The National Register.
London, England, 1818-10-26 00:00:00

SURRENDER OF THE MURDERER.

Abont five o'clock on Tuesday moron ng, a young man ac-
coated Joseph Myatt, constable and watch-Imese keeper of
St. Andrews, limber', staling that he was u murderer, arid
was desirous of surreuilering himself into the halide of livier) ;
the constable was astonished at the application, and for a
few inomente hesitated how to act. lie requested the apple-
caw to be inare explicit; Ilse yOllll2 !WM then said, that on
Friday evening he murdered a child at Newington. Your
name is Dean, said the watchman ; I am that unfortunate man
he replied. He was then taken into the watch-house and
properly secured. Daring his coniiimance theta he mss
asked by Myatt, whether at the time of the ',nude' being cool_
milted he was in a state o* intoxication, to which he answered
he was never more softer in liis life. At Boson he was taken
to Giltspur-street, Co:miter, and informal ion of his surrender
was Stott to May, the officer, who had been particularly active
in hi. endeavours to apprehend him. May matted upon the
Lord Mayor about 11 o'clock, and received direction rim his
Lordship to take the prisoner to Union Hall, in order that
the prisoner might be investigated by the Magistrates of the
&afflict. C. Jeminett, Esq. the Coroner amid Jury, had
in the mean time assembled at the Rockingham Arms, New-
ington, to take an inquisition on the body of the murdered
child, and the Sitting Magistrate being inflamed that the
prisoner did not deny having committed the 'der. consi-
dered that the most expeditious and satisfastory mode of pro-
ceeding would be to send lino immediately before the Coroner
in order that be might be committed for trial upon the evi.
deuce adduced to that gentleman and the jury. It was also
thought that the public mind would be more speedily tran-
quilized, and the crowd of persons would disperse, and the
parties retire peaceably to their respective homes, when it
was known that his final commitment had taken place. At
noon the coach arrived at Union Hall office (where an inn-
surmise crowd had assembled, under the expectation of seeing
the prisoner, and the public road was so excessively thronged
in flout that many lives were hazarded 'by the attempts of
drivers of coaches and carts to to; ce a passage for the vein.
cles,) containing May, the prisoner Dean, and Myatt the con.
stable, who, receiving the eider of the Magistrates as suttee
stated, proceeded, with the addition to the party of Hail the
officer, to the Rockingham Arms, followed by about 2000 per-
sons. It was not observed by the officers that the untiappy
parent of the murdered child was standing at the door of the
Rockingham Arms when the prisoner descended from the
coach, but he soon became known ; the moment his eyes
were fixed upon the prison of the prisoner, his countenance
grew pale with rage, his eyes flashed Airy, with the rapidity,
of lightning he darted olio's the culprit, and but for the timely
interference of the offieris would have avenged op the spot
the illialolalioll of his child. One hand of the prisoner was
fastened toMay's, and with the other he coveted his eyes, uor•
once dared to meet the glacee or the wretched father.
The following is the evidence taken before tire Coroner,
Charles Jennuett, Esq.
'tars, Mary Helbert, wife of Edmund Halbert, rind another
of the deceased, being swum, stated, idler a great deal of
irrelevant evidence, that her mother weld into the street, and
saw the deeetuted in Demi! alms at the top of the court in
Thoma's-street ; Dean asked witness's mother, if she would
go to a chandler's shop, and purchase I mane tobacco,
which she consented to du ; and while she was gone of the
errand, something impelled witness to rise 1. Om the chair ,
she felt a kind of inset oil alarm, and she without any motive,
ran into the court, and met the deceased near the house door;
aloe reeled towards her, and appeared to have a red hasolkei-
Chief rowel her neck. Witness took the deceased into her
inns, and the blood gushed from her throat ell over her
clothes; the deceased put out her arms, and then dropped '
down as if she lied expired or fainted; witness awoke liar
husband, and said '• Our child is murdered!" the 11113644 rd
replied, " You are read sorely." He took hold of the de-
ceased, and arcing that she was dying ran into the court elid
said" Who did it i" Witness told her husband that " Drama
had done it, she was sloe ;" and elle diet' ilitOrined him that
Dean Caine its %bile he was asleep, and went out with the
professed inteution of buying her an apple. A surgeon was
sent for, who came and attended fhb deceased until she was
quite dead.
[At this period the murderer arrived from Union Hall
Police-office; several thousands of persons had collected
round the house where the jury were sitting, and bewail have
torn the delitiqueut to piece., but for the blinded intervention
of the Pollee. The above witness eau to the window
of the
Jun-room, from whence she lush a vb..% of the prisOli of
Dean, as hr was sitting in the hat Ailey amok ; she sett mired,
woad luudty and terailicelly, Titer is the liteldeler CI my

