The National Register. — London, England, 1818-01-18 00:00:00

/ 11 !5 . ., POLICE. BOW -STREET. r 4 - r L DUEL.—Monday morning, beta' een 8 and 9 o'clock, INIe. Theodore O'Callaghan, and Lieutenant Bailey, of the 50th reg' lit, met in a field near Chalk-farm, to fight a duel, accompanied by Mr. Charles New bolt, and Mr. Thomas Jo. eepli Phealan, as seconds. Lieut. Bailey received a wound Is his right side, whim It proved fatal, as lie languished of it ter about two hours, and then expired. Mr. O'Callaghan and the two seconds were afterwards taken into custody and b relight to the office, mid underwent an examination before Mr. Conant. the sitting Magistrate, when the following par. tii tilers transpired : TI as Hunt, a constable of Hampstead, stated, that he WWI sent for to Mr. Adams's house smear Chalk-farm, in In grain's-lane, near the Load of Ilay,where lie took the prisoners into custody, in consequence of a gentleman having been killed in a and. Mr. Adams, who occupies the house above alluded to, at t 'tiled, and stated, that about 9 o'clock that nmr ttiug he was in his bed-room, in the act of dressing himself, when lie heard the discharge of two pistols, which induced hint to look out of Its whitlow : lie saw four gentleman two fields off his house, real Chalk farm, whom he considered in the act of fighting a duel ; as they did not separate or disperse, he was fearful they would fire again; he. therefore. finished dressing himself with ail possible speed, and hurried off to the spot to endeavour to prevent the shots being repeated. Just as lie arrived at the gate, and was in the act of getting over it, two pistols went mbtf; he observed one of the gentlemen, who appeared to him to have discharged one of the pistols, to turn round, and eon ( hided lie had received one of the shots. The other three gentlemen, the prisoners, went up to•hint instantly, two of them said to him they were all friends. He saw blood run ning down the tiowsera of the deceesed prothsely. The three prisoners gave him their names and addresses. He did not see a pistol in the possessiou of the deceased, or any of the visitor He invited the prisoners to conduct the deceased to his house, which they accordingly did. He did not observe air other person in the %Id where the parties were, or near iLe spot. He observed to the parties that it was nn sintertu nate affair , they all agreed that it was so. They inquired of lieu if theme was a homey near for the prisoners to conduct the deceased to, as they were fearful of putting him to inconve nience; however, there being no puhlie-house near, they sup ported him to his house, which was about ► or 500 yards off. The deceased appeared to him to be in a dangerous state, and blood was running out of his trowsers very fast ; a sur geon was sent for with all possible speed. The deceased was laid on a sofa iu his pal lour, and while he was lying there Lc desired Mr. Theodore O'Callaghan to come to him, and held out his baud to shake hands with him, and said he had behaved most honourably. The deceased had observed that be was sensible that he was dying and could not live long.— Alice this lie called the other two prisoners to him, shook hands with them, and made similar observations to them, and said lie forgave them all. Mr. O'Callaghan after this went off to Hampstead to get a coach to convey him front his house ; but in the mean time Mr. Rudd, a surgeon of Hampstead, ar rived iii about half 4a hour from the time of the fatal shot; Mr. Rudd, after having cm:enticed the wound, said it was im possible to remove him. The shot had entered on his right side, passed through his intestines, and all but came through on the left side, it only being confined by the skin ; it was visiale to the es e. The shot had carried with it a piece of is cloth of his coat and other garments. The deceased had observed to f • that the quarrel which had been the cause if the duel was not originally a quarrel of their own, but had sprung out of a quarrel of two of their mutual friends, who were to have fought a duel on Monday anti they were to have been their seconds. Upon recollection, lie would .not be positive whether it was the deceased or Mr. O'Callegliati who made this observation; he, however, understood that it was the prisoner O'CaPaglian who shot the deceased. He tlid not observe any pistols in the possession of