The National Register.
London, England, 1813-08-08 00:00:00

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LINCOLN.

On Tuesday, Aruba!' Tonnt sin. aged thirty-six, and Georg eT.
Rosen, aged 23, were indicted far the wilful murder of Robert
Yount:sin, the linshand of qie sail Az .bah Fountain. 'by raison.
Mr. Whiteman deposed, that he attended the Coroner's Inquest ;
was pre.aeAst there when the prioner Rowell was examined- on the
Sqlocilay. The prisoner stated, that the dee'eased came home late
on Thursday night, very drunk, and passed through his. ( Rowell's)
bed-rn,rsu, and said, " Cooper. I have had a tine sprey " Deceased
the-: went to bed, and called for ale ; his wife said she had none ;
he then said, " Cooper, gise toe souse ale," which he did, Ileceis-
id then called for wine ; said his wife had some eLferheory wine,
and he would Kaye it; said he remembered going to Mr. Bennett's,
clr'..mist, of Great Grimsby, and buying some antinomy wine, la-
s older-, and Dutch pick, but did not remember buying any lauda-
num ; itft,crwards, said, he dill remember buying four ounces of lan-
cannot. whirls Itc brttouht home and gaVe to the prisoner Fountain,'
but did not Know what became of it. T prisoner Fountain was-
then calico! in, aud, when she came into the room, she said, Gen-
tlemen, I will SO you the truth, the whole troth, and nothing but
the truth. She then said, it has been reported that my husband
was out on Thursday last ; it is not true, for he hid in bed the whole
day. The cooper (Meaning the prisoner Rowell, mho was a cooper
I.y trade) and him had quarrel:col the over night, she gave her lins-
Kira three cups of elderberry wine, in she first she put four ounces
of laudanum, which Rowell had bought the day before of Mr. Ben-
:alt. at Go imsby, that the prisoner Rowell laid in bed in the next
Ignm, an I 'sing!Art . to hear the dececbst'd spore; at one O'clock
at noon, she came into Rowell's room, and said, Georee,
come, get op, dinner is ready ; Rowell said, 64 he wt i:1 re-
cover, 1 will go and get .some snore laudanum ;" that in the
acterowitin she* mixed two o nnees snore laudanum. part
of eiiest ounces which Rowell brought from Mr. Bennett, of Os hos-
by, e n Thursday, in a clip of ale, which she gave her dii;iLiliter
Jane, who carried it to her father, who drank it ; he• died that
night ; that Rowell had lodgod there about twelve weeks ; after he
bad been there about tour weeks, he said to her you have got a
wry bad husband. you cannot have any comfort or a single gond
word from ; he then talked of shooting him, and then of ti ight-
eninsr him to death by covering himself with a beast skin, and
meting him in a lane atter dark ; that Rowell paid for all the poi-
son, and knew what ir was roo.: She then said to Rowell, " Olt !
George, Georze, you have been' the ruin of ate ? Moll is to become
of my family shc then'added, " Gentlemen, this is the truth,
the God's truth."

Mr. Bennett, chyinist, proved the selling the prisoner, Rowell,
• Mr. Bell. sergeon, said, he could form no positive opinion 'as to
the &use of his Oath ; but his belief was, thin it was trout a solu-
tion of opium.
• Mr. Foreman, surgeon, assisted in opening the body. He had
nti doubt his. death was occasioned by a vegetable poison.
Prisoner F0111)taill, in her defence, said, that previous to her
being called in before the Coroner, one of the Jurymen etune out,
Mid said, " Row. has hanged you, or will hang you ;" on which
ahe fainted away ; this was on the Saturday, and what she said be-
fine the Comm.). she could pot tell, as she did not perkctly recover
herself until the Sunday.
The Prisoner Rowell said nothing, but left it to i is Counsel.
The Jury, after consulting Omit two minutes, v:ginned their
werdietof guilty against both.

111 r. Ja•tiee LH lILANC theia passed sentenee on them, dwelling
much on the egiormity of the offence in both the prisoners, parti-
Cularly the wife. Fonntmin. who fainted at the conclusion.
They were ordered f d-sy or execution on Fri last. •