The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-06 00:00:00

~ one . Jou, .en, the other seven yep nt
took leave of him. The parting from the Pare 00
agonising. To the eldest he gave his Waterica).
(which, with soldier-like pride, he had nita)%.oo,l
about his person), exclaiming, " Oh, Jolt vioos
that I had died at Waterloo ; you then never be
have been born to this disgrace, and I never 5
have committed this dreadful crime !" ti
The chaplain of the prison stated that
conduct since his condemnation has been
exemplary. The Rev. Gentleman has been
l° 01
cessant in his attentions upon the culprit,
,Whe a 0
fully alive to the awful situation in which
placed, and evinced the deepest contrition.
reicbel
On Sunday the condemned sermon was
AP
from a text selected from Ecclesiastes, x. 3"' sodalso the heart of the sons of men is full of
after:l;oo
madness is in the heart while they live, and nor
they go to the dead." A more suitable or solemncol
peal to the prisoners could not have been made'
the effect was discernible.
On Monday Fisher was visited by his brother;:rel
an old comrade, who had travelled one hundred n'
to see him. His old companion declared that
in the regiment with Fisher for twenty Yei.a2'dar
that he was a clean, well-behaved soldier, in re'
trious and sober habits—that he
ported for misconduct, and was servant to the oa'
officer when captain, major, and colonel.
At intervals during Monday night Fisheri to 110
soundly, and on Tuesday evening he retireute
cell early, in order, as he observed, to devei.o
whole of the time that nature would permit AP
was never once,,
prayer.
At an early hour this morning there W a
aS ictS
influx of strangers from the surrounding dia,'r-
witness the execution, which was appointed and
place at eleven o'clock. The culprit rose earLtioo
with great composure expressed his entire resigia—ocel
to his fate. The chaplain was early in attel3
and the unhappy man joined in prayer. moo"
Shortly before eleven the solemn with
of),
towards the scaffold; Fisher walked with a firm
and did not evince much dejection. On the•th dee'
again entered into the devotional exercises with
feeling.
; er Fer
The remainder is soon told—the execut-uni,ed Ot°
formed his office, and the murderer was latinc"not the
eternity. He appeared to die very B°Th'ip- A a
slightest convulsive struggle being perceptible'
hanging the usual time the body was cut d:ortasblf
buried within the precincts of the prison, cum
with the n 5
wit°
At least 5,000 people were assembled to
the execution.
eve?!
There is a circumstance connected with +hi for i
s
which, but for the high authority that vouches m cetr
accuracy, we should deem—in this, the nineteellircate.
tury—to be next to impossible. Several oPP persoP"
were made to the Governor of the prison by for per
afflicted with the king's-evil and rheumatism,
rubbed
mission for the hand of the dead man to be ofoor
over the parts effected, with the idea that tilations
be cured. It need hardly be said that the aPP
were refused.

TChanCr"/ PRIZE ESSAYS ON INSANITY.—The Lord _„„.oe
of Ireland has declared his intention to gi ten gle
yearly, during the next ten years, for the bestestito
connected with the treatment of mental digs' '5 gliw
selected alternately by the College of rhYsicif W r,
College of Surgeons of Ireland, and the Pr",b- e 50"
awarded by the Council of the College by who 0 to tile
ject was chosen. The first turn to belong
College of Physicians.—Thiblin Evening
Post• u pg ?
Capt. Ormsby, Captain Chambers, IV. Bee: ",1, fad
and family, Lenox Cunningham, Esq., Dr. Lanar'en'gel
.
Captain Willams and family, were among the Pass-boi'll'
that embarked at Blackwall yesterday morning °ll_, w.slii?
the General Steam Navigation ComPanY's stet
Soho, for Antwerp.

Cr
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BIRTHS.
On the 31st ult., at Regent-street, Mrs. Charles
a son. „f forly
On the 3d inst., the wife of Mr. H. R. Forrest' v ° f
terrace, Camberwell New-road, of a son. s9lc?
KnOanpttohne.gr3odvoi,nNsto,rftohlk, of
the lady of Henry Robinson ' o
a daughter. f Lieutena
On the 3d inst., at Woolwich the ladY e a' Congdon, R.M., of a son. ,
On the 3d inst., at Mount House Braintree" "'
F
Craig, of a son. ,
On the 4th irist., at Mount Ephraim, Tunbridge Well*
Mrs. Thomas Smith, of a son. f a s°ll.
On the 4th inst., at Maida Vale, Mrs. J. Murray' '3400
On the 4th inst., at Canons, Mtcham, the lady of -
Der
Delano Osborne, Esq., of a son.
On the sth inst., at Richmond-hill, the lady of j°l/11
nistoun, Esq., M.., of a son.

