The National Register. — London, England, 1822-08-05 00:00:00

%JO ... -~ ~.-~ . 7 9155qe 2ntellisence. STA FFORD CROWD COURT. SATURDAY, JULY C,111:111 was indicted for maiteleughter, committed iii feloniously killing and slaying his wife, at Stoke upon Twit, w tine county of Stafford. Toe first witness called was James Bayley, the father of the deceased, and oh course father in-law to the prism. ner. lie was quite blind, and being very old and decre pit, wasexamined sitting at the table. He stated that he lia eel to tile house with the prisoner and his wife previous to the nitftiritnitie even! in question In the caseating of the 19 it of March, they had retired to rest as usual, without any appe flatlet ul quarrel. Between six and seven o'clock 11,1 the lollowitig morning lie was alarmed ' by I.uul noises to the cellar, over which his own bed room was bllll,lrti ; there was a mixture of crying and sitrirking, w 111 Ch he knew, by the voice, cattle from his sisegitter. He got up, stressed as fast as he could, and aatd Weill 'OHO to which his daughter came from the cellar, and sat on a chair. From What she said, he misleridood she was much hurt; bin being blind, be could not tell in what nutalwr. Site lived tall ADC umming of the eeth of Nlarch, when she died. Her husband hail left-the house before she came out of the cellar; and he did not return till die billowing night, wizen lie said notlinig but went up to bed. An at Celk in, the daughter of the prisoner and deceased, remembered hearing cries and shrieks from the cedar, between six and seven on the mornitt3 of the 20th of March. Site was :hen in bed, but she rose and went nowat into the cellar. Her father passed her on the tans, and oft going down she Mond tier mother sitting on a barrel, and complainine of a pain in her head.— Toe deceased came hack, and sat on a chair for halt an hour, then went out to Mrs. Pope's, a neighbour's house ; and on return went to bed. Sls:. never recovered sufficiently to work, but rattiained ill till the 2eth of March, wheat she died. Mr. Martin, a surgeon, at Shelton, stated that he was called its to attend the deceased oil toe 23.1 of March.— Site was then down suits and sitting in a chair. He found minks of violence on her head, face, neck, and shoulder, Which were greatly discoloured and swollen. Sue Was unable, distinctly to anis ulate, in eilligetittellee as. the swelling of tier toitgue, which might have been occasioind either by its being caught between the teeth, or by i eternal violence. The next day the swelling was ucreased, and the patient weaker. Toe witness attended her WI her death.--lie did nut open the bead. because the witness dad out think it necessary, and the friends did not dasire it : but he had tau doubt that the external a wletsce was the Cane of her death. Mr. Baron Garrow recapitulated the evidence, and the jury immediately found the prisoner Guilty. The learned Judge, after expatiating on the enormity of the otleuce, observed, that this was the find occasion sin which lie had beets called to execute the new law respecaug manslaughter, by which a party convicted of lute (advice is liable to be inlitisited with imprisonment at isle discretion of the Court, or by traneportatiou for life. AVere it nut that the law had passed too recently to be generally known, he should, io this case, so nearly ap ',machine to murder, have felt bound to inn ct the scve test pools:intent its has power. Toe sentence on the pri. was, that he should Le imprisoned and kept to hard Litwin iii the house of correction for three months. Thomas Hostsou was indicted for manslaughter, in killing Juhu Betts, and Willie's' Weltliew for being fo lios oitsly presmt, aiding abetting, and supporting him in the commission of the crime. It appeared its evidence that the prisoner Hudson, the deceased, and others, were at a wake at Yoxall tit tint of July, at; 1 had been drinking at a public-house Isom sett o'clock in the evening till day-break on the tollotving morning Some dispute arose between Hud son ant Betio, and they fought three rounds; when • Betts said, " 111 not fight auy more; 1 have a wife and Wittily, and if 1 get lamed or hurt, who is to nhihniiiii ilitiat r Besides, lam in a good place, and I do not %sash to go home with the scandal of a bla.la eye."