Star. — London, England, 1818-08-01 00:00:00

A • I S k 1 . • • • I I • 9 1 • • t. •t, • \ . . Vansittart's.,Terrace. It had been drained, and the hammer was discovered. The hammer was produc ed, ind identified by Mr, Litton, the cooper, to be . his, the one which be had lost before the murder.— It was mended in the handle. John..Poulton, the Constable of Deddington, in Oxfordshire, deposed, that he apprehended the pri • soner on the Ist of April, at Deddington. He took from him a sqtchand a pocket-book, with two let ters. He4deinified the letters and the watch. After the witness had,searched the prisoner, he asked him for the rings he had heard he possessed. The priso ner said he put one of them down the privy at the lUng's Arms. It was searched for and found. It contained an inscription—" To the Memory of Six Children..", The prisoner said, this was the ring he had put down the privy. Mr. Bird identified the ring to be his father's, together with the watch, its seal, and chain. John Vickery, the Dow-street Officer, deposed to • the prisoner's being brought to Bow-street by the last witness, and to a ring being found in searching his person, which dint from his boot or pantaloons. Mr. Bird identified the ring to be his father's. It was kept in the bureau up stairs, and the box in which it was contained was left behind. Mr. Serjeant ONSLOW now proceeded to another part of the case—namely, to read the examination and the letters. John Bicknell was then called. He is Clerk to the Magistrates of the district in which Greenwich is included. He took down a statement which the pri soner made before the Magistrate, and which priso ner allowed to be correct. Prisoner was told that he need make no statement, but he wished to make one, and it was taken down as he spoke. Witness saw the potatoes in the oven. Its Vansittart's Terrace there are fifty-six . windows which overlooked the pond in Mr. Smith's ground. The witness, on cross-examination, stated that the prisoner refused to sign the statement, but declared it was correct. The examination was then read, as formerly given, together with the two letters found on his person when he was apprehended. . . • • George Young was a servant at the Tiger's Head. He knew Hussey. He came to the Tiger's Head three weeks before Christmas, and stayed a fortnight after the murder was committed. Witness knows a per son of the name of Ilaxleton, who was a friend of , the prisoner's. An.accident had happened to Haste ton, who had fallen over the wall. He had cut his right hand very much. Hazleton came to their house while his hand was bleeding. Irussey was dressed then in a black coat, a black waistcoat, and grey pantll4ons. Witness knew Hussey's working jacket. tie had not the jacket on then. Being slte..vn the jacket, he could not identify it, but he had not a jacket on. Witness recollected the Saturday when the murder was committed, but did not see Hussey till hal&past ten at night. There was a club called Old Fellows that met at the Tiger's Head. He ptivid by the tap-room at half-past ten, and saw Hussey there as he passed the door. Max Walrnsley, who keeps the Tiger's Head, de posed, she did not see Hussey till within a few minutes of ten o'clock at night on Saturday the; 7th of Fe ls:a:try, but that heinight he . in the taproom an hour befom. She saw him in the lodge-room of the Odd Fellows. john Sparks is a bricklayer at Greenwich. Hat been acquaintei with thepri \0n , ...r for some time. He was in the taproom of the Tig.:r's Head on Saturday night of the murder, from six to eleven o'clock. He s-tw Hussey in the tap-room first on that night about twenty minutes or half as hoar past ten o'clock. If the prisoner had been there before, he must have seen him. He saw him again next morning about ten o'clock, in the same house. Wiliiam HallibOne is Secretary of the lodge of the Odd Follows?' lie remembered the lodge meet ing on Saturday, the 7th of February. The) made an Odd Fellow that evening. He knew the prisoner. He is an Odd Fellow too, but not of their lodge. The -prisoner was there that night about a quarter rant 9 o'clock. The lerigenneets generally at seven o clock, but that night they. did not meet till near eight, and the prisoner did not come till a long time afterwards. Stephen Epsom was at the Odd Fellows I.odge on Saturday, the 7th of February. lie did not know what time Hussey entered, but it was about an hour before the Lodge closed, which was at ten o'clock. William Coulter is a painter at Greenwich. He was at the - Odd Fellows Club on Saturday night.