Star.
London, England, 1812-08-27 00:00:00

HORRID MURDER.

CHESTER ASSIZES.
The following is a fuller account than we gave on
Tuesday of the trial of John Lomas, for the murder
of his master, George Morrey, farmer, of Hankelow,
r,:nd Edith Morrey, wife of the said G. Morrey, for
aiding and assisting him in the murder.
Hannah Evans said she lived servant with the de-
I ceased in the month of April last ; Edith Morrey
was wife to the deceased ; Lomas was also his ser-
vant ; the deceased bad five children, three of whom I
slept in the same room with her ; she went through
the deceased's room to her own, which was on the
round-floor ; Lomas slept in a roomover the
kitchen, and the other two children with him. On
the night of the 11th of April remembered her mas-
ter coming home ; she went to bed about 12 o'clock,
and saw her master and mistress go into their room ;
about two she was awoke, heard a great noise and
two or three blows struck, which appeared to be in
her master's room ; she afterwards heard more blows
rind two groans, when she got out of bed. The pri-
soner (her mistress) came into her room, put out the
candle, and told her she must not make a noise for
there were murderers in the house. They then went
into the kitchen, where she lighted a candle, and weal;
by her mistress's desire, to call Lomas ; he appeared
to be fast asleep ; she called him twice, and said he
must get up, as there were murderers in the house ;
• he told her to leave the candle, and he would follow
her down. Witness and Lomas then went to call
one Betty Spode, who lived a short distance from
the house ; the prisoner Lomas said, it was very dan-
gerous going out, and, appeared to be much frighten.
ed.. When morning came, she examined the floor,
and found several spots of blood ; she likewise ob-
served blood on the stairs leading from her master's
room to Lomas's.
On her cross-examination, the said, that she had
been in bed about an hour before she heard the noise.
Her mistress ordered her and Lomas to go and alarm
the neighbourhood—pever observed any unkindness
between :ler master and mistress ; nor ever saw her
mistress behave to Lomas otherwise than as to a ser-
vant. Her master and mistress were laughing be-
fere they went to bed.
Thomas Timmis said, he was called up, and went
to the houie of the deceased at about half past two.
He stood a few minutes in tl.e room where Mrs.
Money was sitting on a chair, holding her apron to
her head. He then went into the room where the
'deceased lay dead on the floor, with his face down-
„vita, and his left hand under his head, an axe lying
•
and the floor covered with blood : his throat'
:ttfsii cut from ear to ear.
John Moors stated, that he went to the deceased's
house, and on his way. there Lomas told• him he
thought his master was killed ; he found Mrs.
.Iforrey and her children sitting round the fire. He
asked for a lighted candle, and went into the room,
where he found the body, as stated by former wit-
ness. He asked Mrs. Morrey, if she suspected any
body ? She answered no. He then examined the
door, and found that it was fastened with a nail over
the latch. Mrs. Morrey said, she supposed somebody
.bad followed him from Nurthwich, where he had been
it a cocking.. _
Thomas Hall, another witness, perceived blood on
Lomas's smock-frock ; and on examining the house,
found blood on the, floor, which he traced into the
tack .kitchen, and up stairs into the room where Lo-
mas lay. He then secured Lomas, and Mr. Groom
asked him for the key of his box. He replied, oo
.constable had a right to look into his box. When
witness got up stairs again, he saw Mrs. Morrey take
SOFFIC kind of linen, and throw it on the floor—her
back was towards him ; Mr. Groom picked up a
shi.rt•off some bags in Lomas's room, where she had
altrown it. He asked Lomas was that his shirt ? he
Said it was : it was marked with blood about the
wrists. He saw Lomas stripped ; he had a clean
:shirt on, and Mr. Groom turned his coat inside out ;
it the inside there appeared much blood, Lomas
said it was his shirt, and he had worn it all last week.
The' bureau in the parlour was open, but did not ap-
pear have bean broken open. There were two
small patehesof blood on the sheets, which were taken
into
de the fold. There was a box by Lomas's bed.
ivrorrey had broken the lid of it. He took