— Hudson then challenged any utau on the ground to tight ; and Walthe4, who was his master, said lie should tight any mall, come Irmo where he would. A man, named Crowley, usually called the " Little Collier," accepted the challenge, and asked the deceased to re- Main and see that he had fair play. Betts assented, and polled off his coal, to act as second. Oat this, Hodson went up to hint and said, " You're the man ,I mean to lick before 1 go." Hudson and the deceased then bekratt to light; they fought one round and both fell. As Haul bon Wai Ming, Betts took bold of hint by the hams and threw him, %%loco is not considered as exactly fair play. -IViten lie got up Betts said " I'll not fight any more," and went to take tits con and mess. Waliliew said to Hudson," two eyes, follow him up." Hudson tu:n went up lu lints anti struck him tra the side of the k. He len backwards, and rolled first on his side, ud t'aess on his face, arid itunieshately dit II . A surgeon tt as sent tor, who examined the head, And found that the 6:isw Ila.i occasioned death. 'Ow prisoner Hudson made no defence. WAllieW Ilidt lie bud frinsi:4l to lesid Isis set vain 111111 l ry to tight tor, and on y desired Itfin to strike again, because tit thought himself tery ill used. A wilnebo, w whose em ploy I l sid,tne had lived, gate hint au exceileist cnaracts r for honesty; and the apothecary who attended W.iline4'll lamily, bald that when any of them were ill he *trowed setae anxiety tut their re,torarluis Mr. BAlni G.ifroni, in addressing the jury, birongly roiuua~cried u'i the Conti.iet ul me puuD.au Wilt! Ii l irras.tird the drutl•tnzUll drybreilt ai hit picaliaas, and taill:tl I lb: :MCIIIIOII Ui the , lyeul I t tiiktrict to reAtilattoo of the Wake suuti4l it he tiutlerett or coitthi4ie. Ile Ili-lied tib,er‘cti 11111 is I is..t.tc.l it, thy ehtertaitt hale ttuato of the with tti toots the The jory. iIt,IIVC% :01.1114 add eon guilty, and acquitted irror said that Wahltew had ken a twos: -- ... TILE NATIONAL REGISTER fortunate matt. Had he beet. tumid guilty by the jury, he would have received a tar severer sentence than Hud son, who had some excuse of irritation and warmth to plead. The sentence 011 Hudson was, that he be im prisoned and kept to hard labour in the house of Correa non for two years. Toe trial of prisoners finished this evening, after one of the liAlitert assizes eve! remembered in the county. — Only two causes remain to be disposed of on NI lay in toe civil court. In consequence of the little business at Stafford, and the great pressure expected at Shrewsbury, the Jiitlaes hare tl,termitted on co tttttt encitig btemiess out Wednesday, the Commission day at tile latter place, instead thursday.—Soine criminal cases of icy great E interest stand lur trial. iSURREY. CROWN SLUR. GUILDFORD, Auo r Tl. Forbes Reynolds, a young getitlentati at respectable appearance. was incite:ell for feloniously killiha and staying Richard Snitttt ems at earshalinn, on the '.9th of June last. The case proved to evidetice on the part of the prose cution was this:—Tike p.istiner, a yonilA Mall 41101.1 l years of age, was in partnership with his uncle. Mr. Jacob Reynolds, one of the Society of Frieorls, and car ried on the business of a linen-bleacher at Carshatton; the i'eceased was a man aged about 75, by business a toaster brick layer, and of cutisiderable substance. The deceased had been in the habit of doing wink in his trade ler Nles,..rs. Reynolds. Oil the 29:h of June he went to the prisoner's country house to demand the sum of