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London, England, 1825-07-27 00:00:00

WONDERFUL RECOVERIES.

Monday week a party from Aylesbury proceeded on their
annual visit to Velvet Lawn. and, as usual, took with them
all necessary good cheer. From the heat of the weather,
they wished to have their beverage cool, and with this view
sunk into the well of the Lawn Cottage, in a bucket, the
stone bottle, which contained the wine they carried with
them. In lowering the bucket, however, it so fell out that
the stone bottle fell in. A young gentleman belonging to
another party, on a similar excursion, volunteered his ser-
vices for the recovery of the bottle. A stick being passed
through the bucket chain, the youth took his seat upon it,
and was safely lowered into the well. The bottle was'
found unbroken, and was secured in the adventurer's
hand. While, however, the I arty were in the act of
winding the young gentleman up, the good woman of the
cottage, by her officious assistanv:•, contrived to get one of
her lingers caught in the chsin, and screaming out, as
women are sometimes wont, frightened tlic man at the
windlass, so as to cause him to lose his hold, and let the
gentleman
feet.
mai again.
c consternation ati ht:rnb°toitiomo' the depth of five-and
twenty f the parties round the;
will was extreme ; especially among the female relatives
of the young man, two of whom, his 'Asters, fell intolivate-
ries. Happily, however, he was soon heard to be
and a drag being procured, it was let down within his reach
and he was soon rescued from his perilous situation, and'
artived at die top, holding the drag by one hand, and the'
I:odic by the other.

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OXFORD CIRCUIT!
STAFTORDSII IRE ASSIZES, StineOßD, JULrld
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James Bartley was indicted for the wilful murder of Wiliirth
Price. The offence was laid differently in several counts, the death
being stated in some to hare been caused by besting, in others by
strangling, and in otheriVy drowning.
The prisoner pleaded Not Guilty. ' .•
He was rimed to be sixty years of age, 'and sera a man of ex-
tremely respectable appearance. "'
Mr. lit:sestet:mated, that in opening 41.
lb case he should merely-
give a narrative of the evidenee he should a.ltiuce. The prisoner.
for some time previous tit the month of June, kept a teem, and
carried on the busines.of a waggoner. The, deceased, who waves fine
young men of abo'jt cal year. ofsge, was in his ertiPlOy. It' would
appear that the printer had contracted for the carnage of some
timber on on estate at Market Drayton, which was twelve
iniles from Newcastle-tinder-Lyme, and the prisoner on the
pith of June was sent with the team for a part of it, and
on his way '•home be get 'to a public house at Knighton,
Which was ,two miles from Drayton. After drinking there for
softie dine he proceeded towatds Neheastle, and at Whitmire,
which was 011 nearer to Newcastle, the prisoner met the deceased
sod the leitn d roan named Jerits being in the prisoner's com-
pany. The deceased expressed, himself in very strong terms of the
pehumer's debit in bringing licabe the load, bat the rattles all cams
to the prisooer'st arable in Newcastle. Jervis then went into the
hdttie, and never again New the deceased alive, and it would appear
that the prisoner hurried Jervis to bed, and went out of his house'
inotenet agitation. Thidtrought it to a Friday night. or rather sa.
tarday morning, end on the Thursday following the body of the de-
ceased was found in a canal about three quarters of a utile from the
boqse cf the prisoner, end 300 yardt 'torn the house of the deceased's
father. From the mariner in whiCh the body was found, there could
be no doubt that the deceased had been murdered by some one. To
connect the prisonet wilt the. transaction, it would be proved that
AO the day the body of Price was found, the prisoner met the
witnekiJervie, anti being asked whether he had heard of the de.
ceased aince he was missed, he Raid he had not ; and on the same
evening the prisoner rat a man named Dobson, who said
that the body was found ; on this he appeared much agitated,
said, lie broke the harness, and I was under the trace.chains,
and struck him on the back of the heed. He ungeared the
horses,atnd sent to a woman's house,bat I fetched him back." SOUR.
of this would be found to he untrue. And on the samexecnitig ,
the prisoner, going to the Unicorn public-house, at Neetastle, he
was asked by the landlady of that house about the lad, and he said,
" Don't mention it, I had no sleep last eight about bim." She
asked it he dreamed of him ? 'He shook.'imi head and said, "If I
am to ;be hanged for it, I Will tell the truth. I ttid strike him in
the stable on the back of the neck;" and when before the GRIVOIIed
111qUeSt, he said he gave the blow on the neck about a mile out of
Newcastle. At other Stites he said the decimated had gone awe.,
and taken his coat out of the waggon ; but it would appear elm at
about three o'clock on the mornng after the murder some one had
taken down the ehutter of the decuied father's house, opened the
window. and put in the cost. The man and his wife mistaking the
noise of this for robbers attempting to rob the house, went dos n
stairs, and found the coat. It might be said that the de-
' ceased might have done this himself; but the surgeons would state
that if the blow on the neck of the deceased had been billet:el in
the stable of the prisoner, he enul.l hot have been able to have
walked so far as to have taken this coat to his father's house ; and
it would further appear, that on the Sunday following suspicion
having gone abroad, a man named Raveneroft sail to prisone:" it
seems impossible but you should have killed him." On this the
prisoner was observed to tremble very much, and said " I only
pre him a blint on the back of the neck," and Raveinctoft re-
pli d, " why that is the blow that they say killed hint ;" btat tee
prisoner made no answer to this. This was the case he had to
lay before them.
IVitnesses were examined in support of the statement of the
Learned Counsel, and after a long and patient investigation, the
Jury found the prisoner Not Guilty.
Before :tie.' us"' t cz fittenouott.
The civil business having been gone through, this Learned
Judge proceeded to auist Mr. Barran °ARROW in the trial of
the primmer*.
II Hi [TWAY ROBBERY.
William Conger, Sentere Powell, and Thomas rgmer, were in-
dicted for robbing John Matthews on the high-way.
Mr. CARRINGTON stated, that the prosecutor was going on the
road to Hanley, on the morning of Sunday, the 13th of March, he
was overtaken by the prisoner Plymer, Who whistled, and the others
came tip and forcibly robbed the prosecutor. Cooper then said,
let us throw hhn into the coal pit, and they took him to one that
was near, and pushed hint over the side of it ; lie however contrived
to catch hold of the chain of the pit, and when they were gone,
get out.
The prosecutor proved all the facts; but, in his cross-examine_
tion by Mr. C. PHILLIPS, he completely broke down; anti being
contradicted by several other witnesses, the prisoners were acquitted,

