The National Register. — London, England, 1818-08-30 00:00:00

eormrr A4SIEEB. LANCASHIBE, Ammar 21. COLD MURDIDt.—Mary Yates. ages AL was Charged with the 'milder of her female bastard child at Great Eliesheth Oreetiash keeps the Irani public house in Botion. 'flit prisoner cause to her Orifice In • Febreaty last, aildNeas thee siupeeted Of pregnancy, tintlettied it. On the 6th of NO she rsi at Sin the morning. At 9 else came up stairs to a•sist witurss on with her clothes. She saw no difference in Ler appeal mice. The prisoner being asked if die had any questions to put, wept. and. entreated his Low *ship to be counsel for her. James Booth, the hostler, - /tat been called up by the priso ner at half-past son the 6th of Mar. When he came down she lay forning on a table in Ihi kitchen; tend 'seemed very r eedy. She went mit afterwardsi•aed stayed ontabont three. quiselert of an hoot mini in, and began to wash as usual. Oss Sitturday. the 9th, he went Into the club-room, and saw a child lying en the Isole . (ine side of the grate). He went dowq frighteiled • others eatui nrwith him : it was a child vvrept fn alt 'OM' bert-iown ; lee Was'isi•frighteded be went ass 6901 re Peeling exitinined the - child. It wal aithlate ehild, Mr. Jaunt., Platt, smite,' tvoe coped Oct, the Oth qf Itlay . to eianitne child, took the chilff Opelne6thq chest, and esainited the Wogs. Tilt rnilgs appealed. perfectly' soiled. 'they floated on **ten %Ana is a plaid' they hod : eir in. thee: by t he kegs floating, and no putrefaction having tSteen plate, Le slippiest:l that the child had breathed after its birth. It wae,oome to full maturity. He had no doubt that if the child Lack h.een wrapt lu the cloth after ate birth, it would have oe• easioned its dea!h. The prisoner said to hint the child was Bet's, that it was burn at Miff-past 6 on Wednesefity meriting, the oth r is the club-room, bill that it was not burn alive. He bettered it had died of litnierthage, the naval not having Legit tied. ' The prfsmier, 'when called nponTew hoe:Aefenee, cried mit, andwith ditfieultj said the elillff,Weeficirn dead. • .;131 41,4111, 1 11 1). 14 summing ,a !he .eeideare. said, that a. ti!e. As 3. of Parliament which made the..rougeittiog. of tho bath evidence of murder had been. repealed, the Jury must acquit bee of the nuteleirre but the Ara allowed' them to find her guilty of concealing the birth.—Not guilty of the soaks —.Canny of ouiscoaliMeitheeblieliV: • ••• • • --Mary Boil ie r e g bil 21," : aldod.leiefk hie young Jiontan,' was cheer(' oliti‘theMlefel elt uetroteittotaid oak!, at Maneeester. ;.. .. yr, • • John Booth bought the DX/lint - at the prisoner's father's house,.of the prisiegt„ Meechester.. She tired with - her lather, entinierrie4. l reamed; to carry I/ .away uu Tuesday the 30th. There is Abler from the. inieldea stead comesoni kiting with the 'smote Therierteursmothersnidelest adjulnine. Be. &anti a rilittipktillp water theprivy sees-belonging tit the priminees ;ether, They celled upon-the prisoner to cbrive and look at it. having washed it end laid it in the plain,. She said the hole was' always open, and perhaps it had come from Salford or any other part of tbe'ranoi. They had better bury it, and say nothing about 11".• The hole Wes the wiedew by which ashes were thrown in. Any one might thew." in - their ashes; but the child could not have been thrown in by an 4 outer way than the privy seat, while the ashes were so bight as he' found them. Ha took the child to the police office. Mr. 'Thomas Oilier. surgeon, examined the child on Tues. day, the 3Ullsofitaly. Titers were no smirks of violence. It was a full-erowis child, and from all the appearances collec tively, he Was of opinion that it had been born alive. It was free from putrefaction; it could not have been there more thou two or three days. The navel stag was not tied. He esantleed the prisoner, and was convinced she had recently been delivered of a child. She said she had been delivered, bat the child Had never cried. All the symptoms from which he Judged may oreasionilly tide He waS of opinion that it bad died from loss of blood : all the irlbed - vestela *ere empty. Mrs. Mary Tipping, a neighbour of the prisorier, bid heard on Wednesday, the :Ath of June the cry of a new-born child from the necessary. Sloe was at the back part of her win house, about five yards from the place. Mr. Oilier was of opinion that the child could not have been there six days • it would have been putrid. Not Gnilty Of the inurder—Onilty of concealing the birth. Both the above prisoners were sentenced to imprisbenient for six months. BURGLARY AND ROaDaßY.