The National Register. — London, England, 1822-04-22 00:00:00

to the said Elias Duke. It appeared by the evidence of the prosecutor and another witness, that they were all drinktn4 together at a public-house, and a quarrel aris ing between them, the prosecutor struck the prisoner. They were parted by their friends, but they continued squabbling fur ahant ten minutes, when the prisoner struck the prosecutor a blow on the thigh, and inflicted a deep wound with a knife, which he had in his hand. The prosecutor on being q iestioned by the court, ad mitted that there was no occasion of the squabble, from the moment the first blow was struck until he was wounded in the thighs. Mr. Justice liorrough upon this evidence directed th" Jury to acquit the prisoner, observing that in order to support this iudictinent, the proof must be such as, in case death had ensued, would have made the crime amount to murder. In his opinion, if death had been the count:gm:ire of the mammal here, the crime would have beets manslaughter only. The prisoner was ac quitted. Henry Richards and John Francis were indicted for steallisg eight planes and other roomy, Itelonging to Isaac Darby; four planes, kc. belonging to William Curphay, and five planes, belonging to John Sims.— The case was completely established in evidence, and the Jury (timid the prisoner guilty. Anne Smith was indicted for stealing two sovereigns, the property of Joseph Woods, front his person. It ap peared that the prosecutor was a Chelsea pensioner, alit' on the day in question went to that place to receive his pension. On Its return he met with the prisoner ill Westminster, and after taking some refreshment toge ther, they went out to buy some eggs and bacon, and she prevailed upon him in treat her to a new bonnet, rib bons, and lilting. lie then accompanied her home, where in about tell minutes, as he swore, she picked his pocket of Iwo sovereigns, and absconded. Tne prisoner cross-examined the prosecutor as to Isis being drunk, awl fill-ng down and breaking a window. lie denied being drunk, but said he had been drinking a little. The Jury Pound the prisoner not guilty. James 1.0fi111311. aged Mile year% was indicted for stealing a half crown and a shilling, the property of J. Gadland. Tnis case exhibited a singular instance of youthful depravity. The prisoner's father was in the service of a respectable currier in Moor's-yard, St. Mar tin's-lane, and some lime ago considerable quantities of leather were missed front the premises. Tnis boy was detected in stealing some, and to save hi.naelf from pu nishment, he preferred an accusation against a patrole of St. Martin's parish, for having incited him to the robbery, who was committed to Newgate, but on his trial last sessions his itmczence was made completely manifest, and he was acquitted. Subsequently to that the present prosecutor, who was a workman at the same place. missed sonic money from his jacket, which he had left itt the woikshop consequence of tvhich, he the next day, marked a half-crown and a shilling. and having put them in the pocket of his jacket, which lie placed in the shop, he hid himself, and saw the prisoner walk in and take out the money. Verdict guilty. FRIDAY, Apart. Ig.—Joseph Bennett, a very respect able looking mari, the driver of the Gosport coach. was Illd icial for having caused the death ofJoint liedgecock, a waggoner, oil the 18th of March, at Hounslow. Atter the Court had beets occupied three hours with the examination of witnesses, in order to establish the charge, the evidence of Isaac Carter was adduced, who had received the declaration of the unfortunate deceased, when believing himself in a dying state :—The poor man stated to this witness, " that he firmly believed his own horse haul knocked him down, and that nobody was to blame, hut the affair was altogether an accident. The learned Judge (Burroughs) said he would read the whole evidence over if the Jury wished ; but they immediately replied it was unnecessary, and acquitted the prisoner. El jab Gooch, a middle aged man of decent appear ance, was iumcted for the wilful murder of Barnard Downes. The circumstance of the case, the itivesugatiou of which occupied the court for several hours,ware proved by the tohlow•ing witnesses : George Pepys swore, that he was a waterman on the hackney-coact) stand al the corner of Vere-streei3Oxfoid street. Oa the morning of the 25th of February, he saw toe prisoner (Iris ing towards Tyburn Turnpike in a light cart with nothing its it. Ile was driving with reins at a last trot, and witness called UM to him, " hallo , are you going to run over ust" Ile went on a little way, and then turned back. lie was not going very fast at that time ; he stood a short time, and then turned hack again towards Tyburn Turopike. lie went quite away, and was gone about an hour and a half, worn witness saw