The Statesman. — London, England, 1819-08-09 00:00:00

I a 1 •1 1100 MO to speak to troy person in particrlar; I bays limit often there; I was acqtrainted with tire servant ; ery friend, the servant, was not in tiro rooms with Si. M. L-pes. Mr. Ba►en ditanaM.—This is ton had, young on. man : it cannot he suffered ; yes most hate a recut. livriioo of what hos pas...l. ('nnti..notl.—Mr. Cribb', said, he 'mild give woe onyn...hi..a far my husband's los of time in support. lac r Metissseh, and a present for myself. l can. vont recollect when this was. I had not seen my Mis hima for setters! Meeks; after the election commenced J went win to Mr. Bennett's house. I know Sarah Birds, who went with me; we saw Mr. J••hn Wil kinson; we borrowed some money of Wilkinson; he lent to es a one pound note a loiftl. ; that was in hoes•; at any rime Le au t o,' lead me mo. trey ; he lent it to us direct!) ; I 0.% Pf saw Itennell vl.ere at sit; nohody was there he.ities Wilkinson; went to Ms. Gtibble*., on the Monday alter ; is was shout five or sic days between borrowing and going to Gtiblile%; I went to GriLhi•'s for the ma. ney for my hushand's !nos of lime; Wilkinson calls or &Mots for the pound notes; I went alone to Mr. Gribble's ; Mr. Wilkinson was there I I did not speak to Mr. Cribble, nor Goibble to me; Wilkinson said my husband owed him surnethinc, and be would in and settle; I newer saw any money ; I did net see a M. nate in (helicons.; I did tint hear any conversation between them; I was examined before the House of Commons, bat I cannot recollect what I said. Several other witnesses were called ow the part of the prosecution, who deposed to the 640111 effect. On the part of the Defendant, Mr. Serjeant Lie•, who Ives specially retained, n.adea most 'lsle speech, in which he contended that upon the evidence no case hod been mad. oat, except the Court might say that with respect to Mary Tome)! the Oath Cnant had been made out, the Oath being • general Count ; and be submitted that the evidence given could not even support the sixth Count. It was impossible fair the Jury to place any reliance upon the testimony given by Mary Towels, fri.ni the way in which that evi. deuce ling given. This was the only point in which the record had be►n ms , le nut ; •nd b) the evidence ad Mr (:nibble, whom he should call, that testimony would receive a most derided conirsdiction. J. Gtibble.-1 sew Mary Tovsell at the house of Rennell ; weeny people were there •, I do wit tools whether Sir M. Lnprt trips there; I never promised any thing to Mary Tessell ; she came ep to the Cosa miltre.roons door ; I never ssid l would give her something for her husband's loss of time, ur s present for herself. Cross-essusioed.—l pne her a It. owe after the election ; I kayo Wilkinson money for her husband ; tin not reen!leet wh►ther Wilkinson Ira/ primal when she rime Into the room. _ Mr. Serj•ant Nu. replied, sad commented with greet forte upon the nature of the eir.dence given, enotending that the crime had been most circus. ttsotially brought home to the Defendant. Mr. litlfOrl GRAII4 summed up the case with tbrt utmost impartiality. lle defined the nature of the crime, and captained to the Jury how it *IS sop. ported by the evidence, leaving it to the Jury to say whether, ender the circorestances adduced, the per. tons brought forward had acted in waning upon en eageetatioe, by premise direct or indirect, being held mat to them. The Jery, after being out a considerable time. re turned a verdict at the Judge's lodging, at I l o'clock, of 11ot Guilty. At: GUT 6. CROWN SIDE. Frances Clarke was pet to th► bar for the (north time, on an indictment for the wilful murder of bee bastard child, George liftmen, three weeks old. , At the Devoe Lent Assizes, Iflift, she was cow•' Tiered of the murder, but a point we, reserved for the opinion of the twelve Judge*, the indictment having named the child "George !Altman Clarke," whereas he we§ beptleetl " George Liftman" only t the ►aviation was adjedged sufficient to justify a De cend trial, which tohlt place at the following Som. mer Assizes, when she was acquitted on an error in the indictment, which stated that the child died of "oil of vitriol received into Me stomach;" the medl. eel men, however, proved that the vitriol did not pass into the stomach, but produced suffocation is the throat. She was arraigned spin at the Lent ♦vises in the present year, and the lasi was pat• ported on account of the record of her former at• spinal not being brosght down. liesierday she was spin tried, end found Gritty, bet is once more seat back to remain in prison eta a point of law shall