them, but lie 11% I two ylistols It log on the table of his parlour, noun of then' OW nett theist, but lie lied no doubt of their belongiug to them, (they mere produced in the office in an unloaded state) they were of a large size ; there were no pistols there heftier they came into the house. The deceased lived about two hours or two how* and a quarter. All the prisoners paid every possible :Mei& to the deceased dining the time he lived. He conversed with them all, particularly with Mr. }lmelda'', who the deceased told the aittecss had been his second, or his friend, JUS could not recollect which. lie heard I • request ,)Ir. Phealan to write to his father the full particulars of the whole affair, and who lie understood lived at Limerick. The deceased had some conversation with Mr. Phealan privately, every other person having left the room. Mr. Phealan then went off to London to procure inure sin gieal assistance; on his retnrn the deceased had ex pired. Mr. Newbolt went, in the mean time, to inquire for lodging., at Clialk.farm, or in the, ueighbourhood. Mr. O'Callaghan went to Hampstead to procure a coach. They all appeared anxious to do every thing for the deceased, and did not seem inclined to abscond, but very readily surrender. thenumelves. 'flee prisoners we-es:not called upon for any defence. The Magistrate informed them the law did not make say distinc tion in cases of murder. all being considered principals. They must all therefore be detained. It was suggested to the Ma gistrate that sate custody WAS all probably that lie would re quire, to which heassented, end it was agreed that they should be kept in the watch-house till the decision of the Coroner's impu.st is known, when it was sugg ested it !M agistrate ...ag.s.ra.e th.tt it w ts P robable lie would admit Mr. Phealan to bid. •I•tie•tlav atiotherevaitiniation took place befote lt. Itir rik. q. calleir Of the death of Lieutenant L.la a:a rt.) le), of the 58tb region tit of foot, alio a a. shut in a duel, on Monday morning, in a field near t.',littii...fartn. Mr. t is Ito shot the dvi eased, was iiikt tot he bar, a. lilac e ce• were the two other seconds, Mr. (It orate Coda, the surgeon of Hampstead, now attend ed, and stated, that lie was vent lOU /11l Mond* meriting with great speed, to go to Mr. AilAin's house, in :Elittlators-lair, to attend a gentleman, who lead beeu seveiely wounded. He arrived am Mr. AllillllS . Slll4llse about 10 ceelme-k, where he saw g gentleman wilt) hail ueen wounded, ing, tin a sofa ;he pro ceeded to examine the wommtd, fOlllllll a 4411 had retie-, trait d uu alit, right pi le very nearly ill a HO" with ,he navel. Ile iitoeri•itai) to es:int:vie 11101 1911 leb lett side. when he die.. envt•e eel filar a hall visa resting I. ' a 11'11 ion Skill sad the lie anyreeMal in exti.setmg flee Irap , awl then twiti4l. Tiw ilisee pm i•oilem •et re present Indic loons at the mime fe itsaiiiited Use attend of the deli asst:. After Liettieliard, he H I c ued th e h a d., it ,, ; ; form,' his H o t see r ; h. 1,1 bc.n antiinteft in three tlitt..rent lie had 1111 doubt 11111 1'1111 , 1'4 his Oka: 11. Allah YAW .1110 AK(' d luntlauey la Cab placer, atid uhicis 311)i) Whitt Ag 11.` TUC NATIONAL lIEGISTER JAN. lg. 0 1 seen. Witness saw the prisoner the next morning wiping spots out of the floor with a wet cloth in the front parlour, and she upbraided him with ill-treating his wife. The back parlour where they slept was shut. There was much inquiry about the wife in the neighbourhood, but wit. nem did not know she was dead until the Monday night, when the coffin was brought in. There was e strange wo man in the prisoner's apaitmeuts incessantly watching the knocker of the door. Rebecca Macclewhit, who occupied an apartment on the second floor, corroborated the two former witnesses relative to the groaning of the deceased until after two o'clock in the morning. It was like the moaning of a dog. She made up her mind to go down stairs twice, and she got out of bed to do so, but was afraid for herself and her husband, as he was a little man, al►hough she said to him that she would riot atuy in a house where murder wag being committed. The noise which preceded the groans appeared to her like a person knocking down shelves with a poker, and it continued as if to drown the noise. Mr. Webb, constable of St. Anne's, who acted upon the ' information