The National Register.
London, England, 1822-09-01 00:00:00

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Tyrrell.—Well, my Lord and gentlemen of jury, it is all
LANCASTER. : true as I tell you.—Guilty.
THE (LING V. J kIIN SVCA RYY AND OTIII.RS. I 'Tyrrell turned about to his Lordship, and bowing very reit-
SATURDAY, AUGUST 21.—Mr. Littledale opened the plead- pectfully, read " Thank you." He repeated the saute extraser-
ings. dewy expressions of gratitude to the jury.
Mr. Searlett.—The defendant was indicted with others for • Fut:cell Y.-1. Routledge, aged 26, was charged with forge
coitspicacy. As rely one serrendered, it WOlllll not be neve,- iiie a bill of exchange for blil. with intent to defruud Samuel
sary to &tail the evidence respecting others. 'The conspiracy Gt tildes. The names forged were Willimn 1% Wheats, of
betrayed great ingenuity as well as rant. Mr. ll•Cuity had Shrewehary, as drawer, and John Evans, of Birmingham, us
been a rectifier of seises in eeei-street, thverpool, and kept a acceptor.
brandy cellar ander the Sr. id M'Carty and Co- 's ho the al r. Clarke said that the charge of uttering was all that
parties were might nut be lithe ascertained, bet they would in claimed their attention. The names were forged, and the pri-
tee course of the inquiry be of ',pillion that eV +Ace and Ci.sey sutler kiiew it when he uttered the bill to S. Griffiths.
were partners. Tae fixed now monist:Clued of took place so i Samuel Griffiths, of Liverpool, is very well acquainted with
early as 1417. The reason why they had not been ;sooner the prisoner, who brought him a bill of 501., and asked 401. to
brought to trial was, that they had esceeed, sod cone of them be itesuettiately advanced. lie said the acceptor was Evans, a
could be foutel tel the defendant surremicred. The piry were Heil manufacturer, iu Birmingham. I crei't charge my memory
aware that articles paying a duty which would be given back that any thing was said to the drawer, II imam W titian's.
11i1011RX110•111111311 were bouiled without paying daty until they i W esteem paid it assay to a tradesman in London. It wee die-
altuall be e sported. From this arrangement arose the eunepi- honoured red returned. I told Routledge, and he said it
racy snit fraud ROW heFore them. ( The learned gentleman then would be taken up in a few days. He said lie did not think
detailed the limit which be wee to lay before thou in evidence.) that the people on the bill were any body of any property. 1
Out of 9 paucheons, 7 hail the brandy withdrawn, and were gave the hill to Mr. Miller.
filled WlOl pure water. The object wee, by extracting the By Mr. Wi:iiaint.-1 bud many transactions of this kind.
brandy for home cousuffiption, and exporting water instead, to When bane were eieh„„o„,ed. le, at e gave me money or
a ice the date open the brandy. Cesey, Walker, and Streets''', goods from him. lie lied an is lice iu Liv etyma at the time. I
bad nut surrendered ; Rubinean bad surrendered, hat a nui 'found him three, and there be told me the people on the bill
pososatioi was entered with respect to lieu, and lie would pie- were good for nothing, and I meet look to him. He wire me
b t .ly or produced as a witness to them. 1 lie inseltine which good* afterwards to about I etn. It he had wished nit to deli-
Lad been contrived for admitting a eau into the cellar was in ver up the bill to be di wined, I would have done it. 1 have
Court for their inspection. 'lee oiikela had their euspiciunn 1 not the least belief that lie wished to clef, and me.
excited by teetering the bungs eidereed far beyond their, John Miller west in search of %Vim IA Meters at Shrewsbury.
usual gate. This bad been done hi eider to admit the pipe I 1 found one .a barrster, another a cnaelittian. (Mr. Williams.
through which they pumped the brandy into the warehouse, The coachman might be worth son eating, but the barrister
'move the cellar. It was not merely she revenue. but the fair could not.) In Birmingham I found Evanses, but none who
dealer that was defisuilee by such transactions. knew ally thine of the bill.
Witnesses were produced, who fully proved the case as Mr. Williams.—To be mire they would not. Who would
stated by Mr. Scarlet. that could help it?
The Lrd Chief Jitstice said, if the Jur jury thought it Several witnesses were called from !bemir:limn and Shrews-
meeessery, be would read the evidence to them .if set, as it bury to prove that they were 110 i the Willieureee and Lvauses
was probable, b.matise a more clear . use never came bilsore a wirohad signed the names its question.
jury, be would save them the trouble of bearing the evidence Metairie W destine and Coltman, for the prisoner, declined to
again a sea mud time--guilty. cross examine.
