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LIMERICK ASSIZES. COUNTY COURT, SgPTRIIBRIt 19. MURDER OF A P.ILICENIAN. George Bradshaw and John Bradshaw, Esqrs. two Gentlemen of respectability, and well connected in the county of Limerick, were put to the bar, charged with the murder of John Gorman, a policeman ; and George Bradshaw was charged with an assault on Denis Hayes, a 'policeman, on the 3d of August.— John While ' a n other respectable Gentleman, was in dicted for the former offence. The following Jury were sworn : Patrick Russell, Richard White, Burke White, Thomas Potter, Parker Bennett, Thomas Ben nett, Gerfld Griffin ' Tho mas Furlong, William John Upton, John Upton, Edvaard Up ton, and Edward Langford. Denis Ilayes sworn and examined.—knew John Gorman, the deceased ; first became acquainted with him on the day he went with him to execute a war rant against George Bradshaw ; believes it was on the 3d of August ; saw the prisoners at the bar on that day; identified them ; Gorman went with him to execute the warrant; Gorman was armed with a gun and a bayonet; they went to a ball alley, in Sandy-lane, to execute the wan ant; saw George Bradshaw there, and shewed him to the policeman, who laid his hand on him, and said to Mr. Bradshaw, 41 That he was the King's man or prisoner," he does not exactly know which. A man named Webb came up with a stone in his hand; witness desired him to lay it down; George Bradshaw was along with the policeman (Gorman) ; Webb said he would strike the witness ; he then dropped the stone ; Gorman said peace was made, and desired witness to leave the ball-alley, and he would bring out-George Bradshaw; Gorman brought him out; Webb then came up to strike Gorman ; Gorman raised his gun, and desired him to stand out from him, or he would shoot him; Webb took hold of prisoner (White), and put him between him and the gun, for fear he would be shot; Gorman ordered witness to apprehend Webb; witness did, and brought Webb a prisoner; Gorman was then about bringing Mr. George Bradshaw with him ; when they came ten or twelve yards, while standing at the Cross, White (prisoner) came to witness, and desired him to let his prisoner go; he said he would not; he did, when policeman was bringing George Bradshaw as his prisoner ; John Bradshaw came up, and took policeman about eighteen yards off the Cross, or road ; George Bradshaw went with them ; when they came to the corner of a garden, John Bradshaw had one hand on pulicepan's gun ; George Bradshaw and policeman held it also; the gun went off; John Bradshaw loosed his hold from the policeman, and George Bradshaw took the gun from him ; George Bradshaw raised it to mace policeman; to the best of his knowledge, it was the butt end; policeman then fell back into the ditch ; can't say whether he was struck or not ; George Bradshaw came across tile• road with the gun in his hand, from where it was taken fl:om Garman to where witness was ; he thought to hit witness" in the lip, but witness put the gun off ; he had held the gun in his two hands; the bayonet was or. the gun, and, in the struggle, witness received the top of the bayonet in his left elbow ; then Mr. White and another said, " Oh, fie, George!" and Gorman came to his assistance; Webb struck him with a stone ; Kennedy and Donovan gave him a or fist, and threw him down—that is, either tripped or pushed him down ; John Bradshaw stopped on the road until the gun went off; after that did not see George Bradshaw do anything to Gorman; Webb and Donovan struck Gorman alter that with a stick or a stone ; did not see Gorman with a bayonet ; he fell in a house into which he went, and died the next day; did not -see the bayonet after that ; George Bradshaw struck witness with the gun. Cross-examined by Mr. GooLD.—Did love George Bradshaw before this day; loved him when he chs trained all the crops—(ss itness's own crops)—there was a warrant against witness for preventing the cut ting of a standing crop; prisoners are respectable Gentlemen; George Bradshaw was playing at ball. The warrant which the policeman, took to arrest Mr. Bradshaw, in the first instance, was here produced. The Rev. Richard Cox, sworn.