The Sun.
London, England, 1823-11-10 00:00:00

NOVEL OUTRIDE IN A COURT OF .JUSTICE 7

At the Manchester 'SeSelotta, on Saturday sn'ene
night' three men, named SamilaShorc, David !higher:, and
Jolts Grattan, were 'charged efitlie-pieking the pocket of Mr.
Thomas Moss, of 'Dolton, eiiillreagainpf August last, in :that
town, of a packet-litioltanotteaceing one bank of England note
flir one pound, and two prornieeery..notes. The Jury ecquitted
Grattan, and found Rtighee and Shore guilty. The Chairman
(Thomas STARXIE, LSO asked of the oflicers preeeite;if they'
knew any thing of Shore and Hughes ? "James Banyan. one of
the town's beadles, said that they were both. very bad clutrac-
ters : Hughes, he observed, had had a brother that WAS, hung;
when Hughes, eating a ferodoue look at the officer, ex-
claiined—" what's that to do with the queetion ?" The Chair.
man then referred to the black book, and reminded the tao
prisoners of their various previous offences, and the sentences
which they had undergone; remarking, that lenity,, instead of
working a reformation, appeared only to inflame their passion
for crime. Under all the circumstances of the case, the Court
thought it an imperious duty whith they owed to the comtnu-
nity, to prevent. the passibility of a recurrence to their depre-
dation:a—The. ;sentence of the Court was,, that they and each
9f them he transported beyond seas, to such place as his Ma-
jatty, in his wisdom, eitall think fit, for the term of their natural
lives. At the conclusion of this sentence, the countenance of
the prisoner, Hughes, aleurned a direful and frenzied aepect:
with the fury of a tiger he fleW 'at the officer, 'Bettye, who urn
fortuntnely flood °raids right hand in the bar, and felled him,
with a tremendous blow, to the ground. 11crika scene of con-
fusion ensued, that beggars deecription, and few officers, at the
moment, being on the spote Bittye had nearly been murdered.
He lay in the dock in t. state of ineetteibillty, receiVldt tlieo
kick of the infatiete traneport3:—Officers leaped into the
dock, which was crowded with priinners, male
.and female.
and the battle grew hotter and hotter: The, two prisoners
fought like maniacs, reckless of consequences, and .appa-
rently, careless of life. The fearful screams of the.' female
prisoners, and the shouts of the men, rendered the placC like
rt den of hungry wolves. The Chairman sat in mute aetonish-
ment—the barristers briefly left their briefs to witness the
scene Of action,. and the whole Court wee one scene of dread-
ful uproar. At length the two men were secured and strongly
ironed. The Court was again opened, and the Chairman in-
dignantly animadverted upon the indecent outrage upon the
sacredness of a court of juetice. Had the prisoners, said he,
been convicted of it.capitahoffence;and he had been the judge,
he would have ordered them to immediate eieciitiOn as a
public example. 'i'he Magistrates, he continued, had pewee
to inflict summary punishment for offences of this nature, and
he thougle.t it could not be better applied 'titan upon the pee.
sent occasion. He then ordered the two men to be secured
ao as to prevent a recurrence of the outrage, and brought he.
tore him. They were shortly afterwards brought up, with
heavy chains about their lege, and their hands pindmetibehinel
there. They presented an undannted and ferocious front
their coutitenaneee .per king planers of desperate
The officer, ISattyet ordered to asand up,,,anA leetog.
worn, deposod Alli'ifidiet:3t persons hers
testimony to the ttuth of. the Officer's. statement, chair-
man then read to them the 4,2 a rtes. of the fAtlt cape bf 'me 4!1.1
of Geo. IV., which empowere the visiting
..iiitaticeS,,:int rthe re-
port of .ehe gaoler, to, order the -infliction of perAantll coven:.
stun for offences of"rliTe 'nature. Ott being asked what he had
to say in his defence, tho prisoner :add it was owing to the ire
citation. occasioned by the oeker's saying that his (the prison-
er's) brother had been htttig„ He thought I.3attye had no oc-
caeion to mention it—it had nothing to do wide the question ;
he had not inentioned'his biotli:er'i fate, he (the prisoner)
would notfieve :attack him. it innog preyed hy, Page tan of.
fleet) that Siore also !struck flanye, end Jaincld in. the aauy,
the Chairman !ordered them hudi to b taken forthwnh and
sbnencb, whipped. The tAlifOrfunate teen watt then taken, to
the terrace of a small tower of obserVation, feoin Which ra-
diate the yards of the bitilding itt whicits pill of the prisoners
are.cenflned. SAare YAW the fifat who received punishment.
The coentenantn: of tide man appeared, if- possible, more dee
tying and despe.rate 'than that of Hushes. His irons being
knocked off and his body stripped, he was pnaged with his
face to the wall.; in, which were fastened two tinge at a certain dis-
tance from each other ; his arms were ex:endA, and his wrists
'fastened to the rings. The pritenere in the apposite building
'were ordered to turn out, in, order to Whness the . execution of
the sentence. The officer appointed for the performance of this
unpleasant task wie erd.ered to do hh duty;' the firsts roke of
the cat 'was given---Shore undauntedly cried out strike fair."
For the first twenty lashes he disdained to cry,out ; at length,
however, hie back itecOrtring.of a livid ewer, he uttered the most
anguished crietnumil he received his 4fith lash, when the flogger
we. desired to &east. /slext came Eittglles, exhibiting. a • wan
tenance of indignant defiance and 'despair. lie Was pieced as
watt hfa partner in guilt. This man wan flogged by another
Officer, woo appeared better versed in the science of flegginan
than time other. The. 60th lash found itim still obdurate and
unyielding; when, finding, t'rom.his' mariner; that.no infliction
of bodily suffering would force him m cenftes the pain of his
punitilithent, and this work a salutary eine?. on the minds of the
prisoner's spectators, the officer was desired to'etop. His :thin
beirq put on for him by the, officers present, he walked down
the steps of the terrace inn) the yard with an assumption oe
carelessneee,.anti, meeting his previa-AO.v assuiged. brother, he
extended his hand to him, and asked him how he was.? " flow
many have you had,'' said he.—"..Four tiezen," replied ,4Sitore.
1" I have hart five," rejoined. Bughee."--( Manchester Gagattl.)

