The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-08-01 00:00:00

- 1k I 11111115%--- fedisigion, where I was takes. v li The landlord) * h er e I left the earrings, and who see the rings in amy, hand et the same time, suspected from the Papers • %Ass the person missing, and found me after search -IP. lo g .tbe country. They asked me who I was; I (laid .I.herald painter. Oue man said I was, from Mar. l ow; I said on. He wished to see my left hand, .anditie said he I wat from %plow. told him he Was tertaiely mistaken —They said they hoped I was wanted, font was ibout the mar not the person they der at Greenwich. I said it was a shhcking thing Indeed. One man said my description answered to that of one who was in the deed. I said I knew nothing concerning it. I then went to the privy and threw bi the rings. The constable, who kept a public. h ouse , gave me some (limier, and treated me remark•. ably well. I confesaeti I was the person that was m i s sing, hut declared I was as innocent of the min der as the child unborn.—The constable searched se. I pee him the watch I had, and a pocket. lr•uk, containing the two letters I was to send m the sea•port town, likewise the Lottery 16th. I to ld him that I threw the rings into the privy, where he afterwards found them. I remained in his house that night, was very well used, and came betty with the well wishes of every one, that I should p ro ve ms innocence. When I came to Baw-street, I was again examined, and a ring fell out of my trowsers, Of boots. It slipped trough my fo b some giner in she lining, and I thought it lost. The blood e n my trowsers was done by Hazleton, a little before Christmas—we had been to the play to. gether, and afterwards went to the Tiger', [lead, and bad a few glasses of grog. Hazleton got locked out, bat he said that if the rapid was not gone up be coati get in the back , way. In getting over a wa il, being intoxicated, he fell on some glass panes, and I gut over and held him op. He hid cut him, self very much, and being quite stupid and weak, I to• 4 him up on my, back, and carried him for a considerable distance, his hand bled profusely, and the blood ran down my black coat, waiscoat, and trowsers. We went t.. the Tiger's Head heck, but they was shut; we then went to the watch.house,atid to Mr. Finch's, the doctor, who dressed Hazleton • likewise we went to Litton's, and Mr and Mrs. L. saw the condition I was in. Mrs. helped to sponge me, and I rubbed my trowsers with pipeclay,but they have never since been washed, therefore some stains of blood may remain. My gaiters got spotted with blood on the Friday previous to the reorder. Me arid Hatleton had a sheep's heart and a melt for dinner, and while I 4as cleaning the heart I sprinkled a spot or two over my gaiters. This Hazleton knows to be tree, and Mrs. Walmsley and the people at the Tiger's Head know how my cap got stained. They - say like wise my jacket is stained with blood, but if I was to be pet to the greatest torture I don't know how that happened, unless it was done by Hazleton, when going for a handkerchief to my boa ; or it may be a stain of fruit, or wet. My washerwoman will be able to say whether she ever observed 'it before. I have never blooded it, and if these were my last mo ments I had to live I should say it with s clear con science. The jacket has never been on my back since I left Statute's's, nor did I wealrmy covered hat, as has been said, on the *today evening. This is as false as God is tree." Mr.Serjeant Lane, site sat as Judge in the Cri minal Court, then monied up. This was a case which deserved attention from the Jury, and he was happy to see that it received it. The Learned Ser jeant had said that the evidence of circumstances was stronger than testimony, but still it must depend upon testimony. Though the evidence was long, it might be brought within a narrow compass. The circumstances of the murder could not be doubted ; but the question was, were they brought home to' the individual at the bar. '['he time within which the murder must hive been perpetrated was nearly fixed. The murder most have been committed between the hours of 8 and 9 o'clock. The deceased was a nem of regular habits, and went to bed before 10 o'clock. The supper was prepared; the potatoes were in the oven; the water was ; and the table.cloth, was about to be laid on the table. The Jury had beard a