The National Register.
London, England, 1823-04-21 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER

of the defendant to the burgesses of Berwick, at the
White Bear public house. The learned counsel then
shortly awed the facts:lS afterwards detailed in evidence.
George Dodd.—l know Mr. Parkins—l became ac-
(planned with him on the 10th—1 was at Mr. Itughes's
amuse. Mr. Parkins was there and several of his t hoods.
There were reireahmenis toil the OCCASIMI. My brother
1)111..1.e:1.s dud me tne lithium of decline me chairman.
Tut. refreshments were supplied by Mr. Paiktits's order.
Subsegut 'illy I said to Mr. Pao killa, " will you do me
the I °aunt ro take some wine said " No, as it
was g uerilly ba.l at such hotoes."—l replied " It was
remarkably good." lie then said, " Never mind that
—these penpie mast have some refreshment."—The
mint was nearly full of burgesses. lie also said to me,
" the landlord to gise the company whatever they
reggae." lit 1111 l ethately called the landlord to me, and
said to him, it is Mr. Parkins's pleasure that you give
the company refreshment. Mr. Parkins was oil my left
at the hone j the landlord in reply said," Sir, I thank
you." 'fete landlord then covered tile table with refresh-
ments; Mr. Parkins participated; he retti lined with
me and V.e lattrgeasea till it ill-past one. I think it coin-
latticed at hail-past tell al 1115111-•-1 hell many bitrgesses
behind ine—dtort!og 111.• tine we had a private conversa-
tion, nothing was ordered-1 saw Mr. Parkins the next
day, and wrote on a Mt of paper, " Du you wish the
barge-sea to be entertain. das they were last night t"—
Il.s answer was, " 1 trink not generally so, but use
you discretion."—l went in consequence forthwith to
the landlord, and repeated what :Mr. Parkins had said,
and also commornicaord it to the c lice. There
were name reireatiments 'ordered. We haul several meet-
ings alit rwards. 'Fuse ilVer.l4l: MIA/Cr of persons present
uo tiiesa oceaw.ins Seas ICII or hareem.
Other u anew* were examined.
Mr. Scout, an attorney, Mira accompanied theilcren-
dant stated, that he attempted to gut( the honse imam a
gentleman united Holinea having proposed tiff Gorge
ld erSOll. 1)1,11% rreni 1.... 6.- G. •
4.4%1116 itrOttliSed to pay
any:thug.
Holmes was examined, but he nerdy stated that
,
for tile purpose ;origin:Aug alr kleOrg,e.••-•
1)011% know whether Sir George attended personalty.
Mr. Thessiger, lor the defendant, addressed the court
and jury lie said, tills was a combination against the
defendant by the burgesses, who tinteavonsed to make a
dupe of 1 on oilier to .et up mop:minim against the in-
terest of tile Ma Bois of IVaterfm(l, and Sir Joan Beres-
ford, by which meaty their votes would become doubly
'valuable; and of course their interest was to make the
most of them. and he trusted time jury would chew their
good *ease by men finding a verdict sort •
The Clialf MAD 1111111111 ed 1114 and the Jury found a
verdict fur the plaints—Dainagea 151. 2s. bd.

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OLD BAILEY SESSIONS.
WSDNESIDAY, APRIL 16.—Willialu Trapp, a respect-
able took,m,, young matt, was capitally indicted lot
having cuittinitteil an assault upon Charlotte Rooks, and
manning distill woUtl,is, watt Intent to murder or to do
I sonic v.flrVulli bodily thitil6.
.1 he prosecumx was housekeeper to Mr. Borne; the
vestry couk of Poplar, where tile assault was co 11111 l itted,
and toe wounds [Mimed with a hatchet, which 'intro-
, unlit lie WaS Sten 10'lltroW away, lie being apprehended
on me sloth.
The prusecutrix (Mrs Rooks) gave evidence to the
facts.
Daniel Talbot, a letter carrier, passed the house of
Mr. !tome, ou Use day 111 question, on a stav,e, and saw
a nuinuer of people collected before the (bur, and heard
the cry of " Murder!" Ile alighted and burst ripe', the
door, and Mood the prusecutra with blood streaming
fruits her head, the prisoner grasping her in the iht66,igt.,
as if endeasn iiiiii to present tier making egress. %1
nets said 6uut to 115151, " You rascal, what are y,,ti about( t"—
The telly was, that one (proseciltrix) (tail ill-treated
him. Sescral persons came to Witt,',s ussialaUCC, anti
secured tile prisoner, and delivered Mtn over to an

