The National Register.
London, England, 1822-09-02 00:00:00

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S.Vgli I NTE ENCZ speech '
my Lord and gentlemen of jury, it Ifs all
LA NC A'a FER. true re I tall you.—Guilty.
Ittsin n. lo,ts sreaii re AND (Mires. ; Tyr.'ell lamed, about to his Lordship, and lowing very res-
at ,r -one tr, Ataitte't 44.—Mr. Lotiedate opened the plead- pectaully, said "Thank you." He repeated the amine traitor-
io4s dittary expressions of gratitude to the jury.
Br. .1 iarlett.—T'ie dcfeailsnt was indicted with others for a Fu..oeit v.—T. Routledge, aged 26, was charged with forg-
e empiseey. ,ta oat, nee r sere:la:red, it would not lea iteeea- ing a bill of eacliange for tiol. with iotent to deirsud Samuel
a try tu detail the tvileuee respeetin °there. The conspiracy Griffith& The omens forged were William Williams, of
liatray e.l great nteeouity its well se 'raid. Mr. M*Certy had Sereeoliury, as drawer, and John Evans, of Birtuiugham,
as
hien'a remitter of epistle in Sual-sheet, Liverpool, mad lept a acceptor,
brandy cellar ender tile lire, of aletteriy and Co. Who the Mr. Clarke said that the charge of altering was nil that
parties were nitelit not ot. Cully asecrunited, tint they would in claimed their attention. The names were forged, and the pri-
*•e or the lugu.l3 he of 0001" 111.1 l Walker and C lacy saner knew it when lie uttered the bill to S. Griffiths.
were partners. 'fee I..auft now complained ot took rive- no Scauel Griffiths, of Liverpool, is very well acquainted with
early as lalf. The reason why they had hot been sooner flue primmer, who brought him a bill of 801., and asked 401. to
Srueetst ti lel was. tied they bad escaped, mud none of them be immediately advanced. lie said the acceptor was Evensea
mid he foetid till the defendant surrendered. The jar v. ere trail manufacturer, in Birmingham. I can't charge my memory
a save twit articles paying a duty which would be git en hack that may thing was said to the drawer, W alum Williams.
aeon tlltartatlan were bendel without paying dilly until they Witness paid it away to a tratleamae in London. It was die-
s timid be @sported. From this arrangeineut arose the conspi- honoured and returned. I told Routledge, and he said it
r mud fraud new bel'ure then. (The learned gentleman then would he taken up in a few Saes. He maid he did not think
ojuiled the facts which he %sus to lay before them in evidence.) that the people un the bill were any body of soy property. I
taut of 9 peacheons, 7 had the brandy withdrawn, un' were gave the bill to Mr. Miller.
fillet& with par, water. The object was, by estrectiog the By Mr. Williams.--1 hail many transactions of this kind.
Lundy for hone" censemption, Rflui exporting water instead, to When bills were dishoneuted, alwaem gave me moue), or
site Idt duty •0911 the brauny. Casey, Welker,euid Stracime. goods front him. lie had :multi :e ill Lirei.ool at the time. I
led nut. *Alf elaireed aobilisou had rurreodered, but a soli fount' him there, and there he told me the people ou the hill
r.o.a.pi ass entered with respect ti bout, mud he would pro- were good for nothing. rind I must look to tiiuu. He gave we
h i ly he produced as a witness to the:n. Ihe machine which goods afterwards to shoot 1501. It he had wished me to defi-
led been coetrived fur admitting a nom into the cellar was iu for up the toll to he destroyed, 1 would have done it. I have
Ge trt f r their inspection. The otheeis had their enspicannn not the least belief that he wished to defused me.
canted by observing toe bungs eidereed far beyond their John Miller weal in search oi W In. %1 /111411111 at Shrewsbury..
usual size. This bed been doue in tarter to admit the pipe I found one *bark-mice, another a coachman. (Mr. Williams.
tar meta which the, tromped the brandy into the warehouse. - Tim coachman might be worth something, but the barrister
'l4l.l'e the cellar. It was not merely the revenue. but the fair could not.) In Birmingham 1 found Et eases, but none who
dealer that wes defrseiled My such transactions. • anew any thing of the bill.
