The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-11-02 00:00:00

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A Caroller's Inquest was held iris 310tiday and
Tuesday last, belote Rozer Cellawue. Cor
tier or this Borough, on d'c body of tliostias (tin.
etigloid. aged 71 years. shipwright in this Dock -
yard,. who was fouud dead in his bed, covered with
blood, early oil. tti morning of Saturday Ira, at
his lu.lg Ilya in Orange-street, Portsen. A verdict
or Wiffiii Murder teas returned iitt;itittat lila %tie,
Sarah tlanfinzford, aged ithdut Cu', who has In-cis
c.uisequetilly annotated for trial at the next County
Anig.-s. The circuln.tniires of this hors id crime.
as they *pew:wed iii evidence, are a. follow
Hewitt:ford and his wife retired to their heritoom, bting
the fluid garret, at their usu•l law un Friday night ; it (11,1
not appear that either of them was intoxicated. About
three o'clock on Saturday morning., Senniel Mitt ly, a super.
:mounted shipettight. who occupies the btet: part of the
stoic Louses *a awoke ty the steps of st.me person comiter
down stairs, which person he In and !co 1,11: et the hat lc-
door Hr Oa useiliately threw open Fos window, a heti Ise
liNedVellai a temtie ill Ihr yen( ..;!:ise to and flu, with
some r3rsuent wrapped round L.r heti e fie Gra, d, bin
• received 110 answer. Le i.e' the prom trine., mt. the
Iniese. He put 41t1 part of lea and upeurd h,a
doer, alien he discovered Mrs. Iluittingt-isl collie up into
bur oa is room, milli a lighted teethe. :she appeared
alarmed, shook smell, and, uu, htit. cri.j:::llv. to her, she Mop-
poi her molly, which went out, cud she eNelaimed, " 1 ant
murdered and rubbed 1." Marty took op the candle, and
went mkt the landlady's (ties. J-tieilies) ....., the fiont
loom on the 0,4 door, \dirs., he li;lited the cand!e. Mts.
Jemmies and Mrs. lloutenttlnal went op slims; Ilaiety fol-
lowed so MIMI as lie had dreeacil himself, and also weal into
the room, whin the deceased oar discovered lying in dm
bed, covered with chute,' bluetit : a great proftision of blood
was upon the bed, and blood was also spattered on the wall
at the heart of the bed, and un the g vier. palely Milne.
diairly called mare neighbours, and went foe a .targeoa, us ho,
at seeing the deceased, pronuatuced he hind died from bus it.
tug a blood . I--ehe idea of his hatUitg been murdered
not at all being then resettled: hat hefure lie Willi easy,
lie debited that u lietitiketehief, whirl, woo tied retold the
deceased's throat sod head, might be len:steed, tit aster-
lam if be might slot have lire,, atinteiled ; uu uen,..vie,
which, five wounds mete f ti ou the f•er of
which had fractimed the skull; a meal other wouiiit, were
also futind on the head, particularly 001 ut the left tem.
plc, where the bone was so dltreso it, that a fine"
could reach the brain—esll of whit is appeared to Is ive
been made with a heavy cutting lasts nutrial. When Sirs.
itemises soil fairly went into the room, aid discover.
fug the dead body, Mts. Ilamittefortl said, that two
men hail been there, anti dried her hit•hisitt. The truth
of tins assertion was instantly deuted by roll the lunatics of
the Wine. who bed beard 110 UUlat whatever, and who found
no violence had bees titled en the doors. In reply, Sirs.
iisintiogfurd said, lwr husband had been down the yard le.
(metre went to bed, .isiti hid fergAtett to fasten the door mi
big return. She was why she hind not 'wide a Hulse ?
She replied, they had threatened her w It:, death if shed d
av ; that one was lad, stud had a lontshrie k in his haunt; attd
ate • shoal matt, aha had a lantern, and both their (icor
were blackened She also said, that she was in bed at the
time ; that titey asked for money. and On tier hu-badd's
noshing resistance the tall mast struck him, clad killed Into ;
that they made nu uois., tweastse, she said, they lid uo abut a
on. Upon beim: asked why she should have gone moo the
yard without Kleine alarm, she denied slit, had lee' into 'Le
yard; but H itely swore positively to her beingn, the yard,
and to his having met her in the way going up litany fount
the yard to her own room ; that she remained un the wrosNt
CI,T (ruin the first Aniline-Wince, while Basely lit the ctisidle
she had chopped, by the can.lic which was lit Ma.
who also saw her at the same time. An sustrii-
mem, id the shape of a et/fOll4Oll Isillbook, but heavier and
inure sharp, was tumid in the gust-Lull, at the tout of the
stairs, RIO pal( trlstele spot Mts. I:l3stilteord went on her
gang and returning (tom her garret to y od. This in-
strument accorded with the woutitls, er.d ass bloody.
in ((tither proof of bet guilt, it appealed, tit examining of
the bed, in the first 1110411 CM if the diseuvely, by Mrs. Turn-
bull (a midwife), and another urighbour, that only 1,1111. per-
son 1141.1 laps in it that night ; there was tau second imprem
mutt, and the deceased was Lying in the middle of the bril,
perfectly dead and stiff, and ti.,tu the appearance of the
blood must bare been dead some boom Mrs H. upon this
contradiction to her detentes' I being oliservi d, acknowledged
she had not been to bed, though, in the tint instauce, she
stated tubs had jumped out abed un the fret appearauce of
the sue' ill her room. Upon her person there wee not much
Wood; upon her pockets and one of her petticoats there were
some small spots. The deceased's pockets Lail been horned
inside mit, trot were not bloody; and a small box, in which
the deceased at times had kept muuey, had been (meant, hut
unborn violence. Ito money, however, was in it, nor c, aid
any lee found upon the wire. It appeared this wretched 'semen
had, previustsly to tide shocking diseoveey, pawned some
spotrus and her husband's last coat, whit h he had that day
rocked her fur, and as she bad been lung addicted to soitl,hm
dritukeu habits, it is presumed the fear of detection, (ions
baying made away within. propel ty, and the hope of finding
Money in his hos led her to the perpetration of this must
de-
praved and horrigileed, which mast have been t fleeted slw, sly
after they bad retired fur the night. The Prisoner, formerly,
many yearn kept a grocer's shop at Portliest The deceased
had been upwards of sixty years a shmatight in his Ma-
jesty's duck-yid ; he was of a remarkably quirt inoffensive
diaposit.ou. They had been married apecarde of 40 years.
It is not the least shocking pars of this horrid t
that the wo,uau, throighout the proceedings, skewed the
Most cations insensibility.

