The National Register. — London, England, 1822-09-30 00:00:00

PM lIIPOIESEX SESSIONS. WgreferSDA Y. SSP?. 2S.—James Callaghan, Philip Gregory, Patrick Su!liras, John Fitzgerald, :Michael Singleton, and Jo banns Hanigan, were indicted for a riot and assault. Mr. Adolphus stated the case for the prosecution. The pri *otters and the prosecutors, he said, were all Irish, one part of whom had been horn in a place sidled Ard .glass, and the oiler in • part of Ireland called Newcastle; and this difference of birth-pleas was considered by the prisoners, who were the Aril glass party, a sufficient reason for making a riot, by which the public peace was disturbed, and assaulting the prosecutors in a manner by which their lives were endangered. Daniel Connell stated, that lie lived at Calinal-buildiege, iu the pariah of St. Mary-le-hone. On Sunday night, the Slat July. witness was returning home about II o'clock at night, and found a party of about sixteen men iu the buildings crying out—" Ard-glass for ever ," the prisoners were amongst them ; he advised them to ;to their hells, saying, the place had a bad name, and they should not make it worse. Some of the whole party instantly fell on him. Callaghan had a cleaver, and struck bun with the hack of: others of the party were armed with pokers. tongs, and shovels, with which they struck him ; and a'ter he was knocked down, while lying on th e pe t ted, be was kicked in the mouth, and his teeth knocked out ; they cried amt while heating him, " they wouldn't be sa tisfied till they put him under the stones ;" and when piing away, said to each other, Icy had laid him low." The witness produced the waistcoat and shirt lie wore at the time, whirls were tern in tatters and dyed with blood; be also produced one (Wilts teeth, which was found in the street the nest morninz. Gerard Herbert, an Irishman and s Newcastleruan, said that when attacked by the men at the bar, " I was alone by myself, and I've a witness will prove it." Ile had nothing by luaus in his hand but his fist, and that was in his pocket. The de fendant' were all hallooing, " Mazza for the Ard glass boys, sod down with the Newcastle men." Ile had nn party but himself at the time. He was taken to the hospital, sod was dead fur a fortnight he wan so sadly kir. Several female witnesses who were present in the affray, and received their share of the blows, dealt not unsparingly corro borated this testimony. They proved also that the female de fendant encouraged the rest, end patted her two sons (Patrick and Timothy !Lanigan) on the back, crying aloud " Do for 'am, boys, do for 'em. They slia'nt say to-morrow that they gained the victory." It seemed that in the morning of the 21st of July, there had been a skirmish between these parties iu lurk-buildings, but it did not form any part in this indictment. Mr. Watford addressed the Jury for the defendants, and called several witnesses, who state t that there wan a a general fight between the inhabitants of CaLnal-buildings, and that it was impossible to say by which party it was begun. The Jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict of Guilty against all the prisoners, and James Calla;;Ilan was men trusted to ail months imprisonment in the !louse of Correction, the rest of the male prisoners to one in nth each, and Johanna Hannighan to pay a line el one shilling. Thomas Wifinau and James Foxley were indicted for assault ing James Phipps, a constable, in the discharge of his duty. Wausau was found Guilty sold sentenced to six weeks in the House of Correction ; Foxley was acquitted. SEPT. 26.—Isaac Jones, of Princes-street, Red Lion Square, was indicted for s violent assault committed upon Jane, his wife, on the 22t1 140111 the evidence of Mrs. Jones it appeared, that the pri• loner came home late on Sunday night, and because etc would not supply him with money to return to the ale-house, he at tacked her in 3 brutal manner with a lire shovel, and cut her head most severely. Junes was hound on his own recognisance for 51. to keep the peace towards his wife, after a verdict of guilty was found against him. .13313.1 Simpson, Madox, a young foreigner, w is indicted for basin, under false pretences, obtained from Henry thiley the out of nine shillings, on the 23d inst. John Gee, about 63 years of age, was indicted fur having on the lith day of August last a , saulted Elisabeth Becket, the daughter of one of the how-stieet patrole, a little girl only eight years of age, and indecently exposing his person to her •iew. Mr. Watford defended Gee, and called respectable witnesses to his moral character , but the fury found him guilty, and he was sentenced to three months imprisonment in the House of Currectiou. The Grand Jury for the county of Middlesex finished their labours this day. at Clerkenwell, for the present sessions, after sitting 16 days, and they were discharged with an appropriate address from the Chairman. FRLDAY, SEPT. 27.