The National Register. — London, England, 1814-11-06 00:00:00

TUT 'NATIONAL TIEGISTER. t b 014 1) 13 4111, E On Morelay, Hugh Everard was indicted for bigamy. He had formerly lived in the fairilv of Mr. Townson, town clerk, of Tor k. Atter some %Tata he reunited to York, and •Aated that he was a Gentleman i)y hitch ; that at the time hes heed in the family, he lind quarrelled with his father ; hut iliat afterwards, he resumed his moil: in life, and had been abroad in the army I , r many years. fl was received 11 Mrs. Townson with f and at last he in thleed her to marry him. She had a room! , of near ao,tntl. the treater part of iVitich site fett; eel tspon herself*. They had not lone. however, been married. In Care he treated her with brutal arnelty,a_ad sire at length comaelled him to give securities for kecping.the peace At leogth it was discovered that he had a former wife li•Ang, who he ied at.Cheshimt, limas, in 1804. The prisoner, in his defence, said, that Counsel bad thrown discredit on -leis assertion that he mai a gentleman He begged to assure the Court he was a gen tleinin born ; his brother was a Mr,jor in the Mayo militia ; and it was true he had lived with Townson firmerly, because he had v .ar a nat with his father who for a time discarded him. He after ward, weat into the array, where lie had commaaded a troop of agoon s ; 1 1 3 d ser.ed in Spain at A llintera, Ilusaco, he. While he \Vas with Mr. Townson he had taken a particular' fri,vdship for him, viva discovered something »uperior in his !Hamlets. Mrs. Town son had also the greatest friendship for him ; stud when he returned, hvai ing•that Mr. Townson was dead, he wrote to the lady, who im mediately invited him to York : and on their marriage, he himself praposed her tot tune should be settled. but she insisted he should ac• cept of 2001, per animal. The present prosecution was carried on without her wish, as he had a letter a few days ago, in which she expressed the greatest affection for him. He admitted that his former wife was livieg, but he said she had agreed to renounce all pretensions to him. Verdict--Guilty. The sante day. Anthony Sn ioton, formerly well known :via vender of Daffy's Elixir, was capitally olcheted for atealing a watch, the property of Mrs. Larl‘in. The particulars of this case we gave at the time ofthe prisoner's examination at ilow-street. He produced • several witueses, whose evidence "as not credited, and one of them • named Baxter, was committed fur per.inry. Swinton was found Guilty. The SeAsions terminated on Friday, when the foluwing sentences Aare passed Wilson, for robbing a wharf; C. A. Allen, for secretirq a letter in the General Post Office, cant:lllbn , 101. ; Partly Citrrol, Win. ILrnet, Win. Gardiner. Tho.. Osmond, Janes Yipping, George Coates, :And Patrick Smith, for highway robberies; tor ass:1114111g with a sharp it.strument, with intent to,citt and ; ChristoWler Wotrat, for stealing goods in a dwelling-house Elizabe;ll for hell;! a second time convicted of uttering fake nioney ; Wiliam King and Amos Crisp. for stealircz in a dwelling house A!es ander Wil•on, for a burglary; Geoige Beck and Harry Griffiths, for a ; Lydia Case, for stealing in a (ladling house; Joachim for stalAing, and slatting, &c.; and IVilliaiti Jutii s, a Virg!..ry. Jchit Anderson, who was convicted on his own con tut,-,icii at the robbery at Bedtoot, in company with Strangeway:., wt.s re.l;ced. Transportation fur Lite.—T. Wall W. Toolcy, and W. Andrews, fur Transp(Tfation Scren . nears.- Autliony Swinton. for -ter ling gold watch; i‘lewcurne PAgew!oli, for bigamy ; also itichard Hullo . way, Thoy.ra.• Steve;:s, Hurt, :thirrison, Jamq.s Gorman, James Hurler, riiollllS Ptqlkila , 7l), \V.ii. Gardin.r, Sophia Crouch, Miry Per rin, John Butler Be;t., .Jolm Ktiißhtly. George Gritlitl44, Henry Hart, John Holmes, James JAiikon . , Julin Down, Jail Lyon, Thomas Stan ley, James 13ronu, Frances Wilkitkon, M ary Smith, and Joseph Ann Ftnith and James limit were sentenced to fourteen years trans. pot t taloa. IVimm C,mmutelley, Jetties Sullivan, and Dennis Leary (for Manslaugh ter), were sentenced to pay a fine 'of 101. each, and be confined fur one emir iii Newrate. Twoniy-one, conviCted of relonif , ,, were sentenced to m•ix months . i,:iy;souinent and hard labour in the House of Correction.—Niue were fir.t.ci Is. each, and sentenced to twelve months' continetuent and hard lar.qAmr in time Workhouse. Seventeen besides those already mentioned, were soutenced to 7 years' transportation.