circumstantial account of the state in which the bodies and the house were found. It was not necessary to detail them. There was almost no doubt that the woman was coming to the doer, when • the crime was perpetrated, and that Mr. Bird was in the attitude . conjectured. The Learned Judge then went over the evidence, with great impartiality anti discrimination. He made towards the conclusion a very solemn charge to the Jury, and seemed very much affected in desiring them to make up their minds, and pronounce their conscipotious cottiiction, how. ever fatal it might be to the Prisoner at the bar. Ile spoke two hours. Mr. knoLPHUS addressed the Court, and said, that a new fact, of which he was not aware, had been disclosed in the Prisoner's defence, it was the circumstance of his arrest and subsequent discharge for this oirence. The COURT consented to have some of the wit nesses called back to enqiire into this fact. Halbybone, the Secretary' was now called hack. lie said he recollected Stephen Epsom having called Hussey out of the room of the Odd Fellows on the Saturday after the murder, to question him en the business. Cross-examined.—When the new Odd Fellow was made, he was sore the Prisoner was not present ; the meeting took place at a quarter past eight o'clock on the Saturday evening. Larkin was called up again ; he said, that on the 14th February he heard Hussey and Hazleton had absconded from the Tiger's Head, he went there and found his information bad been incorrect, as Hussey was there ; and on being asked about motley, he said he had got it by a legacy of between 60 and 701. which on enquiry proved to be correct. He re ceived this legacy on the Wednesday after the murder. At twenty minutes before ten o'clock the Jory consulted upon their verdict, and in about six mi nutes, end without withdrawing from the box, found a verdict of—Guilty. The Clerk of the Arraigns then called on the Pri soner in the usual form to know if he had any thing to say why sentence of death should nut be passed, upon him. The Prisoner, in a faoltering accent, and .a pale and agitated countenance, said "My Lord my Lord !" .1 _•r ~~ ~._.. !. tII.OIW tis 4 bitter des , thing gassy ?" ai l' The Prisoner.—" Yet i ner Lord. It is most I*. fat sertly for my life to be thus violently taken away from me—tb be suddenly torn from mt. little family. my relations, and friends,, for a, crime of which I am nut guilty. I know, my Lord, I de serve my fete for concealing the property, I feel I did wrong in taking it ; but I am as innocent of the guilt of murder as you, my Lord, who sit there. The Almighty has given, me power to. say this. He has given me the power of, mole& him shortly with fortitude, !here I shall,Attest what he knows to be the truth. lam prepared for death. I hive made my peace with God, as well es the small means allowed Me enabled me do. I was long since told, indeed, that I could not escape—that I must suffer. I. now again repeat, lam innocent of the murder—God knows it." Mr.Serjeant Lents then, in a most solemn and im pressive manner, pronounced the awful sentence of death upon the Prisoner, and ordered him for elm. cation on Monday nest. The Learned Judge ex premed his deep regret, that the Prisoner should have uttered the expressions of innocence belied used, after a'coriviction so clearly made out, and implored him to devote his few short hours to repentance and contrition. The Prisoner, whose demeanour throughout the trial, was generally attentive end collected, became evidently agitated and disturbed during the Judge's charge. His countenanre had a death-like paleness, end the verdict of the Jury, which be seemed to expect, had the effect of making, him stare wildly around the Court. It was remarkable that daring the evidence of his brother and sister, who were dreadfully agitated, the Prisoner alone remained unmoved—he employed him self taking notes,. never looked near them nor they towards him. When the Secretary to the Odd. Fellows . was exa mined some thoughtless persons its the crowd gave way to i burst of laughter at the corresponding ap pearance of the Secretary's person. to MI office : he was a mite/able looking old maw whose-every limb and feature were distorted. ,Hussey joined in the smile, and, to the astonishment of all present, seemed as if struggliug tb suppress a laugh. It was past ten o'clock when sentence was passed on the Prisoner, and