The National Register.
London, England, 1822-03-18 00:00:00

TILE NATIONAL REGISTER

altcrwards discovered but the prisoner himself, in the
mooth of November, made his appearance at the office
of Messrs. Chapman, Stevens, and Wood, and confessed
to Mr. Stevens the fraud which he had committed, de-
(darn g that he was tired of life, and insisted on surren-
dering himself to justice. The prisoner had indorsed the
chtque with a receipt for its amount in the name of
Witham Stevens, there being no person of that christian
name in the house of the payers. This was armed as
an objection, which the learned Judge reserved fur the
consideration of the twelve Judges.
The prisoner, who appeared overwhelmed with his
situation, made no defence.
The case went to the Jury tinder the learned Judge's
directions, who found the prisoner Guilty, but strongly
recommended Nina to mercy, on account of his previous
good character.
BANK OF ENGLAND PROSECUTION.

AlAecti. 14.—W. Turner, a man aged 22, (described
in the calendar as a seaman), of respectable appearance,
was indicted for littering, on the 2d of February last, a
forged Bank of England note, for the payment of 51. to
one William Millar. at Stainuctl Mount-niches, know-
ing it to be f0r.:(.41.

The prosecution was conducted by Mr. Gurney, Mr.
Sergeant Teddy, and Mr. Holland. he prisoner was
without counsel.

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It appeatcd m evidence that, on the day mentioned in
the indictment, the prisoner was conveyed from London
to Stausted Monet Facile!, by the Norwich mail.—He
inquired at the house of Mr. the postmaster of
the place, who is alto a publican, for a letter addressed
in hint as the rider of Mess's. Jones and Son, of Lon-
don. Such a Hier was found and delivered to him.—
Tim prisoner then ordered a supper and other refresh-
ments, which amounted to 94. 6.1. and tendered a 51.
note in payment. The publican not having change, a
person of the name of Ravi!, who was present, said he
could give change, and accordingly put down five sove-
reigns, and upon receiving the note, he discovered by
the feel that it was a forgery, and snatched up his sove-
reigns again. The prisoner was detained and searched,
and 'no money was found upon him except two penny-
worth of half pence. Next day he was taken before a
magistrate, and the account he gave of the note was this
—he had received from Messrs. Robins, the auctioneers,
or Covent Garden, a cheque for 321.103. upon Messrs.
Ransont and Co of Rill Mall, the Linkers, in the course
of some business he had done with the former, and re-
ceived for the cheq4e a lull, note, and the rest in gold
and silver; that he had changed the 101. note with a
person named Hussey, residing at 33 or 39;
street, Smithfield, who gave him the 51. note in goes-
Lion, and a draft for 41. odd, on a Mr. Smith, and that
he was employed as rider carrying patent for Mr.
Palmer, of Hatton Garden, and not for Jones
and Son, as directed on the letter he had applied for to
the postmaster. The case for the prosecution consisted
in a contradiction of this statement of the idsoner,
shoving that he hail a guilty knowledge of the forgery.
Mr. Riltuu7nl Robins, connc2i,..l with the house
Covent Garden, was examined. lie at;i::!!ted that the
house had had a transaction with the prisoner the
name of Ilan ism!, (knowing hint by no oilier name),
in the sale of a Ito crsicmary legacy on the death. of a
woman aged 43. The purchaser of the reversion paid a
deposit of Oil. 16s. 'and after deducaing Messrs. Robins'
kes, &a. a hal ince of 1 11..05. 6d. came to the prisoner,
for which they-gave hint a cheque on their bankers,
Messrs. Ransom and Co.

' A clerk from that house proved that the cbccine was
paid in gold, and a sixpence.
Two persons of the name of J. and Joseph Palmer,
both living in Hick-hill, Hatton Garden, denied having
any knowledge of the prisoner, except by the n-one of
Harrison, and that he was never employed by either of
them as a rider.

The occupiers of the houses Nos. 38 and 3g respec-
tively, its Tumulill-streel, Smithfield, proved that no
person of the came of Hussey, to their knowledge, ever
lived in either of those houses.

