The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-10-19 00:00:00

. , ! r_ , f v , : - . , t 1.41 MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.' .x.,IIPIP I 6n Ferlorday night en inquest was held before T. S ' IIIELTON t Esq.,. at house of Mr. Ridley, shot s ni.er, in St. Parini Church-yard, on the body of l‘lr. Charles Ridley, aged 9.2, who cut his threat on Ftitley morning. - • . Mr. Bellamy, shopman 16 the 'detested, slated, ''at on Thursday night he saw him, when bnappear • in perfect health ; he bad frequently seen him of I.te in a very desponding say, particularly on Thers. et” Isis! ; the decerried had possession of the busi tsP.:4, his father having left it some time. Formerly lie %%as of a cheerful lively disposition, but of late laboured under a great depression of spirits; he was r of ars are of the cause; witness went•to the shop on Friday morning, and soon after eight o'clock de ceased's mother gate the alarm that her son had cot hi. throat ; witness immediately ran up stairs, and found the deceased lying on the floor near the bed quite dead ; a razor was by his side covered with Mood ; he was partly dressed, and did not appear to • have been shaving himself; the deceased was in pos. • session of every comfort, arid not paying his addresses to any Irby that he knew of ; he was not over refl. gious, bet constantly went to the Asylum on a Sun day with his father. Mary Berry had lived sertsnt for four years in the 'family, awl discovered a visible alteration of late the deceased's spirits," bet could riot account for his cornaritting the ribbed 3 thrkdecoased had lately been to Margate on account of ill health. Mr. Ridley at the time was in the country; where fie went to the in ferment of the deceased's grandmother. Just before nine on Friday routing, she heard the deceased walkiog about his room, bat did not hear him fall. Mrs. Ridley (the deceased's mother) called him about eight, and he said he was coming. * Mr. Bullock, surgeon, stated, that he was called in between eight and trine on Friday morning, and foetid the deceased quite dead ; the room was deluged with blood, the deceased having cut the carotid artery ; a complaint in the head had been very prevalent of arid from the evidence given, no doubt the de ceased's mirk(' was affected. Ann Griffin, a young woman who had worked for the deceased and his father nine years, as a shoe trimmer, said, she observed a great alteiation in the manner of the decevsed lately, bat particularly on Thursday last, when she saw him walking in St. Pours Church-yard without his hat, and staring about him in a strange manner; the communicated • her suspicions to her sister; she asked the deceased ••, on hat day for same money due to her, but he told her she must wait ontil the end of the week ; this bad never occurred before, and there was no necessity then, for it appeared he had plenty of money in the house. The Coroner shortly addressed the Jury, who una. nimously returned a verdict—That the deceased cut his throat in a temporary state of derangement. SINGULAR CASH or HOUSEBREAKING .a.so ROBBERY. - - It was stated Nat weak, that Mr. law, of Cam. den.towa, had beets ribbed to a considerable amount, by Pft‘olli with crepe on their face.; it now torus out, by the inspection and care of en officer, that there were no footmarks in the garden by which the robbers were supfloaed to have escaped, nor any missloi of violence on the outer doors. The c Hirer, in pas , ing through the garden, eihservell a small spot which had been recently dug up. Ile put a elude into it, anti felt it strike again 4 Rom. hard suhatance. lie dug, and turned up a jar, hi which Kere four 11 notes, and several duplicates w hie' , belittled to Graioge, the set rant men. The' Patrole appre. hentloil bath seirantv, and placed them in se parate roomg. After repeated denials from Graino, he at last said, that the felony had been committed by he watchman, and another per• son ; that he (Grainge) and the maid, had gone to the play, leering the care of the house to the watchman and the other person, a ho robbed it in their absence; that in a few days after the watchman confessed to him that he had done so, and induced him by the sum of 41. to plan the deception. The watchman was ap prehended, he retorted sport the two servants, and said that Grainge had stolen the plate, and sold it to a Jew named Michael,who met Grainge at the watch. man's house, for the purpose of buying it; the Jew, he said, had declared, that he would purchase a cart load of plate if he could get it, and melt it dawn. Michael was soon after apprehended in the neighbour. hood of Petticoat-lane, and in his posatvion, was found some of the stolen plate. The . sertant.maid •• arid, she had told this fabricated tale, becsuse she was deaired to do so. The parties are now in prison. The watchman was, it seems, in great confidence in the neighbourhood. Stinting Mr UltAimt.