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London, England, 1816-04-14 00:00:00

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This iv.:lpinition he after:emits divided into several patcrls of papa'.
tent di,trtuir...el them behind the wainscots. the hell under the i.toms,
and in the stiet-drawer. Soule of the parcels were rellixl up, and .onto
were laid open. lie frequently called at Nemitan's to see the effect,
but found the parcels as he left them; any puma might carry thcin
away.
}lorry Mills, a servant to Newman, remembers icing told by ono.
flier person, that one of the rut-papers was lying in the duet of the shop.
whet& he went and took it out, and then placed it in the kitchen win-
dow; .lid not ►now what became °fit atteruards.

'lrlwn., WAS no defence; and Mr. Joi7t4Ahbet having shortly ad-
dressed the Jury, attributing the unfortunate death of the child to aa:i-
duit moiety, the girl was inbtandy acquitted.

BROOKE'S NOR KILLING THOMPSON.

Jahn 8r0.,/,vs (who had removed himself, by a writ of habeas, from
the Giltspur-stmt roomier down to this assize) was rut to the 'oar,
charged, upon the Coroner's Inquest, with the wilful murder of Edw.
Thomism, un the 2.3 d of February last. He was aloa inesicted upon a
hill found by the (:rand Jury nt LI! s tpunty, fir the crime ortemeaugh-
ter only, in feloniously killing atvl ,laying the said lidward Thompson,
but mirk his trial upon die first charge.
The eircunistancts of this equally unfortunate and extraordinary case
hare been so recently before the public, that we demi it ur nt.cest,..ry to
detail at length all We eeiiienec.
Mr..lolin Outhwaite deposed, that he resided in Westmoreland-place.
in the City-mad. [lad known Mr. Brookes fur six years. and hi • re-
puted wife, Si.rah Tookey, for nearly tie same period. Mr. Brookes
having occasion to go to Scotland early in January last, luul placed
Miss 7' under his care. She remained with him until the 14th of Fe-
bruary. when she left his house at the instance (lithe deceased. Tlmnip-
ion. Winless expostulated with him upon the knpmpriety of his ow-
duct in so doing, but the deceased said, he would have her, and •• never
give her up."
Anne TOokey and Sarah Tookey gave their evidence to the CM
edict as hereinbefore detailed.

