The National Register. — London, England, 1818-02-15 00:00:00

I FEB. 16. POLICE: GUILDHALL. A young female, named %Vast)°, was brought before Alder man Gandb bere, by 3.iillgiVlolll, 311 (Ayer, who stated. that nn Aloaday in -wiling about three o'clock, she accosted him in Hridgc.street, and said she was nearly periskett with cold. He advised her to go hoide; upon which she burst into tears, and said sit.• dared net until a certain hoar, and implored him to convey her to the Cumpter, and to take her before a Magis_ trate, who would perhaps prtdect tier, as she was disgusted with the course- of life she had Urns pursuing. She stated taat ber parents were respectable persons at the west.end of the town, and that she was born at Pancras. She had been in her present condition about 19 months, the principal part of which time she had heed• at a house in Dover.street, St. Cieorirc's.fielils. She was at first treated kindly ; but latterly the mistress of the h ruse• had forced her to go 11111 at as early hour in the r Vellllll4. and if she returned before four in the morning, unless with a certain sum of money, she was beaten, and turned out again. She related many other circumstances equally distressing, and with tears implored the Magistrate to procure her a reception to some asylum, there she might re. foram, and become respectable in society. 'rite Alder mitt de sired the o:ticer to convey her to the Commetittee of the Guar. Abair Society, who, he had no doubt, would willingly provide for her. G. Sullivan. a watchman of Faringdon Within. was brought up by at) officer, who Atittrtl, that uu the night of Saturday week the prisoner WAS brought up by a Gentieatati to the watch-house, in a state of most beastly intoxication. The gristle ;tan stated, that as he was passing along, the prisoner seized hold of him in a rough manner, insisted on his going to the watch-house, and struck him several times. His mind:let having been represented to the Deputy of the Ward, he was instantly dismissed, anti the gentleman whom he assaulted, consiticting this a sufficient punishment, declined proceeding any further against him. Tile slagistrafe having commented upon his disgrarefol conduct, he was discharged. MARLBOROUGH STREE r. J. W. Parkinson, Riding House-lane, Portland place, ob tained a warrant to apprehend I). M‘Vesey, his servant, who had absconded, after robbing him of 60 Louis d'ors, a quan tity of g •as, gold pat.•udas, a large pearl, 100 small ditto, a diamond ring value 300 guineas, and a number of miter vain tiles. Mr. Parkinson went out of town on 'Thursday week, and on that evening Parry, his confidential servant, went into the city, and on his return, at 10 o'clock, Mr. M'Aesey told him the house bad been beset by thieves, one • of %shout passed by him as he was making his bed in the parlour, and escaped through a window, which is 13 feet from the ground, that lie tired a pistol at hint in his descent, and followed by the same way, tint without effect. The next mottling he clandes. tinely left the house, and has not since been heard of. :scuue further circumstances of suspicion were adduced by another party; but as going further in detail might defeat the ends of justice, we forbear to state them at pruseuL A case was heard neatest T. Wheatly, a constable, and J Dawson, on the-complaint of a Mr. Bull, of !Mimi place, Tottenham► Court Road, who stated that the defendant* kinick ad at his door on Wednesday evening, and said they were come aliont a separation between him and his wife (she halv ing left his house without provocation.) They for cod them selves into the passage, the wife being present, and insisted on his taking her back. lie desired 'hen► to leave the house, when they posited him from out to the other. At this time there Hasa deuble knock at the door, and a boy banded in a stunstable's stati, with which Wheat'' , struck Bull on the breast, and turned Magma of the house. He then cadet' the watchmen who secured them. Three witnesses, who lodged in the house, proved the facts. Dawson said, that Bull's wife had applied to him professionally, to prepare articles of sepa ration ; he haring ill used her and drawn a knife spun her. He had written to the complainant, in►for:muq hint that he shonld call upon hint to settle matters, and lie took W,ieatly to preserve the peach. He was struck, and also Wheatly. The only witness he had wan the wife. but she was not a com petent one. Wheatly urged the same detimce. Mr. Bull gave a melancholy statement of the depravity of his w►tc, hr having dincoveied that frequently in coining home 1 . 