The Sun.
London, England, 1806-03-31 00:00:00

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ten:lint tad clearly,. in point of la‘,v,- made nut his
jpstification. The Jury' found a Verdi_ for the De;
Pendant, the consequence 6f which is, -that tine lakvti
must be thrown open, ;.ls the Duke enjoys it onli!,
by sufferance. - -
The Duchess of York was in Court, and sat out
the whole trial. • •, •

CRIMINAL SIDE.
Samuel Starling was indiaed fOr thewitful; Mur-
der of/ ThomasHelsey, by stabbingJi.ina on the 21st.
of Oaoher last.
Mr. GURNEY, for theProseclation, detailed the
cumstajices of the case; as proved in the following,
evidence.
Thomas Skinner deposed, that. he was .the landlord
of the public-housaealledChinaHall,on theDeptford-
road ; he knew both the Prisoner. and the deceased ;
they-were both carriers, and very intimate friends..
On the 21st of Oaober they came to his house, and.
were, playing at bowls all the afternoon afterwards
they went into. a room where some tradesnaen were
drinking, and .contifined there some time. 'ln the
of the day
.they became .both intoXicated.
Halsey, the deceased, came to the bar, and asked
what the witness would give him to drink.; the wit-
-ness replied, he had had enough, and.he would give
him nothing moye, unless it was dbason of tea. The
Prisoner followed, and they both sat down to haVe a
bacon of tea they
.sat opposite each other. .I-lalsev,
• the deceased, said to the Prisoner, `‘ If you think I
use
.you, ill, or wish, you ill, take a knife . and
stab me." Starling replied, " You always pro
Mised to stick by me, and you did not."—
' Halsey -again repeated the words,--".lf you' think
Ituse you ill, take that knife and stall Me."—
' There was a knife laying on the table in the
bar, and the witness seeing them drunk, toOii ;it
away : as he was in the kitchen he heard: Halsey
again repeat the same Nifords,, saying, " Here, take
'my knife and do it," at the same time he saw him
give Starling the knife; As he came to the bar door
Halsey reeled. against him„ and looking down, he
saw.the knife bloody in the Pri'SOtier'S' hand. The
witness. exclaimed, " Sam, what have you done ?"
He replied., " Oh I I have done
was sent for, and Halsey put to bed; he died in the
course of the. next day. , QO, dro-ss,exaininatio'n, be
'said that the Prisoner and the,deceased,wereasinti-
mate as-brothers, and appeared to hiiV,7.e fhe:grealest
friendship' for cacti other: After the Prisoner had
done it he!app.eared in the-greatest agony of mind,
and wished much to see the. wounded man, hut, by
the Surgeon's direCtions, no one Was admittedL:..not
being able to get into the root-n,.he passed the night
under his windows ; he never attempted to abscond; •
but was apprehended in the house the next day.
Thomas Syddaf, ostler at the house, said he was
with the deceased a short time before he 'died ; he'
told him the PriSoner 'was very sorry for:what he had
done;. to which the deceaSed'teplied, he freely f0r4.1
gave him, for he, was sure he 'did not do it wilfully.
Charles Stuart, the Surgeonotated, that the knife)
had entered between:the .ribs, and had divided the-.
intestines

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The Prisoner in his.defence stated, that when the
deceased gave him the knife, he made a push by way.
of feint, meaning to pass the knife aside him; but the:
deceased at that moment :staggered„and the_knife‘
hit him. Several respectable witnesses gave him an
excellent -ehara6ter as an inoffensive • humane young

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man.
,The LORD CHIEF BAROZs: told the Jury the clues-
tion here would be,. whother they. I?cliewed the,
wound was intlieled by accident or from: malice ?- It
must he either murder or nothing, besause.if it was
designedly done it did not appear there was any suf-
ficientaggravation from the deceased to reduce the
crime to inauslaughter.---,-The Jury found the Pri7
.soner A7cot. Guilty. , • •
The LORD CHIEF BARON" -then proceeded to pass
Septence on the capital Corvie-ts,, two of whom,
Benjamin and 'Sarah Herring, for coining, he told
_ were about .to conclude. their guilty lives. The As-
sizes and Circuit here finished.
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The trial of Patch, which bag el.cit(-2tl;considerable
public curiosity, has been . postponed. , Ile,_will be
tried in the Borough. • -. . .

We are informed that the following remarkable
circumstance occurred. at as Gentleman's house on
Blackheath last Thursday night. In the morning .the
family came to town for the day and the `night,
leaving the house to' the care of. two maid servants..,
In the evening these women having gone out to take,
a Walk on the heath', folind a poor soldier lying on
the ground very, much ~-tdispo,-ed, he havisng walked"
from Chatham on his Way' to London.. CoMpassion-
atihg his situation,' thej bough ilim• into tlle house,:
gave him some refre;hll--leht, and fit ding illness.
to continue, they perinitted him to sleep all nigin. In
one of the roont,,. the dOor of which 'ti-iy:locked.:
in the middle of the tikht the, poor soldier r,','.13 .
alormed with the cry of murder. He' raised 11:tn:Sle:1
from his-bed, forced himself out of the chamber,
rushed-to the .place- from -whence the 'screams pro-: •
- ceeded, and found the two servant maids overpover-
ed by two ruffians with crapes over-their fac,es.l.The
appearance ,of a soldier, with`a bayonet in' his-hand,
frightened the villains so,mhell,'that he wai enabled
to lock them up and.Confiue•thern in a room untille
procured assistance in* the neighbourhood, and they
were secured. To the astonishment of every body,
these robbers proved to he the coachman and foot-
man of the family, who had gone to. town with them
that, morning..
' About six o'clock
,on. Saturday morning, -as some
labouring men were going to work.nearthe,Biihop'
Palace, Lambeth, they observed a female of discon,
'.Solate appearance standing close to- ill& wiater. by
the terrace,. 'and before they ' could reach her - she
plunged in. -Fortunately a wherryhappened obe
at the Stairs, a. short distance from the spot,
,and.by
the exertions of the persons who arrived to her, as,;
sistance; her life was preserved., The unhappy young
woman proved to be a servant to Mrs.. Arnold, of
Lambeth-road; and it is conjea..ured,i that the was',
urged to destroy herself by excessiv6 grief occasioned
by the death of a young man, her intended husband,
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-and whose name was returned among the killed on
board AdMiral Duckwwth's Ship, in the late en:
gagement. She was conveyed to the house of her
tnistress, where she now lies dangerously ill.