Mr Casson who died last week was one of those persons called crimps, whose business is to decoy men and procure soldiers for the east Indies, in which employment he had amassed enough to retire upon. His wife dealt in contraband Gin.
Bumper Smith a felon under sentence of transportation from Derby gaol, escaped on the 10th inst, surrendered himself by knocking at the prison door, and requesting to be admitted to his own apartments
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