—Toe Ktsc's PosTtutos.--Thomas Jay was indicted for attempting to steal a watch, the property of William Lewis Ltulleu. There were other counts in the in dictment charging the indictmeut with attempting to pick the pocket of a person unknown, and also to pick the pockets of of divers persons to the jurors unknown. The defendant, it will be remembered, was tried a few months ago at the Old Bailey, for picking the pocket of a person unknown, and acquitted. Three persons, Gook, Harrison, and Council, who apprehended Jay at Drury-lane Theatre, and who appeared at the Old Bailer to give evidence against him, were at this present Sessions tried and acquitted of a conspiracy to charge Jay with a felony. The defendant was now indicted for the attempt to pick a pocket. The case for the prosecution having been stated by Mr. Watford, the following witnesses were called : William Lewis Bullen stated that he was an artificial sower maker, and lived at No. 15, Berwick -street, Soho. He saw the King go to Drury-lime Theatre last May. He saw the King's carriage draw up to the door of the theatre after the perform ance, and just at that moment he felt his watch stron A ly pulled twi e : but the guard chain prevented its being pulled out. Gook, the offieer, seized the prisoner at the same moment, and said to witness, You've lust your 'dutch." Wit ness said he had not, and went home without taking any further notice. He did not know how Gook had since found him out He believed Gook learnt where he lived by enquiring of a friend of his. Cross-examined.—lle lived within two doors of Cook, hut did not know that at the time. The watch he had now was not the same as lie had when at Drury-lane; nor were they the same seals or key. lie could not molly tell how long he bad bad the watch and arils. It might be a month or six weeks. Thomas Gook had been a constable for seven years, and was on duty at Drury-lane on the night in question. lie saw Flatten in the street, and observed the prisoner apparently watching him. lie then distinctly saw the prisoner pull twice at 13 d len'. watch, and by a third pull saw it so far drawn out as to see it was a silver watch. Witness instantly seised the prisoner and said to Mullen, You hare lost sour watch : follow me." lie took the prisoner to the Bunch of Grapes public-house.-- Bonen did not follow bin, as he expected. Ile had found 'Wien oat by emmiring after him of apeman he knew dowu at White thapel. On 6c/telling the prisoner at the pa►lie-hutiag s ba (egad a . ~, TAE NATTONAt ItEGISTEIt la We wveket,• oroerapiece, a half-crow., arid a key. no primmer said 11' you'll forgive me this time, I'll never do it again." and offered all the mousy be bad about him to let him go. The witness Sullen was here called tip again by one of the jury, and asked Ow the watch wan fastened on the night in question. It appeared by the answer, that the watch was fastened to the fob by a hook, and could not be pulled out by taking hold of the chain merely. Cook was thtn cross-eswmiued.—He found out where %lien lived about a fortuight ago by inquiring of a number of persons, first in Whitechepel ; and alter going round to many persons, at last he found him out. Sullen did live within two doors of wittiesa's house in Noel-street; but witness had another house in Castle-street, Leicester-square, and lived at one as much as at the other. About five years ago he was suspended for 12 months as a constable. When witness wan prosecuted the other day for a conspiracy, he did not hear Mr. Alley say, that if the then defendants would produce the man, he would give up the prosecution (Mr. Alley certainly did make u-u of such declaration at the time.) In the first information witness gave before the Magistrate, he swore that the watch was fastened by a Milian& and not by a guard chain. John Connell hed known Gook for ahont via months, and met him between nine and ten o'clock at Drury-lone Theutre on the night in question. Ile saw the prisoner make several attempts to pick pockets, and told Cook so. Both of them then watched the prisoner, and saw him poll at a watch three times. They took him to the Bunch of Crapes and searched him. The pri. soner cried very much, and begged to be let coif, offering a:I the money be had about him. Cross-examioed.