The National Register.
London, England, 1811-08-04 00:00:00

TIIE NATIONAL REGP4TEII:

and charging for new, and by charging in several instances much
more than the real measure of the timber used. Pottineer and
Boghurst were found guilty ; the defendant, Ford, not guilty.
At the Winchester Sessions, held last week in that city, the
Rev. James cradocke, of Twy ford, was tried on an indictment,
charging him with an assault, and with indecent practices, on
his late servant, Richard Monday. The cause excin d great
Inteszst, the Court being unusually crowded at an early I:our;
and, after a full investigation of the business, which lasted from
nine o'clock until two, Nir. Cradocke was, to the entire satis-
faction of the whole Court, most honourably acquitted, the
Jury not having had the usual charge from the Chairman, who
stated, that the defendant went out of COW t as pure as himself,
ue:iny other person there.
An interesting case was lately decided at Warwick Sessions.
A young surg: on, who had married against the con,eee of his
nds, deserted his wife and child. The wife, often in rain
appealing to the father of her husband f r relief, threw herself
upon the palish of Birmingham. The parish sued e:e lather of
the husband, to compel him to support the child, and the Court
adjudged hien to pay for the maintenance of the same.
At Salisbury Assizes, Samuel Tucker was indicted for the
wilful murder of Ann Tucker, his wife, at liredford, in the
county of Wilts. This was a case of the most atrocious kind.
It appeared in evidence, that the prisoner, who was originally
weever, and has since practised medicine, and called himself
Docor 'fucker, many months since conceived the design of
murdering his wife, on account of the disparity of ages, she
being about •2S years older than himself. That in order to effect
her ocath, he kept her continually confined in his house, with-
out allowing any cane to see her, from the first of last January
till the day when she died, on the eth of March last, allowing
her only a small quantity of h tlf-boiled potatoes, and barley
bread and a hale water. That he frequently left his house for
two days together, during which she was locked up and without
food ; and that her room, by reason of the non-admittance of
air and certain offensive things left therein, wai nearly sufficient
to create putridity. By this treatment she became so greatly
emaciated as to be unable to in •Ve oat of her bed, during which
time) he still continued his ill-treatment, and she was :tette:fly
starved to death. The surgeon stated, that on eeamining the
eerese, it was literally nothing but skin and hone. The chief
witnesses against the prisoner were people cif the name of By-
keid, who were the deceased's children by a former husband.—
The prisoner, in his defenre, stated, that his wife had a disor-
der in her bowels, which prevented bins franc sleeping or asso-
ciating with her, and that she had a voracious appetite which
emsld never he satistied. The Jury found and the
Judge immediately passed upon him the awful sentence of the
law' and ordered him for execution on Friday next, and his body
to be delivered to a surgeon to be dissected. The prisoner ap-
peared totally void of agitation during the whole trial which
Pasted seven hours.

A bill of indictment was preferred at!ainst Peter Le Cave, fur
telony, but returned ignoramus by the c :rand Jury. It .ppearcd
that he was in extreme indi.,!enct., but was an i.rtist of very su-
perior merit. Whilst he was in Wilton jail he painted many
piece: in the style of Moriand, some of which are siated to he
even superior to the performances of that artist, with whom
Le Cave lived many years as a professional assist.int ; and he
state.: that many paintings of Hs were only varnished over by
*Alorland, and sold by that artist as his own. Nlany of the
principal Gentlemen of the county have visited i.e Cave in jail,
and declared his drawings and paintinzt:, in many instances, to
excel Nloriand's.

Chelmsford Assizes commence cn Wednesday next, before
the Itigl.t Hon. Lurd Ellenboroio and Lord Chia Laron
Macdonald. The calendar is very light, there b..ing only
twenty-tour prisoners tor trial, and most of those for slitht
offences.

A hardened villain, named Jones, waq sentenced at the Not-
tingham Sessions, to seven years transportation ; when, in an
undaunted tone, he expressed a wish that the Recorder might
sit on the Bench till he returned.

SINGULAR Dl*COVEaY.—About two years ago the wife of
lr Daddeu, a curitdealer, in the neighbourhood of Kingston,
was lost from her home, and supposed to have been drowned in
returning tram H:tmpton Court, her bonnet having been found
in the rivtr; and her husband mourned her fuss in the usual
manner; but on going through Vallitri, in Kenc, last week, to
the surprize of Bidden, his supposed /ifiqess rib presented het-
self, mounted on the top of a baggage waggon, with a chopping
boy at her breast, in the character of a corporal's wife, with
whom it turpcd out she had eloped from Kingston, and to whom
she was afterwuidi betrothed. Badden bad got married also,
and it is not apprehended that the lawyers will have any Wow
big OR the occasion.