The National Register. — London, England, 1818-08-17 00:00:00

Cu tnon MURDER. Mary Stone, aged 29,was charged on the oath of her sister, mi l l e t 'tampion. with Isaviu %$ ilftilly murdered her female child, its September, ItSlli, at Itichsnotwl. Tile prisoner, a most interesting young woman, was placed on the seat near the table, as she appeared too weak to sup pert herself in the usual place where prisoners stand. Shy seemed dejected and worn down ; her teatutes, which were Lit elligesit and expressive, in:heated extrc ne anxiety and emotion. On heist?, arraigned, she pleaded in a faint and agunized tone, " Nut Godly." Mrs. Hampton was put inks the witnesses box. She ap peared a liar voting WOlll4ll, about 19 ur 20 years o.'sige. On casting her cc es to wisese the prisoner sat, she Insist into tears, and e sclaisned with great apparent anguish, al 0, my sister, my sister !" The prisoner fainted during har sister.* agitation,bnl was speedily recovered; she letter, after having been taken out into the open air, was soon well thong's to give !ler evidence, which she dill with less apparent embarrass. mint 111441 Might have been expected. "In the !smooth of September. lila, she said, I slept, as was my enstonl,w itli my sister. About two in the anus fling she said she was in ests eine pails, and shortly after she was delivered of a female child; it cried, and I wanted to call in assistance, but she would not • let use. Very shmstsy after the child was burn, my sister forced her hand into the infant's month, and elsoaked it, and sauss thrust the body tutu a pan under the hell. She threw herself oil the bed, lull got up in a moment ; I then said r 4,1 6. r sossiebo ly ; iiis sister replied, that if I attempted to do su she wpm," kill sue, and then herself. 1 was su lelghtt'llttll 111.11 I desisted. My sister left the body in the pass 01.0 nigist, and on the follow tog morning made up a tire in the roo.stosisil tried to Introit, but the tiesh made such a crackling noise that she was afraid it would be heard, and she took it oil the first and re placed it in the pan. The next morning she Issok it dam' stairs,and ourot U to the copper to ashes—she then cleauedtbe copper out, and threw the ashes uu the dunghill.' Cross-exassiiised.-1 first told this about twelve 111)ntki ago, or shortly after I got married. I let it out one night in my sleep, :tad 00 my being ossestioned by my husband, I con fessed tile is ettli. My sister kept the house we lived in ; it had only Coree rooms, and being thinly partitioned, so that what passed within might be heard by the neighbasis s My sister and Isle pt its the same bed; my sweetheart then, but husband now, its the opposite room to onrs ; a man named Kenyon and lily brother generally slept in the third roam. I never said m. sister, wits was an unsuarried woman, was pregnant, before this matter took place. I don't know that any body noticed it. My sister's ill usage commenced about a furtuiglii after it happenesl ; she then threatened to turn me out ofdours. She dislikes' my marriage, though I never had to her or expressed myself to that effect to any body. I never said to Mrs. Wilke that I'd ruin the prisoner, or that I wished her dead to get the 5001. out of the bank. I never said that as I was not of age, t could not get the money yet, or hoped that the might she tirst. I believe we are entitled to 5001. which is in the Bank. My sister had a child before this last, it iv a grown boy, has slways lived with her, and she treats it well. Tills was the vole witness for the prosecution. Mrs. W►lks said, that iu September, 1816, she lived at Trentham, where sue knew the prisoner. Witness repeatedly heard the prusecntri♦ wish for her sister's (the prisoner's) death saying that she waisted her monev. She remem bered her saying on one occasion, " I wish she was dead, for then l would have the money, and my husband and use • could get into Inisines?. on our own account." Mr. Justice Abbott commented upon the Improbability of Ilse whole story ; that no one had observed the prisoner to be pregnant ; that noise in the house heard any noise, and that the prusecutrix should have so long concealed the murder if true, and concluded by observing to the Jury, that if the pri soner had really committed the act in the manner described, cothing was inure unlikely than that she should linve quarrelled, and almost immediately after the fact, with the person who balanced her life in her hands. The Jury inithuut hewitation returned a verdict of Not Mary Poulter,oaty thirteen years of age :sstJanaany, stood charged with the 'der of