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London, England, 1844-11-30 00:00:00

TEE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 30 1344.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Baron ALDERSON, &c.)
MITIIDER.—A?tied Edwards, aged twenty-four, de-
scribed in the calendar as an oilman, was indicted for the
wilful murder of Jane Gregory, " an unfortunate girl,"
by administering to her a certain poison.
Mr. Montague Chambers and Mr. Doane attended for
the prosecution ; Mr. Ballantine and Mr. Parry were
retained for the defence.
Mr. CHAMBERS stated the case to the jury, and then
called witnesses.
Mary Greene, 2, New-court, Nichol-street, Bethnal-
green, knew the deceased, who lived at No. 3, in the
same court. She was a woman of the town. The pri-
soner was in the habit of visiting Jane Gregory, at her
lodgings. I remember, on the night of the 19th Sep-
tember, seeing the prisoner with the deceased in her
room. Jane called me in, and I saw the prisoner
at the fire smoking his pipe, and the deceased
sitting by him. They were both sober. I
saw a quart pot on the table, with some beer
in it, and I was asked to take some by deceased and did
so. She also drank a little of it, but the prisoner did not.
There was also a long necked black bottle and a cup
upon the table. This was about eight o'clock at night,
and there was no light in the room. I could not see
whether there was anything in the bottle or the cup. I
asked what was in the bottle, and she said only some
cateup. She did not say where she got it. She did not
say where it came from before the prisoner. I went away
and came back a second time with a light. The bottle I
could then perceive was about half full of liquid. There
appeared to be seine in the teacup also of a dark
colour. She asked me to go out with her
when Alfred was gone. I said, if not too
long. I did go with her. I then went
away and put my bonnet and shawl on. I went to
the door and called Jane. Alfred was there then. In a
short time I went in. Jane was putting On her bonnet,
and he was sitting by•the fire. I said, "Jane, I can't go
with you, it's ten o'clock." The young man said, " No,
it's not so late." We went down stairs then, but first
the young man put the bottle in his pocket, and the cup
was put in the cupboard. We went as far as Cock-lane,
and there we parted. He said, " Good night, Jane,"
and she said, " Good night, Alfred," and he kissed and
shook hands with her. When he was running away she
• called after him, " Alfred, what time shall I see you to-
morrow." He said, "Stop till to-morrow cornea, and
tell you." The deceased and I then went round by
Hoxton, and to the Britannia, and while there she com-
plained of sickness. That was in about half an hour
after parting with Alfred. She appeared to spit a very
little like water. I left her when she went into the thea-
trical room at the Britannia, and I came home. It was
then about twenty minutes to eleven. I sew her again
next morning after ten o'clock.
Baron AeDerisoN—Did she complain of pain before
you left her that night ?
Witness—Yes ; she complained of pain in the stomach.
I saw her about a quarter after ten next morning. She
appeared to be dying. She spoke sensibly but low.
Her hands seemed spent and quite black. Her face was
as black as her hands. I took her hand ; it felt cold and
I could not open the fingers. She said lam dying. I
said, Jane what have you been drinking ? She replied
nothing but the brandy Alfred gave her. I saw Sarah
Russell in the room and sent her for deceased's brother.
The prisoner then came in and said to her " What's
the matter ?" She said "Alfred, Alfred, how bad I am.
lam dying." He said, "What hale you been drink-
ing?" She replied " Nothing, but the brandy
bitters you gave me last night." He coloured up very
much and said nothing. I left him then with
Charlotte Scott and the deceased. When I re-
turned, the prisoner was gone. The doctor came and
advised her to go to the hospital. On the Tuesday before
the prisoner and deceased had a few words. I was in
my own room, but when he was gone, she came down to
me crying.
Cross-examined by Mr. BALLANTINE—I knew the de-
ceased about nine months. She walked the streets. She
was admitted, without paying, into the Britannia, where
there was music and dancing, and liquors were sold. She
had the small-pox about three months before, but had
recovered about three weeks before. I did not see medi-
cine bottles about her room. I did see some quicksilver
on the mantel-piece, but I did not know what it was till
the policeman told me. I never knew of her having any
disease except the smallpox.
Sarah Ketteridge examined by Mr. CHAMBERS—I am
married, and on Thursday the 29th September, was at
Nichol-street, Bethnal-green. On that night, between
eleven and twelve, I met the deceased, Jane Gregory,
in Shoreditch. She complained a great deal and vomited,
but I could not see what it was. She was retching for
five minutes. She drank some cold water. When I
left her near home it was past one o'clock.
Some severe observations were here made by the
Learned Judge, and coincided in by Counsel, as to the
culpability of tradesmen in offering a premium to vice by
admitting unfortunate females free to public places of
entertainment.
Harriet Church—The deceased occupied a room in my
house. She was often visited by the prisoner. I heard
a noise in her room on the morning of Friday, the 20th, POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
