The Sun. — London, England, 1811-01-12 00:00:00

OLD 'I',F itti D .ri:~ X. ----JAN. ' I L. • John Bowles was indicted for the wilful mni der of be t w ife, Anne Bowles, on the eveningeolthe etath of Deceit:o,er. The ties witness examined in. support. of the charge was Elieebeth Bland. She deposed ; that 103g,:d in the same house with the deceased, and tee prisoner, ;,ti the evening specified in t;ft! indidment, ai No, 17,..1earh street, Seven Dials. -e-The prisoner carte leen , ' about fix F.0:10 intoxicated, and sat iti• her room ,f , r soine time, his wile tiring out ; he then teok a candle, and went to his own apartment. Weness did not see him aeein unt eight Cdock, when saw him bringing !ionic tits wi f e from a wine s.n,lt the heighbourhond, kept by ri person hauled Rindwin, wbe.ke. he hitt rnon, ; 'l) ,, r, in company" with a %outlet) named s u ed e to whom he tied vein ceslike, and whose society .ittee had desired his wife to shun. On arriving et the r feot e of the steirs leading to his, room, he' bade his wife go up, hut she refuaed, and sat.' down on the steps. The prisoner entnediately struck her a violent blow on the left side of the head with his double Gist, and renewed his coni:. unano , i, that she should ge.'te her room,, but she eeisieed in her teiusel. Finding she would not comply with his wisees, lie took her iii his antis, and carried her up, ~kid on arriving in his apart- reeve, he steed( her enuther ' blow; she fell, and lie kicked her abeet the • body: - Witness and the landlady, and atiother Woman, 'Who were present thirriog this vielesece, l,egg ed hint to desist' trout hie cruelty; Which he at length, promised, and they,: witric43 and' the oilier woUieit, lett the room. e e e et a , i varter ut age hour natt wards they weneup again, anti, on entering the ape tweet s of I he pi 1- eoner, they pores-'iced the deceased lying on the sacking of the tied, deed, Witneeseeted out, "Ott ! Dowles, pee have killed your wife!" Upon •which he twat hiss, kade that She lea.l 1,. nil io a tit, and that he bad placed her ou the b d. Mine, iremeMieely asked, it any of the fai.ulty had Lken fient tor, when the prisoner, in great agitation, re- Phect in the negative, and rushed out of the house without lei'. hat, in s , :areh of a medical geetletuan.— a h ou r t en oiinutc, lie returned with a Mr, ' SPewart, a sureepn, who, on examining the body, and holding a looising.gla3, to the mouth, pro financed her dead. non; that t'me until two o'clock In the morning, the prisoner did not leave the home : he -wee then taken into . cared) , by Lnikriek; the Odicer. ; The cause of the quarrel witness underStOdd to haye originated in the deceased having spent five shinnies in litpaor, which her hus band gave her in the morning to purchase a mattress fOr his eldest dauglitet', together with her being in company with Mrs. Smith. A woman, who was going by the house at the time the prisoner brought his wife home, bore tes timony to his having struck her most violently at the foot cif the stairs,. The street-door being then shut, she was Occluded trout making further ob,er.. vation. Mary Togwell, the landlady of the house in which the prisoner and the cleeeesed used, stated that site heard the prisener and his wife muffling, wet that she went to ast.ertain, the cause of the quarrel, When she saw , this prisoner strike his wile on the head. He' 4Sked the deceased to go up Stints ; she refteied. He repeated hie request sue eral limes; but she still refused. fie, then week her a violent bl ow e s the head, arid carried tier up Stairs . in lily films; when I,C got her into the mem, he 'struck ' her again ;• she fell i ; and he stamped upon her body. During this violence, the prisoner irtinently.asked his wire " where the tit's shillingse ern ;" and ap peared greatly enraged tit her being With Mrs. smith. Witness freeptentirentreekd the prisoner to desist from his,vietecice, which he et length pro. enised, rind she went dOwn stalls, Ili about a gun.