The National Register.
London, England, 1816-08-19 00:00:00

GUILDHALL

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T. Wigz.lins and J. Gray were examined.- in; suspicion of robbing T.
Oyu:Mora poeiccf-Look (containing adl. in Bank-notes) and his watch.
It appetred, that Overall i: a fisherman at Ceichester, tout on Sunday
week he emu:: up with a cargo of oysters; on the i%londay lie sold them.
and in the evening he drank so hutch that he became perfectly
- Tue ('onstable, who took the lads into custody, produced tae
rain u anti a watch which he had found on thou. The prosecutor cotdd
nut swear to any of the notes. or to the watch ; hut he swore to a two-
pawl King's Ilench note, which was fount': on Gray, and which was
rt lin po3(Ct•t*Ok at the time it was taken from him. Gray made a
olivitary confession, that he met the prosecutor, very mulch intoxicated.
in Castl,street, near the Curtain-mil 'Eh.- prosecutor asked him to
best him havoc. lie was doings°, when the prosecutor fell down; and
some gentlemen raining proi4 picked him up and set him on the steps
of a door. here Gray took trim him his watch and pock.:t-hook, with
whicil he made ME Meeting. Wiggins soon after, he told him what
lee had done; a seen Wiggins Insisted OD having half, w hi, n Gtay com-
OW with. It now appearing that the robbery was committeti in time
ciunty, the :Magistrate -ordered them to be taken to IV orxhip-street.
H ATTON-G ARDEN.
Friday, .1. Tuck, landlord of the 11.:Id-facvl Stag on Enfi.ld Chace
Side, was charral with the murder of Mr. Draper, belonging to the
Court of Requests, in Enfield, whose body was found in a well in the
tsar of the prisoner's house. The Coroner's Jury returned a verdict of
Accidental Death. After the Inqut,t, however, the brothers of the
deceased cimgd the body to be examined by two surgeons. who disco-
vered some marks of violcnce, and gave it as their woinion that he came
to hi... death by blows; it was also ascertained that the deceased was
robbed of a peel:et-book, containing a large quantity of Bank-notes ;
and it was alsa provod, that the prisoner hillowed him into a tiehl. and
sdi to two other men who accompanied him. 11----n his eyes, we
will mill him ;" end tied 1:e W.:.1 not rem afterwards, until he was
found in the well.—lie was d.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
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Mary Ililli:ran seas charged as an accessary in the !minim of M.
Welsh, a St. C.ilm's watchman. Mary, alias Hannah Anthony, who
cohabited aath the prisoner. it will be remembered. has been torantitteal
on tae verdict of the Coroner's Jury. The prisoner, upon that occa-
sion. ens a witness; and en this examination she confessed that the
whole of whist she then mated was false. llifore the Coroner she stated,
the Welsh haul died before three oh-lock. She lived in the 11141.9 e.
No. 5. in George-street, St. Giles's. where the partim cohabited. Mrs.
Ni.e.e.eay first told her that itlahnny had died suddenly, btu enjoined
her to sweet: hr the cross of Christ that she would not disclose it. Ske
did is. and Men wim shewn to the dead body. There w,a-c marks of
vidence round the neck, as if effected ay a rope, besides other marks,
411.1 the bed wan wet. even to the feet of the acceased. Ataliony said,
the dermeied hod been strangled by the tightness of hie neck handker-
chief, but which as: very 1.`"..152. about his neck. The prisoner had said
o very thing f.dee bef:te the Coroner, be:ause she was under obliges
t!ons to Sire. Aialtonv. who attributed Welsh's death to the cramp in
• the stomach.—Mrs. Adkins, who it sides opposite. stated. o.tat the pri-
snner was to and fm for beer and spirits until six o'doek on the day of
the alleged reamer. Sli: 53. W N's elsh alive between is and seven
o'clock, and the trieoner told her of hi' death between ten and eleven.-
There ware ccottnual riot/ between'the deeeaseil and Mahone. lie-
. tween i i mini (Yoh:lock witness heard a great noise, and saw ilannah
I toe, who also confessed that she had said but little on the Coroner's
Inquest, and what she said was also false. After much prevaticarion„
it was also extracted from her, that she accusal Nisbet!), of hating
istnelered the deceased ; she was placed beside the prisoner as an or-
re!:sary in the murder ; and, in order to give Smith, the beadle, an up-
pertiunty to collect further evidence, the prisoners were remanded.
Thursday, J. Scott. a eithinet-males in Leicester-street. Fwallmr-
rzn:...t. was charged with a tnost atrocious assault on Mr. Whitworth,
of Howland-street, Fit:my-square. Mr. W. said, he accompanied Mr.
llerry, of t;oolge-striet, to the prisoner's !louse.° di-train fur not;
:then the prisoner lant him most unmeteindli, and, snatching a I:,life
imin the table. cammptcel to plunge it into his body, but providentially
it struck against one of the buttons of his cue lie neat threw up the
sash, to fling him into the street ; when some jw-sons hearing Mr.
W.% screams, broke open the door, and fout-si him in the act of being
thrown out. Mr. Deny confirm:al this evidence. The knife was pro-
duced, seal appear:al bent id 1h blade, in consequence of the force
with which it had been ti, Nl. During the examination the prisoner.
who aas in a state of intoxication, behaved most violently.—lie was