him return at full gallop, using Isis whip all the way he went. Witness called out to Inns, " for God's sake don't go so fast; you'll be over somebody." The prisoner made no auswer, but went on still whipping his liorse. Willlen knew the deceased, who swept the crossing from Bond-street to Vere-street. Ile was a man much advanced in years. Wilma, saw the prisoner drive u%er time deceased, and he did out stop, but continued his coutse at a furious rate. Witness did not hear the people call out to the prisoner. John Obey, a hackney coachman, swore that he saw the primmer driving at a Mil gallop, and whipping Ins horse under the belly. Ile called out to hen mot to gut so fast. Tile deceased, at the moment witness called out, was in the middle of the crossing, going towards the pavement, to get out of the way. Ile turned sideways, aril the shaft of toe cart and the shoulders of the hotae struck him on the head and sides, 'lire deceased arts. maven about a yard and a half and fell, and the word iii the cart driven by the prisoner went over his body.— I lie prisoner immediately whipped on his horse still snore toriously, its order in let away, but he was mopped Williant Thorium, anouier C 0461111111, confirmed the evidence of the forego itg witnesees. 'file deceased was taken to Nlsdalesex Hospital. Mr. Sweetman, surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital, remembered the deceased having been brought there on the day in question. His r ght thigh was broken, and be had received very severe injuries about the head. 'lo THE NATIONAL ItEGISTEIt these latter injuries the death of the deceased was, in the opinion of the witness to be attributed. On the head being opened, a quantity of eztravasated blood- was found. The prisoneisaid nothing in his defence, but called five witnesses, who gave hint a good character for hu manity, parental kindness, and industrious habits. The witelesFes also described huts to be a very good and care ful driver when sober. _ Tne Jury found him guilty of manslaughter, but re commended him to mercy, on account of his previous good character. William Backbutton, a bov of 14, was indicted for assaulting James Newson, a child, oq the highway, and taking from his person sovereign and a tin box. The boy Newson had been sent to pay the money to a person named Powell, when he Wl3 mei by the pri• soinr, who had got acquainted wilt the fact of his being entrusted with the sovereign, and who took it from him. The prisoner was found Oily of stealing front the person, but nut with force and violt.-nce. Samuel Taylor and Thomas Leach were capitally in dicted for assaulting 1111 l el \V rren on the highway, and taking from his person, and against his will, five shillings in monies. beret!. The Jury without hesitatiol, on hearing the evidence, pronounced the prisoners not guilty. LOXDO At S ESSION'S. On Monday last these Sessions commenced before the Lord Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen Schuley, C. Smith, e ic „ BRUTAL Amu Le urns• A IL Head, a young man, who is in the service of a horse dealer, named .1~0 Tapley, of Croydon, was tried upon an in. diclment, charging him with hawing brawn and attempted to expose the peril° of a very interesting young woman, named Harriet Hardin:. . _ la ripening the case, Mr. Andrews said, he hoped for the sake of human nature, he hoped that the statement be bee to make would bg contradicted to the satisfuctiou of the Jury. Mr. Andrews then stated the following circumstances, which were fully borne out in evidence s—Harriet Herding, now st years of age, had lived vi lin Tapley seven yeari, and had by hint four children, all of whom died except the youngest, an infant of two months old, Tapley thought proper to desert this young womon, and allowed live shillings a week to support the child, Harriet liaiding, in her anxiety to we the father of her child, after the illness went, accompanied by a Mrs. Smile, a widow, to his yard vs kb the child. Upon entering the yard, 11 cud asked what she wanted there? Site replied, that she wanted hut him, but the father of her child. Tapley was in the yard at the time, and Head pointed to him, and said," there is Joe."