The National Register. — London, England, 1816-04-14 00:00:00

krRIL INTELLI:I4:NCE. WARWICK ASSIZE. 'Fur Ky,,NI; T. 6okupe.--'lll6 trial excited creat interest in the pnblir mind. The defendant, Mr. It. bookie, of Coventr, i n Uu y e ~T 1806 an d 1807, was fisne‘silr and collector of the liina's la es in that city. lie wit aficruard+clesated to the iiurutwlite. The Mille n:tett eliarged him conspiring to defraud Goeennuctit while lie Was collector, by assioim; lintiscs which IllAcr appeared in the regitlarassessinesit,nui ap propriating the money to his own use. 'fins cause had Leen t wire tried boort", once at a fornwr ussirci, and ;Meru arda. in Liondeoi r with allot mite success. this, of course, o :is the last and most important decision. After a trial of 'wail:, a lull; hulas, the Joit which was Special, rc turned a verdict of He was also convicted ou another indictment for a mintilar crime, and found At these Assizes, on Tuesday, 1 ac reit:die , ' was convicted of the murder of Ann Smith, in the path.% of Over %Vhit.scie, its the 'tight of t h e teeth Of Out. !alit, said sentenced to be ex ecuted on Thurxda . ,, and his body to be dissect A. KINGSTON. .APRIL S. CROWN SIDE.-PAR ((ICI DE. irlopl Mild/ was indicted for the wilful murder of his own fa ther, at 'llama Itittina at the oath of October last. Thanes Franca, deposed. that he resides at 'Thames ninon ; knew the da team', ale: also lived there; knew the prisor.ereleven years, who had been gjroili, but host littelyanne from eea ; reatemtwes seeing him on the Oath of October, in the: evening. near hie father's house ; he was dreg:nal in a blue least uhd trowsers, and glazed hat, and was proceed ing towards father's. Joiipla Diana,: of Esher, James Hula:ant of Cohlerstalros. Hamp ton, ofthe taateh and Horses public-house at Kingston. Wm. Wyatt t, anti (*harks Neville, both of riensi,l, andThonets tarter who rests es at Hare-Lane, near the house of the dereastal, severally gave evideran of carious circumanticee, strongly proving the guilt of the prisoner. Joaph Walter is keeper of the House of Laneetion at Kingston ; the prise:ter was 134'0 , 1411t111 custody to iiilOoll the aoth of October. (in the Tenoning day the brother of the pawner game to see hint; witness went with him into the apartnient where he was confined, and his brother immediately whlnessed him, and said, " Richard, how came you to do what you have 110111; to so goods father ?" The prisoner made no reply, and witnest left the rot'n ; but had *merely done so when lie heard the prison a say. " Williatu, I ant the man who killed your father." In about ten manatee afterwards lie watt again into his room to give hint his bread and a ester, when, without whin e r hint a (Nation. he atlidressed himself to witness, and made the tialowing eontitsion :—On Thursday evening, the 4fith of October. I met my tattier returning from Esher : I went home with hint and struck a light, and we went up stairs to my fatiteraihedatiom, when the Litter went to his hot to take urn some ino ',ea • saying, • Let us ero !leek to Esher, Richard, analiave smite drink,' I )aria;; the time that my father was standing mar the box, I took up a email hammer. which was in the room, and hit him un the head. I afterwurds repeatal the blow three or four times. when he fell, and to prevent the groans of my father, I took out a knife from my jacket pocket and cut his throat. I then took from the tin lariewo notes of tol. each, and a al. note, seven guineas in gold. and one linlasainea. I efterwartis came down sairs, hacked the street door, and was about to leave the place through the garden and 'turnip-field. bat returned, anti wentout at the front door, which I locked after mt,and put the key in inflation. I then went away thsough the outer gate. and after pang some distant from the house, I threw away tie key in the door, and the knife, and proceeded as quick as I could to Kingston. Here I enquired if I was in time for one in the couehes to I,aultitl, but was told not. A man, howe ver, mernionetathat if 1 went to the Coach and Horses public-house. I might probably get return chaise. I accordingly went there, and en gaged one to talc ire to the Ekpliant and t'astle; previous to saieli, how caw. I called forsaalf