out a waisichat, all bloody, and -asked LOINItS was it
his ? he said it was,and enquired if they knew where
it was found.
John Groom was called on the morning of the mur-
der,. and went to the house of the deceased. He
searched the different lodging-houses in the neigh-
' bourhond, to seek for suspicious persons, but found
none: he then returned, and examined the parlour-
door, but no violence appeared. He looked at the
desk, was not present when the contents were taken
Out; but the lock was loose, and two screws out, one
of which he found in the desk ; the bolt of the lock
was shot ; found a chissel amidst some papers, as it
placed regularly. He asked which way the thieves
came in ? Mrs. M. said at the front door. He enqui-
red did she see any ope ? she answered no, but she
heard a noise, and thought it was in the children's
room, on which she went in amongst them.
Witham Donley took Lomas into custody; ques-
tioned him about the bloody shirt, when he said he
had worn it the week before, when he bled the calves
and the mare. Witness told him he had convicted
himself by that :he said, I have." Saw him search-
ed, when• a razor sheath was found in his pocket.—
The razor was found in a pit, where the prisoner told
witness he had thrown it; there was a little bloOd on
the handle, and two hairs on the steel of it.
James Morrey, brother to the deceased, was called
up about two o'clock in the morning. Lomas was
one who came to call him, who said that his master
was murdered, and that £l5O was stolen out of the
desk in bills. When witness came to the house, he
found Mrs. M. sitting by the fire-side ; she told him
she thought they had followed him home, and mur-
dered him. Lomas went and put the nail in the door,
and shook it out again, to shew him how they got
in. Mrs. M. told witness she thought he had been
bragging about his money, and they had followed
him home and murdered him ; witness examined the
desk next day, and found 2s. a cheque upon Mint-
wich bank for £l2O, and his brother's watch.
• John Bellis, surgeon, saw the deceased, and exa-
mined his head ; found several fractures, which he
described ; thought the blows were given by some
heavy instrument, he thought to be an axe. The
kound in his throat was sufficient to cause his death.
On Sunday he was called to attend Mrs. Money; he
found her lying on the floor, with a large wound in
her neck, produced by some sharp instrument ; sewed
it up, and dressed it. She told him on Monday, that
Lomas had said that he was up three times in the
night before, to murder her husband.
William Hall, constable of Hankelow, was onSun-
day morning at the house of the deceased ; saw Mrs.
Morrey sitting by the fire. He told her he was
come to take her into custody ; sat two or three
yards from her ; about three minutes after, she drop-
ped from her seat, and her throat was cut by a razor,
which lay by her side.
Elizabeth Brereton stated, that she inejiired of Mrs.
Money why they were taking Lomas, %hen she said
that she would swear he was no more guilty than
she, and that he was asleep in his bed.
The Judge, in the most impressive manner, addres-
sed the Jury, who, without retiring, gave a verdict of
Guilty against both the prisoners. The Judge then
passed the awful sentence of the law upon them.
After sentence the Counsel threw in a plea of preg-
nancy for Mrs. Morrey, on which a Jury of Matrons
was immediately selected out of the Court to exa-
mine her, who stated, that to their opinion, she was
from three to five months gone.
Lomax was ordered fur execution. Judgment re-
spited on Edith fiforrey, until after her delivery.
The anxiety of the public to hear this trial was so
great, that the Court was crowded to excess by six
o'clock in the morning.
EXECUTION OF LOtpIAS.•-•-On Monday last; this
man was executed at the east-front of the new. City
gaol, Chester. He was conducted from the Castle
about twelve o'clock, and, supported by the consta-
bles, walked to the boundary of the city, where he
was received by the city Sheriffs, and placed io a cart,
which was in waiting. Immediately on being put in-
to the cart, the unhappy youth felt upon his knees, in
which posture he continued, passing along Castle?'
street, Bridge-street, and Watergate-street, until he ,
arrived at the new gaol. In the course of less than
half an hour he appeared on the drop; in the view of
a larger concourse of spectators th4n ever was wit-1
nessed upon any similar occasion. -He was attended
by the Rev. Mr. Tom, Chaplain to the county gaol,
who, in the forenoon, had adininistered to him the
sacrament, and appeared particularly attentive tofu
situation. The young man had all along expressed
a dein: rather to die than live ; and, indeed, .every
part of his deportment evinced the sincerity of his
• i
contrition. He appeared particularly fervent in bits
devotions upon the scaffold. When the rope was
placed round his neck, he addressed some words to
the surrounding multitude, warning them to take ex-
ample by his present awful situation. Just before the
cep was drawn over his face, he saiu ed the emus'
duster; and when every necessary adjustment had'
taken plaCe, he gave the signal, by di oppiag his hand-
kerchief—the platform fell, and he was launched into
eternity.

