The National Register.
London, England, 1816-06-03 00:00:00

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house of the nut (the stable connee‘ oil with the
is St. James's-sip:are, on the t7th instant, NW)
stealing a table cloth and sonic wearing appar;!l, his property,
together with several other articles the property of his servant..
—Guilty, Death.

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Juitm agNl 19, and Peter Herbert, aged 20, were
capitally colivact,..l of a burglary in the ilwelling-horse of
Mary Davis, of sun-yard, St. Clements, on the I lth Of April
last, and stealing a quantity of wearing apparel her I.roperty.
Death.—They were recommended to mercy on ac-
count of their 3 °nth and former good characters.
Nardi (Wert was capitally convicted of stealing on the llth
May, in the ilwdliieglionse of Sir Geo. T. Smartt of Portland-
street, 101 pieces of plate.
Wiitia»s Intber, aged IS, was convicted of assaulting John
Morgan on the King's highway, aad taking from his person a
quantity of silver on Ith April last.
DaNvergi unit IViWairt Fellow" were capitally convicted
of assaulting John Dorton, on the King's highway, and taking
Crum his person tour peony pieces, a pocket-book, &c.

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Ft-14'y, InTimis Motes an.l Sneak .Mules were capitally in-
dicted, charged, by an inquisition taken ot. the body tit. John
liewley, with the wilful murder of tke sold John Howley.
The following witiit4aea were called to make omit the case:—

Jones small waft a pupil at the London Hospital, and had been
so for seam, years. Ho remembered the deceased being
brimight is on the 7th Apr!l : he examined him, and found cot,
t usions on the hotly, and a fracture on the kg, which appeared
to the wituese to have been produced by violence. The lad
was ro young. that it was impossible to say within a day at
what time the fracture was done' but it could net have been
above a slay or two: he ascribed the mortification to the frac-
ture : there were also some excoriations about the knees of the
lad ; the leg was cut off sule.equent to the mortification, hut
the deceased did not live more than a quarter of an hour. The
death of the lad you'd not be ascribed to nothing but the vim
knee done to the let; and the mortification. The exceniations
on the knees arose, us lit li...tiered, from climbing chimneys.
Mr. Richard Clement Leadington was surgeon to the Lon-
don Hospital, and held e %ambled the deceased when lie came
tutu the hospital : he then ow that the left leg and thigh u ere
prodigiously swollen, and hindering upon inortincetiou. lu
about three or four days the leg was almost gone; and on
Smoky there was a considerable bleeding, and the wily thing
to be done was amputation; the consespemei se as shaost in-
stant death. The child was about five years old, but witness
csmceived that the age of the child was in his favour: the in-
jury done to the kg was the cause of his death; tloese were ne
other marks Or Vitilellee besides those on the leg norm the child,
except npou the forehead. It was rassiale that tae kg might
have been brokeo a fortnight.
Elizabeth Ware deposed, that Ler h ;band was a hr. s 6 layer.
Ondhe d April she recollected the u ate prisoner and tee de-
ceased coming to her house iu Passion.street,Bp-tal.,-Ids. hey
went into a room over head, end in a short time she sward the
violent cries of a child : she immediately ,:eit out 4 lied, and
went up into the I'oolll above stairs with Mr. Reeves, and saw
the male prisoner strike the deceased sioleetly with a sweep.
ing brush : he then took the child by tit" feet, and dashed it
shown on a large flagstone; the-prisoner thel put the child up
the chimney, with another boy after it. Wink.. then went
dawn stairs, as she could bear it no longer.
Mrs. Sarah Reeves recollected the prisoner and his boys
coining to Mr. Jackson's house where she lodged. Ia comas-
querte.e of being called by Mrs: Ware, she went hub the room
up stain; she saw the prisoner, at the time she entered it, ex-
tending his arms up the chimney: he took the deceased by the
lens, and dashed hint on the hearth. The prisoner then put
the child up the chimney again. The boy cried, an.l said ibis
knees hurt him: he then moue down and the prisoner again
took the child by the breeches, and da-slied hill' out the ground:
be then put the child op the chimney, with another boy after
him. The child,after having finished the chimney, slime down,
and as he was standing on the hearth shaking the soot from off
his clothes, the prisoner hit him with the brush on his back and
loins. The boy pat on his shoes, and trembled very inneh.
The prisoner put a :,leek rag on the boy, who walked down
stairs resting his liana on the wall all the way down: and as
they were going down, the prisoner turned round ane said W.
the child. " I will serve you out yet." Witness saw the boy
walk demo stairs, and the leg was not broken at that time.
Ann Chandler deposed, that ou the gad or t. Mt of April the
prisoner came to her house with the deceased to sweep the
cininuev ; they all walked to her house.
Mr. jestice Bayley asked the learned Counsel,whether there
was any evidence to prove the fracture on the leg by the pri-
souers; and being answered in the negative, the learned Judge
then addressed the Jury :—He thought it his duty to stop the
proceedings in this case, understanding that no evidence could
be produced to prose that either of the prisoners had broken
the chills leg. Most inlnunan cruelty had indeed been proved
on the part of the male prisoner towards the boy, bitt that was
not enough; it was absolutely necessary to prove the fracture
of the leg by one of the prisouers, mid it had been positively
sworn by the last witness, that on the tad or 24th of April the
deceased walked to her house; at that time, therefore the leg
could not have been broken. He therefore recennmeuded the
Jury to acquit the prisoners.
The Jury acquitte d both the prisoner; but Mr. Justice
Raw ley detained Wm. Moles fora misdemeanour in beating the
child.