a pint of rum. &r whielt I tendered in payment, to be changed a 21.atute. I then drove tiff towards 'loan, and, upon my arrival at the Elephant and Castle; I pursuetl my way tot:re:mulch. Upon my arrival there, 1 went tithe house of Mr. Wright, whets slept. On the following morning I went to Mr. Neville, the landlord of the Torbay public-house, and asked for my bill, which amounted to between seven and eight pound.. In payment of this I tendered one of the all. notes belonging to my father, and received the change. With one of the guineas also which I took front the box, I purehatord a wed. diogring fur the young woman whom I immediatelyafterwatds married. For the rest of the name, Which I took front my father 1 cannot account, not knowing what I did with it." The prisoner, in his defence, declared his complete innocence of the erime imputed Whim. Mr. Justice A HOOT T having summed up the es idence. the Jury re tired, and in a taw minutes returned with a verdict, finding the pri soner faring. r.Jastice Annoy T immediately proceeded to pass upon him the aw ail sentence of the law, animadverting, in the most solemn mount, up on the heinousness of his crime, and entreating him to appropriate to ,prayer and repentance the few hours he had yet to live. Ile concluded by ordering the prisoner to be executed on Monday (nth .rpri) and his body to be anatomized. Thu prisoner throughout scented wholly unaffected at his situation, heard In.:sentence with composure, and when taken from the bar ex claimd, •• I t is a hard thing I should die innocent." CHARGE or POISON! NC:o—Eii.Ahrth .IThry Miner. aged 19, was intlirsett for the wilful murder of Elizabeth Ann Newnan, daughter of Mr. Newman, a butcher, at Lumbeth, by administering to her arsenic, on the 13th of September last. Ann Newnan deposed, thut site was mother of the accessed child. On the evening of the rah September she went out with lea children to walk, having previously ordered the prisoner to get money front her minter to buy grits, and make some gruel. Upon her return home* she desired the last witness to luring a little magneeia and rhubarb in a vine glass. The prisoner had brought up the gruel in a basin. Sonic of this war put into a coffee-cup with the medicine. and administered to the children. Soon after they were aftietod violently; and upon the entrance of her husband into the room, and seeing the state of his children, the prisoner was called up, and asked about the grits she had amylase:a Witness had boughs no arsenic herself, nor did she know of any being in tea house. Mr. Dixon deposed that he was an apothecary. The prisoner came to his house on the 11th of September in the evening, and stated that be was wanted immediately. - Upon his arrival at Newntan's, he found the two children dreadfully ill. He immediately onlered the gruel and other thin a: to be baited tip. One of the children died the following morning, and he in consequence analysed the gruel, anti taunel in it in gnalante of arsenic. The prisoner was die person who came home with him for the medicine t r ues the house of ale. Newman. Ile asked her if ea- was the v nog woman who made the gruel, and of what it was made. law prisoner answered she was, and made it of grits. lie then eat vaiether nr too she lad added any thing to the purl? She replied she thickaied it with oatmeal, which hat, been in the house a month before air one of the inen who had gut a cold. The symptoms he had ptreeived where the a unithemly arising horn rearm in the rtonewlir and he was of opinion that, in the arrant ruse, the death of the child woe proatwed in this way. an:toner was rout importu nate in lagging I:jaunt:lo3nm to repair to the house when the children were aTect al. Whale arsenic, generally used for destroying rats, might easily be mistaken for oatmeal. Itieluerd Newman was father to the deecesed child. His dwelling anti slaughter-house were very miteh infested with rats; but he aid not think there was any anienie in er about die house when the acci dent happened. About two par. , auto he saw a powder exposed in a window our the deem:teas' of ,at;; he pnrehased seams! papers of it, and placed it about. laindir a e no goal eats to I . :tenth's, betas' loyal a IICT401) named Skinner, and