The evidence being cloded, the prisoner was called upon for his
defence, which was delivered as follows t
" My Lord—No one can regret more than i do the melancholy ao-
cident which occasioned Mr. Thiniipson's death: but although I feel
grout sorrow that a fellow-creature should lose his life in a personal con-
test with me, yet it is some consolation to know myself entirely inno-
cent of all criminal intention. The fatal lams:tient was brought ready
prepared by the deceased. who doubtless contemplated my destruction;
but, by a singular dispensation of Providence, the unhappy man be-
came the victim of his own contrivance. The young woman, Sarah
Toekey, lived with use for several years as my wife; and on my leaving
London early in January last, she was placed in a respectable family to
board till my return; but here she unfortunately met the deceased,
who prevailed on her to elope with him. On returning to London, 1
WAS extremely distressed at discovering her infidelity; but my affection
overvalue every other consideration, and I obtained the assistance of
her brother to seek for and recover her. We succeeded, arid fully in-
tending to give myself a I.lal elaini to her, we were about going to my
brother's to consult with Mtn on the subject, when this unfortunate oc-
currence happened. From the perturbation of my mind at the time, I
am unable to detail every thing that pcseed ; hut I perfectly recollect
Mr. Thompson's first pram:inf.: the pistol, as I thought, in a nienacir.g
manner, although up to that period t had treated him with perfect ci-
vility and good-nature. 'lids alarmed me; mind fearing danger. I hur-
ried up stairs. pressing Sarah before me. Mr. Thompson followed,
and he; riag hint, as I thought, dose behind me, I instinctively seized
the poker to prevent his intrusion. On my getting near the bottom of
the stairs, I saw Mr. Thompson with the pistol cocked in his hand,
and hoping to disarm him before he could level it. I struck once or
twice with the poker, then closed upon him, and, in the struggle which
ensued, the pistol went off.
" I understand that two gentlemen have stated that the pistol must
have been in my hand when it was fired. In this, my lewd, they are
certainly mistaken. My objen was to prevent tnischief; and had I
once obtained possession of the pistol, I should not have pulled the
trigger, or for a moment hewer have contended with Mr. Thompson,
against whom I had not the slightest enmity or ill-will.
" 1 will nut trespass flutber on your lordship's indulgence, but re-
spectfullly submit the facts I have stated to your lordship's attention,
fully convinced they will receive from your lordship and the gentlemen
of the jury a humane and merciful consideration.
Several individieds bore testimony to the humanity of Mr. Brooke,.
Mr. Justice A bbott having summoned up the evidence stgreat length,
observed, that there appeared to loins two questions for thecartsidennion
of the Jury. First, had the prisoner fired off the pieta!, by which the
deceased unquestionably came to his deeds ; and if bedid, was it from
accident or design? If from the former, the prisoner was entitled to
an acquittal, as he also would be if frum design, provided that, at the
time he so fired, hie life was in danger. If, on the other hand, the
jury were of opinion that he fired it at a time when he had so far over-
come his opponent by bodily strength as to have him conipletely in hili
power, he was of opinion, then, that their verdict should be that of
manslaughter.
The jury, having retired about a quarter of an hour, returned a Ver.
diet, finding John Brookes guilty nf—Af a n •ianghter.
Mr. Justice Abbott. in a feeling and impressive Mintier, sentenced
him to be imprisoned in the county gaol for six months
COLLINS FOIL KILLING Ills MASTER.
Rickard Collins was indicted ter the silltel murder of Richard
Woods, his master, at F.lstead, on Monday the I Ith of Septem-
ber last. with a pitelitbik.
Anne Woods depissed, that she was daughter to the deceased; the
prisoner was his servant; remanbered that on the mornirig of the day
stated in the indictment, the prisonerhad his breakfast in the usual try;
and left the house to go to work. About half-past nine o'clock here-
turned to the house, went tip stairs, and brought doin some clothes
upon his arm ,t he looked pale, and witness asled him what was the
matter ? He made no answer, but went into the yard; witness went 4
stairs, and saw him front is window tale the large fork and put it in the
stable. He then came and stood motionless, looking upon something
on the ground ; witness ran down to see what was the cause, and met
the prisoner at the door. She again asked him what was the muter,
whets he replied. " Master and I have have been fighting; I have kill-
ed him, and he is nigh dead." Witness begged of him fur Heaven's
sake, to tell all about it, but he went away from the house. She then
weal into the yard, and found her father with his face on the Frame!,
quite dead. Remember, saying to the prisoners, "Oh! Colluraz
wicket man, how came you to lull my :tor father e- when he r
" I have done it ; it can t be helped —the quarrel began on Saturdede
I..4mine d.—The prisoner was alwaes well behaved and dill.
Her father was a man decry warm temper. Her father had gone out
to the yard with a large horsewhip.
The primmer, being called upon for his defence, said, that be had not
the slightere ill-will towards his master. That two day:, previous to Is.
melancholy twcurrevee, he Lad grossly abused and cursed him. That
on the morning of the itth of Septenilier, they were in the stable toge-
ther harnessing die horses, when the deceased again cutsed, d—d, and
abused bins. l'risnner said to bins, tt Muter. we had better pare"
r when the hatter replied, "You may go to --." other wee/LOU%
ensued. and the demised became vielert, ran towards the prianow,
thrust his fist furward to strike heti. and afterwards kicked him severely.
The prisoner beeame irritated. seized the pitchfork, weihicel it round,
struck him a violent blow upon the head, and his muster tell, as he
thought dead. He then went away.
M r. Ji.a.tice A liner Yr monied up the evidence, and thejury having
retired .i,seit half en hour, returned with a verdict, fluent% the pri-
soner guilty ref M.lnsAidgitiet.
The harncel Judge, filer hetowing upon the prisorier a snaleb' le ad-
monition. sentenced him so lie confined in the county pied for use
,year
The Surrey Assizes, held at Kingstdn, did not terminate till.
Friday se'nnielit, vs Len sentence of death ei as passed on 2.2
capital convict-, . 3Or it Loco weft lets for ceeeation ;
Rtwell, for mut 1.41 sit it bit nn sl fatht -; mei! Fiannitontl, for
shots og at Mr. Coldleon :Ueda.
sat Vmiltatri; stitif intent to
in -dee hl ;=One was Oat Autertl fiitieitted fah lift-14
ftor akeii edstee-s- to twyUi, !alit r- -It! to thee*
mouth*, besides utiuor puutalisac 3.

