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considerable noise in this city ; 

 a woman went into a grocer's 

 shop, and having purchased some 

 tea, &c. tendered a 100/. note for 

 payment ; the man, surprised at 

 such a sum, said he could not 

 change that nOte, but if she had 

 another he would. She then pro- 

 duced another note for 100/., then 

 another, and so on to seven notes 

 for 100/. each. The man then, 

 and a neighbour, questioned her 

 strictly, and threatened her. She 

 then confessed that she had stolen 

 them from a gentleman who visited 

 lier, and more of the same kind. 

 The man and his friend detained 

 the 700/. and advised her to run 

 away ; but she conceiving they 

 meant to appropriate the money to 

 their own use, went to the chief 

 magistrate, and disclosed the cir- 

 cumstance, delivering up the re- 

 mainder of the property, which 

 amounted in all to 1,000/. in 100/. 

 notes on Messrs. Ball, Plunket, 

 and Doyne, bankers. The grocer, 

 his friend, and the woman were 

 then all confined, and the magis- 

 trates published ihe circumstance, 

 and called upon the owner to come 

 and claim his properly at their 

 office, but no one appeared. The 

 singularity of the circumstance oc- 

 casioned a variety of conjectures ; 

 some thought the owner must be, 

 at least, the young heir of a duke- 

 dom — others, that he was some 

 character high in the church, and 

 ashamed to come forward. In the 

 mean time, the magistrates were 

 obliged to release the woman, who 

 expressed a strong desire to restore 

 the property, when she found it 

 was to such amount, hoping he 

 would not prosecute, but probably 

 give her some reward. Of course 

 many conjectures were afloat, and 



numbers believed that the woman 

 must have murdered the person 

 from whom she had taken the pro- 

 perty. Time passed away, and 

 the circumstance was beginning to 

 be forgot, when a young man, 

 clerk to Ball, Plunket, and Co. 

 bankers, accidentally entered the 

 bar-room of a public-house ; the 

 woman, who happened to be there 

 at the same time, immediately cried 

 out — " That is the person from 

 whom I took the notes. " He was 

 immediately detained by the peo- 

 ple present, and notice sent to the 

 magistrates, and to the bankers, 

 but before they arrived he found 

 means to escape. An investiga- 

 tion took place at the bank, and it 

 was found that he had taken from 

 time to time notes to the amount 

 of 10,000/. A reward was offered, 

 and he was taken, just ready to 

 quit the kingdom. In one of his 

 boots were concealed 7,500/. in 

 notes, and his securities are answer- 

 able for 2,5(X)/. which makes up 

 the sum of which he had defraud- 

 ed the bank. He is now lodged in 

 Kilmainham gaol, to abide his trial. 

 1:5. Chaplin, who is in custody 

 for the murder of his wife, on Fri- 

 day would have added to the cata- 

 logue of his crimes by another 

 murder, but for the interference of 

 Ward, one of the turnkeys of the 

 Compter. It appears, that since 

 his commitment he has been double 

 ironed and handcuffed. Having, 

 however, begged them to be taken 

 off for some necessary purpose, he 

 asked a Chinaman, who is in the 

 Compter, for a knife to cut his 

 throat. The Chinaman having said, 

 he had not got one, he instantly 

 rushed upon him, tore his clothes, 

 and searched every corner of them 

 for Uie weapon ; and being disap- 

 pointed, 



