The Sun.
London, England, 1825-11-02 00:00:00

CHARGE OF MURDER.

resterlay Mary Shelton was indicted for the murder of
Patrick Doyle, a man with whom ske had cohabited, by strik-
ing him repeated blows -on the head with a hammer, on the 23d
of September.
i%lary Kilrornan—l reside in Buckridge-streei, St. GileS's; I
ani the inothee.s sister of the deceased ; he lived in Church-lane ;
on Friday, the 30th of September, I was at the Black Horse,
public-house, between five and six o'clock in the evening; the
deceased was therewith a man named Frank Smith, taking half
a gallon of beer ; the prisoner came in and looked round without
speaking a word ; she did not appear to be in liquor at the time;
the prisoner and the deceased had lived for twelve years together
as man and wife ; they had 7 orb children ;'I saw them but sel-
dom, they appeared to live at times on sociable terms, -at other
times not so; when the prisoner had looked round the room for
about two minutes, she went to the bar and returned again with a.
half-gallen tin can under her cloak ; the deceased and Smith
were 'speaking together; the 'deceased, who was intoxicated,
turned his head round towards the prisoner ; she raised the
can and struck the deceased with it on the temple as hard as
she could. He bled very much. Frank Smith, who was with
the deceased, is not here to-day, he is in the country. The de-
ceased retnained in the tap-room for about two hours after this.
I saw no more of them that night.' On the following Saturday'
morning I met the prisoner coming out of her own place be-
tween nine and ten o'clock. She bid me " good morning."
She then. said, if 1-did not' tell my sister's son to keep clear of
her, by the Holy Ghost she 'would be his butcher, and
put-an end to him. On Sunday I went to the deceased's lodg-
ings. tie was sitting by the side. of his bed very ill. The pri--
sbner was there. I asked him how he was ? He replied " very
and asked me what was good for the head-ache ? I recom-
mended him to wash his forehead with cold water. The pri-
soner seemed attentive to the deceased at that time.- He:
tired until tire. follpwing, Tuesday, when he expired in the
Hospital.

