The National Register.
London, England, 1814-10-30 00:00:00

NATIONAkfIEMSTER.

immerbefore iu his Int, could nut th“ctbre say he had an)
ith..dre him. •
lireeel., it watchman, deposed that he went to the assist- •
since of the prosecutor, wlt:an he kan-d king wounded on the
grota"d• Pti“ourr stood near him, and defied any person to
reline ; :;tot hold 11ri4:;tier, and, with assistance, took
I:int to the wateh-honse ; dull t,ot see an v..eapen ill lii hand at
Isom the ti,ttline. The prisoner. on getting to the watch-
home, said, if the tnan he had at tach(d cane there, he wonld do flu
IHtt. A knife was t;:en on the piece near where the
prisoner stem!, .svkii:•h rii. ei.noicli as Ws property, and took. It was
a chop knife with a large Wade. .The pribrn was put into the
vin:r theist-, he too!: his knife and rubbed it against the
itert biro, and reo:tted, could Cardi hold of the man he had
wounded, Le v..ould do fni Mr. I)tineomhe afterwards came
Ito the wateh-honse, ancl, en accusing the prisoner of the violence he
loud t enJnitted, he said, if he liati injured the gyntitnian, lte wonld
gr; ore ioict•A Unit ask his pardon. Thought the prisoner
sv.”. in a F!ati' of intoxioation.
Mr. I) ,:;romhe, Ilat,erdashrr Pkee, Hoxton, heard the
C: v Router, min (11 Ltnititz oat to ee,cetti.e.i the cato.e. he found the
nu'or in the slate nirt-idy described. When he first went out he
he.,111 a oiler say, "We 11;1 fUli;1(1 the d—l, n' kill him." S;iw
primmcr juror the spot, and atterwards heard him acknowledge his
ntiot t in the watch-110nm%
Mr. Curtic, u surgeon of .4t liarthulotn.w's ll”spital, proved flue na-
ture jut the wounOs inflicted on the person of the prisoner, and had nu
thotht they were inflicted v' ills a sharp instrument.
The ctse fur the p:osccution being dosed, several persons were
cdh...i to the civil ac:er of the prisoner, of whom they spoke fasourably.
}lt' had horn in the z•e:t Ferviee.
Mr„iustic"l.7l;zw.thrts h.tving summed up the evidence; the prisoner
Tvitb taLIBU guitt)--Death

OCT. ‘'3o

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}lice a cow:derable time, when, hearing softie voices iu the road,
~e began to move, atol found his great-coat and hiocs.
The officers produced a comb and other property, which they
found upon prisoner, and which Mr. Hoare identitied.—Cumniitted
for trial at the ensuing Assizes for Surrey.

ACCIDENTS AND OFFEICCES.

On Tuesday lest, about five o'clock in the evening, a horrid murder
was committed in a coweibed, near Malden, Essex, on the body of
William Be!sham, a mike-man--a man as rennukable for the nehlefts
of his menners, as f r the rectitude of his conduct. The poor sufferer
went, at his usual time, to milk his cows ; and, a short period after,
some little bees went into the cow-shed and saw the body quite dead ;
the boys, snuck with horror at the sight, immediately alarmed some
cottagers who lived near the spot, and suited, as they supposed, the t
the accident had arisen (rum a cow ; but, on examination by a profee.
sional gentleman and others, who hurrii,d to the spec, alt:udgeon was
soon discovered, by which the fatal deed had been doubtless
executed ; the bludgeon was large, particularly at the end by
which the deceased had been struck, and one side of the end was
entirely covered with blood—as tamPletelY sas as if it had been
painted. The malignant band of the murderer had executed the
direfill task with such effect, that every part of the skull was
completely fractured !—The inhabitants of the town, as well as the
• military of the garrison, assembled with a promptilude that refrnts the
!vigil...lst degree of credit upon them, and pirties mi tout end on horse-
back immediately undertook a must diligent and active scotch. It ap-
, pears from what has since transpired, that a eoune aentleman of the
town met the deceased about four o'clock, and entered into c•,,nversa•
1 lion with him ; at the same time a man, who wore a dark blue go- :t
coat and red waistcoat, was waiting a short distance lion) them ; tie had a
parcel under his arm, and a bludgeon answeriunt the description of the
one found under that, and partly concealed tinder his coat. When
the young gentleman parted with the deceased, the stranger walked
on, and in about an hour after, the mangled body was found.,—A le-
ward of fifty guineas was offered for the apprthensioU of the offender,
and we are happy to state, that he has been apprehended, and lodge 4.
in Chelmsford goal.
A most diabolical attempt at robbery and murder was made WI
Thursday last, at the house of Mr. W Ehbutt, a gentleman farmer, at
Swanky, near Dartford. A fellow knocked at the kitchen dour abeet
seven in the evesing, and, on Sarah Ashy, the servant, opening it,
he rushed into the parlour, where Mr. Ehbutt, (who is imfirm) was
siting with a friend. The robber was armed with a bludgeon, and
the shrieks of the girl having alarmed Mr. E. and his friend, the latter
grappled with him, in doing which, he received sonic injury about the
head. The robber then called for assistance, and was joined by a
companion, who presented a pistol at Mr. Ebbutt's breast, which
fla-shed in the pan, and the villaiea then retired.
1 DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—Sunday evening about six o'clock, as a
respectable tradesman, of Greenwich, his wife, and two children,
a boy and girl, from eleven to thirteen years of age, accompanied
by another person and his wire, were returning, in a kind of one
horse market cart, flour Croydon, where they had been to spend the
eay, in coming down Maise-hill (a very steep precipice, leading
limn Blackheath to Greenwich ), the animal became wholly un-
governable, and the road at the bottom of the bill dividing into two
branches, the one straight forward leading to Woolwich, the other a
very sharp turn round the corner of the Park wall, leading into
Greenwich, the driver not being able to bring the horse round the
corner in time, the off-side wheel came in Contact with a large tree,
the cart immediately upset, and the whole party were thrown mit
with great violence. The driver, falling on his head, was killed on
the spot ; his daughter had both tier arms broken, and ill since dead.
Mrs. W. the tradesman's wife, who is a very corpulent woman,
and two others, were so severely bruised, that no hopes are enter-
tained of their reeovcry. The boy is also much-cut about his head,
but is pronounced out of danger.—Doctors Carnarvon and Salim,
and other medical gentlemen attended, with that promptitude fur
which they have on all similar occasions beet; distinguished, to ren-
der every assistance to the unfortunate sufferers. The accident hap-
pened within 100 yards of the tradesman's door. It is also said that
one of the women is since dead.
DEVONSIURE FARXING.—A few days since a farmer died, who
rented a great deal of land in this neighbourhood, and besides other
property, bequeathed '23,0001. to his eldest son, 25,0001. to hi,: se-
cond son, to his third and fourth sons, ;o,ooal. each, and to his
daughter, 3,0001. The wife of the above farmer Ihis for many years
regidorly attended the Exeter markets with fowls butter and eggs,
(Exeter Gazette.)