The National Register.
London, England, 1816-09-23 00:00:00

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way: IJnow.
"We will give bons - hiding -
men went in a diremisis liowarTls—aie well, and through the gate into
the tieid where the wallies That way leads also to the stable. Wit.
new did not stop to see whet became of them. Brieken and Austin,
his fellow-servants woe at this time in Tuck's house. The next
rooming witness mentioned tome of what he had seen, but not all to
J. Harvey and to Jem Seymoar. He told Harvey and Seymour that
there had been a row, and dint they had run into the bad: but he
did nut say that he had bleed Mee swear. He had before this heard
from Harvey that a men land been drowned in Tuck's well
['rite seldom at this sei as tending strongly to criminate
Tuck, subjoined len M a very aLee crosesexamination, and several
witnesses were 41110/111illed b boulidate his testimony, and which we
lament, that want of mom, poshmes our giving at length; but which,
ip the opinion of the Judge, tidied of rebutting satisfactorily the evi-
rdeiee of dchnsun.l
Mare Holborn. servant to Teas remembered Draper being at the
stag on the nth of August; bet the did net see hint pay any money
or notes. She went to bed, as newt as she could tell, about half-past
to or t t o'clock. Draper winless in the house with other company.
tier mistress is usually the lalagnmea up in the house. Witness had
given t bureli &candle to go to bed; butsshe 'did not know whether
lie had gone to bad or not. fthe was net ealled up by any one after
wing to bed that Melt. Her bed moth hNW her masters, but she
did not hear him ems le bed. They shot up at to and sometimes
at 11 o'clueac, weed* at whet eumborners they brat in the house. She
had never seen Draper In the he... Worn TM next morning het
11131iler was first up, sad eked bee mime. The that was at five o'clock.
About seven (Aim* she went to the well to dewie waft,. It was in
the same state as before, except a piece of 'rootlike woe across, wag
broken in two or three pieces. In the morning alio day before that
ice of wood was whole. The hole in the tap, eatat which they drew
water, was large enough for a man in liquor to tumble in. The
water in the well looked very thick; and she dipped d.wn the pan.
when she saw the deceased's hat on his head, and part of his face. She
went immediately to her master, and said to hint, ,• Good 'gracious
master, there is a man in the well!" Tuck was letting this awls out.
lie went and looked into the well, and said, " Good gnaws I I s.x
pose it is the poor old ostler." He seemed very in abobeed.
deceased seemed as if he was standing in the well Her luster came
back, and told Radium the poor old ogler was in thwerell. Her
master, Robinson, Crouch, and Saunders, took the body est, and put
it ja the brewhouse with its clothes on. The deonners Sell and
brother came soon after. Her master could eat no breakibetjehelslidd .
because it had shocked him so. Her master sent for the 's
brother.
Then followed the evideace of Tuck's servant, B. Petts, who was em-
ployed to carry the notes to the brewer, and which were delivered to
I'. Eldridge, clerk to Mr. Baiasford. brewer at Enfield, and among
which were the two noun proved to have been in the possession of Dra-
per on the day of the murder.
D. Draper, brother of the deceased, was sent for on the morning of
the 9th of August, to the Stag. Tuck was the first he saw, and he
asked him if he had taken care of his brother's property. Tucksaid, what
property he had about hint hey supposed he had then, for he did not
know what he had about him. The body was in the brewhouse, with
the clothes on, Tuck said witness should see him, and he might
search hint. The deceased's son then searched his pockets, and fosusd
two pocket-books, which contained nothing hut orders of Cotut said
summoners, and a purse, containing nine shillings and a halfpenny.—
The papers were quite wet. Nothing was said then about the pro.
rty.- When Thai saw the body he turned sick, and retched very
uch. lie was obliged to leave the brewhowie. Witness left Tuck'ss
house almost immediately. At times hi, hmthei carried large sums in
notes, He received IN notes of 11. each. from Eldridge. two of
.which
he gave to Head the Officer.
Read produced the two triter he had received fmm the last winless.
Cress.ciounined.—He apprehended Teak, who behaved well, and
went readily with him. During his examhastion, 'ruck lent witness
his chaise to go down to fetch up one of the *Mnses.
Draper reexamined.—Said he never took the pocket-hooks and put
!hem in his pocket, saying they were all right. lie examined the pa-
pers when he got about 5(10 yards from Tuck's house.
Mr. Reynolds, an attorney at Chi:shunt. went to Potter's-bar on the
morning of the nth of August. He saw the deceased there; and paid
hint three O. notes, on &count of a client of the name of Chimp&
(hoot" the notes which Smith received front Tuck's boy, was one of
those which he paid to the deceased. He had 'written 19 on it, because
it was the top of a parcel of notes amounting to 191.—This was fully
confirmed by the endenceof the wither's son.
Keziahlttreet proved, she paid Draper. the deceased, a 11. note with
other monies. Being abeam one of the two notes which Read the offi-
cer had prodweed; she swore-that was the note she paid to-the deceased
an the loth ofJ fly.
Mr. Clark, a surgeon at Enfield, by desire of the Coroner, examined
the body, and thought the mark on the neck indicated a sufficient blow
to have stunned a man, He did not think the blow who the immediate
cause of his dwitji.
Mr. Holt, also at Enfield. examined the body on the 13th
of Augun, and dieaetrsafi bruise* on the side of the neck to a consider-
able elt_temeillmely under the ear, and there appeared to have
been auelakeidinglhem the ear. He thought the blow on the ear suffi-
cient to peados lneentribllity, and might have occasioned death, more
likely in a pine full of liquor than m one who was temperate and
sober.
Here the caw for the prosecution was closed, and the prisoner was
put on his defence.
The prisoner then put his hand on his heart, aund declared himself
perfectly innocent of the heinous crime alledged spinet him ; and left
case to the Court and a Jury of his country.
A great number of witnesses gave the prisoner a good character for
honesty and humanity.
Mr. Baron GRAHAM then proceeded to sum up the evidence.
lie began by observing, that it seemed quite clear that a flair.
der had been committed for Ike es idence of the surgeons was
distinct as to the probable effilet of the blow, the marks of
which were so visible under I)raper's car. The blow too ap-
peared to have been dealt by a person well skilled in the
science of producing stupefaction at least, it' not death, by one
etfeettial stroke. Granting then, what seemed scarcely to ad-
mit of dispute, that Draper had been murdered, the question
to be considered was, whether the pi leaner's wits the hand, or
sore of' the hands, that perpetrated this act of wickedness.
stoat here the. Jury should first sift the probability of the alle-
gation preferred by the prisoner, that Draper had received
this blow of which the marks were esrvisible) in his wrestling
with any of the pennon in the pnblichottse. Now two wit.
messes loud positively SWIIIII that no blows steer struck in the
eery trifling wrestling that took place, The deceased bad
merely received a posh which threw him backwards. It was a
vire 1111 l stance deserving tl.eir attention, that when Draper was
ont,three 111',1401/4, (though 'ruck was not one of the:o, Black,
Crouch. and Saunders, went oust lifter h' , and were seen no
more in the house that night. 'rock, to he slue remained some
time afterwards in the parlour. The most material evidence
ma' that of the boy, Johnson, who swore positivels to the fact
of having seen, at about half past I l of the night iu ipteation,
tiair persons ( the foremost of whom was Tuck) come out
hastily of latek's house. He knew Tuck by his face, (fur it
ea, moonlight) soul by his voice; and heard Dim say. "
his old eves, he's gone round here." Another of the time then
lid, " i.et's folk -mil ' bins a good hiding "