her bastard child. S l wit nesses proved time birth of this child in a healthy state, on the 24th June, The prisoner seemed fond of it, but it was found dead with !ter two days afterwards,and with some livid marks -*bout its mouth, which the woman who assisted in dressing it, after its birth, attributed to something like a eiaivielsive tit. The chief witness to prove that the child died a violent death, was Mr. Newman, a surgeon, who was decidedly of opinion, that it met its death by strangulation and fractures in the head ; but two witnesses, who chit* remained with the pri soner and child, repeated their declaration, that her treat ment of it seemed matcrialiy kind and attt utive. Not &Wry. Mr. R. Hampton was indicted for escaping from the rules of the King's Balch. The facts were merely these:—The defendant's debts were over SOW. he broke therules,was at Hamborgh, amid other pat is of the nos th of Europe; and was not retaken until two or t tree mouths ago. Mr. Adolphus, for the defendant, contended, that the pd. loner could be only amenable to indictment for an actual es cape from the waits of a prison. A breach of this contract was merely.a departure Irons a moral obligation, and Out a in each of a legal contract punishable as a misdemeanor. Ibe Lerrued Judge thrseuted from this view of the ques tion, and declared that what were termed the rules legally imported actual custody, and that a Great:hot them was a nit*. dooms:tutor in the es e of the law. "Ille.lory tumid the defendant Gitilry, and the Court Sell• •tZ nerd ham to four inuntles imprisonment. The Manchester papers state that affairs tliere still continue in a menacing posture. A samil portion, and nnly a small portion, of the refractory workmen have availed themselves of the protection of the civil power, to resume their labour : the great body of the discon tented remains in open defiance, subsisting upon preca rious bounty ' or upon funds whi, h must be rapidly di minishing. From 12 to 15,000 persons have been now nearly five weeks voluntarily foregoing the means of supporting themselves and their VIE NATIONAL REGISTER. leui•e 1f hat lu a uur - Ilelli A ith 7 AT•G. 17 During the Judge's ad.lres., the prisoners, appearing both aerief.tigw d, allowed to sit do‘Vil Oil the Aides of the dock, e:laterat; had no C tuovrl. Mr. C iat non Si.riceant awl Mr. indreis . • wer e Co ow el for Cut nue!. G oi s i ei e t 6, r th e oieeniiim were, Mr. Gitrney, and Mr. lieatli. itirierved the lion. Grey Bennet, M.P. 011 the left hand c.'Sergeant Leas during the trial. POLICE. MANSION HOUSE A few days since a young Gentleman attended. and after relating the sudden death of his father. directly charged his uncle with hav ing been concerned in hastenin • his dis,adution. The charge was ticatal as the chimera of a &pi -tiered mind, but folly to satisfy all parties it was agreed thatan application shoalA be 'mule for the disin- Nation of the body, which he I been buried in the church-yard of St. James's, Piccadilly. The Coroner for Wohruitister was aceordingly applied to, and in answer regretted. that without strong grounds of suspicion he could no• grant a warrant for taking up the body : if he did so it must he to have the matter investigated by a Jury, and from the distance dilute, as well as the corrupt state of the deecased when interred. it would be impossible for any man to come to a fair cm elusion upon a view of the laxly. The matter remaining unexplained, it was resolved to apply to Dr. Nley(x, who attended the deceased a short time before his ei:ath. The Doctor immediately declared the death to have been natural In order, however, to sat the question at rest he went to the Justice room, and was sworn to the following . —" London to wit, I, John Meyer, NI I)., do hereby make oath, that I attended the late Win. M—, a few days previous to his death, and in In vjuilgimnt he died of the chofera inoriitir. Signed, Jon N Mrs - Ea.' . The uncle of the young man stated that this would he satisfactory to all parties, although Mr. M. juts. still continued in a state of mind truly distressing to his friends. GUILDHALL. Thtwelav James Ellis was charged before Mr. Alderman Good beliere, with plundering tile Paddington Can.il Warehoi,e, in Lon don Wall, of Manchester and other goods, to the amount of more than 2001.. the property of Mes,rs. Turner aad Co. the proprietors. Elizabeth Ellis, daughter to the prisoner, teal also put to the bar, charged with being concerned in the rubbery. At the re pleat of one of the prosecutors, the prisoners were both remanded, to give time for further inquiry, and for the pawnbrokers to attend with the property. BOW STREET. On the Ist of March. 