OLD BAILEY.
MON DA v, Aram. B.—Gs,,rge hermit was put to ti, bar, in
take his trial un an indictment charging I with shouting%
pistol, loaded with shot, at Frances Maria Kelly, the actress,
\Oil' intent to kill her, or do her some bodily hal Hat-
; is, a jeweller in Drum-lane, de posed, that lit: lire...it the The-
- :re on the 17th of February. The prisoner sat in the pit,
. 'unit two rows before him. After Miss Kelly and Mr. knish..
!Lad eimiraced caeltother, in the characters of Nun and Jo, !I,
to the farce of The Merry Moa.vers, Miss Kelly went towards
the ;eft siege dour, m.d Mr. Knight to the right. Miss K. had
her face iowards the audience, when the prisoner stood with
his right band Ito:ate:I an: lug to the spot where she stood
He e.r:id nut see what the prisueer had iii his timid, but he in-
staltly ber.:rd the report of and saw a t!“.-11. Wituess
le.Lped ov:r the seats, and seized pri oiler twilit,• lie could
sit down. Ile slid he was not the man who tired the pistol,
" don't take me." Witness saw' the dash corn,• from the pri-
soner's right hand ; Ind be also saw the wadeiiu drop at Me-
sa'', ins•ant. He Look the villeilet ucroSS the seat, until hr
c( rut liter assistance, sad In was taken into the avenm
whc7c he WM search, d, aad :1 :urn-sate taken from his peekes,
'inch contained ;Keil; was sworn, evidently
under great entharlas•qtrent, anti much allh:cted. On the nicht
in question she was perfin mini; at Drnrydane Theatre ; saw a
Tight, and, at the same mumeut, heard what she supposed to in'
a ilmonAtiog ball. Had not the hews. act:pain:mice with the.
prisoner to her knowledge ; had never seen him 1.), fore that
period, nor till this day. Site hail reee.vad two letters signed
with his name, but had not uskieeti them.—Mr. Itirnie,
Magistrate, said, that be had asked the prisoner why lie had
shot at Miss Kelly? and he said, " She knew what it was for."
The prisoner had au appearmice of vi:1:111eS3 ill ills eyes. —Da
letters were then read, a, fullness :

FIRST I. F:TT F. R.
" 71153 ILLLY, DIMItY.LAWS: TWItATIM.
" Feb. 12, 1816.
DUI love ever prompt you to rehearse,
The part of honour, unesay'd in verse?
Or prim strive to guard it from decay,
tippbure so pint or self-applause to pay ?
714 treskeef (mums wou'd its charms resign.
And boomer's paw echo every line.
OS gid ambition read you sway.
To ammo a pert in arisoweerted play
Yowl seesset eadoweeee to abuse;
And Ist defence, not one poor excuse.
" I have buts Madam, defined your character and disposition in
a few words tswd shall go so far as to say you are not a stranger to my
name.
" Years age I was your admirer, but always met with disappoint-
ment—eapswy lodulged you, though often obi:Lined at the eapente
of others.
" Without vanity to myself, 1 think my good intentions towards
you have been more trifled with than any of my cot nuporaries ; my
claim to your person is tllvrcfor, whic't (I.tmnined me to cic-
ala/id your hand—or, in other worts, to make you my wife.
Nou will either consent to this, or accept my challenge—l wit
att.md you any hoar you.plesses on Wednesday, or before. !hare
witnessed your dettenty tn• tiring a gun—but suppose a pistol will
bet tcr suit you, as being much lighter.
" Had you not infringed the rights of your sex. I should not have
thus addressed you ; lint as it is. no other person can better answer
this idler than yourself; it shall not brook contempt or trilling es-
cues.

•' To Mise KtLir."

.. GEORGE BARNETT."
" 28, rrinter-str.xt. n—y-lane."
SECOND LETTER.
" iisa KELLY, PLItIOIMI22, MIURY-LA7fle TIRLATIM.
6' Feb.l4, 1816.
" MATIAM—I reeeiVed •leety:Zder o which,wing, lieb, frau.*
apparent nutidty. I bane is • 1(ow would act wiser if you was
to add your same. as I ant not Waoqueinold with your hoOd-
writing ; and; as I biotind in en last 11110 e. nottlyeatiot others to be
answorable for your —lf thi tenni ja my letter
were not to your intiolhodoe, taw dot some at one becoming
your pordesion 1' why snar you lOW* tontror-roie your reasou?
" I lows dm la. and Mee liellad yin as no omintent so it.,11
you round ru7 hiligla4sa try gni onnolalhat obnoto.
" You ant vey mist to_o__ wok dfrom t but let as not
rrioltato:sti =of yew Mc.. leyou do. I'd sonic yes aon
=IT.4Tao he yaw ranorrit I am. ;4
auto. pun
0 GEORGE BAIL ETV."
The evidence for the prowstion being closed, Mr. Dowling
proceeded to call witues.ei to support the defence of isoturit3r.
—lute pi tboeieril fatti,T•iii-law Mild hi* Nether, several la.- -
- well

