The National Register.
London, England, 1818-01-19 00:00:00

JAN. 19.

seen. Witness saw the prisoner the next morning'
wiping spots out of the floor with a wet cloth in the front
parlour, and she upbraided him with ill-treating his wife,
be back parkin; where they slept was shut. There was
much inquiry about the wife in the neighbourhood, but wit.
ness did not know site was dead twit the Monday nights
when the coffin was brought in. There was a strange we.
man ha the prisoner's apartments incutsantly watching the
knocker of the door.
Rebecca Mucciewhit, who occupied an apartment on the
second floor, corroborated the two former witnesses relative
to the groaning of the deceased until after two o'clock in the
morning. It was like the moaning of a dog. She made up
her mind to go down stairs twice, and she got out of bed to
do so, hut was afraid rm• herself and her husband, as he wee
a little man, although she said to hint that she would not stay
ill a house where murder was being committed. The noise
which preceded the groans appeared to her like a person
knocking down h helves with a poker, and it continued as if to
drown the noise.

Mr. Webb, constable of St. Anne's, who acted upon the
information of one Desmond, deposed, that having heard of
the suspicious circumstances, went to the prisoner's house,
and found him smoking. On interrogating him, he said some.
thing of three Irishmen being in his passage, and by his con-
versation he seemed to have beets jealous of his wife, and he
acknowledged having struck her in the mouth with his fist.
Witness examined the front parlour, and he discovered the
floor and the wainscot round the room besprinkled with
blood. An attempt had been made to cleanse it, but the
very mouldings of the room, out of reach, were splashed with
it. He could not find any of the deceased's clothes, but a
pair of boots, which were bloody. He afterwards saw the
body in the coffin in the bed room, covered with a sheet.
The cap on the head was in a gore of blood, and a long head
of hair was matted with otic mass of blond. The back part of
the head was brat to atoni;, so that a finger could he buried
in the wonnds, and no such appearances could have been
°era-holed by a list. This room was also besprinkled witb
blood. Witness took a poker from the fire, which, from the
appearance of blood, was no doubt the instrument of death.
The prisoner said, that the deceased was very bad at 7 o'clock
in the morning, and he applied hot bricks to her feet, and
that she died at 70 o'clock. The prisoner retifted to give
any account of the clothes ; but witness ascertained that a
man, named Davis, who resided next door, and who worked
with the prisoner near St. Giles's church, had then in a bun-
dle which the prisoner bad conveyed to his wife. Webb
traced the bundle, and the clothes confirmed the horrid act.
some had beers washed. The prisoner said, Mrs. Davies and
Mrs. Jones laid his wife out.

(;eo. Gillman, a clerk, and sot to the watch-honse keeper,
corroborated Webb, and added that the poisoner told him
that he quarrelled with his wife hecanse she could not ar.
count to him for 2s. 10d. out of Bs. ; that lte went from one
public house to another until he was drunk, and that a man
told t' ha was living with a woman not his wife ; he then
related about wiping the blood off bh face, applying warm
bricks, dm

The prisoner's defence Wes an eche of what he had told
Webb and ; that Davis and he went about nntil he
got very drunk, and that lie found himself going on leaving
the first house. When he got home he could just rums tuber
that an Irishman struck him, and one of the women, De,moad,
told him that her husband had criminal knowledge of Ids
wife. He next spoke about the money short, applying
bricks to her feet, making her tea in the night, of her going
to bed ; and that Davis and he found her dead in the bed in
the morning. The coffin, he said, was had from West.
miuster.

Magistrate.—" How often slid you strike her? and how
came the room so Woody ?"
Prisoner.—," I suppose the blood came from nay wife'.
head. 1 was very tipsy, and don't rememlser striking het
more than once."
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Alwristrate.—" How came the blood on the poker P'

I might have struck her head wuen she was
lying by the Cite place, as I tried to pick her up, but being
giddy I let her fallagain, I believe."
'nil prisoner was remanded till Friday, on which day he
was r&-catnined and finally committed fur trial.

CASE OF GREAT DIITRESS.—ThntSday, R MAR named
Pilgrim, %I ho appeared to have seen better days, and ho bad
been formerly a mate in the East India Company's service,
was charged with robbing his lodgings at Mr. Eggertou's,
Chandlerdoreet, Oxford-market, of a variety of or.
It appeared that this unfortunate man had been reduced to
the utmost misery. So great was his distress, that a child of
his, who tiled some time back, remained unbur.ed fur many
days in cousegnetice of his disability to pay the expenses of
the foneral, and be was obliged to apply to the parish to
cunt% door a little inonzy towards the interment of the child.
He bad pre% iotc ly stripped his apartmmt of every portable
article it contained, and having broken open a box, took from
itsome sheets, which lit pawned, and afterwards sold the
duplicates. Mr. Jones. is (stowable, went to the place °flies
pt t'otter's residence on Wednesday, for the purpose of taking
him into custody. Pilgrim, having setts the officer make his
41111 suspec hug the object tor which In. came,
inametliateiy went to a closet, taking out a ramie, made is
desperate eltoi t to put an end to his miscrit s mod bus life by
drat% ing the instrument across his throat. Fut innately the
razor nut being in good older, the wound inflicted was not
dangerous. Junes Unniediately seized Mtn prisoner by the
arm, and having wrested the weapon from his lisno, emit eyed
cm to St. °eagle's watch house. A monstai Was seta for,
who dressc!el the wound, and said that the maw ppy man
mad been very near putting a period to his vxistence.
'flie persons at whose house' the prisoner lodged, humanely
agreed to let the busiuess stand over for some time, that it
may be ascertained whether the man's cif camstanees were,in
reality, as distressiug as he represented them to be.

The Pacha of Bagdad is on the point of undertaking
a campaign, but it is n- t ascertained .on what side he
will carry his arms. For the purpose of keeping his
projects concealed, he has established ntag.isn►es in se-
vend directions While the Pacha is thus engaged in
Lis military preparations, the robutrs exert ise their
ravages to the very gates of the capital 'lwo 1 artar
couriers have beta robbed within a tet: leagees Bag-
dad ; and the merchant► of that :omit, iatve lost by this
accici.•itt a sum of more than 400,u0u piastres. The
earthquake. at Vostitza occasioned the death of 5,000
persons.