-- Hussey was there, but he did not arrive till twenty minutes befitre ten o'clock. If he had been there earlier, witness would have observed him. Mrs. Kennet, the washerwoman, proved that the prisoner dined with her on the Sunday the-murders were discovered. He came there at twelve, and went away at three, when the bells were ringing for church. This was the case for the prosecution. The Prisoner was then asked by the Court, what he had to say for himself?—He declared his inno cence and said, about seven o'clock on Saturday he went to *ll sme clothes at a woman's house, though she could not recollect any thing of this. He went then to an eating-house, called Ferret's. He stopt to hear some singing in the street, and went then to the Tiger's Head about half-past eight o'clock. Ile then stated what happened in the Lodge at the Tiger's Head ; and related a long irrelevant story about his Conduct on Sunday and afterwards. Ile continued nearly as follows : _ _ _ •" 'the blood on my trowsers was done by William Hazleton, a little before Christmas—we had been to the play together,and. aft*. swards went to the Tiger's Head, and had a few glasses of Hazleton got locked out, hut he said that if the maid was not gone up stilts. he could get in the back way. In getting over a wall being C.lll on some glass panes, and I got over and held him up. He had cut himself very much, and b 'Lag quite stupid and weak, I took him up on my back, and cashed him for a considerable distance, his hand hied pro lately, and the blood ran down my black coat, waistcoat, and tvesers. We went back to the Tiger's Head, but they were shut; we then went to the watch-house, and to Mr. Finch's, the doctor, who decried Hanson ; likewise we went to Lotion's, and »Ir. and Mrs. Lytton saw the condition II was in. Mr. Lytton helped to sponge me, and I rutbed my truwsers with pipeclay, but they have never since been washed, therefore mine stains of blood may remain. My ga i ters get spotted with blood on the Friday previous to the murder.— ge and Ilazkton had a sheep's heart and a melt fur dinner, and while I was (loaning the heart I sprinkled a spot or two over any gaiters. This I lazleton knbws to be true, and Mn. Wama ky and the people at the Tiger's Head know how my cap got stained. They say likewise my jacket is stained with blood, but if I was to lie put to the greatest tort:ire, I don't know how that happened, unless it was done by Al:talcums when going for ..I.andierchiti ton3lamt; or It May lie a stain of *tut or wet My washerwoman will be able to say whether she ever observed it Wore. I have never blooded it, sad if these were my last moments I had to live j should say it with a clear conscience. The jacket has never been on my back since I left Stevlson's, nor did I wear my covered hat, as has been said, on the Satur day evening. This is as false as GOD is true." He uttered this with considerable fluency and 'composure. No look of terror appeared in his face, but he seemed fatigued by standing in a crowded Court for so many hours.—The prisoner then wished Hallibone to be called again, to be examined as to the time he entered the Lodge on Saturday night. Hallibonew as called, and said he recollected Ste phen Epsom having called Hussey out of the room of the Odd Fellows Lodge on the Saturday alter the murder, to question him on the business. Larkin was called up again; he said, that on the 14th February he heard Hussey and Hazleton had absconded from the Tiger's Head, he went there and found the information had been incorrect, as Hussey war there; and on being asked about money, he said he had got it by a legacy of between 60 and £7O, which, on inquiry, proved to be correct. He received legacy on the Wednesday after the murder. Mr. Serjeant LENS, who sat as Judge in the cri minal Court, then summed up. This was a case which deserved attention