The Sun.
London, England, 1816-08-20 00:00:00

been tonna draoniethat miirning in the

the maid-servant.
David Draper the younger continued this tes-
timony. . -
.tllr. Philip Eldridge, being sworn, said,
lie is
Molt to Mr. Brailsford, lit ewer, at Enfield; that
about eleven o'clock on Thursday forenoon, the
Bth inst. he called at the Bald-faced Stag, listifield
'-Chtmee, collecting,money ; lie saw Mrs. Tuck, and
went into the parlour with her, and asked her for
sonic money ;. she said be was come before his
.time, and that she was not provided for him ;- on
which
.sbe fetched the hook, and it appeared that
he had called three or lour dayl before his time :
witness was going further, and-he called again on
his return, Elbow tour o'clock time same afternoon ;
be saw Mrs. Tuck; and requested she' would scud
witness sonic money by eight o'chick next morn-
having a sum to make up ; she said that lie
migledepend op having it. About eleven o'clock
t he next morning Tuck's boy came over on horse-
back with the money ; witness was not in the
"counting-house, but the prisoner's. boy paid .the
money to a lad named Charles Smith, who was in
the counting-house, who endorsed 10s name on
the back of each note, and afterwards paid them
over to the'witnes4; the whole were 18 one-
pound notes, and two pounds in silver : the note
now produced, and identified by Mr. Reynolds as
one he' the deceased on the preceding day,
'w:44 one of these 18 mates.
Charles Smith confirmed this teStimOriy; as to
the receipt and endotsentent of the 18 notes.
CaSia Street, being sworn, said, her husband is
a labourer, and lis.es in Eitti‘id : on a Wednesthy
morning about n month ago, the docasi:.l at
her house for 11..45. 40, the limonite of an
execution for a deht and costs doe to a Mr . llroW.ti :
she after Wards went to his house, where illeyaitt
IL note, 45. in siletr, and in'hailpence.
Witness kno.ys the note now iirOrioctd to be the
sonic nit i She paid him; it had the:nil:Mir a Cal-
loway, llorvin, and Hie vi heal on
the back : she knows it to be the same note, be-
cause she reattarked-hiM to tooke a blonder in writ-
ing his itauleou lime back. \Vitncss described the
words on the beck of„the note to the witness Mr.
David Draper, sen..hcfore she saw the note'! 'she.
had not the note, long in-her possession, and did
not see it since but onee. This is the
,receipt the
deciaSed gate when he was paid the Money—it is
dated July 10, and the deceased remarked as it was
ft 110.111 00:e he, Wplllti keep'it by hint. ,
Were the Sittig;; Magistrate called in Mrs.
Tuck, tie, prisoner's Wife, to ask her a,few ques-
tions, bit mine to criminate her husband.
Question to Mrs. l'uclt„—Mrs.• tick, can you
aceonnt where or front whom you received the notes
yotm Sent to, the brewev's, or did yon,receive any
notes from the deceased in your house the night he
Was there previous to his death ?7.--A. 1 hatibbout
101. lv ow in U. notes, and 1 borrowed six more
that tii;.!.htfrout Mr.,Peak in. my back parlour. I
tied up the parcel at night., anti gave it to my
husband to scud a next morning.
Mrs. 'rock then withdrew..
the,pri,oner,—Now, Mr. Tuck, it
has been proved, !hat !woof time notes paid-by you
to,yoor hrewerwere in thepossession !If the tie-'ceased, and one Of them so latti'imS four o'clock on
that night, he was at .your house, gird found
drownta next morning. I now call on you to tell
from whom you received them, us it is necessary
for you, •
Prisoner.4,never take or change any notes ; I
cannot Aril where my wife took them.
I.:et\jamnin Pelts, a boy, servant to the prisoner,
deposed, that on Friday., the morning the Jinn
wilt found in the well, his master gave him a small
parcel, and told hint it was money, salad desired
him to carry it caretnlly to the hrewhouse, and
pay it to Alr. Eldridge : the pritioner did not.tell
limit how much there was Uijt ; Mr. Eldridge was
not at {tome, 111111 witness paid it to.a boy in the
counting-lmose.: lie taa?.okven it in his pre-
sence, nor gi•ve lim a,receipt for it. Webb, the
bay-maker,- did not Strike the deceased even a
blow, seeing he was drunk ; he only laid him
dW on
,and totilt . Witness Went to
bed at eleven. •
Here Read, sen. the officer, produced'six more
one pound notes,he found on Mrs: Tuck ; OW two
40/. and'a It. on Crouch and Saunders.
prisoner'was then remanded fOr fOrther eita-
mination, to afford further oppOrtitnity to inquire,
and try to have sortie of those notes identified by
the persons who paid money into the hands of
the cleCetiseiL
The prisoner is a tall groom-like looking man ;
he hiid a bbek eye ; his honse is well kuown as a
training.bouse to the noted prize-fighter's of the
tltiy
•

Bo w c►' •--Yesterday Mary Starlike was
charged with threatening and attempting to murder
her husband, Who stated that she frequently acted
in the most violent and unmanageable manner, ac.
eOmpa`nying her actions with the most horrid 4x.;
riressiims. FlerSiiidence to his property had'beert
vim& to the attacks upon his person. .''She had
consumed about 4001. in foul' months. She had
461 d a horse for half its value. She had hroke all
the Windows in his house. Nearly all his'clothes
Were tither destroyed or made away With, so that
be was obliged to-borrow clothes yesterdatto
tip-
`pear with decency at the office to exhibit his Charge.
Lie had frequentlY offered' her a-separate Mainte-
nance, Btu) 'had employed an attorney for that intr.
pose, hilt she had &dined to accept:of it. He
could not account for the Violence of her coudutt,
Os rihe bad al-ttalr cntarts`d every-comfort.
'rite constfiblewho apprehended her stated, that
she iepeated the threats, in 'his hearing, of stab-
bing her Intsband in the heart. Jealousy was the
only reason assigned' for her vlaent and untha
nageable conduct,' which:gr. Sturidge assured
the Magistrate was 'without the least foundation.
tie Said, that itreNsquenee of her conduct he
Lad nothing but: ruin.and'a'priS'on before him.
• •
Air. Stu'ridge took a very fine infant from her
while she made her defence ; but all that site said
did not nmount to an,auatver to tier husband or a
justification.-
Sir N..CoNANT ordered her to find bail. .
When site was being taken away, she endea-
voured to, wrest the infant front her husband,
who, however, resisted ; but the Magisttute
thought the toothier oogilt to ban the elaii.4