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MARRIED. by tije
On the 3d inst., at St. Geor e's, Hanover-squsre, cztlis
Nunnery,
John Russell, jun., RussellgMartyn Riccard, Escl'of the
Nunnery, South hlolton, to Marian, only daughter
late Richard Hameloieq., of Kennington. ' r
T. Cmnatelkieregh,
oinfstu.,papTetrhTehpaanrliessh-scthrueertc,h,ciEtydinofoltoontoolf:tbtao
Mary Ann, eldest daughter of Mr. Henry Dicks°ll' ° of
former place. watts+
On the 4th inst., at Marylebone Church, Vir• ii"..,.,- ob• t
Cirencester-place, to Anne Maria, widow of F. W. '-"s:- ter 6'
On the 21st ult., at the house of the British Mints _0 of
Naples, Captain Lord William Compton,
the Marquis of Northampton, to Eliza, daughter of Fear'
the 0.
Admiral the Hon. George Elliot. r.
On the 30th ult., at St. Margaret's, W tminster, x rJ
es ..c. viva
Robinson, of Paris, to Sophia, eldest daughter of xr•
Mogg., of Covent- garden, publisher. W'llisrn
On the 3d inst., at Aylesford Church, Frederick • 1 00
Etheredge, Esq., to Mary Nash, eldest daughter of Tile
Spong, Esq., of Mill-hill. paiste
On the 3d inst., at Old Widcombe Church, Tholuss'"ikerls,
Mansford, Esq., of Entry-hill, solicitor, to Ann. 'ewont
eldest surviving daughter of A. S. E L6u-
Symes, Sq.,
Royal Navy. PM'
R.N., second Vor
On the 3d inst., at Abbot's Langley Harts, Murray wi
son, Esq., of Highgate, to Elizabeth' daughter of thebot'.
Captain Milbourne Jackson, R.N., 'of Hill-side, Ab
Langley.
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DIE.
On the Ist inst., at Leami ngtonD
Campbell, youngest son of
Sir George Sitwell, Bart., of Renishaw, Chesterfield. oC
On the Ist inst., Emma, the wife of John Raphael, ,i„„.
Finsbury-circus.
On the 3d inst., at Shirley, Surrey, Frances Donis'
Ed
wife of the Rev. M. T Farrer, Vicar of Addington.
On the 24th ult., at. Brighton, Miss Frances Andrews-.
On the Ist inst., at Weymouth, W. IL Baker, Esq.* °f
monton, aged 62.
On the 3d inst., in Trafalgar-square, Mrs. Sasg.nos
Gl3 ¢N-
On the 4th inst., Edward Kellett Green, Esq., of Sou
ampton-row, Russell-square, aged 36.

London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOL'' 11Z
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Strand, Ins he Precinct of the Savoy, in the CA/411'
Middlesex, Friday, September 6, 1844.

EXECUTION OF FISHER FOR
MURDER.
TAUNTON SEPT. 4.—This wretched man nnae
t,
went the extreme penalty of the law this day, °Po'
new drop outside the walls of Wilton gaol, near
_le
town. It is scarcely necessary to remind our rev.
that Fisher was convicted at the late Somerset'
assizes of murderinc, his wife, at Weston-super_Lhtfol
in June last, and that the deed was one of
atrocity. It will be recollected that the night Peke
to the morning of the murder, Fisher and hPasion
had quarelled ahout some lodgers, on which nech, the
great warmth of temper was evinced by bn!
husband remarking that " She was asking for lt
he would give it to her by and bye." Deceased 0J
she would not sleep with the old rascal any more
is
retired to rest with the servant. After they we
or
bed Fisher went up stairs, thumped at the dantl,4,
ing, " I may as well kill her to-night as to-yee'rel•
for I am bent on doing it." At midnight the qiiva.risber
ling ceased, but at five o'clock in the morning Fie
had forced his way into the room, and with n oe
iron bar he struck deceased three violent blows
the head, and afterwards fetched a carving knife ol
another room, with which he nearly severed her bbould
from her body. He then said he knew he state
be hung for it, and gave orders for a policeman
sent for.
A aleil
The following short sketch of the wretche- ;or
life, given by himself to the gaoler, may Prove -Sr
resting. He was born at Wick, St. Lawrence' 10
mersetshire. He enlisted in the 7th na353.,ei1il
1811 ; joined his regiment in Dublin, accomPan'ol
to Spain, was present at the battles of Orthesool
Vittoria, and the other actions in which the retocli
was engaged until the peace, in 1814; was after"...h
at the battle of Waterloo, and continued in the t7;te
ment until the year 1826, a period of twenty' te
years, without a single blot or stain on his elect.'
as a man and a soldier. The colonel leaving "-iail4
giment, Fisher, having an opportunity of he; 10
his servant, left also, and lived nine months 0 bie
colonel. He married at Weston-super-blare, are, bind,
wife died in about four years; he afterwards 0,17,410
at Bristol, Mary Hyatt (the deceased), consineoef
be the widow of Thomas Hatt, a labourer. till
then resided at Blackwell. Some months aftel bit
marriage a quarrel took place, and the wife I.,e,"iftie
home. She returned with a man named 11°440
turned out to be her husband before Hyatt. 11,11,50
and demanded certain articles of furniture whie'`_,4 bet
had received with Mary Hyatt when lie marrieuart
This demand was refused by Fisher. Hill left that rtio,
of the country, and after a separation of two inettiot
Fisher consented to his wife's return. After ON nrocer
removals they settled at Weston-suer-Mare, _
pying the Devonshire Inn, where the murdettnote
perpetrated. At this place the quarrels beean3eof
frequent and violent. The woman on severalobef
sions packed up a quantity of things and left 701
entirely alone. Upon one occasion she Was s„egtes
for three months. About twelve months a'n;iiliee
left her home, taking with her a quantity
and other articles, also 201. in money. /is,",,e4sa
lowed her to Bath in company with a Ixnd the
found her, and ascertained that she had Plecle
money in a bank in Bristol, and had reee•ii, bet
cheque for it, which was found concealed I" one
stays. After this, Fisher advertised that 1130
should trust her as his wife, and that he strulig t°
be responsible for her acts. On her prorMs„"eive
amend her conduct Fisher again consented 0, receive
be
her into his house, but only for the quarrelsoteli
again renewed more frequently, which unforttl
terminated so tragically.
10n
Previous to his leaving Wells after his to
.wo sons, one ab, -t t'