The National Register.
London, England, 1822-09-30 00:00:00

TAE NATTONAt ItEGISTEIt

la We wveket,• oroerapiece, a half-crow., arid a key. no
primmer said 11' you'll forgive me this time, I'll never do it
again." and offered all the mousy be bad about him to let
him go.
The witness Sullen was here called tip again by one of the
jury, and asked Ow the watch wan fastened on the night in
question. It appeared by the answer, that the watch was
fastened to the fob by a hook, and could not be pulled out by
taking hold of the chain merely.
Cook was thtn cross-eswmiued.—He found out where %lien
lived about a fortuight ago by inquiring of a number of persons,
first in Whitechepel ; and alter going round to many persons,
at last he found him out. Sullen did live within two doors of
wittiesa's house in Noel-street; but witness had another house
in Castle-street, Leicester-square, and lived at one as much as
at the other. About five years ago he was suspended for 12
months as a constable. When witness wan prosecuted the
other day for a conspiracy, he did not hear Mr. Alley say, that
if the then defendants would produce the man, he would give
up the prosecution (Mr. Alley certainly did make u-u of such
declaration at the time.) In the first information witness gave
before the Magistrate, he swore that the watch was fastened by
a Milian& and not by a guard chain.
John Connell hed known Gook for ahont via months, and met
him between nine and ten o'clock at Drury-lone Theutre on the
night in question. Ile saw the prisoner make several attempts
to pick pockets, and told Cook so. Both of them then watched
the prisoner, and saw him poll at a watch three times. They
took him to the Bunch of Crapes and searched him. The pri.
soner cried very much, and begged to be let coif, offering a:I
the money be had about him.
Cross-examioed.—He lived servant with a Mr. Bitchily; in
May, when his house was robbed. The robbers had never been
discovered. Witness was discharged, but did not know the
reasons for it. Witness had informed the saa.4istrate that the
prisoner had confessed having attempted to steal the watch.—
He went In the thezt:.e from curiosity only.
James I farrison, a constable of St. Martins parish, corrobo-
rated the em ideitce of the oilier witnesses. Ile 41W the prisoner
make three attempts at a gentleman's watch. The list attempt
pulled it ont so tar as to show that it was a silver watch.
Thompson, a coachman to his Majesty, proved that the
prisoner was nut oa r,uty when the Liug went to Drury lane
theatre.

Cross-esamined.—Jay and several other servants went there
out of curio.it3.
Air. Alley warmly addressed the jury for the defendant. and
dwelt strongly on the contradictory testimony given b Bulks,
Gook, and Harrison. . . .

The jury, without troubling the Chsirman to sum up the evi-
dence, found the d..fendant not
When the verdi. t was pronounced, a slight dispositiin to
applaud was shown, hut it was immediately repressed.
The sessions, which line been the lon6est known fur some
years, terminated to-day.

On Tamhy lint an inqamt was taVen at the Bull
on view of the body of Ellen M'Carthy, a poor old woman,
publi., house, Botlin,;, Kent, before J. Outflow, Esq. coroner,
aged 63, who was most cruelly and inhumanly bent and abused
by a set of Toon inert, on the evening of the Sande!, preceding,
and lima which barbarous treatment she survived hut a few
hours. From the evidence adduced on the inquest, it appeared
that the deceased and her husband had been drinking at the
Bull-public-horse, oat !Saturday arternoon, and on their return
to Mr. Addison's ( where they were hopping, and bad been so
employed for the last twenty .years), a short distance front the
public-house, they observed fifteen or sixteen young men
stantlinz by the s`relosn. They had also been drinking at the
public-house, and had declared that they would have a row
with the deceased and her husband, who, when they approached
them, were *creed by these fellows; the former was knocked
down in the hedge and struck on her temples, they then kicked
her and hit her with their fists. NVloile this was going on,.oone
of them took the old man up bodily, and carried hint and threw
hint into a ditch some distance oil, saying—" We have done
for the old —, and we will now do as we like with the old
—." They continued to abuse the old woman, and proceeded
to acts too horrible and disgusting to name. At this juncture a
man named Flint, wino also worked for Mr. Addison, canoe
along, and the fellows made off. lie took the old man out of the
ditch; the deceased was found lying in the road senseless and
speechless. The old man took her up, and endeavoured to
carry her home, but his strength failed him ; lie laid her in a
hedge in a field adjoining, where she expired a few hours
afterwards. lie knew one of than who was ringleader in the
affair, his name he said was Adds, but none of the rest he
could recognize. The deceased, it appeared, at the commence-
meat of the transaction, was somewhat in liquor, but able to
proceed from the public.-horse homeward without any assist-
ance, Mr. G. Perfect, surgeon, who examined the body of the
deceased, deposed that she had several hruiAes about the hotly
and head. lie opened the bead, and found that the scalp was
detached from the bone in several places, particularly on each
temple, cud over the left eye, from the effectfrwi external yin-
knee. On removing part of the skull, he fonnitaearly half a
pound of coagulated blood upon the brain, from a rupture of
the principal blood vessel, which was the cause of deceased's
death. She died from apoplexy, but whether the rupture of
the blood vessel was occasioned front iutoxication, or front any
violence or bruises which she received, he could not positioely
say. lie thou ht the external violence which emoted the
bruises was sufficient to rupture the vessel. After the evidence
had been gone through the Coroner proceeded to address the
jnry, who, after sortie deliberation, pronounced ■ verdiet—
Wilful Murder a4ninst Thomas Adds, mod other persona un-
known. Adds has since been taken, and coot:pitted to the
county gaol, ender the Coroner's warrant; t•e others bava for
the present eluded the band of justice.
MUSICAL ANECDOTE.—H beiroz once in a
country church, asked the organist to permit him to play the
people out, to which he of course consented. Handel accord-
ingly sat down awed began tit play its such a masterly manner, as
instantly to attract the attention of the whole ciongregatitto ;
who, instead of vacating th.i.- seats as usual. remained for a
considerable space of time fixed in silent re:lair:l6ton. Toe or-
ganist began to be impatient (iterhaps his wife was wiiiin4
dinner), "1" at length i'ltiresaing the pet fo. miter, toll him he was
convinced ME could nut plan the peopdo out, and al. ked
to relinquish the attempt ; which done, a few .•ral.rs in the ac-
customed manner optrated.dike n•adut; the lit°, .het, by im-
mediately dispersing the audience.

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13,a e RS. —Brown Red S:ockm in's !ate fi;ht h tying
terminated in • draw, has caused muck ,!ixippointmcitt its the
boxing circle ibGt a rettewed match between these little heroes
et the liAt is expected to be made in Ow roarse or the eniuM4
weck, as Brown's patron It•is atithmisol the Jot to back
'frown from 25 gain, an to 10,1, to 114%t S.celonan ra any time
they thiok proper; or Brown will 1,1V...,11 VOUlitl, 10 ally Oar
Ulan inf.st4lAnd tor the aboessAtoo provided li.LOciatttri's part;
do rat shy oat.