The National Register. — London, England, 1818-04-12 00:00:00

Arlin, ie. he came then down together ; and when the former got into the shop, he fell on his knee and left elbow. Prisoner turned round, lookLd at him, and said, "Ah !" John said nothing. The prisoner then walked out of the shop. Cross-examined by Mr. Adolphus.—Father did not.tcll her what words to use. Mr father kept a potatoe and oyster shop. She was left to keep the shop. pier father and his housekeeper were up stairs, the housekeeper was Mrs. Wttde. She told her to call her Wade, because, she said, the prisoner had another wife in Yorkshire. She was Mrs. Faucet ; they had lived nc'•.t door to her father, and had three children. John was one of them, and near 20 rears of age. Mrs. Faweet had heed a few months with her father before the 13th of March:. She and her father did not sleep together. There were but two beds in the hou.e; she and her brother anti sister occupied oar of then. She had not seen how the other bed was occupied. Mrs. Fawcrt was ;here early and late. Before that, her father was i n p r i son . She used to go and see him there. Mrs. Faucet brought lathes tote her husband's house to her father's 4 and witness and her brother sod sister were clothed with clothes belonging to the prison. ...es children. pier father was then in prison. The prisoner had come to the house about a month before, to get hack his wife, he saw her father then and Mrs. Faweet, but she refused to go with him, Jane Cummins, confirmed the foregoing statement. Mr. W. Spee.h, attorney; took the prisoner, and afterwards the pistol. which he found thrown away in the yard. F. Bassett, dresser in St. Thomas's hospital, saw the deceased in that hospital. Cross-examined.—Deenesed escoressed to him in a very feeling manner, that he believed his father had had no intention to hurt him; and .expressed himself as a ceding son would of aa afflicted f alter. i'lie prisoner when called upon for his defence, gave in a written explanation of his conduct. He had been married , 20 years to Mrs. Faweet, and had 45 children by her. Ile had kept a baker's shop in the Mile-endemed, and had been happy till his wife's misconduct had ruined him. She took away his goods and gave them to Bush, with whom she lived when his son was unfortunately killed. She had often got him arrested ot.false pretences. She had got him into V. hiteeross-streetprieon, where• bush was imprisoned, and there sup. plied Bush with every thing, whilesshe never came near him, or paid hint any attention. She at last enabled Bush to obtain his release, e.. I from that moment she lived in his house. He obtained his dis c.:arge notwithstanding the plunder and the defamation he had sus tained by his wife, his creditors well knowing that she had been the author of all his misfortunes. When he went to insist upon her return to him, she told him that shes had a sharp knife, and that if te ever came near her again, she would stab him to death. His son was unfortunately led to live with his mother and Bush. He was anxious to get him out of their hands; and going with that iiitention. he felt it necessary to arm himself with a pistol. in conse • quence of his wife's threat. The pistol unfortunately went off; and tile consequence was the death of his son ; which none could lament . more bitterly than he did. As to Bush, he had the effrontery to appear that day in Ms clothes; and..his child, Mary Ann Bush, was dressed in the clothes of his children. With this explitnaiion he left . r.is ease in the hands of God, and of the Court and Jury. J. Lemon, master baker; J. Ellem. a rope-maker; J. Lodge, a victualler ; R. Brown, a carpenter ; J. Falkner, and his wife, all from Mile -end 'road; and H. Vewton, clerk to the London Flour Company, had knc'wn the prisoner for many years, and gave hint the best possible character as a husband a father, and a neighbour. Hannah Richmond. adaughter of Mrs. Fawcet by a former mar riage, said she was a hide child when her mother was married, Qt) years age, to • the prisoner. Hesock her into his house and treated her as his own chili, with the utmost tenderness. She was now mar ried. It was six years since she ceased to live in the prisoner's house. Ile always behaved towards the deceased with affectionate tenderness. Ile was art affectionate good man Mall his children. J. George, while making a distress on Bush's geode, heard. Mrs. Fawcet say to her son, " John, I think I have seer. Fawcet pass, I :tiave got a knife in readiness for him, and the moment he comes in I'll