The prisoner, who described himself as a native of
one of the British colonies, repeated the sante story lie
had told the inadistrates, streintodsly urged his ignorance
that the note was a forgery, and expressed his incapacity
to distinguish between a genuine and a for,;ed note.
The prisoner had applied on l'oloitilay to postpone his
trial until this day, in order to procure the attendance of
witnesses to establish his innocence, but nobody attend-
ed in his

The case twit,. to the Jury. under the directions of the
learned Judge, who left it to them to say, whether, under
the circumstances of the C.l2r. the note had been uttered
by the prisoner with a knowledge that it was a forgery.
The Jury deliberated a few minutes, and found the
prisoner go iliy—deat h.
William Itichar.lsoa was indicted for wilfully and
maliciously anotinistesing to Susanna, she wile of Thos.
Hairs, and Mary Bacon, a certain dewily poison, called
copperas, whit intent to kill and murder them, at Dab-
den, on the trtli of January last.
Lefore the examination of the first witness for the
prosecution W 33 closed. the counsel for the prisoner
urged the propriety of estaLlishing, in the first instance,
that Islet of the indictment which charged the prisoner
with aihninisterlng a deadly poison. Now he appre-
hended that copperas was not a deadly poison.
Mr. a chymist of Chelins:oril, gave it as his
opinion. that copperas was not,, properly speaking. a.
deadly poison ; and that the stomach would rvjeci a dose
sufficient to produce death, beffire it cou!d have that
effect. Two allures, if dissolved in and retained
in the stomaen, might produce try serious conse-
veneer, but he was not sure it %you'd occasion death.
Dr. John Ltraddcley, a physician at Cludats:Ord, gave
it as his opinion, that two drains of coppeias would
produce death.

()it his cross-examination. he admitted, he was con.
roultidittut verdi4is with copperas. Ile was i;uurtraitt that
copper did iwt cutter hum the composAiott tut copperas.—
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Jury found the prisoner not atilt
NEWCASTLE.
FIRING AT A TARO ST.—MANSLALIGHTER.—Mr. •
Thos. Burnet was indicted for the manslaughter of Jas.
Miller, the %Varkworih carrier.
Mr. Cookson, lug the prosecution, stated the circum-
stance of this cast as detailed in the evidence.
Wan. Hindhaugh.—l ant a carrier from Alitwiek, and
was coming to Newcastle on the north unmake road -
with James Miller on the morning of the eg,l January. •
Worn we got to the Moor edge, about eight o'clock, we
heard the firing of guns. Miller continued with me a . .
cousitlerab!e time, and then went on to his own carts;
the horses were flightened. I saw him afterwads lying
dead on the turnpike-road.
James Laitlkr.—l live at Jesmond. I was coming in
a cart across the Town Moor into Newcastle, between
eight and nine o'clock its the morning of the 22a Jan.
last. When I was about 200 yards from the Boll's •
Park, I saw a man on the western part of the Park pre-
sent a gun and fi:e. I 63W two other men with him.-1 - ,-
only heard one shot. They were about 50 or sixty yards
• from the wall, and about 300 from the road. I could -
not see dicinctiy enough to tell who the rapt.: were.— • .
I c •me down iminedi.tely and found a man lying dead
oh the road. The time between my hearing the gait
fired and seeing the boas- could not exceed five minuses.
I saw no other firing. '!'here were several people col- •
lected alumt MiNer's body. .
G.:o. S..ott—l am eleven years old, I come into New-
castle with milk-barrels; I was coming in between seven
and eight o'clock in the morning of the vgd January
last, and met Mr. Barnet and another young man on -
I the parade Ground, with each a gun. lacy were going • ,
towards the Town Moor. I ant sure NI r. Burnet is the ,
person;lthinkl;
(lite, withl.ad-t hid-on
htimhen a blue dress: he had a
ek amid white
H. Cramlington, El.—l am a magistrate. Mr. Bar-
net was brought to my house. I told hint a mall had
been killed on the Nita-r edge that morning by a bullet,
and I asked hint if he had been tiring with ball on the
Moor. He said lie had. I asked him where he was- -
standing, and in what direction he fired. Ile said he was
standing near Fen wick's mill, which is on toe west side
of the Buds' hank. I asked hint how their target was
placed, and he said it was fixed on the wall of the Bulls'
Park. 1 then remarked to them on the criminal want
of caution it) firing near a public road, where people
were continually passing. Mr. Burnet replied, that pas- -
sengers would be stilliciently protected by the wall of
the Bally Park, and that if a hall should overtop the
wall, it would form a curve and fall so as to hurt uu one.
'Clic width of the Balls' Pa..k is, about (in yards. A
Thos. Gee, town surveyor.—,,have measured the Boll's
Park from east to west, and the dia-ta..Ze is ^•__ ' ..7.3.- --, .. ~."---'---
yards, 1 can't tell how far a mu. ket hall will ,arry.
Mr Ceanilington ravished; raid, ti,ll'sw young men
were brought beforetie.. ..
1t( W/ilLl!rc—Tisen, I submit, my Lord, there is
no case for the ..::',try, Hitless it be shown who actually
fired the rm. because for any thing we know to ill!
contra Hy, llte rest of the party might oppose the firmg, •
311:1 hare no more to do in countenancing it t hall I.
hare. .
Mr. Jantice Biyley.—My idea is, that they were /trim;
at a taraet—they'Cvere there for a common purpose, and
tine act of Use..e.4toie:
Several gelitlemen gave Mr. B. an excellent character -'
in general, and fur humanity and good nature in parti-
cular.
His Lordship recapitulated the evidence, and observed, •
that lie felt no hesitation its saying, that the hring at a
target, when death might possible ensue, was an illegal.
act. Toe case was very different with soldiers, who •
used the exercise only ill situations where no aeeident
could happen. If the Jury were satisfied from the evi-
dence that the deceased met with his death either Crone
a ball fired by Mr. Bonnet or by any of his party, it waa • •
their duty to find a verdict of guilty. With regard to
the observation that Mr.Carinlington had not caution-
ed blot against criminating•hinsself. that was certainly.
the usual practice, but it was left to the discrenan cf tbn
maaistrate•