afterw..rds one Walker, is J uneor .i illy. who undertook to destroy the rats us he please, hut Wes rat etreac that that parson had left imy of his lava or ingreoasn's about the house. }done Walker, rat-catcher and Ih-:-.lr..sser, oht: 'tied of last witneem putritiei meat, which, being chopped tine, iniard with arsenic, and rolled together in one tietly, till it presented the appearance of flour. Tim NATIONAL REGISTP,R. This iv.:lpinition he after:emits divided into several patcrls of papa'. tent di,trtuir...el them behind the wainscots. the hell under the i.toms, and in the stiet-drawer. Soule of the parcels were rellixl up, and .onto were laid open. lie frequently called at Nemitan's to see the effect, but found the parcels as he left them; any puma might carry thcin away. }lorry Mills, a servant to Newman, remembers icing told by ono. flier person, that one of the rut-papers was lying in the duet of the shop. whet& he went and took it out, and then placed it in the kitchen win dow; .lid not ►now what became °fit atteruards. 'lrlwn., WAS no defence; and Mr. Joi7t4Ahbet having shortly ad dressed the Jury, attributing the unfortunate death of the child to aa:i duit moiety, the girl was inbtandy acquitted. BROOKE'S NOR KILLING THOMPSON. Jahn 8r0.,/,vs (who had removed himself, by a writ of habeas, from the Giltspur-stmt roomier down to this assize) was rut to the 'oar, charged, upon the Coroner's Inquest, with the wilful murder of Edw. Thomism, un the 2.3 d of February last. He was aloa inesicted upon a hill found by the (:rand Jury nt LI! s tpunty, fir the crime ortemeaugh ter only, in feloniously killing atvl ,laying the said lidward Thompson, but mirk his trial upon die first charge. The eircunistancts of this equally unfortunate and extraordinary case hare been so recently before the public, that we demi it ur nt.cest,..ry to detail at length all We eeiiienec. Mr..lolin Outhwaite deposed, that he resided in Westmoreland-place. in the City-mad. [lad known Mr. Brookes fur six years. and hi • re puted wife, Si.rah Tookey, for nearly tie same period. Mr. Brookes having occasion to go to Scotland early in January last, luul placed Miss 7' under his care. She remained with him until the 14th of Fe bruary. when she left his house at the instance (lithe deceased. Tlmnip ion. Winless expostulated with him upon the knpmpriety of his ow duct in so doing, but the deceased said, he would have her, and •• never give her up." Anne TOokey and Sarah Tookey gave their evidence to the CM edict as hereinbefore detailed. The evidence being cloded, the prisoner was called upon for his defence, which was delivered as follows t " My Lord—No one can regret more than i do the melancholy ao cident which occasioned Mr. Thiniipson's death: but although I feel grout sorrow that a fellow-creature should lose his life in a personal con test with me, yet it is some consolation to know myself entirely inno cent of all criminal intention. The fatal lams:tient was brought ready prepared by the deceased. who doubtless contemplated my destruction; but, by a singular dispensation of Providence, the unhappy man be came the victim of his own contrivance. The young woman, Sarah Toekey, lived with use for several years as my wife; and on my leaving London early in January last, she was placed in a respectable family to board till my return; but here she unfortunately met the deceased, who prevailed on her to elope with him. On returning to London, 1 WAS extremely distressed at discovering her infidelity; but my affection overvalue every other consideration, and I obtained the assistance of her brother to seek for and recover her. We succeeded, arid fully in tending to give myself a I.lal elaini to her, we were about going to my brother's to consult with Mtn on the subject, when this unfortunate oc currence happened. From the perturbation of my mind at the time, I am unable to detail every thing that pcseed ; hut I perfectly recollect Mr. Thompson's fi rst pram:inf.: the pistol , as I thought, in a nienacir.g manner, although up to that period t had treated him with perfect ci vility and good-nature. 