• Cioss-examined brthe prisoner-1 dids not see the deceased
-.Strike the prisoner ; I'was not drunk ; 1 had only my share of
the half gallon of beer; I did-nottnow that the deceased had
got a fracture in his head by 4-i 'gluing some-time- before; there
was n 9 quarrelling between them on that evening that I heard ;
the prisoner did,not shew me marks of any injuries inflicted 'on
her person by the deceased. " '
'' ' Lawrence Doyle—l am the deceased's brother ; the prisoner
' and the deceased lived together, and had two children living;.
she was pregnant:when this affair took place ,- I went out 'With
the deceased on the Monday, molting; we had fis. 10d. ; • the
prisoner got As. front us to get supper against we returned; she
did not get suPperslay the time we came back; 'I went with my
brother to the cook-shop, and got supper., we .had four quarts
of beet before this_ in the company of another man ; we re-
turned home;: I slept -in the same room As the deceas-
ed and the .prisoner... • The' prisoner was.' sitting .on , her
bed side, and her. children were in bed-. There was no
candle:in the room, but there was stifficient light from the fire
to see what passed. The'deceased wanted -to ,gcr to bed, but
thC prisoner said; the devil a foot he should come there.: • The
deteased laid himself clown on the bOards iri his clothei. The
prisoner was dressed, lying on the bed • she got up and said
that the prisoner should not lie in 'the iiciiiitis there -she was.
The prisoner attempted to-leave the rucer.„-littt:ll.e dedeased got
_up and pushed her, and ihe fell on the bed; I cannot say how '
she fell; she waslarge With'ehild at she time: 'The deceased
Sat.on a chair, and rested his head on. his band against the
table ;, the prisoner went to the chimney-piece and seized a
hammer. • , the deceased was a tininari ; the prisoner' struck the ' - . .
.......a.m.._ - • ~ .
deceased on the head with the hartimer five times ; acme of - NEW COURT.
the blows were heavy ; one of them was very heavy ; I had lain Yesterday Wm. Townseld; T. Warne„ T. Sawyer, T. Fury.
.doWn, and got up and interfered between them. I could not . B. Taylor,
.say. which end of the - hammer she `struck him with ; when I . T. Flood, and T. Bradford, were indicted under'
new Garden 'Act, fbr stealing some walnuts; the prciperfy of
interfered,.mxhrother knocked me down three times ; he was ' 'Jacob Phillips, at Edmonton.. The prisoners were all boys.
-in a great rage, and the prisoner was in a great passion ; my 1.
It was proved ,that the four first prisoners were detected in
brother had hold'ofme,-and said " Oh, brother, lam undone." robbing the prosecutor's garden on the morning of the 28th -of
The prisoner left the room and did not return till morning ;'illy- "September. The evidence against the other prisoners was very
brother's head bled much, but I did not tie it up. • ! slight. ' -
Cross-examined by the Prisoner—The prisoner was not un- 1 The Jury found Townsend, Warne, Sawyer, and Fury„,,
dressed in bed- at this time
Mr. Justice Panic—The witness, in hisdeposition before the '.l,
guilty, and acquitted the others. . .
The COURT sentenced Townsend and Fury to be imprisoned . ,
Magistrate: said she was updressed.
•• Ihr:3-nrontlLS, 'and to be privately whipped ; and Warne and'
By the •CotraT--:The prisoner and the deceased had not'
,sasiyer to be whipped, and then discharged. .
quarrelled that evening about the super; I wiped the head'of
' ' At.three o'clock the Court adjourned till five.
the deceased with his linen ; . one of the blows the prisoner gave '
knocked the deeeaied down; after the prisoner left the room Joseph-Easton was put to the bar, charged with putting Mary-.
I Ann Watts-in bodily-fear, and 'with having forcibly and felo-
the
deceased_ threw himself on the bed, and lay there till morns s nionsly taken from her person a purse, containing 14 sovereigns..,
irig:; I saw the prisoner. two days after; Ido not know that the . fit,. property.
pritionet'S ribs were broken f I told- her that Faddy's head was 1 The circumstances of this case have recently been stated to . ‘
cut - .slielaughed„- but said nothing. - the public in the police reports, and form another proof of the ,
BY. a Juror-The deceased did- not strike the prisoner, he