Tut: NATros-Af. ituGtsTrat

dear child ; Oh, Ili villain ! the murderer !"&c. and
111 into an le,stei ie lit ; she was removed into another room
bye %II rgruat who Nits precut, as site had nu•o. tuning ly
.get 11,1 01111 of iho %,iatlwas, and vs as vety nine', cut about
her hands anti at ins. Dean was played in a room adjoinilig
the jury roam.")
Joseph WIIhAIIN, the brother of the last witness, tieing
sv,orn, gave a keg statement which hose no further upon the
q lestion doss to show that Dean was in unsettled and dis_
t.escd el; emu,latice3.

Mrs. Small William?. the mother of the abeue witne4‘eg,
and grandmother to the deceased, deposed to the same
effect.

ai, Roby Ifegtun, surgeon, Brighton-pi/tee, New Kent-
road, b ink sworu, stated, that the wound was sufficient to
inflict d ath.

Joieph .siyatt, an oflicer of St. Andrew's, Holborn, sworn.
About a quarter of au hour 'refine r) o'clock that morning, a
man, who said his name was Robert Dean, came to the watch.
house of St. Andrew's Holborn; he said that " he rime to
surrender himself, for he was a murderer, mud could not hold
out any longer ;" witness asked hull what murder he lead
dime and lie said, " lie had murdered a child over in the
B114'01101; lie seemed very mulch agitated, and asked leave to
W 41.111 1111113!If t witness told him he might it' he thought pro-
per: witness took Itim thence to the Compter ; on the way
witness conversed with Dean, and asked him how he came to
rUllllllit the dreadful act ? Dean replied, " Why, the devil was
oser him." Dean begged that he might be well used in
prison; witness promked he should; Deau said that lie was,
letting the whole of Monday last, lurking about 1;0w-street
Police-office, in hopes that some one would recognize him,
but as no one did, he had not courage to resign himself up; he
had been wandering about ever since he committed them hoe;
and lie went to a chapel in Moorfields, and heard a sermon
preached, whirl' so affected his mind, that lie resolved to de-
liver Itimselt op to justice: he said lie was quite sober when
he conitnitted the act; Dian appeared perfectly composed
when he gave the above relation.
The Coroner having said a few words, the jury returned a
verdict of—Wilful Murder agai st Robert Dean.
The WitllCAAel were bound o er, and the Coronerissited his
warrant for his committal to Porsenionger-latie gaol.
Before Dean WJlttlllloVell om the Rockingham Arms, the
Coroner ordered the constables to bring him (Dean) into the
jory.room. lie was brought in handcuffed to May, the
officer, of Union hall..

Mr...Jetnalrtt asked which Will Robert Dean.
Dean burst into tears, and iu great agitation said, " I am
that unfortunate 111311."

Coroner.—l aut sorry to see you charged with such a horrid
crime.

Dean (beating his forehead in great arony withltis right
hand) said, '• It is a dreadful thing sorely."
Coroner.—lt is Iny duty to commit you; I have issued my
warrant, and I hope you will think of your awful situation,
and may God have Merry upon you.
Prisoner (writhing with agony).—" I hope he will."
The prisoner was thou conveyed in a hackney eoach to
Horst-monger:lane-gaol.
_ . .

A lase was-liniud in the rottrt where the murder was
conunittedt it is about eight inches long, with a white handle,
and is in the possession of Alay the officer.

CONFESSION.