Vi'itnesees were produced, who lull/ proved the Cabe as Mr. IVillianis.—To tie sure they would not. Who would
slated by Mr. Scarlett. that could help it ?
The Lrd Chief Justice said, if the Jur jury thought it ' Several witnesses were called from Birmingham and Shrews-
oeceesery, he wneld read the evidence to them ; if not, as it bury to prove that they were nut the Williatnees and Brasiers
was plooehle, b 'cause a more clear ase never came before a who had Umtata the names in question.
• ply, he would sate them the trouble of hearing the evidence Messrs. Williams anti Guinean, for the prisoner, declined to
•gaiii a second time—guilty. i cross (amine.
31.Cmtv, who was in Court, and allowed by his Lord- Mr. Baron Wood said there appeared to have been so in-
a tip to sat beside his Counsel, was immediately taken into cue- tontion to defraud Griifiths. How came the bill to be delivered
tarty. He was apprehended upon this charge while in the up to Miller ?
lien's Beach in iutuiveet circumstances. In answer to• this question, it clearly appeared from several
HIGHWAY ROBBERIES. I explanations, that Routledge had become imiolvent, and it was
T. Baden, aged 21., and Thomas Lavender, aged 17. were o then the bill-was delivere,' up.—Not Guilty.
ell urged with assaulting and robbing Samuel Hall, at Stratford. Ruatledge is a good looking young man, and was very goo-
Mr. Armstrong stated the case to the jury, which he would teeny dressed.
prove in evidence. I His Lordship intimated that lie would have all the prisoners
S. Hall, u butcher at Stretford, neat Manchester, attended I for forgery on the Blackburn bank discharged on their own
thy Manchester market: did so on tire 3d of this month. I recoenizances.
hid four sovereigns when I left the house in the morning wrap- Dr. Brown had previously remarked, that the charge against
pad in paper. 1 sold 21 sides of bacon. and received pay for I some of them was a conspiracy to dc-rand the King's subjects
17. It was betwiet 141. and Lai. four sovereigns, soil 81. odd generally, by putting counterfeit paper in circulation.
as silver. I went to the Boar'. Ilead and got drunk. My wife I Mr. Cuittnen.—That is, against the partners in the Blackburn
case. She took four sovereigns sod some silver from me. I back, of course ? (A laugh.)
returned to my stall. It was past 12 o'clock when I left Mao- n JEALOUSY.— MALICIOCSLY CUTTING.
cheater, at midnight. I had the silver in my waistcoat pocket I Martha Milne, aged 31, was charged with maliciously cot-
and the four sovereigns in my fob. Near the new road to tiug and maiming tier husband George Milos, with ioteat to
Stretford, I suet Willi live tutu. They were standing at the murder or to disfigure and disable him, at Oldham.
.pellog.. They said, How far sway, jolly butcher." I said Mr. Cidtthan stated the case to the jury.
to 3"retforti. They said, .. We go that way, but the new way I George Miens—l het e been married to the prisoner fifteen
is the better way." Two of them linked with me, but I said years, and have bad eight children. There had been no quer-
codld go mys if. I went the new road. After having gene ref between as for several days before. She thought that I
61 yards, Borten Mittel inc out the back of the head. It felltd had been with another woman, nine or ten days before. She
me. Trey tore out may breeches poen et. After that, they made charged me wills it. I came home on the afternoon of the
me pall my oast off. and while 1 was doing so, they tore the of Jane. I wanted supper. She said there was no water. I
sleeve. "n —n you, strip," they said ; they made me pull went for water to make tea. She made none, so I went to bed.
oil my waistcoat, and threw ine then over the railing. They I The bed had not 'been made, and I made it myself. She was
took the sovereigns; I ran alter them. Baden then turned inot in liquor She had bad a glass of rum and water. She
round anh said, "D—n him, let us finish him off." Only the bad not been io -the habit of getting liquor since she had been
t pris deers turned back. I said " spare my life, yen have I a woman, till she had her last child in April. I awoke about
got all I had." U Alert struck me on the face, and Lancaster three o'clock with a %harm pain which struck to my heart.
