The New Hampshire Gazette

From the Dublin Star of Nov. 15.

Elopement.—Perhaps the whole history of crime in this country furnishes no parallel to the iniquitous case we now lay before our readers:—The criminal is Mr. J. J. Pim, a young man about 23 years of age; a connection of one of the most wealthy and distinguished mercantile houses in the kingdom; a house in whose very name even so much respectability centres, that he who bears it finds not only a passport into any society, but a letter of credit throughout the commercial world. On Thursday afternoon, the absence of Mr. Pim first excited fears that he was a party in the elopement of a neighbor's wife, a beautiful woman, the mother of three children, the youngest of which is a babe only a few weeks old! On Tuesday night, it seems the guilty pair hired a job carriage, and filled it with trunks, containing money, plate and other valuables. The lady, Mrs. Mowlds, had not been long seated with her paramour, when, according to the driver's account, she burst into a flood of tears, and upbraided him with his and her own crime. They took a route which inclines their respective friends to believe that they have gone to Waterford, there to take shipping to America.

The distraction of the husband of the unfortunate young lady mocks the force of language; he left Dublin yesterday morning, accompanied by some friends, in pursuit; and other parties are also in quest of the offenders in various directions. But the conduct of Mr. Pim to the wife of his confiding friend is but one division of his enormous guilt! He has not only robbed a most respectable and once happy man of his beautiful and accomplished partner, and a nursery of children of their mother, but he has availed himself of his connection with one of the first mercantile families in Dublin, to obtain large sums from almost every merchant with whom he had been intimate! Nay, he has induced the lady, not only to dishonor her husband, but to rob him of his money, plate, and other property. On the day they absconded, Mr. Pim borrowed of the man who was that night to be the victim of his perfidy a sum of one hundred and seventy pounds. The bank of Ireland was a few days previously taken in to the amount of 700 pounds. The respectable house of George Thompson & Co. of Temple Bar, and wise merchants, have been defrauded of six hundred pounds. Other houses lost equal or much greater sums. A house in Leinster-street, that of Deane, loses nearly three hundred pounds; but, in fact, the recentness of the discovery renders it but too probable that these are minor transactions, in comparison with those which may be disclosed during this day's inquiries. The whole of the property amounting to many thousands of pounds has been carried off; several Irish merchants will each give, we understand, a hundred pounds for Mr. Pim's apprehension. We regret to say, that the male offender's mother is overwhelmed by her sorrow. Her life, it is feared, may yield to her present deep affliction. Owing to her being of the Protestant religion, Mr. Pim was reared in that persuasion, though his father was of the society of Friends.