The National Register. — London, England, 1814-09-04 00:00:00

SEPT. 4. and (Got+, eloired on suspicion of habilis:, e,ii IVedne•day evenieg, murdered a young woman, mined J 411 e with whom he hats for bolliC tittle Cohabited, and afterwards attempted to put o to Isis own •xistessee by cutting his throat.— lii the latter attempt he failed, bl . although be tuccuctied in making a deep incision, the • Surgeons of thy Hospital to which he was taken, declared they had no appreheosion of danger bola it, and in coo equeoce of that de cimation Inc was brought tip for examination before Mr. Wont.. M. Richard Alloys. 1.1 Bermondsey-street, stated, that as lie was walking in the Upper kentroad, on Wednesday evening, between seven and eight o'clock, his attention was engauvd by a tingular noise coming nom a field adioning the road. He instantly jomptil Min the field, and near the spot observed an intant Ring on the grass covered with blood ; lie took it up and examioesi it, but could dis cover no host about it. Looking sound he perceived at a little ells trance, a man extended on the grass; he went lip to helm and the nom endeavoored to rai-e bii ht at! at his approach ; the witness perceived his throat WA% cut and the blood ensiling out. Some other persons had by this time come up. unil the witness gave the child to one of them whilst he raised tip the wounded mail and en deavoured to st,p flee bleeding by closing tho wound with his fingers ; Lr in some degree succeeded ; the man seemed a little to Iteover, and a paper and pencil tieing put into .his hand lie wrote as follows: ‘. I give you soy direction—Dear Jane Wale is a true trieutl of mine —I have a key its my pocket which I will give you." He did not write any more, or did lie speak ; a coach having by this time come up he was put into it awl taken to Guy's Hospital, %nese he con tinued till now broneht up for examinatiow. Sheregold, a coostable, :stated, that having been ii,fo.rned murder had been done in the Kent-road, hastened to tlte spot, whrte he tOund the last witness supporting Hack's heat. SheregAd proce•dcd to examine the spot further, and at a distance of about iitty yards he fund the body of a young woman. )arse Ware, with her throat cut in a most dreadful manner, anti quite dead. Having as• certained that she was dead, and Wortley hello; there, he lett her and retutned to the spot where he nail lett the wounded man. They got him into a coach, and the witisc-s went to the liconital with him. On his way thith:r, toe prisoner wrote on a piece of paper, " I am no• so bad as you think we—) ou.hurt me much. Jane Ware lodges Me. 17, Nurtulk-street, Union-street." Treeby and \Vui. Voi :ley deposed finding the body of Jane Wale quite ocad, and with the assittance of some other persons lin:y coolie ) ed it un a shutter to the Rising Sun public-house, Harper-st Let, Kent-road. _ _ _ Upon this evidence, the surgeon having certified that no ill etrets would result bow doing so, the Magistrate committed the prisoner to Horsemooger-I.oe gaol. He had not. hoWelCr, b:Til in tic prisou (to w4octi he was COIIVeVed with the ele.lteSt care and tendaness) above hail an hour, hetore he expired. This NVIVICIIOI Man leaves a widow Jed live small infant unprovided tor. He had also cohabited with ;am: Ware, who had several children by him. No reason what ever can be given for thee , ,lnmissin of the rash act of which he was god except it arose trom some sudden and violent fit of jealousy. Nothing is known of what took pace prior to, or at the meetitrA to the K...nt-road, nor does it appear that any one was resent, cr saw them together on the evening w tieu the fatal deed was done. Inquests were yesterday taken before the Coroner for Surrey, on the bodies of Joseph hack Mill the unfortunate victim of his lingo vernahle passions. No ne,v evidetw. ixas - adatieed on the fast in quest, and the Jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against Ju•epli Hack. The Coroner then proc ee ded to Horsemonger-laoe, wlier- the body of Hack was lying. Here the wattle evidence which was hem d before the Magistrate at Union Ilan was heard in addition, to whirl) the master of the miserable murderer and suicide was exambied, who deposed that he had no doubt the deceased had been for a considerable time insane. The Jury upon this evidence found a verdict of—insanity. The following anecdotes leave come to our knowledge, and will, perhaps, tend to chew the circinastaores which led the miserable man to e.on:ilit the horrid acts which tel his own and tier existence of a fellow-creature. The unfortunate Jane Ware be came known to Hack about three years ago, at which time she lived set vant at an Ina in the Borough; the emperpeenue of their intimacy was the pregnancy of Jane, who went to lie in in Christ chinch workhouse, and Hark was in consequence taken up arid kept in custody till lie found security to indemnity the parish. Jane after wards obtained a situation in a gentleman's family a t Blackheath ; here, however, he followed her and she again liet!aine pregnant and lost her situation. She then went and sesided in the same house with Hack, where, about three months tut), she was delivered of to ins, and Mrs. Hack nursed her. Some time since !trove% er the women disagreed, and Jane quitted the house and went to reside iii Norfolk-street. Hack, however, was dissatisfied and urged Lim return, which bbe refused to du i stating as a masou NATIONAL FIEGISTER. 