The Sun.
London, England, 1822-07-18 00:00:00

SUSPECTED MURDER.

Yesterday a bricklayer's labourer, .named
Peter Jennings, was brought before Sir K.
BIRNIE, at Bow-street, and underwent an exa-
mination, on suspicion of having been guilty of
the wilful murder of Francis Withy, a boy about
13 years of age.7—The evidence against the pri-
soner was merely circumstantial. It appeared
that he and the boy Withy were both in the
service of one master, and were at work together
doing some repairs at the house of a Mr.
Smith, at Kensington Gore. The prisoner,
from some cause which was not explained,
had a very strong dislike to the boy, and
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had repeatedly threatened to do him some harm;
at one time swearing that he would throw
him off the scaffold, and " break his b--1
neck ;" and on another occasion, that he would
be the death of him the first opportunity. On
Saturday afternoon last, the boy, whose particular
duty it was to wait on the plasterers with the
materials for their work, was seen by one of the
workmen at about four o'clock, standing on a
part of the scaffolding which was within the level
of the wall of the house, and in- a few moments
after, having occasion for something in his busi-
ness, he called to the boy, but receiving no
answer, he looked upon the scaffold, and saw,
the prisoner standing there, but the boy viasi
absent. The prisoner was standing within
a yard of the spot where he had., just before
seen the boy. 'I he prisoner was employed in
different part of the house, and had nothing to
call him to the scaffold where he was seen. The

man called to him, and asked him where the bog
was, and he said he did not know. In a fe'
minutes from that time the unfortunate lad was
found on the ground, underneath where he had
been seen standing, with his skull dreadfully
fractured, his wrists dislocated, and otherwise
shockingly injured. The prisoner was inve.
diately suspected of having thrown him from thB
scaffold, and was given in charge by the work'
men to Hull, a constable of Knsington. The
boy meanwhile was conveyed to St. George's nos;
pital, in a state of insensibility, and he continued
speechless until his death, which took place 0°
Tuesday afternoon. Every possible effort was,
made by the medical gentlemen of the hospital
to restore his senses sufficiently to obtain some
information from him, but in vain. The slit)
where he fell was minutely examined, and it af";
peared that he had fallen through the branches of
a tree, at a short distance from the wall, and car°,
down at the foot of it. Some of the branch'
were broken. Ile was found in a crouching pos--
ture; and from all that appeared,he must have fail°
head foremost. It is a remarkable circumstances
that the spot were he was found is upwards ee
six feet out from the wall, within which the
scaffold he must have fallen from is erected. The
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ground there is quite level, and the constable
and others who saw it, and measured the
distance, declared their opinion that it was
have
utterly impossible that the boy could o.
fallen upon that spot without some propell'eci
force. He could not, they said, even havejulehe
the distance, if he had thrown himself off. t
height of the scaffold from the ground was abut
33 feet. No cry was heard from the boy.
These facts were deposed to by several witnesses'
The prisoner merely declared that he was quite,
innocent.—Sir R. BIRNIE said it was a very
mysterious business, and must be rigidly 1.11;
quired into.—The prisoner was committed i°
re-examination.

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Yesterday some malicious person stabbed
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ven horses in different parts of their bodies, in a field a bot
head of Burntsfield Links. None of the horses are dean,
they are so severely wounded as to be incapable of working'
(Edinburgh Edinbnrgh Courant, July 15.)

HOP INTELLIGENCE. • ig in
SOUTHWARK, JULY 15.—We have very
Hops, and if a sale can be made it is at considerable less IP
ney. Duty at 135,000/.
MAIDSTONE, JULY 15.—The late warm rains and - but
weather have much improved the growth of our hop bilie%ric-
the branching, generally, is very bad, and the bloom r,,e13381re
ably thin and no forwarder than it was this day wee"' 001 d,
have a great deal of short run bine, rather an increase of In
and no less vermin. little dou
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COAL-MARKET, JULY 17.
Ships at Market. Ships sold price. s 3cl
20:4; Newcastle - - 14 -31 s (id to CJs 9a
9 Sunderland - -33 s Od t°

BIRTHS.
Wednesday, at the Bishop's Palace, Waterford, the 1-1,510571
Robert Uniacke, Esq. of Woodhouse, county Waterforo,
daughter.
esterday, Mrs. Royes, Charter-house-square, of a
MARRIED. f iftsV
Yesterday morning, George Rowley, D.D., Master of
versity College, Oxford, to Juliana Elizabeth, youngest:-
ter of the late Rev. Thomas Ripley. itaCr
Tuesday, at St. George's Church, Hanover-square,. 1,,r
Robert Tichborne, Esq. fourth son of the late and hreiti'sl,
fi
the present Sir Henry Tichborne, Bart. of Tichborne OVA 1'
the county of Hants, to Rebecca, eldest daughter or 4-
Nunez, Esq. of Belmont Park,. in the same county.„....-
DIED. ront'-'5
On the 30th ijlt. in Donegal-street, Belfast, Ann, `ioiie pre's
of Annesley; She was born in 1732, and married to bold.:
sent Earl of Annesley 1770. She was then young and coal
fill, the only child of Robert Lambert, Esq. of Donladi,
Down, and heiress of 1,5001. a-year. 1-4/n_rti
On the 16th inst., Charlotte, wife of the Rev.
Vicar of Crosthwaite, Cumberland, and daughter of tSreio;a
Bishop of Carlisle. Her death was occasioned 11 bac.
cold water when very hot. Her husband and 12 Olu' ,
to deplore an irreparable loss. e o
and
son, the 14th inst., at Shenley-hill, Herts, at the lotlistb, ar-
son, Thomas Bradbury Winter, Esq., of Haminerstv
Kimberworth, Yorkshire. gentiiin,,hg;
On the 16th inst, at his house, Harleyford-Plaie, kr. Jy-
ton, after a long illness, borne with great fortituue,
105,
Busher in his 66th year. aBl
On the 10th inst., a Chelsea, of a decline, age •
a 0 a
the eldest son of Alexander Bruce, Esq. u gent, ort,
On the 14th inst., at Mrs. Newman's, A.). ri,veoo
lingering illness, Mr. Richard Chambers, latesp of
Lombard-street.
the 14.
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