--Two were ordered to ....hipped and discharged. Fourteen .to be confined one mend) End Esc ..;lipped. Three to 14 days' imprisonment in Newgate ; and one vcars' hard labour in the House of Correction. T!le 'Sessions adj , lnrned to the 17th of next mouth. Sharpe, for the murder of Elizabeth N*V. 6 Dobbins. N‘ll3 . executed on Monday morning, in the front of New. eau.. The criminal behaved, during the whole of his confinement in the condemned cell, with tne same obduracy and impenitence Inch he manifested on sentence of death being passed upon him,— At a late hour on Sunday night, the Ordinal, and his aged father Mended him, and used every persuasive Mat religion and parenta itlection could suggest, to awaken his mind to a i-ense of his awful situation, and to induce him to make confession of the crime which e was about to expiate with his life ; but they could make no,int• IrCAtiioll on him. Monday morning, however, the Ordinary, at. .ended by ! some of the Officers, on visiting the criminal in his cell, murderers being excluded from attendance in the chapel, for the purpose of directing his devotions and conducting him to the pres s . yard to be released of his irons, observed that a great change had take') place in his demeanour doring the night, and that he appealed thlomed to join in the last consolations of religion, which he did most fervently while he yet remained on this side of eternity. M eight o'clock lie stepped upon the platform, and alter joining th e Ordinary in fervent prayer, arcomie.nied by corresponding ges tures, which evinced the sincerity of his repentance and contd. fin)] for the crime, he was in a few minutes launched into eternity. It is said, he made an ample confession previous to his appearing upon the drop. After hanging the usual time, his body was deli vered to the burgeons for dissection. An immense concourse of people attended on the occasion. Thomas Sharpe was the son of John Sharp, of Leighton Buzzard, tin plate-worker, who, besides this unhappy Young man, has four sons and six daughters. Al though in humble circumstances, Mr. Sharpc's character stands high for probity, and a sober, religious demeanour ; and no man, w ith his narrow means, cook! give his children better education. Hut Thomas the eldest child, who has expiated his crimes by an ignominious death, was always froward, even from his infancy. His father is a member of a Baptist Society at Leighton ; their whole family (there are eleven children), except this unhappy son, were good and dutiful, and a more honest, frugal, and decent household there is not in Leighton, being respected by rich and poor. : - C: T I ON. -TiIQIIIUS PO LICE. igr.rmAr.L.—A Scotehman was charged by an Hibernian watch man with having stolen a tub of butter. The watchman said he stoi,red Prisoner in St. Paul's Clenrch yard the preceding night u.vi!li !Ile tub on his shoulder. He asked him what he had got time? and be said " a cat," upon which the watchman , xamined it, and foto:d ;t contained butter ; he then, conceiving the prisuncr had at tereptcii to deceive him. lodged him in the watch-house. ThP prisoner, who spoke with a broad northern dialect, defender! most clearly from the accusation thrown on his character ; and it turned out, that his detention was solely attributable to tl,e ioanner in which lie pronounced the ward kit, the tub in his posses sicn tiling what is called in the north a kit of butter. He was or cutir!.e di , cliarized. • A b;:lter, re;idizig in tlae borough, was fined 101, and costs, f►,r havinu in his possession a quantity of alum. It appeared that May , the officer, went to the detcu►laut's house to weigh his hr► ad, and in the bakehouse, concealed under a trough, found a paper bas, con taining about twelve om►uce• of alum, and also a qnantit), of potatoes, ready prepared for mixing with 11w flour. The defendant said no• thing in eNcnFe, except that he vas only doing as all other bakers did. lie paid his fine and was diccharged. ACCIDENTS 4.IND OFFENCES. EXTRAORDINA ny CHARGE OF MURDSR AT EXETFR.--.-011 Monday cvv»ing last, Ann Radford, daughter of Mr. Radford, gar echer, preferred a charge of murder against a young man, John Iturd, a coal carrier, with whom it seems sho had for a long time kept company. The man was apprehended, and an examination took place before the Magistrates. Ann Radford, a single wouran, deposed, " that about two yeali and a half since, .she went towards Hcavitrce, soon after eight o'clock in the evening, accompanied by John flnrd, and near the spot where the gallows sfood, on the Magdalen road, they met Wil llam Buckhill, who was butler to a Mr. Phillips, who lodged at Mr. Pyne's, on Southernhay. That Buckiiiii said to Third, ' what have you. to do with my girl ? third replied, she is as much mine as you 's.' That Strekhill then struck Bard a Violent blow on the stomach. That Bind then seized him by the collar, and said, I will be your butcher.' Buckhill implored that ha would not wur- 734 WO.