he will be executed et twelve o'clock on Mondif l lat the ilia - Pike of execution, near Mai-Worse. The Court was crowded to excess throughout the whole day. Counsel for the prosecotion,. Mr. Serjeant Ost sLow, the- COIIIMON SERJEANT, and Mr. BEARNS. SOliCitOr..4/11% LICHNELL, of Greenwich. For the Prisoner—Mr. Notsx and Mr. ADDL. PHDS. Solicitors—Messrs., Piaci, of Red Lion street, Clerkenwell. DRAWING A TRIGGER WITH INTENT TO SHOOT. J. Alexander and Sarah Berthold Isere indicted under Lord Ellenborough's Act, for levelling and pointing tt loaded gun at Stephen Copland, an officer of the Shard of Kent, and attempting to discharge the.sere by drawing the trigger. The" Jury, ifter, considerable deliberation, found the Prisoners.,-Not Guilty. They. were persons of respectable appearance ; and the lady of very genteel manners, apparently near 60 years of age. They wemetterwards arraigned for an assault. MANSLAUGHTER. James Bill was indict oil for feloniously killing and silligg William Dolman. Lieut. Joseph Dewsnap, of Greepwich Hospital, stated, that on the 4th day of May, as he was walk. lug in Romney.row, he saw a coach drawn by four horses, driving down towards him at a full gallop.— As it reached the corner at the bottom of the decli vity, the coach upset by the velocity of the motion ; the road was perfectly smooth and even, and with• out a rut ; there was a man silting on the box with the coachman; witness immediately ran op to give assistance, and reprimanded the coachman severely. The latter replied, he was perfectly sober, and that if drunk he might have deserved a reprimand ; there speared to have been about four or Eve outside pas singers; he found one of them crying violently, and saying he was much hurt, his head having come in contact with the ground; he heard that the man sr terwards died. Mr. W. 11. Renwick, a Surgeon, was called in to see the deceased soon after the accident. lie had no external wound, but seemed to labour under a severe concussion, asuthad a bleeding from his left ear. Ha died two days afterwards of a concussion of the brain', occasioned by his fall from the coach. The case for the prosecution being closed, the the Learned Judge observed, that this was quite a new case. He knew very well that if the coach was driven over a man pas,iiilr in the street in the open day, then the assault would unequivocally be the act of the driver; but here, however indefensible the hard driving might be, yet: he was it a loss to see how the death of the man was the direct act of the Pri soner. Was there any case in point Mr. BEARNS replied, that a Greenwich coach bud driven againsta cart, upset it, and the matt in the cart lost his life. Lord Ellenborough held it man slaughter at the last Assizes. The COURT.—Yes, but there you see the coach. man violently upset the cart, and was directly the cause of the death. There can be no justification for the hard driving of coachmen; but I feel great diffi. culty, as this strikes me to be a new case. The Jury, after a short consideration, returned the following verdict —Guilty of violently driving the horses, thereby overturning the coach, and kill ing the deceased, but not with any felonious intention. The Comm—Prisoner, I hope the merciful con• sideration of the Jury in your case will be for ever a warning to you in your future conduct. You see what has been the dreadful consequence of your care lessness.—The Prisoner was thendiscbarged. • JULY :39. LEWIS U. CLEMENT. This was so active► brought by the Plaintiff, who iv a►► Attorney •t Cautorhury, against Mr. Clement, who is Proprietor of the Observer Newspaper, for au alleged libel, in a statement purporting to be • report of a trial in the Insolvent Debtors' Court. • 'The case occupied considerable tine; the . ropert was verified by several witnesses! Pm Ont. COURT OF OF CHANCERY, Jul.