and oft going in fund the deceased- very sick. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Charlotte Scott lived next door to Jane Gregory. I Yesterday, in consequence of it becoming known in this
went in on Friday, the 20th, at a little after ten. She district that, at an early hour that morning, the police
appeared in pain when the prisoner came in. had succeded in entering a common gaming-house in St.
By Baron ALDERSO:q—I think she was in pain, be- James's-street, and captured several of the gamblers, a
cause she was rolling about and groaning a great vast concourse of persons assembled in front of this
deal. The prisoner said, " Jane, what is the matter ?" Court to witness their being brought up. The Court
She sail Alfred, " I've been very bad since you gave me was also excessively crowded by parties desirous to hear
the brandy bitters." He said, "It couldn't be that ; the investigation.
I've drunk plenty of it in my time." I said, "Let me Mr. Clarkson and a solicitor appeared on behalf of
see you drink some of it yourself." He took the bottle the defendants.
out of the cupboard, and the cup from the table, and After the night charges had been disposed of, the
poured the latter about half full. Before he drank he defendants, fourteen in number, were placed at the bar,
took something out of the cup twice, and threw it on the in the following order, charged with having been foe" •
ground, and then drank some of it, and again spit it out, in a common gambling-house, without lawful excuse,
Ile then said he would come in the morning, and take viz., Charles Hunt, Charles Lilly, 'William Saunders,
the bottle somewhere. He was then going to put the John Lewis, John Nichols, Thomas Howard, James
bottle in his pocket, but afterwards put it in the cup- Shaw, Alexander Vincent, George Jones, Henry Jack-
board. I heard a girl named Caroline say, after he son William Johnson, George Jones, Thomas Wood,
drank it, " There's no harm in it, or he wou,o not have and George Fitzgerald.
drank it himself." He did not reply. I don't think lie Superintendent Hughes, of the B division, stated
heard it. The doctor was then sent for, and the prisoner that, in accordance with the orders of the Commissioners
left, saying ho would be back in a few minutes. He was of Police, he went this morning, between two and three
there altogethe-rtibOlit five or ten minutes. I remained o'clock, accompanied by Superintendent Beauford of the
the prisonerillsturned. . St. James's-street, and found the street door open ; a
Sarah Russell lived next door to deceased in Bethnal- second door, a glass one, was also open ; a third door
green. I saw her on the night of the 19th about twelve was covered with baize, and was fastened with a latch—
o clock. She appeared to me quite well. I was sent for it was forced open, and a fourth was reached ; it was a
next morning to go to her room. I went for the brother, very strong door, covered with green baize and thick
and on the way met the prisoner at the top of the street. :heet iron. It was attempted to be forced open for
He asked how is Jane ? I said I would go up, for I about five minutes, and then one of the defendants,
think she is elYing- He said, " Lord, then I'll go up." believed to be Vincent, came down stairs and said it
Caroline Watson—l was in her room when the pri- should be opened, if they would desist. It was
seiner was there. I heard her say something about opened, and was found to have been secured
" brandy bitters" having made her ill. He said, it can't with three strong bolts on the inside, and a thick iron bar
be that, for I've drank plenty of it in my time. I said, fixed in the centre of the door into the stone flooring.
then let ine•see you drink some of it. lie gave me a They proceeded into the front room on the first floor
black look, and then poured about a table spoonful into and there the whole of the defendants were found except-
the cup, and then drank it, hut spat as much into the ing Hunt. The defendant Lilly demanded what right
fireplace as he had poured into the cup. He then took the police had to forcibly enter a room where gentlemen
out his handkerchief, wiped his mouth, and went away. were assembled to play at billiards ? They were told
At the bottom of the stairs he spat again, they must all go to the station-house for being found in
• Baron ALDEasoN —lt is quite impossible that this wit- a common gambling house, and they were accordingly
• . ness can be correct to the letter, but it is just possible conveyed there, but were afterwards bailed eut.
1- she may be correct in substance'
Cross-examined by Mr. Clarkson—There were two
:• James Gregory, brother of' deceased, had seen the billiard-tables in the room. No implements of gambling
4.. 7 prisoner and his sister in company twice, some time in were found in the house.
r'' July or August. I was sent for on the morning of the Inspector Beresford stated, that as he was standing
• 20tH, and went for Dr. Smith. I saw a battle in the near the house just previous to the entry being made,
ee cupboard—the only bottle there of the contents of vshich William Johnson and another of the defendants, who
I tasted. I took the bottle away, and gave it to Mr. were standing at the door, recognised him, and directly
Wheelborn, the chemist, and I afterwards went with the ran in, and he instantly heard alibell ring, which was, no
police-sergeant to Leek for the prisoner. Found him deubt, to give the alarm that the police were at hand.
