The National Register.
London, England, 1817-10-13 00:00:00

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TA'Amtvvritix trNios Hill OF 1). OWE,
11) t ATTKAIPrING TO MURDER JOHN JONES
4 (.4 11:44) LAWI,II.IIIGARET JONES (111 S
Al• 4 rElt), ,1S1) MARY BARRY, THEIR SERVANT.
It was not positively known that the prisoner would
h., examined on Friday ; yet several hours previous to
the -examination an amazing number of persons assem-
bled, and the business of the office suffered consider-
able interruption. The Magistrates theretime thought
it expedient to remove the prisoner into a private room
fir examination.
At one o'clock Mr. Jones and Mary Barry arrived in
a hackney-coach from St Thomas's hospital, under the
care of a surgeon and two nurses ; they were so weak
k• ns sareol;.- to be able to stead. At two the prisoner was
brought into the room and confrontel with Jones and
the servant ; the latter fainted as soon as she saw him,
imd it was with difficulty that Mr. Jones was roused to
sensibility. When he recovered, he exclaimed, "0 Gml!
I thought I saw him with a knife in his hand." The
Magistrates ordered the prisoner to be taken out of the
room, as his presence so much agitated the prosecutors.
About two Mrs. Jones arrived in a hackney-coach, also
extremely weak, and the Magistrates proceeded to hear
e idenee.

Mary Barry, the servant, stated. „On the 26th of Sepomber
le,t, a little after I o'clock in the afternoon, I WAS at home with my
imistn and mistrese, and heard a knock at the door; I opened it, and
haw the prisoner ; without saying a word he forced himself in • my
master was in the back room ; I called out, Mr. Owen is here !'
and my master then came out of the back roam into the passage,
where he met the prisoner. The prisoner immediately took from
under his coat a large pointed carving-knife, and without speaking
made a blow at my master, who lifted his hand to defend himself, ar,d
prisoner cut and struck him dreadfully on the hand. My mistress
dien came out. and she and I attempted to save my master, and take
away the knife. I got hold of it. and he drew it through my hand,
and cut me very much, and then began cutting and slashing awey at
rtilidnin, and cut us all three; he cut me on the arm, stabbed toe
in the neck, and wounded me in the in forehead• I then ran out,
and called for assistance, and came back again, and found
my master lying on the floor in the back room, bleeding very
inuelt, and the prisoner lying over him, with a knife under my
matter's clothes, and apparently sticking in his side ; when I re—
turned to the house. a young man returreel with I/12. and he assisted,
and we held Owen's arm and got the knife from him. I was then
te.:en by some person to the hospital.
Mr. Jones deposed to the same effect, and added. that the out he
reNived acre, the hand in the passage disabled him fnmi offering
nturlt deferice • and he soon became insensible; when he recovered
be found himself dreadfully cut in the neck, and part of his left tar
off: He formerly had a law-suit with prisoner, but had not spoken
to him since August, 181fi.
Mrs. Jones stated, that during the struggle between them all in
the passage, she hard prisoner saw, " You wretches, kill you all."
She received several cuts about the head and face, and a stab in the
side ; saw the prisoner attempt to stab her husband in the sides then
• became sensless, having bled eauessively.
Charles Hopkins, the young man alluded to in Mary Barry's evi-
dence, stated, that he •saw Barry run out of Jones's house covered
with blood, and calling for assistance ; he went into the house with
her. and saw Mr. Jones on the floor bleeding very much, and prisoner
lyin't over him, with the knife apparently in Jones's side, saw hint
arise Mrs. Jones and pull her down ; Mrs. Jones called Melt to take
the knife away from him ; he gave the knife to Holmes, the consu-
ar. and then went to the int:pied with Mr. JOlleb and the servant.
Hobnea. the constable. *tato', /lust on hearing the alarm, lw imme-
rnetliar ay went to the spot, and saw Owen standing on the defensive
at Jones's house• with a knife in each Mull ; with great difficnlty lie
sem e I Lim. exactas! him, and found in his pockets two other knives
as I a rata
IM t.'" prisoner being askcellf he had any•thing to say. his soli-
citor advised him to reserve himself for his mid.
• 'I lie respective parties were bound over to prosecute ; .and he was
committed for trial to Kingston Assizes.
l'he prisoner is a man of dark complexion, full face,
and large Mack whiskers, about .5 feet 9 inches in height,
aid very stout he smined unmoved at, the recital of
the horrid deeds of which he had been the perpetrator,
aid appeared to eye the objects of his revenge with a
malignity that it is difficult to describe. The fatal in-
strument was produced by lioluies, rusted with blood ;
it was a carving4mife 14 inches long, and the blade
about an inch an half wide. The Magistrate said it was
a transaction as horrible as ever disgraced a civilized
country. The prisonor was sent ow to gaol in a couch,
amidst the extxratiokof about 2,000 spectators.