of one Desmond, deposed, that having heard of the suspicious circumstances, went to the prisoner's house, and found him smoking. On interrogating him, he said some. thing of three Irishmen being in his passage, and by his con versation he seemed to have been jealous of his wile, and he acknowledged having struck her in the mouth with his fist. Witness examined the front parlour, and he discovered the floor and the wainscot round the room besprinkled with blood. An attempt had been made to cleanse it, but the very mouldings oft4eroom, out of reach, were splashed with it. He could not find any of the deceased's clothes, but a pair of boots, which were bloody. He afterwards saw the body in the coffin in the bed room, covered with a sheet. The cap ou the head was in a gore of blood, and a long head of hair was matted with one mass of blood. The back part of the head was beat to atoms, so that a finger could be buried in the wounds, and no such appearances could have been occasioned by a fist. This rosin was also besprinkled with blood. Witness took a poker from the fire, which, from the appearance of blood, was no doubt the instrument of d ea th. The prisoner said, that the deceased was very bad at 7 o'clock in the morning, and he applied hot bricks to her feei, and that she died at In o'clock. The prisoner refused to give any account of the clothes; but witness ascei tained that a man, named Davis, who resided nest door, and who worked with the prisoner near St. Giles's church, had them is a bun.. (Ile which the prisoner had conveyed to his wire. Webb traced the bundle, and the clothes confirmed the lion id act. Some had been washed. The prisoner said, Mrs. Davies and Mrs. Jones laid his wife out. shocking transaction, attended again, and in addition to his testimony of Monday night, stated, that after the deceased had called Mr. O'Callaghan to him, on the sofa, shook hands with him, and said every thing had been conducted in the most honourable manner, and that he forgave him : he asked Mr. O'Callaghan if he would have done the same by him if he had wounded him. To this, Mr. O'Callaghan replied, most certainly, he should have acted as he had dune; and followed up the observation by saying, I wish 1 had been wounded instead of you. Mr.O'Callaghan appeared much affected, and said. you touched me in the first fire we had, on one of my legs by what is called a graze, and exhibited his trowsers and boots, when it appeared that a ball odd passed through both the legs of his trowsers and one of Isis boots. He saw the deceased, Lieut. Bayley, shake hands very hear tily with Mr. O'Callaghan. The three prisoners were order ed to be detained in custody. On the application of au attorney, engaged for the prison ers, Mr. Birnie agreed to their nudergoiug another investiga tion previous to their containment for trial, and the attorney wrote to Mr. Adams, requesting it as a favour, that he would attend again on Tuesday evening, at seven o'clock, at which hour the three prisoners were again brought to the office ,and Mr. Birnie having taken his seat, three barristers, Mr. Nolan, Mr. Arabia, anti Mr. Gould, attended ; their arguments went first to spew that the prisoners should be bailed, but their application failing, they simply asked that they should not be committed to New gate; but be allowed to remain iu the watch house, as the more comfortable lodging, till the result of the Coroner's inquest should be known. Mr. Made said he had a public duty to perform. In an, swer to arguments of the learned Comm.% lie quoted the case of Montgomerie and M•Namara, in whet t Mr. Heaviside, the surgeon, who had only been attending professionally, was committed to Newgate on a charge of murder. Sir Richard Ford was tho committing Magistrate, who at that time ex pressed his determination to commit the surgeons, and all persons who were present at fatal duels, to take their trials for murder, and this checked the spirit of duelling for some time. Mr. Heaviside was confined in Newgate fur a consi derable time and at a very considerable expense. Probably bail to any amount could have been procured for Mr. Heavi side, but all was refitted. Mr. Rirnie further observed, that he did not kaow that Magistrates hail any thing to do with Coroner's inquests. Mr. Nolan said, if the Magistrate complied with the ap• Oration, no mischief, public or