in a publie-honse in Cock-lane, Shoreditch, about fifty After the otherdefendants had been secured, he, ongoing
or eighty yards from the place at which my sister died. to the cellar stairs, found the defendant Hunt coming up
She was 17 years of age. I asked him what was the from the basement floor, and took him into custody. I
matter with my sister. He said he did not know—she The rooms were lighted up with gas, as gambling- J
had taken some brandy bitters. They say (meaning the houses generally are. There is a billiard-table menu-
girls in the room) that I have poisoned her, factory in the upper part of the house.
Cross-examined by Mr. BAL,I.ANTINE—The bottle Mr. Clarkson submitted that there was not a tittle of
now produced was more full when I left it at the evidence affecting his clients, and he should at once ask
chemist's than it is now. My sinter left her place about for their immediate discharge.
two years ago, and since that time I believe has been Mr. IlAaDwicK said perhaps there was no moral
living in this state,
doubt, but that it was a common gambling-house;
Sergeant Seeley—l took the prisoner into custody, did not think the evidence sufficient
to commit the de-
I said, ‘• It is a bad job—the girl's dead." He said, fondants for the offence they were charged with. The
" Good God ! what I gave her was brandy bitters." Act of Parliament was a very severe one, and legal
He also said that he himself had taken some of the proof beyond all doubt should ber brandy bitters. I have often drunk of it myself. put in force. p educed before it was
Henry Lambert, a constable, found a piece of paper on The defendants were thee set at liberty. Most of them
the mantelpiece of deceased's rooms, with a bit of quick- were very fashionably attired.
silver in it. On the evening of Friday went to the FELONY.—Wm. Popjoy was charged with having
house of prisoner's father, and searched the prisoner's stolen 150 yards of Orleans cloth from the premises of
bed-room, and in a drawer of the glass found a powder. Messrs. Garrard and Co., linendrapers, Leicester-
The prisoner's sister then showed me a cupboard in the i square.
• kitchen, in which I found a paper marked " sugar of 1 Charles Thomas, a porter in the. employ of Mr. Bray,
lead—poison." The paper was damp and mouldy, as if 1 ironmonger, Cranbourne•street,aid lie was Passing'
it had not been opened for a considerable time. In a through Leicester-square yesterday,s
when he saw the
i pece of
brown paper I found a white substance with no prisoner take up a parcel of goods which was standing
writing on it. It had no dust on it like the first paper. inside the doorway of the prosecutor's shop. Suspecting
I delivered these packages to Dr. Leesom. I was present that the prisoner had no authority to remove the pro-
in Shoreditch Church when the grave was opened con- I perty, he went into the shop, and on mentioning what he
taining the body of deceased. had seen, was informed that the prisonerha d
ueoumemd,i andtted
immediately Cross-examined by Mr. BALLANTINE—The powder a robbery. The prisoner was pursued, found in the cupboard was along with bottles of the property was found in his possession.
pickles, &c.
Mr. Garrard identified the property.
Thomas Edwards, father of the prisoner—The cup- The prisoner, who is a very young man, appeared so
board was used by the prisoner for keeping pickles, and much affected while making his defence, as to induce a
, he had always the key in his possession. I have had a belief that his story was not untrue. He said he was a
bad leg to which I have been in the habit of applying an I sailor, and had been paid off about a month ago from the
ointment made from red or white precipitate. Childers, vessel of war, and then he had 100/. in his pos-
Henry Smith proved that he drank some brandy session. Having spent all but 25/. he came to London
. bittersgiven him by the prisoner, and he felt no ill effects by the train on Wednesday last with that sum in his
from what he drank. pocket. Being a stranger in London he was unfor-
, Thomas Windmill, gave similar evidence. The pri- i tunately persuaded by a loose woman to accompany her
soner said that the brandy bitters were very old, and had home. In the mornn he found hi stripped of
era been in his father's house for above two years. It had every farthing of hiss m g oney, and all hismself stock of linen,
, been left by an old lady, who had died Oiere offered except what he then had on. Feeling himself quite
the bottle and contents for
six shillings'. He was per- reckless he thought the best course for him to take would
• fectl i in • Y ser ousleis offer. The brandy bitters produced be to do something that would ensure his being trans-
-21;• no inconvenience.
ported, and it was with this view that he had laid hold of
se.s Smith, surgeon and assistant to Mr Wheelborn of the first thing within his reach.
Shoreditch—l visited the deceased, and ft,. und her in bed The
:n.dbintermittant
suffering from pains in the stomle.e.t prisoner was fully committed.
?n• ,
pulse. The skin was very dark. CL ERKEN WEL L.
table, and poured some of the content. intootatle on the Four boys, varying in ages from fourteen to eight
and strong.Cl3 Invent :,ears, were charged
dus,vvrtahsreriiirgisothneergase.
tasted it. It felt pungently bitter with what is commonly termed
home to prepare medicines, but she had died inottthi:
were" observed lurking about shop win-
.. meanwhile. The brother afterwards gave mo the b
Gray's Inn-lane, and at length one of them,