possession, almost
been a parcel of those notes which Draper lind collei;ted, and
of which he had been completely stripped. It was proved by
the intelligent lad who was clerk to the brewer, that he hail
called upon '1 tack twice in the coarse of the day in the evening
of which Draper was murdeied: it was proved-that Mra.Tuck,
had then been unable to pay his detaand, though the money
was sent early the next inor ii ill g and part of the money so scut,
and marked with the clerk's signature. consisted of two notes,
which had been in the possession of Draper. the other hand
it was in evidence that Mrs. Tuck, though she had not the
saw on the preceding day, had however promised to scud it;
that a person had lent Mrs. Tuck six pounds about seven o'clock
in the evening, before Draper arrived ; and that Tack himself
had, at 6 o'clock time same evening, ordered his boy to be in rea-
diness to go with a parcel to the brewer on the next morning.—
The next circumstance which at all weighed upon the point in
issue, was the behaviour of Tuck, as deposed to by Draper's
brother. He allowed that Tuck answered all his questions;
but when he was asked to go with him and show the dead body
he became pale, very agitated and sick, and retched violently,
Tuck's servant also had deposed that, her master had declared
that the death of the old man had made him ill, and that he
could not eat any breakfast. The, prisoner, in his defence, had
laid his hand upon his heart, and had maintained his innocence
in a bald and solemn mauner. lie had also called a great num-
ber of witnesses to character, and several of them were appa-
rently creditable persons. They had known the prisoner for
varions periods, some even from his childhood, and all deposed
that lie bore a good character for honesty and linnianity.
—The circumstances, as he had before said, lay in small com-
pass. A man had been murdered—evidently murdered. The
blow in the neck—the upright posture in the 'well—the utter
absence of all appearance of struggle, occasioned, no doubt,
by the stupifyin; blow— that blow too applied with such akin
in the very part of the body where it would be most fatal—the
house °coupled by a• landlord and guests, all well skilled in that
pernicious science—the well, so ready at hand to throw in the
dead body—that body, too, absolutely stripped of all its pro•
party ;—ali these were circumstances which the jury would
take into; their consideration. Was Tuck the murderer, or
one of the murderers:, Had he reheated satisfactorily the evi-
dence of Johnson, who swore to seeing him run out of his house,
and who had heard him use the MOM violent expressions. Did
those expressions admit of any interpretation short of a guilty
one. The note too—how was that difficulty to be explained i
it might be conjectured, but it had not been proved, that the
note traced from Draper to Tuck had been paid by the de-
ceased for part of his reckoning. This, however, was not in
.evidence. Were the jury to believe that Tuck had no motive
to commit this crime; or were they to imagine that lie had, on
being pressed by the brewer fur payment, made the desperate
resolution of paying his debts by murder and robbery i All
these considerations they would weigh fully and deliberately ;
and tithe circumstances appeared to them to warrant a verdict
of guilty, they would honestly pronounce it : if there were
just cause of doubt, they would acquit the prisoner.
The Jury then, having retired and deliberated fur hair an
hour. returned a verdict of—Nu Gritty.
The prisoner, however, who was arraigned upon two indict.
ments, is to take his trial for the robbery.
The trial did not terminate until past ten o'clock at night.
CHARMS OF Mt/RDER.