be considered by the twelve Judges. CIVIL SIDE. RREACII OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE. 21CINANI V. HILL. Mr. Serjeant is stating the case to the Jury, said, that the Plaintiff was a young unman, whose situation in life was humble' ' but the dough. ter of honest parents, with a fair and •pright charac ter, living in the parish of Colebrook'. The Defend ent,Sameel Hill, was a farmer, living upon an estate in Zrai Monschorom, which he rents at about 4001. a-year ; and he has also freehold properly at Bow, which he lets at about 30t. a-year. Sit or seven years since Defendant hired the Plaintiff to live with him as hialleherper ; she was then about 40 years of age, and he about 24. After she bad resided with ki n , woven two and three years, he, the Defendant sent for K hurt J.rkman, the father of the Plaited', and iv formed him that his daughter was with child by him, but II at he msrnt to marry ber, sad de sired tls• father to go to South Teuton, and prnrure a note of his daughter's age, and then gel • Girton -an to marry them. The application was fns to t o the Ciergyman of Dusichidenck, who was absent, aril atterwsrds to the Clergyman of Ted bury, ea Defendant requested, but lie refused to per form the ceremony for want of residence of the pa t ties. The Plaintiff was shortly aftersarda removed to a reap-t tahle horse at Bow, and brought to bed; in the course of a short time she returned to her fathet'ii house, and remained half • year, during which the Defendant acme 'meal times to see her, and proposed honourable terms bosh to her and her father, continually renewing his promise of marriage, which, hosteler, she entreaties of kis friends and relatious, he silted, would prevent his contructing THE STATESMAN, immediately; but as an earnest of his intention, h e proposed to secure Plaintiff the sem of 5001. if be died or failed to perform his engagement before the Ist of November, 181 e, which was accordingly en tered Into, end • prnmissory.nate for that moan' given. The Defendeot sabarquenili induced the Plaintiff to sign an agreement, that if he paid the sum of 101. • year towards the maintenance of the child, the promisanry.n o t e s h ou ld be of no use.— Th. Defendant married another person in Match last. Th. Learned Sesjeant, after expatiating with great eloquence upon the rondoct of the Defendant, culled the father in prove the facts. Doting the elimination of the evidence, an offer of compromise was made, bet the Defendant's friends at that time refused the terms. A great deal of legal disputation also took place between the Counsel, as to the admission of the bonds or agreements. Mr. Gaatt.cc addressed the Jury for the Defend. ant, and endeavoured to enforce upon their minds, Mat the second agreement was a commutation fur She promissory note, and which destroyed the right of action, it bring a virtual renunciation of the con- I reel ; he then called a witness no prove that the Plaintiff had demanded the payment of 51. being a half year's ettstalm of of the second agrceatent. Mr. Sistjeant Put. was replying in most warm and , emphatic language In the Jury, when the Defendant's Counsel announced that the offer of the Plaintiff bad •• been acceded to, viz.—Damages Fifty Pomade. SEDUCTION. 01110IlD111. IBRAGGE. Mr. Serjeent Pest., in his opening aches, to the! Jury, &scribed the Defendant as a young man of no property, but as the inn of a farmer of consider able opulence. The Plaintiff is a merchant in the island of Guernsey ; his daughter was about 25) ears of age when the transaction took place which formed the ground of this action ; the Dgendstot was snow. what younger. The young Lady came to England in 1817, on a visit to Mrs. Shore, who resides near Aarninster : during her visit she became acquainted with the family of the Defendant, who reside at Nolditch; they were much struck with the manners of the young Lady, and she was induced to visit them after relieved invitations. The Defendant sec• eroded in engaging her affections, and he promised on her worn to Guernsey, that if her father approved the match, it should ultimately be consummotrl : he accompanied her to Guernsey, and was received in the character of her intended husband. She was :trouser& prevailed on to cume to England again, and visit at the Defendant's house; during her visit, being left at home en a Sunday, from illness, the D.. fondant succeeded in accomplishing her seduction, and she was delivered of a child in July, 1818. The principal evidence was the female berat•lf, who appeared bet little /lob # T►e Defendant was in Court, and was pointed net by Milo Gifford, at