The Sun.
London, England, 1817-09-08 00:00:00

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The Assi7.es at L-111.CANter are tif;t
it is the biacityst eqlemiar tliat e's=er ‘ra‘ k+), %"n4

().1 Seiti frffetyvv
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o m were ere execii;vil for Intii•ili4e.
Ooe. (tering Ii is Skveed)cart, ,11() was With

child by tito; and-the other for'pyisooitt4 two
chddreit or his vrit-e's by a jormer •lo,sbottd: Nu.t-
trrli, the -,forto-t.r,' mane, h 190. Cf)titessi,.ii .01 I►is
4.1111.; bar Schoteficld. the: b-itto.r, died w‘oltoiit
titakip2ryttni,* Nottajl was it►rich agitated ;; but
Z:zcliodero id died tvitlll4.rt-at coittpusore. :and
The chief oidetice ageiltst \total! %ra3
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John Kinswlt;s' (a prisoner,
~notyet tried, upon a charger!'
felony.) Th? prisoner was hri'e Iwo days before me. I was
L" ""' same yaxd. • 1.-b,t.,-1 heard nothing of- this murder. r
said nothing to hint, that it would be better to confess. I
think it right to. confess, but 1-said nothing-of that to him.—
He said he was charged with the murder of. Ann White, his
sweetheart. He said her father had murdered het himself.=-
" I Witi coming down from a neighbour's house, and saw ttte
father carrying her under his'arat : she said, " on
and her father flung her into the well. I went home ood treat:
to bed. Next morning my father told me she ..Vas deail."--•
Next morning he asked me to-go into the yard, mud ;Air,
" Jobs), I am very uneasy:" and said, that that night he Ins 4
e,nnie, from his companion's 'mike, Mid went to the back win-
dow anti rapped at is „and
.Ann White came out into the harps
fold : nobody (Amid bear her, her father and motber were too ter
ott to
,bear her: he liiiga)) to.say to her that some of his coinpa-
nions had said the child was not his; they had some words about:
it. She asked if be would not marry her. He told her he
had given money to one of his companions.to hare t he ask ings
portup 'riee bad then smut. words, -attd be bez.-1 her, suit
knocked her .kkown with some weapon which be did not know.
-He was in such a rs. a that his passion destroyed her. Hr.:
throttledlier till she was dead, and then took het up and fluteher into the well, that be might he, safe, pcopie„thinlii,,g that
she, had drowned herself. ~He went then home, rind went to
bed ; and Isis father came next morning and tad him site'was
dead-or drowned. and, wislieg him to gir to ;ice her : the pri-
soner said be was‘stupid, and did not gp ; if be had thej• would
not suspect him. told. this to the clergyman next day. I
told Mr. Higgin immediately of it,

On Monday (this day) the Pendleton murderers,,
Win. Holden, and the three Ashciofts, one Of a horn
is the father, the other the brother, and. the
youngest the son, are-to be executed. They were
tried on Friday, and after a trial of twelve hours
the Jury found them Guilty. The evidence writ
wholly circumstantial: They
.were tried for the
murder of a Mrs. Ramsden, and ilatinah Parting-
ton, the servants of Mr. Littlewood, of Pendle-
ton, near Manchester. It was proved that they-
got into the house between three and tour o'clock
in the afternoon of April *6th, and that after rob-
bing, it, and carrying away some plate, linen, and
a considerable quantity of batik notes !mil gold,
they murdered (as it is supposed) with a bincher's
cleaver and the hitt:hen poker the unfortunate do,
'nestles above-muted. A murder of this 'kind seems
unparallelel even in atrocity iiy ti,e well knowti
Cases of Willidinson and Marr. The robbery and
murder were committed in mid-day, in a poptilons
eiilage, and withinr wo miles of MAnchester. The
Jury found them Giiiity,,witluout even- retiring
from their box, and the Lord Chief Baron llicti7
mins instantly pronOunced They
loudly protested their innocence, and were taken
from the bar making clamorous appeids to Hea‘en.
Searcely‘'vas there ever known so pitch interest
takeU in a trial, or a more numerous crowd as—
sembled to hear it. The three Aslicrofts• are cre-
ditable looking meta, apparcut
,mach übuve this
ordinary conditioir..

On 'Saturday a Special Jury was appointed tit
try the BlanktieerS., as they were called, front►
Manchester. They were chat cd With convening'
t muultumis and riotous assembly, sorrier the
text for petitioning ; and For conspiring to insult
and .intimidate•-his Royal Highness the Plince
Regent in collecting large Multitudes of people
and conspiring tOrepair to London to pi es,ent pe-
titions. and. remonstrances, &C. to him. There
mere seven of these men indicted : three were de-
fended by Mr. WILLIANB, -and four by Mr. lIOLT.

When the trial was called on, Air. TorPING,,
the leaning C,unsel for the Crown, rose and said,
" That it was not his intention to offer any evi-,
dence against the. defendants. At the time the
charge was preferred, Manchester xvas much agi-
tated ; but traequillity now. prevailed throughout
;he county, and a new tone and condition of things-
had arisen. That his Majtsty's Government,
Therefore, never. desirous to prosvente. any of the
Ring's Subjects,_ but in cases where the ptiblic
justice demanded it, thanght it unnecessary to
press any thing against the defendants under the
present circumstances, and therefore he, 3.1 r.
Topping, should offer no evidence!' The cle,.
Pendants. were accordingly acquitted.
It is said that more than'fittfcauses yet remain,
to be tried; and a Writ of Right is to by tried on.
Tuesday.

It Henry Schoiefield, aged 35, charged with the
murder, by .poison, of Robert Sholfield and Mary
Ann Scholfield, at Rochdale, pleaded not guilty.
He was first tried for the murder of the girl. (The
particulars of this case have already, been fully de-
tailed in this Paper.) Mr—lN'tiL;Ams opened the
case. The prisoner was a weaver in Rochdale.
He lived with a woman who hadbeen preuionslv
married to a soldier who had not been heard of
for 9or 10 years. 13y tier lie had the two chili.
dren mentioned its the indicrinent. The soldier
returned, and his wife joined War. .15!i.ie after-
wards came back to the piisoner, and lived with
him when the ihurder was committed. On. Sun-
day. the 20!li of Apt il, he administered hole 17t irt
orrhi,e to the mother and the two children. One
of the children di:d 'on .Monity, the Other ott
Thnrsday following.

It seems the Public have not yet forgotten to
whom they are intlebtcti for the very moderate
Prices at which
.they cal) 0(1W make alb ii4ven•
lore in the Lottery, for the constant -crowds at •
;kir. SIVEWRIGHT'S Offices, who first made the rea.
&talon, dentons:tate that the Public coweitivr•
hiin entitled to a large portion of th6r Avours.
The present Lit le Lottery, of only 2900 Nlllll.
proves rirticularly attractive ; partly tram
the Prizes bcing all. Sterling Money, aunt partlf
front the pos•ibilhy of gaining ko large a Soto •
:is FtitvrY TnouskNo PouNns by One Number—.
ipcsotnetl, wiloe‘vr may ...el slue of
the Two 20,000 Prizes vi ill noi he diswistied, •
And this 11111 soon bk for the who's:
will be tI:44U iu Qat Day, iViat, irancs4444 '