The Jury returned a verdict of—;ailty. wilh a re-
commendation to mercy.—lie was discharged on en-
tering into recognizmees himself in 1001. and two sure-
ties in 501. each, for hisarpearanceat the next assize.,
to receive the sentence of the coot.

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Bostras.—The much talked of great match, so •
• long desired by Martin, is at length made between-
himself anti ltmdall, for the enormous sum of 1,000
guineas, to take place in September. Martin has
his summer work cut mit, as ha is matched to fight
Ab. &lase° (the best Jew fighter since Mendoant,)
on the 7th of May, for 200 guineas, and fifty n
side is deposited. The fight with Randall, made-
on Monday night. is of more interest than any.
which could be made, and we have made the fol-
lowing extract from the articles of

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re 7ta of tiiay, for :WU g11111C:13, and tttty u
s deposited. The fight with Randall, made-
fonday right, is of more interest than any ‘,
i could be made, and we barn made the fol- - •
n, P. extract from the articles of agreement i
Monday, Maier' It.
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o R indall and Sohn Martin spree to ht in a 24-
lug, a fair stand up bottle, butt:minute time, for
iireas a side' and a net of 700 guineas; 150 golocai
it &too 111146) In the hands of Mr. Blau, ; and
r deposit of ;ID a hide to be made good at Mr.
tin's, on Tuesday, the 4th of June ; and the V/11010
to ho wade good on Tuesday, July t±, at ;
r. Mind to be stake-holder. The place of tigutin4
tamed by Mr. Jackson, and the 11;lit to 1.1..ee. • t •
it•sday, brptember 3. Au umpite to be ramen by
tatty, and Mr. Jauksou to appoint a referee.
Signed, .Ye.
1.-1 f either party do ant mike good tt0!.14,e11;.
Hug to agreement, ilia defender to forfeit tire de-
c money was rut down by the deputize, Inli V
:al Lacher' at-e ut present it 'lc track ;Lrotutd..
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