—Tapley then approached, and desired Head to say what she bad invited him to du ; upon which Head said, " lithe wanted me to sleep with her." The pro secute's, when she lward this infamous and false imputation, called Head a pimp end a swindler. Head without any core. ninny struck her with his list in the face, and then beat her with a stick about the neck and hack. Taidey all the time being a spectator of the scene, and has ing called upon head to expose her person, and n hip her like a child, Head pre pared himself for this esercise, in contirrinity with his mas ter's commando. and but fur the interference of Jlis. Scales, would have accomplished his object in the presence of a number of little boys, who were collected in the Folding himself disappointed in this aim, lie dashed her lobo the street, and she fell almost senseless agaiast the steps of a liall.door. Head having performed this manly teat ran oar. The poor girl had been confined with her child at the time the fellow said she asked him to gill to teed with her. Time Recorder here expressed iris surprise that Tapley had had not been included iu the indicimint. Mr. Arabia said, upon theism t of the defence, that if his instructions were correct, he could prove the whole story to be a fabrication. If, however, the facts could not be con tradicted, he ssas ready to admit 04 the case was as boa a one rto ever appeared in a court of justice. The wile of Tapley's gloom was theta called, but Instead of contradicting the circumstances that had been sworn to, she, so far ass she %SOS sin evidence, corroborated the state mem for the prosecution. She heard Head say, " that Hai rict Ilardiag wanted him to sleep with ber,lund saw 111111 push tier against the wall• Mr Andrews merely said, in commenting upon ;the evi dence fur the defence, that it proved the truth of tile charges; and asked wily Tapley, who had been in Court in the morn and could have served Head if the evidence for the pro. set:whin was false, had withdrawn himself. The Jury instantly found the prisoner Guilty. The Recorder, in passing arutenre, hoped 1 pity w ould he brought to justice. Head had acted under the authority and sauction ut that penion, and justice u; the ptiucipal mover in this disgraceful tramactiou anti imperiously crated for. !lead was then sentenced to impriameneot in the Giltspur sit eet Lumpier for sia eaten lair month,. 'flee Re colder torn addressed Harriet Harding, who is ithist a prolector, and advi,ed her to :..ttitmit with 'nose ho were quithtied to !Mallet her as to the !worm() or twinging Tapley tietOre the Court. Ile moored her that tie the event or a conviction the idiots• should tee compelled to du her justice tier the seriousitourits she had fothtamed at hit ZING, ON THE 11101EIPUTION OF 11111. t 7. JOIN 11111GLItY. The defendant was indleted tar d Haled( anal unprovoked assault tan the prosecutor, on smith's eseiting, the titti of Nos ember lust, ut Mr. Bonier's, the old Bell Tavern, Belle Sicietice-yard. The case was a leanly paused in evidence, ..11t1 the Foreman of the Jury, after tell ne the learned Judge there war no necessity fur nis Lordsuip summing up, returned a verdict of Guilty. The defrudwitt was sentenced to pay a 6ne of .S!. which he paid accordingly, and was dischi,rwol. 'lts &SOX If, APR! I. Id —A SliliCiltaa. named G mrr h , was indicted for having committed ao lipoid u N - uitadii, unwed Genf, w!•,se house lc . catered our tile puspose uf levying a distress fur rent. The proseetitri slated, that the defendant knocked at her door, and when it aas opened rushed in, and behaved in the most violent manner, a ithout the sltauest provioratsum— To add to the heanousaa•w tat the assault, she paid She nap advanced in pregintocy at the tone, and was shocked by the frigid in such a •n.uwer as 10 Milder her situation particu larly alarming. The defendant, when the expostulated with hint, became more offensive, struck and bruised, and shed the blood of her arm, although he had ou other bottles IC7 in the limos) than to distraio for the rum of 111. 13.. %shah was due to the landlord. A woman who Judged in the house stated, that she hear) the prosecuirie cry out •• Murder!" and tm going down staiis, saw her almost fainting against the wall and Mir arm bleeding. Upon the part of the defendant witnesses were e.l!e I who led tne story. They declared that Mr. Church end never acted in the house with the slightest violence, bet thc promeutrix had given the greatest provocation, not only with her tongue, but with her actions. In the presence of two or three into, one of whom entered the buu•e with the defendant, she took up a cleaver, and same she would chop the first mail that laid hold of a chair ur table in that house. The Jury instantly acquitted the defendant. MIDDLESEX SESS!OVS. .--.... TUESDAY, APRIL IG.—These session- commenced this day before Mr. (;oust, and a Bench of Magistrates. T*i chairman said, though the calendar contained a very con siderable number of charges, yet, as far as he was as present aware of, there was nothing that called for ary particular observation from him. THE COUNTRY TREASURER'S BOOK,. _ Mr. Alley this day addressed the Court, under the fol lowing circumstances :—A new rate having been impo,ed on the perish of Marylebone, that rate had been appealed against, and his clients had, a few days since, applied to the clerk of the peace fur liberty to inspect the books of the treasurer of the county, the record of which was in his hands, in order to enable them to conduct the appeal on Thursday next. This