from the Jury, and he was happy to see that it had received it. The Learned Ser jeant had said that the evidence of circumstances was stronger than testimony, but still it must de pend upon testimony. Though the evidence was long, it might be brought within a narrow compass. The circumstances of the murder could not be doubt ed ; but the question was, were they brought home to the individual at the bar ? The time within which the murder must have been perpetrated was nearly fixed. The murders must have been committed be tween the hours of eight and nine o'clock. The dc. ceased was a man of regular habits, and went to bed before ten o'clock. The supper was prepared ; the potatoes were in the oven ; the water was boiling ; and the table-cloth was about to be laid on the table. The Jury had heard a circumstantial account of the state in which the bodies and the house were found. It was not necessary to detail them. There was al most no doubt that the woman was coming to the door when the crime was perpetrated, and that Mr. Bird was in the attitude conjectured. The Learned Judge then weft over the evidence, with great int partiality and discrimination. He charged the Jury to make up their minds, and pronounce their consci entious conviction, however fatal it might be to the prisoner at the bar. At twenty minutes before ten o'clock, the Jury con sulted upon their verdict, and in about six minutes, and without withdrawing from the box, founil a yr+ dict of' .Grilty. The Clerk of Arraigns then called on the prisoner in the usual form, to know if he had any thing to say why sen!ence of death should not be passed upon him? The prisoner, in a fat:he-kg accent, and vi:th a pate and agitated courter.ance, said, " My Lord!—any Lord: 4 — The .1' I:D —" Cbtries I lussey, hare you any th:ng to say:" The Prisoner—‘• Yes. my-Lord. It is most awful surely for my life to be 111-,.:; violently taken away from me—to be suddenly to r. rrom racy hut'e family; my relations and friends, for a crime of whir% I :tr. not guilty. I know, my Lord, I dccrrvc my f.tte for concealing the property; I feel I did wrong in taking it; but I am as innocent of the guilt of murder, as you, my Lord, who sit there. The ALNI . CIIITY given me power to say this. lie has given me the power of meeting him shortly with fortitude, where I shall attest what he knows to be the ttuth. lam prepared for death. I have made my peace with Goo, as well as the small means allowed me enabled me to do. I was long since told, indeed, that I could not escape--that I must suffer. I now again repeat, I am innocent of the murder—Gov knows it." Mr. Serjeant LENS their prepared to pronounce thel awful sentence of the law, which he did with great solemnity and feeling. It was a painful duty to him to attend to this day's proceedings, and the most painful part of it still remained to be performed.— After what the Cunrt hid heard to-day. and. after the conclusion to which the Jury were .forced to come, he wished the prisoner had spared the decla ration he made of his innocence. He hoped he would still be brought to repentance and contrition for kis crime, of which tilete could remain no doubt in the mind of any reasonable man ; and in the few hours which yet remained, that he would make his peace with Con, from whom all disguise was ineffectual or impossible. In this way he might secure pardon above, while there was no chance of it here. Nothing now remained for him but to pronounce the sentence of the law, which was, that the prisoner be taken' hence to the place from whence he Game, and on Monday be carried to the place of execution, and there hung by the seek till dead, and his body given to be anatomized, and the Loan have mercy upon Ins soul. At tire conclusion of the sentence, the prisoner cast rn anxious agonizing look towards the Bench, appa rently wishing again to addreis the Judge. He did not do so, however, but retired under charge of the officers without speaking. His composure and firm ness of nerve during the whole trial was remarkable, and could only be explained on the supposition of a confidence in his acquittal. If any thing could have ' affected him, it was the conduct of his sister and brothers, who