Star.
London, England, 1830-10-05 00:00:00

LAMENTABLE ACCIDENT-FIVE LIVES LOST!

SCILLY, Sr. rr. 28.--A most melancholy circumstance, attended
with the loss of several lives, occurred here yesterday evening. A small
boat belonging to Tresco had just left the Pool at St. Mary's, when a
sea struck her, in going over a ledge, and she instantly upset. There
were fourteen persons on board, besides a considerable quantity of goods,
so that she was laden almost to the water's edge before her departure.
The accident was perceived from the shore, immediately on its occur.
rage ; and several boats promptly put off to the assistance of the guards
who were struggling in the waves ; 12 of them were soon broughtto land,
apparently lifeless : but, by the energetic and persevering application
d the usual resuscitatory process, under the direction and personal exer-
tions of Mr. Biewett, surgeon (who was indefatigable in his seal and at.
tootles), most of them were soon restored to life. It is but justice here
to state, that the greatest readiness to render assistance—combined with
a spirit of the deepest sympathy—was shown by almost every inhabi-
tant of Saint Mary's on this lamentable occasion. Amongst those
happily preserved, were the Reverend Mr. Lane, Minister of
True* and Stylus, and Mr. James (a native of the parish
of Paul, Cornwall), schoolmaster, of Tram. One woman and two
twee were found beyond the power of human means to restore ; and there
see Pet two persons who have not been picked up, making a total of five,
who have perished by this awful catastrophe. It is very remarkable,
that the whole of those who were drowned were related to each other.—
The sea was, comparatively, smooth, and the weather fine, when the
sheet happened. An inquest was this day held on three of the bodies,
b Jolts Johns, Esq. Coroner, and a respectable Jury, who found the
following verdict s—" That James Jenkins, John Odger, and Catherine
Odger, were drowned accidentally by the upsetting of a boat, which had
impradmtly approached too near a ledge of rocks, called the Cow, the
said boat being too heavily laden at the time, and crowded with too many
people, sot having accommodation for half the nunlike then on bard.
Wed Dram

DISGRACEFUL OUT RAGE IN LISSON.OROV E.—On
Sunday morning, during Divine Service, A disgraceful scene presented
'went, the inhabitants of Limon-Grove. About two hundred Irish.
taco at the lowest class had a most desperate fight ; they were in a state
of intoxication ; some fought with blu4eons, and some with fists, com-
pletely divested of their upper garments, which were held by the wo-
men : the scene was dreadful and disgusting, and on s few of the police
coming up they were bid defiance, but they rushed into the midst of
the combatants, and after a desperate resistance succeeded in capturing
three of the most desperate. Their names are Hugh Kelly, Timothy
Kelly, and William Chapple, who was armed with a large fiat-iron,
and threatened destruction to the first that came near him : at twelve
.'cock there were upwards of 1,000 persons present. Strong detach-
newts of the D. division soon arrived, as also some of the 8. division
from St. John's Wood, when order was soon restored. Several of the
combatants were severely wounded.
MEL A Scam.? OCC UeaEN C E.— An inquest was held on
Saturday aftermon, at the watch•bonte in Newgateatreet, on the
bodies of three men, named Hickman, Regan, and Dixon. It appeared
le evidence, that the above men were employed In emptying a cess-
=go:,
on the premises of Messrs. Leaf and Co warehousemen' Old
St. Paul's, Friday morning and on Dixon going down
t. elsar the bucket, which bed become entangled, be fell on one side,
an/ sprayed to be dead. Hickman then went down end caught
Dikes-le his arms; but before be could be pulled up, life had become
extiact. Rowdiesa of all remonstrance sod the awful example before
him, Row, as Irish labourer, proceeded down, and almost instantly
aspired. 'The Jury having expressed themselves satisfied that no blame
was attributable to ally one, returned a verdict that the above men were
secifisatally minuted.
Dili ADP L ACC I DENT —Yesterday morning, about half-
past sloe o'clock, a dreadful accident happened to a very fine little boy,
about series yeendldesi the name of William ritsgerJd, who lives in
Church-street. aimless. He was aftworeivg ea cross the road, when.
before he deuld go eat of the way, ha was kasshol down by the horse of
a knacker 's ark, stick was pairs at a furious este ; the wheel went
over his.heek. The seam was ands& to the how of Mr. tat=l:l
• the ansessk who, alleronoraising she injuries while be had
Ind his taewneyod se his peas* residisoce. Hopes, bower, ere ea.
tenained dent, *sash shelseuries nee wry mins, they will ist prom
MAIL