request had been refused, as had one subsequently made, and therefore he now applied to the Court to make an order that the clerk, might skew. them. He coutended, that nu officer ought to be allowed to hold In his private possession any record that would stop the course of public justice, and th.t: the order ought to be made as prayed for. The chairmau said, the proper course would be to apply to the Court of King's Bench, which would grant a mesdames. In fact, he doubted how far this Court ought to hear an appeal against one of its own rates. It there were any illegality. It would appear ou the face of the rate. It was finally settled that the appeal should be heard on Thursday, hen, if it were found necessary, an appli cation could he made to the 'Court of King's Bench ; and in the mean lime no order was made fur the inspection uf the treasurer's books. J Simmonds, • young man of respectable appearance, was indicted fur assaulting Rebecca Burt. Mr. Adolphus stated the case for the prosecution with great force. Rebecca Burt, a young woman of very interesting ap pearance, stated shut she lived with Nits, B aing. in 14•Nt. street, Mayfair, and us she was returning home tmou _tt Chapel-street, on the evening of the Inith of January, she met the defendant mad another man, neither of w h oa sue had ever seen before.—The defendant took hold of her in a very indecent inanuer, stung tier oil the pavement into middle of the street. The person who oas with the defen dant came to her assistance, and helped her h . She was su bruised by the violence will ahich sue had ores' au totes that she was üblioil to keep her bed tar three days afire, and bud two wos'', attending her. The pro son who a as hilh the uetendant when he cam r hied the assault fatly corroborated the prosecutrix's evidence in every particular► Hosaid tile defendant nut drunk at the time. Mr..lndrens, the defendant's councel, said. nn answer enald' be given its the case. The chfendmit had loet his • reason ut tne tone he committed the act, for a Inch be a its now simerely contrite. Ile was willing to coolest, his guilt, 41314 make nil the atonement in hi, poser. Tire prostcutves Counsel expiessed himself ntii4fied with the present conduct of the del•lnt.int; and a verdict of Civilly having been pri ))))) anced, he was discharged, utter an Adm., -intim from we Court. WKDNESDAY, APRIL IL...Thomas Coutta anJ J.ITCI Fletcher were indicted for au assault and false 11111111501 I• ment, committed on Peter Cooke and John Boas. Ti, defendant Coutta is a hakes, and Fletcher a constable. Peter Cooke, one of the prosecutors, deposed, that On the evening of the7th of February he went to Ms. Coints's shop in the Strand, and bought five quartern and two halt quartern loaves, for which he paid, and then desired they should be weighed. One of the leaves was weig ht, the rest were light. Mr. Cuutts reused to let hint take the light loaves, but offered to return back his money.— Witness insisted on getting the light loaves, and said he would stay in the shop till twrtve o'clock, or he should gi t them. Cuintio sent fur the defendant, Viol:o'er, who tuna both the possum's to 1 , 4•1•11 eel. 1% LIMN, d. siitiu the breath shuind be brought to the Police Office, 1,4 Colitis refused, our did he attend. Atier veditilig suite lilac to have a complaint made, sir U. Ifirnin disinisse.ll them. They were 411 hour and tell uhuntee in custody. The witness was sins-exithinicil by Mr. Alley, and stated, that lie lived lay buying light 'nead from oaken. and giving evidence of it. He ails out all lill s Uliticr, a witness. John Bias, the other prosecutor, corioborattd Cooki's evidenee. He said he had oven employed by 'sadism la to give evidence for use last six sir 'erten )ears. Joinisou pays him five or six shillings a day. William Johns .... stated, that the prosecutors w. employed hy hint so give evidence on informations. tie cut i UtsUr sued alt. pi übectitOle evidence. The Gisairition charged the Jury, that if they believed the eviileoce t they most find the tletendmits 'file Jilt.., after consultiii; for some time, returned • verslict ut Not Guilty fur both &fro lauta, Su ICU:IL—A melanenoly e‘ent took place on Th•vs Jay. in Saerbuurne-lane, I...Lctorb ' Commons. A pt., lad), who no/ been voly a lonuiaut married, n,%1 been [morn) , 4.1 by ner husband that busiiteia 01 con,- (pence %sunk! keep Min out alI itigtit, retttett to ut•r CllJlllber, and w • rs found 011 F.li:ily mornms Hang g Irvin the bedstead, (Itllle dead. EXTRAORDINARY Tints:P.—A white globe 111`.1y Wab poilcd uu tie larui at Criuturd Priory, Pile. tv. i ll 2ith o z and wittett sor.oured to leugth ei t tlitrt IhcUes Alla a hail . ; iu ctreutnterelice :holy-two inches a bill. Oa the !dill' firui in iatmary lir, a Inge uric of chickelis was brouslit. out la lilt tti),;ll dir e and are llto • ready fur the table.