—Williaon Stanley, aged Is, was charged with hating burglariously entered the house of :seism.) Clarke, at Preston, aud golen gold amid silver colus and Bank of England notes to the amount of SW. lhomas Clarke is in partnership with his bruthei, Mr. Sa mnel Clarke. 14 *Oblleiedruper, in Preston ; Joseph, his brother, and Elizabeth ' his sister, live with Samuel. On Wednesday, the Bth of April, lie had in his care eiVetards of 301.; It was in his care as Treasurer of the Bible Association. It was contained in a small canvas bag, in a drawer, in the shop, under some books, not locked sip. There Were a 101. note, a SI. note, small notes, awl about nine }primes in gold. There wet betides some silver in a desk, among which were some Note papers and menneundnols ; 10s. Gil. were upon the desk. 110 saw that money on Wednesday element', the flth of - April. Next morning he missed the whote of the mo ney. He received from his :nether Joseph a pair of shoes, a towel, Mill two small pieces of soap, which he delivered in the 3:111111e state to Walton, the constable. Joseph Clurkh Misted in 'hotbox np the shop on the Bth of April, between 7 and 8; went to chat eb, and I comic', about 9 every thing apponred safe. They had some supper, and afterwards went to bed. The door into Ore yard was locked, the other doors were all baited and locked. They left the table-cloth, but tiO sapper things on the table. He was first un mist morning; it was about 6, and open day.tight, Th e key was gone from its place, and he found the oilier door Picked, bit the bar shot back. Under the window outside, in the VArd, found a pair of ebt shoes; both had hay in them, but the right more than the other; they were rather wet ; it had rained that night. He foetid a good deal of the wmilow taken oat, quits enough to admit a man. Under the window lie also found a towel, with two pieces of soap. In sole the house he found, near the kitchen time, a pair of gr iy ...Mon stockings, very ditty in the teen, with large holes, mid appeared as if striped by a pair of blue truss sers, and marked with a letter S. near the top On the supper table was a can. ii;e, 'stitch he had the slight before put on a shelf. It bad been viliii:e the night bc(oi , and now it was nmele spent. He found MI the tit.le bread, parts or some 1.11 ts, part of a bottle of a me, the tetnaina of route cheese, kWu es and forks, nod klates. There was the al.pearance of mine 111411 one having een there. Two rains weir on the table, the pro perty of the witness, which lie had used the morning before, and len ou a very high shell iu the pantry : the shop door into Cie street was uubatred , lie gave thy stockings to Rigby, a constable. TUE NkTIONM. nEMSTrit The declaration of the priso:rcr before dr magistrate was put in and lead. It pay a minute account of his movements trout the 22t1 of Nlarth, when he had been discharged Irma the House of Corieetion, to the` 12th of May, when he was takeu into custody. He had been in Ilverpool iri the mean time, an ott•patient in the infirmary. James Sirlith, of Prtston, saw the prisontt on the Silt of April, who applied for labour, which wltnesti was to give him; but refitserl, on learning that he had hrett in the Mese of Cori. ertion ; he ordered hint out of the home at 7 in the morning. He hail on light•colomed trastsers striped with blue. His shoes were patched. Hr has eeen them sifter. A daughter of the lest witness saw s the ptisoner in her fa• ther's absence going tip and down a ladder. He had on a pair of light stockings, one of them lieving t hole on the heel. There was a small topple (a patch) upon the heel of one of the shoes. foleN Smith Paw the prisbter pull' off one Olds shoes; there was sonic hay in It. She saw a tower In his hat. She opened it out ; the-re was nothing in it. Walton produced the shoes, the to*el, and the lito pieces of soap, which were identified as those tionnd in Mr. Clarke's and the slMes sod tuned were identified as those seen With the prisoner at Smith's High) , prirthicei! the stocking*. which were Identified as those found at the kitchen fire-side, and as those worn by the priAetlet when !toilet! lip the (adders He also stated that tire' (orisondr - has his right foot greamoe cut off. In the part of t le stocking ecortespooding was a piecear cerron,, Mid a quantity of hay was Nand in the riglirshoe to fill ep the as' cancy, Jaittes Hallett, innkeeper at Liverpool, saw the pristine!. a forbitglit before dictatr races, which began in the Sett week in May. He changed a 101. note for him. He also saw a 51. note 'with him. He bortglit new