were so overpo - Nered by their feelings, in giving their evidence, they could neither look to- 1 wards him or the Court. His ,s:s:er especially seemed overwhelmed, and wept bitterly. Dar ♦oice was so stifled with her distress, that she could not be heard by the Court. Oh her examination, a seat was or dered her, and her•depositions were obliged to be re peated to the Court and Jury, by a Gentleman of the Bar who sat near her. Towards the evening the crowd without the Court was immense, and their anxiety to know the verdict extreme; but there were no testimonies, either of satisfaction or disapproba tion, shewi: at the result. The trial lasted from ten o'clock in the morning till near ten at night. JrLY 29.- '-' IWRIOUS DRIVING. Jvnes Bel was indicted for feloniously killing and slaying William Dolman. Mr. Pewee NS stated the case to the Jury, ;u1 it vras subsequently detailed in the following evidence:— Lieutenant Joseph Dewsnap, of Greenwich Hospital, stated, that on the 4th of May, as he was walking in Romney-row, he saw a coach drawn by filur horses, driving down towards him at a full gallop. As it reacbed the corner at the bottom of the declimity, the ecru:, upset by the velocity of the motion; the road was perfectly smooth and even and without rut; there was a man sitting on the box with the coachman ; witness immediately ran up to give as- 1 sistance, and reprimanded the coachman severely.l The latter replied he was perfectly sober, and that if, drunk he might have deserved a reprimand ; there appeared to have been four or five outside passen gers; he found one of them crying violently, and saying he was much hurt, his head having come in contact with the ground ; he heard that the man after wards died. Mr. NV. H. Renwick, a Surgeon, was called in to see the deceased soon after the accident. Ile had no external wound, but seemed to labour under a severe concussion, and had a bleeding from his left ear. He . died two days afterwards of a concussion of the brain, occasioned by his fall from the coach. • Mr. Thomas 'Este, the master of Greenwich Work house, merely deposed to the fact of the deceased hav ing been taken in and having died at the workhouse: • The case for the prosecution being closed, the Learned Judge observed, that this was quite a now case. He knew very well that if the coach was driven over a man passing in the street in the open day, then the assault would unequivocally be the act of the driver; but here, however indefensible the hard driv ing might be, yet he was at a loss to see how the death of the man was the direct act of the prisoner. Was there any casein point? Mr. PEA RA ss replied, that a Greenwich coachman , had driven against a cart; upset it; and the man in the cart lost his life.—Lord Ellenborough held it manslaughter, at the last Assizes. The Caunr —Yes ; but there you see the coach man violently upset the cart, and was directly the cause of the death. There can be no jnstillcation for the hard driving. of coachmen ; but I feel great diffi culty, as this strikes me to lie a new case. The Jury, after a short consideration, returned OA, following Verdict—" Guilty of violently driving the hnres, thereby over urnin3 the coach, and killin thz deceased : ; but nc: wi:liany felonious intention. The Clerk—Tuis is a verdict of acquittal. The Counr—Prisoner, I hope the merciful consi deration of the Jury, in your case, will be for ever a warning to you in your future conduct. You see what has been the dreadful consequence of your care lessness ; and to yourself; were it not for the inter position of a point of the punishment would have been most serious. . The prisori-m was then discharged. CIVIL staL.--Lewts V. CLENIECT. • This was an action by an Attorney of the Court of Kiog's Bznch, against the defendant, as Proprietor of Ti..e Obser.vr Sunday and Monday Newspaper,•for publishing a scandalous and defamatory libel of and concerning the plaintiff, contained in a report of err- rain proccedicgs in the Insolvent Del.tors . Court, in the case of a min named William Carter applying for the benefit of eva Insolvent Act, tending to spew that the plaintiff was a dishonest and wicked Attor ney, and r.