10.111)11,1- nest to his meals, a paramour was concealed in another room antilhr was gone, and she had evou received the embraces of his nearest relative : At length she decamped of her own ac cord. The Magistrates ordered the accused parties to hod bail. HATTON G IRDEN. S. Smith, Mr. Tierney's footman, was charged by the but 4er with a very violent assault. Tue complainant stated that tie was in his pantry, when he heard the breakfast bell ring in an unusual manner; and running up. stairs, lie tumid the ladies dreadfally alarmed, and the ',simmer strutting almost the raisin apparently very touch intoxicated. Upon his atii!iiiptiag to remonstrate with him, he was sainted with a box ou the car, •' which inas. his eye strike tire awl he thee thought pro. per to withdraw: lint the prisoner followed him down stares, struck him repeatedly, and behaved in so outrageous a man ner that he sent for an °dicer. and gave him in charge. Tile prisoner was in a state of intoxication when brought to the ()thee, aii I tar ‘li;iitrata ordered liun to dad hall; and iu default whereof h: was committed. Saturday week an inquest was held at the Prince of Orange, Mill stsirs, thickhead. on the body of I). Maine, Esq. whose remains were found is the river.—S. Varmy, a wateenna. deposed, that on Friday ho saw something on the surface of the water. slid fottnd it was the only of a inaa ; It ctinveye,l it on shore. and seareitiug the pockets loand6s. bl. in silver, a pair of gloves, and a handkerthief. deceasal had no Bank notes, pocket-hook, or watch ; neither were tocre any marks of tiolence oil his person. :Ewa gentitmen, subscribers to Lloyd's. stated, that the deer :tied had dined at the Albion Tavern, Aldersgnte street, on 'l'hursday ; he was tat:dr:min to tae party, an I lett them about t t ii deck, in a hackney coach, the eatehman put him down near the Bricklayer's Arms, and it wa: sup rosed. ma quittini the coach he had lust his way, and had got down to There heittg co other evidence adduced, the Coroner stortly addressed the Jury, wao returned a verdict—FOund Drown- Ora: of the: try infonsed the Coroner. that the place waere the accident happened was a public nuisance. and that during twelve years he had resided in to: nei:thbourtioxl, fouricaa pentads had perished at that toot, width was reft quite unprotected. A nielaucaoly circumstance occur:v(l on Saturday week in the Banpup Pipit coach. on its journey from Liverpool to Birmingham. A young woman, in the hint stage of a consumption, had been advis ed to try zlfeet of her native air, and was proceeding to Birming ham for mat puroose in company withher . grandmother. After upwaAls of forty miles site bevotne quite exhausted ; and on their arrival at the next stage she took a little milk, and shortly.after sk.rds reclined on the arm of her grandmother anll expired, without ~:roan. So unconsciott. was her grand inother of het departure, that she only became acquainted with it on the appronch of the coach to Newcastle when a gentleman who had Lem owlet?, paccived the alteration which had taken place. THE NATIONAL ItEGISTEIL HORRID MUTDERS AT GREENWICH. It is a painful task for ns to recot d two most shocking mur ders, in some re4mets resembling those of the I.irr's, which were di:covers:4 on Sunday, at Greenwich, on the per nos ul Mr. }bid and his housekeeper, who risiilati In a house near the Mitre. Mr. Bird WAS near 70, and had lived a gi eat many year. in Greenwich, where he carrleti un the business 3f a r4.1,.w. chandler, and acquired sufficient property to retire, and use stroll his iintotioe, arising flow butises and moues in the funds. His wife died two years ago, And since that time no person has resided with hint bat his housekeeper. He Was a con stant attendant at Greenwich church, and wa► always in b t s place Its soon as the service began, accoml•anied by his lions. - keeiscr.—Ori Sunday morning it was noticed by the beatlie of the parish and others, that they were not in their seats in the chard, as usual. At the conclusion of the service, the beadle mentioned the circumstance to some neighbours, and they having observed That the shutters of Mr. Bird's house had not hwea opened, went with the to-mile to Mr. Bird's house and knocked at the door, hut received no answer. They now haul noilonbt but that something dreadful had happened, and determined on forcing an Nittance by the garden at the heck of the house. On their entering the passage, a 111051 shocking spectacle presented itself. 