clothes while there. Thomas Ittrratt, a constable, apprehended the prisoner on the 31st of May, at' Bolton. In his pocket he found a piece of paper, containing- a memorandum of clothing. Salmi. I Clarke proved the paper to Se iu his hand-writing. He believed it had Vren in the desk in Ole shop, but could nut swear to it. It had been written mote than 8 years. Prisoner in his defeftce said, " Please. my Lord, I know nothing of the shoes no more than you, my Lord: nor of the robbeil ; and Al for the shoes, I could not wear suds a pair of biloe :4 ' for the world, my Lord." HI Lordship ordered the shoes to be tried to his feet. The prisuher bitaLled mightily at this operation, and at last pre sented' his foot to the Judge and jury, giving a history otitis having been'etonnded atilt taketrPrisuntr of war in hie hlajes ty's service. Rigby repriered, that the left shoe Went on'very easily, but the right would hot go on with the hay, and on account of the stidnegs et this leather. The bay rolled up and prevented its going on the root. It had been wet when found, and it would easily go out if wet, or as it *as, without the Its; Mr. Addison; the counsel for the priomeutiOn t applied for some remuneration to the ptoseceter allure the ordinary costs, as the expenses had been very great, and the late Act had abo. fished rewards. His Lordship said, it was net in his power to give extraor dinary costs: He allowed the expenses of the apprehension besides the ordinary costs. HIGHWAY it 011BVIY. —Win. Heap, ages 17, and Jacob Ratter, aged 22, were cliartt with having rCbbed Thomason, on the Kiag, l s tligh*ny, at Al anchestcr, ofa pocket, book containing 531. in flank of Englund notes. . • It appeared that Thomason, the proseeator, had absconded en Wednesday last, and being now called on his recognizance, lie tailed to cppear still the prosecution went on. John Lrool.s , a watchman, whose beat was Hanover.street, Mancliestur.sawHeap on the SJ uf..!tme walking Side by side with Thon:ason. There were other pereens with them. He snw Heap again to custody that night. They had walked b, the Pipe entry. James Andrews saw Heap in the morning after in custody. He told Heap that thee had been robbing a man in the Pipe entry. Heap said l:e had been with none but a girl. He saw him again next day. He said to witness, Mr. Derby shire being present, " I should have told about the robbery '--hat morning, only the watchman used were so roughly." Being asked where lie had seen the old ma first, he said he was sitting tip In some rood near Mill's-lane, and asked to be put on the way to Pendleton. They agreed, P. Hardy and Bona,' g ot hold of him us ' the arms, lie and Jacob Butler fol lowed b ehind ; when they got to an entry, in Hanover.street, Hardy and Bullet wanted to take him tip the entry, bat the old man would hot go. They took him down into the Pipe enity, then lie (Heap) saw WllO they were for, and told them if they did rob him, he would tell of them. He steed at the end of the entry, and saw them all three running out, and heard P. Hardy say to Butler, thou host got it, and we'll have it whatked (divided) fair." Witness wen; after• wards after Butler to Liverpool, iiVit took him there. He had known his perseh very well. Butler gave his name John Buckley, his trades weaver, and the place lie had come from was Bury, and said it was a fortnight since lie wss in Man chester. This was . on the lth of Juno. Witness {aid, " your name is Jacob Butler, yonr father is a batter, and lives in Manchester ; I • have come for you for robbing that old 111.111 in the Pipe entry, and I Want the Money." He found three notes anti halt a note in his fob, another in ano ther packet and some silver. Witness said, " neap says it was you that rock the book." Butler relied, 't He is a liar it was he that took it, I sow him take some notes out of it. rind the book into 1" pigsty ; we were so close pursued that he threw the miles into a privy : I stopped, am , Pre tended to knock at a door as if I lived there ; the watchman asked me what I was doing tint, and I salt 1 we locked out. A 4 soon as the watchnian wn gone by t I went back to the privy, and took as twiny noted as I could; if yon look at those notes you hove taken aline, you will hull they ore privy notes." Betio' did not kuow whet stopped the old mans! mouth, he did nothing but hold the laps of his Coilt. 