Tuesday, an inquisition was When at the Mitre Tavern, Edgware-
road. before Stirling, Esq. Coroner for Middlesex, on the
bodies or John Jennings, aged 7 weeks, and Helen ltoc, aged 3
week,. The inquest commenced at 12 o'clack on Tuesday, and the
invc.tigation did not conclude till 3 o'clock on Wednesday morning.
Ellen Rose, of No. 41. Park-street, said the du:eased Elden Hose
was her daughter. About a fortnight ago she was sent to M rs. .len-
flings to wet nurse, she was then about three days old ; her own child
Sas fire weeks old; witness did not see the child till Tuesday night,
the .fish ult. the nurse hroughait to her house, and said it was ill ;
witness examined the child's tongue and said it was blistered ; the
la+ was also sore ; witness proposed sending Mr. Richardson, her
own docuir to see the child ; efM not see him till Friday night; went
with Wm to nurse's; he said the child was palely; lie prescribed
s. ni :medicine, but not in writing ; vent it home by a female servant;
w itii 'pi sent the astute to Mrs. Jennings by her servant; the servant
se :t about .sine o'clock, and was gone about three-quarters of an
lsour ; witness could go in twenty minutes; on her return the ser-
, vit said the child had taken half the quantity prescribed, whirls was
a •.,-,fpnonfetl. On Saturday mending, about twoo'clock,
7 came to witness, and said the child was poisoned; she Mune-
&oohs vent far Mr. Richardson. who came in a coach, and they pro-
ceeded to the nurse's house in Falgware-red ; Mr. ltichanlwm said
lie thought they would recover, and were only labouring under the
in, tones of the medicine . • he gave them both something he brought
with him ; it had a boneticiale&vt upon witness's child ; she opened
her eves, but about flee o'clock she went off again, and was seized
with eineullienst Mr. Richardson stayed till the hour of theirdeaths,
which was aboutahree o'clock in the afternoon.
Messrs. Lc?. Green, Bryant, and Richardson, surgeons, deposed,
tlist the bodies sew opened by Mr. Brooks, the anatomist, of
Marthivough-street, in •tlee,peetence of Dr. Agar nuil several (mk
is:s-
ntlAnen. Tie wuneacs had examined the prescription,
w slimly made of confection of opium, two tea-spoonfids of
would only contain the Send poet of a Brain. It WIIS a tiling
ii.rs • ,dhle that anc tea-spoonful, esztaing the 64th part. wontil have
a y ffect, unless mixedby other hands in an improper manner. Oum
tit, ock:ies bring dissected. nothing apneas-NI in the stomachs, etrept
the girl's. women was a liter, inflamed, but hardly sufficient to erne
neat ; ant) the surgeons could assign no cause for their deallta--
Veedict. Died by de natation of Cod.

ATIONAL AUG'

YOUNG WATSON'S ,E,;CATE TO AMERICA.