Daring the time the inquest was being held at the Rocking.
ham Anus, Deals was placed in a private room with May and
several other officers. Dean whispered to May, that if he
were left alone with I' he would relate to hiss, the whole
particulars of the dreadful transactiou. Ma) requested every
person present to leave the room, and the prisoner then wade
the following confession, which we give verbatim —" On
Friday evening last. 1 suet a young man named Joseph Wil-
liams, with whom I had long been intimate at Mrs. Halbert's
house, in Jacques-court, Thomas-street. I had long been
acquainted with a young woman, 'tamed Sarah Longman,
daughter of Mr. Longman, at the Grape., Church-row, A Id.
gate ; my affection for her was extremely great ; I had for
some time corresponded with her. A dispute unhappily
arose; I wrote to her upon the subject, expressing my regret
at the unfortunate rupture; described the very great regard
which I entertained for her ; implored her to consent to a
reconciliation; and, begged that site would write use an
early answer. She never replied to my letter. Her father
called upon one, and wished that the connexion might be
discontinued. These circumstances had an indescribable
effect upon my mind; I was misseralsly unhappy, was incapa-
ble of attending to any business, and gave myself up entirely
to despair. I endeavoured to prevail upon her to renew
the correspondence. I felt that I never could be happy in

this world without her, and determined to leave it. Thiiiights
•f a dreadful description entered my mind, and must have
proceeded from the devil. I felt that I should leave the
world in a state of happiness if I could murder her, and de-
termined to perpetrate the deed. I had been from home Mu
days, business nut being very brisk ; and on Friday eveniug I
called to see Williams. at Mrs. Halberts, and we both came
nut together, and walked in company as far as the Surrey
Theatre ; we did not go in. I told Williams that I wanted to
see a gentleman iu the Borough, and should go that way.—
We parted, and I returned to Mrs. Halberts. After talking
in a very friendly manner with the family, I asked for a knife,
and they. supposing that I es auted to cm some bread, gave
me a case knife. I took an opportunity of concealing it un-
perceived in my pocket. I shortly after went out with the
child to buy her some apples, which having dune I returned
to the court. A sudden thought came over my mind that if
I murdered the child, who was innocent, I should not commit
so great a crime as in murdering Sarah Longman, who was
older ; and as I imagined had sow to answer for. In a mo-
ment I pulled the knife out of my pocket, put the child out
01 my arms, held her head back, and eat her throat; in an
in►tant I imagined that I was in the tuidst of flaming fire, and
the count appeared to me like the entrance of hell. I ran
assay, nut knowing where I went, or what I did : I wandered
about in a state of distraction, until I surrendered myself up
at the watch-how."

Dean has been ever since his commitment entirely ab-
sorbed in meditatioe. Ile regnested that a I3ible and prayer-
book, which were foierd et los lodgings, and had been taken
po-ve,sion of by Mai, the (unstable, might he given to him ;
the books were delivered. and he has incessantly employed
himself in the perusal of them. He weeps wee) much, and
speaks in terms of great affection of the child which was
sac( liked by his hand.
It appears that atter Dean had committed the atrocious
crime, he walked about until tan o'clock at night, and then he
crossed the water. and entered a public house in Westminster,
and on the following day he enlisted in the Atli Regiment,
RIM passed the doctor the same day, and was In have been
4%0111 in on the morning that he sur:eudertd himself. It

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tsah UUllcvd by t,te 3uitafer woii wll•wt iie chiL.ti.(l, that he
appealed At times el eatly co.,11%.•"1, a 6.1 w.aild "tart f. 114111.111
as toltr rbr persons emthl not
elicit Ir..:11 him the •:aasr of his maim: nholy. 0.. the ‘l,llday
Dean state a lottat At th.• public ttrioaa ii,dlr. 1-11Jibert, thy.
Pattie' t.t the decea...dolekt,,,wleilgit.g Chet h.• %%Ws th.•
deem, acid aka lip. aormor 6,1. what 1,, had d eeee lite Ivo 6.1.
way, 11.1 rued WI Monday by 31 r. lalbet t, and is stow its ais
',obsession.