certainly plunge it into his heart." He saw her at the same time showing him the knife. Mr. Baron Grahair. summed np at considerable length, tand with much discrimination. That the prisoner had killed his son was be yond all doubt. If he did so wilfully it was murder; if he did so tinintemienally, but meaning to kill Bush or any other person, it was murder. No censure was adequate to the profligate conduct of .Mrs. Fawcet and of Flush ; but still if the prisoner 'dent to Bush's :louse with the intent to kill, the jury must find. him guilty. It appeared to him very difficult indeed to find any one circumstance, en which to Liiintl a supposition that he had not such an intention. The law could find any alleviation only in the momentary insanity supposed to arise fro:n instantaneous and violent provost - erten. • He felt it extremely difficult to extend the benefit of this conssenction of law to the prisoner ; but it was for the;ury to judge for them s 'l'he jury .oentMsittet in.anxious and earnest consultation for nearly • Pall an hour. At length they turned roundoinil assumed their places. Their foremen pronouneedtix verdict—Not uilty. Marks of satisfaction were evident within ;he bar. The multitude ithout could not be restrained from expressing their joy and appro. nation aloud. 'file prisoner, who had been deeply affected during the whole of the triaLwas now completely overpowered. He was im ediately discharged, a..: he hurried :way from the bar. somuttsr. (SHIRE. .PITMAN v. MORG AN.—This action was brought to recover compensation in ilainages, for the instable(' by the plaintiff; in.the seduction of his daughter by the defend tint. The plaintiff conducted the business -of. the defendant's 'Zither, ass so ap -1)oilt:r and talluw•cltandler, at Bath. The se duction tank place there. The defendant's daughter was nut yet sixteen. The damages were laid at 14001. For the de -I.entlant three wittiosces were calted, who alleged levity in :iie conduct of the girl. The Jury found a Nerdiet—Vainages 'Ol. Among the. prisoners capitally 'onvictrd at thesis Assizes was .lark Sheppard, foe the niurdex of Wm. The Bristol) AI rrsury observes, that there never was a villain who :toog lit:tare a Judge with Sufi hardihood. Fven ashes: the 7itnesmes were giving their evidence aga:ita.l hint, lie was :tenurial!' seen to sonic; and when Judge AbUntt was pas .fl lie did nut appear the least affected; and he told the Judge, he hail nothinz; to repent a:, as he was inno. cent. lie was to be executed un Monday last. • LANCASTER. FORGERIES.—Tire of the Crown End terminated on Friday week, when the Chief Baron passes: sentence u p on ?he numerous prisoners who Mu, been convicted during the Awiacs. The-following among other unhappy men, receive,' sentence of death :—W. Ovenhani, for to gery ; W. Stewart, T. Curry, Margaret Dowd, R. %%ardlow, Hannah Mayhall, and: J. Vaughan,. for uttering forged hank of Eng . mil cotes. It was almost impossible to witness this spectacle without biro, almost s tair ihed with horror: And the progcle4s of the ;14141 ceremony was occasionally intersup:od by the frantic exclamations or piercing shrieks of -woe wife, mother, d44:11- ter, er sister, of Cie unhappy delimtents. 0% cultism was AO ill that he was hrought.into Court wrapped •oo a Witsket, wild was obliged to Ise supported by two attend • auto while stultrtiee.was passed upon hint. G. Steel, E. Corral', .1. Walki r, E. Berry, J. Jellv,.Win. J. Scholefteld, M. Steel, R. Walton, Cr. Taylor, and Edward Nloores, convicted of having foczed Baak of Kugland Imes in their possession, were I.l:nlcm:a to be trauvorted %Irlfyeaus. 'Fur, N.l TroNAL IRIS'II ASSIZES. MCRJ)ER OF TILE LYNCHLC. The Adjourned Assizes fur the county of Louth commenced at Dundalk on Tnesday. J. Smyth, Patrick 3114ttillon, and Lawrence Gaynor, were put tc the bur, and were arraigned for ‘ettimctiri. to the house of Edward lynch, late of Wildgoose-lodge, in the county of Louth, in October, Ibl6. Also for the 111111(1er of the said Edward Lynch, Thos. Rooney, Jas. Rispand, Widget Lyncii, Elizabeth Richard, a child of 3 years old, and others, amount ing to eight persons. Alice Rispand saw, on the morning of the murder, - the bo • dies of eight persons nearly consumed by tire, in the house of Lynch ; one was the body of her son. Three informers, Milroy, Peter Gology, and Gubby, identified the prisoners as having been present, aiding and assisting at the burning. Those who acted with them wero one hundred at least. The motive by which they were ac tuatei. witsl that Lynch had defended his house, when at tacked on a former occasion by robbers, and had defended his family, beat the assailants, and prosecuted three to coil_ VICIIOII. Judge Fletcher, in a strong, legal, and discriminating argil. ment, charged the Jury ; and after four hours' consideration, l'at. Nil:tuition and James Smyth.