* St. r. loslice Akidi stemmed up the case with the strictest impartiailly; bit abstained from giving any opinion upon thw -14pertant qaestien, as- to. the. right Of. NeWspapers publishing proceedings . . in, Courts tif Justice, coticeiiitig that that point. not necessary to discuss on the preient occaSiv," the issue being whether the Defendant's jusilfica. lion hid been° Made dot. His •Lordship oat of opinion, that upon semi of the Count. the Plaintiff .was entitled, as a matter of amuse, to a verdict, in astituch as the evidence in support of some of the: pleas did not suppok the Defeodant'i justification. Ile particularly retharked upon the absence of t h e Gentleman from whose notes the Report of the case was published, as a clictinistante prejudicial to . theDefendant'l .defence. Hit Lordship; however, Rut it to the Jury to.say whether the justification had in substance been made nut, for if they *era of that opinion, the Learned Counsel on each side would agree on which cdutits the Verdict should be recorded for the Plaintiff; and which for the Defendant. The Jury, after considering - the case for II quarter of nn boor, foiled for the Defendant generally ; upon which it was agreed that the verdict should stand for the Plaintiff on the Ist, '2l, and 6th cooed, and for the Defendant in the remaining counts. _ - LAW IN7'ELLIGENCE. WATERS D. TAYLOR. The Lbrd Chancellor, on a former day, Made his order, that the Plaintiff in this case should . , on the 2tl August, pay into Court the sum of 80001.; and 4001. ,the interest thereon. Si! S. ROMILLY now applied to his Lordship to have the terms of that order enlarged, and the time of payment extended to the 15th of August. Tht Learned Counsel inalle this - application on an al& davit, siatinc• that Mr. Waters was at . present br yond the Seas, and out .of. the jurisdiction of the Court; and therefore, that uelegs„ the time asked were given, or service .of notice on the Plaintiff's Altelney in Court was considered as good strike, the Defendant would lose allthe benefit of his Lord ship's order.-4Maitioo granted. - JOSEPH LYON AND °TIMIS 0. THE TWISTERS OP THE • BEIII . ORD CHARITY. • • Sir S. Itomij.Ly aimed,. that • this was a Petition presented to his birds* EtcY Y. Lyon, and an inha bitant of - Bedford, and the Ettlera•of the Jewish Sy nagogues in Duke'r.place sad Leadentrall-street, London, praying, that his _Lordship Atould direct the Trustees of the Gharity, est.ablisbed "older the will of W. Harper, Esq. of Bedford, commonly, called the Bedford Charity, to pay the sum of 101. as an apprentice-fee to Sheba Lyon, daughter of thessidi J. Lyon, under the following Cireomstatcest—Bi the will of the above-mentioned W. Harperi , who died in the reign of Edward VI. certain .estates, situ ate in the county of. Bedford, were vested in the hands of Trustees, to be appropriated to the build. ing and endowing an Hospital for a number of aged' men and women—for educating a certain number of children—for apprenticing them out—for giving mar- Iriage portions to a , certaits number of females—and tot. other charitable purposes. Persons were named in the will to constitute the fixture Governors and Directors of the Charity, and the plan and Intention of the donor was confirmed by Letters Patent under the Greet Seal. The revenues of the Charity had been progrehsively improving, and the benefits had been eirentlpd from time to time, still keeping the plan of the original testator i.r view, by Acts of Par. lisment. By the Act of the 36th of. the King, passed for the better regulating the acts and profits of Mr. W. Harper's Charity, in the town of Bed ford, the Lord Lieutenant of the County, end Mem bers for the time being, the Corporation of Bedford, and the Master of the Hospital, snaking, in the whole, eighteen persons, were constituted Trustees of the Charity ; with provisions, that sit of the Corporation should go nut annually, and, sit others be elected' in their stead, by the votes 6f the in habitants of Bedford, - paying scot and lot, accord. ing to the will of the founder. Amongst other provisions of that Bill, it was enacted, that the sum of 8001. should be annually distributed to forty maidens, who, on their marriage, were to receive 201. each. A further sum of 7001. was to be appro priated to the purpose of placing out, twice a year, 15 boys and five girls as "preptices. These were to be the children. of inhabitants of the town of Bed ford. if the parents were natives of Bedford, then their children to be %vilified by the parents having rented a house or la - opuses in Bedford for a period of three years. If, on the contrary, they were natives of any other place,. then they were required to have kept a house ten , years, to give their children a claim to the benefits of the Charity ; and children thus bound apprentice, having serried their time faithfolly, and obtained from their masters, and the Minister and Churchwardens of the Parish, a certificate of good conduct, -were further to he eptitled to a sum not exceeding 201. or less than . 