The National Register. — London, England, 1814-10-30 00:00:00

NATIONAkfIEMSTER. immerbefore iu his Int, could nut th“ctbre say he had an) ith..dre him. • lireeel., it watchman, deposed that he went to the assist- • since of the prosecutor, wlt:an he kan-d king wounded on the grota"d• Pti“ourr stood near him, and defied any person to reline ; :;tot hold 11ri4:;tier, and, with assistance, took I:int to the wateh-honse ; dull t , ot see an v..eapen ill lii hand at Isom the ti , ttline. The prisoner. on getting to the watch home, s aid, if the tnan he had at tach(d cane there, he wonld do flu IHtt. A knife was t;:en on the piece near where the prisoner stem!, .svkii:•h rii. ei.noicli as Ws property, and took. It was a chop knife with a large Wade. .The pribr n was put into the vin:r theist-, he too!: his knife and rubbed it against the itert biro, and reo:tted, could Cardi hold of the man he had wounded, Le v..ould do fni Mr. I)tineomhe afterwards came Ito the wateh-honse, ancl, en accusing the prisoner of the violence he loud t enJnitted, he said, if he liati injured the gyntitnian, lte wonld gr ; ore ioict•A Unit ask his pardon. Thought the prisoner sv . ”. in a F!ati' of intoxioation. Mr. I) ,:;romhe, Ilat , erdashrr Pkee, Hoxton, heard the C: v R o uter, min (11 Ltnititz oat to ee,cetti.e.i the cato.e. he found the nu'or in the slate nirt-idy described. When he first went out he he.,111 a oiler say, "We 11;1 fUli;1(1 the d—l, n' kill him." S;iw primmcr juror the spot, and atterwards heard him acknowledge his ntiot t in the watch-110nm% Mr. Curtic, u surgeon of .4t liarthulotn.w's ll”spital, proved flue na ture jut the wounOs inflicted on the person of the prisoner, and had nu thotht they were inflicted v' ills a sharp instrument. The ctse fur the p:osccution being dosed, several persons were cdh...i to the civil ac:er of the prisoner, of whom they spoke fasourably. }lt' had horn in the z•e:t Ferviee. Mr„iustic" l .7l;zw.thrts h.tving summed up the evidence ; the prisoner Tvitb taLIBU guitt)--Death OCT. ‘'3o . }lice a cow:derable time, when, hearing softie voices iu the road, ~ e began to move, atol found his great-coat and hiocs. The officers produced a comb and other property, which they found upon prisoner, and which Mr. Hoare identitied.—Cumniitted for trial at the ensuing Assizes for Surrey. ACCIDENTS AND OFFEICCES. On Tuesday lest, about five o'clock in the evening, a horrid murder was committed in a coweibed, near Malden, Essex, on the body o f William Be!sham, a mike-man--a man as rennukable for the nehle fts of his menners, as f r the rectitude of his conduct. The poor sufferer went, at his usual time, to milk his cows ; and, a short period after, some little bees went into the cow-shed and saw the body quite dead ; the boys, snuck with horror at the sight, immediately alarmed some cottagers who lived near the spot, and suited, as they supposed, the t the accident had arisen (rum a cow ; but, on examination by a profee. sional gentleman and others, who hurrii , d to the spec, alt:udgeon was soon discovered, by which the fatal deed had been doubtless executed ; the bludgeon was large, particularly at the end by which the deceased had been struck, and one side of the end was entirely covered with blood—as tamPletelY sas as if it had been painted. The malignant band of the murderer had executed the direfill task with such effect, that every part of the skull was completely fractured !—The inhabitants of the town, as well as the • military of the garrison, assembled with a promptilude that refrnts the !vigil...lst degree of credit upon them, and pirties mi tout end on horse back immediately undertook a must diligent and active scotch. It ap , pears from what has since transpired, that a eoune aentleman of the town met the deceased about four o'clock, and entered into c•,,nversa• 1 lion with him ; at the same time a man, who wore a dark blue go- :t coat and red waistcoat, was waiting a short distance lion) them ; tie had a parcel under his arm, and a bludgeon answeriunt the description of the one found under that, and partly concealed tinder his coat. When the young gentleman parted with the deceased, the stranger walked on, and in about an hour after, the mangled body was found.,—A le ward of fifty guineas was offered for the apprthensioU of the offender, and we are happy to state, that he has been apprehended, and lodge 4. in Chelmsford goal. A most diabolical attempt at robbery and murder was made WI Thursday last, at the house of Mr. W Ehbutt, a gentleman farmer, at Swanky, near Dartford. A fellow knocked at the kitchen dour abeet seven in the evesing, and, on Sarah Ashy, the servant, opening it, he rushed into the parlour, where Mr. Ehbutt, (who is imfirm) was siting with a friend. The robber was armed with a bludgeon, and the shrieks of the girl having alarmed Mr. E. and his friend , the latter grappled with him, in doing which, he received sonic injury about the head. The robber then called for assistance, and was joined by a companion, who presented a pistol at Mr. Ebbutt's breast, which fla - shed in the pan, and the villaiea then retired. 