• were tumid guilty, and L. Gaynor was acquitted. COUNTY 41F ANTRUr. Late on Tnesday, the 17th ult. the several persons convicted were brought into Court to receive judgment, when sentence of death was passed on 13 of them. Among these was Samuel Dick, for running away with and violating Elizabeth Crockatt. In addressing Dick, the Hon. Judge was particularly impres sive, and dwelt at considerable length on the enormity of his offence. He observed, that he haul been guilty of one of the eireatest crimes that ever was committed iu a civilized country, in forcibly taking possession of a poor young defenceless girl, earrymg her away flout her friends, and treating her in the most creel manner. The .pi isoner here declared he meant no harm to her, and that lie haul endeavoured to make all the compensation in his power for the injury he had. done. He added, tl:at it had been reported that it was for her money aloue he took ber away, but hehad offered tolier relations to marry her without asking for any part of it. His Lordship here empliatically•said," I would not advise her to marry you, were you tc: live a thousand years I" The prisoner then said. " Since it must be so, Lel:treat your Lordship for a long day." 1 His Lordship then oliseored, that the. time allowed to all the prisoners would he long enough, and he hoped they would employ it in mai , ing their peace with God ! He then proceeded to pronounce tie awful Lenience of the law on the 13 unfortu nate convicts; but no time was fixed for thcirexecution. A wretch of the name of AVm. Bailey, alias Knighton, has Ab sconded from Arkindale, in the neighbourhood of Borough-bridge, Yorkshire, who stands charged with administering pc.isen to his fa ther, mother, and two other persons, on Thursday week. whereof his father has already died. lle was seen at East Keswick on Saturday. enquiring for the nearest port to take shipping for America; from which it is inferred that lie would make his way to Liveqpcol. Active measures have been retorted to for the seizuto.uf his person, if pos sible. On Tuesday, Mary Hnteheson, charged with fraud, was committed to Glasgow Jail. The folly on the one hand :rad the duplicity on the other which are developed in this case are sufficiently singular. The prisoner ittAnowledges, that about four years ago she began to tell fortunes by reading of cups. A servant girl began about a year ago to call on this spe - wife,(hope-giving wile !) for the purpose of getting her destinies unfolded. She told the svmpleto►t that she was to receive some money, concealed in the corner of her master's room ; and in order to show her where to look for it, she went to the house along with the girl, and laid down some money in the place where the promisedssum was to be got. So com plete was the..:lscendency which she had over this young woman, that in the course of three week she got from her 271. assuring her that when the [ninny promised was found, it would he increased twentyfold. The ceremony o► depositing thatmoney was ramorkahle—it was laid down in the presence of. the girl, and Zlary after telling her to retire, read several passage:lvor Scripture, and prayed. To a blind person she pro mised to give sight, receiving a considerable stun as the re ward of her promise; and to a person affected with deafness she was to testore hearing.. These are understood to be only a few of her tricks. She maintains that the sei vanes money will be returned .svhen foe time of its rasing comes. She has very high pretentious to.. preternatimal powers.; and when imprisoned, asserted that she would escape !roan jail; fur she was a witch. Hence had James VI. been her King, she %You'd have had a gooffchauce fur the scaffold. Mag. EDWlN.—Thepuhlic will hear concern and sympathy, that Mrs. Edwin has recently been deprived of a large sum of money, laid by at a resource against the casualties atten .dant on a profession:U.lW, and to bestow comfort oe an aged parent, and an infirm and necessita:ls nude. thrtutgla the villainy of a stock-looker,.to whom she hest utrustesi its Mil. • nagement. A short thug back Mrs. Edwin washed to ap! propriate 1•2,5001. stock in the English funds to the purchase of a tiiiverninent Annuity, and insinuated her stockbroker to do what was sieuessary for that purpose. The regular transfer was accordingly made by her, and the bruiser received not merely the soma mentioned, butl iol. more,,, in order that the ttttt laity procured should amount to the pro tactile'. sum 6(1501. ii•a.atfeeted to have wade the purchase and presented Mrs. E./Will.4';:til a dawn:mei, apparently perfected with every ne cesratr:, formality, and which, he said ' would entitle her to receive the annuity at the Hank of England. 