The National Register. — London, England, 1818-10-26 00:00:00

OCT. 26 l g visible, the tippet was not parted with, and the money • he trimming, or the trimming itself, was demanded, but .her could be obtained. A young man of the house of dings went again, and desired to see Lady Bruce; he was rased she was out ; he insisted upon it that she was not out, . he would wait in the house till he did see her; after some r the prisoner presented herself as Lady Bence, and he !alert his demand for the money or the trinnuitig, when the suer informed him that it was impossible he could have :Hassling again, as it Was cut up and put on a pelisse, and as not in her power to pay then, but she would pay in a Miss. 'Otis was nut agreed to by the young man, who ,used taking the trimntiux again, although it was cut up . ou a pelisse ; but her ladyship rattled to let him have it. 'lie pound of a felonious charge upon which Mews. Hurd• brom;lit her to the office was, her taking the trimming of the box withold their consent. She said she was re. , ilie nd.•.l by the Arundel fatuity, who upon inquiry denied they knew ally such person. Hartlings also denied that the prisoner was the son she represented herself to be. , gentleman who attended to defend the prisoner insisted the iSmier was the person she reprasented herself to be, I that her name was Lady Stewart Bruce. He also eon :ed that the transaction was a simple debt, and that her lyship would pay it in ten days: lie said her Ladyship all establishment of servants, mid lived is respectability. lie young men front Messrs. Harding's still persisted that prisoner was not Lady Brace. 'he Magistrate asked if her Ladyship had been charged i stealing the trilmiling when the intitf was entailed, and ig answered in the negative, he dismissed dr charge, it ig only a debt. 'his pretended Lady, for such she now appears to he, was •11 tiroaglit up on Friday, charged by V4ll-1114 respectable .e i men with swindling them out of property to a considers amount ; and with all address which would have imposed .1 the most wary and suspicions individuals. It appears becu liviugi.t a sty lo of elegance and splendour, which MI require a large fortune to support. Her previansvxas however, opened the eyes of her two credulous .111.11101—cuil after a hearing of some hours, ass lady was .audrd for further examination. M A RLIIOIB . M.P.iti STREET. /corim's Arracg.—Two nntorions thieves, named th and Jones, were detected by John Furzentan, in Great en-street, in the act of picking the pockets of a gentle ', acid were committed as rogues anti vagabonds. Jahn Ak e tt , st o, who has rendered himself obnoxious by his ricer_ .sin apprehending ibis description isf ofirsiders, conducted Prisoners to the office; they had scarcely introduced .oseitresoslien Jones seized the officer by the neck, anti , re lie would strangle him, while Smith, with all his force, : "tett many !blows on his face. Fortunately some other ..era interfered, and preven'.ed their infamous intuntion. aeinan was much hurt in the neck, and bled prollisely in sequence of the blows he received. laity Crauhy and Charlotte Morgan were charged wills ding from Mr. Erard, harp maker, in Wiginoresstreet, a ober of valuable 'paintings, stated to be worth 2,0001. It ,eared that Mu. Erard being a connoisseur, had at much .erne obtained a collection of the paintings of eminent .tern ; these were deposited in a room named " The Pie. Gallery," the key of which was in the charge of doe ter, named Cranby ; Mary Crithliy, the porter's daughter, • frequently at the house, and hod, in concert With Char t, Morgan, the other prisoner, at different times stoles the things and pledged them to different pawnbrokers. One is paionings valued at 1001.. was trait ed to Baylis, a pawn ker, in Portland-street, for Ills. ; a harp also been _Ad to another pawnbroker. Baylis said he did not know value of the painting, and thus accounted for advancing mall a soon. It is supposed that this property has been iged for a ititliug mite, and that the &peakr part will be overeil. Remanded. i yOllll4 man named Shad weii, was charged by Miss Mont, illatch lady, with threatening her life. The eomplaisiant :ed, that the prisoner was concerned with Mr. Lewis met, her brother,(the celebrated flute player,) in the mo il liur , and wi.s entitled to one tenth of the profits. A rt into• ago her brother left Leigland, on business of lime lance, tor.ltotterilane ;and in Ins absence, the prisoner was to superintend the business. Some short time atter the mrture of Mu. Mullet, the prisoner fellutved him. %Viten y met at Rotterdam, Mr. Simile ell asked Mr. Drotict if lie -old make a particular affidavit to screen lien from a prose ion in LOlllllOll, whirls lile later, objected to. Mr. Shad at II ti requested eel explanation of various debts, which mot rig given to leis satisfaction. he said that he would swear death of Mr. Drimet. Out Nloopolay last Mr. Shoodwell whet, to tel and repair[ d to the house of Mr. Drone!, ~ where the business bad been carried on. 