t7l. due fur bricklayers' WOlk done. lie saw the prisoner, and in a taunting tune repealed two or three times, .4 Now, Sir, state your time." It was stated, on the part of the prosecution, that there hid been an agreement to pay the deceased every month for sticii work as he might do limn time to time. Tile ;:ristnier offended at the mode of address above-mentioned, told the deceased that lie should not be paid beihre Ciiristmas ; upon which :he deceased called liiin a tl—d iotut, and used other offensive language. The prisoner put his hand on the shoulder of die deceased, and advised Idol to lease the premises, and called to one of his men to turn toe de ceased out at the gate. O.ie of the men interposed, and advised the deceased to go quietly away. Inc prisoner *lieu ordered a constable to tie sent for. Some irritable language was repeated by the deceased, and the prisoner ill a passion knocked him down with his hit. Tile de ceased fell s.enseless on the ground. Mr. Jacob Rey nolds, the prisoner's partner, shoals his head and said, he ought not to have siiiick so e t 3 111111. The 1415011C1 replied, that he had been mot uked and insulted by the deceased, who had called him a rogue and a tascal.--• Smite of the prisoner's labourers carried the deceased away. lie recovered his actor's Burin;, a short interval, but in roar or five days afterwards he died, and mum his head being opened it WAS found that lie had died m con s wiener of a concussion of the brain. 'Die prisoner had iminethately sent a siirgeon to the deceased, upon finding that he was sever. iy hurt. The prosecution was "instituted Ly the suns of tut deceased, who appeared to be men in Respectable eircitinstances Two surgeons gave it as their opinion, that the deceased hail died of a 'concussion of the brain in consequence of falling on his head. The prisoner, who appeared a good deal affected, put in a written statement, in which he expressed sincere sorrow fur the unlortunatt and fatal intemperance into which lie had been betrayed towards a man of the de ceased's years; but attributed It to the very gloss and in stilling language used to 111111 by the deceased. Three of the prisoner's labourers proved that the de ceased was very abusive, and amongst other offensive 113111e3, had called the deceased a half bred Irish rascal, alluding to the circumstance of his fattier being a native of the sister kingdoni. Two medical men of eminence stated that, in their judgment, thetleceased died of all apoplexy. which, how ever, they adtnittett might have been produced by the violence to which the deceased had been subjected. Mr. Justice Park sumuied Up the case for the JOry with great impartiality. The Jury Mond the prisoner Guilty, and he was4en lowed to three mouths Imprisonment in the county gaol. CIVIL SIDE. TDB LIVID V. EDWARD TeGRATH. This was an itithcituent against the defendant boson. !miring with one John Maherley in cheat and defraud Sir Thomas Swymmer eitampitys, Batt. of certain bills of exchange to the amount of 2,W01. The deltoid:ant, Iliad nut pleaCrd ; Mr. M'Grath pleaded wit The indictment alleged, that, on a certain day in De centb r, 1920, fire defendants conspired to cheat and de fraud Sir T. S. Chanspelys. Bart, and in pursuance of such conspiracy did obtain inters acceptances of Sir 'l'. S. Cita ttt t nys, litst. When the Baronet CAMe to be exa mined, he %tiled, that his lather did MK die Until July, 1821. so that he was not in point of fact Sir T S tttttt er Chatripii)s, Ban. at the time of the alleged conspiracy. Tile defendant's Cullidel objected that this was a mis tiest:6onm or the prom:cu.:or, and consequently that the indictment most lad. Tate Lard Cisief Baron was clearly of opinion that the objection was fatal, lust sent to incertatit the opinion or Mr. Jrisace P irk upon the ituitit, who concurring with the I.:ailed Judge directed an acquittal.