4nitte time afterwards this broker w..s found a detaalt.a. of the Sind. Exchange ; but the circumstance was no material caw.; of anxiety to Mrs. Edwin, as she supposed her money had been disposed of beyond the reach of any fa-auditing'. euistingency. she remained under this iiiipres,ion until her first halt year's annuity was applied for at the Bank of England, when Ow claimant on her behalf 1 . .34 informed that uo sanrh 11j1110 a. ' hers appeared on the books. This intelligence led to furtha r inquiry, -when it miforumitely appeal - ill that the ha piker hail ' converted Mr,. I .. ..krill's money to his own ate ; that the do cument lac gave her. was a fictious one ; and that all she had saved from the earnings of a Laborious professional Ise, to provide fur the period when ellort may be no longer practi. cable, and to give repack.% and contentment, o the declining years of two relatives,. was irendeeinably lost.--letweaas Jowl: el. A fire coke out cn Montle: , mornic, , :, about Ave o'clock s cn the Premises cf Mr. Leer, oilman. Church-rend. Ct. Goitres in the Lust; In a.short time the whole. interior or tin; buildio*.was yt u 14.te..and.hore au eler.aing . appersonee, from, -he quanuti of Pnn ../znatibie .rastutc cn the premises. The family Mel fortunately time to escape from the confrvation without receiving any peignia j 1 7- ury. 'fhe whoki of his melt, turniturc and Finalises, wet,. tlotroye‘:- 4d we us e he Iva nomisural. 11.9 POLICE. t,TILDII CH►R^.E o► EMBEZZLE:MI:Mr.—A wan named Rabboth was charged by Edward Gainsfurd, cheeseinonger, Ludgate-hill, with having embezzled the amount of 3651. in bank notes. The complainant said, he seat Vie prisoner to the honk of Sir W. Curtis and Co., bankers,to lodge the above sum. The prisoner never returned, and upon inquiry, it vi as fuund that no money hail been received at the banking house, in the name of Mr. Gainsford, on the day s e ct:died. An °nicer was immediately scut after the prisoner, who was WWI appre hended at Gravesend. 3001. W4i found upon his lie wan remanded. ROW STlt ELT. J. Close, a chimney sweeper's bus., was charged with steal ing a watch from the house of Lord Francis Osborn:. The buy was committed, and the master was ordcred to Mid nail. Thorsd'iy, B. Murray, E. Holmes, and tt look, were charged with robbing G. Harris, a sailor, of his watch. In the course of the examination Mr. Birnie directed a search' tole made at the lodgings of Cook. Two otVicers went to his residence iu the neighbourhood of Tsdmin turnpike. They found the father aad mother living in very great po verty. and distress. In the room in which the prisoner Cook slept they found an old box, and in.it two old female pock ets, containing silver coins, consisting of dollars, tint; shill ing tokens, halferosens, &e. to the amount of upwards of 1501., and in a large pocket book were bank notes to the amount of upwards of 2001. Finditig such wealth at such a place of misery, the orlicets thonght it right to take 41:e wo man with them. Upon her exannoation before Mr. Birnie, site said the silver was her property, saved from the gains.of selling apples in the streets, she affirming that she took. as much as ISs. in a day sometimes. This, however, was not credited, as she was literally only clothed in rags, and ap pt.ared an object of real misery. The account she gave of the bank notes %% as, that her son, the prisoner, wolf another boy, ware playing in Kensington Gardens About flute years ago, when they fonud to the amount of 7301. in the ,Grotto ; they had advertised it, but no person had claimed it. The prisoners were continittet! for further examination, and inquiry is to be made respecting the assaltli ju their pos session. QUEEN SQUARE. SHOOTING AT LORD PALMLRSTON. AT TILE WAR °PLITT. Lieut. David Davies, ,pn the half pay of the 62d regiment of foot, was on IVednesday brought to the office in custody of Lavender, the officer, caged by Hr. Win. Owen of tLet War office, with having fired a pistol at the Right Hoc. Lord Palmerston, Aecretary at War. Witness is a messenger in the War