'l' he servan t erred the e he came in, saw complainant in the drawing room, and osted her civilly. He afterwards held a conference with father, in French, re:prelim:the removal of the flutes and sic. Neat day he came again, in a very violent passion, I demanded the ledger, which her father refused to give He tlicn used strong language to complainaut, corm. ling with the threat of tier brother ; in consequence of do her filecods ails keit her to have hint bound over to keep ;peace.—The ilefectlant vied, that. dialing the time Moo r Drunet was at One atilt rdtelll Thr.orcs lie London, he tme aeipt: ttttt ed with him ; and they ago red to establish neern tot the sale of " I)rotiet's Patent Flutes," which at time were all the rare. tie(tlefettilatit)eittlialkeil u, ihts •elation a capital of ;>OOl. and was to have a tooth part of l irotits : but not hating tor a ktigth of time tee( ived any g from Mr. 1)Ionet ; and that gentleman having left the dry, he concluded that lie had absconded for the purpose :fratoling 11174 ('I a•usegmtuee of which he fol• •d him to Itolicrilmit. Ott his arrival in that city, Oat used a time to 311. Dronet, requesting to see hint urvl sista, to settle their atlatis. He came at itie appointed , but refused to conic to any osettlement, say log, that he Id have taken the same cuttr.o. vvhirh Walistet inter bad 31r. Droned arrears at Dovef.] Finding it ....mwe to art Mr. Droact to come lo any smtkotom,lit , lied to but NJS astouildied to flout, Coif dotal.; •lorL.atkomee, the mstrumems Ilad been mule away w.th, lie onokostm all thscivtiged. Ile aipplir,l to 'li. 1),,,w4, vho pate no explanation whatever, and forcibly with the hooka. r..llorrows.—" It' he detail] the books, you hive your 4) agiisim .e4eieildaiii.--" I applied for au officer here, but was •r 4.1 . . ..... the chief cirrk, said, the application had ti-en • to Mr. Fariaut, Nhu, considering the mailer omit of his referryd the gentitimiii to ail ARorncv. .I..l3ußows.—" Curtaiuly it is au actioualile ialleuce." TIM NATIONAL REGISTER. Mr. Shadwell isysnred the (Slacistrate, that ha had never intended the least harm to %hiss Drotiet, nor had he even ex pressed himself to thatetfeet, but on the contrary, had treated her with the greatest civility. Mr. Bart ows.—" I do nut consider that the charge is prov ed. Let the warrant be discharged." QUEEN SQUARE. EXCBLLENCE or TIIE Ga LAWS.--Mr. Willmott, of Ham. mersimth, appeared to an information sootier the Game Laws, for sporting upon his own ground. It appeared from the evidence °IT. Daley, that himself and the informer had been in company with the defendant; that a hare started, mid the party being all provided with guns, defendant tired at it first, bit Daley fired also, as quick as he could. The hare was killed, and picked up by a third person. The penalty is not less than 51. nor more than 101. There was some doubt as to who had tired first ; Daley admitted, that if he had kdled the hare he would have taken it home. The Magistrate, properly considering that av the informer and his witness were then,. selves of the party, and one of them having actually fired at the hare, they were equally guilty of offending against the Statute; cousequeutly, the information was quashed. WORSHIP STREET. 3. Nicholas was folly committed for stealing a quantity of wearing apparel, the property of two lodgers at the Camden's Head, iedinal Green, at which house the prisoner himself also lodged, The landlady observed him to go out with a bundle under his arm, and suspecting it was stolen property, she sent her brother after him, who took him back; when he said he was drunk, and knew not what he did. UNION HALL. W. Edmonds was brought up, by E. Pedder, beadle of Put ney, charged with attempting to murder Mary Edmonds his wife, Mary his daughter, (a child of seven years of age), and Sarah Dyer. On Monday the 12th inst. as Mrs. Massey, of Putney, was passing the prisoner's house, about eight in the morning, she heard a cry of " Murder!" Site was afraid to go in, and went past the house. A woman, named Dalton, then came running out, in a state of agitation, and informed her that Edmunds was murdering his wife and child. She was going fur assistance, when the prisoner's daughter ran out, pursued by the father, who overtook and struck her a blow on the neck with something he had in his banal, but the distance prevented her from seeing what weapon it was.