—He lived servant with a Mr. Bitchily; in May, when his house was robbed. The robbers had never been discovered. Witness was discharged, but did not know the reasons for it. Witness had informed the saa. 4 istrate that the prisoner had confessed having attempted to steal the watch.— He went In the thezt:.e from curiosity only. James I farrison, a constable of St. Martins parish, corrobo rated the em ideitce of the oilier witnesses. Ile 41W the prisoner make three attempts at a gentleman's watch. The list attempt pulled it ont so tar as to show that it was a silver watch. Thompson, a coachman to his Majesty, proved that the prisoner was nut oa r,uty when the Liug went to Drury lane theatre. Cross-esamined.—Jay and several other servants went there out of curio.it3. Air. Alley warmly addressed the jury for the defendant. and dwelt strongly on the contradictory testimony given b Bulks, Gook, and Harrison. . . . The jury, without troubling the Chsirman to sum up the evi dence, found the d..fendant not When the verdi. t was pronounced, a slight dispositiin to applaud was shown, hut it was immediately repressed. The sessions, which line been the lon 6 est known fur some years, terminated to-day. On Tamhy lint an inqamt was taVen at the Bull on view of the body of Ellen M'Carthy, a poor old woman, publi., house, Botlin,;, Kent, before J. Outflow, Esq. coroner, aged 63, who was most cruelly and inhumanly bent and abused by a set of Toon inert, on the evening of the Sande!, preceding, and lima which barbarous treatment she survived hut a few hours. From the evidence adduced on the inquest, it appeared that the deceased and her husband had been drinking at the Bull-public-horse, oat !Saturday arternoon, and on their return to Mr. Addison's ( where they were hopping, and bad been so employed for the last twenty .years), a short distance front the public-house, they observed fifteen or sixteen young men stantlinz by the s`relosn. They had also been drinking at the public-house, and had declared that they would have a row with the deceased and her husband, who, when they approached them, were *creed by these fellows; the former was knocked down in the hedge and struck on her temples, they then kicked her and hit her with their fists. NVloile this was going on,.oone of them took the old man up bodily, and carried hint and threw hint into a ditch some distance oil, saying—" We have done for the old —, and we will now do as we like with the old —." They continued to abuse the old woman, and proceeded to acts too horrible and disgusting to name. At this juncture a man named Flint, wino also worked for Mr. Addison, canoe along, and the fellows made off. lie took the old man out of the ditch; the deceased was found lying in the road senseless and speechless. The old man took her up, and endeavoured to carry her home, but his strength failed him ; lie laid her in a hedge in a field adjoining, where she expired a few hours afterwards. lie knew one of than who was ringleader in the affair, his name he said was Adds, but none of the rest he could recognize. The deceased, it appeared, at the commence meat of the transaction, was somewhat in liquor, but able to proceed from the public.-horse homeward without any assist ance, Mr. G. Perfect, surgeon, who examined the body of the deceased, deposed that she had several hruiAes about the hotly and head. lie opened the bead, and found that the scalp was detached from the bone in several places, particularly on each temple, cud over the left eye, from the effectfrwi external yin- knee. On removing part of the skull, he fonnitaearly half a pound of coagulated blood upon the brain, from a rupture of the principal blood vessel, which was the cause of deceased's death. She died from apoplexy, but whether the rupture of the blood vessel was occasioned front iutoxication, or front any violence or bruises which she received, he could not positioely say. lie thou ht the external violence which emoted the bruises was sufficient to rupture the vessel. After the evidence had been gone through the Coroner proceeded to address the jnry, who, after sortie deliberation, pronounced ■ verdiet— Wilful Murder a4ninst Thomas Adds, mod other persona un known. Adds has since been taken, and coot:pitted to the county gaol, ender the Coroner's warrant; t•e others bava for the present eluded the band of justice. MUSICAL ANECDOTE.