'lids alarmed me; mind fearing danger. I hur ried up stairs. pressing Sarah before me. Mr. Thompson followed, and he; riag hint, as I thought, dose behind me, I instinctively seized the poker to prevent his intrusion. On my getting near the bottom of the stairs, I saw Mr. Thompson with the pistol cocked in his hand, and hoping to disarm him before he could level it. I struck once or twice with the poker, then closed upon him, and, in the struggle which ensued, the pistol went off. " I understand that two gentlemen have stated that the pistol must have been in my hand when it was fired. In this, my lewd, they are certainly mistaken. My objen was to prevent tnischief; and had I once obtained possession of the pistol, I should not have pulled the trigger, or for a moment hewer have contended with Mr. Thompson, against whom I had not the slightest enmity or ill-will. " 1 will nut trespass flutber on your lordship's indulgence, but re spectfullly submit the facts I have stated to your lordship's attention, fully convinced they will receive from your lordship and the gentlemen of the jury a humane and merciful consideration. Several individieds bore testimony to the humanity of Mr. Brooke,. Mr. Justice A bbott having summoned up the evidence stgreat length, observed, that there appeared to loins two questions for thecartsidennion of the Jury. First, had the prisoner fired off the pieta!, by which the deceased unquestionably came to his deeds ; and if bedid, was it from accident or design? If from the former, the prisoner was entitled to an acquittal, as he also would be if frum design, provided that, at the time he so fired, hie life was in danger. If, on the other hand, the jury were of opinion that he fired it at a time when he had so far over come his opponent by bodily strength as to have him conipletely in hili power, he was of opinion, then, that their verdict should be that of manslaughter. The jury, having retired about a quarter of an hour, returned a Ver. diet, finding John Brookes guilty nf—Af a n •ianghter. Mr. Justice Abbott. in a feeling and impressive Mintier, sentenced him to be imprisoned in the county gaol for six months COLLINS FOIL KILLING Ills MASTER. Rickard Collins was indicted ter the silltel murder of Richard Woods, his master, at F.lstead, on Monday the I Ith of Septem ber last. with a pitelitbik. Anne Woods depissed, that she was daughter to the deceased; the prisoner was his servant; remanbered that on the mornirig of the day stated in the indictment, the prisonerhad his breakfast in the usual try; and left the house to go to work. About half-past nine o'clock here turned to the house, went tip stairs, and brought doin some clothes upon his arm ,t he looked pale, and witness asled him what was the matter ? He made no answer, but went into the yard; witness went 4 stairs, and saw him front is window tale the large fork and put it in the stable. He then came and stood motionless, looking upon something on the ground ; witness ran down to see what was the cause, and met the prisoner at the door. She again asked him what was the muter, whets he replied. " Master and I have have been fighting; I have kill ed him, and he is nigh dead." Witness begged of him fur Heaven's sake, to tell all about it, but he went away from the house. She then weal into the yard, and found her father with his face on the Frame!, quite dead. Remember, saying to the prisoners, "Oh! Colluraz wicket man, how came you to lull my : tor father e- when he r " I have done it ; it can t be helped —the quarrel began on Saturdede I..4mine d.—The prisoner was alwaes well behaved and dill. Her father was a man decry warm temper. Her father had gone out to the yard with a large horsewhip. The primmer, being called upon for his defence, said, that be had not the slightere ill-will towards his master. That two day: , previous to Is. melancholy twcurrevee, he Lad grossly abused and cursed him. That on the morning of the itth of Septenilier, they were in the stable toge ther harnessing die horses, when the deceased again cutsed, d—d, and abused bins. l'risnner said to bins, tt Muter. we had better pare" r when the hatter replied, "You may go to --." other wee/LOU% ensued. and the demised became vielert, ran towards the prianow, thrust his fist furward to strike heti. and afterwards kicked him severely. The prisoner beeame irritated. seized the pitchfork, weihicel it round, struck him a violent blow upon the head, and his muster tell, as he thought dead. He then went away. M r. Ji.a.tice A liner Yr monied up the evidence, and thejury having retired .i , seit half en hour, returned with a verdict, fluent% the pri soner guilty ref M.lnsAidgitiet. The harncel Judge, filer hetowing upon the prisorier a snaleb' le ad monition. sentenced him so lie confined in the county pied for use ,year The Surrey Assizes, held at Kingstdn, did not terminate till. Friday se'nnielit, vs Len sentence of death ei as passed on 2 . 