— He pursued the child fur several yards, and then fell down. Mrs. Massey.carried the child to the nearest house; she had a dreadful wound on the back of the neck, from whence the blood Mowed in torrents. Mrs. M. then went fur some per son to secure the prisoner. She met Mr. Stevens, of Putney, who went immediately to Edmonds' residence, where he saw the prisoner on the ground, fast held by Mrs. Edmonds, and 1 young woman named Dyer. He held a clasp knife, opened, in his right hand; and alter much difficulty they disarmed hum. Mrs. Edmonds was then bleeding very much, from a wound on the neck,and was carried into the house exhausted. Besides wounding his wife and daughter, the prisoner had inflicted two dangerous wounds on Mrs. Dyer, (ar elderly le mated one in the neck and the other oo the back part of her head. The prisuuer's conduct was indescribably outrageous, and Pedder put him into a strait waistcoat. The parish offi cers, were informed of the transaction, and considering that his conduct bad been occasioned by a fit of insanity, they sent hint to a mad house at Chelsea. Subsequently receiving infer' :nation from the keeper that lilt conduct had been steady and rational, and his mind apparently composed, they ordered the beadle to conduct him before the Magistrates. Pedder stated, that the wounded parties were still in a (luges out state, and unable to attend. The prisoner, in defence, said, he was perfectly unacquainted with the transaction ; he Was sab)tCl to fits. He was remanded for the °pintail of medical men as to the state of his mind.—(hi Timidity Mr. Shillito, the surgeon, who has the care of the sulkier., gave it as hi. ',pinto'', that the wife and child of E.IOIOIIIIA are doing well, aud out of danger. h seems also, that Mrs.. Dyer (who is the wife of a very respectable market gardener, residing at the back of Edmonds' cottage) is also goin.g on favourably, but from the complicated 'were of the wounds upon the head, cannot ire consideied safe for some time. It was solely by the determined courage and exertions of Mrs. Dyer, that hie lives .it* the wife mid child are saved—attrarted its/ the screams oldie family, she horst lino the house, and iound Edmonds with his wife under his arm, and deliberately cutting het throat, the blood flowing profusely. its a.. instant, MI•. Dyer seized Edmund* to rescue the pour woman from his hands; she struggled with him mud had her halal Oil by his knife. The wife escaped, Mat Edmonds succeeded 111 kisitek ing down Mrs. Dyer ; he then cut her through the Ales .of this back of the head to the bane, causing a deep and exten sive wound ; in the 111C4111 nine, one of Edmonds' children tan interesting little gill tit about eeven years of age) ran out of the house, crying for assistance. Edmonds then iefi Alm Dyer o titil overtook his child, whom he also CIA through the muscles urthe back of the head to the extent, in length, of three inches dial a 11111. At this moment Mrs. Dyer, althorgh bleeding very lunch from her first wound, again seized him t save the child from tieing aaaaa tiered, when he struck at her with his knife, and inflicted a wouthl of three inches in length on 11w tell mile ill the need, lasing bate the skull, mail divid• lug the art ; witty his exci nuns lie fell. iltitt the husband of MIA. Dyer, air` the other orisons mentioned, coming 10 her assistance, they 'meted I • down with the knife his band, bun sticking in the ground, must his hands and is. e• were tied, and lie was completely secured. Edmonds is Oa 39 years of age, and has the character of having heel' a sees quiet ia,itellaiVe man, when well, and nut at all addicted to drink ; lie has always supported leis , and Mon gilt up his minds en, without any parochial assistance, uy ha. mug um k eit as a jonbing painter in the neighbourhood, and b, the pro. mire of two or three cosi s. which lie MSS kepi on th,• comae fill. ‘V hen very young he was in the na.s, mai Crum some lint t lie received in the service, lie has for tunny years complained of a distressing pain in lain head, which in spite art/coy assist ance ended in epilepsy ; lately he has been very sombre and rchglotis Om the morning of his &pailful attempt to mug. der iiis family, he Was break lasting; with his wile and children, and reading the Bible, whcu he suddenly wititout any provocatiou, hig dreadful determination of