The National Register. — London, England, 1818-08-10 00:00:00

AVG. ti) MURDER A T EPS'O3I,. AND IMI (I" T. 'ritesflay, C. Jeenniett, Esq. the Jury, anti several Connty Magistrates, Rumbled at the Hare and Hotrod. Inn, Einem,. and green thence procseeli•il to the mansiun.of James Tessier, E.g. to view the beady of Eiy Cox, his gamekeeper,. who was mordercd vu Sunday neacei:iig last. A more horrid .'...pectacle *46 never brunglit under the view of a jury The back part of the bead appeared to be beaten in. the face entirely black, the ileek compressedthe r to 3.V., 0. a man's aria by a handkerchief bring twisted with extreme round it by meal's of a stick fastened in the knot; the birteni of the stomach literally kicked to pieces, the right arm aryl two riles broken, a linger cut uft the left hand. and Kill hau is coerced with gashes deep and lung. After a deliberate view of the body, the parties returned to the Hare and Mends, and the Coroner proceeded to take time evidence. Geergs.Mltisonr the coachman of Me Tessier, deposed to the dreadful state In which lie found the body souse boors after the murder is supposed to have been committed. Preen En , appearance of the grass and bindles, he tlintiOtt th e r e :lust have been a violent scuttle. '!'he place o here the body seas found is a grrtrter of a mile films Mr.Tessier's !dense. John Smith stated, that hr was shepherd lea Mr. Tessier, and slept in the tense house with the d el ; beard hide go *et between three and fuer o'clock on Seanday morning ; at five heard the repeat of a pistol or gorwtte sotoml seemed to come from Prulteolmos Corner, or thereabouts ; being much accustomed to hear tieing, dial not think any thing of it; and :de afterwards accompanied the last seituess to !adult after Cox. ' James Finds, a servant to Mr. Tessier, prodnead a clasp knife, which he st.►ted lie room] about I.i•yards foam the Arad body : also produced a pistol olaioh was picked aap abort y.►rds final the cosine. 'Flip neck banultscrebiel of the de• ceased was twisted soak:lit roamd his neek by means of a stick sv Mgt was thrust thretaalt the knot, that witness could scarce ly force his f►ngers between the neck and the handkerchief, thi fare was altara,t black. The stick ascii for the deafly ruarposc w.►a then lorotbaced ; it is about two feet in length, ti . c niches ail eiccamat'eruare. Milt has n large honk at one co al. t . .!tau lea Stiuu►ers, a gardener, deposed, that he was going along a pace etillotl &haat Ilse o'clock on Suitably last, and beard the report of a►TMMIy ;Merv/at ds heard an exclamation of Lord I" and acme other expressions which be could nut understand ;looked alb ant, butt saw nobody. Mr. Mays!, as surgeon, stated, that its examined the hotly, anti faunal various harts in different part►, bait hr conceived the du ath of Cox was °cc:.lol►rd princioally by the neck. itsr! et' heing twisted round the week SO !ilea as to stop art spiratitm. 1 be j u ry, alter a few minutes' deliberatinn, relearned a per of Wilful Murder against bottle person or per►ons at _resent unknown. • Oa T:iqiday at 2 &Hoek iu the attentomn, the follnwing 1/41214trates, Jmnes utter, J. Wititr.mre, J u a e ph Grinstead. prl E•gr, siA;t nailed at the .eoliee-lion,se, hooray the door:, of %Mel' were literally blorkailedi by the slab, when Thaimia Aruold, John Bridger. and Tlonna% 01- boa a, in emitinly or May and !J ill, the where*, and William dltay, the gamekeeper to Lord Arden, were brought before Civin to mid ergo tut examination on mispiciun of being ems. cerned iat toe murder of Lly Cu.s ..... ...-...