This transcript from The Times was sent to the Cumberland List and is posted here with permission of the transcriber. It continues in further postings. I hope you find them of interest, as I did. I have a Dunstead Cave BARBER born 1872 but so far haven't found a CAVE connection, so who knows?! Carol The Times, Tuesday, Apr 06, 1824; pg. 3; Issue 12305; col E UNHAPPY OCCURRENCE. - For some time past the family of a respectable inn-keeper in this city has experienced much anxiety in consequence of the sudden elopement of one of its female relatives to Gretna, with a stranger, who styled himself Charles Samuel CAVE, Esq., of Thorney-abbey, Cambridgeshire, and who had for three weeks resided at the inn previous to the unfortunate affair taking place. The young lady is a minor, and when of age will be possessed of about 800L.; the husband is about forty, and while a sojourner in Carlisle, was much in the habit of talking concerning his domestic affairs, never omitting to introduce the subject of his large possessions. Having in this manner prepared the way for future operations, he intimated his intention of purchasing a mansion, laying out money on mortgage, &c., and even consulted a respectable solicitor as to the most eligible property in which to invest his superfluous capital. At length, Coldale-hall, at Newtown, met his approval, and a treaty was immediately opened for the purchase; the premises, indeed, were rather diminutive for his establishment, not affording more stabling than for "a couple of hunters," yet he did not think it prudent to let them slip through his fingers for the trifling sum of "seventeen hundred guineas!" On the evening before the marriage, he gallantly escorted his intended bride to the circus, and thence they proceeded in a postchaise to Gretna, from which they returned on the day following to the lady's friends at the inn. Many efforts were then tried to discover his connexions; but he persevered in refusing to give a reference, or any further account of himself than that he was from "Thorney Abbey, Cambridgeshire;" and though strong suspicions unfavourable to his character had been excited, yet such was his self command and effrontery, that he succeeded in continuing the fraud by engaging a house, of which he was to have a seven years' lease, purchasing expensive furniture, &c.; and that nothing might be wanting to complete the equipage of a country gentleman, an elegant hunter was bought, with the necessary appendages of saddle, bridle, whip, and spurs. Fortunately, however, none of the above articles had been delivered, so that when the bubble burst, every thing in the way of purchase remained in statu quo. But the time had now arrived when all the schemes of Charles Samuel CAVE, Esq., were to vanish into thin air. The gentleman (of whom Samuel had previously borrowed 30L.) having written to Mr. PECKOVER, banker, of Wisbeach, to whom CAVE had referred him for his character, an answer was received from that gentleman, in which it was stated that he knew no such person; but he understood that a man of the same name, a cooper by profession, had quitted the neighbourhood, leaving his wife and family chargeable to the parish! The delusion was now dissipated, and the Squire from "Thorney Abbey" committed to gaol, for obtaining money under false pretences, where he still remains until further information respecting him can be obtained. - Carlisle Journal. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The story will continue in The Times a week later.....