2 capital convict-, . 3Or it Loco weft lets for ceeeation ; Rtwell, for mut 1 . 41 sit it bit nn sl fatht -; mei! Fiannitontl, for shots og at Mr. Coldleon :Ueda. s at Vmiltatri; stitif intent to in -dee hl ;=One was Oat Autertl fiitieitted fah lift-14 ftor akeii edstee-s- to twyUi , !alit r- -It! to thee* mouth*, besides utiuor puutalisac 3. OLD BAILEY. MON DA v, Aram. B.—Gs,,rge hermit was put to ti , bar, in take his trial un an indictment charging I with shouting% pistol, loaded with shot, at Frances Maria Kelly, the actress, \Oil' intent to kill her, or do her some bodily hal Hat ; is, a jeweller in Drum-lane, de posed, that lit: lire...it the The - :re on the 17th of February. The prisoner sat in the pit, . 'unit two rows before him. After Miss Kelly and Mr. knish.. !Lad eimiraced caeltother, in the characters of Nun and Jo, !I , to the farce of The Merry Moa.vers, Miss Kelly went towards the ;eft siege dour, m.d Mr. Knight to the right. Miss K. had her face iowards the audience, when the prisoner stood with his right band Ito:ate:I an: lug to the spot where she stood He e.r:id nut see what the prisueer had iii his timid, but he in staltly ber.:rd the report of and saw a t!“.-11. Wituess le.Lped ov:r the seats, and seized pri oiler twilit,• lie could sit down. Ile slid he was not the man who tired the pistol, " don't take me." Witness saw' the dash corn,• from the pri soner's right hand ; Ind be also saw the wadeiiu drop at Me sa'', ins•ant. He Look the villeilet ucroSS the seat, until hr c( rut liter assistance, sad In was taken into the avenm whc7c he WM search , d, aad :1 :urn-sate taken from his peekes, 'inch contained ;Keil; was sworn, evidently under great entharlas•qtrent, anti much allh:cted. On the nicht in question she was perfin mini; at Drnrydane Theatre ; saw a Tight, and, at the same mumeut, heard what she supposed to in' a ilmonAtiog ball. Had not the hews. act:pain:mice with the. prisoner to her knowledge ; had never seen him 1.), fore that period, nor till this day. Site hail reee.vad two letters signed with his name, but had not uskieeti them.—Mr. Itirnie, Magistrate, said, that be had asked the prisoner why lie had shot at Miss Kelly? and he said, " She knew what it was for." The prisoner had au appearmice of vi:1:111eS3 ill ills eyes. —Da letters were then read, a, fullness : FIRST I. F:TT F. R. " 71153 ILLLY, DIMItY.LAWS: TWItATIM. " Feb. 12, 1816. DUI love ever prompt you to rehearse, The part of honour, unesay'd in verse? Or prim strive to guard it from decay, tippbure so pin t or self-applause to pay ? 714 treskeef (mums wou'd its charms resign. And boomer's paw echo every line. OS gid ambition read you sway. To ammo a pert in arisoweerted play Yowl seesset eadoweeee to abuse; And Ist defence, not one poor excuse. " I have but s Madam, defined your character and disposition in a few words tswd shall go so far as to say you are not a stranger to my name. " Years age I was your admirer, but always met with disappoint ment—eapswy lodulged you, though often obi:Lined at the eapente of others. " Without vanity to myself, 1 think my good intentions towards you have been more trifled with than any of my cot nuporaries ; my claim to your person is tllvrcfor , whic't (I.tmnined me to cic ala/id your hand —or, in other worts, to make you my wife. Nou will either consent to this, or accept my challenge—l wit att.md you any hoar you . plesses on Wednesday, or before. !hare witnessed your dettenty tn• tiring a gun—but suppose a pistol will bet tcr suit you, as being much lighter. " Had you not infringed the rights of your sex. I should not have thus addressed you ; lint as it is. no other person can better answer this idler than yourself; it shall not brook contempt or trilling es cues. •' To Mise KtLir." .. GEORGE BARNETT." " 28, rrinter-str.xt. n—y-lane." SECOND LETTER. " iisa KELLY, PLItIOIMI22, MIURY-LA7fle TIRLATIM. 