The National Register. — London, England, 1814-01-23 00:00:00

THE NiTIONAT, REGISTER, I - lour o'clock, having first fasteved the window-shutters, and left a e• lamp in the passage, with the additional precaution of a tinder-box close to it. She did not stay out so late as leer mistress told her : if she had, dole is no doubt but the whole house weuld have been in tholes. She, not knowing exactly what it was o'clock, re turned about twenty minutes before eight. On her twilling flee street door, she discovered that the Limp was not ourniog as sl,e left it, but the house was en fire ; she gave the alarm, and Captain Kempster's servant, who resides at the next door, came in mid as sisted her with solute pails of wale.., and with the exertions of score gesetlemen, the lire was gut out. She staled, tloet ehiring her ab sence the clothes-horses and a pail' n 1 wooden Stel/• ha • 11011 brought out of the kitchen, and pho ed against the wainscoat of the parlour, neso the statics, with 1 fp: tidily of matches Oil the•an. 'nee door-p• st• ieed other parts of tat. I, eek-parlour were lii filmes ; a hat-box, filled exits ‘tood was hoar the flames. Some classes, cloths eehirie they rublw.l ta',lrs and fnrniture with, some pia cloths, !roelss. a.ed other clothes a the child, and also s ome rags, all of which had been dipped ice turpentine, were sI ewe d in different parts of thee: parlours, passage and stairs. The fire on the stair case, was distioct from that in the back parlour. The front parlour was stiewed with Wood, such as is used tOr lighting fires in bundles, but the strings were cut, and the wood dish ilented alone t so as to make a train for 11:e flee, mixed with ditterent articles that had been dipped ire torperitine, and matches. They diet not keep but one tire in the house, as, when slit. lead done leer work, she sat with her master and mistress in the front parlour. %When she tat the house there was scarcely any fire in the stove, and on.her rc turn there was a very large one, with two pokers in it ; both were red hot. The curtains of the parlour had been drawn after she left home. The slimier!: of ti.e first and seemed-floor windows were in the same state as she left them, but those of her master's bed-room, on the third-fluor, nese put too, which site left open, aced the 'window Was open which she left shut. Out of this room the hat-hoxes and band boxes were taken, awl tided with combustible articles, to assist the fire on the ground-floor. Being asked iespeeting a roomy bird, she said she was sure it was time on thee Tuesday mot no.g, as her master sent her fur seed fur it, but ebsee ved it was nut he its pliers. in the evening. John !Amine, a bookseller, of Portman-street . , Portman-square, - stated, that me Tuesday evening soon after half past seven o'clock, he was passing throngh Half Moon street, when lee heard the cry of tire. He entered the house, No. 9, and discovered some boards which were placed against the door on lire, with same wood used for light ing tires under the boards, partially lighted ; the timer of that room was- on ire, which he extinembhed by heading on it, &c. He con firmed this g eneral state of the house as described by the servant": he remaine d there till a quarter past eight o'clock, and then left it, leaving an appointment. tle returned again to the house, and was there when the vrisoners came home at half past nine o'clock ; he did not know how they got into the house ; when he first saw them they were in the passage ; the conduct and behaviour of Mr. Stur man did not appear to him to be such as he skould have expected ; lie did not appear to lac alarined;• hut, on his belies. told that his writing desk was missin,is, he exclaimed he was suited, and went and threw himself on two c hairs. in the back parlour, and said he was very ill. William Dean, Esq. of Jermyn street, stated, that on Tuesday evening. as he was passing Halt' Moon street, he heard a woman licreaming fire, at No. 9; k nocked at the door, and was admitted by the servant girl ; he cautioned her against admitting other peo ple. lie confirmed the sta'e of the house as before described : lie as sisted in treading out the tire. About live or six minutes after he had been in the house, he opened the door of the trout parlour, when be saw a kinale, rather tall, in a dark dress, with a mend hat on, with her back towards him, standing at a book ease, which had a secretary under it. She appeared to be in the act of taking sonic valuables out of a drawer into her lap, or something at her trout ; he rot knowing of what description the house was. conelnded it me. either the mistress of the house, or a lady who lodeed in it, taking care of come valuable property. She did not turn round to see Who be was, nor did he speak, but withdrew. On his ascertaining that the tire was completely extinguished and all danger over, in three or tour minutes after, he went again to lie front parlour, and on open ing the door, he.observed G e same female figure in the same place, mid in the same attitude. He assured her the fire was entirely out, all dariger over, and advi•ed her to keep 'he doors shot, to preveut the smell and smoke from issuing, which would stop the alarm Tn the neighbourhood. The female did not turn round to him, nor did , be make an reply; lie therefore withdrew, conceiving himselt to be intrnding ; he torn left the