only pushed' her ; sometimes they lived peaceable, and some- I credulity of one sex and the rastality of the other. The prisoner,
..:
who is a labouring man abotit.26 years of age, paid his addresses . -
times they'quarrelled ; I heard that my brOther had received a to the priasecutrix, who is a demure-looking milk-woman of A,' ,:
cut -on his head at 'Liverpool some time ago ; he had an argu.. , and by talking of the• money which he had laid up in the Bank, ''-
?neat (quarrel) with a man who struck him with a stick. ' had obtained her consent to become his wife. The parties went
Mr. Burgess, a surgeon of St. Oilea's workhouse, said, the together to Doctors' Commons to procure a licence, .for whith
deceeased was brought to, the workhouse on the 24th October; the prosecutrix; in her -haste to get married, had agreed to par, .
he complained O. haVing received some blows on his head, On arriving at the -Proctor's door, the prisoner stated to the .;
.which had stunned Um ; his Winn appeared to have been prosetutrix that it would look very strange if she paid for '
injured ; five blows with such a weapon (the hammer produced) the licence, and induced ,her, by that gentle force which is
would produce such an injury as had been inflicted; the prisoner, not always disagreeable to the seN, to give up her purse to
on coming to see the deceased a few days after her accouchement, him. Having; obtained her purse, he walked away, but ...
eipressed. the utmostanxiety. •
ns
. • Atead of goin into e I's ofce as she expecte, wenf ,
Mr. Tewson, the house surgeon of Middlesex Hospital,-
sworn—The deceased was brought'under his care on the 513th: time
visit his wife andchildthren.3roator The prosecutrix waited for some .
time in hopes of his return, but. was at last obliged to yield to ,
of October; :he was- insensible t. he had -bruises ail over his the appalling conviction that, she had. been courted by a mari•
head, and an incised wound nearly healed on his forehead.
The operation of trepanning was performed. He died at half- who wanted nothing from her but her money. In reply to
past one o'clock that morning. I opened the head, and found °question from the Court, she_ stated that she was not in the
slightest fear when the prisoner took her purse from her.
the pericranium was detached from the skull, and part• of the
skull undergoing the process of exfoliation. We found an ab- The Common- SERJEANT said, that if such was the case,
scess on the anterior lobe of the brain. containing pus, which. there was an end to the present indictment. The gravamen of the
charge was, that the prisoner had put the prosecutrix_in bodily
was quite sufficient to cause death. These injuries were the
effects of external blows ; they appeared to have been neglected' fear, and had then taken from her this property. Now the pro-
secutrix negatived thia_averment ;; and therefore, however ftau.
wounds ; wounds inflicted a. year before would not have had dulently the prisoner might have behaved, he must be acquitted
such an appearance.; but if they were inflicted three weeks be- upon this indictment.— Verdict, Arot Guilty.
foie, they were likely to have such an appearance.
The prisoner being called upon for her defence, said that-the
deceased had, for some time previous to this transaction, treated
her and her children with great cruelty. On the night in ques-
tion she pawned a gown, to raise a shilling to buy two penny-
-worth of bread for her children, and the deceased attempted to
take the change from her. Whilst she resisted on the landing
place, he struck her in the most savage manner, and after-
wards in the room he kicked her twice in a most dangerous part
of he; body, and thrust her violently across the foot of the bed.
She took up a file, and defended kerself.
Mr. Justice PARK said,.that the evidence, in his opinion, did
not support the , capital charge of murder ; but there appeared
to becleat proof of the killing and slaying. The Provocation-
'which the prisoner had received was no justification for her con-
duet,in inflicting the wounds which had caused the deceased's.
death..—The Jury, after a short consultation, found a verdict—
Guilty of A tanslaughter.
The Ricc oit A F.R, after animadverting upon the violent and
cruel conduct of tire prisoner, sentenced her to be imprisoned
for one year in ihe House of Correction, and to be kept to hard
labour.