'The declarations of the priemerii were now read. They were to the saute effect as the evidence above given. Mr. Williams, who was Connsel for Heap. against Whom even hi* own confes,ion did not admit guilt, begged to urge for Butler, tl al, not t7minsct for Dim, that there was never an instance of conviction where the Clrpor rtrlictf wee nut proved. There vt tv loom mi cvf,ll nee that tinge had been a robber cat all; and he i.efer►ed to the authority of Lord E lellhorongh, when ou this circuit, that a bnrgl.u•v lutist be proved before a confession call convict of barglatl. Mr. Baron —Well. lamof a (lifer - et opinion After a lung examination of the diselaratMes and evidence, his I....rashly said, that if there was a complete confession he should hold it siittirient, blit it appeared serydeivetive. wiiS not sufficient legal evidence ; the confession of one can. not affect the other, and none confesses that he committed the felony .—Not . AUG. 30 MONDAY; Ave. 24. Mr. Herod Wood left Lancaster . yesterday wining. Before his departute he reprieved all the airmen, condemned to death. It is re. marked as new and ertraordinary, that , none eiould bo left in Lan caster for execution. ThACJEEKAY v. 811/.IItALL. Mr. Barlett said, in the case, the plaintiff was an' officer and a gentleman. He lived in Ashton-under-Line. He happened on ifui 20th; of May to hare gone Into the Crown inn there. when the defen dant treated him in • manner which has oer.tsioned this action. It is - properly suggested to me that he could not have been in u temp r terquarrel. for he had been returning from a zharity concert, where his soul had been soothed to soft sounds, and melted to deeds of &a rfty. Mr. Bramall thought proper'w say to Mr. Wyche. in allusion 0 Mr. Thackear. " I don't care a d—n fo, you or your bully." An officer who would not resent language like the was not worthy atlas regimentals. Mt. Thackcray did resent it. Starting as he did taste in a cturt of justice, he could not approve of a challenge to anyfer soma combat. ilut the defendunewould hare no challenge but a battle of haidicuffs. It Certainly was-no imputation upon the hon,ue or courage of his client that. inferior in size and strength as he was, he destined this contest. The defendant said that he assisted in par.' ing the plaintiff's half.pay: Not reelly. without entering intriary politicit questiina. the officers of oar army appeared to have dor e• their duty; and no officer of spir!t c0u.1,1 bear such language. The defendant then pinioned lam up against Ole stall, and applied the mast opprobrious terms to the plaintiff. Pindirg that he had re netnia means of mike. the pinlnteff has been obliged to apply to ;04. Okla:Den, not ftur ch 4 mages. for that is not his object. but te r amis. friction to his insulted•lnhour. An apology, even at this tuomebt. "eeeetei Ise Mr. Topping Topping wattle agree to a yeebal apology, but would not can sent to pay the expenses. 'l l fe trial therefore went or. Joel Hawkhcre came into the Crown inn. in Ashton-tinder - 4.1ne l on the 49th of May, together with Shaelieray, a half•pq officer in the army. The landlord was writing while Mr. Bramall was saying. as if Merging, " a fair trotting match." Mr. Wyche was setting' with them. Mr. Thackeray sat beside Wyche, and began a whit. p ring. eenve:sation. Mr, Wyche refused to sign the paper. Mr. eiramall addressed him :--e" you are ad--d puppy ;.1 , 11 knock your head and your butty's together." He did not know what busty meant. Mr. Thsckeray asked if he meant Mtn, and called for an explanation, which Mr. Braman refused, but only by doing what bb had saki (knocking their heads together.) Mr. Thackeray Said, " Give me lease' to tell you, you are a (1-4 impertinent puppy." After reciprocal termhof abloe, Mr. Bramall said, " What see you ? You are only a half pay officer, and 1 assist in paying you !" and he thvestenol to knock him dawn, if hb did not expiala what he had said; he then knocked his hat off. Hard lanirtange was again re turned on both sides. The plaintiff again cled him an impertinent puppy, and said, if he could swallow that he nriiiit swallow any thing. The defendant thtesitened to put him out of the room, and reared him up sgainet the tad'. The Defendant is stout and niucii the stronger Iran. lie tore the plaintiff's shirt. 'Vie plaintiff com phdned that he bad been throttled. On his cross-examination by Mr. Topping, he said it was ahnot one in tht inorninre The plaintiff sas not suite sober; the dci a. dant was worse. nutty meant a kind of assistant. " Monkey, puppy, poltroon," were said and exchanged. He could not say its to "blackguard." They did r.ot sit above an hour and a-half. It was all ale they drank. Air. 