Saturday, Ann Kilfoyer and ifammit Meketsey were indicted
for the wilful murder of Maurice Welds oat the ;itit of August
last, its St. (files', by means of a cord they tied roam) the neck
of the deceased, which ceased hi. (kettle. The evidence nut
being clear against the prisoners, they were acquitted.

CAUSE OF THE RIOTS IN NEWEATII,—Barnard Levy WAS
dieted for stealing, Ysth Aug. from Stephen Monk, a watch.
He deposed, that on that day he went into Newgate to s isit
an unfortunate friend who was in that prison. immediately
on is going through the second gate, the prisoner jostled against
him and look his watch from his fob, and immediately handeJ
it to another person. Witness directly collared him, and the
prisoner was apprehended.

Mr. Newman, the governor of Newgate, deposed. that he
insisted on the production of the Ivatch before the riots, and
in about 20 minutes it was handed through the grating.

Samuel Davis, une at' the toorukeSs, stated, that he saw the
prosecutor come in, and saw Levy run against him. and Monk
caught hold of him directly, but on his being taken into a cell
and examined, no watch could he found on him.
The prisoner, in his defence, denied the charge, and called
two unconvicted prisoners, Dwyer and Jordan, to prove
that he had nothing to do with the robbery ; but these wit-
nesses thought it most prudent to affect a total ignorance of
the circumstance.