STEALING- A CHECK.

William Appleton was indicted for stealing a check for the
payment of 136/. 18s. 6d., the property of Robert Gabby.
The Orosecutor's wife dropped the check out of her pocket-
book, and it was picked up by the prisoner, who is a baker,
and who came to deliver bread at the door at the time. It was
presented, and the money obtained for it, before the prosecutor
had time to prevent it.

Prisoner, in his defence, said he• found it; but having been
brought into trouble in consequence of finding a check on a
former occasion; he threw it away, and it must have been found
by somebody else.—The Jury,found him guilty of the larceny.

A letter *as handed in by thi prisoner Grey, which he said
had come from his master, the prisoner Yates, discharging hilt;
font his service. ,
The RECORDER said this letter could not be received in
evidence. ' ••. '

When the case had been gone through, the Jury immediatel,
returned a verdict of Guilty against all the prisoners, and t.tis
Court sentenced them respectively to 7 years' transportation.

THE LA* MURDER AT BIRTLEPCUM43AMFORD.
—The third adjourned inquest was held on Wednesday last ;
but in consequence of the:absence of a witness, who was ,cited
'to prove an alibi on the part of Ralph Weston, the man ac-
cused by John niggle, the decisive inquiry was again postponed
until yesterday, when a stone-mason, named Steen Smith, who
is a man of character and respectability, deposed that Ralph.
Weston came to his house at about half-past six o'clock on Sa-
turday evening, the lst instant (the night on which the murders
were committed), and that he slept there with one of his sons,
and did not depart until between nine and ten o'clock on the
Sunday morning. Weston was accprdingly discharged, and a
verdict returned by the Jury of " Wilful Murder against John
Diggle and other persons unknown." The prisoner was then
committed on the Coroner's warrant, and delivered into die cus-
tody of Jonathan Chadwick, constable of Royston (the _officer
that apprehended him), who last night arrived with his charge ,
in this town on his way to Lancaster, and lodged him in the
dungeon till this morning, when they proceeded to their place
of destination. We had the curiosity to visit Diggle. He is 'a • •
fine healthy-looking young man, about, five feet six inches in
height ; but with an overhanging brow, and a stern cast of fea-
tures.
He evidently laboured to assume a carelessness of man-
ner ; but frequent and heavy sighs broke forth, of which he was ,
sometimes apparently unconscious ; but when he endeavoured
to suppress. them, they turned ton groan, and he seemed roused
for a moment to a state of self-government ; yet a. relapse was
soon perceivable, and his eye sharply glanced upon his ob-
servers, and surveyed with a wild and hurried look the apart-
ment in which he was confined. He confesses that he was a •
participator in the robbery ; but affirms that he waited for
Weston in a meadow near the house of the murdered persons.;
and that on his (Westqn's) return he asked him " what he had
done at 'em," meaning pooi Cass and his wife; to which We. replied, " I've hurt 'em, but not killed 'orn ;" but. this 46.
_statement, there is every reason to believe, is entirely false.
(Bolton Express.)
Gr. Ass EATER..— millwright, in the employ-
ment of Mr. SCOTT, of 'this place, a few days ago, when in
company with some individuals before whom he was anxious
-to exhibit-his powers of glass-eating, engaged upon a bet to ee,
your a wine-glass, which he so tar-Accomplished as to leave -
only the stalk remaining. It appears "Olathe had formerly'per..
formed a similar feat with impunity ; but, on this occasion he
was soon after seized with a violent pain 1:4-Ittle stomach and
bowels, with a threatening of convulsions overthe whole f•`;-
tens. Drs. SCOTT'AIIIi WISEMAN were immediately called in,
by whose skilful and timely assistance this infatuated and it& .
fering individual has been placed out of danger.-- (04/at
Herald.

LITERARY NOTICE.

"The LIVES of Dr. JOHN DONNE, Sir HENRY WOT-
TON, Mr. RICHARD. HOOKER., Mr. GEORGE
IHIERBERT, and Dr. ROBERT SANDERSON, By
ISAAK WALTON. To which are added the Autographs of
those eminent men, now first collected; an Index and illus-
trative notes.
The advantages arising from biography are
too well known to need" any illustration, but the
character of the Biographer is still an object of
consideration both as to his moral and intellec-
tual qualities. Dr. JOHNSON, an excellent Bio-
grapher himself, though not without prejudice,
and perhaps not remarkable for taste, has said
that" he who writes the life of another is either
his friend or his enemy, and wishes either to exalt
his praise or to aggravate-his disgrace." We con-
sider this assertion as tiiiigeneral, and notwith-
standing the partialities and prejudices of man-
kind, as not strictly just. In the work to which
we are now drawing the attention of our Readers
we are inclined to think that the Biographer,
TitAaa WAriroN, if he had any prejudice, it was
in favour of learning and virtue, and that he made
choke of individuals whose lives he intended to
record on account of their reputation, arising for
the actual possession of learning and virtue.. His
celebrated work on ANGLING displays good sense,
good humour, intelligence, and a high moralcha-
racter. The eminent men whose lives are given
in this Work will be revered as !Ong as the exist-
ence of British Literature, and honest ISAAK
WALTON has discharged his office with zeal
-tempered by discretion. He has duly appre-
dated the merits of the respective personages,
•and demonstrated the purity of his own. nature,
as well as his industry, in collecting whatever
might tend to illustrate their characters and do
honour to their memory. The work in itself
is a valuable addition to our biographical trea-
sury, and it is brought forward in a manner high-
Ay creditable to the Publisher, who seems to have
been actuated less by a regard to profit than to
do honour to the characters whose lives are here
recorded. The type is excellent, the copper.
,plate engravingsare expressive in design, and beau.
tiful in execution. Portraits also accompany the
Lives of all the Persons. The wood-cuts are
.also so beautiful that it is difficult to discover
.them from engraving of the former species. Con-
sidering the work altogether, it must have been
.attended with great expence, and may be thought
to have beetthrought forward con amore by some'
wealthy individual, in order to do honour to his
-favourite authors. We cannot close this article
without expressing our gratification, on observing
• that the same liberal Publisher is preparing a
uniform Edition of the Lives of ISAAK WALTON
.and CHARLES COTTON, comprizing the whole
works of the former. We doubt not that the
-ensuing work will correspond in correctness,
elegance, and beauty, with that to which we now
„call the attention, and recommend to the pa-
,:tronage of the scholar and the man of taste, as
well as to the friends of Literature in general.