'Topping, in Me address to the jury, said, that no Court Cr jury wee ever insulted by a canse so frivolous, so perfectly ridicu lous. He clied upon them to discourage such applications for da mages, by giving their verdict for the defendant, or at host by give ing one farthing damages. Whether this gentleman was is the array or not, he knew not: it was not in proof before them. Verdict for the plaintiff: Damages One Farthing--Costs On e Farthing. Mt. Justice Bayley.—Gcntlernen, you have foeand.a very proper estimate. CCIIOIsIER'S INQUES'rS Noisition as taken on Thursday, befrre Thomas Shelton. Ear. at Guy's flospi•eil, on the body of Thorn Cullen, about 11 years of who dit4 from the effect of the explosion in the Wesz. minster Ronal. Mr. Johnson Meilekten, Surgeen of Cuy's liaspial, deposed. that the deceased was brought there on 'Thursday evenirig, the ?nth inst. etiout 6 dreacliblly burnt over his head, face. arms. chest, end other pans of the body 4- the usual rereediee were applied until Wednesday neerning about 6 o'clock, when he died : ins death was occasioned by the burning. William Randle, servant' to Mr. MortrAm. Westminetor Road, manufacturer of tire works for Vauxhell 'Gardens, being sworn, stated, that or. Thursday evening. the eeth inst. he left the deceased and two others, who were in the employ of Mr. Mertram, in the workshop where the Seta works were manufactured, employed in making up diftlrert devises of rockets ; one of there was pounding saltpetre. aeother was charging rockets. and the deceased was asleep in the none room ; about halt' an hear afterwards he was at Vauxhall Gar dens, and was there infutined that his master's shoe, was on fire there was about solo. weight of gunpowder on the premises, the whole of whioh had exploded. The thovc *liner: was the last person who am the deemed. and the other persons who are injured. The jury said, that it was im possible In come en a satisfeetery eonchssion - how the 'explosion was caused, without better evidence. The coroner inquired of the su if it was possible to take a deposit4en from the deceased's flellaw aufferers, (John Nash% a boy, And James Wig:ell), who aro in the . hospital The Coroner was informed, that the boy, Nash, was in such a state that he could not articulate, his face being turned too shocking tc describe. Wigzell was able to speak; but it was io ps-. siblo to atle:laister an oath to hint, his hands being bound up with cloths. He was able to say, that the explasiter cots ACCidra.4 l ; is was carssed by Nash charging a rocket, which 110 rammed down with a stick so eNeessively hard and quick, that the friction produced cxplosior, which cdmmunicated to the realer and flreiwonks. and set the building en fire. The jury wcro present in the ward *tits Wigeell made the above statement; having returned to the committee nemn, immediately gave a verdict of... Accidental ()cull. On Tuesday 411 inquieftion was held hi the Board room of Clerkens workhoure. before Mr. Stirling, one of the Coroners for the • mini ty of Middlesex, eel make inquiry into the cause of the deadref Joseph Wells, aged 30 years. It appeared from the evidence of tit* different witnesses exardlned, that the deceased hall been abserreil for ahnut a fortnight before his death, mostly lying amongst the old wooden water pipes in Spa richla; his wretched and deplorable situa tionat length attracted the notice of Bottle ltonntne passenger, who bad observed him lying in the same situation for some Masiderable time ; and, on going to him and making inquiry, found hi had not broken his fast for three deer; M was then so very feeble. for Vent of food and hiring enposed to the weather. that he was tumble en move, and with difficulty cemid 'peek. information being given so the parish beadle. lie wits carefully removed to the aorkhos.aa, where he was washed and cleaned from the long accumulation of fit h up% his reale, then put into a good bed, and Mr. Spencer, of I 4ing • ton Road, surgeon, gent for, who prescribed every necessary tn. &eine. and every thing was done for his comfort that could possibly. he All the irTonnatien that could be obtained from him was his nun and age, and that lie had hewn a miler. and fought and bled for its entintry. Nature being too far exhausted, he lingered until Monday morning, when he expired. Prom Mr. Spencer's evidence. he gave it as his opinion that he died from want. The Jury, after the .trier 't examination of the diffirent witnesses, returned a verdict, that ha " Died from starvation or want." To-morrow is appointed for the execution of the tollom tog tisilortlm4l.. eri 000 o ial., vim Vil'lMl 111 the IWO Gluldfo, a sizes,vit. W. NVetil, for forgs. W. Cuuk, fur tatrglari ; had W. Palk, fur a lihe (Arm:v. • mh•N