—He had seen Gor man twenty-four hours before his death ; he consi dered him in a dying state ; took his depositions ; bound him over to prosecute: deceased did not say to witness, " that he was in a dying state ;" thought if his danger increased, he should have been sent for as a Clergyman ; saw the warrant taken from the clothes of the deceased ; his clothes were off him then ; there was with the warrant a supersedeas given' evilness ; the prisoners were living near him; he knew they were respectable Gentlemen ; never heard any thing to their disadvantage before; does not recol lect having said, " that Gorman told him he did not blame the Ilradshaws." Hayes's examination resumed.—Witness, on his examination, said nothing about any other paper ; did not go into Downey's shop; did not hear of the iupersedeas until the day Gorman was killed ; did riot hear George Bradshaw call to John White for the supersedeas; Webb did not threw a stone in the ball-alley. To a question from a Juror, witness said, there were from thirty to fifty at the ball-alley ; witness on/y put six in the informations! James Tandy Wilkinson.—ls a surgeon; was called on to see Gorman before his death; conceives his death was occasioned by the stabs in his bowels. Alderman Thomas Francis Wilkinson—ls a Jus tice of the Peace.for the County of Limerick; gave Ilayes a warrant ; it was a warrant for a felony ; gave the supersedeas now produced to Mr. George Brad skaw, whom he knew to be a most respectable Gen. Amen ; did not know at first that the warrant was against the prisoner ; thought it was for another, as the word " farmer" was on it.—Prosecution closed. Mr. Gooeu.--My Lord, I conceivealtere is nothing to affect Mr. White.. The JUDGE.—SO should I; but for the question you put to the witness Hayes, who said that " he in cluded Mr. White in the second information, because, during the affray, be had put his hand on his shoul der : but whether to intimidate or to second him, witness could not say." Hayes recalled.--Could not say whether Mr. White had been hurt or not. Robert Ingram, Esq.—The sister of Messrs. Brad shaw (the prisoners) is married to witness's brother; bad a conversation with Denis Hayes, who knew witness to be a relative of the prisoners; met Hayes about the 23.1 of AugusS, who had his arm in a sling t Hares said to Witness, 1 Mr. Ingram, I thought Mr. George Bradshaw would have sent to me." " Why so r replied witness ; " you did your best against him at the Inquest." He replied, that Major Going told him, "the Inquest did not signify a pin, but to be steady r he said, " If Mr. George Bradshaw and his brother had sent for him, and made it up with him, he would say what they liked at the Court" (meaning the Assizes in Limerick). Catherine Shanahan.—Lives near the ball-alley ; her borne is there ; saw part of the affray out of the ball-alley ; first, she saw a policeman trying to make a prisonetof Webb; saw the same policeman draw out his bayonet and put it on his gun; Webb came behind a Gentleman of the name of White (one of, the prisoners), and put him between him and the gun, which Gorman held before him ; Gorman came out before 'the Gentleman, and tried to get an op portunity of getting at Webb; saw a policeman pre sent the gun at Mr. George Bradshaw ; saw Mr. John Bradshaw come on one side of the policeman, and put his hands round him; policeman said, " he wanted the use of his arms ;" Mr. John Bradshaw re plied, 44 that the policeman should not be molested," and was pacifying him as a woman would a cross, morose child ; the gun went off; saw Mr. John Brad shaw's hand ; the blood streamed from it on the road ; was convenient to the shot, and had like to be killed herself; witness made off them __ • _ _ Heffernan Considine, Esq.-.-Knows Mr. George and Mr. John Bradshaw since they were boys; they are extremely peaceable and respectable young Gentlemen. Bolton Massey, Esq.—Knows Mr. George Brad shaw; was in the same Yeomanry Corps with him ; he is an extremely respectable, well-conducted young Gentleman. Mr. GoOLD said, that the Jury has it, that the supersedeas was given in, and that the conduct of the constable w i ts illegal. The Learned Judge summed up the evidence, and said, that firm the view he took of the case, he did not think that the offence could go beyond the crime of manslaughter, and that the Jury have to consider whether the prisoners are guilty of that species - of homicide or not. Nothing ought to be more at tended to than the protection of officers by Gentle men—nothing more guarded against than giving any opposition to an officer in the discharge of his duty. law is open to all t&have redress against the person who issued the