-'/Vttmittyltz ion root., BATE4...h-011 the 29'h ult. the 'padolt.officers of St. Andrew; in this city, - entered the Countess of Hun-. Onsdoti's 'Chapel, by theans•of a ladder placed to one of the.gallery *inch)* s,isitl with two constahles tools ' 'down snit etkrijed *away fen 'Patent' Tampa, WIN ich that' • aeired.tdr the pi mew Of Si* le*les'of, SI. each. They were proceeding to . oake down tie or gan, when one of the trustees entered the chapel et ten o'clock at night, end offered,' With °loather . 'friend, to gitellientsecority for the arifount, if, upon an appeal, tho pro per taw itithorkti‘s'ilecided that they had ilea to' dethend tile tare•'-toii key of Ike chapel itild'atei key of the Organ It eie P aeNteredup, to lbetn, by way Of Securing to . them' We' jlhiseilion ; 'and they ruatked the ntgaii . sifth aft: Afteetitis, a !fiend came forward, 'patd t he tat. end eitiene#o, and . . • &lee ord Ike Organ, : lid' ill rif 'the' chapel, af , the same time prfitestiog "egifttat • thenegalily of the tleriiand !his proceedli, noticeo..oft ' a t opchl mare heen-delitertti to The parish-oiticera, end the case will be brought forwild lit the etisaintSes ' lions. The trusleet coilend that they hare no tight to be, assessed, because therels'no profit and WI iltenbcrough 'has decided that where there -is on ppolit, nu assessment can be made:—(Werieeter JJai nat.). • A considerable breadth of grass is now cut doin at • •on the St. Albeit's road, for hay. On he water meadow's of Bet kbitior. ) a third crop of bay $, at this time, getting iu. . - . BAIRILIROUS , - MURDER. • „ cm —. UNION•IiALL.—A murder of a moat atrocious cha. racier was perpetrated on Friday night. The follow ing are the particulars as stated in evidence to the Magistrates of this Office on Saturday :—John Forester, a' constable of the Parish of Aldgate, stated, that he bad been directed by the Lord Mayor to bringlefore the Magistrates a man named Joseph Williams, whom he had taken into custody on sus. picion of being concerned in the murder of Mary Albert, daughter of Mr. Albert, of Thomas's-street, Kent-road. The Prisoner and another man, named Robert Dean, were in the service of Mr. Tyrrell, engraver, Church.row,Aldgate, and lodgedlortether at a house near their place of business. On Friday night Mr. Tyrrell received inform..th.,, that a mur der had been committed en a child by DPII, at a place in the Kent-road, end that the Prisoner had been seen in his company a short time previously. Mr. Tyrrell immediately sent for Forester, aid directed him to go to the lodgings of Dean and Williams, and take the first who came_ home into etrthly. Williams returned about twenty minutes after nl,iP oh Friday eveniog, and Forester secured him as he had been directed, and toodected him to the watch-house. lie refused ter give any reply to several questions pet to him by the constable, observing, that he slinela re serve what he had to say for the ear of the Ma. gist rate. Sarah Williams, grand-mother to the murdered chil;l, residing with Mr. and Mrs. Albert, the parents, stated, that her grand.daughree was g h os t your years and a quarter old. On Friday evening Robert Dees came to the house of Mr. Albert about seven in the evening, accompanied by the Prisoner. They after. wards went out together, and in shout a quarter of tsp hour Dean returned alone. He had always appeared remarkably fond of the child, and she was extremely attached to him. s:re was playing in the street when Dean returned, and Mrs. Williams called her in, and told her that Dean was come. She immediately left o • playing.ran to Dean,and upon his taking her up put her arms round his neck. lie then said that heshould boy her some apples, and took her with him to a neighbouring' shop for that purpose. Not returning immediately, Mrs. Williams went out to look for the child, and observing her in Dean's arms with