Baron ALDARSON said that in his opinion the case
was decided, when the fact of others drinking the same
liquid, without sustaining any injury, was shown to
the Court. The unfortunate girls vicious 1* had no
doubt accelerated a crisis which was certain, in every
case, at no very distant day.

NEW COURT
The Court commenced business this morning by tak-
ing those cases upon the calendar which were connected
with uttering base coin, and other offences against her
Majesty's Mint, of which there was an unusually large
number.
The following are the names of those who stool in-
dicted :—T. TVilson, S. Wilson, Ellen Daly, Martha
Daly, George Shea, and William Payne.
The facts elicited in each case by the evidence were
of the ordinary nature developed in cases of smashing.
In the case of T. Wilson the circumstances were more
aggravated than those of his fellow-prisoners, having at-
tempted to pass for a half-sovereign a good sixpence,
which he had gilt over in such a manner as to render a
detection of the fraud almost impossible, except to thQ
most experienced eye. Ile had also violently assaulted
the prosecutor and the police when endeavouring to take
him into custody.
Mr. Ellis appeared for the prosecution, and all the
prisoners were undefended.
The jury having returned a verdict of Guilty against
all the prisoners excepting Ellen Daly and Martha Daly,
The Learned CoSISIoN SERGEANT, in passing sentence,
said he was sorry to perceive the progress which "smash-
ing" was latterly making. The most dangerous mode
adopted by the present " smashers," who began first
with copper, then with silver, and ended with gold, was
that of passing gilt sixpences for sovereigns, and he hoped
those whose province it was to put the public on their
guard would make this system of fraud generally known.
The COURT then sentenced T. Wilson to 18 months'
imprisonment, with hard labour; and each of the other
convicted prisoners to nine months' imprisonment, with
hard labour.

At the termination of these trials (twelve o'clock) the
Grand Jury entered the Court, and having informed the
Learned Judge that they had disposed of all the bills
before them, he returned them thanks fur their atten-
tion and expedition, after which they were discharged.
A well-dressed and gentlemanly young man was placed
at the bar, upon an indictment charging him with steal-
ing various articles, the property of John West.
It appeared that the prisoner had taken furnished
lodgings from the prosecutor, from which ho absconded
in two days after, taking with ;him several articles of
wearing apparel, the property of the prosecutor and
other lodgers.
Several other cases of a similar nature having been
established against the prisoner, the jury returned a ver-
dict of Guilty, and the Court sentenced him to 12 months'
imprisonment, with hard labour.
THE LATE EXTENSIVE SWINDLING CASES.—Samuel
Edge, who was tried yesterday in this Court upon seve-
ral indictments charging him with swindling a vast num-
ber of tradesmen, in conjunction with three persons
named Henry Miller, Sarah Denver, and Charlotte Edge,
the former of whom was sentenced to transportation, was
again placed at the bar this morning, to receive judgment.
The COMMON SERGEANT, in passing sentence, said he
had consulted the several Judges sitting at the Central
Criminal Court, and neither he nor they, after a careful
perusal of the evidence, could entertain a doubt but he
was one of a most daring gang of swindlers, who lived
by plundering honest tradesmen. However, as he was
not proved to have been so deeply involved as the other
prisoners, the Coart would show him more mercy, and
only sentence him to 18 months' imprisonment in the
House of Correction, with hard labour.

which I gave to Dr. Leeson]. I made a postmortem exa-
mination of the body, and the stomach was inflamed with
small red spots, particularly at the lower extremity.
When the body was afterwards exhumed, I took the
kidneys and liver out, and gave them, with the stomach,
to Dr. Loesom.
George Roper, student of Guy's Hospital—Received
two bottles and the stomach, which I sealed up and gave
to a boy to deliver to Dr. Leesom, of St. Thomas's
Hospital.

The delivery of the package and bottles to Dr. Leesom
was proved.
Dr. Smith recalled, and examined by Mr. BALLAN-
TINE—The kidneys were not discoloured.
By Mr. CHAMBERS—The gums were not discoloured.
Dr. Leesom, Physician of St. Thomas's Hospital, and
Lecturer on Chemistry, declared the general effects of
poison on the system as a contracted position, great sen-
sation of thirst, rigidity of the limbs, &c., and accom-
panied by great pain. These sensations could be pro-
duced by a lead poison, in most of its preparations. In
the present case he observed the stomach in an inflamed
state at the upper extremity, and a trifling infiamation
at the lower part. The coats of the stomach were
partially congested, which was not usual with that
particular poison. On analysing the stomach, he
found a portion of lead therein, weighing 1 gr.
and 1 dwt. The quantity of water used in
boiling was somewhere about two gallons, which would
dissolve a still greater quantity of lead than that remain-
ing after the analysis. On testing the contents of the
bottle in deceased's room, I found it to contain ab•
solute alcohol, in the proportion of two to one. It con-
tained no metallic compound whatever. There was a
sediment at the bottom, which contained chalk, and on
applying the tests for mercury and lead, found neither in
any quantity sufficient to weigh them.
The Learned Jupos) thought the case need not go any
further, and, on Mr. Clarkson's assent to the opinion,
the jury, without hesitation, returned a verdict of Not
Guilty.
The unfortunate prisoner burst into tears, and for
some time was apparently insensible to what was passing
around him.

