The National Register. — London, England, 1813-09-19 00:00:00

SEPT. 1). THE ink Early in the.►nurui►►}t, at three o'clock, she got up and went to Leary's in search of him, but she (lid not hear (thy word of him mail one o'clock the next day, when she .taw his murdered body at the Prince Regent public-home. She was crosc•zxamined by Mr. Adolphus, but her story was told in a very artless and consistent manner. Cooke and This.teton, the officers who apprehended Leary, etaied, that when they went in search of him, they found him 'at work as a bricklayer's labourer. He was coining down the lad.:er with a hod of mortar ; Cooke went up to him, and asked him where his master was ? He replied, they did not want his master, but they ' anted him ; he knew about Clitlord's murder. On the Thursday fidlowing he wished to see one John M'(arthy, and Thistleton pro mised he would let AN:artily conic to him in the_ lock-up room, provided they would talk in English. Accordingly, when 11‘Car . illy WAS let into the room, he overheard their conversation. The pri soner askel 11'Carthy what he thought of the busbies.? M'Carthy told him he thought the evidence would hang him, and that he be lieved him guilty. The prisoner said there were si) people who saw Trim go to work that morning. M'Carthy said, that was nothing, could prove where he was the night before. The pri sorwr said that he should be lost unless he could get somebody' to prove that fact. 111•Carthy said, he hoped lie did not send for him to get people to swear that. The prisoner said, if he could fix it upon any body else, it would save him. M'Carthy replied, if that was what he wanted, lie would lea‘e him to be hanged us a dog, and none of his countrymen should assist him. AliCarthy was called, who appeared a very correct witness; he detailed the conversation nearly ko: above, except that he added, th it he endeavoured to persuade him to confess his guilt that the innocent not be involved, vartieularly as two of their coun trymen were suspected, and the officers of justice were in pursuit of them. Nlr. Heston, the master of the prisoner, identified a hammer found in the prisoner's possession, and Shutt !mord' said, the maks in tiie ground where the deceased had apparently been knorked d ecmed to corrotpond with the face of that hammer. Hymn Barnett proved the deceased bought the hat of him, which was pi winced. • Mr. U!thatn proved that the wounds on the deceased's head was the catty of WI death. Mr. Armstrong, sun-in law to the Keeper of the House of Cor tertion, proved a statement, which he reduced into writing, from the month of the Primmer ' who declared he would speak the truth. In this he stated, that on the Sunday evening, as he was with Mr. and Mrs. Clifford, while at a public-house, be felt that she had Fomenting hard under her cloak, and as they went along, just as they came to the pcud, site took the hammer from under her cloak, and struck him a blow on the head, which kuw.lked him down. She afterwards gave him two or three more when he was down, which killed him ; and that he bad no hand at all in it. Several other statements were proved, which also contradicted each other. Slattery was called by the prosecutor, kit not examined; lie was erom4-examined by the Counsel for the Pri:•oner, but did out prove any fact in his favour. ; The IL i..unrr then pat in a written defence. in he said, he was destitute uf friends and of assistance, until xinne Gentlemen had procured hits Girt.d ; that he did not donlit hat that if he had it patient hcarinl, he should disprove the unconnected evidence against him. lie stated that Clifford came - to him, as many Irish were in the habit of doing, to know m hat he was to do ; that he was in the h *bit ofgiving them meatand chink. lii consequence ot his being able to read and mite ' and hat ing been the ee,i of a schoolmaster, they used to call him Mr. Leary ; he asked what could be his inducement to murder Clifford % He had never quar relled svith him, and if his money were the canse, he could have easily robbed without murdering him. He said he hail always been an honest neat, and never guilty of those thefts men in ;iii SlinatiOle vvere too often guilty of. He stated, that lie truly told ?Jr. Tartolt that the knife was his ; but asserted that the evidence given by the Keeper of the House of Correction was false. He complained of the newspapers as having called his declaration a confession ; and of having inserted paragraphs, stating tiirther proofs, as they said, of Leary's guilt ; if he made different statements of the proceedings of that night, it was to be accounted for from his having drank , a great deal —He cianglained that the newspaper.: had raised a strong prejudice against him, but he bopeti the Jury wenld recollect, that vi hat occurred in that Court w:n what sherd(' guide them : and the danger of decieing from circum stantial evidence.