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ANNUAL REGISTER, I817. 



said to his (hild, "Ah! Henry, 

 v\ha' have I found you ; " and the 

 child iinniedialely began to smile. 

 The pri-oner appeared much con- 

 fused. He immediately went for 

 a constahle, and had her taken 

 into custody, carried up to Lon- 

 don, and placed in Marylebone 

 wat' hhonse. 



After some further evidence, 

 the pri3(mer handed in a paper of 

 four or five fidio sheets, in her 

 defence, in wiiich she stated that 

 in taking the ciiild she had no 

 malicious intention, or or depriv- 

 ing the parents of their child for 

 any length of time. It then pro- 

 ceeded at much length to enter 

 into a statement of the facts of the 

 case ; and concluded with 1 eseech- 

 ing that the jury would duly weigh 

 all the evidence, and nat to suffer 

 tlieir minds to be influenced by 

 public reports. 



The jury found a verdict of 

 Guilty. 



HUNTINGDON ASSIZES, JULY. 



This was an indictment against 

 Jane, the widow of John Scarbo- 

 rnuirh, a respectable innkeeper at 

 liugden, on the North-road. The 

 prisoner, a respectable looking 

 woman, abnut 40 years of age, 

 Stood at the bar, accompanied by 

 her daughter, a beautiful young 

 woman about )9. The indictment 

 cha-ged the prisoner with feloni- 

 ously steal mg a letter, containing 

 a I em ttance of a "iOl. Bank of 

 Fyni;land note, from Richard Pres- 

 ton, Esq. of Lincoln's-inn, bar- 

 rister at law, M.P which was ad- 

 diessed to his son. W. S. Preston, 

 Esq. a pupil of the Rev. Dr. Malt- 

 by, at Bugden. In t\>e first count 

 the note was charged to be the 



property of R. Preston, Esq. sen. 

 and in the second count as the 

 property of W. S. Preston, Esq. 

 jun 



John Sharp, clerk to Mr. Pres- 

 ton, sen. proved the sending of 

 the letter on the 16th of Octo- 

 ber, 1815, and Mathew Cromaitie 

 proved the delivery of it to the 

 bellman, who put it in his bag. 



Jame.i Fisher Park, lettei-car- 

 rier for Charlotte-street, Bhuk- 

 friars-road, had no recollection of 

 receiving the letter on the 16th of 

 October, 1815; but if he did re- 

 ceive it, is positive he forwarded 

 it the same evening to the General 

 Post-office. The letters being 

 once put into the bag could not 

 be taken out till the bag was re- 

 ceived at the Post-office, where the 

 key was kept. 



Philip Franks, clerk in the Ge- 

 neral Post-office, stated, that if the 

 letter was put into ihe bag in 

 Charlotte-street, he had no doubt 

 whatever that the letter must have 

 been forwarded. 



Wni. Joseph Wall, teller in the 

 General Post-office, made up the 

 bags for the York mail. If surh 

 letter tame to his hands, he had 

 no doubt it was regularly forward- 

 ed by the mail-coach to Hunting- 

 don. 



John Hatfield, post-master at 

 Huntingdon, received and for- 

 warded the letters for Bugden 

 as received on the 17th of Octo- 

 ber. 



W'ni. Cox, an elderly man, 

 stated that he is post-master at 

 Bugden. On the morning of the 

 17th of October, 181.5, remembers 

 that he received by the l)ag from 

 HuntingdtJii a letter, which he de- 

 livered to Mrs. Scarborough, the 

 prisoner at the bar. He took it to 



her 