ATTEM'ItT TO NiTtritnEtt.—Ti;c. youniz wotriun
whom we stated in our last to have fired in the face of a grocer's
shopinan in the Borough, was brought el? v) Union. 3 aii ()xi
Saturilny ; but the triiin not being yet in a s.r.ete, to be rnoved, no
other evidence 'VMS adduced than that of Mr. SENTrNcZ,
grocer, who stated that the.ycong to #ri bAti r;:iat
he had declined all further addrcssvetti pri,o73ir onse,,
qucnce of having discovered that she itipt up a correspond.
once with a person Naiingharn: The prisoner whose name
Is Taylor, has,for Iclne lime worked at a hat manufactery at
.11erinondsay. The yutin, v..ny desperat,..ly
wrlunded.

Otr Thursday last, in tl)lel:,'htoTrtifh--.114,.....,,,, Dun. tu:., "Ile wife
of ,fond Wetherell flays, Cletk of t%c. Cruvon for the
City of Durham, and one of the Aldertnert ef resit or' a
sort. .
in George's Sguttie, Edinbir•sh, u l tip 27:11 of
I.l4ra..!(.4iptain Piadtenzie of a clzughter.
,At VVottb:l, on Thurhatti the Ifita ult. and t'ne hour of Cipt.
.
Pirry's (Contnandi= of tio N. W. Tsl.4peli.tlon) lanthng t4zu,
.141 a, 5C.411151T1, Wif.4 of eqt., .Jo.htam, of Aintweli ii eh
hind Ship, we d,,tlivdrod. of a fine Kirl, Flax natned Ann.
Parry 'T(0)1130114 in honour of naviir4". • •

M is VT. lEdO.
On the 30th ult., at *St. Oeere3 not, Mr. John nova, of
Great liermitage.gtrert, to Mary, 'eidtBt daygla(z of Joieph
So.undr..rri, Esq., of Hackney-1-mA. ,
On Slituri)oy, the fiatimtaa, T. A. Blactce lt, ozazst son yf
Mr. .119.1/P.:l fihtekett, of North Sun dAlland, to Eiiiabeth Ann,
giddlit daughter of the jaw mr, situpscn, cf .Ntilford, near
Salidwry.,

On Friday, the 7th ingt.,atigge. i-12 tk"' °:";1.4 Yeia (M:
aga, Montague Grover, Bag., ma ,7 yelri an activttMagiatrate
for the county. of Buelringfattri.
,Orl :114 mist.; at hia.father's wan la Q4,l.ollAane.atzlet,
Elizabeth,
wife of the ncv. W. "A, atuntiorid, rector of \Y:iit-
thurchlli rh4.2oth year of her age.
°" trle'7th Vallowley, Vilinchino:J-hAI,
aged 04. •
On Friday last, at httr P4nerai, 'l3 tl cis Ye4r
at'lVt' iget Mthe relict of George arter, ;art., .iate
St.,`Ptiacras, formerly of Beaufort-buildings.
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