EXECUTION OF HENDERSON AT CUPAR.
The execution of this greaT=Tifter a confession of his pile,
took place Co Thursday, about thee o'clock, at tie lash of Caper ;at
Williams, the executioner, arrived from Edinburgh en Saturday, and
was lodged in a room there. Till the hour strived. Henderson con-
versed without any apparent feelings of horror or deep emotion con-
cerning his approaching fate. To a clergyman (one of the IPrefesson
of St. Andrews,) who prayed with him on Wednesday in his cell, be
said that he had made up his mind to meet the execution of hb sen-
tence with Simons, and that be believed be would not shrink. He
said also, that the religious attentions which had been paid him by the
clergymen of the town bad not been in vain, and that be was sensible
of the enormity of his crimes. His conduct during the period of his
conlaementl was not marked by any thing peculiar. He attended
to all the religions services of the prison with decency, and with appa-
mot feelings of repentance. The jailor said he never complained ; he
never asked for 'any thing, but took what was offered him, and was
thankful. Towards the last days of his life he often wept bitterly;
and when the preparations were making for erecting the scald (which
be !nerd distinctly in his cell) all his efforts at composers were in-
effectual.

IFre was visited a few days before his execution by his mother, and
some other relatives, but the interview was no ways interesting, he
usuelly slept soundly. except on the night of Wednesday, which be
spent almost entirely in rending and devotional exercises. About noes
on Thursday several of the Magistrates visited him, when he handed
them a letter in nearly the following terms :-41 I Mein peace with all
men, asking forgiveness from all whom I have injured, and Mu-
tily forgiving all who have injured me." '
About one o'clock, preparations were made for carrying the sentence
of the law into effect. The Rev. Mr. Watson commenced the devo-
tional exercises in the prison with prayer; and the Rev. Mr. Birrell
read a portion of Scripture, and sung a penitential psalm. In all these
exercises Henderson seemed cordially and fervently to join, maintaining
throughout the greatest apparent firmness and composure. The irons
having been removed, and his arms pinioned, he mounted the scdrold,
assisted by two officers, and followed by the Magistrates. His com-
post= now began to leave him—his legs tottered, and be appeared to
abed tears. When he reached the platform he was accommodated with
a chair, which he turned round so as not to face the immense multitude
assembled to witness hie ignominious end. Mr. Birrell again payed;
and during the prayer Henderson seemed as if he were going to fall
from the &air. He required to be supported by two officers, and hardly
fors moment took the handkerchief from his eyes. After prayer, Mr.
BirreU addressed the crowd. This having been done, Henderson took
his place on the drop, when the official gentlemen and clergymen bade
him farewell, and the executioner proceeded to do his duty. The un-
happy criminal now showed that he clung fondly to life. He wished
Mr. Watson called back, and anxiously inquired the hour, and whe-
ther he could be granted a few minutes longer, because, be said, I am
"frightened to go." Understanding that this request could not be com-
plied with, he reluctantly gave the signal, was thrown of, and, alter a
severe struggle, ceased to live. From repeatedly turning to speak to
those near him, after the rope was round his neck, the noose came to be
behind his head when the drop fell, and the death was caused by gran.
gelation rather than dislocation. The body having been suspended for
MN= hour, was lowered down and put into a large box, to be con-
veyed to the professor of anatomy.
An execution in Copse is a novelty of no common description, there
not having been one sines 1743, when a man of the name of Jas. Hay
suffered the lass punishment of the law foehormatealing. The Mad
the Fife militia was on duty, as also several et the respectable citizens,
in the character of special constables. Henderson was dressed in a suit
of black. A platform was constructed for the purpose in the court-yard
behind the jail, fronting a large peak, in which is a hillock known by
the name of Skevie.brae, and other rising ground,..so that the immense
crowd, amounting to not fewer than 12,000 or 15,000pasons, brought
from every part of the large and populous county of Fife, kid
akifueltt:riew of the criminal. whose fate seemed to excite a great degree
of sympathy, particularly among the female spectators, of whom a very
rat number was present. This might in some degree * accounted
for by Henderson being young, and having nothing.'" murderous" or
ferocious in his ap The family of the jailor seemed in very
great agitation. hey had treated him kindly, and he was so sensible
of it, that he expressed a desire to see and thank each of them, as also a
debtor who had paid him attention.
1116WDEISON'S CONFESSION.