private, could happen. The Magistrate thinly observed, that it was in evidence before bum that one of the King's subjects had been deprived of life, and upon primufacie evidence it visa murder. Mr. Nolan again urged his request that his clients might have a more comfortable lodging. Mr. Biruie said he had made up hi, mind ; the prisoners mast all be committed to Newgate to take their trial for the murder of Lieut. Bayley, amid he was convinced that the three learned gentlemen would allow that he decided right. The gentlemen bowed aunt rented. The prisoners were given iutu the custody of the gaolers to be conveyed to Newgate. BILL SOA /KM—Wednesday, the notorious Bill Soames was brought to the office, who had been upwards of 20 years one of the most noted and daring thieves that has disgraced this country, he having headed different gangs, and robbed persons in the most daring manner in the streets of London. The particular case against the prisoner now, who underwent two investigations, is, that in the month of September last, several of the inhabitants in the Strand, and particularly near Cathe rine-street, Somerset House, and from those places to the Adelphi, saw the prisoner in company with others, robbing persons in the most audacious manner, of which they gave information at the olF.ce, and nom their demo iptiou of one of them, there was no doubt entertained but that it was Bill Soames, and in consequence Humphreys and Oddy went to the Strand to watch them, which they contrived to du tomb served, and saw them attempt several persons, and alto wards endeavoured to secure this gang of robbers, and succeeded in securing two men. Saltines at that time made his escape, itml has since been concealed in the neighbourhood of Rat , cliff highway, till Tuesday night, when Uddy apprehended him in the gallery of the Surrey Theatre. Two of the inhabitants of the Strand attended to confirm the testimony of Humphreys and Oddy. Mr. Hicks, the Magistrate, convicted the prisoner under the Police Art, as a reputed thief. The Act, nolormilawly for the ;intone, wills such characters, admits of bail, but 1111. Magistrate required it to be ready instantly ; two men pre. seated themseises„ not very likely from their appearance to become bail; the vlagistrate was not to be impaired upon so easily, and he said ibe should not receive them till he had closely interrogated them. 'flue first said his name was Davis and hesitated in saying where he lived; he at last said the Borough-road, sold cat's meat, and slaughtered Morass. He admitted that he had known the prisoner a num ber of years, but did not know any good of )1411;111 fact allow ed him to be the character he is known to be. The Magis trate then refused to admit him as bail. The other said his name was Young, but declined being interrogated. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. HORRID MURDER ARISING FROM EXCESSIVE DRINKING.- 04vid Evans, a jouraeyman soap maker, about 40 years of age, was brought up from St. Atioe's watch house, charged with the wilful murder of--, ssife, by striking her rt• peatedly with a poker, at his lodgingain Falcon-court, Crows:- street, St. Anne's. The tellawiag is .the evidence at length, as deposed by the several witnesses: — Mary Chapman stated, that she lived with her husband in a room °seethe prisoner, who occupied the parlours, at N 0.3, Falcon.coort. On Saturday night week she Lard the prisoner talking loud, as it quarrelling, before 12 o'clock ; and from that hour until 3 on the Sunday morning she ht and dreadful groans, which proceeded teem the inastmer's robin. She went to a chandlta's shop the neat morning. when it was reported to her that Evans lied mu, tiered bis wife. She observed the bed and pillows pieced against the window, and the curtains of the bed room were thrown and there seemed much confusion. AU.the next day a young a °man was there, and she never know that the wife was The Pacha of Bagdad is on the point of undertating dish until a coKin was brought in on Monday night. a campaign, but it ism t uscertainod on what side he Ann Desmond wateil, that she occupies the first flour of No. 3, over the pi cauter's bed room. On the night aforesaid, WA.I early his arms. For the purpose of keepin& his her hush:sod restos Ipsoie drunk, and otter haulms a few words projects concealed, he has estalaished , magaxiiies An se a gib