The National Register. — London, England, 1814-11-20 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER., NOV. 20. prevent surprise. Soon afterward•, two of tl►e men came out, when the officers thoUght it was high time to seize them. and accordingly advanced for that purpose; when Bennett struck Barrett with an iron crow, and knocked hint down, by which he received a.severe wound. Bennett was then pursued, .and a cry of stop thief was raised. A. watchman named Curtis tried to stop him, tu►t he.knocked him dowii also avith his crow. He was at length overtaken in Mark-lane, and se cured. Turnwell was secured by Bray, bat the other two men es caned. On examining the premise., a bag was found containing pick kick kerr, and other implements of house-breaking. The crow with which Barrett and Curtis were wounded, was round in Bennett's pos. session. They were committed for trial on two indictments, for cutting and maiming, and fur the burglary. TIONV-S 1 REET. of On Friday morning, information was r'eccived of the concealitent a tuan*named Cornelius Crawley,. who is charged with the murder of George• Dixon. The Magi:trate dispatched Salmon and Cave to ap prehend him : they found him at a house in Pye-stret t, Westminster. An etiamination afterwards took place before the Magistraes.• Catherine 11311, %%hp cohabited wilt the prisoner, statcd, that on Saturday night', the 40tli of August, hetweett ten and cleven, she met George Dixon, whom prisoner is charged with murdering, and whom she 4+ , :td known about six years, in the Strand. He asked her to drink, to which she agved, and wt nt to a public-house in the Strand. and to another hi ROUtld•COUrt. She took hint to Mrs Itheine's, Vine-street, Chtmdos-street. On their arrival prisoner was not at home. but came in immediately after she and cite deceased had entered. Prisoner told deceased to leave the room, and go down stairs. Deceased refused, when prisoner struck him several blows, and knocked him down. Deceased got hold (tithe poker, and struck prisoner several times with it ; the poker It'd out of his hand, she picked it up and put it on the table. Prisoner then took the poker off the table, and struck the de ceased once or twice on the back part of his head and neck, when the poker feel out of his ham), told deceased went down stairs. Prisoner remained till Mr Itheote, the landlord, came, and soon after left the room. She did not see bbn again till following evening, when she ab sconded with him, and has lived with him since; in Westminster. This witness was reaeived with very great caution. ,as she was very nearly impliemed with the prisoner, and was contradicted in several points by Mr. and Mrs. Mentes and others. Mrs. Rheines stated, that she let her room to Catherine Hall, with an understanding that poisoner cohabited with her, but with a inolittn trim that she was not to bring any men home with her. On the night of the unfortunate affair, she saw Catherine' Hell and deceased come in ; tbey passed through her front house to the hack house, where her room was. Soon attet prisoner followed, and on getting up stairs, she Iseard a great noise in the room, which she supposed was trom the pri soner beating Catherine Hall ; she heard a door burst open, and some thing fall down stairs : she pound deceased at the bottom of the stairs, wilb his head bleeding from a wound on the left side about three inches long ; the stairs were bloody ; deceased said, prisoner had cut his head open with a Poker. She called to her husband, telling him prisoner had inurdeeed a man ; prisoner was then coming down stair, , , he passed her, stepped over dec r eased, never spoke, and appeared un concerned. Her husband fastened the street door of the trout house, but he escaped over some rails in the yard ieto a court. Deceased was removed soon attcr, senseless, to Mr. Morris's, an apotheca:v's, in Cleindos-street ; then to 1, father's, itt Charles court, ; arid - hour thence to St. George's Hospitel, where he died of hi- wounds in ;;!.enit a month. His father and an elderly woman related what de eeaed had said, when he knew he wes dying ; that prisoner 11.41 broke the poker on hi; head. Wituets Had said he broke it on the stove, but being asked for what purpose, she could assign none. The prosecntion is carried on by the parish officers of St. Martin's. A copy of the indictment found ogaitoo prisoner for 'the murder, was produced. He vvas committed to Neu.gate for trial. Catherine Hall Has detained to give evidence, not Lein able to procure bail for leer appearance. On Thursday, Thomas Balls and James Scagrim, were charged on suspicion of being concerned in divers footpad rot.heries, having been apprehended on NVedtiesday evening, near Islington, under buTicious circumstances.