iacri tieing tilt I i consequence of information given at this office on 'fuss tias , a oarrant was issued for searching the premises of Mt. WimailiGuoilliiiigh, baker, lietinington-row. The intorina tiou set torch, That, Bonn the genertil appeatttore of the Mead, he suspected and believed that such bread was :4(lllllen.itC , l Witii al, in, or other min - boles ttttt e ingredients: anal dim there was "hen in the passessiou of the defendant a quantity of alum to oilier unwholesome ingredient s , f o r the tint pose of adultet..ting the purity of meal flour. About fi.r o'clock n. the aft. union, Locke, the officer, wesitsto the premises elate ilefeliti , nt, to put the warrant into execution. Strict search vas n al e throughout the bake house, but no into hulesome or impro i ter -ingredients were found; the parlour also uutlerl went a severe scrutity, but nothing was discovered to support • the allegations in the information. Harris then made an attempt to ascend to the upper part of the hone, but in this he was violently opposed by Mrs. Good'eigh, who declared that he had no business to go up stairs, and she was deter milted to prevent him. Two women Lame to her assistance, and forcibly held Harris, while Mrs. G. ran up stairs in great haste; he however disengaged himself at last, arrived in the garret time enough to observe Mrs. G. throw something out ofthe window, which lodged on the tiles of an adjoining house; he recovered it, and discovered that the articles consisted of about twelve pounds weight of sal. nunnuniac and seven pounds weight of alum ; he took possession of them, and pro duced them before the Magistrates. The defendant pleadett guilty to the charge, and was fined six pounds and costa; tliC' ingiedients wet e condemned. On Friday Joseph Horton, an officer of the Baud of Excise. and surveyor of the district of which Camberwell forms a part, was charged by Mr. Abraham Buckland, tallow-chandler, with fele. namely stealing a number of candles, about 3 pounds in weight. whilst in the execution of his duty, as an officer.of Excise. It was stated by Mr. Buckland, that he carried on his business at Camberwell. The prisoner, as officer of the district. frequently came upn his premises to make a survey, according to his instructions. from the Board of Excise. Circumstances occurred which excited a stopicion in his mind that the prisoner had frequently robbed him, and he determined to adopt such measures as would probably lead to his detection. On Thursday night the prisoner went, as he had frequently done before, to inspect the workdrop, and take ass account of the stock. Mr. Buckl a nd se c ret e d himself. in order to observe his motions in such a situation as he could observe every proceeding without being discovered. The prisoner, after making his survey. opeued a chest which contained agreat number of candles, and took out two handfuls, wrapp e d d iem in paper, placed them in his pocket, mud went away with them having previously shut the door of the workshop. M r . B uc kl an d followed instantly, and ob served him throw something overthe garden wall of Mr. Penningtoo, the next dour neighbour. which was afterwards discovered to be a paper parcel containing about 3 pounds weight of candles. Upon being . closely interrogated by Mr. Sergeant Sellon, Mr. Buckland sahunted, that subsequently to running after the prisoner when he came from his place of concealment, he went to tine of his shopmtn. and inquired which road Horton had taken . • that he afterwards despatched the saineahoptuan a ft er him to bringhim back, and that the prisoner returned with the shopman on being told that Mr. Buckland wished to speak to him. and previous to any mention being made of the robbery. It also appeared that when Horton went from Mr. Buckiand's house he took the road to the left hand, whereas Mr. Buckland pursued him to the right. Mr. Buckland admitted that the prisoner shut the workshop door after him, and that he lost sight of h im for a short period. On the part of the prisoner it was contended, that Mr. Buckland could net possibly have seen him throw any thing over the garden wall of Mr. Bucklanifs house; Horton having shut the workshop. door after him, and Mr. Buckland having to come from the place of his conetielinent in the shop, open the door, and follow him to Pen nington's wall. before he could have seen what he stat d in his evi dence to have taken place. It was 9 o'clock at night when the eir cuinstance transpired, and it was reasonable to suppose that if Mr. Buckland felt so certain that he had been robbed, he would have seized the