101. .The rules and regd. lotions of the Charity als o required., Alit those per sons who intended their children should become can: didites for the apprentice-feee,. should at a stated .pe riod, send their Christian and surname, with a cer tificate of their age, and of the parents having been house-.keepers in Bedford for the time required. The names thus sent in were, noted down, and the several children drew lots till the number of 15 boys and five girls were filled op. Upon this regulation it was, that the question for his Lordship's decision on this Petition arose. The Petitioner, J. Lyon, was an Wt.. bitant of Bedford, and had been so for the timeprescrib. ed. He woad the Jewish persuasion. At Michaelmas, 1816, ,be sent in the name of hie daughter, Sheba Lyon, is a candidate for the apprentice-fee; but the Trustees refused to permit her to draw, having come to a resolution that she, being of the Jewish persua sion, was not entitled to the benefit of the Charity. The Petition 'went en to state, that this refusal was new, the Petitioner's too, S. Lyon, and his eldest daughter, E. Lyon, hating been admitted to draw fOr the sppretice.fee, end Obtained it. 'These were the circumstances of the case. It was one, Sir Swoop!' contended,, of the utmost importance. If the conduct now adopted by the Trustees of the ,Bedford Chari t y were to receive thisanction of his . Lordship, it would go to overturn the system of Charitiee of this &Scrip. lion throeghoutlhe kingdom. Amongst other things requried by the founder ) it was necessary that the old men and women in the Floartital sbOald 1 1,rf Religious Worship we.y 14etidek.,Now this . might' b e said to exclude the jewi h pettnissl..ti ; hpt if it .didotojt related only , Jothi 11- , apitil and the ( .1 1001. to alio with fintleCUTO the regulation that the Chris tian and earntme of the candidate 4 file the apprentice. fee. 118111661 d suburit,lt could be Valet* to a tpao first and Stetted name of the apirlitstri To petit'« apprentice to the re*ard at the eXpiratine of the I, ta of aventiphihip, the certificate of the Sliraiter of las Muir; witki iii orthe Master; was tiereitaary, as the coudeetof the apprentice ; but it. was a certificate is to the uterslf aid not the religions, toriduet of the play. Until be heard the arguments on the other side, he was utterly at a less to conjecture the grog tide on which the present Gaveroori had thought it ne. cessary to depart from the course penned by limit s predecessors. Mr. BELL followed on the same side; and ten• tended that, by the Lair of the land, Jews were ad competeilt to be partakers of the benefit of Chi. ritable Institutions as any other sect, unless there was any specific proviiion in the constitution of the establisliMent, which did net exist In Olt case to et. elude thecri. • Mr. HEALH followed on the same side. The SOLICITOR•GENERAL, for the Trustees, Ob• served, those on whose part he appeared, were only anxious to discharge their duty properly, end would fie perfectly satisfied with the decision of his Lord. ship. What he should have td contend, would be y that thoogh elnce the death of the founder that bene.fits of the Charity had been extended, yet they could not be bestowed on those who could hot legally 'hare been partakers of dress at the time the original Letters Peterit were granted ' and he should haie to contend that in the reign of Edward VI. persons of the Jewish persuasioo would not have been eligible. TOL LORD CUANCEE4,O4 eaquired if the Lettere Patent*, ere in Court. . The SOLICITOR•GIRERAp_ slid, they Were not; stkey. were at Bedford. The Lose CHANCELLOR observed, it *ould ben .stessery to hate them before they could proceed., 0 ferther t althe whole question would taro ma , tite Oriel gtnal iegulsolons;contiined Ili the Letteilf;Petent. ft' would glib be important 40 know whether thi4litiiela inhabitants, paying scot aad lot f 'ever voted (*Vibe Election of Geaernors. Whether a Jett brad ever been elected a Governor. Whether the children Of persona educated in the Jewish persuasion, had ever been . recisired into the Gtammar.school ; of whether any old man or woman of that religion had ever bees received auto the Hospital. All these facts should bi ascertained before the case wits again brought before the Court. The