- ter of an hour site .wear up into the prisoner's room again, and saw the deceased Iyiie on the bed. The' prisoner said his wife had had a tit,' and that he had lifted her:on thehed. Witness said his wife was dead, which he discredited, and seemed Much agi tated. The prisoner then went, fa a surgeon, and returned with a gentleman named Stewart, who pronounced Mrs, Bowlee dea4.htet could not say whether she lid died from the '.violence with which r she had been treroed, for from fits. Tile le isoner sheet apprehended at two o'clock the ensuing fliorn ing. On her cress-examination, the witness de clared that the had. attended Mrs. Brawler pa cue ticcAttion in a 111. M a ry l'on;ey lodged its the .next room to • the pri viler and his. wife. Ott the night on which the offence described was committed, she beard a noise i n ,re o wles'e room, and on going to the door, site saw the prisoner kick ins vine, who was lying on the floor, in the body. Site begged the prisoner to des gist, which he promised, and she.,, fats. Bland, and Mrs. Togwell, who were .present, Went During the foregeing scene, the child of the prisoner leas in the room ,crymg violently, ‘/Ituess, while in her own_ room, atterWards heard the prisoner •sk his wile What , ehe had (glide willet he thugs he •old h e r to buy, to which she leptir,.d, that she had rawned them. Witness did net know to what this question referted. , She then heard the prisoner ettike her again, and her cries were repeated; she also heard the child in(reat her father not to beat her mother then, but to beat her a g a i n on t h e en . suing clay. Witness alterwardi went into the roficn with Mrs. Toewell and Mrs. Blend, and saw Mien Ito wles dead on the bed. .Mts. Bland suegeeted the p r opriety of sending for a DUCA OT , MI, IS OWICS 411- me dialely rad out without his hat, sod brought lilt . . Stewart. .The prisoner did not attempt to leave the house after, until he was apprehended. He was much ill liquor at the time this violence was go tog forward. Witness, train her living` in the next room, had frequent opportunities of hearing the deceased cry out, " Pray don't beat me." She un derstood that „the five shillings,. to which the ri te-later alluded, bad been given to the deceased by enie, tr, pnechriee rt mattress for their eldest daugh so, who was out at SerViCe.. She believed the pri. ,soner to be an industrjoustnan, and believed that the tketm:ied was sometimes liquor. Mr., Charles Bell, a surgeon, deposed that he was called in by titrya medical gentlemen, to view the d , sseetien of . the body of the deceased. When he went into the room, the three principal cavities ,o 1 the body were laid open, but nothing touched; he meant the abdome4, the chest, and the head. . Hi 3 first attention, Was directed.to the abdomen, where he saw a slight blush or inflammation, and wit hitt the stonindi he saw a considerable quAntitv •of fluid, which from its smell;' conceivea to be gin. Nothing preternatural was observable in the cl.e,t. On the head were marks of blots, but tin der the scalp.oiter the scull theme was no appearance of frac:titre on the how., and on . opentug the.scull 'cap If did not appear to by any injury, tior-Aere there any symptutns on the. meint»anes , of the brain winch implied violence. On the surface of the brain he found strong ethision, and on rens.og the bran' he discovered a larger coagulum of 0100. n lI atn•rwards examined the ves.et under the brain, and found a large transverse wound in onc of the 'principal arteries, lie conceived the cause of the death of the deceased to be the effusion of blind which arose (ruin the rupture In the blood-vessel to which he had alluded pressing on the brain. On being asked by Baron IvIACDOPI4LD whether he come rived the vrolenct., with the decensrd lead Lei) treated, to be the cause of the efftnnoti of b1,,0d which led to the iatal consequences that had been described—be ansuetcd, that it was a. clues. tion of some difficulty. Morn trie state of Life:- vesconce in which the vessels Were, in consequence of the great Tallinn y of liquor which had been drank by the deceased, the serious effualort Ott the brain might have been occasioned, and flow the increased action of the fluids arising truth the same cause, lietoceived it a sloth: approaching to alio _ I.lexy. Ctider this circumstance a blight a i , , ,i,Jout), or a blow, would produCeAm etlect' winch would take place had nut the subject been .11 4 litaio of If lie bad nut heard ut , violence, lee sln,uld have ascribed the rupture ut the atm y to a common case of apoplexy. Ile could not.st ut e to state, that. the rupture had been occasioned any one how. II the deceased had !alien down in a tit, or front any Sather cause, the stoic titte.a might have been produced. Mr. Stewart, the Surgeon, who was first• canto in to the deceased, abto bore testimony to the dis section of the body. He examined the head, and tound fOur tunnies on the outer skin, which, irue.l their appearance, he .did: not think to have at.scm e irons any violent blows. He was firmly of opinion, that