—H beiroz once in a country church, asked the organist to permit him to play the people out, to which he of course consented. Handel accord ingly sat down awed began tit play its such a masterly manner, as instantly to attract the attention of the whole ciongregatitto ; who, instead of vacating th.i.- seats as usual. remained for a considerable space of time fixed in silent re:lair:l6ton. Toe or ganist began to be impatient (iterhaps his wife was wiiiin4 dinner), " 1 " at length i'ltiresaing the pet fo. miter, toll him he was convinced ME could nut plan the peopdo out, and al. ked to relinquish the attempt ; which done, a few .•ral.rs in the ac customed manner optrated.dike n•adut; the lit°, .het, by im mediately dispersing the audience. . . 13,a e RS. —Brown Red S:ockm in's !ate fi;ht h tying terminated in • draw, has caused muck ,!ixippointmcitt its the boxing circle ibGt a rettewed match between these little heroes et the liAt is expected to be made in Ow roarse or the eniuM4 weck, as Brown's patron It•is atithmisol the Jot to back 'frown from 25 gain, an to 10,1, to 114%t S.celonan ra any time they thiok proper; or Brown will 1,1V... , 11 VOUlitl, 10 ally Oar Ulan inf.st4lAnd tor the aboessAtoo pr o vide d li.LOciatttri's p a rt; do rat shy oat. 307 CORONER'S INQUEST. A■ iequisitioit was held ou Monday last, at the Christopher inn, Eton, before John Mulder, Esq. one of II• • Coroners for the county of Hunks, in consequence of the death of the Her• Edwin Hallied. The Coroner moil Jury proceeded to view the body, end having proceeded to the Christopher 100, the exami nation of witta proceeded. John Lewis deposed that he was servant to Lord Craven, and wee iu attenduce at Etun upon his Lordshi.'s three soils, and upon the deceased. Tie young gentlemen only arrived, for the first time at Elution Saturday, where they were placed tinder the care of the deceased, who came on Friday. On Sunday morn• ing, about seven o'clock, Mr. 11. accompanied by the three you,: gentlemen, went out. The deceased returned awl breakiasted at his lodgings, and whom' heard him say, that the young gen • tlenien were to breakfast with It master of Eton school, and them be examined. After breakfast the deceased dry aced himself, and went to church. When lie returned abut one o'clock he looked melancholy, About twu the young gentlemen went to dinner, and the deceased went to his own room, saying he shenki dine out at six. Wittiest' rea.sined down stairs till six o'clock. expecting to be called, and surprised that Mr. Bethel did cot ring, he then went up and found the parlour and bad-roam doors shot. He opened the bed-room door, and there saw the deceased lying, as seen by the Jury, quite dead and rile, and a razor in his right hand. Mr. Hathed led been tutor to tha three young gentlemen about six or seven years. During the last mouth witness hail occaeioaall♦ discovered a and melody frown upon his timiutenauce, which lie Gould not atitilaute to any particular circumstance. lie had not given less eatifactiert to Lord Craven, and he wee beloved by every budy. On Sue. day morning the deceased did not spoilt as usual to witness. looking very dull. Ou the previous Saturday he tooled as usual. The Rev. George Romney Green demised, that the three sons of Lord Craven were with him Ull Sunday morning, from half past cut ea to a quarter post ten, for the purpose of being excained preparatory to their entrance at Eton school. The boys were emidoyed in writing coda an exercise. About a quarter past ten Mr. tilted o one to see what progress they hail made. Upon lookin4 at their exercises the deceased ex. preset-11 disappointed. H.• caked if !tad was ell time had done ; and said, " they had done better with him." Wit nes. replied, lie thought the be-• ;.3d done a► well as could he expected, cousideria,r their situxtion ;—he was a stranger to and they were perhaps under the influence of Tisey Ind been slow, but very correct." ‘Vitnesa walked to Eton with deceased, after morning service at St. George'a chapel. The deceased frequently expressed great anxiety about his pupils. Alter • plume, witness endeavoured tochasge the subject, asking deceased if lie knew alto would he the sew Warden of New College Ilia answer was in an altered.lone, anti with an altered look, and his words were to this pompon : " I don't trouble myself about :hese things now, my mind is solely occupied by toy Iriya." Witness was surprised at the answer, to which be replied in a very low and faltering voice.