- J•disi May stated, that he had been induced to 'apprehend Abe prisoners, with the itssisltmee of his colleague', for the folfaw tag reasuaist—lnformation hail been given him, that all of 111..111 oblaiiii;kl a lisiag partly by inner-Malt ; Thomas Amnia 'usually resided will! Ilia. urther at Bated cad, abut 1 nines front I.:ps.on, and was a 0010 s Tu t. . poacher ;he had 134' 4 41 heard to say °a Thursday or Finlay last, that wages fur wink were very low, and tic could get inure by catching harm ; oil Satur day, the I before the murder, lie did not sleep at I ran could it La discos eyed that he slept at Epsom, ald gh br was seen there :thaw .1; irelstel 013 1111 l raring ; tom Jar was caounitivil at Zi o'clock en th . eiClitil.iy morning ; ita described himself as In iiing been very drunk nu the Sas isr.. slay i sight ; whereas, ill inquiry, it oristlefuniiil that he left Epson' about It) o'clock al night pes reedy sober. A 1141.1114 cir cumstance %chi caused bin to br ',viol - 413.d as uu (Obit' iirtisi pitiull Was, 0:03 he was in possession of a do.; of ,1 l'evuliar de scription; and a few days previous to the tisuriler,Ces had said to a fellow servant that he had sect such a ail^ otl his master's manor, and threatened to shout it. J lines, 'rnold was Ilie C 0 1 1 ,1131113 44110C143t1 of his hotter ; the piisoner Johe Resort s absconded, when informed that the officers watt' in punish of him. 'C. Osborn was iiikeis into custody in costae/lin ore of li•visig swell seta at Aix u'elork ill toe morning of Sunday, at his rottage door, which is about Gil yards from the spot where the•body was !naiad, as if he bail just come in from a thi search being math. ill his cottage, a loaded chi) mac lona.' and a great number 01 wild tahliit.skiiis. The bloody knife htu.l4l near the 111.11!C a litre the wutiter V: committed very mach rewitibleil one which had been seen to use in his badness as gardener, but which he could trot now produce. Two brobies, basing the oppearauen of has in: been recently indicted,- were discovered tut his forehead. John Halliday, Ft StlelCistaker, residing at Epsom, sworn. knows the prisoner, 7110111514 Arnold; lie hiss hr en iu the habit of trequeiffly coaling to 1114 hou s e; WAS there on Si.. tardily last, and %tent away al 6 in the es waive/ peitireily sober; did not see him again until Sunday inoriniot at 11 o'clock: he then said lie had not been I all night, but slept ow:111 oat stack ou the skirts of the time , 'fhoinas Arnold, on acing required to gist of himself trona Saturday night to Sunday a, tl:e when he WAS ht:ell at Upson, I kit the house of the last witness about 0' that tiate tntenti , tl to go home to his mother's stead to sleep ; I, tit airlel'W.ll'di meeting %tills Lune, he dram. 11,61 lie was ilitosicatted, ;mid 4 stack td 0 it. and there all night ; did it W 33 Nhcn lie hut die :41.0. he went into Limon, to I.l.iliilay he diet' found it aar a and :Ott mai . _ blotltee3 residence to l'oc.t:sidst the hiack rt (patter of a wile from the spot Mlicre kit ~ .t.ntruitted; never made übe of the,%vords 4troi p;tteti to • by hlay ;be has Im' o.opt.yf by Mr. Hall of Epsom, for atKars. tae May, the officer, further stood, tflnt he Imo hc.use of Attaohl's mother, but Mandl a mihing pt:eate the prisoners in t:l4. ()Goae Willi sit a:healed. Bruce the apprehension of Jam( 5, trued 'hat he had li lepi ut R 4.1,40141 on SALIII did cotta;:e till lute on ' Win. 