Transcribed from the 7 January 1848 issue of The Armagh Guardian newspaper, by permission of The British Library: A Fugitive from Ireland Arrested.--The 'Boston Post', of January 15, says:--"In August last Wm. R. Derinsey, an inspector of finance in Monaghan county, Ireland, arrived at New York, and exchanged Bank of England notes to some amount for New Jersey money. Proceeding to New Brunswick, and deposit- ing his funds in the state bank there, he bought a farms on the Ratitan and settled with a wife. Mr. Thornton, of the London detective police, arrived in the Caledonia last week in pursuit of him. With the aid of officers Hays, Gilbert, and Stevens, the transaction at Taylor's office was ascertained, and the fellow thus traced to New Brunswick, where Hays, on Monday, applied to a magistrate for a warrant, which could not be properly issued. Hays then called at Derinsey's house, professedly with a message that a portion of the money he received from the Wall-street broker was bad, and that he would do well to see him imme- diately. Hays left on receiving a note to Mr. Taylor that he would see him next day. Leaving an agent in New Brunswick to watch and telegraph his move- ments, Hays returned to the city, and upon Derinsey's arrival at Cortlandt-street, is charged, with having absconded with over 3,000 dols, [sic] of the donations en- trusted to his care as treasurer by the British com- missioners of public works for his starving countrymen in Monaghan. He was in this country six years ago, and left a wife and two children here. Shortly after embezzling the relief funds, it is said he married ano- ther wife abroad, from whom he obtained some 1,500 dols. more, and then deserting her, fled to this coun- try, and joined his first wife and children. On being arrested, he confessed the embezzlement, and refunded some 2,000 dols. Thomas Warner, Esq., counsel for the British officer, proceeded to Washington for au- thority to deliver him for trial in England." ============================================================ Alison Causton Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia