The National Register.
London, England, 1813-07-18 00:00:00

JULY IS.

THE NATI

which she TO( nded she wits particularly in want of. The woman,
not suspt-ct i lig any had de.to, prorated it, and took it into her ploro
ut confinement, %, hen the prisoner threw her down, locked her ir,
and made her escape towards Deal; but not nil .he had defranded a
poor woman, near eighty years of age, of 21. \.ith %inch she gut clear

A horrid murder was committNi on the body of Robert Fountain, n
g irdtmer, of Waltham, Lincolnshire. a IThursday, the tst instant, by
Fount: In, his wite, end Gemge T. Rowell, a cooper, who
lodged at the house of Fountain. the tollowing particulars transpired
before the Coroner and Jury :---The deceased. being suspicious of a
criminal connection between Rowell and his wile, was so distracted in
mind i‘s fiequentl:. to get intoxicated; about two months ago, the two
latter agreed to take asvey his late by poison ; and the favoart.ble op-
portunity apneariog ota tl,'cilnesday evening, the :ioth nit. ti:ey gave
hint four ounces of I:ruder:urn in ale i:nd vldei berry wine ; that quan-
tity, Itotever, appearing not to ha' e the desired effect, they gave inn)
(.1 itt winces more the next day, which, according to the • pinions,el
and Foreman, aka, opecetl tale body, caused his death. Mr.
re nett, dru!lgist, apt Grinishr, otttuded before-the Coroner,
and IcarlY rccnll.cted Itt.,well's purchasing a quantity of laudanum
( add;rl to which in .:dunce., the Jury havin, the cor.fession of
the wretched woinau, I,r-ought in a verdict of Wiiyal :Murder apnnst
tar and IL wul , and they have been committed to Lincoln: Castle to
their tiials at the eiisuiug

A most at roz,-loo.s murder was perpetrated at n colliery Wood-
Fess, ovar Niikonni lA, in 12n:ill:shire, ou the tight between Thursday
the 1:4 aod FrAav the 62(1 inktant. tuintiStig, about six
o'clock, (is e ot the ws.- k men, on slesct nits g i:no the coal pit, dise.vered
the corpse of Agnes Wot,oo, who ‘Vr moill al the sant colliery. lying at
the bottom in a shickinciy m condit;on. hi r heat! neatly severed
!rain her body, which wlis stabbed in rldft.reut parts, and the ‘vli•:lt.: of
bur person exhibiting a most frightful at pc..rancr. In the shed, or
lodge, as it is calted, at the mouth in the lAr, a consider...isle yummy of
hi ,d, sonic hair. a colt and 4,titvr articir• belongine to the deceased.
Wert. fuund, tthich sla-'%%eil that the fortunate ‘voiatatt, ht.
had been I..iss,ing sit cc ten o'clock the precedic7 eveoirg, had tuadc
cosilersbia. resistance befure she was ob.:tied. Jail).* Jackson, a
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collier at Woodsess, to whom Agnes ‘N alsou was far mivaoced to meg-
nanev, is in clostody on suspition of the !loader ; awl a prve •gottion
is going on, with the view of imporing into the citculustunots attend-
lairry this most barbarous affair.
The Cambrian, a Welsh paper, stir; "In our last obiteary.tie men-
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fwned the sudden death of Mt. 'Floisinas Morgan, of the RPd-Uot,
ferry-tide, at Swansea; and we are sorry to have to state, that fit conse-
clue:lee of an inqiiest held upon the body and a loboriuns investigation
et the case. the w idow of the deceased, Ann Morgan, has beta com-
mitted to Cardiff goal, chat ged ou suspicion of killing and slaying her
husband."
On Tuesday an Inrinest was taken at Richmond before Charles
Jeminett, Esti, Ccroncr for the county of Surrey, on the body of Mr.
Ctark,on, aged 83, I..rmerly of Essex-street, Strand, but for several
year. past n resident in Kew-foot-lone, Richmond. The cie&ased had
for the !ast three mouths been solij-ct to fiepi, lit fits of despondency,
(.reasioned by the sudden death of his niece, who resided with hint,
uhst on Saturday last, at noon, in the absehce of his attendant, preci-
pitated hire elf from his chamber window into the area, by which he
bake his thigh, ribs, and so bruised his skull, mid other parts of his
body, 111,1 he expired atter languishing two hours iii extreme agony.
The re:or:J.4l a verdict of I-WWII. 11-, nth-lined the Church
S-1 vice on Itici.t.V mortilog, and draCa tea and spent the evening with
S.IIIW trcisds, and appeared more tranquil and composed when be re-
torned _tome than for sonic tone preceding. It is said that he has he-
r:neathed a handsotne legacy to the poor of Sunbitry, in Alidcilesex,
al-
iiongli nut at all connected with that parish. -
A 113 r rAntas..---Monday week, a farmer Cmlney, treated a
.v.duahie mare, his own property, in • the wrist brutal inanuer, without
any provocatton whatever. 'flue p •tir animal was drawiou a es.tt out
of a deep hole, when the owner took a large hedge-stake, nod with
Irsth hands heat her about the loins, and afterwards struck rust one 1,1
her eyes. lie then suffered the aisitnal to remain in that state several
Lours., with its eye banging down and bleeding from the s9cket, and 0
young foal sacking by her side, witiic..;l" permitting it (*artier to Locr-
p'sse any of the &Nees of humanity. Net long since, •the sautes man
teat .me of his cow till she slitiirrit ridf .and died ; and kicked a lit
ne..p over the inotith and rest? in such a brutal manner that it was
tvtiortly altos found dead iu the field. Bum mity Sitoiders st .the re-
peated recital of these acts of cruelty, mid calls on the
ore !cr some enactment to protec! car doincAic animals from the out-
ege of stell inhuttaa: monger,.