no one of those blows could have been th-4 cause of the, rupture in the artery, winch has I. ready bt:eit'alescrtbed. It r4 . :ss • hard to say to what cause the rupture was 4ttributable, whether to in , ebriattun or to blows. lie was rather of opinion, however, that it arose front passion ut' stiug,gliag, as he could trace no ()vie, external walk of violence to be the immediate cause of Oath. The evidence ' tur the prosecution here cloned, when several ,w itnesses were called to the character of the prisoner ; amongst whom was his bruther, who deposed, that the prisoner was a hard working industtious man, of a humane disposition, a pod lather, mid an indulgent husband. Of the .de-, ceaSed, be spoke in very different terms, describ. mg her to . be a woman much additted to drinking spirithous ll q so much so, as even to pawn the bed from under her to supply her, inclination. Baton MA c D0N,13..n summed up the evidence with great minuteness, and observed, that the Jury, he tote they found the prisoner .gu Ity, must be, snot,. lied that the Wows which he ban given were the caow of the death of his wife, it this fact, they would be enabled to forth their judgment from the testimony. of the surgeons. , It they bad a doubt on their minds, the prisoner should, of course, have the bend fit of it. The Jury„ alter a short consideration, returned a ucquittul. The prisoner was much agitated during the whole of his trial. Antonio Car(losa, a Portuguese sailor, Sarah Biotime,, alias Gouts, Mar:y Rogers, alitis Mills, were nexttried, on an indiztinent, charging them with the wilful murder of Thomas Davies, on the even tog of the 12th of December. James Davies, the brother of the deceased, who was an English sailor, stated; that on the evening of the day mentioned in • the indictment, he ac companied the deceased to the Newcastle Arms public-house, in Nightingale-line, Wapping. Hav ing partaken of some gin, and danced a little, they deputed. Previous to their leaving the house they observed the male prisoner sitting in the tap room ; they had no knowledge whatever of him.— Witness and his brother proceeded up Nightiogate lane, until they arrived at the corner of Landland's :rents, where they saw three women, the two fetunie prisoners and 'another, The deceased ' took Mary Rogers round the waist, which she resented by striking hint on the head with het pattens. Wit ness endeavoured to eicuse his brother,- by saying, that he was groggy, and offered to give them some thiniftedrink ; but instead ,of beiog appeased, rah Browne struck at him with her umbrella, Which he evaded, and seizing the umbrella in - his hand,. after some difficulty and resistance, .he got it from tier, and threw it into a green-stall. In thus scuffle she fell down;. and, while on the ground, cried out, " Antonio, Antonio why don't you go fur Anto nio?" In a. few Minutes witness saw 'Antonio, the prisoner, come ow of the NeWcastle Arms, aceom,- panied by some other Portuguese sonlors, and on coming up to him, Antonio and another seized him by the collar; he knocked ono of them down, and Struggled for a short 11111 d with Antonio, from whose blows he defended himself and got away.— Antonio then proceeded towards the deceased, who .was standing on the pavement, and on arriving at the spot, Sarah Browne exclaimed, ThAes. the '7"r"" who need me so ill," upon which Antonio struck him on the backomd knocked him down.— Witness shortly atter saw his brother rise, nod run about forty Yard', crying, " 0 Lord, I am killed !"---- He then fell, and on witness coming tip to him, he could not speak ; he wt s jai nNiiately sonveyed to a surgeon's, where he expired - , in two Minutes. On examining, his back a ,wound was found, to which hig death was attributed. While the prisoner was assaulting the dem,e'a, Sarah Browne cried out se veral times, Murder don't leave a bit of 'Hi e in bim ; all Englis!i -- ought to be served the same way." It ttas a moonlight night, and witness could plainly distinguish the countenances of ,the prisoners. Sarah Browne, it appearA, cohabited with Antonio. . Mary Pit:Mind, a servant belonging to the Dun dee Arms ptiblic-house, in. Nightingale-lane, de posed, thiit on the night in'questiou, about nine o'clock, site had been out Serving beer, and was re turning towards home, when sin, saw three women scoffling with the , deceased and his brother, and `heard Sarah BrOwn , , who was thrown on the ground, cry out for Antonio, whose person she very 'well knew, ts , ,d who she shortly atter . .aw come from the