an apple in her hand she was about to return, when Dean requested . her to go to a shop a' few doors off, and purchase a few articles for him. She did es lie had requested, hut had not been in the shop more than two minute' when she heard a cry of murder, and saw a goesi number of persons run towards 1114 daughter ' s ! rou ge. She made all possible haste to the same place, and upon arriving there saw the child being supported by her father, and the blood stre•mitg from a dreadful wound in the throat. Dean was gone. The onfor. tenets infant languished about half an hour. pired ; and another wound was then discovered on the lower part of the stomach. The circumstance occurred about eight o'clock, or a quarter a ft er May, the officer, upon heariog of the transaction, went to St. Thomas's-street to the residence of the parents, for the purpose of Making erigtilre and ob. taining information. He arrived a litileinefore nine, the child was then dead, and Mra. Albeil in i fit.— The evidence given by Mrs. Willimins'esmeigede , _ in every particular with what he heard epwit-tbe si is here the murder was committed.' Some other eke cuoistatices came to his knowledge, which appear. , to explain, in some meatuses*, the soaves oT thi morterer for the perpetration of . the • horrid deed.—. During the visit of Dean on Fiiiliy erenifig;llol. Albert chided him, in terms of great seaerity;for haring formed some improper connection With per. sons' of depraved character, and Gtr squandering away. his money upon his immoral associates. Ile appared to be extremely hurt at her remonstrances,. but said nothing that indicated an intention of lak. tog any sera Of tonne for the freedom with which she had Spoken to MM. About eight o'clock Mrs: Albert was• hoererbstruck on perceiving her child staggering int* the room where she was sitting, with a dreadful gash in her throat, from which the blood flowed in II torrent. ; , .-The poor little infant f a intly" cried, " Mother, Mother!" and fell down. Dr. Welshman and two medical men were sent for, and did every thing for the little sufferer that could be performed by skill and experience. , The Prisoner said that he parted with Dean at the 'Surrey Theatre, between &even and eight o'clock,' and had never SPPO him since. Dean said et parting, that he intended to go into the Borough, sod went* in that direction. Dean bad not been home to his lodgings since Wednesday. Prisoner could not ac count for his conduct ; he appeared a steady and good-tempered man when sober, but was extremily ferocious when intoxicated; but he was not aware that Dean was inebriated ou Friday ; be knew 110. thing of the murder himself, until informed by Fu. realer, who took him into custody. • S..►era! persons came forward to prove that the Pr •s•rrier was at a COW•iliffatllP (1192311CP from Thomas's. street at the time of the murder, that tie spent the evening with some friends of great respectability, and went to his lodgings at his usual hour. —He was die. charged. Dean has absconded. May and Goff, the officers, , a r e m a king diligent search after him, and hopes are entertained that their efforts will not he unsuccessful. lie is five feet eight inches high, Roman n ese, f u ll face, and rather handsome. lie was dressed iu a coat .and pantaloons• of grey coloured cloth. • The woonds appear, to have been inflicted with' a 'pehliniftt thMin the throat an inch and a half dew, end three inches lueg•; the point of the knife ap. pears to. have entered a li , tle below the left ear, and to have taken): slanting di ecttou• to the front of the throat. 7:" .. • , - - ~. Friday meaning a young man nnmed John Smith, wits found drowned in the River Thames, near Ful. ham-bridge,• he had been. totisxed several days; he was eaeldwyrd in a huge, and it is supposed that he accidentally fell into lb. % eter, an 4 was drowned. he Inquest was held at Uxbridge,. on Saturday, .ory .4 he 404 of Atesander Ftetchee, an outpinsiltaiPr 'of Chelsea ['nitrite!, who runs found drowned in the Grand junction Canal. Verdict-,-Dcath by Acci dent. The Coroner very kindly woote a letter, di retted to the Clergyman of. the place which deceased lcame from, in .order that his friends might be ee (ainted with the greet, end receive the penviou i money due. . _ ~_ J • ~. • .., ONO .PLICE. O. ..•- • 'r t ‘,. 11. fr . _.,.....