gold
metal, f intending to come
I. This oecnpietthe aften-
&lnn; _me the testimony of Hos
principal witness for the prosecution (a person named Dalton,
in the service of then chemer) being discredited, the Jury, aster
a etinsidirable ausestbratiou, acquitted the latter. Upon the
verdict being returned, ascent of much confusion took place
anti the exclamations in the Court were so loud and vehement,
as to drown the interposing observations of the Bench.
(larks Ma:Awl Herd, and Thesses KiliOnsier, the latter the
father-itriaw of the tinnier, and who had both been employed.
in the Six Clerks Office as copying clerks, were indicted for
stealing one Modred weight of parchment from the odd office.,
It appeared that the parchment in qv
arld Mamas in Chancery, which the
sold to Mr. Bridges, a drummiler,
Alley took a legal objection that the p.
ject of lareeny, bat Mr. Baron Wood
and the Jury, under his Lordship's 11.
ere Glide,.
SATURDAV,
Phillip Select was indicted for Ira
derellintz-house of the Hon. E. Eardley,
stealing wearing apparel of the value
Edward Parsoio.
Edward Permit., who was groom
roorg, with+ WAS over the stable.
Feb. 111% went out Before it we, dark.
the steole had been broken open, and t
stolen. 'the prisoner was npprel.•iiiied u
committing some other depreilaqati, and
lo.igiegs the property itf Twig.% ale fOnott.—Oullty
in to the s aine of 111 s.

.
I '-'Z'''.-
tteners who bad etop oye ma, as w aa r. an jun.
of Sevenoaks, Kent, deposed to many acts of &fatuity by the
prisoner such as inifstingAto a fool laugh without any RIM
p4rent cause.—tctal rorgeffuloess of innued4te ohfects7lralla
standing in the street gazing at houses in a state aptitbir till
crowds of people were collected round 'ant
a surgeon residing in .North Crescent, Bedfiird-aptare, who had
seen, Add conveised will tee priscane.r since his confinement.
bad no debt that he was imanae.—Mr. Baron Wood, in stun-
ming up the tridence also said the letters which had peen
road bore evident syntistotni of insanity.—The Jury a.and
the
prisoner Mg Otetreend ft, Ina ntitY--The Co"; ac.
cordiagly ordered iota 6 be detaiucd.
Tuaiday, WiiiimaJuebrott. a master gold watch ease maker,
of respectable appearance, was indicted for feloniously trans-
posing the Goldsmith's Hall mark boars one gold witch to the
wire_ of another, of inferior metal, thereby intending to come
nit fraud agalkst the afatute. This trial ocenpirerhe often_
tioa of the Court at least five hours; but the testimony of this

m que.-tion consisted of bills
the pri.toters pin loined, and
Er, residing et Hortou.—Mr„
ie pal clipont was not the nob, :.„--1 )—i----:- -
ood overruled the objection . ... ---.4.‘
3 direction, Antoci the prisettl/451,/C` • )
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Antir. 13.
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loughirionsly breaking t Tfrititt 1
able), its. Mary-iv-hone, e
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value of lii. tite rot,tirty
.= •
in
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to the pronecntor, lived - ''
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On the veining of I: V
Art, and on leis return foe —..-
, and the Artwles in goe.iin .. N' t: ...". J
'coiled cm the 15111 of 11."114 ~ .
.q.lll. and om seireuing his r '-', -.
t oat Ininte.—Onitty of Veal.

The saute ill' i5,11(.1' stood again iiii:;eted r but glaroilisi to.-
teriut tire tint Iliva house of the Earl of Romstic...,
in; Hal. at two coaisond other arch fe s.
From the evidence ..1 ctutrit, postillion to the pro-
secutor, it appeared, that on the night of the ..,tll , he
went not from his masier's stables, over %shill, he siert, and
which a dioine the dwelling house, leaving the 11.10 r tact. ()a
iYis Eon si lte r I the door broken open, und the artietes car-
ried off. Part of the prepert:. wait 11,1111 ti in the prisoner's
lodgings.
Mr. Adolpims, for the prisoner. objected to the description
of the prosecutor in the inilictosient. lie was there (testi-hied
as os Archibald .101111 Primrose, Esq. COMMOIIIy idled Pearl
lloseherry." Seism a peer 4.f the re.ilm, he submitted that he
rood rut be properly termed all Esquire Stick a title might
have brew lint precious to the onion with Ireland, but since
that event it wt, imprui.cr.
flue ih et.r.l.•r snub, hr thought the point was one which
(loth* to be submitted to the Judges, he should therefore re-
sets, it.
The prisoner was then found y, death, subject to the opi-
nion of the Judges on the abject' taken.
The prisoner was then tried and toned guilty, capitally, of a
burglar' in the house ofGett. Burton, in Montague-place.
There were five other indictments against him of a similar
nature, upon which he was not tried.
HiGIIWt‘ ItOItHERY.-- W. Joie, was indicted for assanlting
Mr. 11. Dewiirey on the King's highway, and taking from his
person a watch, chain, and seals, on the tith Feb. last.
The prosecutor was passing through How-street, Bloomsbury,
on the night in question, and was surrounded by several ince,
of whom the prisener was one. The swimmer took his wateh
treat Min and went away. As soon as lie was gone, the other
men knocked the prosecutor duwu and took front him a 11.
note and a sixpence.
As it dill not appear that the prisoner had himself used force
and violence, he was acquitted of the highway robbery and
found guilty of stealingfrom the person.