process, or who executed it. With regard to this case, Gentlemen of the Jury, if you shall be of opinion that the supersedeas was de livered to the officer before the fatal occurrence, then the deceased was a trespasser, in proceeding to exe cute an illegal warrant. It changed the nature of that which would have been murder, if the officer was acting legally, into a lesser offence. Gentlemen of the Jury, I now leave it to you to decide at what moment the deceased received the supersedeas. It is no harsh inference to suppose that, at the moment Hayes was de looking about," the supersedeas was de livered. Yon have to consider whether the prisoners at the bar are guilty even of manslaughter. You are told that the deceased died in consequence of the wounds he received in the side. I shall read the evidence to see if are manner of receiving the wounds is explained. The Ellenborough Act cannot be in flicted in consequence of Hayes's wounds. The de ceased died of the bayonet wound. Who inflicted it, or at what period, does not appear; whether Mr. John Bradshaw (whose hand was shattered) inflicted it or not, it is much to be lamented that the wound was inflicted. It does not appear where deceased got these wounds. From Catherine Shanahan's tes timony, or any other evidence, you cannot see that the wounds were inflicted by the prisoners. Mr. Ingram's evidence enables you to judge how you may estimate the evidence of Hayes. Any stabs re ceived must have been inflicted with his own bayonet; but, if you come to a conviction that he received the wounds after he had been disarmed, and whenhe was gonefions the prisoners, you have a tight to conceive he received his death by other means, and you must acquit them altogether. With regard to Mr. White, there is nothing to occupy you. Respecting Mr. John Bradshaw s having received a wound, you are' to consider whether he was, in consequence, capable of inflicting any injury on the deceased. Gentlemen, in order to convict any of the prisoners, you ought to be satisfied that those wounds were inflicted by the participation of each. The prisoners had received an excellent character, which is always to be taken into consideration on these occasions. The Jury found a verdict of—Not Guilty. OLD BAILEY SESSIONS. John Wickin was indicted for embezzling a el note, the property of his employer, Mr. William Leslie, a coal-merchant, at Chelsea. Mr. Leslie stated, that the prisoner was his clerk, and had been in his service for three years ; in the month of April last, a Mrs. C. Smith was indebted to him in the sum of El 19s. It was the custom of the house for the receiving clerk to enter into a cash book every night what sums he might receive in the course of the day, and when those entries were made, witness received the money and signed the book. On the 16th of April, no entry was made of the receipt of El from Mrs. Smith ; but on the 7th of May there was au entry of £1 19s. which constituted the whole amount due from Mrs. Smith. Cross-examined.—He only received on the 7th of May, and perfectly well remembered examining the copy of the cash-book. Mr. Leslie gave his evidence in a very peculiar manner, which at first called forth some animadver- sions from the Court and Jury ; but it afterwards came out that he was unhappily labouring under some mental embarrassment. Mrs. Smith stated, that on the 16th of April she paid the prisoner a £1 note on account of Mr. Leslie, and on the 7th May she made a second payment of 10s. to him ; she also made a third payment in the month of June, being the full amount due to Mr. Leslie, the prosecutor. A clerk to Mr. Leslie was called to corroborate the testimony of the prosecutor. There was an entry on the 7th May of the whole sum of El 19s. but there was no entry of Li on the 16th April. On the cross-examination of this witness by the Counsel for the prisoner (Mr. Aoot.Pliosl, he was questioned as to his belief in the New Testament, whether he believed it to be a revelation from GOD ? —The witness, who was a very young man, at first hesitated to answer the question, but on being pressed he said he could not say he did not believe in it; and on being further questioned, said," Yes, I do believe it is a revelation from GOD." When asked why he did not at first answer the question, he said he did not exactly understand it wheri first put to him.