the request of Mr. ' rjeant I'll. Me. Wts.i.t Alla, for the Defendant, laid great stress on this circumstance, saying it was calculated to weigh upon the minds of the Jury, as if the y Deng man was indifferent or ingestible to the transvession be had committed; he attended there, however, against his li own will, and at his (Mr. Williams's) request, that by his presence he might restrain the young woman from stating any thing which would give him (Mr.W) the trouble end pain of having ezplained by craw examination, which would give her oneasioest. He ; contended, from the age of the parties, the Defendant : being 21, and the young woman 27, that he was more likely to be the oerluced than the seducer. His Learned Friend, he said, bad represented the father of the y oung woman as a merchant, with the view, perhaps, of inducing the Jury to give larger damages, ' such as should be equal to his assumed station in life : the fact, was, however, that be was a mere agent of an army contractor. Ile had also stated the father lot the Defendant to be an opulent man, whereas he possessed an estate of only 1501. a year, and had a ' family of sit children ; and he entreated the Jury to award such damages only as would answer the coda of justice without distressing the innocent. The Jery consulted about ten mine's, and return• ed a verdict.—Damages Four Hundred Pounds. ing profusely. The nest morning the Prisoner went to his work. and nn hip way desired his son to go and see if she deceased was where he bid left hint the pre ceding night. The boy did an, and hosing told bis (ether that he was there still, the Prisoner said be sold het go that way, and %rut its another direction. Abost ten o'clock the deceased ens discovered tering in his blond, bet with life still remaining. Ile was yed to his how, ii!.ich ass not far distant, and died in five days afterwards. Ors the 3d of Fe bruary, the Prisoner took louse of his family, went sway, and basing assented a feigned name, was working in different parts of the country, and had escaped the hinds of justice until May last, It hen the place of his retreat wits accidentally discovered. To support this use, 116 , i8NCI011 testimony was called, said among ethers the son of the Poisoner, who was greatly effected iss giving his evidence. M►. Wst.rostn submitted at some length, but in. effectually in point of law, that the cisceenstances proved in evidence were such es would only bring the case within the principle kid down by Mr. Jus tice Futter, applicable to cases of eacussble homi cide. _ _ . 'Ube Learned JunGE then notified up the esiolence with the 'twist !biotite porti. clarity, and stated the law nu the subject of courtier with clearness and per. sioicrity. The Jury. after deliberating aboot fire miontos, Nand the G 'My —and he was sentenced to be esecoted on Mundy (obis da)). Ave;, iv 7. Robert Hunt, • re•rtiahle Toone wan. eras In eicled for diftesdisie, Alesander Doull, of the (4ion of len guineas, at Greenwich, on the 1311 a of kin, 1817. The money list laid in different counts In be the property of the King, sod of Mr. Messed's, the art-Worcs. _ _ Mr. Cutout . end Mr. BERENS concluded the pro secution. This case etritiol very general interest in the county. The Prit.ntser had been a desk in the em. I ploys's, of Mr. Ate:soder, the architect, a Gen tleman engaged in serial public works by Govern. ',tent, and particularly in the repairs of the nisi Nsvel Asylum at Greenwich. A respactahte plumber and glazier, named Doull, who bad been employed under Mr. Alexander in doing some necessary repairs :41 that building, sent in his cc• count to the amount of Iool.for the inspection of the architect, sod upon his certificate it was delivered to the auditor, the tier. Dr. Clarke, for his sanction.— The Prisoner, a. hose dory It was to make a fair copy of this aerosol for M•. Aleasodrr's inspection, added the sum ten {l.in.as to the account, and wrote a' note to Mr. I).ioii, informin; him of this addition, ' staling, that it is .4 to made by the directions of Pair. Alexander, for the purpose of coverine some inei.; dental dia ., arsemwos med• by him on aceos•lt of the A•jlum, and riireciiog toot he, Mr. Dooll, should call on a certain thy upon the auditor, when be • I would receise are order fur the money, and that be (ilse Prisoner) w mild, at his convenience, call upon Item for the ten iciness. Mr. Wall received the' whole money, and its two or three dais afterwards the Prisoner called upon his for the ten geinese, which wete paid to him, he giving a receipt for the money in Mr. Alezeoder's name for the I purpose above mentioned. In two years