The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1803-04-09 00:00:00

MULL•INGAR ASSIZES.

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MARC
This day cornmenced the trial of Pat! id
for the murder Joseph M'Cutcheon, of the
ty of W.,stmeath. l'he commission of the
was attended with circumstances of tile ;
est barbarity, sehich appeared from the
dente to he as follows :—The prisoner stood
debted to the deceased in the sum of ten guineas
an half, for goods the deceased had delivered •
prisoner's father to sell for him, the amount
which the prisoner took up—That the prisoner.
time to time, had appointed meetings for''
pose of paying this money ; ore, in particular,
bog adjoining his father's house, at which 0.
is supposed, the prisoner intended the murder ,
deceased. On the day on which the murder
committed, and for the perpetrating which
other cause appears to he assigned than to avoid
payment of said demand, the deceased came •
house of the prisoner's father—The prisoner's
was absent, but the sitters of the prisoner were
house, one of whom he sent for spirits,
other was sent for the uncle of the prisoner.
the purpose of being prtsent at the payment
deceased's demand, and no person remained
house but a girl of the name of Mary Owens.
der these circumstances, the prisoner thought
the best period for him to carry his intentions
drat, and for that purpose invited the ,
to go with him into an adjoining out-house
look at a pig. The deceased accordingly acc
nied him, carrying in his hand an ink-h: tile,
some paper, which articles were found upon
person at the time he was taken up murdered.
prisoner, a day or two before, borrowed
for the purpose, as he said, of Mpairing . _
but it was with this instrument he committed ,
horrid crime, as it eas found shortly after, concealed
in a rick of strait in a yard adjoining his -
house, with blood on the blade and different
of it. The first blow the deceased received
the upper part of the head ; the prisoner
struck him with the edge of the hatchet v
face ; and that not completing the death,
struck him a violent blow across the throat,
nearly severed his head. The whole of this t
tion took Up !Mt a very few minutes, after •
returned to the house, where he met his
eat and drank with him. Upon being
with respeEt to what had become of the
the prisoner replied, he had gone to the ,
Boherquil, tq look at a mare. The prisoner
found guilty,' cnd ordered to be executed the
of March.
Same day thg trial of Yaw CgSy cattle
the murder of Bridget Coffey, his wife '
=Mg arsenic to her. From the confession _
prisoner, taken before a Magistrate, it
plze,
that he had bought the poison at an A q
It.
shop in Mullingar, about a fortnight - - ' •
wife's death, part of which he.mixed with
was boiling for his wife's supper. When •
in bed about an honr,she was seized with
Inking, and said there was something in
mother gave her that was killing her.
that he bought the arsenic under the
wanting it to kill rats, and brought with
of the name of James Mee, to convince .
care's boy that it was for that purpose,
no improper use would be made of it.
fort to kill her proved indict:WA, and ,
the leth of Feb. he mixed the remainder
son in some porridge he had made for !
deferred giving it to her on this. day, until
when he was to be from home, and did r
be in the house when she died. He declared
no accomplice in committing the horrid
that he never communiented his intention
ing his wife to any person. The prisoner
found guilty, and ordered to be executed +.
March.

John Loughry liras charged with murder,
ter hearing evidence, he was acquitted.
—..mossp.

WEXFORD ASSIZES.

A very navel, interesting, and important
came on to be heard at Wexford on Tuesday
before Lord Noatmair, in the Record'
was an aaion of damages, in which Min
was Plaintiff, and Henry L. Tottenham,
Defendant. The Plaintiff laid his
5001.
It appeared in evidence, that on Sunday, b.
June last, the plaintiff, after attending Divine
vice in the Established Church of New Ross, it -
bled, in company with many of the respetable
habitants of the town, in order to preach
streets, and that as plaintiff was in the ad
and immediately after he had been praying
King, the Defendant, who, it appeared, was 4..
vereign of Ross, came with a military guard,
brought him to the gaol, where be was c
from two o'clock in the afternoon of Sunday, 'ilk
eleven o'clock on Monday, when he was -di*.
charged.
After a display of great eloquence by Mr. Bura
rowes for the Plaintiff, and Mr. Fletcher for the De-
fendant, and a very abig charge from the Learned
Judge, in which tbipv on the subjea was fully
laid down, the Jury, after retiring ?or half aa
hour, brought in a verifie rot the Plaintiff of gOftl.
damages, and bd. costs. TNI Defendant called uu
witnesses.
iesmsenseemerele
Ditcorotv of Antiquiia at Partll.ilLr.
sive heats thajrrevailed in dw mrksth of '1
bad almost lard bare one of tht Stun of t.
Saone, at Poutailler, and ninny inhabitants
country, while endeavouring to procure r
building, which they found in large qu
that part tithe river, discovered columns,
fragments of marble, instruments of
figure of bronze abont ten inches high,
a naked woman rising out of the water,
her hands wringing out the water with .
hair is moistened. 'Mk figure is remarkably
fat, and beets the attest proportions. C.tizt
centrist repaired to Puntailler and caused
dons to be made is the bed of the r;••
these researches. end shoe made prevt
pears, that these have been discovered
instruments which beloag to sergery•
medals In bronze of the Emperors `em
Nero, Amalgams§ Demitian,



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fined in the
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sought this .
entions into 1 . ' i
e deceased
it-house to ;
' accompa.
•h•ltle, and •
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ered. The
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the house ; . ' . /.[
arnitted the ,
r, concealed ' \i'j
his father's . , ~
fferent parts . c 1
dyed was on
loser again.
let upon his •
li, he agaqt
moat, which
this transac, ;
ter which he •
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s uncle, and.
e quesuoneci• 4 I
Fic deressedi, it
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rated the Sl* 1 ;
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rith milk that.- •
she had bear ' - i
h a violentvo. i •
s the milk lais,••
It appeased f(
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he pretest it • i
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ith him a mum
e the Apothe. V
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This first ef+
i on Saturdar .
ier of the poi-
his wife. H.
until the next. • - '
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id not wish to
eclared he had .
orrid aft, and '1
tion of poison. • 1
[saner was also ' ti
iced the 31st of
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MARC!! 30. s(L ,
aurder, but af. ,
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mpoTtlnt calve ,
1 Tuesday last, 1
:ord Court. It
rohn M•Renzie
diam, Esq. was ( ;
Is damages at ' •?,
anday, the fl 7 t h .
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,
ng Divine Ser. !
w Ross, asscm•
e respeaable in- ,
preach in the . i
he aft of prayer,
praying for the
ed, was the So. •
ary guard, and
e was cor.fined

left was lA/
g ftr half an.
ontiff of 200:, •
chug &Aired us, .
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of Thertnidot 11,
I of the River
IbitittnS of the
cure stones for
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mow,
f copper and-is
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