1817, the Edinburgh mail was robbed of bank notes to the amount of between 4 and 5,0001. which were in a Parser sent by mail to Messrs. Edie and Cu. at the Stirling bank, from the Edinburgh bank. On tae arrival of the nail coach at Stir ling, the parcel was missing. Thepassengers had all left the coach, and it was strongly suspected that some or tile whole of the inside passengers were concerned in the robbery. An inquiry soon took place respecting them and their proceedings on the road, when it was as certained that all the inside places were taken previous to the mail starting from Edinburgh, and that three persons, of the names of lister, Hamilton and Carter, .aat into tne mail coach at the inn, previously to its starting, and the four passengers were taken up on the road. As the mail was passing the top of Prince's -street, Edin burgh, one of the passengers. who had booked himself by the name of Hamilton, suddenly stopped the mail, and said he had forgot some important papers, and as it would be of no use pursuing his journey without them, he was obliged to return home. and left the mail, taking his great coat over his arm, and saying he must pur me his journey the next day. The passenger who had booked himself by the name of M•Allister, got out of tie mail at Lithengrove, and did not return into the coach, although he had taken his place to Stirling. A full description of the meat's persons and conduct was obtained from a young we man of the name of Brown, an outside passenger, who was admitted into the coach in consequence of Hamilton getting out at the top of Prince's-street. Edinburgh, and abandoning his seat in the coach, and she rode a; fur as Lithengrove. The proprietors of the Bank-notes have been making every possible exertion, and sparing no expense to d,scuver the robbers, and to recover the tin. mense cunt lost. Among other places they applied at Bow-street, and in consequence Adkins, the officer. has been fur some time ex erting himself, but without success, till a few months since, when a man was ditented at the Italian Opera, in robbing the company there, by means of cutting th.:rt pockets with a sharp instrument, and which practice it is supposed lie had pursued for some time with out suspicion or detection, owing to his being genteelly dressed, and resorting to the pit. On searching him and his rsaidence some articles of property were found, shich led to a suspicion that he was one of the passengers in the Edinburgh mail, and had brvnixincemtal in the rubbery. Information being sent to the bankers, the owners of the valuable parcel, they sent Miss Brown the fellow-lemale pas senger before mentioned, to London, when she positively swore to the man apprehended at the Italian Opera house, as being one of the passengers. His name is Hamilton, alias Grey. lie has been tried for the robberies at the Opera-house and has been sentenced to seven years transportation. In the mean time Adkins has been exerting himself to apprehend the other supposed robbers, and has succeeded in tracing out and securing one et them of the name of Nl•Allister alias Crowder ; and Miss Brown has been sent again Irma Edinburgh to London, tu,d has also identified this man as one of Lie passengers in the mail at the time of the robbery. A habeas corpus has been obtained for the removal of Hamilton alias Grey. flout Newgate to Edinburgh, to take his trial fur the robbery of the mail • and Adkins has left town with hint and M'Allister alias Crowder, fur Edinburgh, to take their trial for the offence. HATTON GARDE'. . Thursday Pasquier Bother was brought to this office by one of the officers of the Society ter the Suppression of Mendicity, upon a charge of vagarancy and gross imposture. It appeared upon examioation, that hie prisoner was n foteigner, who had be...n ficimently relieved by the wendicity society, but refused to avail himself of the means adopted tor his future support. He was this day found standing in Holborn.. with a paper binned on his breast. stating that he was a decayed .tratleuuan. and that he was bliud. The latter circumstance was evidently an imposition. and the worthy Nlagistente, concurring vvith the views of the society in punishing gross imposture. committed hint for one month to the House of Cor rection. Coldbath- fields. MARLBOROUGH STREET. Elizabeth Key, a young gypsey. was re-examined. fortlefranding two female servants of NI. and upwards. The prisoner had oneu consulted the planets as to one of the lemaks s but her promises not having been