MUID)FIit AT BROMIPTON, KENT.
Far a week past the welt, lu the well of the Doke of York
piildird:a.tisio, at Br 1111 l p ten, Kew, hall been atlerted with so
n ,alsomis a taste and smelt, that it became unfit for use. The -
servant, when &rah% found something hindered the liiitlact
front ; the in,p, dive id wrs stopposed to be the lid of
the wall, which had faUcot iii, and is Inch was thought to have
comoitimicated die ,ottensive 111.4htle, to the water. Thr
however, lately thought that she percei vood soma Whig like a
hotly, and on moving the rope bark %tarok and forwards to
till the biteket, she found pieces of took n mil aitional substance
adhering to it when it was drawn %IF an I ss Ohio Ute 14,/
new days the smell at the mouth ill the u, II had become so
exceedingly offensive that uu one would go heat it, On Sa-
turday morning the eireamsiances b.v,og lot come a matter
of conversation among some soldiers w!ni ..re drinking at
the Duke of Ye rk, one of them otlei..l for a tritiioig reward
to go down the well, which is of great depth, :nod clear it of
its impurity. He was accordingly boa ert ol doss r, but before
lie arrived at the bottom Ile was 4111/11•1 110 S% I' 8111 by the
lattiol effluvia, and called ton to the 1111'11 win/ were lusvr ring
him to stop. Paving waited for a few seconds :stet rueovereil
himself, lie proceeded till the bucket touched the witei. ss ben
leaning over its side, lie with infinite honor and dismay, dis.
covered a naked Inman body floating on its back. To be
certain, he took hold of the hair, when the body rolled over,
and the air and scalp became detached trout the skull, :it'd
remained in his hand. Terrified in the extreme, amid almost
reduced to insensibility at the horrid sight, lie caned to the
'nett at the brink of the well to draw him tip. One of his
comrades then went down with a sheet, and having rolled it
round the dead body, it was drawn up ; thriolrlirr. however,
nearly fell a sacrifice to his exertions; lie was so affected by
the foul ale, that he lost his senses just as he came within the
reach of the bystanders, who caught hold-of him, and pre-
vented him from falling headlong ions the well. The body
proved to be that of a woman about 37 years of age, named
Donnelly, the wife of a soldier lately discharged from the
(18th regiment. She was far advanced• in pregnancy, and
being completely naked, it was immediately suspected that
the woman had been murdered.
A Coroner's Jury was suranioned, and an inquisition taken
at 12 o'clock on Saturday last, which continned investigating
this mvsterions affair until 7 at night, when the evidence
read by the Coroner, and the Jury not agreeing unanimously
in their verdict, au adj minent teok place till 1 o'clock ou
Monday: fresh evidence :laving been obtained, they con-
tinned their investtgation till r o'clock in the evening. The
following particulars came out
In the early pant of September, the 38th regiment, to
which the husband of the deceased belonged, armed from
Halifax. Donnelly was then quartered at the Duke of York,
at lituinitton ; lie came there accompanied by his wife and
two children, and was lodged in a room at the hack of the
house, the window of which isaliout five feet from the well in
which the deceased person was found. The unfortunate
woman was about twelve years older than Donut Ily ; she was
very much attached to him ; but was extremely jealon,, and
frequently evinced that passion when lie stoke to another fe-
male ; their quarrels conseqneutly were Il (-fluent, and at times
particularly violent. On the :debtor the 17th of September
they quarrelled, and from violeut words proceeded to blows ;
their conduct became desperate ; Donnelly forced his wife
towards the well, and threatened to throw her into it ; her
screams brought persons to Ler assistance, and she was re-
leased from his violent efforts to force her toward* the well's
mouth. The whole ofticat night, however, ,he lay in the open
air, with her head resting on the steps leading into the public-
house where she, wet found next morning with her elothesvet
through with dew and rain. She was advised to go to her
apartment and change her apparel, which she did at itr some
time, and in the coarse of the day the became rt etotiriled to
her husband. On tae. following Saturday night she was ut
the club room at the Duke of York in apparent heatili and
spirits ; after that time she was nut seen alive by auy-oni in
the house.