-as guilty of gross oppression and cruelty towaridi the Insolvent. The declaration cortained a great many counts, to which there were as many pleas respectively—l st, the general issue, not guilty; and 2d, a justification that the alleged libel was a fstliful and correct report of what occurred before the Insvlvcr.t Debtors' Co , irt in the case in question. 'Co these pleas there were replications traversing the truth of the report, on which issue was joined. The plaintiff's case was conducted by Mr. MAR itYATT, Itr. GcnxiT, and Mr. CitarrY, and the de fendant's by Mr. Anocrovs and Mr. PLATT., The gift of the alleged Abel went to shew, that Mr. Levis, in.his conduct towards Carter, had been grossly oppressive and cruel—that he ha d brought writs of error without the consent of the Insolvent, for the purpose of putting costs, into his own pocket— that he had induced the Insolvent to mortgage his property to hint, at a sum far less than its value, and without his knowing the effect of the Instenment he had signed—that he had by these means reduced him to starvation and beggary. 'The article in question was headed—" Shameful conduct of an Attorney ;" and concluded with an observation, that the decision of the Court in favour of the Insolvent produced ge neral satisfaction to a crowded Court. • Mr. ADOLPIIVS on the part of the defendant, con tended, that if ti:e plaintiff' could succeed in this action, the liberty of the Ness must be completely destroyed, in so 'far as corcerned the fair reports of proceedings in Courts of Justice, which was as im portant to the moral welfare of mankind, as religion itself. He undertook to thew, from the most tit questionable evidence, that the statement in question was a far, impartial, and accurate detail of the case, of which it professed to be a report. To prove the defendant's justification, Mr. Bassett, Mr. Norris, Barristers, practising in the lnsolv,ent Debtors' Court, Mr. Corkell, the Attorney for the op sing creditor, against Carter, and several other wit nesses were examined:. and their evidence went to shev:, that the statement published in The Observer was substantially true and faithful, but none of them ventured to speak - to the accuracy of it in positive terms. Mr. hIA navarr addressed the Jury in reply: Mr. Justice ABBOTT summed up the case with the striczt impartiality, but abstained from giving . anv opinion upon the important question, as to the right of Newspapers publishing proceedings in Courts of Justice, conceiving that that point was not necessary to discuss on the present• occasion, the issue being whether the defendants justification had been made out? His Lordship was of opinion, that upon some of the counts the plaintiff was entitled, as a matter of course, to a ve;dict, inasmuch as the evidence in support of some of the pleas did not support the de fendant's • justification. He particularly remarked upon the absence of the Gentleman from•whose notes the report of the case was published, es a circum stance prejudicial to the. defendant's defence. His Lordship, however, put it to the Jury to say whether the justification had, in substance, been made out? for if they were of that opinion, the Learned Counsel on each side would agree on which counts the verdict should be recorded for the plaintifi; and which for the defendant. The Jury, after considering the case for a quarter of an hour, found for the defendant generally; upon which it was agreed - that the verdict should stand for the plaintiff on the Ist, 2d, and 6th counts ► and for the defendant on the retnaiuing counts. POLICf:. BOW - ;Town-47corge harms, a you , genteel appearance, was charged with stealing four curtains and a pair of sheet land's Coffee-house, in the Stra n d, w h en Thursday night, having stated that he rived in London from the country ; he IL with him when he entered the house, left yesterday mornini;,. ha was taking it the same ac. ay ; MI .. Willi:tam, the Ur house, happened to go into his bed-r... after he had paid the charge against hi left the house, when sl.e instantly missed and sheets; she gave an alarm, and he through the Strand, with the cry of He was come up with on Waterloo lit: , property in his possession, and on his cc was detected, he threw it away. The bt into the house with him, proved only to Several other charges were exhitnied from the Bath Hotel ; the Bell and Cr born ; the Griffin, in Villiers -street, in di all which places he had takar. in bundles carried out valuable property, }lc was mined for trial on Mrs. Williams's char COIONEfeIf Imautt,r.