-- . . • 4 ' at -SHAMING FITS. MANSION.HODIE....4I woman of very decent ap. ;libertine', who would not tell her name, and said she was a Stranger to town, was charged with biting an officer who went to apprtThend her for having shainnted - fits in tho streets, by which practice it seems she obtained a very comfortable livelihood. By way of exciting the compassion of those who .surrounded her, she testified the violence of her ma. taiy-by.tenring the bonnet and hair of a young wo man, who charitably endeavoured to recover her, and submitted to this abuse without a murmur. The Officer, who had been accustomed to her pranks, soon brought her to herself, but was rewarded for his kitidnee by a bite in the arm. The woman said it was all the consequence of her 'disorder. Mr. Teague said she bad not only shammed fits, hot shammed execution opon heraelf, baring tied a piece of string round her neck in the prison, and fastened it to a nail which was not strong enough to support **infant. She also took good care that her neck shoal(' Twelve no injurious or disreputable im. 1 prestion c fur she placed a nice soft pad between it and the cord. ' The LOUD MAYOII ordered her to prison. FORGED NOTE AND BANK tVSPECTORS. GviLDll A LL.--Oit ?flaw, Wtlliani Brown, . a young man about 18, was brodght up for • second, Ind on Saturday for a third examination, charged with uttering a forged note for el., with intent to de. tread the Bank of England, toMr. Lloyd, of Attiers. pte.street.----[See the first examination iti the STATESMAN of Tuesday last.) It only required theovidence of one Garrett, who received the notelfrom. Mr. Lloyd, and deposited it in the hands of the officer, to bring home the charge. 'That person proved, that the address given by the *thriller at Lloyd's-Wog-false, and that it was the identical note he was stoat to pass, which he lodged 'llth the'constable when he was given in charge. ' The constable corroborated this statement, and ;lidded, the Prisoner repealed that his name %sus Smith when he booked MP charge. The Prisoner persisted in se) ing that he thought the note good; he bid taken it from a Gentleopin who had gone into the country ; where, he could not say, nor could lie tell when he meant to return.--•-lie had no friends, nor did he think any person would Come to ipenk for him. Mr. Alderman WtiTtnivr said. he had placed himself in a very perilous situation by giving a false. natopand addles,. 'There was the .trungest presump. tine for concluding that he knew the note was had, although he might be but the dupe of others. If he *Rs, it rsnuid be a pity that the putijihrApni due to the red criminal should he visited upon him. Ile wou!d, tt.erf-ture, give him some farther time for re •flection before he would commit him ; and if he could lir : Odic.. Mr. Smith (whose name he tial squinted), or 'any other friend, to show how he could be possessed of the note, or hew his character had previously stood, he might yet avert the danger that threatened him. • The Worthy Alderman having consulted fora few 'Moments with Mr. Blamer, the Solicits* then in the ?tittertitth offere*—bit •ptifesiiosist as. Ace to the Prisoner. • •r - 1 7 41ir was then remanded for some days. lii - ihe'course of the examination, Mr. Alderman WAiveletAx enquired of the clerk to the Solicitors of :the Bank (who had been present on the brat day) if Aviv was any this% to be added beyond the evi(!ence 'given by the Inspector (Mr. Christmas) in proof of the fabrication of the note. ' Mr. PAYni, the clerk to the Magistrates, said fbltf the evidence given by the Inspector on the first examination was complete; it was to this effect— " It is torged in every respect ; it is not the Bank plate; tire'paper, nor the ink ; ner is it the signature lof the clerk (Middleton) by whom it professes to be ~ iii v.'l Weed." The Clerk to the Solicitors said the evidence was still stronger. •for there was no such clerk as Mid. dleton in the Mink in such a capacity 115 to sign dUCh n note ; there could therefore remain no doubt of Ike forgery. The. Clerk to the Solicitors then begged leave to address the Magistrate upon another subject. Ile, said that he bad not the honour of attending the first examination, but he had been made acquainted with whit had happened by Mr. Christmas, the Inspector. Besides this, however, the public Papers had given the thing much publicity, and, he believed, had added something which did not occur. It was stated, that on that