6 ' Feb.l4, 1816. " MATIAM—I reeeiVed •leet y :Zder o which , wing, lieb, frau.* apparent nutidty. I bane is • 1(ow would act wiser if you was to add your same. a s I ant not Waoqueinold with your hoOd writing ; and; as I biotind in en last 11110 e. nottl ye atiot others to be answorable for your —lf thi tenni ja my letter were not to your intiolhodoe, taw dot some at one becoming your pordesion 1' why snar you lOW* tontror-roie your reasou? " I lows dm la. and Mee liellad yin as no omintent so it.,11 you round ru7 hiligla4sa try gni onnolalhat obnoto. " You ant vey mist to_o__ wok dfrom t but let as not rrioltato: s ti =of yew Mc.. ley ou do. I'd sonic yes aon =IT.4Tao he yaw ranorrit I am. ;4 auto. pun 0 G E O RGE BAIL ETV." The evidence for the prowstion being closed, Mr. Dowling proceeded to call witues.ei to support the defence of isoturit3r. —lute pi tboeieril fatti , T•iii-law Mild hi* Nether, several la.- - - well gold metal, f intending to come I. This oecnpietthe aften &lnn; _me the testimony of Hos principal witness for the prosecution (a person named Dalton, in the service of the n chemer) being discredited, the Jury, aster a etinsidirable ausestbratiou, acquitted the latter. Upon the verdict being returned, ascent of much confusion took place anti the exclamations in the Court were so loud and vehement, as to drown the interposing observations of the Bench. (larks Ma:Awl Herd, and Thesses KiliOnsier, the latter the father-itriaw of the tinnier, and who had both been employed. in the Six Clerks Office as copying clerks, were indicted for stealing one Modred weight of parchment from the odd office., It appeared that the parchment in qv arld Mamas in Chancery, which the sold to Mr. Bridges, a drummiler, Alley took a legal objection that the p. ject of lareeny, bat Mr. Baron Wood and the Jury, under his Lordship's 11. ere Glide,. SATURDAV, Phillip Select was indicted for Ira derellintz-house of the Hon. E. Eardley, stealing wearing apparel of the value Edward Parsoio. Edward Permit., who was groom roorg, with+ WAS over the stable. Feb. 111% went out Before it we, dark. the steole had been broken open, and t stolen. 'the prisoner was npprel.•iiiied u committing some other depreilaqati, and lo.igiegs the property itf Twig.% ale fOnott.—Oullty in to the s aine of 111 s. . I ' - 'Z''' .- tteners who bad etop oye ma, as w aa r. an jun. of Sevenoaks, Kent, deposed to many acts of &fatuity by the prisoner such as inifstingAto a fool laugh without any RIM p4rent cause.—tctal rorgeffuloess of innued4te ohfects7lralla standing in the street gazing at houses in a state aptitbir till crowds of people were collected round 'ant a surgeon residing in .North Cre scen t, Bedfiird-aptare, who had seen, Add conveised will tee priscane.r since his confinement. bad no debt that he was imanae.—Mr. Baron Wood, in stun- ming up the tridence also said the letters which had peen road bore evident syntistotni of insanity.—The Jury a.and the prisoner Mg Otetreend ft, Ina ntitY--The Co"; ac. cordiagly ordered iota 6 be detaiucd. Tuaiday, WiiiimaJuebrott. a master gold watch ease maker, of respec table appearance, was indicted for feloniously trans- posing the Goldsmith's Hall mark boars one gold witch to the wire_ of another, of inferior metal, thereby intending to come nit fraud agalkst the afatute. This trial ocenpirerhe often_ tioa of the Court at least five hours; but the testimony of this m que.-tion consisted of bills the pri.toters pin loined, and Er, residing et Hortou.—Mr„ ie pal clipont was not the nob, : .„- - 1 ) — i - - -- : - - ood overruled the objection . ... ---.4.‘ 3 direction, Antoci the priset t l / 4 51,/C` • ) ' • -•-• Antir. 13. ~ - ---- ' .., loughirionsly breaking t Tf ri titt 1 able), its. Mary-iv-hone, e • . 0 1 1 4 value of lii. tite rot,tirty .= • in % to the pronecntor, lived - '' .. On the veining of I: V Art, and on leis return foe —..- , and the Artwles in goe.iin .. N' t: ...". J 'coiled cm the 15111 of 11 ." 11 4 ~ . .q.lll. and om seireuing his r '-', -. t oat Ininte.—Onitty of Veal.