The Jury found the prisoner gnilty, and the Common Ser.
jeant, learning that there was a bill against him him far a high-
way robbery, forbore to pasv sentence ur-u him.
W. Morgan was convicted of stealing Manchester goods to
the amount of 40s. in the dwelling-house of Messrs. Butter-
worth and livens. Gnitty—lleath.

OF THE CONSPIRATORS.
WATSON, ESQ.ANDATULL BENCROF MAGISTRATS..
Saturday, George Vaughan, Robert Mackay, and
ervrge Brum*, were put to the boar, and indicted as fol-
lows

" For tut/awfully and wickedly conspiring. confederating. and agree-
ing to obtain and procure certain evil-disposal persons ; that is to ray,
Killiam Sanderson, William Wood, Michael Early, utOcrwise called
Michael Hurley, James Early, otherwise called James Hockey, aid
!tennis Early, otherwise called Dennis Hurley, otherwise called 301.4
Brown. 011 the 29th of June, in the 56th year of our Lord the King.
with Juice and arms, feloniously and burglarious) y to break and enter,
about the hour of eleven in the night of the Id day of July, of the
year atiiresaid, at the parish of St. ',omen', Shoreditch, in the county of
Middlesex, the dwelling-house of one Anne Macdonald, there situate,
and the goods of the said Anne Macdonald, in the said dwelling-house,
then and there feloniously and butglatiously to steal, take, and carry
away, with intent that they, the said George Vaughan, Robert Mac-
kay, and George Brown. should cause the said persons, to wit, the said
William Sanderson, Willhim Wood, Michael Early, otherwise called
Michael Hurley, Janus Early, otherwise called Jiones Hurley, Dennis
Early, otherwise called Dennis Harley,. otherwise called John Brown,
to be apprehended and by law convicted for the said felony and bur-
glary, and thereby wickedly and unju procure and obtain to and
tortiie said George Vaughan, Hobert Mackay,N and George lino" Vie
rewards given by Act of Parliament, upon the conviction of writing f.,r
the crime of burglary, in the contempt of our said Lard the King,
to the great dishonour and scandal cat his laws--to the evil and pernici-
ous example of all others in the like case offending, and against the
peace of our said Lord the King, his crown and dignity.".
There were other counts in the indictment, one of which charged tha
prisoners, generally, with conspiring to induce persons to COMM vari-
ous burglaries, for the purpose of procuring the rewards attendant upon
conviction for such iClonies.

Mr. Rolland, on the part of the Crown, opened the
indictment, and the case was stated by Mr. GURNEY at
considerable length, in the course of which, he detailed
to the Court and Jury, the various circumstances, which
have already been so ftequently betbre the public, and
which arose from the several examinationsof the prisoners,
together with the confession of Muckay.,--The learned
Counsel addressed the Jury forcibly upon the ferment
that these cases had excited in the public mind, but en-
treated them not to be led away by any previous feeling,
which popular opinion or prejudice might have canted,
but to decide entirely upon the evidence which he should
this day produced. Much of this he would not hesitate
to say should be watched with jealou.sy and caution, as it
. would be detailed by those who were themselves engaged
in the transactions which were the subject of the pristine's'
offence.—The witness, however, whom he was prepared'
to bring forward, who would corroborate by their t4..sti-
monj all the principle features of the ace, would be so
conclusive, that he had no doubt the Jury would feel it
to be their imperative duty, to pronounce: the prisoitime
Guilty.

