The National Register.
London, England, 1815-04-16 00:00:00

01.11 'BAYLEY.

Wednesday W. Johnson, alias Crowther, was Indicted for stealing
a trunk from behind the carriage of John Colman Rashleigh,
The prosecutor was travelling near Paddington Church, when the
:prisoner &miswrote accomplice loosened the trunk, and it fell off di-
rectly after. 'Mr; Robinson saw this transaction, which took place
near Paddington Church, and he secured the prisoner in the act of
making riff with it.--sOnilty.
Elizabeth Penning was indicted for feloniously administering a•
'quantity-of 'arsenic in some dimtplings, with intent to poison Mr.'
and Mrs. Turner and family. This case his. been already fully re-.
,ported in the examination at Hatton-garden'Police Office. The
servant was continually pressing her mistress to let her make some
.yeast dumplings, at which she pretended to te a famous band, she,
had lived seven weeks in the family. of Mr. Turner, in Chancery-
lane, and bad teceived notice to quit for improper behaviour, lint
• het' mistress took compassion on her and suffered her to remain in
the'family. On the Itst of March the brewer left some yeast, and
instead of getting the dough front the bakers as usual, the pm i•oner
made it lter4elf. Mr. and Mrs. Turner, and the father of the latter,
dined together. 'Mr.. T. ate very little of the yeast dumpling, but
she was taken ill, before she had done dinner, with a violent sick.
ness, excriteinting pains in the' bend, &c.; she was compelled to
leave the table, and the pains continued until nine o'clock in the'
evening. The other persons who ate of the dumplingkwere affiCcted
in a similar manner. The prisoner had got the poison out of a
drawer; it was written upon " arsenic, deadly poison." Medied
men proved that poison had been put into the pun where the dump.
lines were nixed, and the evidence was conclusive agaiuts the pti-
soner.—Onilly---Death.
Adkins. a butcher, at Southgate, was charged with a rape upon
Harriet Collins, a child tinder ten years, of age. The child resided
with her grandfather, near the house of the prisoner. One night in
the month of November he beckoned her over to his shop and ac-
I his purpose. The child's evidence was rather impro-
bable, and the mother had consented in writing to take 201. and re-
ceive Sol. more by instalments for her daughters violation. The
It( corder here put a stop to the case, and the prisoner was ac-
quitted.
Friday, the Reccrder passed sentence of death on James Kink,
for burglary ; Eliza Fenniug, for adMinistering poison to the fa-
mily of Mr. Turner; Elizabeth Young, fir stealing in a dwelling.
house ; Cornelius Callaghan, Henry Beard, John Cambridge, and
Mary Ann Clarke, for like offences; Henry May, for returning front
transportation; Richard Naylor, for horse-stealing ; Abrahain
Adams, for an timintural offence; William Ol Yield, fur a rape ;
William Sweetman, for hilemny robbery, and Ednind Harland, tor
forgery. The Sessions ended Yesterday.

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

DREADFUL MURDER AND SUICIDE.

CORONER'S INQUEST.—An heftiest was yesterday held at the
King's Head, in Roll's Buildings, Cha,icery-Lane, npon the bodies of
William Waghorn and Jane Waghorn his wife, the former having on
the preceding day killed the latter and then cut his own E;rost.
The Jury having been sworn, proceeded to view the bodies, which
still lay in a room on the JI:CUIId floor of the house, No. 1:2,

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