house, at the same time Mr. Leboine did the first time, when the servant gill appeared extremely distress:ed, •Tn • -0 00 and into eated them to cal again the next day, t. , report to her mas ter and niktiess the state they hail found the house in. Ile could not till the Thursday, when he the female prisoner, Mrs. Stur man; and t.o far as her fume went, he conceiv«f llim ttf to be talitiing to the PUDIC pi`r•oll 11c Inol seen enipt he valnables into her lap at the time of the fire; but not .viog ficen her lxv, he could not say it wa‘ 'F • e instiratire which the prisoner had made at the Globe Office fo , 0 `tit. iiirtudfoi Ixlol. on the house, of which he had the Itar.e, by a C!illise IVa4 COlnpUlit'd to insure to that amount. The Magistrate committed the man for trial, and admitted his wife to nail. ITII,TII ER PA RTI CULA RS. The bed-rom window of tiu. Pri , ong. , s. on the attic, w::1 found °ern, and the shutters pot too, by Mary wright, the servant girl, e bleb was the revi rse to what site lett thum As it has been was TOhheri, it is supposed that the window was Id; th e rob bers : how,•ver tl.ere wac no trace of feet marks, nr any svi pcm-ns havii:v, passed on the snow. It is a very singular circumstance. that the female described by Mr. Deaue, as being at the drawers ,if the secretnr. under the bia.kease i , appare.o!v in the act of filling her lap rfith valuables, anti who cart not answer' him wilt a hr sie•lie to tier, or tarn round to look :t hun t was ird even noticed by any tit the oilier inif-ges, not even t.y Mary Wright. A' t°:e close of the examination of Mr. Sturman. his wife was lirtrio:lit into the (Mice placed by his rode, nod was infwer.. what Dcane had said respecting the termile at the drawers, and that the impression upon his Mille was, when lie called upon her on T 1 ursday. at her .house in Halt Altion•street, and was in corivers.nion with her, that site was the person he hod seen a; the drawers tahing things out of them. She was very humanely cawioned byit N. Conant (hat she need not answer that or any other question put to her, except she was advised so- to do by her Cow,. I ; 110WP‘Tr , tie most pan t a e ot!s ly answered, filar it was jillr)SSlble, as she was at her sister', ill Broad-court, the %%bolo of the time, from her leaving Halt 110" n-street at half past twelve o'clock till half past nine at Mohr, s she retu•n. ed b' me ; •I'l° had not evem Cone dowu stairs at her sister's. Adolphus, Counsel, 4pproyed highly of the answer she had given, so much being implied in the word impossible. N (ine of the witnesses could •tate when and how the Prisoners roitywell the house, only, that at about half.past nine o'c!uck, most of thesu sisw them in the pa‘sage, but it was riot known who let them tn. On the day or two alter the fire. when Nlr. Denham, lb.. Secretary to the Globe Insurance Office, called at the house, Mary Wright, the servant, answered the ring of the belt, wig-en Mr.Sturmau, in :he pre sence of Mr. Denham desired Irer to lett It the turpentine, the not 114Y log seen any since she had b-en in the house ; her master told lel. it was in the back paiary. Sin- went to the place as directed, and found a stone bottle which woild hold about three qusrts, and took it to her master. She was positive it had not been there before the tire, and %he was in the daily habit of going to thit pantry Thole was al.° a stone bottle with oil in it at the saint. place. Th e y were both produced at the exatnination, as were the different atttcles that had been dippod in the turpentine. Mary 1V right stated,. that thv wood iihsich was distributed in the parlour and passage, to assist the fire, was such as ;s used in lighting fires, was in the house previews to the fire, and was kept in a clu-et on the staircase leading to the kitchen. Just as the exaniinatitin was abbut to CI. Pe-, she was r: glad hi, and Piked if the had any ohtection to say where she was darnig the time she was out. She replied certainly not : and said she et.; s the vd.ole of the time at a friend's, in a court in the Strand, which %vas perfectly satisfactory. Mr. Adolphe. said, that lie was prepared to prove that the prisor.ers let their first floor tOr tonneas a-wt-ek. This w.s to ,how the goodness of the turtlitore. The matt( r is involved int much dilliett:ty and perplexity ; Ihr only delonee is, that rtneves vul into the how , e some how or other, but tt c. hid not be eqnjectured how, n, there was no vkletices used in lirealdinr in or lir( aking out of the house. and the motive tor the prisont rs t tire to then. 1,0.04 e wi i expidmeti away by 15001. beitni inured .-n the house 'lit of the :;(1D;11.; and it the furniture cosi 11001. or 1.4001. :is Ilr Stortwsit stated it dui, tlnf insTt. ranee Irony ‘‘,ll eo:t.plett.; tool in c.-e of the tutu t• toning blunt, Mr, ?turnout ould nut have elattited tilt- I 5 00 1• iiismed on if, exc . ' " 'was grossly not-rant as to -nnoose ht. eroild.-- Mr. and Mrs. St uttnua holt conduried liconse - ces with the Sit t lie 111111114 :SS afld cuolnew, as they did on Saturday evet.lng. (luaus:la's —F i tav, .4 one o'clock, an ingnevt wac I el 4 at the Fie , Deinunik-sireet, near Si Uurs's Cho (h, bchrt. Gt 0 . I 1.,d 1 so n, Ev(i. Coroner for Aliddlew x, (Hi view ut he •)1 Alioy Ann Cooney a 61 ht-i wt:eit tourt , ..o dna lateen tsu t~t av, who was bUlllt to death ouWeditesday nivrtiii.g at 9'