'Ube body of the housekeeper iv, n , seen near the street door ; She was lying ou bar face in a Woody state, her head drove in, and eut open in a most inhu man rnaum•r. The horrid act seemed to have been perpe. ►rated by rt large blunt instrument. On proceeding from this terrible scene, another, equally horrible, presented itselfin a parlour adjoining the passage, on viewing the body of Mr. Bird, who was lying 011 hit back, his arms stretched out, and Ins head in a still more shucking state than his housekeeper's. His forehead was drove in about au inch deep, and the wound as large as a crown piece. The wounds of Mu. Bird also were inflicted by a Lirae olinit instrument, supposed to be a blud geon, by a powerful man, and some suspect, a left-handed Our A candle was found in the passage close to where the lionsc. keeper lay, and it is 31111111) , C11 111.11 the ',larders were commit ted late on iaturday, or at least before ten o'clock, as that was the hour Mr. Bird eunstansly went to bed, and the house. keeper always had the chain of the street door up. There being no doubt that the murderer entered by the door, it is supposed that she must have been induced to open the door, and let down the chnitt tinder:4oW pretence of bringing a par. cel,&e. It is supposed that Mr. Bird was passing his even ing, as a .is his constant practice, in readimt, and that, hearing the attack upon hi. housekeeper in the passage, he left his fireside to proceed to her assiatance ; its his Molly vv..' found between the fireplace nod the door Of Olt room, a itil his spec tacles close to one hand. and a candid close to the other. The discovery of thisilreadfial scene created a very consi derable agitation and alarm in the town of Orrenwich dousing the whole of Sunday. Mr. Riricnell, the solicitor. sent off an express to the Public Office, Row-street, for assistance ; and Adkins and Lavender, the qtficers, arrived there with ail possible speed, and proceedqd to examine the premises, and Lind inspieions elsiracters ; but we are sorry to say, without neon; able to discover any thing to lead to detection of the murderer. There is no doubt but the object of the attack was plunder. The ites of the drawers and boxes had been pro. cured, supposed to have keen taken from the pockets of the deceased, as they were bloody, like the beds, and other It has not yet been ascertained what property the persons and premises have been robbed or. In a drawer, which had nut been opened, there were found Bank notes to the amount of 311. which was ascertained to be the amount of a di. Wend .Ir. Bird had received at the Bank, on the 20th of January last. The derer also left four silver salt, several table nod other spoons, Anil •A soup Mille. Nit., Smith, Maystrate of Greenwich, was in attendance on the spot, to act ‘t oh promptitude in case any prison should be divcovet ed echo was suspected. Ou the dreadful intelli gence ittittc connonnicated to Mr. Bird's son, he hastened t• the house, %% hen his overwhelming grief and distraction, on viewing. he mangled 'Jody of his father, can be better imagin ed thus described. CORONER'S INQUEST. Monday morning a Coroner's inquest was held at the White Hart Tavern, Grcenwie:s. before Mr. Carter, the Coroner, on the bodies of Nit. Bird, aged tot, and his hocsekeeper. Mary Simmons. The Jury, after being sworn, went to take a view of the !Kari, s. They next took a view of the premises : O. brick wall, about I I tint high, divides the deceased's g:aden from another io the rear,.called l'owis's garden. In Powis's garden the marks of many foes:cps .vest traced, the tile of a summer house: lay on the ground, and appeartal to be newly broken by some person itOelimbing over the wall, as the marks of footsteps appeared quite plain in the mould on the do eltiltal'S gar den. In this garden the old genskotsan chicly passed the day, and took much delight in beautifyin,; it.. Two bjttlr,, winch appeared to have been recently emptied, and a tobacco pipe. lay un the parlour table, having the marks of blood on them, from whence it is conjec tured the murderer or murderers must have regaled theinsels es. The jury then returned to their room, and adjourned till seven o'clock in the evening. The jury then re-assembled and the following col deuce was adduced ra—Nir. K hitch, surgeon, swore the: t e woands in his opinion where inflicted with a bricklayer's hewn:cr.—Mr. It. Thomas swore-4 rattle next dour to the de...eased. On Sunday about a quarter before ane o'clock. t' brother or the deer-ward, Mr. Bird, called at n:y house, and said that he wished to get Lao his brother's 110LIsC, w loaf was up. Ile told me that his brother's hair dresor was ordered to ottani upon the deceased on that morniog at nine o'clock, and he had found toe house closed, and Ins wished to sex ii they were gone out es he suspected. The deeeased's brother wished to get over my van!, which leads to the ditreaseti's back door ; he did so. Effirts had been previously .nnulc to get in at the front door by knocking at it and ringing. The parties who endeavoured to get in were. Mr. Pluer. Mr. Richard Bird ttletwitsed's brothety. Smith, the beadle and many °titers. I went round to the bock of the boom with sumearther persons, and opened the kitchen window by forcing the shutters. I titan entered at the window, and went to the back