On Friday, the 26th of June, Millie, the murdered man, left hens
to go to Concede or Monimail, leaving Henderson alone at his work;
while he was thus employed something went wrong with the machinery
or the loom ; nobody being present to waist him in setting it to rights,
he went off to Concede, where he remained drinking till about two
o'clock, and on leaving was a good deal heated with liquor. On coming
bask to Whinny.park, be found that Millie had returned, and was in his
workshop, convening with Lord Leven's gardener, Thee. Oreig. In a
sheet time after Mr. Oreig left the place, and Millie accompanied him to'
the lkde Iron gate of Whinny Park ; Millie then returned to the shop.
and was requested by Henderson to give some assistance in repairing
the aradrinery of the loom. Millie began to chide Henderson for his
Assam heat work, saying that any person might have come into the
house. end taken away articles when both were absent; he was at this
doe obeeplag down putting the machinery to rights. Henderson had
at the same time a hammer in his hand in order to rivet some nails of
the big treadle on the one side, which Millie was to drive on the other.
Is ceder asset into a proper position for doing this, Henderson had to
pass bellied Millie while the latter was stooping ; it was at this time
that *aim= pee Millie the first blow on the right side of the
head with the hewateer which he had in his band. Millie immediately
over towards the right side; Henderson says that he does not re-
select giving a meted blow, but only adds, that if there were two
wounds he must necessarily have done so. MM. he says, did net
after the blows make any motion that he realms; soon after, be
beard some person at the Iron gate of the gars, mid taw to prawn'
any one entering. The person proved to be Wow Bream Hie
derson said. as be recollects, " James is not in," Of WOW cosh Warthi.
He then returned, not pia( to the shop, but to the kitches, ethers he
kid down the bobbins beneath a window. On going back to the ship,'
be tacked the door, without entering. He then returned to the Mt-
-them, took some mosey be found there (about IL) and went of eel
Auchtemouchty. He staid in that place all night drinking with eons
companions, and porches= a suit of clothes. He was only beck at
Whinny Park about six o'clock next mm*g. Ile did not then
Im-
mediately go to the shop, but went to the Mtthen where be stopped'
till about sight o'clock. Afterwards he wandered lett from one place
in the neighbourhood to another till about four o'clock, when he went
into the shop, but had not courage to walk up to the spot where the
body was lying. He then took a pick and dug a hole in ths Geer
of the shop near the back wall, intending to bury the body
there ; but found that the earth was too shallow, the rock Wag
only about twenty inches below the surface% and Wed up
the aperture immediately. At this time he threw over the
body a sheet which he found lying in the shop. He afterwards tried
to make a grave sufficiently deep on the west side of the house door ;
but found the same obstacle' here. He then went to Collossie (having
locked all the doom), and remained them till about nine o'clock. When
be returned be took a pick and went to the footpath leading to the well,
where he again dug to make a hiding place for the body. He was enc.
easeful hem; and after completing it, he went to Mr. Millie's bed in
the kitchen, undressed, and went to bed. He was greatly fatigued, but
could not sleep; and rose nab morning about broth of day. He then
went to the shop, in cederto remove the body. When there, be saw
Manes which =evinced him that Millie must have made ethrts to
rise afterbft _lint felled by the blows • the cloth next the cloth.beam
1 was all overt Mood, as if it had been rubbed with a brush ; this, he says,.
mast have been caused by his head rubbing against it in the attempts to
VW. Henderson only observed these marks afterwards-Ahe
while he was removing the body, being only a grey dawn, ad 11111111:2
Mont to give light inside the house. e got the body out,
brought a 'd He
to the end of the loom, and thus who=
along and down the path leading to the well. The sheet, which id
beta thrown over the body in the shop he kept over it also in iheated„
barrow, and threw it into the grave with in He then covetel meth um the
body, and made the spot like a footpath, nit bad been before; Ks*
be about five o'clock in the morning when all this was finished.
He then went back to the shop, cut the bloodied cloth out of the
loom, and took it into the kitchen, where he burnt all upon which he
observed blood ; what appeared unstained he took up stairs, and laid it
into one et the rooms. He then returned to the shop, and having
strewed lime on those parts of the floor where there was blood. he re-
turned to the kitchen. He did not during these days cook victuals in
the house, but ate any pieces of bread be found, and got other food in
the houses where he went to drink.
The subsequent pert of his narrative was similar to the evidence ad-
duced on the trial. In the confession made to the Magistrates of Path,
Henderson alleged he committed the murder by firing a loaded pistol at
Mr. Millie. As to the forgery, he said he found a letter et Mt. Millie's,
and from It imitated the hand-writing on the bill.
A strange tale regarding Henderson is at present very meth the sub.
ject of conversation at Dunfermline. It seems that on the day of the
culprit's birth, his father, who is an excesthogly respell* man in his
own humble way, dreamed.; hat he law his son, grown muses pew,
go through all the tenor.striking formalities of a publle eacendom
This strange vision gave him great uneasiness at the time, ad amp
pension was confirmed in the coulee of years b the wild teithwalles et
character which distinguished his son through boyhood sae early youth.
It was always, however, the hope of the senior Hallemeei. that, " as
he had not seen the end of the rope wherewith the eindsal seemed to
be executed," the accomplishment of the video should not take place
during hie lifetime, a supposition the more probable, as be was already
rather aged. He has unfortunately been disappointed in his pious hope.
The interpretation put by the old man up= his dream, theugh thus
found =Milled, is a curious trait of superisidon, and t have very
proalleicitt: a comer in Sir Walter Scott's recent work on

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quantity at enackarel. berries% ~.ipildiarda dila week. The seam
quo tam swag 1,400 bgleimpads of lab this week also. Tbr Ismer
eatebss al Aber& will be ready for *Wing in about Avg weeks ; the
prim at present asked is mom 4Ss. to SO.. per borbead.-.Wert Jirkes.