'fanner, a Jabot rer, &par.., that he brass of Osborn's tatlits, and on Snot s /11, ht' 'I tit NATIONAL REGISTER. seven ito the morning, saw the prisoner Ostrom in the gar. den; tashorn's cettage is about .50 yards from Crackenl.am. Corner; cannot fell at what titer he left home on Seta lay. Saunders is servant to Mr. Northey, for whom the prisoner Osborn works; has seen him use sr knife somewhat resem bling the bloody knife found at Crockettloam corner, but cannel say pcsitively that the knife produced is the same ; within a few days he has been in the tidbit of using a garden knife, and on Monday saw him out etrawlairriee with a rase knife; has observed the latailes on Oslitunas forehead; they were nut there on Friday or Saturday ; he canoe to work as usual on Monday, but thought there wis a sort of shyness about him; he seemed to avoid witness. Mr. W. Boucher, cutlet, at Epsom ' remembers selling a knife similar to the garden knif e used by Osborn, lint has no recollection of the clasp knife found near the deceased. Mary Hoare, sister in law to the prisoner Osborn, thought she hurl seen a knife resembling the bloody elesp knife in the toridener's possesii.iumt, hat could not say that the knife pro aced was the saute. The bruises on his forehead she never observed till within a few days. The prisoner Osborn Ibex stated• teat he could answer every thirst; that had been alleged ha eeidence against him in the most %MIA/chary manner. He slept at home ou Saturday night; amid wilt roused hi the moraine, nu was also Iris wife, by the replan of a gun or pistol, about lave o'clock. eiretimsdnee of the teporl was nut much noticed either by himself or 'his wife, belag hi the habit of hearing many gums tired off by persons sittediug. When he was observed the dour of his menage at six o'clock he had just come &woo stairs, and had never 111,f& the cottage. The gilts fumed in his house watt the property of a gentleman of the neigh— bourhuool (Mr. Dorety a who W 44 at present front hlffile, Mid who bad plated a large quantity of linen tinder his care dotting his absence, and hail lent him the gsll to protect the property if uccasion required. As to the bruises oat Ida fareheall, they were occasioned by a tall from au apa!e.trce, in his own girder. ; he was will u;; to strip an l shuw his person, and if t he braises were oceitii. seed toy a scuffle or tight, there would assuredly be some 'tiara., of el:deuce fumed Naafi him besislas the bruises alluded tu. Ile Shea stripped, and was ex:mutter/ by Mr. Maydr, the who Mated, that no marks were apparent on his bully that indicated he had been engaged In a syndic ; the nsarks ua his forehead he ' thought hail, from their appearauce, been occasioned as de. scribed by the animter. Bridges stated that Ise was absent from Epsom only a few boors ; he hash no idea that lie aas ,u-pet ted of Ole hot thuoutit the 314;zi.trattns wanted to punish hint fur having gut drunk on Sunday. The prisoner Thomas Arnold was requiredtby the Magis. tratea to state wlrt re lie slept on Friday :sight, but refasell to alit Mica the questioin, stating that wherever he might have slept on Friday could tint in any way be conn e cted w ilh th e inquiry tennat the minder; he was willing Sc. give an areumit of himself front aaterolity night till Snisslay aight, and beyond that he did nal courcive he had a right to Is e questioned. The examination hated ti hours, when the M.tgistrat es, after a latog mid deliberate consideration, discharged all dm prisoners, Tim Magistrates commended the zeal and nortivity of the offi.asers„ and thou:lly torgest a cuistinstanee 644 hear exertions, stating at Ilse saute time that it was tiro determination of all the magistrates and gem re to: the country to 'mere no ricpeti , i• in bringing the mouth-ruts to justice. The bloody kurtr ajail ill! stick ivied iu the strangula Lon lit th e un. forianate eitiorLeelier were thou delivered , to the officers. and they ininatahately recommenced their search tor the delinquents. • The Magistrates and Gentry then formed themselves into a vs 000000 iittee for the purpose of roamer's-sing chat further measures coastal he adapted ; the (hatirmati, James Trotter, Esq. expressed himself 114 filvoilratlile to the tittering of a liatalsimse reward. The suggestion was nunuiuunsl y sap. ''envoi, and it was resolved that a reward of Two Bemired Is si l Id be i ttttt offered, payable ou Use con. vietiou of the uffentlets. TUE I isavesT.