The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-09-12 00:00:00

DREADruL SUICIDE.

On nimbly morning a young man, of respectable con-
nexion.", named George T•asdalc, son of Mr. T. clerk of
Smithfield market; was siding at breakfast, at the house of
his brother, Hr. Jostp4 Teesdale, Smillths. Id-bars, ke seised
• knife Irmo off the table, and cut his throat with is in •
horrible manner. He was conveyed immediately to St.
Bartholomew's Ildspital, where he died. The deceased wars
of very ay habits and disposition. Hr fairly hccame ac-
quainted with a female, and hum their totes-comer circent.
malice' arose subsequently, which reuderel hint wiry de-
jected end miserable. During Barth()lumeW Fair, stud for
motet lime previous to it, hr took to excessive drinking ; he
wars lint in bed during the WIWI! of Monday ulght last, and
was intoxicated when be tontenitted the dtt.

An iniuisition sat yesterday upon the body before Mr.
SPIELTOX, Coroner. The broker of she deceased stated,
that fur some days prior to the roinnsission of the act,
the deceased was, in his opinion, deranged in his mental
faculties: he described the wiaiiiier tfte deteased tomniittrd
the fatal deed. The surgeon of the hospital gave a descrip-
tion of She wound, and the Jury returned a verdict—The de-
ceased cut his throat in a state of tasontty.

Coating Dtscovent.—Mr. BOND, of Ware
shout April lost, purchased a farm, at Hay-street
Braughing, Herts. the farm-house of which had
been previously divided, and occupied by two
tenants. A few days ago these premises being
about Ns be sold in lots, the gobel ends were
opened to *hew the qualtty of the mintier neat the
roof, uud, as the man was passing along f one
end to the other, he struck his foot against some-
thing hard ; when he gat a light he examined, and
discovered the skulls of seven sheep ! On inquiry,
it was ascertained that one Joins Clark, who was
prosecuted by Mra W !AM,. farmer, of Mattsford,
for sheep-stealing, at the Summer Assizes, 1817.
and transported, lived in one part of this house;
and these skulls were. in all probability. hidden
by Istui, to avoid a discovery of his uefarious
practices.

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OLD 8.1/LEY, I IDaY, :SCPTEMDEIt 11.