The following account is given by a person from Phi-
ladelphia, who states, that most of the particulars he
derived from conversation with the Junior Watson, who
from his notoriety had attracted the attention of several
of the l)emocrates and low people of that town.
After the disgraceful scenes of the 2d December, he
remained concealed by his associates for two months,
during which time every means were tried to alter his
appearance ; incisions were made in his Ewe to give hint
the look of a person troubled with the scurvy, and
clothes were made, padded with couon, to give him the
appearance of a corpulent man, his habit was that of a
qaaker ; his disguise being considered complete, he took
his passage in a vessel named the Venus, bound for Phi-
ladelphia: on their reaching the Downs, she was stept
by a look out boat, a telgraph message being received
that the Venus must be stein, information being re-
ceived that Yong Watson was absolutely on board the
vessel. Two Bow-street officers shortly afterwards ap-
peared, and strictly investigated every particular re-
specting the passengers and crew ; the young culprit,
on being examined, appeared a middle-aged tlit man,
and behaved rather rudely to the officers, refusing to -
give an account of himself; on being questioned his
name, his answer was, what is that to thee, get thee
away ; he was passed : the vessel was then thoroughly
searched, but without effect On the arrival of the
vessel at Philadelphia, the Captain was greatly surprised
when he learned the old-Quaker was a yeung soon, and
the very person elle search was made for, having assumed
his own name on landing. He now lives at a short dis-
tance from Philadelphia. A subscription, begun by an
Editor of a Democratic Paper, has lwea raised for his
relief.

The Gazette of Saturday contains an Order in Coun-
cil fur the further prorogation of Parliament from the
3d of November, to the I titli of Dec.; and a Proclama-
tion by the l'rince Regent, ordering the half-soveresgns
or ten shilling pieces, to pais as current and lawful
money, if not weighing less than 12 dwts, 13 grs. They
are issued from tho Mint at the weight of dwts. 1$
grs. and 6,370-10,000 parts of a grain.

There is no longer ary concealment attempted re-
specting assistance being given by the British sub-
jects to the South American independents. Notices are
posted up in several coffee-houses in the city, inviting
paiamigers to go OIL board vessels waiting to sail direct
for South America.

A fourth canto of Childs lluruhl has within these few
days been received from the continent.

