The National Register. — London, England, 1818-07-26 00:00:00

'T.Y S 6 the stolen money was not the property of Mary fiteevens the elder. This doubt was, however, altogether removed by the cirenmatanca of the indictment cont.numg 'smother count, in which it was laid : LI the property of the c'filolren : Arne:that. the Intl' or had died intesta:e or not, the vethal declaration by he in!routy.l the money in question to her wit.: vested it either in her or lon. children. The free. bold tenement necessarily belonged to them. An attempt had been made tc discredit her tatimony, by showing the. if the money was tier own, she must have falsely sworn that she was not worth five swum's, that being required by law to be done. before a person can rce lye parish relief. This, hawever,‘vas a form net always ob serve d, and the probability was, that the witnev, who igrowant of the amount of the money, consideNd it as belonging to lter children ra ther than to hersoq. There was smother circumstance, • also, to be -taken into eontineration, that of her having a woman quartered on her by the parish, for whose maintenance it might be diet the weekly allowance was alinink:ercal. The ream point, therefore, in this tat ;02, relo.rred to the question of identhy ; and it was • for the .lary to con sioter, whether a variety of corresponemg circumstance_ might not o establish as firm a conviction of the truth, as the moat direct evidence and whether the fingerof Providence did not peint out tne prisoner as the man who had committed the robbery to r i ttcation.—Verdict— Vaiilty—Death. The-business on the Nis! Pr;us side terminated this morning, one can;.: alone remaining for trial. It related.to a qumtion of right of fshery, which eta'. been before tried, and was of no general interest. Mr. Henry Hutu, the Westminster candidate, was the principal . witness. EiSEX. ertKLIISFOIP.U, JULY 21. The Assixes fur this county commenced here yesterday, with the visual ceremony of opening the commission and at. s endiii Divine Worship. jr.N Jastice Abbott presiil ed . iA the Crown Court, and Mr. Sergeant Lens in the Civil -cohort. 'lll,s criminal calendar contains 75 eases, few of which are Morked by singular depravity, and on the N•si Puns tide these were 72 causes entered for trial, but theca were", .aearly 10 venires. AlsastatVaiten.—liVin. Price, a yonog man of mild 4 , , -prepossessing appearanc ,e was indicted , for feloniously kill ing and •layiag Robert Horseman, at Ws thainstow, on c o . 22d Match It apveared that a number of 'ming peoolr of btu-. •se.xes beiiig p ,•-rut, they joined in a donee to the anoxic et, one of Ilse ,tarty who cotitil play the linte. Som. offence having-been elfin by the deer:mil to ' lc hale Cowin of tile prisoner, the latter. resented it with all the gallantry nevi.... ing the sinnatinaiii which he was placed, as the peoiecior his rel itive, when some high words passing, the iorisimer ua • incited +; the challenge of the deceased to settle the ma ie.° in a broising match. Toe 4irisoiser refused for some time iietermine the affair in this man ter ; but the first ml e n ci .. being aggravated by personal ig.11.41!44 , t of.iu ligis ty he ae. •eeptesi the challenge, 44 , 1 the coinb itatiti adjourned to the •yarit of the pliblic house to fight it out. The landlord, how ever, refosed to permit the contest tieing deteri»med on his -premises ; 110.1conseptently the combatants am! their seconds' crossed the riser Lee, anal there the e 4 ht proceeded in (low, form. After a 1114Ilio which Lusted item ly 411 hour, in %valets both combatants received some dreadful blows, the deceased -fell sensele,s to the zround, ut consequence of a finishing' blow from his antagonist. He was carried off th • groom', .and not witlistaiiiiing.every effort to restore him, he expired in -a quarter of en hoar. fhe witnesses for the prosecution admitted that the, pri soner was a very peaceable and inoffensive young man, and that his conduct an the ground seas perfectly fair, he himself having received a dreadful beating. A surgeon was ex. ' ed, who states! that the deaths of the deceased was, produced from a Mow on one of the jugular veins, widish causing an extravasatiou of blood on the brain, extinguished the vital spark. The cast', under the direction of the learnedindge, went to the jury.; who lewd the prisoner Guilty, and lie was sentenc ed to tour inentlis'imprisonsur at in the county:gaol. CIVIL SIDE. FITCH V. W I NG. Sent:cm:v.