On Sunday morning the 20th Sept. Donnelly came down
from his apartment and sat in the tap room with his two
children but without his wife; inquiries were made alter, /ler,
and he said that she had gone the preceding night on a visit
to her trim!. ; lie did not know when she would return :
that she had taken 31. to defray her capebe( s, &e. To other
inquiries, he said that she 1441/1 gone off with another man.
A female, who went into his apartment on the day Mira Don-
nelly's wife disappeared, stated, that she saw every thing
abut the room in the greatest disorder ; the clothes of the
deceased scattered about in all directions, and she observed
marks of blood upon the bed linen. Yet,witli all these strong
evidences of guilt, together with the violent conduct towards
the deceased on the Thursday preceding, no ample:ion ad.
pears to have been entertained of tho murder until ••aturdity
week, after the body had been lying in the well fur name
than a month.

Donnelly remained at the Duke of York after the deceased
was missing for more than a fortnight, and t cial•
versed about his absent wife without the least emotion or con-
fusion at the time. He said she was gone off with as fellow,
and %cold not trouble him again, and since that period he has
cohabited ith another woman.

The Coroner siitimi;tl tip the
„evidence to the Jiffy ; he was
glad they adjourned, because more evidence or great impor-
tance had been adduced, and tram that and the evidence
taken oat the first day they assembled, lie had no doubt but
that they would be :init. to conic to a sal isfactory conclusion
upun the subject.
'I he Jury, without hesitation, returned a verdict of" wilful
nun der against the liusbiiiiil of the deceased," and a t‘ariant
has since hero issued lot his apprehension and committal to
the County Gaol.

A lettrr dated Manch% ',tea-, the 19til. !lays :—" Two of the
principal ifonso. in this toli si rf•eeivi.d. on Sal II ralay, sr erg!
extein.it e orda I'S for ditierent desei iptianis of u.miiifimthred
gootfh, for South A11)(3 ledll lliJrik Vitt i 11.t.t.e /Haters a awe from
Balled and Rio Juneau ; Iwo Mein ate to e ruu.i it ratite
amount ; and the kilt r., %%Inch urcott.puttiell Harm, field tilt
the cheering ussuranee that Lit y would fol.aka d by
other, of equal otiguit wit. This iutulligenee has intpntt.j
coniiiilera sati,l.ici ion ,as. d %%dl, in some n•au re coon ft-
vdil the gloomy accouuts as to our hide with the Uoittd
Stntri.*

ClO

num the LONDON GAZETTE, Saturday, (ht. 24.

I!ANKIttIoCCV

Tr. 2 4.enVM J. 4os ;ell:qtr.-et, from Oct. 27,
Uur. 15.

BANKRUPTS.

Draosr G. jun. late of China 7crrace l.ambeth. auctioneer, Oct.
Nos. 7. Dee. 5. at GividhalL Att. Mr. Dodson, Staple Inn.
W:r..oror J. Itatlibons-place. Us.fard-str.n. Levlcseller.
Nu-. 7. Doc. 3, at Guikliull. Au. Nind and Co. Thmgcnorton-
street.
Ss ..tot.4 A. Lime-street. spirit meretlint. net 31, Nov. 9.
Joe... 5. at Guildhall. Acts. Chap:nan and Co. Little St. Thon.as
A 'Jostle.
110. ST W. Sheffield, merchant, Nov. 5. 6, Dee. s, at Sheffield. Att.
Mr. Wilson. Grerille-strect, llattou Garden.
Gitratust R. Gicrstang. Lancaster. grocer. Nov. 16, 17, Dec. 3, at
Lancaster. ttt. Mr. Blakelta. Sem-ones Intl.
HARPER .1. Fleet-street. bookseller. Oct 31, Nov. 7, Dec. 5, at
GuildhalL Atts. Eicke and Co. Allernanbuty.
DIVIDENOS.
3. Bash. late of Thatcham, 11,,rks, innkeeper, Nor. 18.
W. Ruth, Fisher, Surrey, victualler, Nov. 14.
A. Anderson. l'hilpoWane, merchant, Nov. 14.
W. Browning. St. Mary A e*. wine mere:cant. Nov. 10.
W. Ilopkins. Alclers..voe.street. cooper, Nov. 14.
J. Lister. Netherton, York, merchant, Nov. 16.
S. Rose. Swan-ea, tleider, Nov. 16.
H. Rance, Worcester. linendraper. Nov. 18.
T. Gillen' and W. Weaver, St. Micicacl in Re lwardine, Worcestii,