— Verdict—N.it 4iotue. BOW STREET. NOVEL CA.4 or FONG Monthly evening. John I poke?, n 111411 I r p ortuil lo be living lib Colllllilerlithle niBUCIICM, and whn.e ir.ddruce iv in W04(1 runts, Ling.drie. %gas brum;lu brfutr Sir R. King's, In lIIe CUrnitly of $4l 11011, now of Ilse I+i inciprl otheri,.. 0:1 a WAIT4II I , cltais,:ell wills • iillrtitsg 44itl as Is tot a re s.ssis rsrvii.l or argouianee lOr Mucci, In thy astioi:nt sit I oi. I J •., r , -4 kiiss* ilia Ills 14.0 lit furi,td, %VALI wteul Lo slulisishl Wass Cl4l‘,d. The circumstances moiler which this prosecution art..' were as follows Clarke is a licensed victualler, and some considerable time ago lie employed Brookes, wllO, lie thought, was I • self an attorney, to recuver a summ er of debts for him. Among other persons whom lie star employed to sue was a man named Sntlierlandl, who sea r indeloird to Mr. Clarke in Ike awn of 151. lOC, and the latter having lir:scut that the money was paid, applied to Brookes fits it, bit was answered that he most look to his (Brookes's) employer for it, as he was only desk to a Mr. Isaacson, who was alone responsible. Mr. Clarke hail nit before heard of Mr. Isaacson, and said he employed Brookes, and Brookes only, and to him he should look [or the money. Bt nukes tensed to pay it, and Mt. (I n k, mitt red au Icetion against him; to a hieli lie pleaded, tii.; that he was hot lieble, ke being only tilt. clerk tt the et torney eitiployrd to sue for the dent ; and secondly, chat Cloche had received the money in dicers payinetits. Up on the. Blot of the cause in the Cum t of Common Pleas, te•- fore Mr. Jastire Pat k,lsaarson ars railed for the ileteoce, and snore that Brookes was his clerk only, and to esea- Wish the other plea of set-off, the instillment which eat the sidiject of the present charge was put in eviilelicii. It was a check neon Brookes's bankers, Messrs, 11011,„,11 and Stirling, for 101., and on the back of this appeared all endorsement of several items amounting exactly to 51. Ithi. which it was alleged was paid over to Mr. Clarke, and which, *jilt the check Itself, emonsited to the Sala sought In be recovered. Under this endorsement appealed the name Clarke;' written apparently as a receipt for the a hole . This 110(.1111101i was V ill ill anti felled ep os . by ti t ,• counsel for Brookes as a eimiplete aura, r to the claim of Mr. Clarke; but on the pact of the latti.r, it aas denied that he had ever received a shilling el the money, or had ever seen the check ; and it was declared that the signature" William Clarke" teas a forgery. The case a cut to the Jury, aOh an observation float the learned Judge alto tried it, that if they believed Ille 'moire to be genuine, there was an end to tile pinnuuJ 's demand. The Jury found for the plaintiff for the fed minium By an oversight, no application sets Ma'lC to Mil 111 w check, atal it N.V. It-mined into the lie,. s. Fill of Brookes. Subsequently, a rule nisi was obtained in the Common Pleas, calling upon Isaacson and it 'ono Ilaille'll Clarke, attornies (meter chose respc elk e names Brookes had practised), to show cause ally they should not be et rick off the rolls for permitting him to do se; and neon Brookes, why he should not be committed for a year to the Fleet, ler the act of parliament. for prat. Ill• not belie: an attorney. Mr. Clarke, iu his affi davit, in support of that rule, swore that his signature was forged, and that lie hail never seen the cheek in question, until it was produced on the trial. Mr. (Nal ke's attorney, anxious to get possession of this document, procured this attendance, by s 1111111 l ons, of Bioakes and the other panics before Mr. Justice Best, at his chambers, and upon a healing, the learned Judge ordered that a copy of the check Nomad be sent to 51r. Clarke's attorney the follow ing day ; and that by the nest Friday, Brookes slioold produce the check itself at the Judge ' s el:Ambers. Ott the Fiitlay. Brookes attended, and