The National Register.
London, England, 1818-03-15 00:00:00

CHELMSFORD, NIARcr 10.

'Joseph Mays was .indictsil for bigamy, in otarrjing E)iz.
Hazlegrove, his former .siWe being then alive.
The facts of the case being proved,
Mr. Curwood objected, that this case was no fclopy,Wt. Li
the evidence it appeared, that the parties had been absent
from each. other for ten years, and therefore the prosecutor
ought to Have adduced in proof, namely,- that the prisoucr
knew his former. wife to be living at the time of the se-
cond marriage. .Me. Baron Graham said, upon his present
consideration he thought it ought to be proved that the wife
was the party who left the other: bat if he shoodd alter his
judgment liereafterolie prisoner should have the benefit old;
Thy :iiry found him Guilty, and he was sentenced to three
months imprisonment.
The following prisoners were capitally convicted, viz. Luke
Spiiitgliani, for stealing two sheep, yalue 41. the paopetty of
W. -Fitch, u(df.navestock ; Ridgely, for stealing of Theutal
Baker, county tiotes and silver to the amoen cf. Vl, ;Os., a
Colchester ; 'l'. Frost and .0. Frost, fur stealing sheep ill,
property of W. C.'mr.ing, of Henliam.—C. Frost was recom-
mended to mei cy, Lt:t the Judge said, the eircumstance of
their being indicted for I:everal other similar offences, renderes;
it extremely doubtful whether the tilefey at the Crown could
be extended to them ; Isaac Witheat, fur robbing this
dwellidg house of E. Hughes, at
.Orinstead. C. Miller, S.
Tyler, J. Cooper, and G. Hopwood, for having forged notes
io tneir possession, were sentenced to 14 years transportation.

:HERTFORD.
W. Edwards, was indicted for burglariontly breaking the
divelliog house of John Howard, of Buck wc.v, and stealing
therein a quantity of bread, cheese, bacon, and other proper-
ty.--Guilty Death.
R. Ruskin wAs indicted, for stealing on the 2d Oct. at Ches-
hunt, a gelding, the property of John Owen.—Guilty, Death.
J. Milton iv.ts indicted fur burglaimusly entering the dwels
ing house of W. ()dwell, the elder, of Bennington, and steal-
ing therein a quantity of bacon, bread, wearing apparel, dec.
—Guilty Death.
Anoc Cook, aged 21, was indicted for having, on the Ist of
February, under false pretences, obtained from J. Musgrave,
a large paatity of child•bed Awes: aad variou, Ober

moiety., tlw property or S. WO 0.11. C•q. of :§i•it ',ions.,
I'fll• I aSNI V4ritl .1 111, •111,14 Z, •1 1. 4.11.•::• .4 . 0,
the snort 14016. 011: ; —llll' proseentur had pros obit' an
establishment ter supply nt the poor with clothes, and indi-
gent females with child •hed linen, &c. The prisoner went to
his house, and representing herself to be the sister of one
Collins, at Rostock, who was in child bed, entreated, that she
might have the necessary articles for her raker. She was
supplied with the articles to the 101 l extent ofoilier request, but
iu arlay or two it was diSCO%ercut that the whole was a fabri-
cation, and that the prisoner had sold the goods. To be confin-
ed 12 the in the county gaol.
W. Fountain was indictor: r. stealing. on the II lh Dec., at
Henley, one ewe sheep, the property of I'. Hadow, Esq. of
Cohn- y Chapcl.—Guilty, Death.
T. Baker was indicted for stealing, on the 19th Jan., at
Rickniansworth, one ewe sheep, the,,p,roperty of Humphrey
Bache, &al.—Guilty, Death. Another indictment against
him, butt Mr. 13.1 run Wood declined trvinchint upon it.
B. Bradshaw, aged vO, was indicted for stealing, on the
2711 t Aug., at St. Albans, a black gelding,uxoperty of gr. fj.
Nl.irston of tisat place.—Guilty Heath.
W. Dyer, aged 19, late a deserter, from the depot at Chat-
ham, was indicted for a violent 44/14nit upon T. Clerke,,qii the
king's highway, and taking from Ins person a, silver yotsili
and 71. in Bank notes and other property, on tlo.
at Braughin. The prisoner wax it remarkably handsome
young nom, and of genteel appearance, but his conduct
throughout the trial was extremely unbecoming, and bespoke
a degree of insensibility to the awfulness of his gitilAlial!,
Mad' even the must hardened and desperate (Amide: would
scarcely have betrayed. He was laughing almost all the
time of his trial, and not withstanding the humane stigge.tions
of Isis Counsel, Mr. AdUlpllll%, he persevered to the, tost its
his indecent levity. Guilty, Death. --He was left for execs-
lion.