drapers, Nov. 16.
T. I .ester, !tattoo Garden, hardwarcman. Nov. 14.
W. Wean, Camberwell, merchant. Nov. i 4.
J. P Thommn. Gr. Newport-street, engraver, Nor. 7.
J. Smith, Tabernacle walk. merchant, Nov. 10.
J. Pitcher, Back-r0.t.1, St. George. bricklayer, Nov. 4.
P. Ilockly and W. S. Hall, Brooke-streot. Holborn, working gold.
smith*, Nov. 14.
J. Fairlamb: Wynyatt.street, Gomel Street-road, persiaa raanu-

facturer. Nov.
.1. S. Rains, Wapping Wall, merchant, Nov. 14.
F. Pothonier, Corporation Row, Clerkenwell, distiller, Nov. 10.
T. Purday, Margate arid Sandgate, stationer. Nov. 21.
J. Ashton, Tower Street, wine merchant, Nov. 10.
S. P. Seagar, Maidstone, dealer, Nov. 17.
G. and S. Robinson, Paternoster Row, booksellers, Nov. 7.
D. Glover, Gutter Lane, merchant. Nov.lo.
J. %Volffe and J. Hort•ilic, New Bridge Street, merchants, Dec. 1.
W. Elgar, Maidstone. grocer, Nov. 17.
W. Onne, Borough, Southwark, distiller. Nov. 10. •
CERTIFICATES—Nov. 14.
J. Walker, Upper Russell Street, Bermondsey, glue maker—C.
Tavistock Street. Covent Garden, optician—G. W. Verdcn-
halm, White's Yard, Rosemary Lane. sugar refiner—T. Flower,
Castle• Street, Holborn, .Jeweller—G. Sargent. Hastings, Sussex,
ship owner—J. Turner, late of Bury Mill, near Hemel Hempstead,
II ertford, corn factor—T. Nicholls and John Marlow, Birmingham,
leather sellers—R. Bray, Gosport, haberdasher.

THE N Arno NTAL

LONDON:

MONDAY, OCTOBER 26,1818.

Gibraltar Chronicles in the 2Gth ult. are received,
froiril which the following are extracts :
The quarantine schooner returned from Tangiers
Bay on the 24th instant.
Within the last fortnight, the plague had consi-
derably increased in Tangiers, and spread even amongst
the principal Moorish and Jewish families.

" The Chief Priest of the town had fallen a victim

to the disease.

" The total amount of deaths from the Bth to the
9.3 d, amounted to 152 persons.
" The plague continued to rage in all the villages in
the neighbourhood of Tangiers, and it had extended to
some villages in the mountains, to the southward of
Tetuan.
" The accounts from the last mentioned town are
contradictory. A Moor, however, who arrived at
Tangiers, just before the departure of the schooner,
positively affirmed, that the deaths in that town
amounted to about 23 persons per day.
" Letters up to the 20th inst. from Fez and Laroche,
state, that the public health in those towns continued
to be good.

American papers arrived mt Thursday, containing an
account received from the Island of Trinidad, of the
capture, on the 4th Aug. of Guira by the Independent
squadron, commanded by Brion. The place was taken
by storm, and the attack and defence appear to have
been maintained with the most desperate valour, In
several instances no quarter was given. The whole of
the crew belonging to a principal ship of the I nsurgents
were put to the swonl by the Royalists who had effect.
cd a boarding, whilst the troops in the Spanish fort
and gun boats were indiscriminately massacred. Al-
though the main fact is established of the ca►et►►re of
the place, yet these details seem very questionable.

In 1783, wlion Pitt came into power, the whole
encise cf Clovnenment did not exceed 14,500,0001.;
now the pow-rates approach that sum.

The Archduke Maximilian of Austria and suite
arrived on Saturday at the Swan Hotel, in this town,
from Osti.r.l Ills Imperial Highness visited the prin-
cipal manutacl,niesiu the course of Monday and Tues-
day meruinf, owl at three in the afternoon departed
for Beatidesert, the ,eat of the Marquis of Auglesta.—
BinsittgLas chron,clc.