intermediate time between that 

 place, Harrowgate, and Thorp-arch, 

 visiting each alternately. He point- 

 edly avoided all society, and dei- 

 voted tiie whole of his time to 

 deeds of charity, never suffering a 

 day to pass without distributing 

 from one to fifty pounds in the 

 course of the morning. On the 

 Sabbath he generally confined him- 

 self to the house, avoiding religi- 

 ously every secular pursuit. Oa 

 the Friday before his death, he 

 came from Thorp-arch to Otley. 

 On his arrival, the people at the 

 inn observed a considerable change 

 in him ; his spirits were more de- 

 pressed. Verdict — Lunacy. He 

 left a particular request to be bu- 

 ried in the church-yard at Kirby 

 Overblow, and he was there in- 

 terred on Wednesday last. 



19. On Monday se'nnight, a dis- 

 tressing scene occurred at Happisr- 

 burgh, in Norfolk. A noith- 

 country vessel had driven ashore in 



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