prisoner at the moment he had observed him throw some thing over the wall, and not have returned for the purpose of inquir ing of his shopman which road the robber had taken. The prisoner Sail, that the whole business was a conspiracy, fire the purpose of effecting his ruin. He had been compelled. in the course of his duty as an Excise officer, to prefer an information to the Commissioners of Excise against bur. Buckland for making and removing a thousand •weight of candles without giving notice to the proper officer,. The case was then pending before the Board, and. if decided against Mr. Buckhuid, he would have very heavy penalties to pay; he had no doubt that the candles were thrown into Mr. Pennington's garden by Mr. Buckland himself, for the purpose of enabling him to found upon the circumstance a charge of felony. The Alagistmte said, that if the affair Ives what the prisoner had alleged it to be, it was indeed as shameful a conspiracy as had ever been formed. Under these circumstances he should require the prisoner to give bail for his appearance at this office on a future dale, and directed that the transaction should be male known to the Com missioners, and that the solicitor to the Board ghouls' be requested to attend at the next examination. _ _ _ The priioncr ua, been 12 years in the service, and always boa an excellent character. On Tuesday last, the Maidstone afternoon coach was overturned. while going down the hill from Melling into the turnpike road, at the same place waere another coach met with a similar accident a few weeks ago, and where the road is very dangerous. The con sequence was, that some of the passengas received very serious in jury. Mr. Morgan, an eminent engineer of London. had his arcs broken, a Mr. Greig received a contusion of the brain, a femile servant going to her serviceat Facningham was so dreadfully bruised as to be obliged to remain a day or two.in the parish of %Vest Mil ling, and the coachman was vet) , seriously injured. The fracture of Mr. Morgan's arm was a simple one, and we are happy to hear that he is going on well. Mr. Greig was taken in a state of insensibility to the Swan. All the injured parties are in a tair way of natovery. On Thursday, a man. about 70 years of age. named Robert Shep herd, a shoemaker from Rockford, fearing his apprehension on a charge of committing a horrid offence, hung himself to a tree in one of Mr. Joseph, Marriage's fields near Chehnsford.—Vattlict. Fclu de se . . . A few days since as a person was amusing himself with his gun near Barcombe, his dog put up a moor• hen, which he shot at and ' killed. 'I he bird falling in the centre of the fiver, his dog was pro ceeding to fetch it out, but before he had ►wam half way towards it, a voracious pike ascended to the surfers:, and to the astonishment of the gunner, seized the moor-hen, and plunged into deep water to gorge his prize. _ - - - - - - A line is now mailing out for the laying of an iron railway, to communicate between the Glainorganshice Hills and the Bristol Channel, for the purpose of facilitating the transfer of coals, with whichritose hills abound, and to receive which a depot is to be forms! near Ewenny Bridge. A few days .tare, a farmer, at the White Hart, Lewes, offered a stack of hay for sale, at sixpence the clioic foot, which was imme diately accepted by a per,on in company ; who, howorer, soon found he had made a bad bargain, for the stack, On tieing measured, was found to contain tat square fret, amounting to ! , 71. and sixpence, and for which he had refused, only the day bcrore, to give forty guineas. A potter employed by Mr. Rain.. p.tfinner, Ilear.street, [w icestetsqu:u e, I►cll soddenly Isk. n ill, Mr. R began to suspect he had been ta•tiw; •'"utrlhine in the cellar, which he at first denied; hilt being (lowly pres.s d, he owned that be had. It seene., atirmeietl by the ..•eht h t th e ~.0 0 ,„" o f a (twat bout., he 11.141 drank at lels: (tor toittees uI oi! of cassia. Sonic sweet oil wts Administered, butt the symptoms •een+ing 1,1 thrraien his lire, lie was sent to the Middlesex hospital. lie is now, however, n a lair way a recovery. - - few days ago a pike, weighing 2811). was taken inst pond on the estate of Lord Erskine. at Homiish, near Horsham. In vt .1, sent to Brighton, at a Fest ill to Mr. Coultas, the hauler, who is Altill411111114( Box tNG.-4 pugilistic combat look Owe, Wednekiav, on Ciaintaist C4M1111.111, ht.l weeit a oosterniongcr ' known loy the name of n•axmly Jack, and Bole:14n Ornildtord boatman. It was a hod tight of tiny seven intunits, Cori stake of lost seoubs 46 Winger.