The Times, Tuesday, Apr 13, 1824; pg. 4; Issue 12311; col A SWINDLING. ------------ [The following particulars are connected with the case mentioned last week, of a man who had carried off a young lady from Carlisle to Gretna.] [From The Carlisle Journal.] POLICE-OFFICE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7. CHARGE OF OBTAINING MONEY UNDER FALSE PRETENCES. [continued] On the Monday following, March 29, examinant received a letter from that gentleman, of which the following is a copy: - "Wisbeach, 25th March, 1824. "Gentlemen, - I have your favour of the 23d instant, but I know no such person as Charles Samuel CAVE; there was a Samuel CAVE, a cooper, resident in this place a short time, who took a gentleman of the name of COX (Thomas COX, Esq.) in for several hundred pounds, and decamped, and has not since been heard of, and I understand left a wife to bewail his absence. I wish this may not be the case with you, and am respectfully your friend, "S. and G. SAUL and Co. "JONATHAN PECKOVER." Examinant, on the receipt of this letter, made application for a warrant to apprehend the prisoner on a charge of obtaining money under false pretences, and succeeded in obtaining from him 4L. and a watch. After Mr. SAUL's evidence was read over, the prisoner was asked if he had anything to say to it, and he answered that he had nothing. He was committed for further examination on this charge. Mr. George SAUL, on the part of the relatives of Miss CAPE, now lodged an information against the prisoner on a charge of bigamy. M. J. DONALD, of the King's Arms inn, deposed that the prisoner came to his house by the coach on the 28th day of February, and after remaining there a few days, represented himself to be a single man and possessed of a large property. Prisoner paid his addresses to Miss CAPE, and on the 26th of March they were married at St. Cuthbert's church. In consequence of information which examinant has since obtained, he believes that the prisoner was previously married, and that his wife is still living. Mr. DONALD's examination was read over, and the prisoner was asked if he had any thing to say? He acknowledged that he had been living with a woman at Chichester, but denied that she was his wife. He said that Charlotte BINGHAM, the other woman to whom he had been married, had herself remarried 6 months afterwards. The prisoner was fully committed on this charge, and Mr. DONALD was bound over to prosecute. In addition to the preceding communication from Mr. PECKOVER, the two following letters have been received, giving a further account of CAVE's proceedings at Wisbeach and Chichester: - "Wisbeach, 1st April, 1824. "Gentlemen, - Our friend and neighbour, Mr. PECKOVER, has handed over to us your letters respecting Saml. CAVE, late of this place, and we have this morning been endeavouring to make out all the necessary particulars for your guidance. We find by the parish register (of which we have made a correct copy), that Samuel CAVE was married to Charlotte BINGHAM, spinster, on the 3d July, 1820, and upon comparing the hand-writing contained in your letter to Mr. PECKOVER of the 23d March last, with the writing in the parish register, there is no doubt of their being the same, with the addition of "Charles" in your letter. We also find, that in consequence of disputes between CAVE and his wife, she left him and went to reside at a village near Peterborough with her mother, where she was confined, but we have not at present been able to ascertain the name of the village, but have put the matter into a train to obtain that information in a few days, and upon hearing from you one of us will (if you wish it) go over and ascertain whether she is still living, and where she is to be met with. Samuel CAVE is well known to Mr. METCALFE, sen., who attended him several times relative to a fraudulent transaction on the part of CAVE with the late Mr. Thos. COX, of this place, who advanced CAVE a large sum of money when he was a cooper in this town, and which never was repaid. We shall be ready to render any aid and assistance in our power to punish this hardened villain, and are, gentlemen, your obedient servants, "CHARLES METCALFE and SON." "P. S. Of course you will direct your attention to the necessity of identifying the person in custody with the one mentioned in the register - S. and G. SAUL, Carlisle." "Chichester, April 4, 1824. "Sir - I have just received your letter about Samuel CAVE, but have only time to say, before the post goes out, that he absconded from this city about two months ago, leaving a wife and three children here. Her father fetched her away. He is one of the greatest swindlers that was ever heard of. Under the pretence of having a sum of money left to him, he pretended to buy houses of Mr. ACTON here, and had the conveyance prepared. He borrowed money of the person he pretended to deal with. He is a cooper by trade, and worked for Mr. BIFFIN, of this place. However, being Sunday, and so near post time, I am not able to send farther particulars, but, as I suppose you will not mind the expense of another letter, I will, in a few days, send you the particulars of his case, and will in the mean time inform those whom he has duped, as they are anxious to prosecute him, but I am afraid the immense distance that he is from this place will prevent them proceeding against him. (Signed) "EDWARD GILBERT, "Clerk to the Guardians of the Poor." "To Mr. Thos. RANDLESON, Carlisle." Two other letters, written by different persons at Chichester, have been addressed to the Clerk of the Peace in this city, containing further details relative to CAVE, similar to those in the letter to Mr. RANDLESON. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ End of this article, but more to come in The Times six days later.....