—This was an action bronlit by the plaintiff, a butcher, residing at 'teflon Bitin.tead, in this county,. against the defendant, a maltster, of small property, for the seduction of the plaintiff's daughter, pi' quod scruitium The case, as stated by Mr. Marryatt for the plaintiff, and as developed by the cross e,sainination of Mr. Gurney for the . defendant, was this:—The lady ill question, z.nymph of thirty two years of age, bad received the addresses of the' defendant for more thaitfonr years. The courtship had been ~ :arried on with much ardour, both at the house of the lady's .father, and that of her uncle, and she had been suffered to sit up with her lover after the f had retired to rest, par ticularly at the !softie of the former. Miele she admitted that reciprocal familiarities had taken place to almost every ima ginable extent. These liberties, -however, had passed after a promise of marriage had been given ; and the result of the. amour being a fine buy, the present action was bronght for its support, and the loss ut its parent's services to her father. The uncle -of the lady being interrogated by Mr. Gurney, to the defendant's property, stated, he had uo more in the world than the coat on his back. After Mr. Sergeant Lens had summed up the evidence to the Jury, they founts vcrdict fur the moges 1301. WEDNESDAY. Henry Wilson was indicted under Lord r_llenboroaeb's act for maliciously shooting at James Gilder, oil the loth of March last, at Deptleu, in this county. The prisoner in this case was shoemaker by trade, bat xuspccied of pouching and making free with nuir!try. 'l he prosecutor is a labouring man, working with a Air. Leverton, and he gave the following account of the transaction ;—That be had jest finished his work about six o'clock, and was stan.4:►g near a tree in the hedge of the field where he had been working, when he heard the report of a gnu, and heard sonteihing coin: whizzing past his head like the whizzing of a ball. He turned sound and looked towards the place the re port came front, when he saw a man just at the edge of a little coppice wood, an lie inrinethately ran into it. 'fire man had on a light frock-and light breeches. and he thought at the time it was the prisoner, kat lie did not see hint sufficiently near or distinctly to be certain of it ; lie then turned round to look at the tree, and lie found a small groove on the side of Use tree next him, which had the appearance of being struck by a ball. He told it to several per sons, and a few di:ys after.. wards the prisoner was apprehended. John Bowled was next ex. • I, as to expressions of ill will used by the prisoner against the prosecutor. He said lie bad /:.it A cunsc►aatian N ith the prisoner about Gildees stop. Ping hum One %nue...) out passing through a close, and exam ining hi. tissue'. The priioner said be.wiblied Gilder would stop hue. He would have his head knocked off before he would suffer it, and that he would _give It to the prosecutor before long. NATIONAT, It was also stated by another witness, that on the day Gilder was shot at, the pi islner 11.1(1 said ilia liewouW -give him some pepper and salt before • The Rev. ITr. Gee examined the place n few days after tverds. The prosecutor ',hewed him Ilitt <1 t where lie wus standing., 1111t1 the place where then• were mails of 4 man having been on his knees from whence the shot Was fired. Three witnesses for the prituner proved that he w•os at home at his lodging f:ent 5 to 7 on the evening of the trims :tenon. The Jury fonnd the prisoner —Not G!.;lty. Thomas Smith, a young man aged 20. was indicted for n highway rolthere on the sth of at the pa ri,h a Barking, and robbing William Haydon of 1.. 4 . in silver. The facts, as srate.i by Mr. I Ly4;:ni and others, were, that on the evening of I. iclo;t -air, Illyden, a 1:o and a Mr. Jones, with three young ladies. ogi; t era of one of - them, were returning front Fe!i;up Fair. .1 gang of iJ or 12 persons appezred to be following them, ;::nong %shorn the prisoner was one ; and as Mr. Jones was behind tbe ot hers of his party, and near the gang, he overheard litt'la say they wontii rob his friends. He Lainediately joined them, and gave the information, when they determined not to go on further from the fair, as they would be more out of the way of assistance. The prisoner and his gang then CAM! up , and 3 or 4 collared Haydon and demanded his money ; they threw him down, and got the silver out of his pockets; hut this was not done without resistance, for the prosecutors