locked me on the back. Two men caw*, up with a p.scul uud f Sue stood at the bed with a razor in her baud. I said, " 0
gun, and secured the two prisoners. dear, what bast thou been doing now Thou halt killed me,
By Mr. Coltman —I fought with one man at the Boar's thou bast killed me." She said she had not done it. I turned
Iliad ; I got drunk at noun, and got sober again by giving ti e clothes down, and found that a part was cut off. Much
ov drunk. I adept at the Boar's Head ; I never ley down, blood issued f-one the wooed. I did not observe whether
stud slept in my stall. I there was blood nn the razor. She bad gone down stairs. I
Usher witoeeva were caliel, who corroborated all they saw could not woke my eldest son. I went down and found the
of the transaetion, bu witnesses called un the other side door open. 1 weal to the surgeon in my shirt. I saw my
gave such au account of the drunkenness of Mr. Heil on wife in the street, with the youngest child iii her arms. I
the night io question, that his Lerdship expressed doubts who- n went home then to bed. Chalk. Hopwood was the tirat man
th r a rob .try could be proved, and the prosecution was abut- that came to me. The surgeon, Mr. Bedot, clime at half past
done& four. I was a tken to the infirmary at Manchester.
Patrick Riley. aged 19, and Richard Terrell, aged £6, were By the Conrt.—l thought she was not in her right mind. I
charged with bat ing assaulted James Whitt heath, at Fails- believe she was not. I thought she was ofteu not in her right
worth, and robbed him of a pocket book, containing bills for senses since her !ant child.
several hundred pounds, and seveu sovereigns. Robert Chadwick went to the house about half past five ;
Whitehead detailed the circumstances of the robbery.— met the prisoner, having the youngest child is her arms. I took
He was riding awn Meecheeter, on the Oldham rued tow ads her into custody. I asked what clue had done ; she said she
Saddle North. s'-:vtrc he lived. He heard the report of a pistol, had done nothing, that he had come home in that state. I said
and was almost blinded by the lash. Immediately two persons to her not to deny doing it, for there would have been blood on
seized him, one by each leg, and a thira person pulled by the him when he ciliate house if it had been done. She said " I
cost behind. They dragged his Lease, and knuckeu him down• have done it, I have done it." She pointed out the garden into
got up and struggled with them. One, whom lie believed I which she had threwn what she had cut off.
to be Riley, presented a pistol nod snapped it. but he believed By the Court.—She discoursed es in tier senses.
it was tint loaded. lie knocked tint down with his whip. He Mr. Benoit, the singe° , said the wound was a dangerons
afterwards struck another, who fell down. But they throat 111 wound. I knew nothing of her before. Site repeatedly said,
hiin against a railing, %Shia, gave way, and one of them, he I "It was not me. He came bonne in that state." Site cried.
believed lade:, kept knocking at his head with the butt-end of Her declaration before the magistrate was proved. and read.
a pistol. He Nab quite overpowered, and all lie had in his ft charged acts of the most hasharoue meetly on the pert of
pocket taken from hint. When. lie got up thee bail gone sonic i the linehand.
yards towards Manchester, and two of them, lie believed the Her husband was recalled, and denied the facts stated.
prisoners, looked beck, when Riley said, Let as finish him, The prisoner said she bad never been well since Orr last
b.- is fur Lei Mg *look at ms." The other man resisted this ; tied child, and did not know what she had done. She hoped they
man was dressed exactly as Tytrel now. Riley presented his would fit give her this time, for the sake of her dear little in
pistol, and said, "If you approach this way you are a dead fent. She wept most bitterly, and while his Lordship was Saw-
son." ming up, she dropped Mt the place where she stood, appa-
Time prisoners were taken in Liverpool. attempting to get the rosily as in a swoun.—Verdict—Guilty, but insane.
trills negotiated, through a coutitryinali (Attie name of Stlllit,ll, CIVIL SIOE.I
• inelpeeer. Witneeses proved minutely their prnceedingsiD LANCASTER, Arcus7 11.—.1"hn M'Carthy, who was last
Llverpool, end even their admission that the bills were • 'oleo. week comieted of !teeing cummitted a baud on the cerise, in
Tytrelentleavoured to cross-examine, and made. long speech Liverpool, in 1817, was this morning brought up fur judgment,
in his own defence in the le test Irish style. He was hie nio- liefoie Chief Justice Milieu. An affidavit in mitigation, was
tier's feveurite el 16 sons, and could get all the nobility and then teal,
gentry of his own county to give evidence for him. He had Mr. Williams addressed the Court at considerable length on
by accident fallen is with the boy Ream who had found a behalf of Ike prisoner. whom he represented to be a bankrupt
gold thing. Hs had recommended to make the bills op in a with &large family dependent upon
parcel and send them to the nearest post oilier, to the place to Mr. Maine spoke in aggravation.