prison. l.aim busied lotosell shunt the st:cat J, us, vcru,!. directious. While the Pacha is thliS eut;ugetl in ' 4 " 11"" limn'-It °l' the bed "El" lu, elouhes on. Ins military prepara.ions,• the rabocrs exercise their • '"" "*eil vi 1 a "4 words to alines, alit r he bad got mot vto the very gates of the capital. TWIO Tartar Icaown•roonu. Ica oanarioni. o abed 1.11 the stairs, and il 1, •ol sea in;,; his wife 5 her gre,,e. were j Al a and re p eated . couriers have beets rubbed within a few leagues ot Bag. and OW endea:tVarell to alarm the olio.; Itolgris bus 1,141.1 I d af t ; and the merchants of twat tow - a have hat by this not rouse any one, and she dal ed not go alum- g'"''" •'1 accidcht as suns of more than 400,040 p 4 tao ttes. The x of tun c deeeased ew none languid. Not seeing lo r the eartliquako at Vostitza occasioned Om dotda of L,CNO. , nest awainax, mit• thought she might him: black e% es, and hiring treacrved !'articular wutum she would nut like to ar t Uvrs , :ti:• •, • ..;',"` •• • Geo. Gillman, a clerk, and soito the watch house keeper, corroborated Webb, and added that the primmer told him that he quarrelled with his wife because she could not ac count to him for 2s. 10d. out of Bs. ; that he went fume one public house to another until he was Amok, and that a man told him hu was living with a woman not his wife ; he then related about wiping the blood off his face, applying warns bricks, &c. The prisoner's defence was an echo of what he had told Webb and Gillman ; that Davis and he went about until he ion very drunk, and that he found himself going on leaving the first house. When he got home lie could just remember that an Irishman struck him, and one of the women, Desmond, told him that her husband had criminal konwleiii of his wife. He next spoke about' the money %hurt, applying bricks to her feet, making her tea in the night, of lit r going to bed ; and that Davis and be found her dead in the tied in the morning. The coffin, he said, was had from West. minster. Magistrate.—" How often did you strike her? and how came the room so bloody i" Priiimer.—" I suppose the blood came from my wif.:3 head. I was very tipsy, and don't remember spiking htr more than once." Magistrate.—" How catne the blood on the poker %" Prisoner.—" I might have struck her head wnen she was l y i ng by t h e fi le place, as I tried to pick her up, but being giddy I let her fall again, I believe." 'lite prisoner was remanded till Friday, on which day he was re-examined and finally committed for trial. Case or GREAT I)irritEss.—Thursday, a man named i'ilgrini, olio appeared to have seen better days, and w ho had been formerly a mate in the East India Company's service, was charged with robbing his lodgings at Mr. Eggerton's, eliandler.streer , Oxford-market, of a variety of'ariicle s. "Tt appeared that this unfortunate man had been reduced to the utmost misery. So great was his distress, that a child of his, who died some time back, remained unburied fur many days in consequence of his disability to pay the expenses of the funeral, and he was obliged to apply to the• parish to contribute a little money towards the interment of the child. He had peeviously stripped his apartment of every portable article It contained, and having bruiser) open a boa, took from it some sheets, a hide he pawned, mud afterwaids sold th• ,duplicates. • Mr. Jones. a constable, wen, to the place of the 1,-isoner's,residence on Wednesday, for the purpose of taking istto into custody. Pilgrim, having seen the officer make hie appearance, and suspecting the object for which he came, immetlittLeV went to a closet, •ntl taking out a razor, made a desperate ethict to put an end to his miseries and his life by drao ing the instrument across his throat. Fortunately the razor nut being in good older, the wound inflicted was not dauesous. Jones i 1111 l triiiately seized Ole prisoner by the arm, and having wrested tbs.:l4'6WD.) boat his 'Mid. coils eyed Min to St. George's watch htio;;.e. sui grout Was stilt for, oho dressed the wound, and ~.,aid that the unhappy mai l had been very near pptiing a per;io:d to his existimee. The persons at whose house the pcisuner lodgod, humanely agreed to let the business stand revs r for sonic time, that it may be ascertained whether the man's circumstances were,iu reality, as distressing us kc revreseusted them to be.