1 DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—Sunday evening about six o'clock, as a respectable tradesman, of Greenwich, his wife, and two children , a boy and girl, from eleven to thirteen years of age, accompanied by another person and his wire, were returning, in a kind of one horse market cart, flour Croydon, where they had been to spend the eay, in coming down Maise-hill (a very steep precipice, leading limn Blackheath to Greenwich ), the animal became wholly un governable, and the road at the bottom of the bill dividing into two branches, the one straight forward leading to Woolwich, the other a very sharp turn round the corner of the Park wall, leading into Greenwich, the driver not being able to bring the horse round the corner in time, the off-side wheel came in Contact with a large tree, the cart immediately upset, and the whole party were thrown mit with great violence. The driver, falling on his head, was killed on the spot ; his daughter had both tier arms broken, and ill since dead. Mrs. W. the tradesman's wife, who is a very corpulent woman, and two others, were so severely bruised, that no hopes are enter tained of their reeovcry. The boy is also much-cut about his head, but is pronounced out of danger.—Doctors Carnarvon and Salim, and other medical gentlemen attended, with that promptitude fur which they have on all similar occasions beet; distinguished, to ren der every assistance to the unfortunate sufferers. The accident hap pened within 100 yards of the tradesman's door. It is also said that one of the women is since dead. DEVONSIURE FARXING.—A few days since a farmer died, who rented a great deal of land in this neighbourhood, and besides other property, bequeathed '23,0001. to his eldest son, 25,0001. to hi , : se cond son, to his third and fourth sons, ;o,ooal. each, and to his daughter, 3,0001. The wife of the above farmer Ihis for many years regidorly attended the Exeter markets with fowls butter and eggs, (Exeter Gazette.) PO LICE. BOW STREET. Thomas Dooley, who was amitted at the Old Bailey on Thurs day, of the robbery in Be,!foni-lane, wa' on Friday brought up by Pearkes and Bishop, on the charge of another tootpad.robbery, %viten a man of the name of Hoare attended, and stated, that on tee morning of the leth instant, so..n after one o'clock, as lie was returning from Leatherhead to his residence At Ewell, he yras eli:anied by the voices of sc veral persons approachiog towards they appealed to he going the same way as he was, which induced Lim to call to them ; they came up to him, and asked him where he '4% rfoing ;he replied, to Epon. They walked and talked Wee thee far a consideralde way, when one of the men stepped for and the two others Ivalked behind ; this circumstance alarmed f':: although he sometenes walke im the road and sometimes en the foot-path, they persisted in keeping to the same arrange had fiequeot conversation with them, and a full view of their persons. Suspeetiug they intended to rob him, he told them he %vas a . journeysnati plasterer, and had been to Leatherhend to receive sonic motley, but was disappointed. ‘Vhen they got to tee end of a lane, one of the men, who he had no doubt was the prisoner, aad .whom he saw on Thursday tried at the Old Bailey, *died him by the threat, and test! hint lie should go no forther till gave him what money he had. The prisoner told hint he would 3n ,xrder him, it he iesi , ted, and held a bludgeon over his head with one ham), while be • held his throat with the other. One of his ennOoniwts called to tlie v; ironer, and desired him not to murder hire. .11e then took front his pocket a dehlar and a shilling, and de. b ee red th-. - in to the pri-once One of the other men, who, he had no doubt, was the rout tried with the prisoner at the Old Bailey, cid:l:d to the prisoner, atel 'le sire,! that he ni;ght be searched, to as certa:u if he had got a watch or ether property worth taking, but Le lead none. 'Fbe prisoner and his companions then dragged him m eroes the road, and were endeavenring to pull through ti gap in the hedge, but he intreated their mercy. Dooley said, if he snide a noise he wouhl murder him, and insisted and made him take oft his co4t a.ad waistcoat. The prit4oner then took oft his hat and s earched it, and returned it they then made him take Of his shoes, and one man tried if they would fit him. He then supposing Dooley was armed w:th a {mite, amid was g oing to stab him, offered ti:em all his clothes to ;pare his life. Andersontiderson called to the pri -6ellt,r, at; d d es i re d that h e wonid not hurt him. The prisoner le• tat el with horrid oaths, ;oat said that he made more disturbance ,au the man they ti ere ) 1 ,-isoner then took him to a ph Icc , in t h e fi e ld s I , c .:vee lie threettened that ii moved froin that --- -de the least alarm, for a certain length of time, they and 'undo mini. He remained in that peattina cud j):.tve, or mule •9uld rtturil