571 the oltjeccous of 111 rs. Hack. On this subject they disagrecO Oft Sonday last, wid between that time and Wednesday evening it sp eared ifick had prevailed on his wife to content to her return. It is %tippthed that at the fatal meeting on Wednesday he again nrged his request, and having wet with another refusal, in a moment of passion sacrificed his own existence and that of a fellow -creature. UN 10V HA 1.1 Jennings as brought before Mr. Clvirabers,„ iivLogbourti, on an intortuati.di, charging Win with a breech ut the Act of Porli,ment, he having sold certain printed books, the same Not ;tavrog the Printer's name in them. Coilingbourn slated, that on Sundpe, the tell of Ati;ust, ssbast thy Rev. Mr. Toter was employed in edif%itig the tohowers of L o atina :sontheott within the walls of her chapel, the delend«nt was as employed in spreading the fame of the Prophetess abroad, and that ut a cheap rate. His chaunt setting forth, tio t any one, •r every one, might be supplied with the water of lif (cmitaluod M the ir - i'phecies of the lmiy Joanna) on appLcatiot, to him, fir the trifling wino of rate pet•ny. Nounbers became purchasers of the inspired writings, and, unfortunately for the ve(.dor, Colltna bourn conceived an loclination to edify himself by the taste of so pre.. cious, and, at the same time. so cheap a beverage. He, therefore. became a purchaser, and, on exstniumg the holy work, finding there seasno Printer's name oni the tide page, or elsewhere ; his thirst after filthy lucre became insatiable ; the unfortunate Imi:dor of prophecies, in which, how'. rc r, his own misfortune was n t hinted at, was summoned and fined 51., and in default of payment committed for a week. Vs VW llACrxrrV COACH' FA E 5.--011 Friday morning a else under the New Hacknev Conch Act, was heard before Mr. Nares, Mr. Birnie Sir W. Parson', and Mr. Sketchley. Mr. Hatchett, of the White I lor , e Cel'or had summoned the driver Of a hackney coach, No. 878, ier ahusinu him. Mr. H stated. that on Wednesday last lie ht. rd the couch at Conduit-street, and went to Charles street, Cavendish-square. for which the driver demanded one shillih g ; Mr H. asked hilu for a ticket, he said he had none : Mr. H. said he would not pay him with out a ticket, and gave Isis name and address. The coachman abused nini, but Mr. 11. positively refused to pay him without a ticket. and alien some further abuse the coachman drove away. The Magis.ruies infortm it Nlr.llletchett, that by the ;id clause of the new act, it is eti -Alec!, That no person or persons, who shall have hired any hackney roach, shall be entitled to any redress, or he heard oo any complaint or format' .ti which he may exhibit under or by virtue of any laws relating to lit vuced iiaeiney coaches, whether any such complaint or infOrmation be f r exaction, or fur misbehaviour, or fur any other of fence %Intl nrevcr, unless such person, previous to entering upon the hearing thereof, shall produce to the Justice or Commissioners before whom such complaint or information shall have been exhibited, Willa one or more of the ticket, which lie shall have received or might or ought to have received by virtue of this cct ; and that as Mr. Hatchet had no teket to prlduce, the driver could not be punished for his inisbeha tour. The :ilaiisirates also gave Mr. H. to understand, that he was petit ctly light in refusing to pay the man without n ticket, and stated, that in every case were the driver refuses to give the ticket ur tickets required by the act the parties are fully justified in refusing to p..y the fare. In cases of refusal the old law (Ist G. I. t. 57) which imposes a penalty lion? 10.. I. stilt hold, good, as the tickets amity sally where tits coach is hired curries the fare, the act being de fective in not imposmg any I:enisity upon the couchnuat tot tte6lect. At , to give such ticket. • _ _ ACC IDE NT,s' AND OFFENCES. CORONER'S Ixourvr.---Mondity attcrunon an adjourned inques was hell at the Star and Garter, near Kew Bridge, on the body of a new•born undo found drowned in the ThasneA, near Strand on the Glue:), on llondav the i - 2.2d ot this month. 01. the following day an incincit was held on the body, at the H. in Strand on the Grecu, and from the evidence then 'minuet d. sti.picion fell on a lady ot the name ot Rogcr , , an inmate in the tamily of 14. Bowen, who occupied a reads turni•hed hone. Mr. Ro;.ers and Dr. 80 ‘‘en's fentily, itt which she reside d, havinv scdtlctily qui:ted the uti4libourhood, the Jury from the cause `U•pitiOn her, with the COlise“t Or the Coroner, adjourned the inquest until 11..nday, to give time to make every necessary inquiry. Genree Collins, a fishes mit , . deposed that he lived in Strand on the Given; that about six o'clock in the morning of Monday, the Vid OF this month,_ as was fi.hing in the river Thames. oft Sl'and on the Green, he drew np in hi.: net a cotton hag, continuity.; winc thine, which, on examiiiitil. he found to he dn body of a new burn malt chilli; tlivre w•.% a rope tied round its Wily, to which aloe was a stone attached, for the purpose, as he supposes, to rirtk the same. • _ _ Aun Hayes, a laundress, deposed, that she wai eolploy . ed fre. 1