The National Register.
London, England, 1814-10-09 00:00:00

TITF, NATIONAT, TirGISTER.

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ACCIDE N'l'S AND 01'' E C., 1! S

hIURDERS.

On Wednesday. a Coroner's inquest way held Wore Cieerge
Ilodgson. Esq. at the Bull and Last, the bottom of ilighoJe-hill,
co the body of Elizabeth Dolibins, who ayss iohnosiody Iwo-tiered at
)ter house in Milfield-lane. ou 'l'or'd.,' a!ternoon.
The first witness calicti was James Dabbiw, of Nliitield-latie,Ken
tish Town, husband to the deceased, who deposed, that he %vas a la
beurer belonging to the Hamp-tead Wates Company, and the fle-
es ased, his wi'e, was a washer. woman. Oa Tuesday the 4th inst.
he witness left the deona•tsl in his house is' perfect health. About
lislf past three o'clock is the afterooou i!aessi la as at work with ,
hi in. Clark, who complained of being thii- tt ; the witness told him
to go to his house, and oot some natter ; iit,kl C% C reta Med, say-
ins that the door was f,s:.t, ali3 he a It :;•rni told tits
Vitue,s that he believed %%ire •ifas ill. ‘t hniliC, and
fel nd the door wide open, and on going into the Ititelivo faund the
tit eca,ed lying 'lima the floor, in an expiring state. She had a via-,
hot blow On the right side of her head, and her brains were scat
tt red about the tiaor ; there was a large poker in the kitchen, which
in longed to the witness ; it appeared to the witnesa that it was the
instrument by which the deceased was 11111111e1Tti„ Witness
fsltliii
her in that state, called to Clark, ‘vlio also came to the deceased.
Witne s went for Mr. Sands, a Surgeon, sod his as.i,ttion Geo.
alley Hemminss, came, but the deceased (AIM ed beim e he came.
Chalks Bateman deposed that he lived at No. Is, Caen -place,
Kentish Town ; known the deceased near less years. On Tues-
day, t wren two anal three o'clock in the atternoon, witness was
going past. the lomse iu Miltleld lane, erlwre the deceased and her
husband lired. WVness saw a man, ast raossr, at the eats
to the licoue, he appeared like a sailor, and is the same min witness
aw in custody, ii id who said Isis name was Thorna4 Sharp.
Vin. Tyler, of Fitzroy-ma:let, said he knew the (it ceased ;Ilna
six or sever weeks ; was smploycil to dig out a foundatien on the
west side of Highgate road. dk hunt three o'clock on T.lesday after-
noon witness went to the deceived to borraw a whcelnarrow ; wit-
ness saw a man at the gate with a large pig re of bread and butter in
his band ; witness took the harrow, and left the man there ; witness
did not see him after until nearly six o'clock the same
when he was at the Vine public-house, Kentish Town. Witness
was certain that the man who was eating the bread and butter was
the same man ; witness did not know hi'-; name.
Thomas Camber, of No. 4, Lathant's-blare, Sr;mrrs Town, de-
Tried that on Tuesday, a little past three .'dock, he was at work
tor Mr. Rayner, digging a foundation at the comer of lane,
near the house where the deceased livt-d. Witness saw a man Com-
ing out at the end of the lane into the ilioligate road, with a bun-
dle under his arm, which appeared to witness to be a bundle or
linen tied up in a s:ieet, %%hick was hanging loos, dswn, anti he
seemed desirous to collect closer together ; he mosseti the turnpike
road and went through a hedge into a fa id on the cast side of the
road, and began to tie up the bundle. Witnts:s stop cted something
was wrong. Witness coonnnnieated his snspieions to Thomas Brim-
met and Jame, Seal, who parsucil him and took him into custody,
with the bundle. Witness believed his mm' was Thomas Sharp
J. Seal, a bricklayer, residing at No. 1, Alphabet-place, lieu-
fish Town, deposed, that he had known the deceased ten or twelve
years. telw yen three and four o'clock oil Tuesday, was at work
at the toot of Highgate Hill, on a house i.otilding for Mr. Rayner ;
Ile saw a Mall come down by the hedge, in the way stated by the
preceding witness ;he asked him what tic had The man said he
had bought the bundles for 9s. of a Gipsey, near Edgware. The
witness seized him, and the prisoner said he would give op the him
die if he would let him go. Witness took him into ets-tody, and
when at the Magistsate's lonise, he examined the bundles.
Thomas Bremer, a labourer, was pr, s, nt when the mail xvas taken.
He he.ird him say he purchased the bundle near Edgware olgipsies,
and that his name WAS Sharp.
Mrs Elizabeth Jones, wife of a shoe-maker at Kentish Town,
dgposod that she had known the deceased ha fourteen years; had
washed for her twelve months ; had lost seen her since Sunday LA.
She was able to iett only the linen Mrs. had to %%lob, haviii:z
ironed a great part of it. Here the boodles arse produced. Thn
first contained the following articles of dela one
handkerchief, one half silk handkerchief, one apron, two pair el
stockings, and tvio pair of socks.
Seal bring again called, said, those were the articles taken from
the prisoner Sharp.
Mrs. Jones then looked at the dirty linen, consisting of eight
shirts and a pocket handkerchief. The clean linen site had ironed.