--A Captain Partridge was rubbed a few evenings since while returning across the Islington-fields, and part of tlit property taken from him was round in Sea rim's possession. They vrete com• witted tor further examination. MANSION-lIOUSF. Iluacta It Y.—Yesterday, J. eennet and W. Turnwell, were brought up charged with breaking and entering tLie dwellitte haute of Messrb nat»pton, of Billiter-lane. It appeared; that on Tuesday night last a. Bray and Barrett, two of the city .patrole, were d-wr. 13:11iteri t ne, they, perceived four men total. Mr. to house. '. , ml)4ctitig 'hey had nn g od design, they watched Olen), 4:id um i atterwards saw three of them go to the door and unlock toi, utentiseS, which they entered ) Ifni fourth wan rtwalued without a a paid, to CHARGES OF FRAUD. On Satmday. John Lltyd, was examined at Marlborough street Office, on divers charges of fraud. The prisoner had, in the assumed character of a man of fortune, obtained possession of a furnished house, from which part. of the goods were soon missing, and had also got two e►haises from Mr. Large, a coach-maker, one of them bor rowed, which l►e sold to a stable keeper in Gray's Inn-lane. It ap. peered also that the prisoner. representing himself as a man of fortune, endeavoured to get possession of the house of a lady of title, and to prove himself the man oficonsequeoce he represented, he gave re ferences to his friend Swlnton, lately ordered for transportation at the Old Bailey Sessions. There are a number of weighty charges against the prisoner; who was remanded for another examination, to give persons an opportunity of identifying him. ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES. Ely on Thursday morning, the ueighbourhood of Grosvenor-place was atarm:.l vith the report of a pistol, and, oil inquiry, it turned out that the non. Miss Broderick's home had been entered by thirst's. Their mow-foetus having awoke the butler, he got up, dressed himself, and loaded a pistol with shot, and proceeded very resolutely up the Lichen stairs, and on opening the dtor leading into the ha11.. - he saw a tall man coining out of the hunt dining room, with a wax candle &tiled is I is hand ; he observed him examining the clock-case in the halt, and while in the act of _stooping, the butler discharged- the pist , l at hie!, and there is no doubt but he shot hitt on the right side of the face, as he saw the robber instantly put his hand to that part, and escape with all possible speed by the street door, which he must have previously unfastened to prepare for his retreat. The fellow was traced by his blood nearly as far us the NVliite Horse, Piccadilly, but bus riot been discovered. By the marks of blood it would seem that the viliain had supported himself by clinging to the iron rating, tiff he was assisted in his flight by his companions. Information was sent Biw•street of the circumstance ; when Adkins was sent to examine the premises, and found a hat and shoe which had been left at the house by the robber in making his escape. On Sunday last, in the afternoon, as John Ladbary, fishertnan, of ite.chester, and his two apprentices, where sailing io the h. at, by which, ;shoot twe years ago, 11r. Frineli, and three of his sous, met with their death, and whilst sailing near the very spot at which that melaoel:oly accident occurred, a mitten gust of wind again over turned the boat, and precipitated the three persons who were in it into the water. Ladbury, with great difficulty, reached the shore by swimming, but the two lads were unfortunately drowned. On the 9th instant, Thomas Scandling wad, committed to Chelms ford goal, a till of indictment having been preferred and found a::!atitsi him at the Summer Assizes, 1810, for the wilful murder of John Bolding, of %%Teat Ham.—lt will be recollected, that the nnfor- Willie man Bolding, who kept a public house, was murdered by a number of Irishmen, in reveo‘ve for a supposed insult, offered to some of their countrymen, during a quarrel in the kitchen, on Sour day, the `Loth of May, 1810.—Scandling was the man who admitted the Irishmen. notwithstunuing the door had been smut alzainst them In the deceased.—Two of the offenders concerned in the outrage, named Pearce and Fleming, were executed for the offence at the above named Assizes. . • On Saturday week, Lady Marlow, afa son.. MARRIED. At Bloothsintry church, Ch li aiita Augustus udson, - Eiq. to Mis 4 Martyr, ilattgitier of the late John Marty!) Esq-. and foittterly dt Covent-garden Theatre. 776 POLICE INTELLIGENCE. CHARGE OP MURDER. ~' s