SOLICITOR.GENERAL said, Steps shoold be taken to obtain information on these points, and the iubject might probably be brought before the Coed again about this day week. • COLERROOKE 0. Mr. WYATT said, this was a Petition to his Lord... ship, on. behalf of the Miss Colebrokes, infants, the daughters of Mrs. Tattle, praying that his Lord. ship would be pleased to direct that the Report olf Master Cu:, recommending Charles Dickenson, Esq. as a fit person to be .ppsiatted their guarsliae, should,. be•retiewed, and that the Marquis of Northamptont should be appointed guardian to the infants. The LORD CHANCELLOR said, he had read over the Petitions carefully, and it seemed to him that if he were to hear twenty arguments on them, they would all end in his conversing with the Master. It would be as well f thereforef that he should do so is the first instance. Mr. WETHERELL, on the other side, said, his Client would feel grateful to his 'Lordship for any private arrangement on this subject. Mr. WYATT said, the . young Ladies were moat anxious to converse with his Lordship. Mr. WETHERELL thoeght it should be rightly as. certsioed that the young Ladies did desire the inter. view; one of them was 19 the other 17 years of age. The LORD CHANCELLOR said, he would first see the Master. lie was aware of the danger there was of being mi.iled in these interviews. Mr. WETHERELL said, there was little danger of his Lordship being misled. His LORDSHIP replied, that the danger was greater than the Learned Counsel seemed to think, lie re• collected once, on a similar occasion f where he had been misled. lie wished Mister Cox should be in: formed of his wish to see him previous to coming into Court to-morrow Morning. FASHIONS FOR AUGUST. MORNING DRMIII.—A high dress composed of itteonot ma;iin t the body has a little fulness in the hack; the fronts are plain, and wrap . across in the style of aficit: A row of richly *work ed trimming,. headed with a double roaleau of muslin, through which a coloured ribbon is run, ornaments the hack between the shoulders, and goes down on cad' side of the front Instead of a collar, the body is ornamented at the throat by a single row of work, headid by a rouleatt of muslin. The skirt is of an easy fulness; it it richly embroidered round the tattoos' in a light pattern of branches of leaves placed uptight. Over this dress is worn a pelisse composed of pearl-toloured striped lutestring, trimmed round with a row of light embroldet3r in a wave pattern of pearl-colottred silk. The hods is made plain, tight to the shape, and the waist is of a modentte length ; it has no collar. but is finished at the thrtfat by a frill of pointed blond: ' l'laln king sleeves, embroidered at the wrist to corre spond with the skirt of the pelisse. }lead-dress, the Clarence bonnet, composed of blond intersected with pipings of pale pink satin, and ornamented with a full garland of mind and damask roses and blue bells. This bonnet is of a French shape. but it is a moderate and becoming size: it is tied tinder the chin w ith pale pink satin ribbon. Lemon-coloured eaves, and pale pink linters: . _ POLICE,. Bott-rnti!,l4.—George Layioa, a yonng man of genteel ap pearance, was charged with feloniously stealing fo , .r curtaiii* and a pair of sheets, from tint)laitd's cotine-briuse, iii the Strand, ts hei the slept on Thursday night, having -Lord that he had just arrived in London from the country ; hr had a bundle with him when be entered. the house, and ultra he left. an Fri day learning, he was taking in appearance the same noway g Mrs. Williams, the landlady of the house. happened .IJ g.• into his bed-room directly after he bad paid the cha , ge tatalost him. and had ltft the house, wheb she instantly missed the canines • ,and sheets; she pie an alarm, and he was pursued through the Strand.with the cry of" stop thi.f." He was came lip wali on Waterloo-bridge; with" the property iirhis posses lost. anti no finding that be was detected, he shrew it an ay. The toms dle he took into the house with him. proved ably t .carriiio hay. Several o ther charges were ealtibiled against him. , front the Villiers H othe Bell and Crown. in Milbank; thei street, in the Strand s at ad whic h placrs he had di ta ke n in handles of hay. aud riAried eat valaatik roperty. lie aga fully committed for tria l an Mrs. V/ illiasas's c _p harge. ~~~ • 1: .. • " ..,.:: , . ~r~ll