Downey, seemed to be struck with admiration at a piece
of machinery in the window of an optical instrument
milker. He called his companions to admire the article,
and whilst they were screening him, he was cutting
away the glass, and succeeded in removing a large
piece ; the alarm was just then given, and they were
secured. They were well stowed with hosiery and hard-
ware, which bore the shop marks, and even with pieces
of beef and pork.
Downey, who looked as broad as a Dutchman, on ex-
amination turned out to have four coats on him.
The prisoners, who are all well known to the police as
a portion of a gang who are the terror of the shop-
keepers of Clerkenwell, were sentened each to a month's
imprisonment. -

UNION-HALL.
On Thursday Miss Elizabeth Forbes, of Camden-villa,
Peckham, was summoned for refusing to deliver up the
possession of a casket of jewels and some articles of
household furniture, the property of Mr. W. C. Richards,
of Langton-place. Vassall-road, Camberwell.
The complainant stated that a short time since he was
in partnership with Mr. Forbes, at which period he was
paying hie addresses to his daughter, and they were to
have been married, the banes having been put up for
that purpose. In August last the complainant, having
occasion to leave town for Paris, gave Mrs. Forbes 181.,
to purchase some furniture for the house intended for
his bride, and while in Paris his mother gave him a casket
of jewels to present to his wife on his wedding day. On
his return from Paris he found the furniture had been
bought agreeably to his wishes, and having exhibited
the jewels to Miss Forbes she was much pleased with
their brilliancy, and requested him to let her have them
to show to a young lady, her cousin. Complainant could
not refuse so reasonable a request, but circumstances
having since occurred to break off the match between
them, he of course applied for the restitution of the jewels
and also the furniture, but he met with a refusal, and was
therefore compelled to have recourse to the present pro-
ceedings
to compel her to deliver up his property.
The defendant's sol;eitor said that the jewels and
also the money for the 'urniture were the spontaneous
gift of the complainant ) his client, and he therefore did
not see that it was compulsory on her part to deliver up
the possession, although the match was broken off be-
tween the parties. The solicitor then proceeded to cross-
examiae the complainant with a view to show that the
casket of jewels was given to him by his mother for the
express purpose of presenting to Miss Elizabeth Forbes,
and that with respect to the articles of furniture he had
also made the young lady a present of 181.
The complainant, however, said in answer that his
mother, who resided in the French capital, was not even
acquainted with Miss Forbes, and that what she said on
giving him the casket of jewels was, " These jewels are
family relics, and I give them to you to present to your
wife on your wedding day." Now he could positively
swear he had not given the defendant the jewels, but
nierely lent them to show her cousin, and that he ex-
pected she would have restored them afterwards. He
admitted that had they been married he would have
given them to her.
The defendant, however, contradicted the statement,
and declared that they were given to her as a gift, and
as she was not the cause of the breaking off of the
intended nuptial ceremony, she did not see what right
the complainant had now to demand a restoration of them.
After a great deal of discussion pro and con.,
Mr. COTTINGHAM, addressing the young lady's friends,
who were present, advised them, at all events, to deliver
up to the complainant the articles of furniture named in
the summons, and that, with respect to the casket of
jewels, the possession of them might be retained by her
until the complainant's mother was written to on the sub-
ject, to ascertain whether they were given to her son
fur the purpose of presenting to the young lady, to
whom he was paying his addresses at the time. The
summons was therefore ordered to stand open until that
information was obtained, and the parties left the court.
THAMES POLICE.
Captain Hew Burn, the master of the ship Himalaya,
in the South West India Dock, was brought before Mr.
Ballantine, charged under the 3d and 6th William IV.,
c. 19, sec. 45, commonly called Sir James Graham's Act,
with having " wilfully and wrongfully abandoned" a sea-
man named George Robert Rowe, one of his crew, at
Port Nelson, New Zealand.
Mr. Biegood, solicitor, of Carey-street, stated the case
on the part of the father and friends of the seaman, who,
he said, were highly respectable, and sought redress for
one of the most grievous injuries that could be inflicted.
The seaman, Rowe, contrary to the advice of his father,
who was in a situation to maintain him in comfort. joined
the ship in August, 1843, and she sailed on the 25th of
that month on a voyage to New Zealand and other places,
and was to recive 21. 10s. per month, his name being
entered on the articles. The ship had recently re-
turned without the young man, and on application to
the captain respecting him, he gave no satisfactory rea-
sons for his abandonment, and was unable to produce
any certificate of the functionaries at Nelson that the
seaman had disappeared or deserted, and could not be
brought back, which he was bound to obtain by the
42d section of the Act. The 42d section declared that,
with the exception of entering into his Majesty's naval
service, "no person of the crew shall be discharged,
either with or without his consent, at any place
abroad, unless with the sanction of a public func-
tionary, where such functionary can be found." If it
was proposed to discharge any of the crew at any of her
Majesty's colonies or plantations, the master was bound
to obtain " the previous sanction in writing of the go-
vernor, lieutenant-governor, secretary, or other officer,
appoi cued by the Government there." There were other
claus, ts in the Act for the protection of seamen, and to
guard. against their being abandoned during a ♦oyage at
the c aprice of the commander, while the clause impos-
ing a punishment of fine and imprisonment, the 45th,
recited that " great mischiefs have arisen from masters
of mer chant ships leaving seamen in foreign parts, who
have been thus reduced to distress, and thereby tempted
to boa( Tee pirates, and otherwise misconduct themselves."
The youth wrongfully left behind at Nelson might, at
this ti,rne, be suffering all the horrors of starvation, or,
perhap a, he was no more, and he called upon the Magis-
trate 14) put the law in force and send the case to the
sessioe s.

