The National Register.
London, England, 1818-11-02 00:00:00

MURDERS.

Wm. Losch was indicted fur murdering his wife, Mary Anne, on
the 9th of October.

Anne Daman was the first witrie.,s called. She lived at No. 7,
Lawrence-yard, Chelsea. She lodged in the same house with the
deceased. She knew the prisoner and the deceased about three weeks
beforethe murdiz. It was on Friday night, gth of October, between
the hours of seven and eight, when she was going out with a candle,
the deceased Caine out, and ir..ked her how she did Them was a man
behind her, and witness asked whether he was her husband. The
deceased replied in the affirmative ; and the prisoner then came for-
ward, and asked the deceased, whether she would go home ; she
pushed hint from her, and made no reply. Ile said, "Go home,
Nance, for you are drunk." "If I am," she said, "it is prostituting
my body tbr such an old fellow as you are." Witness observed some-
thing in the prisoner's hand, with which he immediately strack her in
the side. The deceased cried out, "I am murdered, take the knife
out of me." The deceased pulled up her clothes, and witness saw her
bowels gush out. The prisoner said, " Here I am, take me to pri-
son it' you choose." Ile never ran away.
• Richard Clarke was a tailor, living in Lawrence.yard. At about
eight o'clock, on the gth of October, lie was standing about a yard
and a half behind the deceased; she was speaking to the last witness.
The prisoner was standing on the right side of his wife, talking to
her In a low tone of voice, which witnes, could not hear. The answer
the deceased made was—" If I am drunk, it is who.--g for you all
day." He observed the prisoner put his hand up to his waistcoat
pocket, and he walked towards the deceased. He then saw the pri-
soner wilt:: the deceased, who staggered back, crying, " I am mur-
dered." She then pulled up her clothes, and said, "0 my God, will
no one take the knife out of me ?" Witnes saw a quantity of blood
How from the wound. The deceased then fell first on the left side,
and then rolled on her back, and made use of the former expression.
The prisoner did not attempt to go away. The deceased still remain-
ed on the ground, and he saw the bowels protrude from her side.
The prisoner WAS called upon for his defence, but he said nothing ;
neither were any witnesses called for the prisoner. The Jury without
hesitation pronounced a verdict—Guilty.
The Recorder immediately passed sentence of death upon the pri-
soner, and he was ordered to be hanged (to-morrow,) and Iris body to
be given to the surgeons to be dissected.
Pbe prisoner :,eemed to be completely resigned to his fate, and re-
tired without emotion from the bar.

John Daley was put to the bar charged with the wilful murder of
hones Learwutwd, a tailor, in the Fleet Prison on the toth of Ueto.
ber.

-fire rrisoner walked up the Dock with z firm step, and an un-
changed countenance. The witnesses were all sent out of Court upon
the suggestion of the prisoner.
Charles Johnson was a prisoner iu the Fleet on the lOth of October.
The prisoner at the bar was also a prisoner. Learwoel was aLo a
prisoner in the Fleet l'rison, about 50years of age. About 5 o'clock on
that evening. lie was walking opposite Learwood's room, and he
saw through tile window deceased fall from the shop-board. The
deceased cried oat murder. He saw Daley beating I carwood with a
sleeve-board. The dixele.ed was lying on his side on the ground
at the time, and cried out, as if tor help. During this time the. win.
dow was shut, and witness opening it said, •' Don't kill the man."
He called some people up, and saw some blood or black on tile lett
eye of Learwood. The deceased was lying on his back at this time,
and the prisoner turned hhn oa his belly, and slapped him on the
breach 6or 7 times with the sleeve-board, saying, " D—n your old
eyes, I'll teach you, I'll hit you on the rump." The prisoner was
in a terrible pa.sion, anti jumped out of the window, saying,
" D—n his old eyes, I have not half dune with him yet." Witness
called a man of the name of Graves, a powtrful man, to go in to
Learwood' assistance, and lie went in. Daley rat irned in a few
minutes, and. again jumped through the window into Learwocd's
room.

