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POURTIT DAY..--SATURDAN, SEPT. 19.

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Ale.z._auder Munroe was indieted ,for wilfully and
malicioUsly wounding Miss 'Emily Wyat, .by
charging aqiiitot in.theTubliehighWay, on the I sth
of June.

Mr: etzwoon, Counsel for the Prosecution,
stated the fails of the case, which were in substance
asfollow :—The Prosecutrix was walking along
Fleet-street, on the day stated in the indiettnent,
when she heard the report of a pistol near to her, .
and from the alarm, she fled into a shop,' without
having seen the person who fired it. Whilst in the
shop she perceived:the blood flow from her head,
and it was found that she had been wounded.. It
• would be:proved in evidence that the Prisoner wls
the person who fled the pistol, and if he was de-
ranged,.hoW necessary it was that such a man should I
be put under wholesome restraint ;• but • the Jury
would do Drell, not to suppose the Prisoner insane on
acconnt.of his strange
.concluta): because some men
were so naturally depraved' as to commit such sets'
as the human Wind, would infer to. be madness.
Unless a plea could
.he advanced that the Prisoner
was deranged at the time. of cotntnitting the a&,
the evidence was such as would induce theni to de-
liver a verdiet of guiky •
'Miss Emily Wyat,
.a very handsome young Lady,
about 2'l years of age, -stated, that she was walking
,along Fleet-street, on t4e day stated in the indict-
ment, when she• heard the report of a .piltol",. but
.she did not see the person.who.fired.it. Witness
went into zshop in a state of alarm, and .she 'per-
ceived that She had-hem wounded under the left
ear, which wound produced a good deal-of blood.
Mr. Richard Nunn, who resides at
.1119, Fleet-
street, saw the Prisoner .pull .the ..pistol froth his.
pocket and fire it, but he did not.appear to level it
at any person. Witness saw the'PrOsecittrix go into
a shop, and she was about ten yards Out the Pri-
sutler, when he fired the pistol. •
Win. March, an.officer belonging to the Parish Of
St. Dunitan's, heard the report of a pistol, and in a
..
Moment afterwards saw the Prisoner put a pistol
into?his coat pocket. Witness searched the Prisoner,
and be found a pistol, two balls, and some powder
in his pockets.
Mr. Davison, perfumer, in Fleet-street, produced
the ball which was fired from the pistol,, which he
had picked up in his shop the moment after the pis-
tol was fired: .

Mr. c'artivright, surgeon, proved that the wound,
which was Under the ear of the Prosecutri, was made
by a ball.
The Prisoner being called on for his defence, said,
that he Piped the pistol in 'his own defence, as he
was troubled.
The Jun4;2-Askecl if there was any persopE.in
Court. who •ItneW , the -Prisoner ? but no• one answer-
ed. At the suggestion of the Judge, the keeper of
Newgate,,was examined •as to the .condua. of ,the
Prisoner whilst in prison ; and on Mr. Ziewinaiibe-
ing interrogated, he said he had no . teasolf.to sup-
pose the Prisoner deranged until that day:- He ;had
alwayiCOlidu6ted himself in prison in?,aquict••ingur
,ner. • ••

'Mr. Justice HEAtit, in his charge to the Jury,
observed, that the offence with which the Prisoner
stood charged, 'amounted to murder, .if the person
wounded had died, audit was still
complete
in the
eye of the law, if he even missed his aim, as it was
constmed a wilful and malicious It W.ioved
the Prisonerto oiler Borne excuse for. his conduct,
but he had not done so, nor luid .been .any
plea of insanity of Bred.
,No friends had appeared,
mid the gaoler had never, until the Prisoner app_ear-
ed to take his trial, any suspicion of his being in-
sane. lithe defence offered was sufficient to jifAify
a Prisoner, it would be an, easy matter .for a felon
to elude Death.

IYihiam Field was indio-ted
,oapitAlly fqr
ofa man uarnctl `Warwick,. un SupclAy,,thetQth
of August. Tins cop .was one *rin
,thP.many
re-
cent instances, to. shew that pugilism is not quk
Rafe a cootie of deckling cont is as its .advocatqs
would urge; --and. IN( a..bpxing bout may terrnin ate
as, fatally as a dPei,witli 4wpr44, or i tins.

The evidence stated, that on the day above-men-
tioned, the deceased was drinking' at. she Clown
`public-house,
: opposite 'Sadler's' Wells. There
was an elderly man in the'tap-room, 'with whom
the deceased ' had some dispute,, and whom lie was
treating with gross, rudeness and iuStilt. The Prison-
er, who was a Gentleman's groom, came in during
the altercation, accompanied by another man; named
Charles Sears, and, they sat down direaly opposite to
the parties in dispute. The deceased 'persisted in his
i 11 ' treatment to t he old man,whoin the krisoneradvised
ft) go-away, as he was no match for a fellow'."; ho treated
lt:',l ho ill 5 biat this advice the pld man' &Lillie:J.:, The
f ' ' otler iud his companion went Away, and came
bj wiin in halt an hour, The old man was then gone,
lAA . : .",• deceased remained. , _The llKisOnertegan to
rerein., rate with the deceaAed vohisill treatment of
the,, old man, when the deceased told him he
sheubrk Cop' fkii "owa company',. said 'he would use
him' ten timeilworse, threatened,.to: split 'his nose,.
and aimed a btpiv, at his face, and then Challenged
to tight .him far a pound.. The Prisoner declined'
the .contest, as',lte had nut the money, and Wiihed.
to postpone the-hattle till nett day. But the'deeeased,
pressed liim, it) itio' most insulting language-J. the;
yrisoneri 'companion staked the money;; the parties
adjourned toe-thd next field ; they fought -an hour and,
a quarter, when the deceased yielded'the vitctory,ancF
shortly atlerwat:ds died of the beatinghe received. ~
Several witnsses supported this statement ;• but
there Was none-who attually saw the deceased dead.:•
-The Learned,4dge, therefore, directed the'Jury to
acquit the Pri6oner. .

Etenezer Ihiite, a hackney coachman), was in-
dieted capitally,, for wilfully staling and murderipg
an old Man, named J9hn,Green, on the ith of sap-
totnber inst. in 41dersgate-§treet; by skiving leis
coach over the head and body 9f the.decea)ed, and
indicting upon him two mortal woundg, of which
he it tangy

.It appeared that the Prisoner, on the day Mention-
ed:was driving his coach, at a moderate rate, dawn
Ardersgate-street, with a fare. The deceased•and a
yonng man were crossing, in front of him, when,•
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