Mr. BALLANTINE said the defendant ought to have
sent a boat for the youth, and that he had violated the
Act or Parliament. lie ordered him to :find bail, him-
self in SOL, and two sureties in 401. each, to answer the
charge :at the sessions.
CRU. VETT TO A SEA APPRENTICE.—On Thursday
Capt. 4-claer Whaley Owen, the master of the ship Fairy
Queen, appeared before Mr. Ballantine, to answer a
charge .af assaulting Edwin Davis, an apprentice, on the
high seam, in a very brutal manner.
The c omplainant, a well-behaved and intelligent lad,
stated, tLtat on the 22d of June last he was ordered to
wash the carpenter's shirts, and when he had done so
the capts.in said they were not washed clean enough.
He made answer that he had not shipped as an appren-
tice to wash shirts ; on which the captain ordered him
on the poop, and rope's-ended him across his back and
ahouldees until the Wood came. Ile had nothing on but
his flanreel shirt and his blue shirt at the time, and his
back we's sore far four or five days afterwards. He was
repeatetily flogged before and after that ; and upon the
12th of July he cut some lanyards from the rowlocks of
the gig in mistake, and the chief mate was ordered to
flog him, and he was flogged with a nine-thread rope in
a most unmerciful manner.
James cobblestone, a seaman on board the Fairy
Queen, asi'd he had been at sea fourteen years, and never
saw so rawth rope's-ending in his life as on board the
Fairy Queen. He saw Davis unmercifully flogged by
tbe capt ain and mate. The poor boy rolled about while
the mat e was flogging him, and ho " paid " him as hard
as he w i.e able. The weals and bruises were as thick as
his thui tab, and were fore and aft, and athwart his breast
and his back. lie took upon himself to remonstrate
with the. -captain, and say it was improper usage for the
boy, and that he ought to obtain redress for the ill. usage,
on which the captain said he knew who he had got to
deal with., and reported that Mr. Ballantine, the Thames
police magistrate, was a particular friend of his.
Mr. BALLANTINE—I shall send you before a jury.
You will find bail, yourself in 40L, and two sureties of
201. each., to answer the charge at the sessions.

CORONERS' INQUESTS.
THE ',ATV FATAL OCCURRENCE AT A MASQUERADE
—On Thursday Mr. Payne, the City coroner, and a most
respectable jury, assembled in the pupils' lecture-room
of St. Thmaas's hospital, to investigate the cause of
death of Mr. William Henry Slade, aged 23, the unfor-
tunate gentleman who lost his life in consequence of
injuries received at a masquerade, at the Montpelier
Tavern, Walworth, on the night of Monday last.
Mr. Woollen, solicitor, of Bucklersbury, in whose
establishm eat deceased was, attended to watch the pro-
ceedings ois the part of his friends.
Rebecca Gatland was first sworn. She said she re-
sided at 24, Trafalgar-street, Walworth, and knew de-
ceased, whom she met on Monday night, or rather on
Tuesday morning, about one o'clock, walking in the
grounds of the Montpelier Tavern, Walworth. About
ten miontes after she saw him he left her, and she then
sa him ascending the stairs which lead to the ball-
room. Those stairs were outside the building, erected
in the ground, and were composed of wood. There was
a matt named Passmore at the top, thrusting people
down by the shoulders as fast as they came up. Wit-
ness was thrust down by him, and as he was doing so
she heard a crashing noise, and exclaimed, " My God,
man I the bannisters are breaking." She got down as
fast as she could, and then saw Mr. Slade with one foot
on the top landing, and the other on the top stair.
In ins instant after she saw two or three of the balus-
trades of the gallery fall from the top landing, and im-
mediately some more, and then the body of deceased fell.
Ellen Gatlin, of Cottage-place, East-street, Walworth,
stated that she was standing by the side of deceased on
the landing of the staircase at the time of the occur-
rence. There was a great rush of persons into the ball-
room, but the only one admitted was a tall man in full
masquerade costume, and the man in custody was push-
in,; the people down stairs. When the man in costume
nt in, the man in custody went in also. a minute
after some man put his and through the door, which
was half open, and shoved the people back. The landing
was full when this took place, and the pressure of the
people caused the railing to give way, and then deceased
and another gentleman fell to the ground. She after-
wards saw the man in custody on the ground, and heard
a man charge him with being the cause of the occur-
rence, to which he made no answer. She did not think
the deceased was sober at the time. In her opinion the
bannister was broken by the pressure of the people
against it, when the man from the door pushed them.
Mr. William Mundy, of No. 53, Bow-lane, Cheapside,
printer, deposed that he acted as check-taker at the
Montpelier Tavern on Monday night last. At the time
of the occurrence there were about eight persons on the
landing struggling to get in. That was as many as the
landing would hold. The door was pushed open, by
those outside, and then violently closed. The bannisters
as well as the rails were gone about ten minutes before
the occurrence. There were several persons inside when
the door was forced back, and the pressure caused the

deceased, and the other gentleman, Mr. King, to fall
Over.