officer.
Several witnesses confirmed the statement as to the
apprehension of the prisoner.
Mr. G. 'Wry, a fAlfgeoll, described the nature of the
wounds, one in which had divided an artery oh the tem-
ple, and occasioned a great flow of blood.
The prisoner made no defence.
JOllll Trapp, a gentleman of respectable appearance,
the lather of the prisoner, described I • as a peib./11 who
had received a Itberai education, had been usher to a
school, and was remarkable for welt:won, being coml•
totally wrapped In study. :shoot two years ago he
Tinted his scholastic employ, In consequence of the
rupture of a bltanl resael,a nee Which lie had been
learn-
mg the hostiles!, td a tad's shocwaker, andhis
had been vets' lt altered, acid et timed temporary ile•
rangcnient by his ACLIWIS, witch Ile lieSClliledi
llr said
lie trona bps whiney of a mild, placid, and humane
disposition.
M iy T rapp, sister to the prisoner, deposed to various
IllSlaliCeS of 'Odd alio insant conduct on ins part.
l tie lteciiider sUlllilled tip with sir ict pArthilliy, and
the Jury, tiller as Alliellee tit neatly an hour, returned a
verd.et of Guilty-I)eatii.
Mr. Alley said, that he was desired on the part of the
vi.,:cutr.% to state, that She Most 11111Cerely 1016.1%e 111.11
tor the iojories he had Inflicted upon her, and begged
must earitestly to feel11111114:11.1 111111 10 Mercy. In (till
re ' udiUnuWe Jury pilled, whom:, as the ground
1111011 which they gave it, toe prt:IIOLIS 600t1 character
write by the prisoner.
The Recorder—Tne recoinnientlation made by the
tprosectitux is exactly what I should have expected from
a person who gave her evidence in the mild and humane
manner in which she did. The fee iiiiiiii einlatani, wain
SOWS, plint.4lllll of the jury, shall be forwarded 10 hi.
Mojesiy with all time force which 1 can AI se 111 it; but
it „tuy.duty to ÜbIeTWIP. 1.11.“ a imih-eaggrarated case has
note iiiii cliviore the Can ‘Or a sery lung lime. and
would mint earnestly recchninend the prisuuer to make
the best use of his tithe: It (triunes f ,as he tallies

his eteirtlal welfare, to prepare for the worst
happen.
The prisoner was then removed.
'l'hussoae, Aram 17.—Ellis Needham, a respect-
able looking man, aged as. %edn indicted for forging -
utt:ring as title, a bill id exchange for 601. purportir
bear the acceptance of Jeremiah Stauslord, with it
to cheat and defraud John Kinnear.
The principal witnesses to 1-rote the case were ,
Kinnear (tile prosecutor), and 21114111 named Friss T
his clerk.
Kinnear, in cross examination, said lie was the persou
convicted with Nlaselev, Woolfe,.atid others, of a mer-
cantile conspiracy, and was settleticed 10 le lts
imprisonment. The prisoner gave him a character up
that trial. The prisoner had awe business with and
him to the autumn of " many. many thomand pouts,
as an agebt.
Friar Todd, on cross ex 'initiation, raid he had ki
Kinnear lour months, and first saw hilts Norfolk-sit
lie Afterwards said he became act:planned with I ' I
years ago in Curzon-street. Ile was repeatedly adi
nished by the It-corder to take ere of what he was
about.
Toe prisoner read his defence from a piper, in which-
he declared litinwlf to have hero the dupe of designing
men, and said the tirosecittitsit was instituted only fur
the purpose of extorting motley from his friends.
The Recorder slit ll ll eil tip the evidence, and the Jury
immediately returned a verdict of not guilty.
The prisoner was arraigited 'spoil tile remaining in-
dictments profaners, and acquitted.
WADDINGTON THE RADICAL.
FRIDAY, APRIL IN —Samuel %V,,dilington, of bill-
sticking notoriety, was indicted for an assault anal rape
out Anne Thomas, Oil the 17th of February last, in the
Hattie of Correction, Coldhath.lielda.
The prisoner ap'a ared at the bay respectably attired in
• a blue coat and v,';',•.tti. waistcoat, and' his hair combett
back with particular precision. `l. he prosecutrix was a
child of diminutive star, Anil of prepussessitag appear-
ance, feSibee•ality Attired.
Nlr.Pleitileraast staled the ilisgtsstrag detail of the facts
he was ;Moot to prove m the J say. the particulars of
which we are precluded detailitia. Ti!e. child IS the
daughter of a person who was a kind friend to the tot-
loner; and sent her with tier sister with a daily meal—.
lie requested a few dais hehlre the assault was COM 1111 l .
led that ;hey (the two children) would come separate—
this plan was adopted, and he ell.eveil the purpose tor
which he was ott his nial, and he afterwards 11.re:stetted
Lt kill her if she told any our; and if she told her fa-
ttier and mother they would beat her severely.
The prosecutrix was examiner, with strict Sc 'sty by
the Recorder—She went to a Sunday ~:haul, read the
Bible, knew the 9th analinent, and expected to
go to hell if the accused the prisoner w (dully. Site
deposed that site had been in the hunt of going 10 the
Moose 01 Curt returns, C01416.1111-fields, With 1111/11ey COI.
lected from a club in Charter House Lute, amid also
With dinners; remembered that on a Monday in Fe-
bruary he said he would send a " Valentine' to her
fattier, tat lel her and her ester cone separate, as the
turnkeys thought it too much trouble to let theist in botti
together. 'foe next day witness went its alone, and her
plater i.t the SatUr time taking her lather's dinner to a
carpenter's shop, where he winked. Tate little girl pro.
erected with her evidence, Willell is of course unlit for
publicatirm.
A medical man was afterwards examitied, f whose
evidence IL alkpeured, out the capital charge could slut
be supported.
The Recorder here stopped the case, and directed the