—Wo arc lavollretwith the falai view of the suit. of the currant crops, telligent corresinnalcut in Kent:—Wheat harvest begun very ablunlant and tine, and straw quite us lung as it is usually. Oats, straw very abort, ear full of mica, and as goad as most years. Beans failial ahnest every where. Pease very bad' and nut many. lhps very row, and %hew well ; should the line showcrs continue, will in ne)...t places be plenty.' Barley, a very scanty crop every where. Apple..-.; alatuthint. The general state of the country is me :h gt-eencr than nearer Lon don. Th e spring: arc all as Ligh and running us ever. ft is now beginning to rain, nod we hope it will eon :lune. The: Mar-•i': of I fere:WA gardener, at Raglcy, cut 'arly is the i:tst mot: tlt, in h:. lurdship's pinery, a pine, which wc..lghed 19 poo.1:13 if.) ounces avoirdupois.* The supply of grant is exemively abundant ; no 1 thult 100 sail reached the River ou Man lay, with. *— goes of wheat, liarley;" &e. Although t i t4g6 in r vice has alieady. holt s considerublo r a tart , ednetion . most be thg f onwriittlice.. Ilithas, for the first time, Representatives of the r Scots Duke who is not His Grace Nnout in the his sun, tilt :kt,arquis of i his sceon4l 4 4 'n their ti ttgat e that r,lfittt, .' s ng ere then fold 141ay at Is. the (meter wing at 7,4_0p the 'thorns were in Tremont ' that a ar . villialt'lliAnn imn Mr- 1 440!$‘0 . (!be fur limy:pea wmigec--- inaster dinners had been ''!"itetermiil3l v& to raise nrowuncea :Leal 'al t.-Ilea:id :Ley will all Van ingitt, wit 11111bL IJC tiAtiftwitriir.acuay. 31. The little* of Itusburgh, 4r,& e sOIIIP itecultnt been eleeteiV.o:fe -el the SixtcNo. at a o'clock in sh o e d t h at h e Scottish 71 . tierage, h the only S o'clock, 811111 At :all; ii Peer of great Ilrituin. H i ll hive++ at ii;it:. eighty-jirst.yami.4; his age, and 1 .'"',"" "q" - " H 's lievntitiont; 111r4 ittst entered into Ils 1114241 went pit, ... Tie I•esent Littnner hits been Hut know v,114., ifurbi,',.., s e 2.1... . ,A,:.,, very htg ti lt 9t fL I I. 4 ,4,ne pr ..ins er, Y.* house „ :a I I - ,1") initiliJaWutagrVell relthe i ' e ' 1413 w " 346 141 - eitt iiissate: , The therntomei r ~, , t ,,. ;hid ' t he ltateth uf uatri•i.t.itibt lYsis lie tonnicr. sitok; e,,,..•.... 4?.,..., 1- ' .i root Ilat el Atiri 2 t ree or L2Ays :Liter tn:tt pet yr 4 .IS 4 rettliej i I _ n i or Aten i ,l'r,es%un nate, t the spinn tire bad. waited ul I:sllseArtiv.l Ow .‘__ bti4t 4',l l kli ila. 4 •amonioe) *ding: Alicir wish two) they tArie"•4 s lki,to the print•Tal. ir t r a4 fi . - IJ • .." .1, lie ttitti asceli : .. dm Ogjokiuenct., %di, a ittlity Night, Iliti I i * r ., iv . 'l'll4t owill be soIiAND • i t tilfer ~,.. tt 'ten it :s ?f f.: e• to,t, ve t a; tit , . 1,- 1 „ „ ... : ,.. 4 . • , f , vi t_ e t. :-.A. nli. I .4tirtiirt• . lanavo- - . 1 . 'le bout sin vol r.... • ", LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, tA'unsivsDAY, Ave. u. Ex-parte oconce TURN rt. • Sir S. Romilly presented a petition, on affidavits, from lire persons, praying for a writ of Habeas Corpus to he directed to Preston Hut nby, the Keeper of an Asylum fur Lunaties o near York, to bring tip the body of George Turner, who was there imprisoned under p. etcnee of being its a state of derangement. It appeared that George Taraier, a nlillll,ollle. thing beyond the middle age, bud come to London with a view of publishing some religious works: having douc so at considerable expense, he was returning again Into the counts y, when he was arrested by his son Alexander Turner, at Bir