occasion, a Gentleman present had observed, that he had known a rerent ins . ance 44 where three' In spectors out offive had declared the note to be good, while the remaining tzco contended that it was bad!" lie had now to ask whether - such a declaration was made in the hearing of the worthy Alderman—publie comments had been widely made upon it? Mr. Alderman WareirmArt recollected having him• self made some ottervations upon mistakes made by Bank clerks in their judgment of notes, but he ctirtflnry did not hear the declaration now alluded to. The worthy Alderman entered into a long train of ob. serration, in which he characterised the great utility and blessings of a free press, and bestowed some handsome encomiums on many individuals, whom for years he had known, and who were connected with it, There were identified, he was conscious, with the-public press, men not only of talent, but the highest integrity; and though he had not the pleasure of knowing the names of Gentlemen whose ' faces' were familiar to him, and whose labours he had witnessed for years, he felt also as firmly convinced that they would not wilfully be guilty of the slightest misrepresentation. Shameful errors, however, had I somehow or other crept in, and vile misstatements had been made. Frauds even, it was known, had been attempted to be practised by persons professing to belong to the public Papers. It therefore beho►ed Gentlemen who really did attend in the capacity of reporters, to state '• the truth, avid nothing but the truth." The Gentleman who reported the case which gave rise to these observations stepped forward, Ile said it had been his duty to attend on the day in question, and conceiving the esamination of Brown, arid what followed to be estremely interesting to the Public, he had paid the most acme attention to what passed. I T-he observations of the worthy Alderman himself, - S -'+~ .'T. , ;; as to the not oritiO IMPS% 01.1110 k df; 17 "."I'llig • • r 11C- lag tad taking in payment bad fin Rood mu tes , • • MP " Phi, ilyied him to as due on impression of what felt f row 111„, a Inspector, sserted i aa hat ito .. ed i I n i t i i a t t e esh impossible" efrb allit of el fur rsoienr k iv , :c h tos i t to he mistaken; ao Inspector "could tell at a glance!" It was at this moment that a Gentl er's present, with apparent surprise, denied ae assertion, owl repeated the circum• quoted of the singwas judgment office Fhe individual who toossouisced it was yards from the Aldermen himself; ai tion was made in e distinct, theugb sufficiently loud, however, .as• he ( conceited, to b. heard by ail *boat the desk. The cosisesplence was, that be it round, and mentioned the fact, briei Gentleman, then also in etteudanee Paper. The Clerk to the Solicitors said, e Clog the fact, which no one would not was, in his judgment, improper to st, which was not recogoiaed by the Magist ea evidence. The R e porter said, that he would grille to the utmost relent ; but he torbmiti obaervations of the Inspector, and i" hlagistrate himself, with regard to ti Clerks and Inspectors, were net therefore thought the reply of the Gent Christmas of too pertinent a nature to b. If the desk to the Solicitors were disposed its. Inspector, and the Worthy Alderman the .matter, he was reedy to adduce, ' numerous cases in which Inspectors of been deceived silo the stature of ,go o d Ilia attendance in public places and p forded him evidence of the fact, hot hotorious as the sun at Doan day.—[ll‘ 'lemon of known respectability behind said they were each ready to furnish ' in point, if, necessary.] The Reporter, iii continoation, at object of the Clerk was to defend the the Bai.k Inspector*, he trusted it we Irate'', or be said to be unheard, erl report it, that Mr. D.ristoras had, r thittati..n, amongst other proofs Ole lion of the one pound note, said, that signeture of the siauing desk, *hose • ( tended to be" at the end of the mate; to the Solicitors subsequently declared, clerk as the individual whose name wr pose was in the employment of the .pacify of signing such a 'tele. Mr. Alderman WAITIIMArt admit the case, but he would make istafurt than espial's his conviction that the be remembered a considerable time) full) or negligently misrepresent while he felt equally conscinuti of his After some unimportant observiW licitors' Clerk, the conversation CPR , BOW•STONET —Ou Satorday .shit full) committed by