Befo►e the CoM:lor4 SERJEANT.
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FORGED PANIC NOTES.
domes Wulfe, a boyabout 15 years of age, p!ratl-
ed Guilty to the minor (malign of having several
forged Bank of England noses, value I/. eitcli, its
his possession, kiiiiiving them to he forged. fie also
pleaded Not Guilt:, to two indictments on the ca-
pital charge.
Several other persons of both sexes were almost to
be arraigned fur similar ollencrs, when the Court
ordered them to stand over until the first thing to-
morrow morning. •s-
Mr. Serjeant BOSANQUET and the Bunk Solicitor
attended bur tint Inorecutions.
Wore the .ludges.
CHARGES OF lICRUER.
Sarah Tapp, a wretched looking young woman,
17 years of age, was iiiilleted, on the verdict of the
Coroner's inquest, for the wilful murder of her new-
born female child, on the 22.1 August, in the pa-
rish of St. Luke, by throwing it Tutu a water-closet,
where it was suffocated to death.
The utifortutiate Vionllll pleaded Not
.1 e appeared in a state of great debility, and wits.
inti'ailged with a chair to the dock.
Margaret Maher stated that she icne w the Pri-
soner, who had been .t lodger in her house. Pri-
soner was martisd IPII tilt' Whitsuntide before. %Vit.
tiros was previously swarrof her pregnancy. Towards
the close of the month of A tuArso-t she asked her if
she was nut ia the family way ; she replied, that
she neither knew whetleer she was so, or not. On
asking liar whether she halt the child, she said not;
then witness observed, that joking from her op-
p-analice site would shortly feel it. On the '2olli of
August the Prisoner went to Cistithsiwell Fair.
Ott the following mornittg she came down stairs,
and complained of being very pootly float drinking
coffee. Its the afternoon she i•otittinied ni the ailme
state, and said she thought she had caught cold tit
the Fair. On the 2241 she came home between 10
and 11 o'clock :it night, anti went into the water-
clwir t %Mumt c.,rrying a light with her. 51w staid
there about tea ounitites. Un her return she was
carrying some water in it Vessel from the water• butt,
but witness prevesited her, and carried it up
stairs liersell; lest hisoner should injure herself
by statiding on 11w cold stones. Witness bed
a light in her hand at the time, and observed, that
the Prisoner then looked very thin and windy.
Witness did not enter Prisoner's room, but left the
wade! on the landing near her door, Hod wished her
good night. Prismier's husband came home after
Witness at that time had Ho distinct :mine-
liesision of what lied liappesied. On the following
morning. the 2:14, tlit Prisoner's mother came
down stairs with somethiug in her hand, and called
out witness, sayitig, that Robert (Prisoner's hits.
band, was out, sad she told her that she fraud
her daughter wee young and ignorant, and
had miscarried. On the 29th the Prisoner asked
witness if she would let her little boy carry
a few things to the untangling woman). Witness de-
sired her to walk into her apartment. Which she did,
and observed to her that she seemed in danger from
her looks, and immediately called in the husband,
and said to him, "'This poor creature, your wife, in
lost for want of nourishment and proper assistance."
While he went to get her some potter, witswis asked
her how far she thought she had gone before she
miscarried, she replied about five months*. Her
husband returned, and the conversation ceased.
Witness then gave the Prisoner a little worm porter,
she still seemed very cold, and from certain ap-
pearances witness advised her how to prevent a milk
fever. Witness made no further observotimis until
the Monday fullownig, whets she saw the Prisoner
going out to take is walk wills her mother ; she
again remarked on her ill state of health; On
the let of September, Llama two o'clock, Witness's
little boy gave her souse iiiformittion which induced
her to look into the water-closet, where she saw
manet Wog lying on the right side. She immediately
went to ■ neighbour, and inquired for Mra. Wyatt,
who returned home with her—atid they then both
ascertained, with the aid of Mrs. Wyatt's husband,
that the body of a child was in the water-closet.—
Tiie beadle was then fetched. Mr. Wyatt sent fur
the Prisoner's husband, who refused to come, and
said he knew nothing about it. They then went
to the Prisoner, who was ois the bed in her
own room. They asked her if she knew any thing
of this child ? She replied, it was nothing of hers.
Witness then said, that medical assistance must be
sent for to ascertain the fact. Prisoner then owned
the child was hers, and that she had put it down in
the place where it was found. Witness asked her
if it cried whets it was born, and she said " No."
On asking her, twice over, if it moved, she replied,
" No." This is all the witness knew of the matter.
Its answer to questious from the Prisoner, the
witness replied, that certaiiily about • week be
fore the child was supposed to have been born,
the Prisoner tad tallest down stairs, hurt her head,
mid complained at the time of • pain in her side,
and felt something beating as if against her heart.
Thomas Hayes, the surgeon, stated, thst he saw
the body of a tensible Child at the St. Luke's Parish
Work-house on the 2d September, to which place
it was carried by seder of the beadle aboult half an
hour after it was ti-sr discotered. The body was
swelled, and its a high state of putrefaction; he did
not open the body, as it would have beets of no use
in the state in which it war. He particularly looked
at the exterior of the body, stud found no marks
whatever of any violence having been inflicted on it.
The child laid every apiwarance of having arrived
at sts full period, but there was nothing to denote
the fact whether it lied been born dead or alive.
The fell said uneasiness which it was said the mother
sustained, might very possibly haveinjured or killed
the child in the womb, and led to premature labour.
Mr. Baron °Rabats said. that there were several
more witnesses, but he thought no new light could
be throOn ott this case, sod perhaps the Jury had
already seen enough of the reidence to come to a
proper conclusion.
The Jury assented—and the Learned Judge
summed tip the evidence, and pointed out that the
indictment required woof of the child having been
burrs alive, of which there was not a tittle its this
case; on the contrary, the probability was that the
reverse was the case from the accident which the
Prisoner suffered shortly before, and from the

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mediate decrortitiea of the woman •titiit the child
oever stirred iir cried at the imoost of its hiritt.
The Jury, without a utotneul's hesitation, return.
cif a verdict of Nl+, Guilty. •
The Prisoner was immediately led from the duck.
nod dowltargetl.

John Jones, aig.d 32, was indicted On the verdict
of the Coroner, for the wilful murder of Autry
Header, by inflicting divers mortal bruises upost
her body, of which sPe fingered Epos, the 29th
Julie until the Ist July, when she died.
Mr. A stated the ease to the Jury as it sar
el/ode-her :
Fislitr s ad, the deceured wassail wes
his daughter-in-14W, and ha. cohabited With Ilse
Prisoner, who *IV a raZat..gri Mier, fur about two
}ears. Oia the '29th June the deCeitsed was with al.-
tits% in the brick-field, where they were all at wutii.
The Prisoner costae there und gme Ainey Reader
:mole money, With which they both went and rot
intoxicated. The Prisoner then wanted to ".14-t
uwsy from the deceased, who hod willed his coat
and tore his clothes quite down, and way iorlinid
to quarrel with him ;on her trot-log his clotlirr;
witness thought the Prisoner 'Moiled at lint, awl
she tell down, hut whether or not by the forte
of the blow lie could not tell. When she wus
down, Ps-owner mooch her it violent blow 1/11
tile The thcestsed might have fallen among
a heap of Lola* that lay about, aid hurt her-
relf is that way. Ileing in !minor, and thisok-
ing *lst s!,e was thereby ',resettled loom get-
ting of thee carried•her to cote of the saint-houses
mid %snipped her op in a blatiket ; she complained
of bring ill on the next day, and the Doctor was
swot for; he bled her ; she died on the followitlK
day. When the Prisoner struck her on the gumuile
witness could not say Whether she had hulu of the
Prisoner or• dot. • .

