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Oct 08 1822 Crime at Brough Hill Fair Print E-mail
The Times, Tuesday, Oct 08, 1822; pg. 2; Issue 11684; col E


As we anticipated in our last, several wholesale dealers in forged notes made
their appearance at Brough-hill fair on Monday last. A check, however, was put
on their depredations by the attendance of an Agent to one of the Scotch banks,
who cautioned his friends against receiving any Scots notes from strangers,
without their being previously inspected. At this fair a gentleman, finding
himself jostled, instantly put his hand on his watchpocket, and rescued his
watch from a thief who had seized the chain: the villain was suffered to escape
with a good drubbing. - Carlisle Journal.
 
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