afterwards 1 Mr. boon suspecting the Prisoner's conduct, applied to Mr. Alexander upon the subject of the ten guineas leo received, when it was discovered that the Defend. I eat had been guilty of this and other similar frauds l• 'as enormous amount. The Prisoner was immediate. • ly apprehended, and he confessed before the Ms• gistrete that he had bean in the habit of robbing Mr. • Alexander in this manner for a considerable time . past, that he had been attending gsming-heat's, and that he 'tad doling toe nights lost 9501. at hazard, being part of the plunder so acquired. The CUIMMON SELICAST, who appeared for the Prisoner, left his Ghent to the merciful consideration of the Court. The Jury found the Prisoner Guilty, end the Lverned Judge, after a very feeling address to the enfortonste culprit, sentenced him to men years transportation. KES7' ASSIZRS, Ar a. 8. Henry tangridge was indicted for the wilful our der of Richard Sea, at Petsworth, by gisiog his divers mortal wounds, bruises, and contusions en the head, with a bledgeon, of no value, en the Ist of Feb. 1813, of which wounds, &c. he lappished won the 7th of Feb. and died. _ . .. -.. . This case etched great interest, from the peculiar circumstances and the lateness of the period at which the Prisoner was brought to justice after the commis. lion of his offence. At en estly boar the Court was filled with spectators; and, motwithstending the care of the officers, the pressure of the crowd was intros, during the whole trial. Mr. Asoirmos, in a most able and eloquent ad dress to the Jury, opened the ease against the Pri. sorer, and entered into a luminous and learned es position of the law, applying it with his meal lege nvity to the facts he shoold have to ley before them in evidence. The following is a abort outline of the i case:— On the Ist of February, 1813, the deceased, a re spectable farmer, was returning home to his house about seven in the evening, when be stumbled I. his Path over a bundle of sticks which bed We placed there by the Prisoner, a !shooting man, who had worked with the deceased for about a year end a half, and had been dismissed about six months before, for improper coodect. Upon recovering his feat, he cried out, " Who is there?" and was answered by the Prisoner, who was then cutting a stick in a hol low close at band. The deceased remonstrated with . him for laying his sticks in the public footpath. dome altercation ensued, and the d d reproached the 1 Prisoner with having stolen some of his hop-poles, and having struck him a slight blow with a hazel stick, the Prisoner fell upon him with the bundle bat (a thick stick) upon which he curried his wicks, end knocked Elm down, repeating his blows whilst down. Ile then told his sow, sled then shout seven years old, who was with him to go home, for he (the Prisoner) melt stay anti kill the deceased, or else he (the de ceased weeld transport him.) Th. Prisoner then re turned 'a the deceased, and after beating him most unmercifully, left him for dead: after which be re. turned hose. The deceased lay the whole eight Wee!. POLICE. bllaostoo-noutz..—Sttorday Mr. S. all SOCtinflW in the city, cornp!mined against Mr. R. a merchant, for threatening his life. The Complainant said, that in the coarse of the last year Mr. E. had become a banttropt, hot from motives of delicacy the assignees declined petting any one into the home. It earn. to his ears, however, that a quantity of wine had been removed, and shortly after a fell table service of plate. Ile received information, by a letter, that a number of valuable pictures, belonging to the Defendant, had been sent to an auctioneer, who was shoot to sell them by section. Of all this he informed the assignees. On reirlay Complainant hart a vise of arbitration from It • King's Bench to attend to at Johu's Coiree.house,where he met the Drtendant, who, is the presence of a foil cofrest•room, called him a liar, a villain, and a thief, and said he woolti have his life. Alarmed et this violence, he ordered his books to be pecked op, and was about to depart, when the Defendant soid, " Now, you villains. thrash you through the City of London. Yrs, you cowardly rascal, I'll do for you." Ile then cried out, " There goes the villain ;" and coentinued to threaten and obese him in this way until Contpkin. ant sent his son to procure a peace-Ater. Ile shortly returned with one; and an attempt being made to secure the Defendant, a seral. ensued, in the course cf which his son, irritated at the tan ager used towards the Complainant, struck the former. Ile now begged the Lord Mayor would pre. vest farther violence on the port