--They would see he alluded to the.case ot Hag gerty. He brought home the hammer as he was it; the habit of doing when any tools were left out. He asserted that what EGIST . • Cooke and Thistleton deposed to Was false the officers -_always saying to him; that he won►l►l be Ir►nged, indnced hint to say thry wanted his life •atut might have it. The Learned Judge, Heath, having summed up the evidence with great precision, the Jury found the Prisoner---Guilty. Before Leary «•as removed from the bar after he received sentence of death, he regne•ted that his wife might be allowed to take his clothes ; he kept his colour to the last, but the tears stood fill! in his eyes. On seeing Thomas M'Carthy amongst the crowd, he stretched out his hand, and said- 44 Mr. M•Carthy, shake hands with me be fore I die, for I forgive you." Mr. M'Carthy turned from him, and said—" No ; I will nut shake your blood-stained hand." ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES. The four Ofh ers found guilty of murder, and sentenced to death fur the part they had severally taken in the late duel in the Isle of Wight, in which Lieut. Blundell, of the tolst regiment was killed, have been pardoned. A speci a l representation on the subject, from the Ci vil Administration to the Commander in Chief, having, however, hero thought proper ; and the Commander iteChiat having, in consequence made a special military case for the decision of the Piince e in which' it is deaned, on a full consideration of all the circumstances, that the unfulfilled: 'nicer who lost his life, and the officer by whose hand he WI (Eie;iem tith West India regiment), are the least gailty ; but no such palliation appearing on. the part of Lieut. Dillon; 101st; Ensign O'Brien, 10 tst ; or Ensign Gilchrist, tith West India re eiment, these three are dismissed his Majesty's service. Lieut. Mon heieg declared incapable of serving his Majesty again, for net having used the influence f.f his superior rank over inexperienced minds, for the purpose of conciliating rather than inflaming. Ensigns Gilchrist and O'Brien are left open to restoratiov. Ensign M.Guire is pardtmed witheet condeile. 1101 t Tour, Me a ism—Richard Glover, a potter, about seventy years of age, his 'vile neatly of the same age, and their son aged forty, lived together in a small cottage, at Rhydyblue, in Moo montlishire, near the turnpike-road, leading from Merther Tydfil to 41hergaveney. On the morning of Friday the Scl instant. the hitter, started from his sleep, and seizing a tram-cart exletree, killed his aged father, by repeated blows on the head ; which being dune; be mur dered his mother also, and also repaired to the house of his sister. at the distance of about a mile. On his arrival there, he proposed to liquidate a debt he owed her husband, and produced three guineas oh gold, which creating both surprise end anxiety in the husband and wife, they of course questiened him as to the source from whence he had procured them This shortly produced a full confession of his emit, and en acknowledgment at the saute time of his haslug taken. the eash from les mother's pocket. He was innuedi.ttely secured, and the neighbour's entering the house of his murdered parents, a sceno too shocking to describe presented itself to them ; the old man wel tering in his blood on the floor, and 1 is wife nearly expiring on the bed, Medical assistance was immediately called in. but was of no avail. The Coroner% Jury having sat on the bodies, a verdict ul ;U -ral Murder was found against the prisoner, who will take his trial at the next Assizes le . the comity of Monmouth. He, like too many of our modern criminals, attributed this sanguinary act to a sudden and irresistible impul l e, produced by a dream, th,: the Devil had appeared to and commanded him tt) perpetrate the deed. Cu a Ler? 10 Ants' ez.--Jetnes Chalkcy was brought up to Ifittons Garden Office. chereed eith tipping open the belly of a tOal belong lug to Mr. Ed:vard Kempen), of Higheate, only becemse the foal strayed let° a field belonging to a Mr. Stringer, of which the ptisener had the care. The !row eniactl, wit:a found, hAd its entrails trailing ne the .grielled t with its dein stand.ug over it. The prisoner was fully committed for trial.--George Cooper was also brought up on a warrant, charged with making an attempt on les mother's Ilk', by stabbing her with a knife, and also with levelling a loaded pistol at his sister, sweats ing that he would blow her brains out. The charge was fully pro:ed ; hut, from the prisoner's behaviour whilst at the lee., he evinced alt the as irks ef an insane person. lie was cummioed to the House of Cor re•tion, and the parties were advised by the Magistrates to apply a t tau (batter Sessions, in order to have him detained as a lunatic. DIED. ' Tuesday Evening, as Mr. 13. A. Goldsmid, of St. Helen's-place. %ens ,mete ling from town to his country residence, Bantam-hilt, wissing over London• bridge in his gig, aecomp.iiie_i by his brother, he was seized with a giddiness in his head, and the reins tell tr , uit ,i s ; lan d s ; Mr. ('i.'s hrothcr drew the gig; to the p a vement, am ! i n a •hurt time a hackney•coacit was product', which carlied tltrui baUi :Jack to St. Helen's-place ; the first medical asisistanee was instantly i►rocured, but without th , : desired effect. Mr. Goldsmid died at taco o'cloA tin life , ..!neAay morning : lie was ande)• SO year: of age. s t 1