which they belonged, but his advice am. not taken. He could The Chief Justice after commenting on the case, sentenced
leisure any Lena and the ill.; the( he was never guilty of such a the prisoner to 18 month's implisonment.
Lang as ads laid in hie thane- ADDISON e. HUM F.•
Riley leak tip the story et the same pool, but concluded This was *natation for the recovery of damages for an assault
witieset swing he bud found the bills. committed by the defendant upon the pletottif.
Tyrrell solo resumed, amid aSatltvat the ;Pity that he was Ma The plaintiff was a men in humble tletßOO/daStra, the deign-
e: in hicaber• rad aid 6 sisters. dam a gentleman of property, both residing near Ulverstone.-
11/01a2 '.Vann.—What, ma yea gain to make another Die pluietilf, who as. a tittle wets', went al sight to the.

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Louse of the defendant, and threw a handful of gravel aping'
the wiodow in which the servant girl slept ; he oleo beat at and
truke the window with a long blink. The defendant, who flout
thy evidence, appeared to have been planed under delicate cir-
cumstances, ran down stairs, in his shirt, with a sword in his
hand : he saw the plaintiff running away ; pursued him, came
up with him, and attack him a blow with his sword. The plain-
tiff turned upon him, and endeavoured to wrest the sword from
lishand, and, in the scuttle which ensued, he (the plaintiff) rt
ceived several severe wounds. A 'word was drawn through
plaintiff's btutd,hy which he was disabled as to render it iittlitit-
14ible that he should ever again recover the use of his band.
The Jury retired.and after an absence of shout tv. tad) minutes
returned a verdict for the plaintilf—Dasuages 201.
HOt.t; ITT V. 1111GOIN5OD.
This was an action to MOM' penalties under the game laws
fur the sale of game. 1 he plaintiff is a gamekeeper ; the defen-
dant no innkeeper in Manchester. Illuoh evidence was given
on both sides, and a great part of it contradictory. His Lord-
ship left it entirely to the jury to decide span the credibility
of the witnesses, and to lay whether any penalties were due.—
There could not be more than three brace of mouse, and the
penally was 51 each bird. Verdict for the defendant.
sTxrift.osris O. alOaßillit:Sr. AND (.11
Mr. Williams opened this ease as a ease of great oppression.
The plaintiff was a weaver at Padtlyham, and bad lived in the
house in which his father had lived before him for 60 years,
and which lie was entitled to occupy. This house was forcibly
entered, and the plaintiffs furniture and goods tlitown into the
public road, and the house itself was pulled down. The de-
fence, he understood, was, that the plaintiff's father had been a
pauper.
Alter n itnesses had been examined,
Mr. Scailett said this win the most impudent action ever
brought into a court of justice. Mr. Stephenson had great per-
severenoe. ft was a pity be was not engaged in a better cause,
for he bad so much constancy and fervour about him that he
must•have oracle a splendid {rpm The old man would be
proved to have been a ;super, and to have been put into the
Loose by the pat lab, The house was, he admitted, pulled down
and a new house built. Verdict for the defendants.
Mr. Williams obtained a rale to show cease why a new trial
should not be granted upon certain point* of objection, taken
to the proof fur the defendants.

CROWN SWF»
ASSAULT ON A GIRL UNDER TES YEARS OP Age.—John
Hull, aged 3(. was indicted fur a most atrocious assault upea
Eleanor blercer,-at Hindley.
The indictment was only for the misdemeanor, the Grand Jury
having thrown nut the bill for the capital offence.
Mr. Raincock stated the case. Wearier Mercer. a very in-
teresting little girl, staled what happened to her with great
clearness. The prisoner met her on the road near llinley, en
the 26th of March. and after enquiring the way to the next pub-
lic house, be pulled ber into a shippon (a abed for cattle), and
there accomplished Lis brutal purpose ; and be stopped her
mouth with hay , on coming out she met Betty Oakes, to whom
she told what bad happened to her, and the priaomer was taken
into custody.