on being asked for Check, he said, " he had taken advice upon the mattes . , that he had been told he was ats kwardls si: tinted, and hat: been advised to destroy the check, and had destitsyrd it," or words to that effect. Application was then made to Sir R. Rhone and Mr. Halls to grant a warrant for forgury, boot it was objects-1 to, on the ground that it would be impossible to prove ohs: case Without the production of the document alleged to be forged. Mr. Hill s (:larke's attorney, however, con tended that it would be possible, and cured many cases in which it had been so decided, particularly one case whet it a man swallowed a 101. note which he was charged with forging. The note hail been presismsly int ntilied, situ upon the trial the case went to the Jury, and he was se • quitted, lint it was upon the mei its. Mu. 11111 having al.n obtained the opinion of Mr. Espinasse Ailu,pliiis in his favour. the warrant was panted. Mr. Hill now produced the copy of the check, whir!' was µrid to him troin Isaacson pursuant to order, and asked a young man named Tomer, w hit :slid lie was desk to Isaacson, if it 'Nisi. his ( I motet's) a ritioz. Turner said, allur numb hesitation, it looked like his writiog, bust lie did not recollect witting it. He was pressed hard by NH. Ili& but refused to give any tithe I answer. The copy was dated on the 1511 e of Jolty last. Brookes, in answer to the charge, denied that any I,r gery had been co 000000 ilted, and accused Mr. ILIA of gating this prosecution In avoid one which was anon! !.) be c •iteeit against himself for pettory, sit sweat isi4 upon the trial of the cause, that he (lit °okra) had made II cooties:atm (of what kind did nut appear) to lion at Ins own office, where he never was in his life. Thal prOacen thin, howev er, would still go on, in spite of tills proceed ing. As long as lie ( Itrookes) had a ginned. Mr. Hill bald the abuse of molt .1 inan as Brookes did hint howl. - r. He was all aid of no prosecution himself, and lie instituted this to rid SOCiely of a imisaitce with which it liati twirl so long pi Meted. If the iiia4istrate would commit the lit ibusier for re egaiiiiiialion, he pli dyed himself to bring forward evidence still r Conclusive than that already adduced, and a accuse of iniquity out often equalled would tie expo.eil to public view. A bill acknowledged by the olio k, Turner, to he a tilts it by I was produced, and Sir H. Hittite, Oil Cuisinarill:; it with the copy et the cheek, said they w. re crriasilly viral test by the sante prison. • Minikes submitted, that without the production of the due ttttt rut stated to be forged, the magistrate could lint conintit him. He also droned Ilia! he had said before Mr. Justice Best that he had di stotleti it. Mr. have swum you did, and I sitall-:nkinims the learned Judge himself to the Ohl Bailey to prose teat tact. Sir R. untie said he ehould commit the prisoner. of Brookes was accordingly comma:rod to the 11.diNe Cm - rectum fur furtlirr exit ttt itt Atom - MARYLEHONE OFFICE.. EITIta•ORDIN ARV CASK.— On Fr iday last a most cuttra °Military iiivesitgatiou took place at this u&ce, torture Is:. tit itti :is and J. Bass lisl.oli, EsitrA. tiie west -ling manias (rates on (tie bench. The paled:nil o:...cris at Niatylelitine had issued an older cut * Haiti& for mule cioiln ag..iust Joseph Wilfeed I'4l kiss, tau Whiniest Milli .'ii. • 110, tile solicitor,and two le.lies, foiss wog disputod 111 e chin ge made against him. ' lie parochial elite's liii.twg pet n, site elialliiiialioll the leusaie and the usual ostiet•, stir hasiug lirCullie Caul gedule the parish, son the ina• gistratis haring mast these, pi ueee,eCil u. 1.1.4 J csaillin•li tttt . Bann:ill Waite, ti•e young wutna.s. LI calls .1 540 poosesse4 a mast ill:S.:es:Avg rppcalantr,Oda out being sworn, she pu.i..cui ont 7h.. :at sat .i.ti Wil IpC failier of tat; ltaitil siez held !pa our.; **so ~V-~--~ ~:•~;. .