The CORONER, at considerable length, summed up,
and, after some deliberation, the jury returned a verdict
f Accidental Death, expressing regret that there being
nothing moving to the cause of death, they could not
return a deocland.
The inquiry lasted upwards of three hours.
SurcrnE !mom POISON.—On Thursday afternoon, Mr.
Baker, the Coroner, held a most lengthened inquiry at
the Green Gate, Hackney-road, touching the death of
Mrs. Louisa Wiuterborn, aged 40, the wife of Mr. John
Winterborn, surgeon in the above road, who died from
the effect of poison, under the following circumstances:—
Mary Ann Irons stated that she had been servant to
the deceased for the last year and a half, who appeared
to live very happily with her husband. Her mind for
the last six months had been rather desponding, as she
thought, through losing her mother. On Monday
morning the deceased got up about half-past seven ;
and on witness coming down stairs she found her sick
in the yard. Deceased kept retching very much dur-
ing the morning, refused to have any dinner, and in
the course of the afternoon laid down on two pilkws
in the sitting-room. Deceased still continued retch-
ing, and about eight o'clock in the evening Mr.
Winterborn informed her that he feared his wife
had taken poison, and requested her to take a note to
Mr. West, a neighbouring surgeon, calling in his aid.
The errand-boy was also forwarded to a Mr. Hale, sur-
geon, in Paul-street, Finsbury, requesting his immediate
services. Mr. Hale arrived first, shortly before ten
o'clock. Mr. West came after ten. The deceased died
at four o'clock on the following morning.
Mr. Hale, surgeon, of Paul-street, Finsbury, was then
sworn, and stated that he visited the deceased at about
half-past nine o'clock on Monday evening, after b.--ing
requested to do so by Mr. Winterborn, who informed n
him that she had taken poison, and that he had admi-
nistered to her some lime-water as an antidote. Witness asked him how he knew she had taken poison, and he 61'
remarked that she had confessed to him that she had
taken arsenic. Witness then inquired of her how much
she had taken, and she replied about as much as would
corer a sixpence. He then asked her where she got it
from, and she answered from an old dirty bottle in the 321'
surgery. He then showed her a bottle which contained ,
small particles of the poison in question, and which she
said was the one she got it from.
By the CORONER—He was certain that she had stated 1.
that she had taken it.
The CORONER, after some unimportant discussion,
commented upon the melancholy facts of the case, and
the jury, after a brief deliberation, returned a verdict, 4
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" That the deceased had destroyed herself by poisoning, 4 p
whilst in an unsound state of mind." . 1
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ANOTHER ACCIDENT ON THE tapper,
MIDLAND RAILWAY. 4 per
Last night, another accident, which might have been tiler
attended with most serious consequences, occurred on
this railway. We have had many of the passengers at
our establishment just as we were going to press, and .% Pei
from them we learn that the London train, which should
reach Derby at ten minutes past five, had arrived at the I
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place where a short line of railway is in progress of per
formation, connecting the North with the London line i
by a nearer cut, about a quarter of a mile from the Derby
station, and were proceeding at a slow pace, when, from Se•rl
the points not being properly laid, the train got on the 6 per
new embankment. At present, we are informed C per
that there is not more than twenty yards of rails ag'll
5
laid down on the new line, so that when the train got
g 4
to the end, it was stopped by the gravel, which II
luckily lay a considerable depth. The engine was buried
in the earth-work, and several of the carriages were per c
much broken by the sudden shock, but we do not hear I, 3°'
of any one being injured, further than the fright they qt
sustained. Had the train been going at the usual speed, per
the loss of life must have been dreieFul. 13 per
per
The passengers who have made it a point of duty to E 44
call at our office, justly complain of this gross and scan- 28.
dalous neglect. How many more lives are to be sacrificed 1)79
on this line, where the Hudsonian principle of economy 12 ih
has been worked to such niceties.—Derby Reporter of 11.
yesterday.