DARING ROBBERY
AND Al TEMPT' 41' MU UDE R.

Vrshwthiy ow*nnight, between eleven and twelve &elm+,
the house of Ur. Inapry, a willtr, who reeidia about half a
mile two, the li,gb London road leading to Berkliaiusirail,
in Ile, trordshire, was entered in the nowt dining manner, by
a riildter it, rubber°, who took advantage of nic.t lathe nth t.
Wants being then engaged in their religions set vices.
Mr. Impey is of the Society of rsiends, aud was at the
Meeting ut that cersd.tsion, together with all his
except his sister, who was upwards of se—rnty years of age,
and resides with her brother, Mr. Impel. dileriy Lady
sae In the passage ending into the garden, and "Alt to
make arrangements itor the dinner, when she eta wet by a
1013 n who had entered from the back prionswe by lba
garden, the dour of which is always left open in the day
time. The frillier assailed her with most horrid higii.iz.
a.ikl threats, atid knocked her down, aud sitteroards wrack
her several violent blows with a bludgeon, he them neut.-it-sled
iii ding hi r done stairs Ma 114 cellar, which tie .'•il by lie
leg: aid feet, se that at every step she struck for
st the stairs, the %Main WWI ?Mt to tu..t
as its. bad gut her 'bat+ .1,0 the *rya