and his friends fought, stontly. The women screamed --the prisoner was knocked down, and upon assistance approaching, all the party escaped, except the prisoner—he got up and ran away, but was closely pursued; he took to a heetianear the ' fair, whirl; he entered. and was immediately apprehended. His person was positively identileils The Jury found him Guilty. THURSDAY. _ GROVE V. HARDMAN. _ Mr. Gurney stated thatthi;Wast;at;li;na4.,ainst the defendant for seducing the plaint:lra daughter. The leading circumstances of which were as follow :—The plaintiff was a respectable farmer, now in decayed circumstances. residing ,tt Watley, in this county, act! the defendant had been a captain in the tnth fon, a middlcil aged man of forty, and some years since had married a telt. of considerable fortune. with whom, it seemed, he had lived fora short tone, not in tuts octet perfect state of connubial felicity. and the gentleman was now left in posses don of an elegant establishment of house and do meetitw. the result of his -fortunate alliance. It appeared that the plait:an& at the time of the unfortunate affair in question, was un kaiown to the defendant, and consequently neither had seen the other at their hotms respectively. The unfortunate acquaintance .svhich led to the seduction of the plaintiff's daughter cormrenced by the casual civilities arising from the lady and the 'defendant frequenting the same church. In the result, an intimacy was formed. which ended in the seduction of Miss Grove, and the birth of a child. It wax pressed as a circumstance of aggravation on the pert .of the de fendant, that the seduction was effected at a time when the plaintiffs daughter was lebonring under a state of mental derangement. In the statement of the case, it was admitted that before the acquaint anceship of the defendant with Miss Grove, the latter had the misfor tune to experience an intercourse with another person, who had ac complished his object by violence. Criminal proceedings had been adopted towards that perm, but the cause of injury having been compromised by a suitable compensation, those proceedings were dropped. Miss Grove, whoasapeared to be a young woman bordering open thirty, stated all the circumstances of the defendant's courtship, and her final ruin. On her cross-examination she stated, that on c.ne tr.-asion she re. ceired a pound note from the defendant, in chinch ; atd on another. that she received two bottles of Cape Madeira in the same place, which she afterwards drank in her .own chamber. _ _ Mr. 3larryat addressed the jury with considerable ability and em phasis, on the part of the defendant, coutet..iing. under the circum stances of dhe case, that there could be no diflirulry in sNi.icing a lady who had gone through the ordeal of a previous violation, which }null:ever been pumihed with the severity of the law. The Jury. under the learned Judge's direction, a 5^..1 . ..:t for the plaintiff—Damages 2501. POLICE. GUILDHALL. Tuesday John Aldin, a watchman of St. Dunstan's, Fleet• street, and Mary Anderson and Sarah Taylor. two common prostitutes, were brought up for re examination before Mr. Alderman Wood, charged upon suspicion of being concerned in a most atrocious highway robbery. The facts of the ease were briefly these:—A respectable young man, uawvd Basset was in Ship-yard, Temple-bar, at an early hour on Friday morning, somewhat intoxicated, and while standing there he was attacked by three or four women of the town-and two men, Ivy whom he was severely beaten.-- Among these women were the two female pritaineis, who were mostactive io the attack ; and S. Taylor struck him with such violence with some instrument as to cause the blood to gush from his eyes.and month in torrents.• He puraned the WOITIaII Taylor into Fleet•street, and. here he was again attacked by her and companions, and beaten almost senseless. Ey asks perate effort lie succeeded in extricatieg himself from their grasp, and the prisoner Aldin coming up, he desired him to take charge of the womau .Taylor. Instead, however, of doing this, he seized.hold oftlm prosecutor, and iti,coninaction with the gang, dragged him up Bell-yard, and while the pros times and the two men were busy in rifling his pockets, Aldin struck him several blows with .a bludgeon in the face, and on the breast.' In this period the prosecutor was robbed of a 51. and a 11. note w!th a quantity of silver. The work of ' plunder having been completed, the prisoner, Taylor, turned to Aldin, and : gave charge of Mr. Basset for assaulting her.