DREADFUL CASE OF STABBING 51Per
A LIVERPOOL CAPTAIN ON THE HIGH al:rr
SEAS.
On Wednesday considerable sensation was created Ili
here (Liverpool) by a rumour that Captain Launcelot 5 per
Reed, the commander of the Sir Charles Napier, of St. f3i
Stephen's, had been maliciously and dangerously stabbed 5/,
by one of his crew on the high seas. W regret to state lON F.
that the rumour turned out to be correct. It appears
that the Sir Charles Napier, a fine ship of 714 tons, new
measurement, left St. Stephen's fur Liverpool on the Filer
25th of last month, with a cargo of deals consigned to per-
tlie firm of David Cannon, Son, and Co., of South Castle- 6 5 per
street, in this town. Upon the morning of the 16th :Per
instant she was overtaken by a squall in lon. 26 W. The Per
captain immediately ordered the men to take in sail, but per
perceiving that one of the crew, Samuel Brown, was
much more tardy in his movements than the urgency ~Pee;
of the case demanded, he gave the fellow a push, with 6 per
a view of making him execute his work with greater ra- 117 e;
pidity. Brown instantly made a plunge at the captain e
with something he held in his hand, which could not be IP
distinguished in the grey of the morning, but which af-
terwards turned out to be a sheath-knife, one of those
dangerous instruments in such common use among sea-
faring men. The captain gave him a blow in return,
which threw him back against the long-boat, and then
seized hold of him for the purpose of taking him aft and
putting him in confinement. Whilst he was in the act
of removing him, Brown several times endeavoured to
stab him with the knife, but, fortunately, none of the
stabs took effect. When, however, the captain bad suc-
ceeded in getting him as far as the mainmast, the fellow
gave him a dreadful stab in the abdomen. The captain
seems at this moment, and not before, to have been con-
scious of the deadly instrument with which he was as-
sailed, and of the imminent danger he was running by
putting himself within arm's length of such a scoundrel,
for he called out to the mate that he was murdered. The
mate and several of the hands ran to his assistance; and,
about this period, Mr. Porter, jun., the supercargo, and
son of the owner of the vessel, Mr. William Porter, of
St. Stephen's, ran on deck and saw them removing the
captain into the cabin. Mr. Porter had the captain's
clothes immediately taken off, and then discovered that
a great portion of his bowels were protruding through
the wound in the abdomen. The wound was then in-
cised, the bowels were put back, and the wound was
sewed up and dressed. It was then found that the cap-
tain had received two other stabs a little below the left 2/..
shoulder-blade, and that there were no fewer than IL
eleven cuts made with the knife in the pea jacket he per
was wearing at the time the murderous assault was com-
mitted. Those cuts had evidently been given whilst he 19. ~
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was conveying Brown aft, and when so many ineffectual ;,' pc„.
attempts were made by the fellow to plunge the knife in
ty4 pc
some part of his body. Since then, the captain lay in !I:T•
such a state as to be incapable of being removed from OLP
the cabin floor, and has been suffering the most excru-
elating torture. Brown was placed in irons on the Per
instant, and kept closely confined in the store-room.
The ship arrived in the Mersey about half-past eleven „, Pe
o'clock yesterday, and upon casting anchor in the river LE.
off the Clarence Dock, the captain was conveyed ashore
in a steamboat, and has been placed under medical
care. Brown was taken into custody by constable foe;
Greaves, and lodged in Bridewell. He will, in all pro-
bability, be brought before Mr. Rushton to--day, and
ordered to be remanded until such ,time as the captain 364 d
may be able to appear against him, if that period shall w 1,17;
ever arrive, which, under the dangerous circumstances "i
of his case, is extremely doubtful. The captain is a
married man, only twenty-n;ne years of age, and be-
longs to Liverpool. His sister formerly kept a public- It.
house here, known by the name of the Lighthouse. It
Brown is twenty-four years of age, and shipped from
St. John's, New Brunswick. It was reported he was an
American, but we understand that this is not the case, 15Pei:
and that he is a British subject.—Gore's Advertiser of Pe
yesterday.

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ITAYLE RAILWAY COMPANY.—Yesterday the ad-
journed half-yearly meeting of this Company was held
at the Office of the Company in New Broad-street,
at which A. L. Gower, Esq., presided. The secretary
IN ad the report of the Directors, from which it appeared
that the business of the railway was proceeding in a very
satisfactory manner. The income was not only sufficient
to pay the interest of borrowed capital, but left a small
surplus. Great benefit was expected to arise to this
Company from the establishment of the West Cornwall
Railway. The Directors, under this impression, had
matured an agreement between this Company and the
West Cornwall Railway Committee, subject to the ap-
proval of the meeting. The solicitor to the Ilayle Rail-
way Company read the draft agreement, from which it
appeared that this Company was to guaranree a sum of
four per cent. per annum to the other Company, by way
of a lease of the West Cornwall Railway, the cost of
which was estimated at 180,0001 Mr. L. Vigers entered
at some length into the great advantages which would
accrue to the Ilayle Railway Proprietors by this agree-
ment, by which they would have a large surplus to be
divided, after the payment of the four per cent. to the
other Company—the estimated revenue being about
60,0001. After some discussion, the report of the Di
rectors and the draft agreement was received and adopted.
Three Directors were then elected, when a vote c,f
thanks was passed to the Chairman, and the meeting
adjourned.

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