of the 1)efeo:11ot. and give him (Mr. S.) personal security. Mr. r. said, that the charge ts:ns almost wholly f 'lse: as to the infamous imputations respecting the p! it., he could assure his Lordship it was only sent to Isis jesol• let's, but not fir isle ; nor was there a airgle bottle of wine removed improperly from his hoes*. As to the pictures, he had sold them previous to the claim rustle by Mr. S. through the Assignees. The tccosa. !inn of having used abusive language Fe admitted ; nor did he think any thing too harsh for a also who !tad conducted himself so towards him. If Mr. S. woold swear that his was in danger, .41 would he 1 (11r. E) saes , that be was similarly circumstanced, sad be woold moreover swear that Mr. E.'. •oo had committed vim him a want..n smelt. Toe I.oid Major wished them N compromise the asst:er, bat they did sot. I3ow•.TOEET•—Satordy the remsining P. 11011P11, litin stood charged on suspicion of being concerned in the strocioos depredations cornosittrd st IYe,t•end s •rre brought t•p for another elimination, Ingeahre with a young man, nimerf Frank Purdetam, who was brought from the Mansion-loose. M. Keeling, an herald painter, rebi.ling in Francis. street, Tottenharn.court.road, deposed, that on tho second day of the fair he was s rrrrr oiled by a gang of about 40, and had a gold seal broken from Ma watch chain. The Prisoner, Partition, was on• of the most active in the gong, end was clew to Mg t but be could not sw►ar positively that he eas tko porton who actually stole the sell. Purdhant bed previoasly denied that he was at she fair at all, and said be could prove an lle was remanded. Another Prisoner, named Brookes, was nest spoken to by Mr. Humphreys, oh , . stated, that on the To►ador ariettinnn, as he sos standing at a stall in the fair, porchasilig some nuts for some childrest4 gang r.f fellows approached and took away the children. fie of coarse followed to protect them. and they then seised and dragged Mm to that back r•f Smith•s booth, where they satiflied his month s covered his eyes with their hands, and robbed hist of s watch and gold chain, and his hot, and basing beaten him severely, let him go. lie recovered this children.—Brookes was committed. The remainder of the Prisoners were not identified. UNION-HALL —On Saturday last, a man named Gideon Yates, and who stated himself In have bee■ aa officer in the army, was broaaht before 1.. lin At.t.rx, Esq., th► presiding Magistrate at this Ace, by Holmes, the High Constable of St. George's, charged with having attempted to commit murder the preceding evening. Mr. Wm. Cotentin, the Provaceter, stated, that he was a shoemaker, and kept a house in the Lon. don road, aid that the Poisoner, with his wife sod clad, had lodged *ids him for several months, daring which time many guru Is had taken plate betwinna them. On Veit's) , night last the Prisoner shut his wife oat of the room, and she remained en the stairs Sri Oral hours yrs hag. The Prosecutor went op stairs and asks() :he Prisoner In open the door sad let biro wife in ; bat he declared he would not open the doer. Some further words having pasted, the Prosecutor put his foot against the donr, and shored it open, apes which the Prisoner instantly rushed out, hawing is large cars knife in his hand, with which be struck at the head of the Prosecutor, who then closed with the Prisoner, and endeavoured to get the knife from him, in which attempt the Prosecutor re. ceired several wounds In the head and neck ; I. the train• both fell, and when down the Prosecutor ob.sined possession of the knife, or he bad no doubt, he stated, be should bare lost his life. Some neighbnor at last came and rescued the Prosecutor from the Poisoner, took hint down stage, and mot for a surgeon, who dressed his wounds. This eel. dense being corroborated, the Magistrate asked the Poisoner whit he had to say respecting the charge,. Ile confessed be bad used the knife, which be mi.. digitally bad in his hand, having been eating his sap. per at the moment Mr. Coleman broke into his room, bat had no intention of injuring Mr. Coleuses with it. The SI AGISTRATZ said, the evidence being so clear, i he felt it his duty to commit the Prisoner for trial as the Attie's, which be accordingly did. TIIF: VENTRILOQUIST. A Fa veil V WITS I LOQUIST of well i tea pryers Hy Whim inn& • wise wee season bears, F.a.re'd,--• frolic o'er A. 4 noir/ prevailing, A country Inn where keg es sat reviling. Hi, Boors • ere pialklise4 hie, by W AV, W !nine vivid gins set all the Hitaipkias Warms; Eat h radon view by shadowy fermi was set. 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