From the LONDON GAZETTE, Nov. 1.

DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY.
' T. Pollard, Bond-street, Brighton, brewer.
J. Pollard, Penton-row, Walworth-road, umbrella-maker.
BANKRUPTS.
W. Alexander, Finch-lane, Cornhill, merchant, to sur-
render, Dec. 13, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners.
Attornies, Messrs. Smith and Weir, Coapers-hall, Basinghall-
street.
A. Shaw, Delph, Yorkshire, grocer, Nov. 14, 15, and Dec.
13, at ten, at • White's. Hotel, Manchester. Attornies, Messrs.
'Hord and Johnson, Temple, London; and Mr. Buckley,
Manchester.
W. Ridley, Castle-street, Holborn, carpet-dealer, Nov. 6,
12, and Dec. 13, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners.
Attornies, Messrs. Knight and Fyson, Basingliali-street.
J. 'Gregory, Butts, Somersetshire, rope-maker, Nov. 18,
Dec. 2, and 13, at eleven, at the George Inn, Frome Selwood.
Attornies, Mr. Hartley, Bridge-street, Blackfriars, London;
and Mr. Miller, Frome Selwood, Somersetshire.
W. Seagrove, Portsea, draper, Nov. 18, Dec. 2, and 13, at
eleven, at the George Inn, Frome Sc] wood, Somersetshire. At-
tOrnies, Mr. Hartley, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, London ;
and Mr. Miller, Frome Selwood, Somersetshire.
P. Higgins, Nottingham, baker, Nov. 17, 18, and Dec. 13,
at eleven, at the Punch Bowl, Nottingham. Attornies, Mr.
Hurst, Nottingham ; and Mr. Knowles, New Inn.
W. Prideaux, J. Squire, and W. Prideaux, jun.,' Kings-
- bridge, Devonshire, bankers, Dec. 7,8, and 13, at eleven, at
the King's Arms Inn, Kingsbridge, Devonshire. Attornies,
Mr. Fox; Austin 'Friars; London ; and Messrs. Wyse and
Weymouth, Kingsbridge, Devonshire.
G. Garbutt, Bishop Wearmouth, Durham, bookseller, Nov.
-18, 19, and Dec. 13, at one, at the Castle and Anchor, Stockton,
-Durham. Attornies, Messrs. Perkins and Frampton, Gray's
Inn-square; and Messrs. Raisebeck, Wilson, and Faber,
Stockton, Durham.
J. Brunton, Southwick; Durham, ship-builder, Nov. 15, 1711
and Dec. 13, at eleven, at the Slonk Wcannouth Shore Hotel,
Durham. Attornies, Messrs. Bell and Brodrick, Bow Church-
yard, Cheapside, London ; and Mr. Allison, Monk Wear-
mouth, Durham.