realized, she pretended to have been invested with greater powers. The kitchen window-shutters were closed, and the prisuners began to work the churn, by.butiles of different coloured liquids. Besides other great promises, the girls were to have 4,001. in three weeks, by the Sybil.depositiug a certain sum of .money under ground in the e arden ; but unless done with secrecy the charm would be broken. The credulous girls advanced 121. L ai shut the back window-shutters, while the prisoner buried the trea sure, which was to produce the 4Uul. This was two years ago. and she was to return to raise the ground in three 'seeks ; but hearing no tidings of her, the girls began to dig, but in yam. One of them met the prisoner, u few days since, in the street, and caused her to be dik. prehended. The parties not appearing, she was let loose agai4. t. 26;; Daorrs.—lt appears from the accounts relating to the Di Mot of the Crown ;Ind of the Admiralty, w hick have beery printed by order r,' the lionse of (:amnion., dial the A14.1$ inta received to the pi e,.cot time amount to eihld million., ix lin, drcd awl xixty-six lhwoutßd .izlit hundred and and a fraction, not of which thr full,)%vitalc extra items have been paid, besides the aims appropriated to, the public ser vice : UNION HALL. Wednesday,— Collett, t h e property-man at the Coburg 'Cheats c„ ohm ged 11;miehard, the Pantaloon, aOh diSfigUrillg his lace, lir said Blatieliard had called his wife& liar; and when lie spoke to him he struck him. Blanchard said, they had been as bad terms AiJICC a Piece of Collett's had tailed, and one of his had laktii I that Mos. C. had wantonly ilis i .hteed some of lies avparat us, with which he eliargid her; !oat then Collet pot I t ... self in an attitude to tight ; but he (Mil I he was Ail old man, and he wowld not strike bins.— Cuart then ised a must abominable raps essioii toward' limi, on which lie did strike him, and the Alaitistrate considered that a snfficient provocation. Esher, the Chown, deposed to the truth of Blaucharifs statement.-- Complaint dismissed. ..a.... PAY !.IENTS. To his Majesty's Physician. - £ 15.670 10 0 To difflrent branches of the Royal Family ..... •••••• 209. 8 48 15 9 To Buildings and Xierations at the P.vilion. ISrigh ton, and for Parpiture 58,560 10 To Lxpences in different Departments of the Royal Household, occasioned by the Visits of Potetga Princes to England To the Prince &genes Amnion to the Pow of Spi taint:his 5,000 0 0 To the Loot Chamberlain, on account of Expences inc.trr , •d in that Department for the Archduke; of Ansaia ion' the Prince of Vie Brazils 'fir the Paymaster of the lionsehold for d;:to To the Master of the Horse for ditto 1,163 19 • OFFICIAL PERQUhITEti. - To the Lord Arden, Registrar. for Poundage - To King's Proctm, Admiralty Proctor, and oth ers 103.7-‘3 Marshal of the Admiralty ;5 7 10 Total Payments Extraordinary. X4h6,75S 2 1 Muitnen Ar Lesom.— T. Osborne, who was with four others, examined before the Magistrates at Epsom, last week, and was discharged, was again apprehended ou Sunday, fresh taretionstances having transpired tending to implicate him sit the •tler ofE. Cox. The Magistrates assembled on Sunday at Epsom; when Osborne was broooglit behsre theist. Subsequent to the discharge of the prisoner, after the first ex a:nination, a baker's boy at Epsom communicated to the officers that he had .slsrat an apron all over blood at the cot. tag,. of Osborne the nay after the maids r. It was liltewise stated,lliat the prisoner's wife exclaimed, whets the report of the pistol Was heard ou the morning of the molder, " I hope that it I , not my husband who is.shot." Under these circuits smilers the officer considered Idniselfjonstified in again taking Imo intocustotly, and he was remanded. Toe officer set of with his prisoner towards London, and on the road enquired if he ever wore sods in Isis shots made of an old hat to Mind' he replied iu the hegative. The officer desired Isius lib poll off bib shoes. and the') discovered that he had two socks on of that kind, one of which appeared newer than the ether. A seek was found near the body of Cux, cut not of an old hat, which as nearly as potoible.fitted to Osborite's shoes. When Osborne was first apprehended, his cottage was searriwil, but nothing was found that could support the sus picion of guilt, which led to his being taken into custuok. - . Stibsequemly to the discovery of the bloody unroll whieh was tiosnil to a dark room at !tie residence, anti which rafted lihn to be taken into custody as second time, another search had ern at his house, and a pair of imutalouna extremely bloody, and a waistcoat, with several no:aks of blood 'von it, had been 1., d bet area the sacking of his bedstead and the bed ; a place which was searched in the first instance in the most caret til seamier, and where the bloody apparel could out have been deposited without misting, discovered. 