QUEEN-SQUARE.
ETTENSIVF. ROPMERY.—Saturday sennight. John Weiss, a very
extonsive coder and silverrrnith in the Strang, charged Margaret
'Fisher, his female servant, (in whom he and his wife h.,el long placed
raid confidence) with robbing' him. Prosecutor stated, that liming,
• tic Flitl/4Y afternoon.. wide/wally observed the prisoner taking
rime valuable errieks from the chop, be thoturlit it necessary to
astrith her hist, and a hag in which she kept her clothes ; and to etch
ni theci. to Lis great surprise, he found a quantity of valuable pro-
pirts, widen wet:: the following articles: mother o'rearl
haftiel kilt. with gold aid silver blades, a dozen large fashion.
,;le silver tca-vroons, a grt ,t tn..ny pairs of highlypolithell steel spring
• and scissors, oft::: finest 1..1t.„ several canister- and chest, full
• tea, wizh a vmicty of other articles in his line of business. On End-
iNs'te was &lel:tee, She ov;led hi haentg another !mg at a green.;:in-
ecr s in Chtireli-cot,rt; and on applying there. prtnetalior found it
nerrly filled with similar articles. I'r.rmier orn..fe,,sed that she hail
given &peat dent of *hw prapr.rty, at various times, to her mother,
who livitt at Ilfor.l, in.F....sce. A warrant was granted agaimt the mo-
ther, and several starch-warrants te: examine different
splaceJ she was i.t
habits of intimacy it., from which great go;:ntitirs of the pro.,ecutor•s
.;••,.-osty cr:: alto brought. Se; oral duplicat-s were also found about
rai -rata, and. i.t her box, of articles of the same kind, I.letle, d hi die.
f-- nut parrs of tl:s turn. eve a at farvifas the Buyout:h. Prisoner was
sonauPcd for further examinution.
mol'aer of Me shove named Nfargarct, was brought up,
• be the inane i:losoontir as rocti‘er of a considerable part of the
prnpe:ty, ittocanig it to be sy,lett.
My. the Acer who on ylo^day apprehended and searched the pri-
sore: ; Sar.,ll stated, that he found several duplicates 6., her
and gss.,9 nosiest t.t rid tie pi. ,11,mkur. mini' killed in t'.• ra to attsud,
three or four of•d.or,, ar.e. yn,aluc.xl the articles severally
pkdged with them, they -th.,l they received from the psi.
totter, Sarah Fighe.. S'ir ;u'ineivle•.l,...^(l haring received them from
Lefeaughter, xul that the kr.cw (try coald not be hoc property. Bids
pls.:tiers were reamnded:
Tuesday. James Perry, a ci•.e'-r.r.n. before A Sitting Mattis-
-3rith his !?a-.fighter, ord., twcl.-c ,:test cf ate. rm.:kern:l:l4ll%i

against David Isaac 4, of Whltcoothe-street, Haymarket. for
irk !is child fur the pitrpo.at of prostitution. /lc said, that ete girl
was at service tit Mr. 11,;ker's. at ehebnaford ; and he rcoived a Icitzt
on Saturday.. infortnieg him that his ilaugitter hail left her place, and
gime along with the daughter of a r.:speetabl... wan in Chelmsford, they
,rat
,ril to town : he therefore s.arc'.-ted Oxon all pabhc placet, and
rt./ her in St. James's Mirk. The child said. that she and her coin.
panion laid one guinea each per we d: tin one teoni at Davidl::aar:'s.
The case was remanded fur further investigation.