— When again asked the question, he persisted in the same answer. _ . Mr. ADOLPHUS was about to question the witness further as to his belief in the Scriptures, when he was interrupted by Mr. ANDREWS, who objected to the question. Mr. ADounius.—This is the first time I ever heard an infidel defended. This closed the case on the part of the prosecution. Mr. ADOLPIIUS now advised the prisoner to leave his defence to the Jury. There were sex-en witnesses to the prisoner's character, but the Learned Counsel refused to call them. The Jury found the prisoner Guikry. Mr. ADOLPHUS called the attention of the Court to the circumstance that he could have called seven witnesses to character, but had declined doing so under the impression that his client would have been acquitted. As that had not been the case, he trusted the Learned Judge would bear in mind the fact, and in awarding punishment, so deal with the unfortunate man as to answer the ends of justice, but, at the same time, deal with mercy towards the prisoner. Catherine Sullivan was indicted for stealing I Is. in silver, from the person of John Naish, on the 25th of August, in the parish of St. Giles. On the day, in question be was returning from Peckham, where he had been waiting at the fair. It was about three o'clock in the morning ; prosecutor had a friend with him, and in Drury-lane they met the prisoner and another woman together, and joined company and went with them to a house in Church street; where he lost his nioney.—Guiky. The COMMON SERJEANT, on the prosecutor's ap plying for his expenses, told him, he would not have a farthing. A more idle, profligate, foolish fellow he had never met with. The Court regretted much that they had not the power of sending him to the I louse of Correction, as well as the prisoner against whom he brought the charge. To shew those women, not withstanding, that however foolish persons were who might fall into their society, through their own aban doned inclinations, they were not to be plundered with impunity, the Court would sentence her to be imprisoned in the House of Correction for six months. Jeremiah Sullivan was indicted for having, on the 9th of September, stolen a watch, a hat, and other articles, from the person of N. Moraud. The prosecutor is an artificial flower-maker, resid ing in Greek -street, Soho. On Saturday evening the prosecutor returned home soon after twelve, when lie found the house shut, and he was obliged to wander in the street. Between four and five o'clock in the morning, the prosecutor was walking along the street, when a man came up and pushed him off the pave ment : he asked him what he did that for ? when the man knocked him down. The prisoner and another man came up and pretended to take the prosecutor's part, and put the other man to flight. The prosecu tor then, as a re:urn for this civility, took them to a public-house, in Church-street, and treated them with some beer. In the course of conversation, the prose cutor mentioned having been tip all night, and the prisoner offered to take the prosecutor to his house, where he might lie down for an hour or two. He went with them, and found a woman at the house, who appeared to be the wife of one of the men. Here the prosecutor took off his coat, shoes, and hat, and laid down ; he soon fell asleep. This was about seven o'clock ; and about nine he was disturbed by feeling some person's hand about his waistcoat pocket, and perceived it was the prisoner, who said he•was put ting the clothes on the bed. Witness soon after got up, when he discovered that he was left alone, and that his coat, hat, shoes, and watch, were gone. The prisoner was afterwards apprehended and searched, but none of the property was found on him. The prisoner now denied all knowledge of the robbery. He saw the prosecutor in the street early in the morning, very much in liquor, and fighting with another man. He went up to them, and, with another man, took the prosecutor's part, who after wards insisted on treating them with some beer ; and, ultimately, the other man took the prosecutor to the house in Church -street, where the prosecutor described himself as having been robbed ; but the prisoner so lemnly denied any knowledge whatever of the rob ' berg.