of Between 1 and 2 o'clock OR the afternoon, he saw prisoner in the passage of the War office, at which time Lord Palmerston was going up stairs into his own room. Witness heard the report of a pis tol, anti looking iminediarely round, saw one in prisoner's hand. Heard Lord Palmerston groan heavily, on which lie seized prisoner's hand which held the pistol, and prisoner drupt it. Witness took it up, and saw it had been just fired off. Prisoner then cried out," You know OW, and you know my wrongs; 1 have killed him." Witnes said, he knew nothing; and Asked whom lie meanitts having killed. Pri soner asked, ".La not that Lord Paluorstoui" . Wittiest an swered, " Yes." Ittrd, bent. Col. of the 2d West lutia regiment, stated, that wishing to see Lord ; Pahnerston,,he Went .to the War office, and mentioned liiv.vish to last witness, who answered, he W 45 very lucky, for Lord Palmerston was then just going up stairs... Witness at the moment heard the report ura and coming into the passage saw last witness have hold of prisoner's hand, and a pistol lying at prisoner's foot, who said to Mr. Owen ; " Yon know my wrongs ; lie has killed me." On the prisoner'.• being searched, at the Wa;• office, no other firearms wese fantod upon him. Mr. ltcanaiel, a gentleman belonging to the War odic?, stat ed, that lie had been present when .Ir. Astley Cooper ego. mined the wouod of his Lordship, and he said the ball had passed, and that out present apg,elances, lie had hopes the -wound was not dangerous. The coat wurn by his lordship was now produced, and the ball seemed to have entered the middle of the hack, and being fired from below bad passed upwards, when his Lordship, teing at the moment r.t the tarn of the staircase, had most probably given it that oblique ;urn which e.aused it,te glance alai the shoulder blade. The prisoner said hi family lived at Monmoutliond he had a brother in the navy. He was generally remoulded, till Lord Paltuerstun and MG A .Cooper ran attend, MARLBOROUGH sTitv.er. T. Jones wa,-. charged with threatening to stab the lady of G. Butcher, Esq. of Wiginore-street. It appeared that Mrs. B. occasionally walked out, followed by her servart. defendant had repeatedly tuntoyed . her by begging ; I,p 4 t this instance he persisted he wouldlave alms, amid it' the 1 4 :di slid not give him something, he would stab her. The footman I iiitertered, the defendauU was,Jakeitend committed in default I. of UNIOE %lA,. ..M. Wood was CliaLjged with embezzling diver sums, of money, the property of Mr. W. Southall, of eliarlottestreet, Blacktriars-road, proprietor of several hackney coaches, and with damaging a pair of horses and a coach. Mr. Sontliall stated, that the prisoner had been employed to work one of his coaches. On N eiluesuay week he went out N itli it, and never rewired till the Saturday evening. The horses were so jaded that they could not stand ; one was lamed and coin. pletely spoiled, the harness WAS broke in various parts, and the pannels and swings of coach much damaged. lie had been informed tom the pri4tmer had been ser II I raring and driving. the hm se- hi a most follow: rummer along the streets. Bitch the camomile took him into clistody brat as lie ,yt•aas conducting him to this office, he knocked him dowry, am after cruelly beating him, effected his escap., assisted by some lahumei s a - ho were passing. "11' he prisoner conducted filmset! . in all insole.nt instiller, and said he should pot teaubla himself to make any detente.--Ile aas committed. A few nights ago Nia .11r. Dcith. von , ‘Villiam-street, Larnbetli,, was returning fwin ind,or to London, he wus stopped by th;•te footpad ~ one of whom had the appearance of a soldier. They rifled his poLiccts of all the money he hail about him, and took Isom him a ivhicii lie in his hand. Mr. t.,.. l: ..r n it u . ) t t . pu .s rt tri. Il L g i t nablc e lk i e lg la " t v te u r ) trticle so multi!. a, the tillaio , v..isityl the one in d P en . i h ;le ' r t uits, situation. 2 : bud soll y ier s ,..- u tz. u Li cit. “l A Lady named /fames. with her sun and (laughter, wept :lopping in Portland-street on Wedne-day, and after getting into Luiz. chariot, ' Awe of the horses hollow reztit e. Retort the coachman was properly , ;Ta ut!, he was thnir.-• off, and the wheels p awed over his body. Tht.: Hurons: darted elf ak fill isivetl, and the cariot was driven against a coal wi gl tit nd 4, A thed ta picsw.t. The lady was shockingly cut and bruised about the haul and face ; and her klavglaer agar! 12 years was takva up arranztv idelcos.