A inie Fidler said that she waivmother of the lih.
ceased. She ;'!arrol.orated the evidence of the hod
witness respecting the parties being iii liepnor, ard
their scuffle when the deceased fell; and added,
that the quarrel appeared to have adieu from the
impidtunity of the deceased id get mote liquor from
the Prisoner, who re/fused to give it. The decease.'
the', desired I to go utf with Ins barrow
he accordingly took it up, and said he would
go home, and when she cume there would give: her
a good hiding; she then ran at him mid upset his
barrow agaiiist the bricks. and tore at his clothe.:.
Wittiest' gut betwixt end sepatated them ; hut in it
moment after she saw the Prisoner strike her seve-
ral blows, from the force of which she fell on the
ground, in which state he again struck her on the left
side. The parties had drank, she believed, more than
three or lour gallons of porter. They then took
the deceased from the ground to the sand-house.
The next day the Doctor bled her; and she died ins
the following (Loy.
The Prisoner here produced his shirt, which was
very muck torn in boot, as well as his jacket cod
traodcoat.

James Parkinson said lie was a surgeon, and had
examined the body of the deceased on the dd July.
'fhere were no extertial minks of violence, hist on
opening it he di►covered internally that tbe
bladder was ruptured, and, a. a consequence, the
bowels in a high statE of inflammation. The cause
of the rupture lie was unable to ascertain With pre-
cision, though lie had every reason to believe it was
produced by external violence, either a blow or a
Nil might cause it, the former most likely. The
death was the consequence of the rupture of the
bladders and if the party were iii a state of Maxi-
castioh, falling upon an equal surface might produce
it. It was, in fact, real matter of doubt whether
the rupture was occasioned by a blow o► a full. The
woman war, he knew, 'previously unhealthy.
Mr. Justice BATLEY summed up the evidence
to the Jury, who returned a verdict of /101

Henry Nash was indicted on the verdict of the
Co►uuer, for the wilful murder of Catherine Nast',
his wife, on the stli August lust, in parish iii
St. Leonard, Shureditcli, by inflicting upon her
body divers mortal bruises. Tiiii Prisoner hail
been out MB bail.

Elizabeth Nash, a young chill, about ten yea,.
of age. said, she was the daughter of the Pri-
soner, who worked at u spice-warehouse, and step-
daughter of the deceased. %Vanes) came home
with her father about eleven o'clock on the night of
the 9th August. Her mother-in-law was then in
bed, and as they entered got up mid began to beat
witness, and call liar very bad names: Her father
desired her mother-in-law to desist, and get back
into bed ; she would not, and he then gave her it
push, on receiving which her mother-in-4w felt
against the side of the bed. She was positive her
father had not struck the deceased, but gave her a
mere push to prevent her continniug to beat wit-
ness. She did not complain of bring hurt until the
following morning. Witness then asked her
mother-in-law if she would have any thing? slot
said, " No," but that her head was very bait.
Witness then went to fetch Mrs. Bennett, who did
not come. but sent one of her daughters. It was
on Sunday night that that her father gave her
mother-in-law the push, and the letter died on the
Tuesday evening following about eight o'clock.
When her mother-in-law complained of being very
ill on the Monday, she went to her father's ware•
house to tell him of it, and he immediately came
with her to return home, but on the way an officer
stopped him and took him into custody. Her
mother-in-law was sober when they went out on
Sunday at four o'clock, but she did not appear so
on their return at night. At that time the deceased
struck at witness, and gave her several blows; to
prevent a repetition of which her father merely
pushed her, and she fell near the bed. Her
mother-inn-law was addicted to drinking, and had
(as she heard) 011 the Sunday evening drank a put
of porter and half a pint of rum.
Win. Brookes, a surgeon, said, he was called in
on the Monday. by a parish officer, to Irak at the
woman. She then lay in bed, and complained of a
violent pain in the temple ; there was a slight mark
apparent over the left teniple; it by pontoons look-
ed like a mark which was accompanied by tiny
fracture; the woman seemed at the time to be
scarcely sensible; he saw her again in the evening.
whets she appeared still worse, and the symptoms
continued to increase ; he had recourse to bleeding.
About five o'clock ou the Tuesday morning he was
called up to attend her, when lie found her labour-
ing under apoplectic symptoms, which continued
until her deaths on the game evening. On opening