'fhe pantaloons staid waistcoat were very much turnout,' a shirt, which had been newly washed and was conceded isi the same place, was literally rent to pieces. Exertions for the detec tion of guilty persons continsioto be carried tin with tinabatesl vigour. Osbot ne is etiolated- ilea room by billiSelib4 SHAME:rut. 'fitmbh3ACTlON.—On Tuesday a aegro, ;n sailor's (loess, applied to the Magistrate of Ustiou-Hall, and complained that he had been robbed of 151. its bank -notes. He explained to the Magistrates in broken English, that ou Thursday se's/night lie was paid off from a vessel at Chatham, called the Ann, and witleilillile evening arrived in tost u with a shipmate, named Joan Harris Never having been in England before, and understanding but little of the English langitage„ being a native of Surteam, he eagerly accepted the propos*. tion.of his comrade to go with him to a house where they should find comfortable lodging and plenty of poovssions at a . reasonable rate. He was conducted to a house to Mack: Lion-court • Tuoley-street ; the woman of the place betel es cl ' remarkably civil, and a quart of gin was sent limo, Whiell Harris insisted he would himself pay fur. He recollected nothing inure that passed, being seized with a stupor ariSiW from intoxication : tut on Friday siturning fine ad himself on the stones in front of the house, without the jacket, hat. or neck-kerchism; and all his money gone. He made some persons in the neighbourhood understand that he wanted n. constable, and lie was directed to one, vs Ito a t i l t t o th is . 1, 0 „,,_ and took Harris into custody, lint instead of taking loin be fore a Ithigistrate Marled filial to escape. A lot. mote oasts seen in the possession of the coestaltle a few minutes aft.- - was ds, and the pour complainant conjectured, with some show of reason, that he had shared the illituder wills his dos• honest nlsionate.'llte Magistrate desired Glension, the usher r, to make immediate inquiry, and discover, it' possibte, the partite concerned, and take them into custody. A few days shier, an extraordinary interposition of Melee Providence via, evinced in the deliverauce of William Sine of St. Cross-thill, in the Isle of Wight, who, being employes' in the mill, had occasion to make some alteration on lime sari. While so engaged his rout became entangled lm, sloe dressing sirup, and lie was instantly drawl! Up moiler the drool, ;m.l suspended by one of his thighs, expecting o very moo:sant b. be tore to pieces ; but, to his great sistutitsbost lit, the Arms which was three inches wide. timid proporutmady Mick, suss three of thescogs, gave way, by which he was pito, Melo tally rescued from Its.s pet dons situation without It is stated in au American paper, that .2 ship of. about 37 . , tons wits ready to be launched float one of theirship-yards, which is actually to he lilted Up with .1 elm l imu eazine.aurl apparatus. as a •limatst packet shop imor eti.aiug thae a liana... A woman has been lately convicted tit house out of revenge against her litishaud, his pinto( beer at a neighbouring alehouse; slie ha.f uLed threat, tel deprive laiin of the weans of .regulUig lid • now crelmseei her threat into est:saloon. The Mists:mil, tat lit, hou.w. on tire, hastened hoolc. and !Dead In:, wife look ing . c.ttietly on. A nod i f he knew thtccause nu nossairstise ? the l atte r said, *. I will tell tail Male thly, , lies Wile MO:mined. " rascal, that I did it; you know I hate bar s ; warned you. I told ti.it ptimbun I would ruts lonic to your t . l . irolit 7 nOw I Mime; a nd sa wall „, more go and drunk your oat adds to the atrocity iddl i„ r i me runless it be ao act tartisamty; is, that before setting. fire to the house, site dewed het childless to go to bed. saying, '• too to bed directly, for I am gotril; to b arn t h e hous e, In fact. one 17. the other J yetab mat age, went to bed, slid *lac pan toe third sr. the cradle. 'float of time year, rertslied iu tile that Of 17 eseapeil wail difficulty through tilt' fl , .e me slid blitimike. In a mmo • mentary lit of sensibility the cruel nn.thcr rushso loam, the bornioog Mouse tosave the youngest child, antic: ma v at twitting it in Is, r It was imr.sedioitely taken bums nt.r. She it awe calm tonal, mind shows no sight Of rename.