Newcastle Arms, in company -with some other 11101. On his corning up with the deceased, Sarah Browne said, " t 1 at is the who has used me thus; murder zinc ; don't leave a bit of life in ;" and immediately Antonio knocked him doss;n, and fdl upon him ;• while in that slim-, tion witness saw something glitter in the priSoner's •hand, which he plunged into the back of the de ceased, and then got op. ',ripe deceased also got op,..tind tan for some yaids, when he fell. Witness . : afterwards learned that he was &fact, and on going to Mr. Bell, tin!: surgeon's Iptusli, she sty him lying on the floor. She said she had no doubt that the prisoner had inflided the mortal wound. John Iron, the son of the landlady of the Dun dee Arms, corroborated the testimony of the first two witnesses. As to the quartet, he saw the de . - cea , :ed struck, taut could pot sty who gave th e bl ow . S.nah Rowel kne w t h e prisoner for three years. On .t he ,oight of the Murder she .saw him approach r:eccw3ed, knock him down,, and, cAheu down, in the back ; she could. out sty with wha .she also heard the ext.lamations of Sarah Bio.VIIC, aod sa 4' the dt.lceaSeti run, and afierwaed, lb • two. officers who apprehended the prisoner deposed, that they found hint in his ;thin at his 101.4(ng, getting kilo bed. S.,r.►h was also in the sank: room, ,and likewise appeared preparing to go to bed. ,Tlie jacket of Antonio had some mud upon the sho u ld er , no t d the clothes of Sarah BrOwne were co% eyed with shit. When the officers chel,red the objeet , of their visit, Anto nio cried out that he never carried a. knife:about him. Three per4ms were called to the .character of the prisoner, who said he was a p e ac ea bl e man , and had never been addicted to quarrels, The assistant to Mr. Bell, the surgeon, stated, that he opened the body of the deceased, ,and found that a sharp instrument had been passed between the AS next the spine, into ihe left lobe of the lungs, to which wound he attriliuted his death.. When Antonio was called upon for his defence, he di,clared his innocence in the most sol - Ann man ner ; and said that the witnesses had all sworn from motives of Spite. Sarah Browee Us° declared her innocence, ob serving, that she was assailed by the deceased in the first instance, and knocked down, when she called out fur some person, but whether fbr An onio ttr not, sire could trot say. • The Learned Jodge, Sir 7,toia Le, BL,4S>NC, than summed up the evidence with, his veinal periveoity, dwelling on each tact a* it occurred with.great nuteness, commenting on the testimony Of the se veral' witoeoses with precision, and describingjhe law of the case in a clear and comprehensive man ner. " If," he said, " the Jury were satisfied•that the male ptisolier had inflicted the wound' under the circumstances. , desciibed by the witnesses, his crime amounted, in ;he eye of the law, to murder, and a verdi& of guilty must 61 neeessity follow ; it, on the contrary, they douched that it wits his baud which inflicted the fatal wound, then he ;mist be acquitteiL With respect to Sarah Browne, to establish' her guilt to the foil extent charged, it. was necessary. it should be proved that a on fficient time had expired for her passion to cool, before she instigated Aut:Onio to the comtnissieu,of the murder.: if the Jury were of opiaion that she had acted under the impulse of passion, arising front her quarrel with the brother of the deceased, which was a natural presumption, they would find her guilty of tnan-slanghter only ; br,t i 1 thwy were of a contrary,opiniOn, their verdict would of course be guided by, that opinion, As to Mary Rogers, nothing had transpired to implicate her in the offence. She would, therefore, of course, be acclitted. With the Jury the matter rested, and his Lordship had no doubt their verdict would give satisfaelion to the Court." The Jury, after a short consideration, returned a vArdict of Guilly--lieuth, against Autdnio Cordosit ; they convicted Sarah Browne of Manslaughter, and acquitted Mary Rogers. The Het:muffin then passed sentence of death upon the untortunate man with the usual solemnity, and condemned hint' to be executed on Monday morning next, his body to be given for dissection, in pursuance , olAct of Par►iamernt. He is a well looking matt, 41 years old, and did nut seem much ap'k..cted at his fate. A wild duck having Made its appearance, on Wed nesday, on the Thames, between i_Ai.lort and West minster-bri,lges, a posse of nearly twenty cockney sportsmen soon assembled on the spot, and