J. Little,and J. Martinovere capitally indicted for break-
ing and entrriug the dwelling house of W. Chapman, of Tlitair-
dlridge and stealing sixteen live fowls. The prisoner,
notwithstanding the humane remonstrance of the Judge, per-
sisted in a plea at his guilt.—Mr. Baron wo,te immediately
pronounced sent(3ice of Death upon the prisoner, who bay-
ing exclaimed, " I trust my Loi d, knoll spare toy life;" the
Judge replied. " Yes, I think for this offence, I may venture
to promise, yon mercy, but front intimations which have been
made to m.. it seems you must he removes' to the next coun-
ty, to tibiae your trial upon capital eh ages."
John Mertin was then put ti; his trial. Mr. Jevsop,
said, that the prisoner, ill cuujnnctitnt with Little and several
others, foricing a gang ut depredators long the terror of the
county, had at length beet' arrested in their guilty career.
Some of the parties, it is true, had fur the pi esent escaped
the vigilance ut pursuit, but they were .known. and dare nut
ith imp y practise their utlences, appear is:. :hat
counti„witich they had so long ravaged. —Guilty, Death.
B. Bothwell was convicted of stealing from the premises of
Thomas Deacon, Esq. of Whatfuril, a valuable mare, his pro-
pert.s.s—Guilty, Death.
wit convicted for hawing burglarionsly entered
the dwelling house of CI. Grissel, and stealing from thence
a large quantity of leather and other property, Guilty Death.
T.M'igsloy was capitally convicted for breaking the (heel-
ing house of a poor tanailynamed A geerson, at Thetford, and
stealing ther,iti divers articles of wearing apparel.--Gailty,
I Death.

Mary Davis and Catherine Pearce were indicted for steal_
ing from Henry Gibbs,. Gl. in Bank notes, and other property.
Cettitty.. 7 years tramp/it tatitm.
Mier several trials for minor offences, the Assizes, pre-
senting the heaviest calendar known at this place, having con_
eluded, Mr...4.irnti Wood proceeded to pass sentence of Death
upon the following convicts, viz. B. Rodwell, R. Ruskin, and
lt..Bradst.aw, for horse stealing; T. Baker, and W. Fountain,
for,sheep.stealing ; J. Andrews for house brrak lug ; J. Milton,
J. Martin, J. Little, and E. Harper, fur burglary; and W.
Dyer for highway rubbery.
Mr. Baron Graham who assisted in the trial of the prisoners
passed sentence of Deatli upyn Wells, Wigsby, and Edwards.
Dyer,, we undtestautl, is the only criminal left tur executiou.

; BERKSHIRE.
On Monday last the Assizes fur this county commenced at Reading.
at which the following prisoners, among others, were tried and eon.
victed :—George Holloway, for stealing twelve sheep, from Charles
Pocock. of Cholscy, and eighteen sheep, from Peter Matthews, of
NloulstOrd ; George Stockbridge. for breaking open the dwelling.
house of Lazarus Grove, of Bra.), ; John Ednuinds and Williams
Smith, for robbing in:a dwelling-house at South Ilincksey ; Sarah
Spokes, for breaking open and robbing the dwelling-house of 11 illi
Shurwell, of Remenliam ; Thomas Cottrell, for a like offence at
Brightwell; David Sinn, for a like offence at Crookhana ; John
Hall, alias Pitikett, John Bowles, for a burglary at Stanford ; Wm.
Bowes, and J. Bowles for the same, likewise for sheep stealing and
other offences; Thomas Wren, for breaking, into the dwelling-house
of Ann Marlow, at Bradfield; and William Wilmot, for stealing
from the dwelling-house of Sarah Goodell., of Speenhaulland ;—the
whole ofthe above were found Guilty—:Beath, but were all after-
wards reprieved.

.IcQRTHANIU)NSHIRE.
...*attec. Cubhett and George Wilkin, for felonicilsly tattering a
forged Bank note, received sentence of death, and are left for execu-
tion. NVilliain Franklin, for highway-rubbery ; Richard Walters.
and Thomas Lee for burglary ; Joseph Wilmore, fur stealing iri a
dwelling house ; and J. Helton, for house breaking ; mi.:civet; sen-
tence ot, death, but w ere all reprieved.

Ftnce—Wedaesday night a tire broke ,out in at; apartment
at the House of Mr. Grout Thomas, the sign of the White S vs an,
Mile End Road. The servant maid, who was going to
:the linen, went up stairs with a_ lighted candle, to the first
floor apartment, awl gathered up all the articles she wA.: go-
ing to wash, but in consequence of the candle falling civil
the candlestick, they caught fire,and ilie,sin her iliarm, pulled
some sheets and blankets off the bed, and threw ahem in the
flames, thinking to extinguish them, which added to their
fury. dames rushing through the door up stairs,
.pre_
vented a,ny of the lodgers in the tipper part of the Louise five
making their escape Jowl, stairs, and most of Egan uved
A man who lodged inn the secupd floor, and who was asleep,ia
their lives be being t out of the back windows into the yard.
bed, not being alarmed till the flames Lad reached his apart_
awoke, unit 011 opening his door the flames rushed is
iynuu I' in ,
• lie had nu tither means of escaping but by jum
p-
ins out of tho uindow, to which he rail several times before
lie could dud resolutien, at length he got out and stppd pn wf
window Crest vane!) he jumped down to the ground.
sevesa! persons made.to,,the spot, who picked him tip iq
state of insensibility; they carried hint to thr London HospL
tat, where he was shortly revived; he had his leg broken
and received several severe bruises. The upper tiaet,o/JJais
woe was completely destroyed,