William Graves recollected being called up by the last witness.
The first thing he heard was Daley complaining that the deceased
had ,riven a letter belonging to him away. The deceased said that
Daley had pulled him Whirs shop-board, and he would not finet that
in a hurry. Witness remonstrated with Daley, wilt) had jumped
through the window again, dad said, " I have not done with you
yet ; and I will serveyou out again, when I prove shat you gave the
le ter to Lewis." Letrwood s oil he knew nothing about it ; and a
person standing by said to Daley, " I think you have pretty well
serial him out as it is, fur you have almost broken his leg.
Thomas Hunt stated, that on the day. mentioned, he hearth noise
in the deceased's room ; witness went to see what teas the 'water.
hearing of what passed. Deceased said, " Daley has been beating
ins." At this time witness 1).:.-cei ved black getting round his lett
eye, and deceased complained of a pain in it, and said," I shall have
a black eye ;" to which he said, " You have got one already."
Mit Hargrave, a surgeon, was called in to see the deceased, on
the night of the 10th of October. He found the deceased lying in
strong paralysis, and totally insensible. .Witness took blood freely
from the temporal artery, which relieved him situ h. In one of his
visits in tile morning, a man mire into the moue whom witness did
not then know, but. whom he afterwards knew to ix the prisoner.
Witness said,." The man will nut live 48 hours, he. has received
some severe injury :" and added, " I should not like to be in the
situation of the person who caused it." • Prisoner replied, " lam the
pew on who caused it." Witness remarked, "I len very sorry for
it; to which prisoner rejoined, "so am 1, but what can I do r''.
Witness advised him to procure the hest medical adsice he anal,
immediately. This the prisoner seemed very anxiour. to do. In
another conversation he had with the prisoner, he (tile prisoner) said
he did not strike the deceased on the head ; but he supposed that he
gut a hurt by a fall from the shop-board. Tue witness replied. that
could net he, es die floor was tnickly cr.rpeted. (He explained this
by saying that there was thick hop-bagging under the carpet.) Pd.
goner then said that perhaps be had struck his head against the bed-
post; to which witness replied, the bed-post was not near enough to
fall upon from the board. Witness saw the Way opened Whir death ;
there were 3 or 4 miners of extravasated blood on the brain, and he
had no doubt but his death was caused by an internal injury of the
brain arising from an external injury ; the only external violence
which he saw was on the left eye. A severe blow on that pa:t,.if
given obliquely, might nave -caused the injury which prcduced the
death.
Mr... Baron Garrow *eked the witness whether he had said all that
he; now swore before the Coroner; to which he answered, he had to
the hat of his knowledge.
Mr. Baron Garrow said that there was not one word of a great
part of it in the Coroner's report.
Here the case for the prosecution closed, and the prisoner being
called Open to make his defence, said, " My Lord, what I wish to
impress upon your Lordship and the Jury is, that the room in which
deceased was, was not carpeted all round, as was stated; but there
we:e during the whole of the 11 months which I have been in prism,'
Ifrom four to five feet from the wall cn all sides only bare thiF,s, and
not a bit of carpeting ; the carpeting was only in the centre. The
prisoner then went into a detail of the circumstances of the case,
which were in substance. that having beers informed by a fellow pn-
-ones that Learwood had picked up a letter. whir.) he had lost arrow
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Learworal's room. nod well had before this told him that Learwood
had given the letter tit On going to the room he upbraided
him with having acted so unreefully to hint who had on so many
occasions screened him. Deceased said, he thought it no harm.—
Prisoner asked him to go and get the letter from the person to whom
he had given it. Some angry words then arose between them. Pri-
soner called him an old rascal, and tit.' other told him he lied. The
deceased then attempted to get oft the board, end in doing so he tell
on the bare flags, and hurt his left temple. Pt isoner helped him up.
and asked hint if he was hurt, adding, that if le: were, lie &served
it. Deceased then sat on the chair, arid some angry words arose, on
which prisoner said. he would " serve hint out," and cub hint with
the sleeve .board. He then took him by the ann, and struck him
three or four blows on the breech with it, but never struck hut ws
any other part ; he had on all occasions been very kind to the de-
ceased.

Ten or twelve respectable witnesses were then called, who had
known the prisoner for various periods from one to twelve v.:as.
They all concurred in giving him an excellent character, for a hu-
mane and kind hearted disposition.
Mr. Baron Garrow summed up the evidence withgreat perspicuity,
and souse lengthened continents on the several points as they ap •
pearcd for or against the prisoner ; and the jury. after deliberating in
the box about ten minntes, returned aver diet—Not guilty of murder,
but guilty of manslaughter.

Eleanor Bryan was indicted for manslaughter, in causing the
death of Johanna Duggan. an infant between five and six year, old,
by administering to her, on the Lath of &Timber last, a large and
excessive quantity of spirituous liquor, viz. a hall pint, which
the said Johanna swallowed, not being aware of the ontie,itwocts
and of which the died—Guilty of Alanslaughtex.

POLICE.

M 1N Si ON HOUSE.

An elderly woman, whose name nearly all the duplicates in
her possession, amounting to 17, Slated to be Elizabeth WI I.
son, was charged by .Mr. Godfrey, owner of the Saracen'..•
head-inn, Aids:ate, with having stolen a quantity of feathers,
on Frk'ay night. The prisoner, though a weak looking crea-
ture, about fio years of age, was stated to be capable of
stripping an inn in a very few hours. A. lar4e bundle of
keys, son:: croekztil nails, and other instruumbis, by which.
drawers can be opened, were found in her pocket.
The waiter who brought the feathers into view, upon ex-
amining the bed on which the prisoner la,, found that it was
half empty, and that the bolster was in a similar condition.—
The holes through which they had been taken were, however,
carefully stitched up. and every thing in the 'onto appeared,
on the entrance of the waiter, in complete order.
entering theollE,:e Mrs. Wilson was chewing an apple;
She said it wits to keep her from fainting.
She was committed for further examination, when many are
expected to appear against her.