door, unlatched End unbolted it. and ,let several persons in. We walked towards the stairs, and there I s.LW the body of Mary Simmons lying at the bottom of ihe stairs, on her hack, quite dead, her head twat in a moat dt. aditil manuer, anti a vast trialuity of blood on the door which had issiied (ruin the wounds. It nearly reached to our .11m tops. In the front parlour I saw Mr. Bird lying on tie floor; his wig was off; on one side hot hhn lay his spectacle., which were broken. On the table lay a pocket-book, with soine papers in it, and a Lottery ticket lying on the side of it. A candle and stick stood on the ground. A pen knife I.ty on the door by his right hand hooches pocket. There was no watch in his Gds poeker. I remarked the fire which was in the kitchen, the coal on it appeared to have been put on within five hours, it was not burnt at all. 'rise fire would have last el an hour or two longer. The.fentale, Simmons lay wth her 'wad against the stairs and her feet towards the front Mir. The banisters of the stairs were broken. I went up stairs ; the beds appeared net to have been laid an. Sonic of the bed tit:mturew were Moody. The: drawers were all open, and the articles thrown out on Lue floor ; some of them were also bloody.—Juryman—i. appears :bat the per petroturs of the tunnies eutenAl tho house tm Saturday iiii;ht Wien, ~. ~..r--..~ --=-' ten o'clock, and remained there until the watch was gone MT 0 - sir duty on tile next (Suitably) morning. —Witness continued—Tile face of Simmons was covered with blood. an& appear, d p i I l aw.• lino downwards in a gore of Wood, and had been turaed attorsa,t:s upwards; her pockets had not been riled.—Mr. Win. Biter. biacher, sworn..-I was with du:last witness when lie entered the euits,•, and his evidence is perfectly comet and true.—Samh, wife of Will itin Itro die tlworn—l wasant.sing by the house of the defendant on sat may night, about a quarter past ten o'clock, and saw the gate betia, Bird's house open, and a women with a boy -tandii.g haort: it. Mr. Lid's street door was a little often; I tli , covered it by the lamp which was lighted. I was going to a butcher's shop to buy some inear. Wica: I returned from the butcher's, the woman was goat, The woman had a black bonnet on. I had no conception sli belon the I.ouse.—Mfr. J. 1,. Bicknell, tun Attorney, resident at ~,.,.Lh. w went is the house of the deceased about half ;intone o'clocl: on Sun day afiernomi. and searched to find the weapon the wounds 1,J.1 been iallictl with. Ile searched all over the! house, but could m t fund any thing like it. In the attic, he found lying on the f..)cr. a Bank of England ii. note. There was a trunk on the floor, whira haul been rifled. It appeared that some person bad silt on a chair which stood near the trunk, and had turned user every in the trunk. There Wii3 .060 l{ number of letters lying about iii rantusiot:. A bank stork receipt was lying on the bed. The tied had not been lain ill since it had two made np ; but there was an impre,iion which appeared to have been eaded by some one sitting on it. At this part of the investigation the beadle told the Coroner diet tic wit:et:man of lonslon-street (the street in which thedec...oaal resit!. d), named Sid ney, had found a candle and stick in dice liar of the deceased's house. placed under a .wotln apparently for ti,e purpo.e of setting; tire to the house, and was placed there af ir e the murders w .re coin , mitted. The brother of Simmons, who works at the ceni.nt manu factory, Bankside, went down to Greenwich, and stated. that 'mu sister had in lice box, to hi+ knowledge, seven guineas, and some silver. It is supposed that gold, silver. and bills.. were stolen by the %Waits. belonging to Mr. Bird. to a great suminnt. The Coroaer slid , that no evidence had been adduced es fix the murder on any Or ticttlar person •, and if the Jury thought proper. as it wa, late (1 o'clock) he would adjourn the it:quest to a future day. The Jury were of opinion such a proceeding would be beat, and it was adjourned ac cordingly. The. Jury entered into recognize/ices of 401. each, to ap pear at the time appointed to renew the investigation. The Gazette of Tin sday night, contains the prorni , e of a pardon to any person concerned in the murders at Greenwich (except the amu , sl perpetrators) who discover. told lota to the apprehension of the murderer or murderers. A reward of snit guineas, with the s..me exception, is added on behalf of tl•e iuhabiuuts of the parish of 11 YDROPHOBIA.—An experiment which has hce:i recently made in Fiance, seems to confrai what the German Journals have already autionneed, that the alison plotlago is a remedy against this disease. Teo cows hail been bitten by a mad dog, and this remedy was applied to both of them. One of the. cows could not he forced to take a dose stiff) iently strong; andit perished in she excess of hydropholi a a few ilit)s The other. whirls received the deepest and 'Host 'microns wounds, but whirls was compelled to take .in adequate dose of the dried plant, had no symptoms of the nsatads six weeks altrr it was bitten. 