The National Register. — London, England, 1815-01-15 00:00:00

• .AiIDDLESEX SESSION%. , Ye-terday ('harks Wefield was isidieteiVfor and fonturguslty of • - i fwgring• r: piece of sbaeon; the property. of who keeps s a's shim nt Poplar. The pris-ner went into the shop es, pietenee of purchasing a pint of small beer, and there being only a girl shoot seven year* of are in the shop,.he took advantatt, of the circumstance to carry off the I'ieee of bacon in question. Hs was found guilty, and oen'eneed to one month's imprisonment, and during that time to he once puh;iely whipt. A publican. residing at Hampstead, was indicted for a gross assault nu a lady of respectability residing at Pancras. It appeared from Ole statement of the defendant's own cossissel, he having p!eaded guilty, that the detendatrt bad teen in his own cellar tasting liquors anti witless, till the treacherous spirit had stolen away his leases. this state lie went out for a ‘valk, and onforinnately meeting the p r o s vcotrix, he addressed her, and became so troublesome that sls. srss obliged to seek refoste from his importunities in a Nhop ; but t‘ here the prisoner pursued her. and it was with difficulty that the master of the shop protected her from his violence. The de food:int now expressed sincere contritica• for his offence, and said he was ready to make any atimentent in Isis power. The prose affix isitimat• d to the Court, that on condilion the defendant gass to each of the two charity schools at Pancras, she was ready to forego farther proseention. This was acceded to by the defeadasit, who having pail the money, the Court tined 'him One Shilling an Oiseisoread him. ~ Oho les Smedley was found guilty of stealing half a calve's' head linos the shop of Mr. Thomas, et Charing-Crow.' The prisoner pleath.4l great ilistress, and the prosecutor strongly recommended to nierey.—Sentence deferred. OLD BAJLEY. Wednesday these session% commenced heron: Baron Wood, Mr ,;:ce Dallas, the Lord Mayor, the Recorder, and several Alder:at n. CHARGES OF MURDFR Friday, Joseph Akerman was indicted for the wilful minder of John B, , iitliconibe, •.n the /2 I of Octuber last, by driving over him a certain mail coach drawn by four horses. Tho prisoner was. the coachman of the Bath mail coach on the day queotion, and left the Post-office at about tea minutes after eigh u'clock. 0 , , their arrival at the two mile and half stone, the , outo hei.rd a violent crash, and on looking forward he saw a cart overturned, and man lying its die road. lie called t the coachmen to skip, ti d the mail was polled, up at the Hand and Flower public-hou‘e. P1) , :to eighty yards from the spot where the Reciilent happened, trolls whewe es•isia l ice was sent to the man. The Exeter and Worcester mails we•, immediately before the Bush mail, and they were oil going at their meal rate of eight mile. an hour ; their lamps heing lighted. Upon subsequent inquiry, it turned out that the deceased and his brother "err itriviae towards London, and that, as th. brother stated, they were driving on their proper side when the moil coach came in contact with them. width overturned them, and the Mild wheel of the mail went over the body oldie deceased. The c 'etch, at the time of the ac cident was ou the wrong side of the road. The deceased died in con• sequence of the injury which lie ettotelocti• Upon the part of the prisoner, Walter Mansell, Bog. and the Rev. Henry Brereton, Were caled, and irons their testimony it appeared that the Rath nail was driven at a wen steady pace ; that there was plenty of Nom t t the deceased to pass. and that the arident was occasioned by a ,udder swerve of the cart towards the mail, as if the wrong rein had been pulled. They described the condor of the prisoner to have been atie , •.i.e , and pri,per, and in no ways negligent er careless. It was so dark that they could nut tell whether the coachman was driving on the right side of the road or not. The guard, after the accident bed I.o l)rned. celled to the coachman to " drive on and never mind." A gentleman, named Warren, who was walking on thirfo..t-paili, said the coachman wa• certainly tn. the proper side, end that there was room for two carts to have passed beyond it. It was flintier proved, that the deceased and his brother were tipsy, and were incapuble of driving. They had been seen by one of the Harnnsersmith corchmen, a short time bef , re the accident, driving , at the wrong side of the road. Mr. Baran W 0 .. ( 1 Bummed up the e*-irience, with a remark, that in Iris opinio n the -iTerce iosonted to the prisoner did not amount to mur der, allionsilt, it tut. Jnry * t oe of opinion that the conduct 9f the pri sower lout beets egligent ot careless, or that he had been driiing on the wrong side ~1 rte road, et the time the accident happened, they :night find hist. guikv of manslaughter. His Lordship particularly adverted io the diode t of the guard, who load so inhuman!), called out to the coachman to drive on after the accident !.ad happened, and reprobated 45 sack conduct in forcible terms. The Jure withdrew, and