The Sun.
London, England, 1837-02-08 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

Yesterday James Skreen was indicted for feloniously cutting
and wounding George Thompson on the high seas within the
jurisdiction of the Admiralty, with intent to murder him..
There was another count in the indictment which charged the
prisoner with wounding the prosecutor with intent to do him
some grievous bodily harm. Mr. Curwood prosecuted, and
Mr. Doane defended the prisoner.
The RECORDER summed up the evidence, and the Jury
found the prisoner Not Guilty, on the ground of insanity.
The trials being over, the RECORDER, soon after 6 o'cloek,
proceeded to the New Court to pass the sentences.
The following prisoners were sentenced to transportation for
seven years : —Eliza Jakes, Bridget Henry, Mary Fleming,
Mary Ann Keith, Ann Ryder, Mary Caney, William Jones,
otherwise Myers, William Everett, Thomas Rawlinson, Wil-
liam Bennett, John Thorpe, James Brady, Felix M'Guiness,
Charles Frederick Radford, Joseph Raffley, William Evans,
Michael Lalley, Edward Callaghan, Samuel Harris, William
Bryley, William Johnson, William Connor, George Cartel.,
Timothy Crawley, Charles Selsbury, John Warner, Joseph
Wooster, Edward East, Benjamin Moss, Dennis Prendergast,
John Coventry, James Bullock, William Thurling, John Thur-
ling, William Hopgood, Henry Skinner, James Godfrey,
Arthur Knox, Patrick Crawley, George Jennings, otherwise
Wilson, Robert Beale, William Stewart, Frederick Wilson,
Thomas Court, John Smith, Richard Hart, Robert Cupid,
Charles Jones, Dennis Collins, Henry Chappel, George
Walker, Daniel Driscoll, John Hutten, John White, Thomas
White, William Powell, John Clements, John Fishington,
Robert Spencer Stapleton, John Stapleton, and Chs. Young.
Sentence of transportation for 14 years was passed upon the:
following prisoneis :—Betsy Simpson, Mary Simmonds, Mar-
garet Taylor, Robert Coombes (two indictments, seven years
on each), Henry Johnson, Frederick Blackwell, John Smith,
Thomas Capnell (manslaughter on the high seas), and Dennis
M'Carthy, otherwise Green.
Sentence of transportation for life was then passed upon
William Tucker, Thomas Marshall, John Jones, John Joseph
Saxon (embezzling a post-office money letter), Jonathan Bai-
ley (for the manslaughter of his wife), George Denny, John
Wooten, and John Minter Hart (for feloniously forging and
altering a bill of exchange for 5001. with intent to defraud
Mr. Charles Herbert Jenner. )

The following prisoners, who had been capitally convicted,. '
were then called up and received sentence of death :—James
Smith (for aiding others or assisting to shoot a gamekeeper),
Thomas Westwood, George Allen, William Milts, Henry
Livingston, John Jones, and Henry Bates (all for burglaries).
When these prisoners were removed from the bar, procla-
mation for silence was again made, and John Pcgsworth was
brought up for judgment.
no RECORDER then addressed him in nearly the following
terms:-_' Prisoner at the bar, you have been by your own
plea, the plea of guilty, established to be the person who ac-
complished the death of John Halliday Ready by an act of
wilful niurder. Let me then, I implore you, remind you
while yet I may, of the perilous situation in which you stand.
Let me conjure you to think that you are now on the awful
brink of eternity and the grave, beyond which you will have
no opportunity for repentance, if you do not, while life is yet
granted to you, endeavour to employ your few remaining
hours in heartful penitence and prayer. By your rash hand
you hurried another into the awful presence of his Ma—
ker. You suddenly cut him off from• life without affording-
him an opportunity of offering up a single prayer for mercy,
or a wcrd to prepare him for that awful change, which is
fearful to the best, and still more dreadful to those who have
a life of sin to atone for. It is necessary, not only for the-
safety of society, but for the protection of its best interests,.
that a crime such as yours should be punished with death..
It now only remains for me to pass upon you the dreadful, the'
inevitable sentence of the law, which is, that you, John Pegs,-
worth, be taken from hence to the prison from whence you
came, and from thence to a place of execution, where you..,
shall be hanged by the neck until you are dead, and that drat,
pursuant to your sentence, your body shall be buried within
the precincts of the said prison, and may the great and just
God have mercy upon your soul." The prisoner heard his
sentence in the same resigned and becoming manner which he
evinced when pleading guilty to the indictment.
The sessions were then adjourned to Monday, the 27th
instant.

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BIRTHS.
On the Ist inst., at Leamington, the Lady Mary Gage, of a son.
On the 6th inst., Mrs. John Coysgarne Sim, of Mecklenburgh-
square, of a son.
On the 28th ult., at Yately Lodge, the lady of W. F. Webster,
Esq., of a son.