—The Jury found the prisoner Guilty. Joseph Wince was put to the Bar, charged with stealing, about the middle of the present month, in the parish of St. Luke, one Bath stove, value ss. the property of J. M'Nally. The principal witness was a lad, named William Kelly, about 1.5 years of age, who swore that he saw the prisoner take the stove, and pursued him, when he dropped it. The prisoner very soon after was apprehended. Elizabeth M'Nally, the wife of the prosecutor, at tempted to corroborate in part, the testimony of the last witness; but on their cross-examination, so much prevarication was elicited from both of them, that the Court ordered the two witnesses to be recalled, having first put the ease to the Jury, who immedi ately pronounced the prisoner —Not Guilty. Mr. ARABIN, who tried the case, lamented that a boy of such tender years should have been induced to lose sight of the sacredness of an oath, and preva ricate in the manner he had done ; but in orJer to shew that such conduct should not pass unnoticed, the Learned Judge committed him for corrupt per jury. Mrs. M'Nally was then ordered to stand up, and some strong animadversion passed upon her con duct ; but from the fact of her having made an early discovery, she had saved herself from being also com mitted, as the boy was, for perjury. Her conduct, however, had been of that description, that the Court were warranted in committing for contempt. The prisoners were then given into the custody of the officers belonging to Newgate. After they had left the Court, the Learned Judge (Mr. ARARIN) said, that the present was the most disgraceful exhibition be had ever witnessed. George Harrison was charged with stealing a silver watch, chain, and seals, the property of a Mr. H ings. The prosecutor said he lodged in the house of the prisoner s mother. On the Ist of September he had gone but, leaving his watch, &c. on the umiak piece ; but on his return home he found the articles gone, and suspecting the prhoner, whoin hc. kuov tu be n bad character, be enused him to he app T e letal —l'he officer, who took the priv , . • • • itn o cu st , y , stated, that he (pri s one r ) acknowledged to I,i . stolen the watch, whi c h h e had sold at a rec6,...3 house for stolen property, in the Seven Dials.--G& Yesterday the Sessions ended ; when k .ena.s te Death was passed on the following priiouers, " Ann Smith, illattliew Can, and William Brown, for • - forged nnt:s; Cabelia and Thenias way robberies; llamas Wilton, for stealing i n !muse; Ann Davis, Josiah Cadman, Gei:rge Bilis. ae,llZ Topley, for utterin3 forge . d L•ltes; Joshua I hr.s'aationi, 4 -4 Flannery, and Thomas 1: asher, for hocatb rf . t i k , s; !!organ, for a borglary ; John Dougherty , r ~e 241 7 , 74 dwelling-house; George Smith, for a h:Els,vay.eoLl,,,,g.l Harding, for sheep-stealinz ; Thonns Ituie:for co ,* ; „ . maiming; William Garter% Er stealing in a e v e air : A 241 and William 'Lines anci Harri3oti, rict , .,d in January last). hu 0.9" Twenty-fire were ordered to be tree ;Forted foe life, c o Biggs, Joseph and Bach:4 tiarans, 3.unes Dicey, Jaris 4 William Martin, John Frampton, Charles Uay, Johtl.'. ll I Charles Bull. David Smith, Whitehead,Benjamin non, Geurje Ski,:l7Whitehead, alias Se.tzer Smar t , Thomas c o ;' Benjamin Perring, Jonel, Joh n My ers m , John Berril.: therime Sullivan, Catherin e B ryan , William Bryant, h t. , 13.:n A jaialn, William PCoy, and J o h n P a l mer. One for fourteen yea m, viz. Jeremy Garliold. Silty fur seven years, it. James Clifford, Hannah it 26,. William Knight, Jelin Dawson, John Taggers, Janus c o l k. John Buriberry, Charles Martin, Willi am Figg, Heti, William Davison, Francis Clark, John Avery, John &rig a. • William Sutherin, Richard Holland, Jobn &and', te r. , Moore, John Hugen, Mary Holder, Thomas Dutton, Thomas Norroway, Elizabeth Antos, George Stept„ . John Ramsey, Joseph'Nettlefold, John Bridgman, Jag. :`,l o b l , Robert Tooley, James Frozer, Ellen M'C arthy, iltet,: William Johnson, Melchor Hedge., Ceurze Farageld, Davis, William Williams, George Nafoli. Andrew John Wick it's, James Robinson, Thomas Morand, Ja-e. s 36 rmiey, 'Thomas J011:15011. Barry Johnson, John Isaacs, 1,4 Horwoud, John Grest, Matilda Dowd, Jai e Batley, Edi aT ; Brown, Jeremiah Still:van, Ulzabeth Sanm.rl George Cornline Goodwin, Thomas BA, Gee.,tet !tins, and Jotaoph Bolt. Seven were ordered to be imprisoned :n the Ilmse of O rel don for London, and 60 for imprisonment the thr-sect:( 4 , rection for Nliddl..sex, several whom were to be privately whi;.ped; several were lined is. cot.h, t.v.i )2 40 4 were reaiited, and 29 were diseharg.4 by Pr...Alma:am. The Sessions were then a‘ijourued to Wedigsda,i the 2.1,11 of October nest. Gut I.DUALL.