COINING.
Theodore Moot e was indicted for the capital offence of having
in his possession the implements of coining.
Mr. Jr.av is (with whom was Mr. T•1.71,1T0N and Mr. StktP.
TIE an) stated the case as it was afterwards proved in evidence.
Thomas Thompson, a conetable, said-1 was at the Antelope at
Ste% •-upon-Trent ; %Wright and Bentley were with me. I saw a
cart in a field ; it had matting over it ; at half.past four o'clock,
I saw two men with it. I went up to it, the prisoner was one of
the men. They were loading it with kegs. 1 asked them what
they had in it, and the prisoner said, " D—n you, what is that to
von." I said I would see. I put one of the kegs on the ground ;
Lassley carried it sway, and I ordered him to open it, and I took
three packages out of it. I found blanks the size of half a crown.
The prisoner was behind me. and while I was looking at the blanks
the prisoner went away. We kept Lawley. The cart was un.
loaded, anti we found the pros sand fly, and two kegs, Mr. Lock-
hart took charge of them. T went to search a house at Outten, ant
found some implements there, in the cellar ; there was wool at the
bottom of the hole the press had been fixed into.
Joseph Edmunds corroborated this evidence.
Joseph Lockhart preyed that he kept the implements leekel up,
and that in a small box he found five iron collars (these were round
flat pieces of steel, with a hole in the middle, into which the metal
is forced to receive the milled impression on its edge). Ia another
box the witness found 8,400 blanks of the size of shillings, and
6,700 blanks of the size of half crowns ; they were packed up like
halfpence. The press was of cast iron, and when complete, it
weighed above seven hundred weight. The witness did nut find
any dies,
Sarah Allen said, that she saw the prisoner at the Hare and
Hounds public-house with a horse and cart, and a man, who said
' they dealt in hardware.
Ralph Barton, constable of Hanley. said, that in consequence of
information be searched the house of the prisoner at Burley-dam,
and found some blocks and some pawnbrokers' duplicates.
%Villiatn Turner said that he saw the prisoner, who took a house
of him at Oulton.