Mr. Ashworth cross examined the witness, but she did not
vary in the slightest degree in her evidence.
Bet.y Oakes and Aiice Mercer, the child's mother, proved
the complaints made by the child, and the situation in which
she bad been found.
Mr.ilowarden, a surgeon, deposed to the state in which tt-e
child was frond, after the abominable uani;,e which she received
from the prisoner.
Mr. Ashworth defended the prisoner at considerable length,
and argued with much ingenuity on the improbability tit die
'rime haying been committed under such eimunistasees.
Mr. Baron Wood was About to aim np the case, bat the Jary
declared themselves satisfied, and instantly found ibe prisoner
Guilty.
Mr. Baron Wood—" A very proper verdict, Gentlemen."
Mt; al/La.—John Wolfenden, aged 26, was put upon his trial
for the murder of Elite Ann Danwell, at Royton, on the Coro-
ner's inquest, the Grand Jury laving thrown oat the bill, the
charge was, that the prisoner had caused the death of the de-
ceased, his apprentice, by excessive work and insufficiency of

rood.
Thomas Radcliff.—l live is Roy ton, I was appointed with
others to inspect the different parish npprenticeships in May last.
We went to Wollendetes, a weaver. We foetid the deceased
wilting on a loom in a quite emaciated state ; we went from the
cellar to where Wolfemlen was. W e had made inquiries of her
as to what quantity of work sit:: did ; she wove two yards mod
a half a day of fustian. She was about ton years of age. That
was not a proper quantity of work fur her age, even if she was
we!) and hearty. She was unfit for work of any kind. I told
him so. Ile Neill he had put her to bobbin winding, but she
was too weak for the child, being a lusty child, and site preferred
welting. I asked her to weave and she did, with the greatest
•sertion, hut with the greatest difficulty. I took her up in toy
Udell. and thought she was not 201 h. weight.
John City, overseer.--Slea appeared in a very emaciated state.
unlit for labour of any kind. Wolfenden said she looked Molly
when be took her an apprentice, but lie had been told by the
covers. era of Leeds that she had been short of meat, and if he
would take her she would come round. I went again tow- her
Ole the Stir ofJuly. Sire was at a winding engine. quite in a
worn out state- Wolferiden seemed very w Ohm( that the in-
denture should be cancelled, and to give money to the township
for the purpose. On the loth sere was taken to Rochdale.--
The magistrates ordered me to take care of her, sad that Wol-
fenden should pay the espencea. Site had done more work
titan a child of her age, iu health, ought to do. I tress et but
have no apprentices.
Margaret Mellor.—The girl, after she was removed. wan scot
live with me. She looked almost done. Sire hied tea days.
By Mr. Williams.— She was consumptive.
Mr. W. Taylor considered her to be ire the last stage of a pul-
monary consumption. She died in nine days slier. EXIIUOI-
- labour would contribute to bring on the comiumptit a.
Ceoss-esaruMed.—lt might have arises from natural diapo-

aition.
Mr. Baron Wood.—l dont consider this a case of murder or
of manslaughter. It is very proper that parish-alb:els shonid
look after these poor apprentices, but there appears to have
been no culpable negligence, fetich less any design to destrry
the life of the deceased on the part of the prisoner—Not Guilt!•
VimGuar.—Thomas Pendlebury, aged 36, and Wm. Cross-
laud, aged 38, were charged %%jib having forged a bill of es-
change for lift. 134. 6d, with inherit to deli.Ai Mesita. Div 1.5
of Liverpool.
Mr. Clarke stated the case.—lames Dalton, an aceomplice„
carried on the trade of tallow chandler at Manchester ; lamahe
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Pendlebary ; left Manchester with I,i,n and Crosslaed, on
2.1 of April , met a man mulled White on the road, "b t•
raid be had been doing business it Warringiou, hot ..0014.1 a I.
We all four gut on the coach when it tivei took t.s. W e got to
Liverpool ; and went hint In a public house kept by Burst, sad
Wes to 'slather kept by MithillulL Pendia/off -1444 foe

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