— Aldin immediately seized him, and with the assistance.of the gang by whom he had been rubbed, dragged him along the street to St. Dtinstan's watch-house, whiuse tlic constable of the night took the charge from Mrs. Taylor, and the prosecu. for still bleeding ill a dreadthl manner, awl completely ex hausted from the beating he had received, was looked np for the night. He was, on the. following day, brought before Alderman Wood, who, upon hearing his tale, ordered him to be taken from the bar, and the three prisoners to take his place. His statement was furtt►er corroborated by a Mr—and Mrs. Hatdaway, two respectable persons, who were going to Covent•garden market oe the morning in question, and were induced to fellow the prosecutor and the gine, by seeing the blood upon the pavement. They spoke particularly to the conduct of the two female prisoners and that of Aldin. The latter prisoner, on the present occasion, brought fir• ward two persons to speak in his behalf; but their testimony I tended rather to his crimination than otherwise. _ _ . • ........ _ ....... Mr. Basel, the prosecutor, attended, and repeated his former statement, without a single variation. He was still in a very faint state, and wore a shade over his eyes. Mr. Alderman Wood, after hearing the whole of the evi -1 dciacc recapitulated by the diliercut INitneues, SAW he at :: .. 9 dearly of opinion that the twee prisoners h I should -e emir Hall mid Zola' Hooper were brought in i l l f cd i.,... f0 a r the felo a v n . . Robert y sso oiEcere of Qureussre)r- s before the litting Magistieie .. r.. • i ., charged on suspicion with being the perpetram. ". 'a' tensive robbery in the 11011 S.• of Mr. John Worcester (.hoe flier, salesman, in West Smithfield. The following were the circumstances of the ease as detailed by the prosecutor and two young femnles, sisters to the prisoner Hod: - One of the sisters, Hannah Hall, lived as servant with the prosecutor, who, on Sisielay morning last, went out early, leaving her in care of the house, o nit permissiou to invite het sister to spend the day with her. !le bed several times es . Ill'eSoy fOrbithiell the brother tu come to Cie house, as lie HAS :Mlle of the eery had character he bare. The two sisteis were sitting in the house -together, when about three!' o'clock, the bell rung, and Hannah, upon open ing the door, found it to he her brother. The other sistet ; lit ir-iug his voice, and v. ishieg to avoid him, ran to another them, but was afterwards induced to come into the .itcheu and speak to him. He seemed much altered in his behaviour ; • and in a very affectionate manner begged pardon 'Or forkwr • misconduct towards them, and Patilaall said she wo o ed •ge.t, some punter, but could not leave tlia house. The prisom r then ofiered to go, and took the key of the front door. !le returned after an absence of a few mine tes, and (Idled front ' the top of the stairs —" Herniate do you want any bread !"-- She replied in the negative ; and, alter rsinaining about a ' minute at the top of the stairs, lie came down, !aid the key of the street door upon the table, and seated himself in stud) ..a position against the kitchen door, that no person cook' „ass without his rising; and continued conversieg for some •11111,. in a manner highly pleasing to his ekters, who imagined him to be completely retortned. After a lapse of sho u t twenty minutes, he rose and observed that Mary sterned uneasy, and he supposed it was becanse he was there. He would therefore leave them, and saluting them very affectionately, he went ewe of the way up stairs, but returned. Mary tirea attempted to pass hitii, but he prevented her. Alter a sting gie,'however, she got up stairs to Mrs. Chandler's room. %%here she found all the drawers open. The other cisterns the interim came no,.and finding [sl' street door open, called out that she was mimed fire ever, and attempted to run rp th - • hersister. Her brother, bower/. r, begged " for God's sake she would not, for she would be murdered." She replied she did not care, amid running up the stairs, and from one room to ' :moth r, she discovered that every drawer and cupboard :n the lion.e had been forced open and stripped of their con tents, which were very valuable. Among other things missing was a ring values! at no guineas, anti 40 new eitirts. The prisoner came up, and appaiently ranch agitated, iuquirew what had been lost ? and looking in the place