— NW, Mtn Reynolds, of Cripplem Ward Within, whose dismissal from his eilice et co-, stable was noticed in our Paper of Tuesday, appa - ti yesterday before Mr. Alderman \Voon, to complaint of Mr. Webh, of Fore -street, at %vb..: house the robbery was attempted to be commizte' ! Mr. Webb stated that scarcely had he ente;ed Lv house from the Justice.rooni on Monday, • nolds came up to his door, shock his fist at him, a threatening attitude, and said—" You d—d viiva • rui do fur you." From this threat, he apprehenld • some mischief was intended him; Reynolds had did upon him that morning (sihce he had iezeirede, summons), and expressed himself wiry for 444 had done. Reynold-, in his defence, sail Mr.Wete had told him he was as great a scoundrel as them of them. Nobody, he said, could prove he hada ceived any money, and the whole was a fool conli. racy against him. The Alderman observed to M 4 Webb, that probably since Reynolds's apology le apprehensions had subsided. Mr. Webb said, hear. tainly did not feel himself safe, and hoped le moll be bound over to keep the peace. Reynolds aeon:- ingly entered into his own recognizance. l'ievions to his leaving the Court, lie desired to know et the Alderman if he should want anything more via him, as he believed he should go away. The Alder. man inquired where, and for what purpose? to Reynolds replied, with great sang fioid, he helical he should go into the country, and live upon s • of the money he had received. He did not, hotter mean to be saucy, but he had never received, expected, any money for that job. AldermanWoor replied, that certainly it had not been proved again him, but there had 'been some talk about A:5O and if money could do it, if it were £.50, or £5OO, he dl not doubt but that it might be had, as the partiei,ht believed, were able to afford it. Reynolds retire making no reply. PROSTITUTES—Seventeen prostitutes were brough up to Guildhall yesterday morning. Mr. Alder= WoOD inquired minutely into their cases, and where i appeared any of them had friends who would do any thing for them, they were remanded, that application might be made for that purpose. One or two who stated probable prospects of getting an honest live- lihood for the future, were discharged, and five of the most abandoned were committed to Bridewal for one month. Only two cases, out of the whole, presented anything remarkable. The first was dig of a young girl, with a fine boy two or three Jeri old in her at ms, whose history was detailed by an spectable cabinet-maker, in New -court, Fleet-made. He had taken her an orphan from her grandmotlm and she had lived in his family for above two year+, where she conducted herself with the greatest pr priety. She was seduced by a clerk in a brewery, which he named, who married her, and by whom tie had the child then with her. It subseiuently clone ot:t that this clerk was previously married; and on Lig& covery he withdrew his support, and the poor girl cries I thrown upon the streets for her niaintenauce. She was, he knew, desirous of again getting into service, svi:tch he promised to exert himself to procure for hen 1:Pon this engagement the girl was delivered 02 to ilo* The second was that of a woman of respectable ar pearance, who, by the evidence of a decent mania female, was the wile of a mechanic. While the hin band was employed at a country job, the wife found, at two o'clock in the morning, among the 4 9 , orderly girls in Fleet-street. She seemed hearaii ashamed of her situation, which she endavoured.fi explain, by saying that she had met one of a,: 0. then at the whom she had known befo , e sunk into that disgraceful situation, and s% , ii her endeavours to persuade her to return to her 1 , —The girl alluded to partly confirmed thi, nation, as she had k.nown this r itittorev id!) , vda . , : in service. The whole excuse, however, was exposed by the testimony of the officers, who decialti that they took her in the midst of six or ci;llt disorderly women, as obstreoerous in her niirlD • any of them, and in the very act of eitn.i. a ,no about. The fact of her situation, however, 101 proved to the satisfaction of the Alderman, he alk niu her to go home with her ftieed. - - • - , ii 16 ii- TEICi W Ai LONUUN bRIDGg tO-3100 fit Moulin; . 13 nti4ll.EZ 4 atter 3 3 Afternoon . _ 1.0 Y• 1) . 1:i Printed 'tut Ditnii‘lit.d by Cirviiehiliti, I.l* 11a:c 'l'- y.lt Jai. i of el U lii 111 , '•,,,