OCT. 9

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Part t property belonged to a yoong Li ;Ably come otn sea,
then !cluing to lii2ll2ate. The remain-
ing pal t •..a• tni property Lin Ario. of 11)cm-street, Soho ;
Thotr,irs Owen, 01 Cis irlotte street. Rathbone-place ; INlr Blest,
Hampstead-road ; li. Other. keeper of the Bon iiod
Last, and the nusband of tin di. ceased. There a bill pinned
of the limeaes for 4i. J;el. which witness said was the hand-
writing' of the deceased.
Mr. Gilman surgeon ,:rd apothecary, of !Tighe:We, gave the
lowing evidence :—Having examined the body of Elizabeth Dobbins
he tntind that she had iceci reel a wound. on the scalp of four inches,
extending fi um under the angle of the orbit of the right side upwards
over the temple. The frontal bone was fractnied through the
of bital td.de, and upwards in direction of the wound, to the tempos at
bone. There was a long woond in the dim.' mato. which exposed the
brain. Inc brain %vas net i:L;tireil. The wound had the appeanwee
a clean cut wonnd, but the bones were considerably tractined,
o a; to stew the appearance ofa clean cut wound, but the bones
;vele cen-iderably tiactured, so as to stew the appearance of the
vroqnds my been inflicted by a cutting and bruising instrument,
aephird with force sufficient to produce death.
G. (1 !lemming deposed, that be went np to the hon4e. and diq_
co, err d the d‘ ceased in the situation described by the preceding
witnesses. He sent for Mr. who examined the body.
After the ahuve evidence, Mr. Hodgson observed that there was no
doubt that the untortunate woman had been murdered by :Tharp, the
man in custody.
The Jury found a verdict, that the deceased had been um-di:led
by the prisoner, Thonias Sharp.
The prisoner is a native of J.:l ton, Bedfordshire, and it does not
appear that lie was either in the army or navy. He stands com-
mitted by the Coroner ror tt ilf itl murder.

FIN. L EX A MIN ATION.
Sharpe, the rerptirator of this horrid deed, underwent a final cx-
aminrition Ueorgelvers, E-q. on Friday C V ciiim% Some in--
formation had been given that two men were scen walkiog with him
Immediately pre%ions to the murder, he was interrogated t n that
point, !eat he denied having heen seen witk any hod), at.tl even if be
had he would not say who they were, as their homes being told
conld du him no good. He prutested his innocence with great ef-
frontery, and, in answer to some questions put, iaid his father was
stili alive and he was :he oldest of twelve children. He was
dis-
charged from the Gladiator in 1813, and has sine: lived a rt-probate
life. His last imprisonment was fur smashing. He was removed to
N ets gate.

On Friday the t 3fl nit. a murder of a most barbarous nature was
perpetrated at Broadwood Kelly, in Devonshire, by one Aleminder
fie: lc, on Elizabc•h Martin, whose head' he severed completely
from her body with a common hook. A Coroner's Inquest brought
in a verdict ct Wilful Murder, and Sealy watt committed to the
enmity jail.
ATTEMPT To MC Ttnrn..—Friday night, between seven and eight
o'clock, a most daring attempt was made by some villains, in the
Five Fielik Chelsea, to commit a murder upon au elderly-locking
person, of the name of Larkin. «Ito resides in „Irrinyn-treet, St.
James's. The particulars of this rarocions act are as follow :—Mr.
Larkin was proceeding home : near the Chapel in Five Fields lie
was stakoly knocked down, and l:,esides being severely w. untied
on :!le head, cut most (he:011111y near the
.ingular vein, and after-
wards dragzed by the viihkios fecin the road into the Chapel Field,
an I there left in the state of insensibiity al.nive described. A Gen-
of the name of Baker, residing in Sloane-street, conning past,
lound the unfortunate man ilia* apparently lifcless. Mr. B. imine-
diatHy procured assistance, and carried him to Mr. Mavens, at a
It [ I. tte.tance. He Was thence conveyed to St.• GeorLe's Ho4pit3l,
where he now lies in a most (I:macrons state. It appears tlmt
he
kVai robbed of 11;e, hat and the neck handkerchief he wore, as well as
‘s 0 shirts, some eravats, and other articles of wearing aliparel,
which be hat.: been to a lamuhcss in me ncighbourliocd of the place
where the atrocious attempt Wai made.

On NVednesday, an itiqurst was !ad.i at the Half Moon, Mitcham
Silrrt y, rospeciing t!:e death of It. iliii, alias Terry. 'rho deceased
robbing the garde of the lion. IV. Iletbert, on Saturday week,
about three o'clock in the suorchig ; when he was shot thrillgh lhe hack
by a ballet from a spring gni). The, hall passed th:ough the liver,
thrimgli the ri.!lit inoa, and Oiattered the breast bone. Ile lai,gnished,
it. great agony. till seven ')Cck on Sunday evening. Tile surgeon,
en examining the wound in his bark, disci.vered that he had nett) shot
about a week previous with s ..ell shot, 'inward. of ¶'O whieb bad
Lidgud iY hii back and loins. Verclicc—Acuidottall.k4th.