Air. Weeny, who was io Court, and allowed by his Lord- Mr. Baron Woad said there appeared to have been no in-
eliip to sit beside his Counsel, was immediately taken into cue (cation to defraud Griffiths. How came the bill to be delivered
tody. lie was apprehended upon this charge while iu the up to Miller?
King's Erudite insolvent circunistancee. la answer to this question, it clearly appeared from several
it Rem AY itouncales. explanations, that Routledge had become insolvent, and it was
T. Loden, aged 21, and Thomas Lavender, aged IT, were then the bill was delivered up.—alit Guilty.
cherged with assaulting and rolMing Samuel Hall, at Stratford. Routledge is a good looking )oung man, cod was very gen-
Mr. Armstrong stated the case to the jury, which be would (telly dressed.
prove in evidence. a His Lordship intimated that be would have all the prisoners
S. Hall, a butcher at Stretford, neaa Manchester, attended I for forgery on the Blackburn back discharged on their oan
the Manchester market: did so on the 3d of Lida month. 1 recoenizance s.
Led four sovereigns when I left the house in the morning wrap- Dr. Brown had previously remarked, that the charge against
pad in paper. 1 sold 21 sides of bacon, and received pay for some of them was a conspiracy to defraud the King's eubjects
17. It was betwixt ill. end 131. four soveleiens, and 91. odd generally, by putting couisterfeit paper in circulation.
iu silver. I went to the Boar's Head and got drunk. My wife Mr. Coltman.—That is, against the partners in the Blackburn
came. She took four sovereigns and sonic silver front me. 1 batik, of course ? (A laugh.)
returned to my stall. It was past 12 o'clock when I left Mat- JEALOUSY.— MaLICIOUsLY Ci:TTING.
cheater, at midnight. I had the silver in my waistcoat Pocket' Martha Milos, aged 31, Was charged with maliciously em-
end the four sovereigns ill my fob. Near the new road to ping and maiming her husband George Millis, with intent to
Siretterd, I met with live men. They were steintin,g at the murder or to disfigure and disable him, at Oldham.
paling. They said, " How far sway, jolly butcher.' a said Mr. Coltman stated the case to the jury.
to Stretford. They said, "We go that way, but the new 'en!' Georee Milne-1 have been married to the prisoner fifteen
is the better wee." Two of them linLed with me, bat 1 said years, and have had eight children. There had been 110 gnar-
-1 could go myself. I went the new road. After having gone rel between es for several days before. She thought that I
60 yards, Boden struck me on the back of the bead. It (idled bad been with another WOlllBll, ohm or ten days before. She
me. .T:tey tore out my breeches pocket. After that, they made charged me with it. I came home on the afternoon of the lath
me pull my coat off, and while 1 was doing so, they tore the of June. 1 wanted stepper. She Kahl there was no water. I
sleeve. " D---n you, strip," they said ; they made nee pull went for water to make tea. She made none, so I went to bed.
oft' my waistcoat, and threw me than over the rening. '
nee' The bed had nut been nettle, and I made it myself. She was
took the sovereigns; I ran alter them. Buden then tunnel not in lector She had had a Oust of rum and water. She
round and said, " o—n him, let us Meets kim utr." Duly the bad not been in the habit of getting liquor since she had been
two priamere turned back. 1 said "Spare my life, you have I a *Oman, lid she lied her Let child in April. 1 awoke shout
get all 1 had." Baden struck rue en the face, and Lancaster three o'clock with a violent pain which struck to my heart.
licked me on the back. Two inert came up with a p.stul and She stood at the bed with a razor in her hind. I said, " 0
gum and secured the two 'trimmers. 1 dear, what bast thou been doing now? Thou hest killed me,
By Mr. Cultaaat) —I fought with one man at the Boar's thou ham killed me." She said see Lad nut duce it. I turned
Head ; I got drunk at noon, and got sober again by giving the clothes; down, and found that a part was cut oft Much
over drunk. I slept at the Boar's Head ; I never lay down, I blood issued feoin the wound. I did not observe whether
and slept in my stall. there was blood on the razor. She hail gone down stairs. I
Other witnesses were called, who corroborated all they saw could 'not wake my eldest son. 1 went down and found the
of the trauseetien, but witnesses called on the other side door open. 1 went to the surgeon in my shirt. I saw my
gave such an accouoi of the drunkenness of Mr. Hall on wife in the street, with the youngest child in her arms. I
the night in question, Olt his Lordship expressed doubts wha- went home then to bed. Charles Hopwood was the first man
th r a robaery could he proved, aunt the proseentiou was sham- that came to me. The surgeon, Mr. Beilot, came at half past
dined. four. I was taken to the infirmary at Manchester.