Jst ry 11l acquit the iniamier.
I lie I,nsourr Men bowtil and ithdrew.
The "Irmecutor WAS rt minded that he was hound iu a
rcciinizauct to inoscetite the iirilmser for Ilse Jaaalllt,
kVittl itiktil to commit a Wilt'. as mom) as liis tel of
twin's° ttttt 111 lite ihmse of C,itrrclion lalOUtti raltise.

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MUJI)LESEX NE7SSIONS.
EXTRAORDIWWIIT 'ovum ferrule of pre-
possessing appearance, named I‘l4lll cut Blake, was
eliarapl vs nli unlawfully obtaining milder false pretene.s
the 1 of g 1.4.. from the .d parishes of Si. An-
drew, lioluorn, above liars, and St. Otorge the Mart)r.
It appeared that, in the year 1819, the prisoner was
delivered in the workhouse of St Andrew, Holborn, and
St. George the Nlartyr, of an illegitimate. child, and the
hither of the child gave security to the parish to allow
her 4s. a week for its blirport. About a twelvemonth
after the child had heel' born it died, and the prisoner
continued tip to March last to apply tor and receive the
peristim tor its support, tretpiently producing a child,
JNIIIC 11 she sialCii to be hers; not, in ponit or r4O, she
• bad Isamu ed this child for the purpose of extorting the
money Irons the parish. On every occasion stir stated
that Itie child was afire, and at norse. The fraud nay.
tug been discovered, toe pariah had itistituted thew pro-
ceednixs sgaiiist the prisoner, in order to repaces such
lIIIJ iiiii SCI.

%V lows's.: ►.ere criled, who looked the bets.
The CtiJirtnaii su 11111 l ed up, and the Jill found the
prisoner twiny.
The Coott sentenced her to three mouths' imptisou-
(pent in the Home of Correction.

CAUTION TO CAIITEMI.--thi Fiitlay the drivers or
four carts were eli aged at the piddle office, Hatton•
woden, by a toll erillvetet, with ri tug hi and tin the
stialts of their catts,o,i the road leading Irmo Kohl
tit I ,Intooli, they hating no reigns 111 their horses, not
persons on foot tu guide them. It appears that, by toe
new turnpike act, ail toll collector seeing and sullernig
any cart, dray, or waggon, to pass under such circuio-
staocts, %% Montt his sissita hiliontaliote within set eat
dabs, renders himself liable to a penalty of 61. Tile
pteseiit titJrge was laid by the Calif plat pant tinder this
conspisloise set. lie said lie dal not do it for the flake of
the reward, and believed they •ratt:.ors.eil through lg.
norance. lie hoped the slightest twoaliy until( be in.
fi.ctetb, and i ttpected that would be a can soil to others.
ikisvy were each, consisted io the km tit ini..ftes.

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