where the plate was kept, exclaimed, "thank 6—, they have not taken. Cie plate!" He then begged tkey wo uld not be uneasy, as he would go to Hatton-garden, and soon get hack the property . Ile left the house, lint did noire:urn. At four o'clock, Mary Hall went to her father, and by his desire proceeded tallow street, where she gave information of the robbery, and de scribed-her brother's person. •On Wednesday be was appre hended, together wills the prisoner Hooper, who was known to be his constant associate in vice. On being taken, Hall said, -" I suppose this is for that Is-- job of sty skeet's :a - Smithfield." The sister, Hannah Hall, who has lived more than three years with Mr. Chandler, and bears an excellent charactee„ was dreadfully agitated, and fainted once during the ex . amination. The family are very respectable, and have made every effort to reclaim the brother, but in vain. None of the property had as yet been traced, and the prisoners were remanded. _ WORSHIP STREET. Daniel Thomas, and Sarah his wife, were brought up old examined ona charge of crnelty and ill treatment to Francis Otterway, a child 10 years of age. It appeared on examine_ Con that the unfortunate girl was the daughter of the female prisoner by a former husbard, aud siace her second marriage she (the mother) resides with her present husband, at No.'f, Princes-street, Gibraltar-fields, Befit-eat-green. The neigh bours had been continually annoyed by the piercing screams of the child. Some of them-remonstrated with the mother, but without avail. The screams were still heard -rari:or more piercing than ever, till Saturday week, when the err became more penetrating and heart-rending than usual, aiR the neighbours flocked before the door, when it was discover ed that the mother was holding her for the father, who, with all his :night, was flogging her with a cane till her body was covered with weals and bruises. Theneighbours gave infor.. mation to the parish officers, and a warrant was obtained against the mother and father-kt-law, and ihey were now brought forward and examined at great length, as were The se veral witnesses. The prisoners, who were methodists, pleaded religion in defence: they would not 11.-e any stranger's child in so bents! a manner as represented, much less their own child. _ _ _ The worthy Magoiatrate observetli that lie feared they were wolves in sheep's clothing ; it was evidently more than proper correction, and consequently a ease fit to be brought before a jury. They must find bail. The prisoners were committal default of bail. tNTOI's;—ITALL. • Tuesday T. Curkburn W. Sampson were remanded, charged with stealing a writing desk, containing 151. 11.0,m the hone of Ms; Goo'llitre, in Camberwell. Inquiry being made. a shopkeeper recollected seeing the paisoners pass his door with u de6k. OwSaturday be egAiusaw the prison ers, and followed them. They stole a parrot cage from the front of a Ilease, with which they made off across the fields.— lie asked a labourer to asiist in-apprehending them, hut lie refused. He than attempted to tuke them ; hitt they knock ed him down, and got away. Tuesday be again saw them. and followed them late a public-house, where they were taken. DIENDTVL Aced tlittS lIV A* €TAOF CCACII.-04c of thew: melancholy events w!...:11 liar, of late occurred hut to frequer.tl. happened on Saturday Fe'nnight to the remilar Hempstead coach, belonging to Mr. Hearn, of tho..iiing's Ann, Snow which was overturned in passing the. e' , rnor at Huotan Bridge, Tierts, owing to the wanton behaviour 01 the coachman, in endea vouring to make a fine angle, and literally ground to shivers by t''.e horses subsequently drawing it after them. A-wornation the out side was killed on the spot ; atiether °made rassenger and tho man are so mutilated, that little Lapes are witertamcd of their nen very ; and eight or nine other patengers Lave been so severely cu•. an d b r uised, that a considerable tune mist elapse before they again follow their inualoceupetiona. The inside passengerasarnong whom was a gentleman of great property and consequenus' sin the county of Herta, were more torUmate, but di& not any oEottem es cape without injury, though comparatively of a slight natures 'Then were no less than 17 passengers OR outside at the time, which no doubt materially contributed to the fatal accident; and Mr. lieam, the owner of the coach, will of course be proceoded against by info:- mauon tor the recovcry of the pcnaltio he has 444;101