Patrick Riley, aged 19, and Richard Tyrrell, aged 26, were By the Conrt.—l thought she wee not in her right mind. I
charged with having assaulted James IN hilt heath, at Fails- believe she was not. I thought she was often not in her right
worth, and rubbed him of a pocket honk, containing hill. far Senses since her last child.
several hundred pounds, and seven sovereigns. Roller' Chadwick went to the house about half past five :
Mr. Whitehead detailed the circumstances of the robbery.— met (be prisoner, baying the youngest child tit her arms. I took
He was riling from Manchester, on the Oldham need towerds her into custody. I asked what she bad done ; she said she
Saddleworde where he lived. Ile heard the report of a pissed, had done nothing, that be had come home in that Mute. I said
and was almost blinded by the nosh. Immediately two persons to her not to deny doing it, for there would have beets blood on
seized him, one by each leg, and a third 'screen pulled by the Min when he cone linen if it had lean dime. She said " I
coat le hind. They dragged his horse, and knocked him down. have done it, I have untie it." She pointed out (he garden into
He got up and struggled with them. Otte, %%Leen he believed w hit ft she had thrown what she had cut off.
to he Riley, presented a pistol and stieeped it, but he believed By the Court.—She discoursed as in her senses.
It was not imeled• Its knocked him down with his whole He Mr. Bellott, the serge° , said the wound was a dangerons
afterwards struck another, who fell down. But they thrust wound. I knew nothing of her before. She reeeaterily said,
him against +trailing, which gave wey, and one of them, be "It was not me. He came Lome in that state." She cried.
believed Rile!. kept knocking at his head with the butt-end of Iler declaretion before the magistrate was proved, and read.
a pistol. He was quite overpowered, and all lie had its his It charged acts of the most barbarous cruelty on the part of
pocket taken from him. When he got up thew had gone some the husband.
yards towards alancheeter, and two of them, lie believed the Her husband was recalled, and denied the facts stated.
prisoners, looked hack, when Riley said, " Let us litiish him, The prisoner said she had never beet' well since her last
he is for betide a look at us." The other man resisted this ; that child, and did not . now what she had done. She hoped they
si in was dressed exactly as Tyirel now. Riley presented his NOlllll forgive her this time, fur the sake of her dear little in
pistol, and said, "If you approach this way you are a dead rant. She wept most bitterly, and while his Lordship wag sum-
man. ming up, she dropped cull the piece where she stood, appa-
T:se prisoners were taken in Liverpool. attempting to get the retitle, as in a ithuun.—% edict--Guilty, but insane.
bills negotieted, through a countrensaii oldie name of Suiliv en, CIYIL SIDE I
an innkeeper. Witnesses moved minutely their proceedings in LANCASTER, AUGUST 27.—John M'Carthy, Wlla was last
Liverpool, and even their admission that the bills were stolen. week convicted of hat nig committed a fined un the excise, in
Tyrreletideavoured to cross-examine, and made a long speech Liverpool, in 1817, assails morning brought op for judgment,
is his own defence in the lowest Irish style. lie was lee MO' 110.01 e Chief Justice Abbott. Au affidavit in mitigation, was
thee'' favourite of 16 eons, and could get all the nebility and elan read.
gcutry of his own count) to give evidence for hen. lie had Mr. Williams addressed the Court at considerable length on
by accident fallen in with the boy Reiley, who lied found • behalf of the ptisuner, whom hue represented to he a bankrupt
pod thine. Ile had recomtnended to 'mike tile bills up in a with a large tensity dependent upon him.
parcel and send tteen to the nearest post ollice, to the place to al r. Rothe spoke in aggrav utiles.
w eich they tieloneed, but his advice was not taken. lie could The Chief Justice sifter commenting on the caee, sentenced
as-ure my Lerd anti tee cry leaf he was sever suety eh such a the prisoner to 18 month's imprisonment.
thin la ay is laid to big charge.. ADDILON H. lIELSI F..
Riley took up the story et the same point, but concluded This was an action for the recovery of damages for se assault
without mein': lie had totter the bills. committed by the defendant upon the plaintiff.
'Tyrrell again resented, and assured the jury that be was one The plaintiff wet a man in bilisible circumstences, the defen-
of iti brothers etru and G sisters. dare a genileman of property, both residing neer L Iveretoae.—
ale Varna Ner mad.--. What, ate VA Roloi 10 PALO 'MALL* Tlie pitied:fie who was L little nieley, were at slight to the

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