'fbis successful experiment Reserves the tot potion of the Govrrrment, and of every frietid oflotaumity; and it is to he hoped, that whatever uncertainty remains as to the efficacy of this simple remedy against se frightful a ilk c ease, will be removed by experiments in oar hospitals within the course of this y ear. PonesEn NOTFP.—Alluding to the late case of Mr. Ranson, a writer in the Dublin Journal says of Ireland—." We order these matters better in this country : to the honour of our Na tional Bank, the principle en vthleli they proceed iv directly the reverse of that of the Baal: of Eligland. Instead of de clining to communicate :heir secret, they take every possible means to ilitt.rin the public ; itt.teati of demanding possession of the forged notes, and punishing with itoprisonment and expense the holders of them. they instantly return the nee when such appears.—lnstead of the necessity of varying their notes to deceive the fabricators, which is in meth deceiving rbe public, they wish to preserve an identity of eh:side:ter, by which the public soon beestne competent judges on a question of genuineness f and its pl. re of e •ealatcut. they have actually furnished the Postmasters, Magistrates, and other respectable persons throughout the kitigtl , with fac similes or proof impressions of their notes, as permanent standards fur public reference. Titus they base a security to their Notes, beyond ev:.n what guineas could Foss( ss ; and th? fabric:tuns, or ntierers, are detected on the first attempt'. to deceive the public." In coasenuenee of tonne depredations having been disco. sered to hue taken irlaee in the vault belon4ing to the Bap. list Chapel, in Fetter Lane, several persons, whose ft ietels and lel:dives had been interred in the vault alluded 10,11411 obtained permission to seas rh for them; hut to their grief, found nothing put empty coffin.. Mt. Some' vide, ot Stoners. to w n ,wiva one of the applicants, lik wife aid child %1t0.% ere de* posited there but a short time since, ale .11.0 gone and to add his dist e , o, the funeral expetteik had rwarly deprived him of his last shilling. The above circumstances, it I/111411A, in toyed the proprietors to appoint M r. Petnbler, of:Shoe-lane, and another person, to examine the callit; and out of 40 Cot. tiers If were tnn n! without bodies. Soule of .la n 4 contain e d .1 quantity of earth to avoid detection. 11 should be under stood, that the vault, to all appearance, is perteetly secure the whole being under lock and key. Towards the end of lest year, Mount Vegoai tt s Uc t o t o to throw out torrents of hV.. ; happily they frli Sipoii heels of volcanic substances round the Hamlin. oft e voicaao. Sit erosms Mu itutat.—A bout a fortaight ago the body of a ran was Como, in the River, near Pickle Herring SLIM, Wit! punveyoi ;,) the hone-house of St. John's Southwark. No persou coining fora i.r.l to daim the copse, the Coroner laid an •Inquisition. There were veral bruisa on the neck and face; but it being eir idynt that the body mutt have lain in the water two or three week - i. it was supposed that they were occasioned by it being driven with the tide agaiast Yes. eels, amt a v e rdi c t wa= pro ounced of—" ?isund Drina nod." By a memorandum found M the pocket of the deceased, it rppeared that his name was Jones. The body was interred in the burial- of St..lolin's, and for two or three days netaing transpired relative to the bu-iness. At length Mr. Jones, a hatter in Ile, t.etreet, on seeing the niciiierat.duai, recognized the...hand-writing of hi, own bait ,cr. Mr. Rob. Jones. many year; a Merehaut in the Americ.i. an.i burgh trades ; and rho having made arrangements ore cortune:Lial voyage to to South A rnerica. taus Pe:noosed to have gone to I.ir. there to embark. The last that was seen of him sy.o ..• Ivan of Dci. • when, after continuing with friend till midnight. pnted L w ite : b t ! f i l z. , 4 l : : ll l , i na n d l f i ,,k li bv .c ti l i i:t v i O e i t d t n i j ia i c }il T i. ) ::: )r ti d v n i L d r n i g Lr . .a t !,e i l l i a n t i. a lolgir.; for the night in the nighbourhoodef ams th. , l his genteel appearance attracted the notice of some of the tics ur pepp tirurc, with which tint part of themettopoli.bWarinS, t rubbed and murdered, and thrown in to /le Hie., rtie inhabiusnts if Wolver:iampton +.• bestoweii a LC, I n 4:1 /3« paupers of thus town. bei:ig '• an outward and visible sign" a their deomdency. t:cco:liion has. scared away :trine htuabeils tketu thy imuyir list.