DIVIDENDS.
Nov. 22, G, Bennett, Seymour-place, St. Marylebone, butcher
—Nov. 15, P. P. H. Roberts, High Holborn, cheesemonger—
• Nov. 22, J. IL Tucker, Jermyn.street, St. James's, chemist—
Nov. 10 H. R. Plaw, Riches-court, Lime-street, merchant—
Nov. 23, T. Boddington and J. Oland, St. Philip and Jacob,
Gloucestershire, brown stone ware potters—Nov.26, M. Frear-
• son and J. Gordon, Holborn, linen-drapers—Nov. 26, H. Bell,
Bourn, Lincolnshire, corn merchant-:-Nov. 22, J. Rackham,
Strand,, bookseller—Nov. 22, C. L. Spitta, F. Moiling, G.
Moiling, and H. A. Spitta, Laurence-poultney-iane, merchants
—Nov. 22, J. Bromley, Circus-street, Now-road, iNlarylebone,
ironmonger—Nov. 22, W. Savage, Fetter-lane, victualler—Nov.
22, J. Foulerton, Upper Bedford-place, Bloomsbury-square,
merchant—Nov. 22, J. Batters, Southampton, grocer--Nov,
30, P. Rothwell, Runcorn, Cheshire, corn dealer—Dec. 1,
R. Spofforth, jun., Howden, Yorkshire, scrivener—Nov. 23, J.
Douglass, Loughborough, Leicestershire, merchant—Nov. 22,
J. B. Ruspini, Pall-mall, medicine vender—Dec. 2, W. Old-
acres, Orton House, Leicestershire, farmer.
CERTIFICATESNov. 22.
J. White, jun., Bishopwearmouth, Durham, iron founder—
T. T. De Lasaux, Canterbury, porter merchant—W.-Preston,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, broker—P. P. H. Roberts, High Hol-
• born, cheesemonger.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
H. Sutton and Co., Newark-upon-Trent, Nottinghamshire,
tnercers--.1. Parsons and W. Parsons, New Cut, Lambeth,
timber-merchants—J. Lee and P. Saunders, Crown-street,
Finsbury, rag-merchants—R. Bullcock and LGutherie, Ter-
-race, London-road, Surrey, tobacconists—NV. Langmead and
Co., Teignmouth, Devonshire, bankers—T. Lodington and B.
Hall, Serjeant's Inn, Fleet-street, solicitors—F. Hearle and
J. Rowland, Saint Columb Major, Cornwall, attorneys—A.
Jones and C. Jones, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, grocers—
J. Jones and J. Perks, Birmingham, jewellers—T. Barrow
• and W. Knowles, Manchester, calico-manufacturers—W.
'Chapman and Co. Rodney-street, Pentonville, haberdashers—
S. Bramwell and Co., Ltttle Guilford-street, Southwark, lea-
ther-hat-manufacturers—R. Crookall and W. Crookall, Pres-
ton, Lancashire, corn-dealers—W. Fitchew, jun. and C. Bath,
Somers-place West, New-road, pawnbrokers—J. Hart and J.
.Hart, Hastings, butchers—M. Settle and Co., Darcy-Lever,
Lancashire, innkeepers—C. J. Fox and T. Bonser, Birming-
ham, comb-makers—G. Carrington and C. Green, Birming-
ham, jewellers—J. Sloane and Co., St. Martin's-lane, West-
minster, cheesemongers—S. Sharpe and J. Walpole, Market-
:Deepisg,, Lincolnshire, farmers—G. Cheshire and T. Fowler,
Vring,"ll ens, drapers—W. B. Smith and J., Jukes, Dudley,
Worcestershire, iron-masters—J. Rot:Ili-Nen. and J. Rock,
jtin.`King'sHead-yard, Duke-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields, coach
gpting-makera.