after an als uf a quarter of an hour, returned with a verdict of—Not Guilty. Robert Potion was indicted for the wilful murder of Ann, his wife, by the , wing at her • chair. from the evidence of the witnesses called in support of the ease, it appeared that on the night of the 4th of Drcentber, the prisoner and his wife lipd a qua.rel, which forirnated with the deceased,. who was 'e.cribed as a woman mut+ given to drinking, and extremely iiolein. They were left together at Hight, and the next mortal g the deceased was carded to the Hospital, where she languished f.r slime days, and then died. The cause of her death was a fracture on her ribs, and 'hit, she saia she had received. ratan a chair which her husband had tlormi n at her from jealuo.y ; she contes‘ed, however, that it wa‘ her .wn fault, and toat she had aggravated ler .hipdopid. The prisimer iiimself afterwards confessed,that he bad tiirown the cliair, but said he w.s mach intoxicated. Mr. Baron Wood, its summing itp the evidence, said, the crime pr ove d s g einq the prisoner, could only amount to num:laughter, and the Jury, after a abort consideraii-n. found a verdict accordingh. Cathe-ine Turner was tried on an indictment, charging her with the willirl murder of her bastard child From the evidence adduced to support of this case, it appeared that •m the 4th of Decemh.•r, a soldier, mimed Prendergast, while in the wive of the 'muse in which he lodged i•i Fl.+.k•ruw, Che6ea, beard . some person come in :o a huildine of a si nilHr 'mime adjoining, whisk was only separated by a thin parti inn. Shortly after he heard deep entails. and then the cry of a child. which was succeeded by a voice ql,ich led him to conclude the child had fallen into the cesspool, as he , Iry heard a anise like a child suffocating. The child was afterwards picked up; it wait a feet le child, but no marks of external injury ap. peered upon its p-rson. The facts were supported by other evidence s all of whom stated that the young woman, upon being asked why she had thrown the child in the privy, said she had not done so, althoiagla she admitted the child was there. A medical Gentleman, named Olive,. waa then examined, and front questions put to him, it appeared manliest !hat the circumstance which bad taken place might arise hoes aturril causes. To this was added a arietv of evidence, from which it appeared that the prisoner was a •iiiist !marine creature; had not concealed her pregnancjr, which Was •,uhlicly known; hut had made prepa►ations for the child, hasit.g coma home in her mother to lie in. MAP, thrse eircumsiattees, the Jury. without waiting fur the rodee's charge, to the perfect satisfaction of the Court, acquitted the prisoner. SATURDAY. Charles fineli Edwards, who was convicted last sessions of marrying Anna Kinson, his former wife being in existence. hut whose judgement was respited on account of an objection taken by the prisoner, founded upon the fact of his second Mite's name beine Susannah and not,Anna, was put to the bar; and informed by the Court that lihobjection was not •ulid—llls convicion was therefore confismad. CHARGE. OF FORGERY. Thomas Mariann was next tried, on an indictment charging hi•o with forgine an indorsement to n bill of Exchange for 011. and uttering that bill so endorsed. well knowing it to be forged, with an intent to defraud Edwin Hunt. The facts of the case were these:—On the 17th of November last, Mr. Edwin Hunt. who re , ides at Liverpool, enclosed three bilk of ex change, and two Bank notes, in a letter, for the purpose of sending them to his brother, in London. One of these bills was for 601. and draws upon Messrs. Jones, Lloyd. and CO., bankers in London. l'his letter he grive to his clerk to put in the Post-office. brit the clerk either hit the letter, or was robbed of it, before lie reached the Post-office. No tice of this circumstance w-ds sent to Lthidoir. On the rid of November the prisoner left the bill for 60/. at , he loose of Jones, and Cu. for acceptance. On calling the next day, be was taken to tie count ing-house of Mr. John-Hunt, in Finch-lane, -s here he stated himself to be a merchant, mid to have received the bill in question from a pedlar, of the name of Edward Coelilan. whose endorsement was upon it, and to whom he gave the full amount for it. This story not being credited, the prisoner was taken befOre the Lori Mayor. A man was in com pany with'the prisoner when he called at the house of Jones, Lloyd, and Co. whom he now said was the person who had endorsed it. This man was found at a neighbouring polilic•lvoise, but on being interro gated, be said lie could I either rend nor write. The Prisoner, in his defence, said. e kept a boarding-house at U. verpowl int 11:1110',, and was acquainted with Coglikri, for whom ! e discounted the bill rift the 10th of November last, and he endorsed it. In s.ipport this defence the si , tt•r ,it the prisoner, and a man nacti•,i Forbtill, proved that they were present when the prisoner *listen's:iota the bill, unti saw Cu.hlan endorse it. • Under these LiNutlistaticcs the prisoner was acquitted.