mitighain, and by him, wills assistance, conveyed as u mail man to the place where be Is now confined, where he has re mained since October last. Soon afterwards, the other friend* hod relatis es of the unfortunete man heard of the outrage. and required that Alexauder Turner should set his father est liberty. He was written to open the subject, and repfied that any hotly might take the old mail away from Hereby's. provided a dt bt due trout him to Alexander Turns r, execed• ing 10111., were paid. Sobsvpient comainnieations were :rads by width it appeared that Alexander Tinnea confined his father because he either could not, or would ant, discharges .the &mend, and not became he is a' subjec Ito homsity. It was iswto er- by the persons ttpplyiug, that they had long known G. Turner, and that he bad never exhibited any symptoms of derangement. It was also stated ih the allidas its, that ap pl;eation had first been made upon the sohjert a• Mc. Just i ••• Abbott, afterwards to Mr. Justice Holroyd, and finally ••• Mr. Justice Bayley, who went tb- Not Otero (Iseult, when .. was last at *York ; but the latter Judge, on beating the tad :- Os, did not think fit to grant 11 loretros.v-pur that the nuhavey man might be bronght before him. The Lord Chancellor asked it fit facts now disclosed o told all before Mr. Justice Bayley. Sir S. llotuilly unswt•red Pi the affirmative.' as far as he w s infarmed; the case it as one of extreme hardship and injushet and well snerits•d sei ions inquiry. The Lord Chant:Aar tlatented whether he could interpose, after the Jai* of the Assize, the proper person under statute 31 Car. IL. had refused to grant relict'. ' Sic S. Hominy added, that it was very nnfit that the sanit 'of a mini should be tried merely upon affidavits; the indi • vidultll ought to be brought up hi person for examinatiou. The Lord Chem... for still .Nought that he could not inter. piste ; it' any 111 . 11 f iavestigatitm took place, it ought ro hiss before ;Br. Justice Abbott, befote whoa' the case was tint brought. tic appieliendrd 11111 t the Court of King's lieuek would deride the question of sanity upon affidavit a. His lordship, however, consented to read the original affidavit", and state his final 0151111011 on some fin sire occasion. Evrn Ann 1)I NAn Y CUR.- -Oil Sunday morning, as a boy was playing at I iniegerforil•twirk et, lie fouud some liPsli earth, which lie liegaii to pick, and in pulling up a rag, :i build:trot . flannel folio w cal, in which WB4 the dead truitlx of a child, apps. natty four months old. information wa:•Rlvru to Ihrl pat i , :11 officers, and in the course or Ilie day the mother of the elii!.l tint iliscoVcrell. The aCCOIII/1-be gave was, that it died svitur.d death, lint 111:11 the pal i•li refused to take it in, ;nisi she hail out the uecawac tat proeurieg it a Cho lariat) fruitful. 'l' he hods lies ler a Coruues.•s ialpie it. A few daysago, tit rrilston wake, Stall'ordshire,aa the hall was 'wing taken from the stake to f1it...444We, he singled in..t O 4 the ii 4 lo t . of Jos( ph 6.1111 it, 'lt hum hr attar 1, ill Wllll great pile, km:el:et', him-down, anipll4l iipoti him, toi ..it . ono of hi m ears, and wriest him iu sly:diet:king a 1311111111er4S (0 Llii him ou the :Tot. AlLltlliFill I:4 JANA ICA .—An extraft of, a letter- fruity says—" As Air. A. 3l•Callum asTatriy arting in hir , Alagisieriat capacity al the sdeik of the Pease , s OfEe t . sell Asitig it Ith .% r. Keys (Ilse Cis rk of Ike Perwe), were allot ; Ilse to, • uuer in the treht ilreenSi, Witt the latter in ow head, Ir, a white 11140 named I)iinatil 14 1 Callisuir, owner of a sa.a.i drogher. It tippeais that the pestle- orator of this hurl hi thud hand a dispute wills the Captain of hi. t easel, and ou the AI., eistrate derid ng against him, be deliberately took the tr.t.r:ri trim, Ilia pocket, and discharged them at the unfortunate gentlemen. li e was' diatety apprehended, and is ut. in tare fluoride. CS. sIC CI lir .