Mr. Htcas, , the trate, to take his trial for passing a under the following circumstances the pariah of St. Gi!ts swore that I to hits hovers on the peening of the sampan) with another man, and said fiery iU,and that he witted a coupler On the Prisoner's receiving the wine, note in pa)inent,and received in eacha, the following evening the other house, and said the other wine was wished to have three bottles more of tiered a 51. note for the same, and change. The landlord, upon putti together, was struck with the sins' natures, and upon making eisqairl found them to be forgeries. The peered, had given a false address, s not seen him since, till he saw him Officer. The Officer deposed, this the Prisoner he fourid a 11. note. the Rank proved the 51. notes to also the IL note found upon the Pri softer is s grate demure-looking m. sod 50 years of age, and shed tears front the bar. Janice Longhurst was broaght ui Officer, charged with stealing 6% pi end valuable kind, the property sal Sunbury. ,It appeared in evidence, . mentioned is afagicier of pigeons, and keeps 300 or 400 of those hirds'in an enclosed spot near her own resi. deuce. A few.rno i titirsgs since, the servant, whose duty ii was to frool,Aego, discovered that the doll houses bad, in the course of the night, been broken .into and pluodered of a great number of birds. Se. ,veral were found lyingdead neer the enclosure. The Leidy, full of anxiety for, her darling blade, WWI information to be forwarded to this Office of the robbery, and Satinets went to severs! of the bird fanciers in the metrepolis and gave directions Gam the subject. The Prisoner ufered i i *awl* f or *ale at a ahtip.ia the New-road, and left there there, promising to call again. Ile was soon after appre hended by a Mr. Gattang,a dealer in birds,who took him himself to a watcb-hence. The Prisoner, who is very respectably connected, said he purchased the pigeons of a stranger upon the road, near the parish of Therp.—He was fully committed to Newgete foe trial. of( A. foot race for 100 guineas aside took plate be 4 tweet' those celebrated pedestrian*, Rayner, of fkeolt and Blumtnll, the painter, near Canterbury, on day last, for 10 miler. Blumaell, in June Mt, d e " feated Rayner, on the Ilford 'road, in Etscs; het tea former, from his confidente in his ow ti lieetnesa. go" the painter the advanta4e of 4*o & wi t., and a hail at starting. The race nf !Ffivlay was weld contestedv and althitugh Raynor had lath,/ the lead, et the con* elusion of silt miles they were close together. Ratites at length got the start, and only beat Ilunatell by s few yards. The course, led Mlle's, was :!crompli.iti by the winner in the very short time of 58 'Pinto"' The condition of the painter was tint gand ; or" it mast have proved a very doubtful paint. ItO n ' t is a five runner, and, for a long distance, is smolt `without an equal. L" 'S DON PristO orst Pub hv D. Livv•tt. Si4Trlvar. err:cr., No. I, flrec-.lol` • ,1 t a Gentleman eft the troth o f listener already , e inspectote.—. hot a very f e y and his &cilia. • not loud ton e; (Ow Reported ) hp Msitistraten instantly toto.d ,dy. to another e fora diornel that 'von adroit. now questi on , i t sho e ~n y ;istfNte, or gyp • I admit tWig4 dimmest thet Assn foe wort , the judgment of i; evidence, lgs 'HUMID to n be ossitted.-... posed to ilelassa ratan world ben t CP, by evidence, of the Bank had id and bed notes. public offices 4. thy !hit% was ee ['PIP gone G eo . rid Ike RPllOllllf, I him with a case said, that if do ha I 'fluid tint he for. j when he Came to on the first ri p vn of ti , e it " lt*o9 Om • Ise writing it pro ,; while the cleft I red, that no skis was affixed to t)* Batik, in the ono it 144 the this Ira Tiber observable' • Reporter (*bow: 1 .) • ,, uld not , Soy iloceediag, lie iiite % itty. tions hoot the "ino km Curpeater rose .olg Mils* toted 51. note, public" in the PrOAeollt 13th 4414tifit lid his zr,..7 eof tot , e, he tendered alt. change 41. lOr.Ort man came to his so good, that..ho • of it. Ile also ten. received his fait ling the two mitt "%darn, of theaige e at the Banks e Prisoner, it ep- and said he .bad in custody of the at t i poll Imitating The Sol citric of he forgeries, end risotier. The Pa- man, tsetse', 40 s upon being 14ke0 up by Selnon, the pigeons of a raw of Miss Snow, of ce, that the Letif __J 1 nr •.1 Nil!! AttSMVIT , i 0 • r-Tw r ~, I r• I I T i