The National Register. — London, England, 1815-06-25 00:00:00

JOIE 25.__ w as whom lie had killed. The prisoner led him to the forecastle, and pointing said, " I hove stowed him down there." Witness then went down, and saw the deceased dead, but quite warm. Witness lifted up the deceased, and on examining the body, saw a large wound on the an , ither on the cheek, and one of his arms very much bruised. 'there were several sticks lying near the body besmeared with blood, and a square piece of wood .had hlood and hair on it. Witness asked the prisoner hoe lie came to murder the man, and with what he had committed the act ; to which he replied, "he would not let me go up the ladder, and I gave him a blow with some pieces of wood." The prisoner said that he had been writing a letter to hie wife. lie was t h en taken to time watch.honse, where the witness saw him the next morning and he then appeared in a distracted state of mind. On the following hursday the witness saw him, ar.d on being asked about the circom shin.ce, he said lie knew nothing of it, and added, that he had no animosity to the deceased, and what he had dune was from the impulse of the moment. The prisoner being called on fur his defence, said he had no remem brance of the transaction. Several witnesses were called in behalf of the prisoner, the greater tart of whom spoke to the insanity of him at the.titue the deceased was Lit ed. 'I Le Jury consulted for a few minutes, and returned a verdict Not Guilty, considering him in a state of insanity at the time the act was led THE NATIONAL REGISTER. ANOTHER CHARGE OF MURDER. I.Vm Russell stood indicted for the wilful murder of Mary Ann D aw es, on the 19th of May, by exciting her to jump out of the window. The indictment contained three counts. Susannah Howard deposed that she lived in Essex-street, White.- eliapel; lodged in the adjoining room to the deceased, who cohabited with the prisoner On the 19th of May last the witness was at home ; prisoner and deceased came home together about four o'clock in the m ; deceased was very much intoxicated ; witness heard a report of a woman being thrown out of window, and she went for a coach ; deceased was put into it and conveyed to the hospital ; pri soner went with her, and seemed very sorry for what had happened. Ann Meredith saw the deceased tall from the window ; she vas much in liquor. Mary Willoughby, belonging to the London Hospital, recollected the deceased being brought to the - Hospital on the 19th of May ; she w:IF of cpinion that her life was in great danger. She said she was in at the time, and she was driven out of the window by the ti,reats of the prisoner. Mr. Turner, House Pupil at the London Hospital, attended the deceased during her illness, and he had no doubt but she met her Leath by the fractures received in her fall from the window. Mr Justice Millas sumincd up the evidence,' and the Jury found the pris-mer Not Guilty. Yesteday. Amelia Jarvis, alias Blundell, was indicted for forging the will of James Campbell, late a sail-maker on board the Java East Indianian, with intent to defraud. From the evidence in support of the prosecution, it appeared that the deceased had entered on board the vessel in question on the 4th of October, 11314, and bad died in the month of Febrnary in the pre sent year. In April the prisoner went to Doctor's Commons, where site exhibited the pretended original will of the deceased to which she ailmini.tered, and having obtained a probate she proceeded to the milers of the ship to receive the property. Before she suc ceeded in this, however, the prosecntrix had received information of the transaction. and having gone herself to the owners, she met the prisoner, and had her taken into custody. Several witnesses were called to prove the forgery, lint none of them could sw. ar to the hand writing. The prisoner was couse quently acquitted. Edward Freeman was put on his trial charged with the Wilful Murder of Donelle Conolley, on the Bth of May last, in the parish of St. Catherine, but the witnesses being called, they did not ap pear, and the prisoner was acqnitted.7 Mary Thomas was indicted for siealing in the dwelling House of Air. Dawson, of Ratcliffe Highway, a piece of silk handkerchiefs, value :2/. This was the common cases of shop-lifting, and the pri soner was found guilty. William Bendel was indicted for assaulting William Horncastle on the King's highway, and hiking from his person, a watch, chain, and seals, hi. property. It appeared that on the 4th of June inst. the Proccutor was returrio:4 from How about 10 (o'clock in the r‘eriiiig, where lie was met try the prisoner, and three other men, who sorrotmdcl him, and widle b was held by some, another pulled Ins watch from his pocket. They then attempted to escape, hut the prosecutor m..izeol the prisoner by the collar, told calling for ""i'titnee tte mais secured. He had previvu:ly thrown the watch opJu tlle around,—Guilty Death. ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCE. 413 -• • . On Tuesday evening, about. sit -n 4 eloeir, sfn'than . whnse - Hanle Elizabeth fleasemure, abut 50 years of age, was inhumanly intirdere.l. and found in the cellar of the house in 'which olie lisdged, 17,, Short's Gardens, Drury-lane. The circumstances leitding this dread ful catastrophe are as follows :—lt appears that two sisters ( tie of whom is the deceased) were married to Thomas dwort is and •holuas Beasmore. Bedworth , who is sus p ec t e d t o h e t h e aut h or of this tra gical event, had been absent at sea a lung time, and was I itOy dis charged from the Victory, with a pensiOn of 51. per annum, m conse quence of being ruptured. IVlrile he wat r t sea, rr letter „as sent to Iris wife in Staffordshire, stating that lie had been kilted in action. After a considerable time had elapsed, his vA e (who then sal/rimed herself a widow) married again, under an iinpre;sion that Ire ( fled worth) was actually dead. After his discharge. howtver ) to her great astonishment, die saw him, and being alive to revenge at the art he had used to get rid of her, she threatened hi, lite, and lie mine sr) London, and took up his abode with the deceased, vi hose Inishrmil (Bensmore) was then at Wedgbury, in Staffmdshire, and whom sits! had left for the purpose of collecting some small sums of runnty due to them in town. Beasmore, Ending work rather slack in Staffordshire, came to town, about nine weeks since, to work at his trade as a smith. lie had nitro seen his wife (the deceased), but had never spoken to her. Last Sine day, however, he met her, and she fell upon her knees, begging pardon and forgiveness. Beasmore assured her that he would forgive her : she then importuned him to take her again under his protection; to this equest, he said he would give considerrrtiotr. On Tuesday morning the unfortunate creature went to the Coal-yard, in Drary-kow, :sad hired lodgings for herself and husband, and paid Is. earnest. Bed- worth hearng of this, became very uneasy ; went to an ale-house, and from thence to the lodgings in Shores-gardens, where they had lived together, and where he behaved in a very outrageous manner. Tie had a razor, which he said he was going to set ; he was afterwards heard to say, ‘• it wo'nt do, somebody must die 4 ." About six o'clock in the evening, he went down stairs from the second fluor, and called down the deceased to tie a piece of tape to his bracts s: a short time afterwards, she was disenvered in the cellar, lying upon her face, wel teeuig in blood, and her head nearly severed from her body. Mr. Watham, a farmer, at Sturton, near Hone:astir, with the horse on which he was riding, were both struck dead by lightning, on Tues. day se'nnight. On Saturday nforning, the 10:h instant, about two miles Irons Belford, one of the coaches from Gainsbro' was overturned, with fourteen outside and six inside passengers. One gentleman had an aria broken, and it is feared his back also; :mother his head cut open ; a lady had two ribs broken; and three nth Ts were much injured. The Leeds mail was overturned at Ickleford Bridge, near Thursday morning. owing, it is supposed, to the negligence of the driver. Fortunately, only one passenger was slightly injured. The Brighton stage was overturned, by one of the wheels coming off, just as it came into town, over Westminster Bridge, Friday night ; a female, iuside passenger, had several of her Engers dreadfully crushed, and a young man was also much hurt. A servant lad of Mr. Chandler, of Tyrriadhsm, near Newport P 4z. neil, Bucks, while attending a thrashing machine oil the 7th inst. un• fortunately got entangled in the wheels, and was crushed to death. Five persons were bit last week by a mad dog, at Norwich. A wretch, undeserving the name of woman, residiirg in Walwortit, destroyed her infant in the early part of last week, by thrusting it into a copper file. BIRTH. On the 14th inat. at Fair Oak Lodge, near Petcrsfield, the Hen. Mrs. Charles Paget, of a daughter. On Tuesday, the tith inst. at Paddington, the Countess of Atte tuarle, of a son. On the c 1 3 ,1 inst. Visconntecs Torrington, of a daughter. MARRIED. Yesterday, at St. Margaret': Church, Westminster, by the Hon. and Rev. Alfred Harris, Sir Galbraith Lowry Cole. ti. B. G. C. to the Lady Francis Harris, daughter to the Earl of 111almesbnry- On die 7th inst. at Forilingbridge Chinch, by the Rev. Char Sliticktnirgh, Andrew Hamilton, Esq. Captain in the 23ti Light Di a. goons, to Mary Ro.,c, second daughter of the late Major-Geucril Andrew Hay. DIED. Thiirsilay afternoon, Master King. of great celelnity,in t;:e tn"..iem Karl(. lie w,i , rouNiderell our the 3111 CC the youthful days of /Intl,. ou and Liu/Hamm.