—Satttrdar senniclit the &Wring most lamentable and untintunata ocouri nee nick place, on liorrell% premises, in the la...cured thiek.latie, in Exeter. Three: own, William Midellewick. l'atstace, tad Wiilirui rinl.l.- mote, were employed in niak,ti a pit, for the tic -pion of the con tvuta of it sewer. Alidellewick havin a g nearly cenni:..ted en edit, wit& in the act of iccending the ladder, When lc; dropped hi: shovel, an.' on his returning for the same, beady the whnle contents of the privy bunt tiron hint, and caused taut llis companion. Ensues:. immediately descended to Lis a sistaoc. , and ere his Itiul got half way down the lail&T, the noxious vapoar precipitated him to dor but,ein, and he slimed a similar fate. A tliiiit man. Finnettiore. then went down. sod ac fell in ; and on a person of the name of (;iles Tozer. lathe employ of Mr. G. Turner, silversmith. icing apprized of dia .. .. raising ciremustahee. ho %ohm tevtred his.services, an. he alio IA; trout the ladder. Another man then went down, with :t rope aflix.si :mind his body, who was imme diately drawn up in a state ill in.s.n.ibility in novequenee cf which no others could be found to undertake the bazardotw tasklef deseec.ding thepit.entil Mr. John Louse, of Exeter, plutuber.bavieg Been informed of die melancholy event. instantly re;vitred to the zpot, and with that humanity whirl' ought never to be forgotten, went down tie ladder and sea eccel. dirt bringing upthrce of the tir.fortite.ate men, viz. 'Tozer, Filen:more, and and with thwas!ent ance of a person named Ili.etrell, (Mr. Rouse being nearly canalise eel with his humane efisrts) got up the other poor fellow, Ettstace, who, together with lietillortick, ay lifeless ; and every mean , used fur tlwir recovery by several professional gen:lc:nen proved ineflietual. Flimetnore and Tozer were immediately put to boil in a very dem getous state; and we arc sorry lu ~ av, that on Monday morning, ainntt six o'clock, the latter breathedhis last. leavings wilb sad one child, in the most indigent circumstances, to lament his unhappy de mise. rinuentore, we are informed, still lies extremely ill. 'lints 1 three individuals lost their !jou., two of them in the cam.e of hut. mainly, in melt:seeming to extricate a h.:how-creature trout a pre mature d:ntli. • • (In Monday afternoon it relent was in einmlation in the Romug . h of bouthaark, that an old man, naated6ulliyatt , lout been murdered by his wife, who i. a natty' of laidar.de Great mailbers of persons a ambled by the borne in Mint-square, and tott.e effects were sent tor. They, upon t h eir nrrival, found the cid noel with his bead rot cycn, and lie in a very dangerous situation. The wound was inflicted ith a lianimer ; she was secured, and when to the watch housc.-... Ti,e old man tell on the giound insensible, when he received the blow ; he is tit years of age, turd yet theesuse of the outrage is str.i..l to be a fit of jealous.. M' hen site was in email?, she protested that sbetweithl serve him so again, if site was at liberty. Account: from Philadelphia, dated June 2ti, state, that Ntoot,..a. l eery county, between the Court-house and Cla-hsbing, was vi. it. d by N. tremendous hail.em:ro on Stinday June 7. The hail-.tares measured 14 incite.. in ci , cturfe-enee. A hag was killed by one the hail soma frilling eve. hit lies& and :he haetc!.. r the ...attic were lacerated so severe!), that the bkod ran delin their sales. ti. ‘I. As of he ICC iis- • ith• 'ter lad nit • rid , to obe rich 'nct, Icit- OS the tat that Igte ctu e *as u;j.