The first witness examined was—
William Drake, whO deposed that he had been a midshipman, and
ago acting lieutenant In lea Majesty's service. He was asquiunted wish
all the priantera, and knew Mackay in pastieular, who, as well as him-
self. tt.ad &sub' Alton in the Custom House. Ile could !sot s, an sir.;
situation Brown was, but he knew that Vaughan w.is one 0: t.•, hw
o-
sweet Patrole. Early in July last, the aias in a pubbc.h,ame .
mar Shorediteli Church, when his attention was chant: in the eaten tea-
of some persons in the place. which induord to tt pyv,e they
were thieves. This circumstance he afterwards osiannual_stal
Mackay and Brown. Tire tinnier immediately proposed to introduce
the witness to Vaughan, and this was accordingly dune rent morning.
Mackay only was toresiin, and they. had sonic ninversatinn respecting
the characters of use Mtn when& witness had heard conversing at the
public-huuse mentiated, and Vaughan • urbanely proposed mat they
should ennunit a burglary at the house of a friend of pis 111 Gray's-In/t-
-hine. and where an attempt had been previously mock by a man named
Hubbell. but which was defeated by the barking of a clog. The par.
tits engsged in the transaction would afterwards have completed OW
crime. but that Hubbard was taken up for stealing a oaten, acid he re.
quested witness to try arid procure the men whom he hail seen at Hie
public-house to effect it.—These were the Earlys, Sentlervon, and a '
boy named Wield, who were to commit the burglary that night at the
house of a Mr. Soignee, when they were to be rewarded with a rick
booty. Witness consented, and promised to do his hest, and to meet
Mackay and Vaughanat tiadkes Wells. where every thing was to be
prepared. It wah thin mentioned by Mackay that their prevailing%
wield be attended with expense, and asked Vaughan for some money.
The Lauer immediately gave hint sonic, and said that whatever mote
might be spent should be re-paid, and nut tolet the men went foe-chink
or any thing they might require. Witness at this time heart! Mackay
and Vaughan conversing &pout obtaining the assistance of Mr. Har.
mer the solioitur, in behalf of Hubbard• who was to be examined at
Cnion Hall upon a charge of felony. Witnees in the course of the
same afternoon saw the Harleys at a public-house in Shoreditch. He
was araimpanial to the neighbourhood by Mackay, who waited tbr hint
at some distance. Witness communicated to the persons mentioned
the intention of breaking open the house in Gray's-Inn-lane, where be
represented there was considenthlaproperty. cad asked their assistance t
they immediately consented. and Dennis Hurley said he knew a Mail
who was accomplished in business of the kind, and on wheat they might
depend . 'Phis person he said he would bring with them. l'hey then
partial, and witness afterwards eonnnunteated the eonversauon he
tad had with the persons mentienetl to Mackay and Vaughan.
and likewise his appernuent to meet with them a second time at
eight o'clock that evening. ThG the witness did at a public.house in
Shortiliwh, and they all went to the house of John Brown to talk the
matter over. The latter was the person'who principally !alarmed the
business, and he, Mackay, and me witness went to Siuller's Weile, •
where they „met Vaughan, who accompsnied them to a tavern.
!less told Vaughan all was ready whenever he wished the business t*
he done, but the latter add it could not be done that night on seisn:r.t
of some lodgers, but he wished it to be effected the tialowine n gft,
when all would be ready. It was then fixed ilia they shoald meet at
Vanglian's house next clay, and the witness Was I,revitea!), to kie the
Burley's and others. and acquaint them that the burglary was to Nt
committal the following nitftit. Witness accordingly met them. and
said all would be ready, and in the words of l'atigium. informed darns
that there would be • considerable property." and that it would be
.• a perfect gilt." AVatness subsequently went with Mackey tind
Vaugium, wm cave him wine kale and a Cllllq. liar. and se.-ne money,
in order to defray the explore of keeling; the non at the public-house
who were to commit the bin:Jere. Vaughan then left them to go
upon his duty at satiler's Wells. Mackay seem to a public:4loms,
and witirms went to Slawalitch and ma awn tithe men, tygether wiz%
the boy Wood and D. Hurley. They afterwanh. found
son and Vaughan. and Mackay ell-.lc down ahem i i o'clock; witness
with them, and Vll3lillllll peir:V4l nut the honer, and decked wit:iest
to be eircuntspict, and mark the right door: and that every thing
should be ready in fifteen minutes. W inlet* men returned to the me-,
and at the time took thee) towards the house, when Mackay =me
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rant-door. He knew none of them but the landlord 'ruck, who was 'they were expressions purporting a murderous latentioo. or the
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ray; I know. he a pine round here." One of the other men saw. circumstances ra',;,:,••,1 :',"; !!.. I!•,isx two Rotes) iu particular, Saturday, 6• We will give him a good hiding, and will kick him." The four found In Tuck's possession, were ,!.Host demuustialeo n brvet- ererze Brume,
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