atter firing about thirty shots, siteeeedtd in killing It. There was a wedding - a flew days ago in the nelghbourhood . of Whitehaven, at which all the dal•'party wore first cousins; viz, the bride and the bridegroom; the bride's maid and bridegroom's man; told the parson and clerk, TUE ' KIN 6 C 1 F FILI\CE. following . Communicainm respecting th t t o ll Personage, as from a.Corresporaietn Watt Of' 4 for this month. •In making a tour in June, 18ob. I pas The wretched town of Woodstock, antl''10 1 :11 went with my family . t o view the .Cantta d " Pr ' by the adjoining palace of Blenheim, . Atter paying the finei Which are impose° fir three passes on travellers, for atterePill itify their curiosity in viewing this oatioil 4 " we reached the flight of steps leading Or !hall ; but were told by out condOtor , 'XVIII. the exiled King df France, not,' ing Blenheim ; a n d, . fi nding, that we migot , party by missing two or three rooms whi( seen, we gladly embraced the offer, and .1' : party of Ins Most CIITiStIITTI Majesty. Entering, : suddenly by a side 'door, in 1 1 , six or eight, .his Majesty appeared to tAe nd retreated fYac a moment through an into another room ; but obseit in that W e vis.ges of Englishmen, lie instantly ..and suiteyed us with much complacency. - !riceoinpanied by the Duke de Giammonti !or three other French noblemen, vi hose 'knew hot ; but Many powerful as'iociatiens , groupe a strong interest with ire. 4 could not but market at thus .rheet;ng King of France, a. grarid.grand-sert of in the very palace which 'Ltd been e reciel Parliarnept of England as a trophy , to th e had so often in the field humbled the. that ainhttiOns Bourbon. The incident .rendered more curious firm, the cireums• sill tbe walls of Blenheim are covered with representations of the triumphs of "' Marlborough, und to view these exagg'," l , l •,intiai ions was a voluniary pen:ince whieo Nionarch had imposed on lattthelf. The Ciceroni pertortning this delicate however, the ordinary showman, dre , Vd tawit!ry livery of. his Office, fli pp trstly and otlie lt-13ois his h tv I s I sir m a s i ied thousand:, o f the Mutinsherrs thiit Were . ken prisone tt; &c. ace. in every _ Wide. did I take him aside, and appri z e li to th a t CetlLiei of hospitality, and the u!):1!q nr lige,:c:e of hi 4 visitors, rettdertd , I CI4/C nations necessary. " I tikes . s 3ld f likes to tell h im t h e troth; " saute instant, and arnian g with ea.ecs*`;- curio wh:n he came to the battle of 1,61:1 1 l entered , into a flourishing thodornont. l3 (' v;ist superiority of the Fiend!, awl' . ' I &c. &c. when Louis, a little piqued,. Yes, it was a very bloody liattldl i. " --" the fellow; 4 . 'twenty thoutiand of the were killed on the spot !" His Majesty appealed to hare a very' c° ‘ in matters o f art, dwelt with plcasuie 0 " „ Carlo Dolci's, the lichens's, &c. dently as a compl , meni, to my part!', 1 3r ' faded groupes of Sir Joshua Reynold' , some matter of fact figures in the utto' u of tie year 1770. 11;5 condri.f.i and . made in pretty good Engludt, intelligence on bionri'eal and other AM sptilre with evident resc.ree ; 1 hope I . tisfied that some of the English (4,4 1 ' 2 , a strong desire to.shew him everypt.6silf•.t, anti were Atwell affeaed with the vule,ar Cieeroni. O4l, At the tomb, ler the ellarel i this /clic': ((Oil than cornm9nly boisterous in nis descrir. allegories of yict ory, of prostrate 00 11 ° 11 exhibited by the scoliitor. But I lost '0" when, on .departing, I saw hi m o ld ° ill to the Royal Potty, rand receive a fie 3 , 2 ',0 On this sabje4l I remonstrated ! , ste p r . was " did not get day, and instead of not paying at all , they ought to pay bettr than other pcol'o'' I. PriAile of Louis XVIII. is t the XVI. and I do. alit, -'l/10'. his Whelp contour is very like that 0 1 11. '",;iel I - le is very tat ; and waddles us rolls 1 ° 6 , f ,, in his walk. He has a piercing 444 „ /4 1 ' 1 4. i' takes a great deal of snuff his tat!' -(1 1 1° 1 being chseoloured by it. Hanituri good years to be the prevailing qt.f.tiity and he bears no outward sign of "" s ,i i - u cover the fort unes o f hi s f am ily. " too easy, and too likely to be misled )1 0 , ites, should thi n k him the very ram? act a people m i g h t liver happy under ' without disturbance from his iil-hai nL)ut bition. diln • his 01'r ) s o much short,o, 'thetoms X well-fad VIII. citizen, eatri es in n r I s3 :1;; ':; :# geittlemJn, that one. of my sons.;.' a ,ee . 0 ! 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