Samuel Smith proved the pziconer and a person named !Aidey
living together, and that he of ten heard a chinking noise, and that
after that he helped Lawley and the prisoner to put a heavy cask
into the eart.

John °anthills proved that the prisoner told hint that what was
found was of no consequence as no die had been found.
Edward Thomason, Esq., said, I carry on extensive Inasineas at
Birmingham. I have struck medals to a great extent ; they are
struck with a press, and collar. I never saw a collar like
these. I have coined money for the African Company by Order in
Council; but, except this, I never saw any coin with an edging
like this before, or a medal, except the regular money of the
country.
Mr. Franklin, a moneycr of the Mint, said, I have been so for
near 40 years ; the edging used not to be done by a collar, but by
a hard tool called an edging tool.
Mr. Ctlawoou objected to the form of the indictment.
Mr. Justice Buanot(cm, having retired and conferred with
Mr. Baron Darrow, said, that the objection deserved serious con.
sideration, and he would reserve It for the opinions of the twelve
Judges.
Jahn lAwley, an accomplice, said—The prisoner married my
sister. I entered into his employment in November last. I was to
go to IlulL I did not accompany him ; I went before. I took a
large fly and screw and a wrench--a box. I have seen collars.
The prisoner took a house near Hull, and remained there for three
months, and then we took a house at Hanley, in Staffordshire ;
that was in December. Xs'e stayed there till the prisoner went to
ltrompton-on.Sway. in Yorkshiie. We had things for making
half-crowns. I used collars ; I used them with him. I turned
the fly and he supplied the blanks. There was a wall taken down
in the cellar to give room to work the fly, and lie told the masons
that he wanted the cellar made as large as possible to put ale in.
However we made a hole in the cellar and put the block in. We
fetched the press and set it up. and went to work at it. We coined
four hundred dozen of half.crowns. We went to Burslem, where
we put up at the Red Lion. The next day we saw five men ant a
woman, who dealt with the prisoner fur the counterfeit half-crowns,
fur whizh they paid 3s. 6d. a dozen ; part of this they paid in mo-
ney, and part in cloth. a gold watch, and some chains. I
then went to Birmingham, and saw the prisoner there.
I went to see three casks containing blanks. I took them to
13rompton, where be took omit one cask, and took the others to a
public house five miles off, and on the Sunday I got a hundred
dozen struck cff, and then I fetched the casks. The hundred
dozen were counterfeit half-crowns. We then took a house in the
name of Uill at heck We took our things there, and the press
tens brought by Nekton!, etrocted to John Hill, Stoke-upon.
Trent : to be left till called for. The impliments were then taken
to Oulton, and after that to a house he took at Burley Dam. I was
with him at Shelton, and to that place were taken the press( and
implements. We always used the same. I gave information on
the (lay I was token, and the houses were iteached.
t'ross-examined by Mr. C. Pit it.r.tes.—l have beet 4 coiner six
months. I think there was harm in it, but he said I was a ser-
vant, and all would light on hint. 1 continued coining because 1
was afraid of my life. It is to save my own life I conic to swear as
I do. I don't expect to be cafe if he is not convicted.
I come here to.day for the sake of justice. The sake of justice did
not prompt me to :ell till I got into gaol. I am in gaol now, and I
never expect to get out of it except to execution, unless he is con-
victed. The prisoner is the father of my sister's two children. I
won't say that I was an honest man till the prisoner seduced me
front it. I was in Warwick gaol for stealing a furnace, but it was
only on suspicion. I was in Worcester gaol soon after I got out of
Warwick. That was for being nut late at night. There had been
a warehouse broken open, but I bad nothing to do with that. I
was three months there. I was never charged with any thing else.
I was accused of hating two wives. I was • gunsmith for eleven
years. and then I worked at Italian irons. 111 y wages were ten
shillings a-week from di.: prisoner and my board ; sad though he I
sahl dozen of enure:retell halr-crowns he was conticaally pawn

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