— He was evidently mud. depressed. —Hie deceased resumed the subject of his pupils before they parted in college. Mr. John Stretford, surgeon of Eton, was, called to the de. ceased about,aix o'clock oat Sunday evening, and on entering the chamber found him quite dead, the body lying es ♦iewed by the Jury. The jugular vein and the external carotid artery trete divided, and a dreeilful heituurrLage bad ensued, wbids was the muse of his death. The Jury deliberated a few minutes, and then delivered Choir verdict —•' That the docea.rd CAMP by hiA death by hie owls band, in a Et of temporary derangement." L. Owen %%^s executed at Cartiarvon last week for a hi,;hway robbery and attempt to murder, near Llaorwst, It wits attended with mimic singular eirmiti.steitera :•- So septa , *lianas and prejudiced are the honest NV..lsh inhahitams of .tat .. mountain region," that no carpenter in ul n a loon could be procured to make a gallows; and at last the jolt was under taken and completed at Penileli. It was brought to Marfa • 1p Scioot, in the dead of the night ; but there was again a serious. dilemma, for no one could he engaged to erect the fatal tree-. to, and it would not have been erected had not the sheriff em ployed his own servants in the work. Other didieulties still presented theniselt es—a cart must be had to convey the con vict, and accordingly the cart of a carrier was fixed upon for the purpose, but the woman to whom it belonged, with tears in her eyes, besought the sheriff' not to bereave her of her bread, for if the cart wan taken, no one would in future stiffer their goads to be conveyed by it. This appeal was irresistible, and it was given up. At last the name was taken Truth the cart of a respectable innkeeper ; the vehicle was coloured dark, and the culprit was carried in it. Mite. the ..xecotion was over, there was not in individual who could muster op courage to take down the widows, and it was 'binding a few days ago, to the great terror of the neighbourhood—male mid female, The prisoner's mother, we hear, vas present at the execution, and fainted away. Slur wan with Orem ',amenity romeyeil away in the sheriff's carriage. The horror which was depicted no the, fares of the multitude, when the wretched matt was turned MI, is said to be iodescribable. The hang trine, in returning to Cheater by the mail. was ITCoabibed by the passengers, who joined io the general turn out ; the coach. man was obligel to give him an ejectment; till them would the passengtrs proceed. .-- iNouLaT.—Olt ThurAlay last, n atii'ven. meta, on Friday, a Coroner's inquest was he llie Boar and Grove tavern, Deptford, on the body of Nl:cleael Higgins; aged it:, whose &nth was occasioned by receiving blows in a pugilistic eimuunter.—A servant of D. W. 'limey. IL q. of l.oampat Hill House, Greenwi,h, stated, that lie saw the deceased and a young man, named Jones. go iota a field to fight a pixlied lastale. A ring was formed—the decetved entere d the rtng and }tripped. Jones also stripped, and they shook Innis. Each was attestant by a second, and a persen stood with a watch to keep the time. As soon as the tiartie. sh.m'a ham's, they exchanged Were. Tile deoeu.sed hat the brat of toe battle during the three *aroma& g in the fulfil) Jones h.: el edeceased a severe blow on tl,e templet w!ticli mat him staggering. Titer fraught for about a wan an a an Imirr, a hen the tleceiried exclaimed, .• I will have no more• of It." lle thee looked very ill, and anIIIIIIMTITIO irlllersaebie. fib way carried to use Ilrichteparre' Arras, fern thence to the Di n . rosary I loase, ma] attera :mit to Iti• mother's, where he expired. - The Jury "'cited for a ' , ant time. and rem neil a verdict ef :11anstaugoter against Janes, tic principal, and ili.hol and Varner, the two amin ts. Tit n r Mt. MbSaladOj—ajoiles aid Hillary were committed to Maidstone gal. !IL! exceit•or til Itor live. l'e::;.• Beauvoir, late of llownham Hall, in the erin.7 of E;. ex. raid last week the awn of 3s 0001. to the S!anip Olime, 1 , 1114 the duty on 710.0401 , payable to the resichiary lega•e.:, Thylt lid lir.:oo, now diehasd Jenson de Bettivoit. Tins firtun rte leg . ' a: was no relation to tie testator. Aimee Soave,!. were eth: e left in /e.tycies._ ,i The immense promrty •es beers:at:ten hi . e t "tutor in liven* , lent of ht, I echo:4 e::m. s, which are oWinsi lerali e value. la ...rhino ts tins prod: :km. wc.dth„ tliedeitit'n: pileieind.llllll6lo. Witted sill the day ei La.ltsdi, a it% Med SOK a yaw ! . - - " MI i •41. MI