--Yesterday ec quest was held at the Seven Stars. h. on the body of Elizabeth Mackie, who, was murdered by her husband on Tees, her residence in Blue Anchor-yard, WU appeared that on Tuesday night the been with Ann Silvester, as far as Tr eet, and on her re:urn she compLi4 t ed and a pain of the stomach, and v.• 1; of supported home. The folibwinr; bind of the deceased called on her, s:' was dead, and requestedhcr to t,e and he would order a coffin. 'W.t. washed leer, andlaid her ott. SL on the ked with her clothes o;t, ewe , . and stockings, ant saw no marl:4 person. The ni7 o !lt before thcv v•c; c ling; and about one o'clock iu the r , band gave her a trernetifku• blow. exclaimed, 6 , Oh, my Gr"i r"f.,, deceased had h3en murdered; be; neighbeiurhood, a vas: cancour round the houtt., so as to rerdc: able ; and'on - Thursday nig:lt to see the body (having called aver.i: but bring refused icimittanc:. by ever, she gaiv)ed , admittance. an,i found a bruise on her shouhler then bruise upon her fdrehead, and a tri from her nose. She asked the husbanc He told her that the deceased fell .!aw asked him if he had riot (scot bee'lks: knowledge! he had.-:.The Cyr.ltn that in consequence of the I oji was, it was impossible fur the at to 1-et murder, as the surgeon could net of death. The best plan fur them to al return such a verdict as would aut' Court to enter into an investigation. turned a verdict of—" Found dead, Ist deceased died a natural death, or a viol is no evidence before the Jury to prow 11 en r n nut tit a.—The N beat nerally commenced throughout this c 4 have never u ;messed a more forward both as to qualiry and quantity ; it is harvest, and will, we hope, richly rew, of that most re,pectable, most valuab society, the farmer. The hop-yards i tibns have assumed a luxurious anJ pearance, almost mthoped for, and the also the quality, if the weather is propi are confident, exceed all expectation. and oat crops have been greatly reviv , Rains, and promise to be abundant, a! toes. The orchards, in many situath wise a most gratifying appearance ; loaded without being burthened with fr common care and skill are exerted, will be made. COUNTRY MARKET: thaimas,JulY W.—Wheat. per load £l7 Barley, per q uarter , 44$ to 52o—Oats 604 to 80o—Pets„ --e to --a—Rye, 00, to BILWItiatV, July 50.—Whet Bs. 041. to 10s 6d• to 10s ad—Vetches, Os ud per bushel.--.llstl. —Oats, 38s Od to 48s Od per quatter—Etc poek—Flour, 68s to Oas pts sack. °areal., july 30.—Tbe price of a &sled 11411-prek Loaf, Wheaten, 2s 10.--) BIRTHS. On the 30th ult. near Consort, the Lad) of of a son. _ _ . Saturday, at Clay-hill, Beckenham, the wilt grioe Courtenay, Fs+ MX. of a Stoll. On the P. 1.1 June, at Lisbon, the Lady of Coo Arentaschild, K.B. of a daughter. La,t week the wife of a s4plierd employed of Newport,- Itlonnsouttasho., was delivered two zirls at a birth, wbi, h are all ha a thriving art very poor, and leap than its coal baskc:a ias DIED. July !4, at Sherboru, aged Tf, Ik.. Utak late Dr. heather, M. 11. of Rath. Mouthy, Mr. Walk4r, of the Percy CZ-v. Oaee aged 6a. Thursday, at Nights°, aged 39, :Nfargard 13adhana, M. D. F.ll. S. . At Dtindee, in the 100th year of lilt a; native of Strathspey, ;•ud me of the few rem. Prince Charles Sluart--having fought undei Prince during the whole of the rebellion in was buried at the church-yard of Logic ; and attended his remains to the grave followed en v.-stunt of thinking some bottles of whitkv burying ground. PRICR OF STOC Bk. Stock 376} 277 _ Reduced 771 i Cons. 77} 77 Si per Cent. 66.1 4 per Ct. 91 Navy 1056 Long Ans. 2O 11.16 'KS YESTERr India Stock 3:;;;1 Bonds 92 pr. Orn.i. 1 1 1 dis. Exch. bids (21)19 '2l Ditto c2i,i) 19 20 Cons. for Ac. Lottery lickc 4:19 PI 00.1 L 144.11/1C :r, Jrcr Ships at Market. Ships Sold. 611 Newcastle 3:l} 8 Sunderland to Vs. 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