C\IO\•M

illnitaxitt AV)) RIOT.--0a Saturday, Simon Henry Butler, Esq.
Captain of the slid rehintent of dragoon-4 madding in Westminster,
came to the office, listing the most grotesque appearance that can
possibly be Ml:shined. flu tact was pat tly covered pith soot and
dirt on one side, and the other aide was whin?, covered with dour,—
Ins clothes were torn. lii; shirt frill ripped tiff, and his apparel co-
vered w ith dirt. h. the gentleman stated he was an officer in his
Nlajesty'a service, and tad just arrival Cunt ,the East Indio', his
veracity Was questioned, for, ...aniging from his appearance. St.
t;iles'scoulsl not have roductal an object of a more nondescript ap-
pearance.
The presiding 'Ma4istrate aAtal the gettleinan how lie cam,: to be
in such a deplorable condition.
Capt. Butler stated, that he was walking along Blackfriars-rand
that morning. and was ac.tosted by a well-dressed female, who.
struck him with a cane, and he caught hold of it and broke it. She
said, "You have broke my canes and you ought to make me a re-
compense." He offered to give het w.tatcvcr she required. She
said, " Come then, and let us have something to drink." and took
him over the ruins in the Borough-rust to the back way leadieg
into I lover-street, St. Georges fields. lie thought she was taking
him into a public-house. When he got into the house, he said this
is no public-house ; she rep:ied, this is where I live, bat I will send
my servant for whatever you may pleaae to drink. Ile then gave
the servant half.a-crown to purchase sonic dumb, as thefenialr said
she preferred that liquor. 'limy sat down and drank several glasses
of shrub, and lie was about to depart, when she demanded as. for the
loss of her time with hint. He replied that he was a married nein—
he had received no favours from her, and therefore lie refused to give
her what she demanded. Ile had a diamond pin in his bosom, and
she seized him by the frill of his shirt and tore it away, pin and all,
and then screamed murder, and said that she would call the" ladies."
She had scarcely spoken, when the door was burst open, and more
titan 30 ladies and two fellows, who he had learned were buillies,
were stationed at the door. He seized the tire-shovel, and fought his
way out of the house : when he got into the street he wa- tollowed
by tne inmates of that and adjoining brothels. and was petted A lilt
oyster-shells, stud, whitening, and stones. The mob increased, anti
there were near 51 0 persons at one time surrounding him. They
said that he should undergo that punishment which, they always
inflicted on pectins who bilked their companions. After untictgotng
that pmress. having been beat with brushes, sticks, flour-bap, tee ,
he escaped from them to a constable's house, where he applied
for assistance. 'fhe constable being from home, he wan obitged
to come to that units, and requested the Magistrate would
grant a warr int fir the apprehensio:' of the parties w.in had robbed
him. The Magistrate granied a warrant, and dispatched Hall, ea
officer, to execute it. Hall returned with the girl in custody. lie
stated that tile louse we. 33, in laover-atreet, kept by a 'woman
named Royce. When he entered the hone, he saw the fmtale
who robbed the Captain sitting before the tire quite naked, ex-
cept her petticoat. He broug.it tnis female, whose flame is
Eliza Palmer, and the servant, a girl about 13 years of age, before
the Magistrate. Eliza l'aliner, the prisoner, declared, that the had
never seen tlicdiamonal pin. She acknowledged having the frill, and
said that she had not attecked Neu without cause. Ilak searched the
house where:Cie pristine" liv al, and fignd t!,e frill of a shirt, which
wan torn in pieces. The Cap.iin said, that all he warned was his pin
which was worth to guineas. The Al agisti atc ordered the prisoner
Palmer to lie committed, anti the servant be thacharged. He in-
formed the ('sprain that it' he would point alit to the officers who
were the chief permits that headed tite mob, he would have them ap-
prehended and kept in cusaitly until they thund goad hail to answer
what charges Ite might prefer waists them at the ww:i

AVERAGE PR ICES .0 CORN PER QUA !ITER,
TN ENGLJEND ANT) WALE:3I'OIC TUE WEEN ENDINO OCT. 4.
Wltcat. I Ity'e I Barley Oats Beans I Pena 4 4 I 4 3 41 3128 6 47 3 43 4

I'ItICE OF MEAT, MONDAY, 0
SMITHFIELD. NEIVOSTE
S. d. a. it Heads if Cattle ut
Beef 30a 4 0 l SatithP hi.
Mutton -3 8 a 4I; Beasts, about-- 3,atif)
Veal 3 loa 5 0 Sheep i 18.400
I'ork 3 lOa 3 8 Caves 540
Lamb... 0 0a 0 0 Pi. s 390

!TOHER 13.

AND LEADENIIALL.
Carcase a d. s. d.
Beef 2 4 • 5 8
Mutton 5 0 a 3 8
Veal 1 4 a 5 u
Pork —., 4 8 a 5 8
.I.amb 8 0 a 0 0

HAY AND STRAW PER LUAU.
a:... d. .C. s. d. Aver. 4. s. d.
{Hay— .... 3 4) 0 a 3 0 o. 4 0 0
SMITHFIELD Clover 400a70 0_ 6 10 0
t,t,row 1 Lt) ori I Il 0— 1 14 0
Hay 3 10 0 a 5 10 0— 4 10 0
linver..„ 0—• 0 a 0 0 0— 0_ 11
straw 1 15 0 a ..! 5 o 1 19 0
'Hay . 416 oas 16 0 --5 Ig 0
WII/TECHA L TEjCiover 6 0 0a 7 0 0_ 610 0
( Straw 1 Ili 0 a 4 2 0_ 2 0 6

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