[list-cumbria] Carlisle Patriot, 13 Dec 1823 - Local News (3)

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 13 Dec 1823   (p. 2, col. 6 and p. 3, col. 1-4 + 6)     [continued] 

 

HUNTING INTELLIGENCE.—The Carlisle Harriers will cast off on Monday the 15th instant, at Newtown; on Wednesday, at Blackford; and on
Friday, at Cumwhitton; each morning at eight. 

 

The past, as well as the preceding week, has been a stormy one. We have had several heavy gales and violent gusts of wind,
principally from the w.s.w., accompanied by heavy rain, sleet, and even snow: a sharp shower of the latter fell yesterday morning,
but it almost immediately melted. The mountains in the vicinity are perfectly white. Notwithstanding all this, the weather is
unusually fair for the season at intervals. Our shipping list presents details of additional losses at sea, and we fear we shall
have to communicate more of a similar kind in our next. 

 

The rivers and ponds in the vicinity of Carlisle have been dragged this week for the purpose of finding the body of William GRAHAM,
the well-known driver of the Whitehaven coach. It appears that he drank rather too freely on Saturday night, and quarrelled and
fought with a person in the employment of Mr. FAIRBAIRN. Early on Sunday morning, he was seen, for the last time, hastening
northwards over Eden Bridge. We are not aware that GRAHAM is a man of such fine feelings that this quarrel should seriously affect
or derange his mind; and it will perhaps turn out that he has proceeded into Scotland, and resumed the whip on a new stage: at
least, we hope this may prove to be the fact. It must be confessed, however, that his disappearance is mysterious, and his friends
are naturally in much distress; apprehending a rash termination of his existence. 

 

On Thursday last, an aged woman, named Barbara NICHOLSON, residing in the Black Bull Lane, Scotch-Street, fell into the fire in a
fit, while alone, and was so dangerously burnt about the breast that she died on the following morning. 

 

A company of the 17th regt. of foot, marched into Carlisle Castle, yesterday, to relieve a similar detachment of the 65th, which
marches this day for the North. 

 

About the middle of last week, a vagabond contrived to get, in the dusk of the evening, into the cabin of the Menai, Capt. GADDES,
and take away wearing apparel, clothes, and other effects belonging to the master, to the value of from £10 to £15. Suspicion, with
the most probable appearance of truth, fell upon a fellow who had some days before been asking his passage for Liverpool, and who
absconded the day after the theft. 

 

Mr. SHAW, the new surveyor of the highways at Penrith, has commenced the desirable undertaking of making a cut to carry away the
water which for so many years has annoyed the lower part of the town. 

 

The Earl of Lonsdale has presented a handsome pair of iron gates to St. James's Chapel, Whitehaven. 

 

SHAW and PERCIVAL, who were convicted at the last Westmorland assizes, for endeavouring to facilitate the escape of a prisoner out
of Appleby gaol, were sent off on Monday last, pursuant to their sentence of transportation. 

 

We are happy to state that some of the persons concerned in robbing the carrier's warehouse, in the horse-market, as mentioned in
this paper a fortnight ago, have been detected, and are now in custody. The property stolen consisted principally of Irish linen and
tea. Information was received in Carlisle, on Saturday, that a man had purchased a hair-trunk at Brampton (for which he paid 14s.
6d.), and having filled it with pieces of Irish linen, sent it to a carrier to be conveyed to Newcastle, to be left at a certain
place till called for. Knowing the contents to be part of the property stolen from the warehouse, a professional gentleman detained
this trunk at Brampton; but by the advice of John BARNES, constable of this city, it was forwarded to its destination, BARNES
proceeding thither by mail, in order to apprehend the person who might inquire for it. On Tuesday it was demanded by a woman named
PARKER; and BARNES and FORSYTH, a Newcastle officer, being at hand, she was detained and interrogated. She first asserted that the
tunk came from her father; then from another person; finally from her husband. On being asked where her husband was, she said he was
at Ouseburn, about half a mile from the town. To this place the officers proceeded with due caution, and succeeded in apprehending
Edward PARKER, on whom they found some linen and tea. In consequence of subsequent information, two women called NELAND and FOWLER
were found to have received part of the stolen goods, and they were lodged in Newcastle gaol. PARKER and his wife were brought to
Carlisle on Thursday night, and yesterday committed to gaol for further examination, together with Elizabeth ARMSTRONG, of
Gosling-Syke, who has also some pieces of the stolen linen in her possession, and refuses to give them up: four pieces have also
been taken from John ROBINSON, butcher, of Stanwix. It appears that the warehouse was actually plundered by two men named BURKE and
ARMSTRONG, now in Morpeth jail for robbing a shop at Hexham; and with these fellows, PARKER, his wife, and the Newcastle women were
in close connexion. When NELAND's house was searched, a large quantity of prints, flannels, silk-handkerchiefs, gowns, &c. and no
less than sixteen different drawers, each containing either sovereigns, half-crowns, or other silver coin, all good, to an immense
amount: she professes to be a hawker, and sometimes travels with a pack. Not more than eighteen months have elapsed since PARKER
returned from transportation for a similar offence; and he was now found in the house of the same people who harboured him when
taken up for the crime of which he was convicted, they at that time residing in Cumberland. The prisoners have given other
information, on which the officers are acting at the time of writing this paragraph; so that we shall have more to say on the
subject in our next. It is due to Mr. FORSYTH, the Newcastle officer, and to Mr. FARLAM, of the Bird and Bush inn, in that town, to
say that they lent BARNES the most efficient assistance in these detections. 

 

 

[to be continued] 

 

 

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