SUMMARY Jusuce.—A Lady 'of respectable ap- 1
pearance was accosted, on Monday last, in one of the ,
private lanes leading from Kensington to Chelsea, by
a disgusting brute in human shape, who, taking ad- I
vantage of her lonely situation and unprotected state,
insulted her in the most gross and indecent manner.
How long he might have continued his impropriety,
or to what. lengths he might have gone, we know not,
but fortunately an old woman, who was keeping the
birds ft orn a neighbouring wheat-field, hen-ing her
cries, and perceiving through the • foliage the scowl
that was exhibiting, called some of her female friends
horn the next field, who came suddenly on the delin-
quent,` dragged him to the ground, and bestowed on
him such tokens of their just enmity, as will, no doubt,
make him rue to the latest hour of his existence his
brutal behaviour: for not content with inflicting ven-
geance on the offending part, they afterwards stripped
him nearly naked, an whipped him with nettles till
he was literally it blister from head to foot. The
! scene was exhibited in the view of several passengers,
Idrawn to the spot by his cries, and who not only ap-
plauded the conduct of the women, but amply re-
warded them for their activity. The ruffian was
istfterwards conveyed to a house in Kensington, where
he is attended by a surgeon, and feels most acutely
the discipline he 114 undergone.

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..s 6;1'2
.
A melancholy me of this dreadful disorslei'
curred last week, at Imber, in the county of Wilt.
—A boy, about fifteen years of age, .on of J. Dru
den, of that parish, labourer, was bitten about two.
months ago, at a firth in Lavingtint, where he
worked. The subsequent conduct of the dog et•
cited suspicions, and the boy was sent to thisawsid
dipped. He continued in health till Toes4nri
11th inst. when he complained of slight iodispositi
was worse on Wednesday ; and on Thursday mor-
ning a medical gentleman pronounced it to be a de-
cided case of hydrophobia. Still his reason seemed
perfectly sound ; but at times he suffered much
from violent spasms in his throat, and complained
that he felt strange in the head ; he grew worse in
the afternoon, and in the•night was delirous and vio-
lent ; and, after suffering dreadful agonies, he ex.
pired on Friday.


MELANCHOLY Acclottcr.—On lay, the 174
inst. a fatal accident took place at Poldice-mine, in
the neighbourhood of Gwetinap. One of the Agents,
Captain R. WILLIAMS, having occasion to go under
grows', tailed on a poor man, of the name of Pascoe,
who was at that time at work in the mine. Whilst
in conversation they stood on a quantity 6f attle, or
loose stuff, of no value, that was supported by some
timber, which giving way, they were precipitated
into the water at the bottom of the mint, above 40
fathoms from where they stood ; and as the quantity
of stuff which fell with them is very great, the bo-
dies cannot be got at without considerable expence.
Two persons, who were near the spot, had a very
narrow escape.

Moticla

As a hackney-coach was driving rapidly last night
along Parliament-street, it overturned a cart, in which
I were a poor woman and her son, a boy about IS yeais
of age. The mother received a contusion on her
head, and one of the wheels passed over the boy's face.
I The coachman was stopped, and the numbei of the
coach taken.
A Gentleman passing by the Bleach Green of En-
nis, perceived a man struggling in the water, in the
very throes of death. With the utmost presence of
mind he plucked a bough from a tree, and thrusting
it to the bottom of the pool, the drowning man
clenched it, and was restored again to existence.
The frolic home Gentlemen who, on the late illumi-
nations, thought proper to break the windows in the
house of Mr. MIST, in Fleet-street, are likely to pay
very dearly for their amusement, as that Gentleman
has commenced an action against them tor si'GUO,
which is the amount of the damage he has sustained.
The Dreamers are now outwitted by the favourite
numbers being locked up in the Eight Packets of
i Tickets given by. the Contractors of this Lottery,
and since the celebrated Astrologer Mr. B. has pre-
' dieted that No. 44 will be a Capital Prier., every-44
wants it, yet nobody can get it, but anybody may have
! a chance tor it who buys- a Ticket or Share, as it is
lucked up in a Packet, which may produce £3),000
to a Blank, on 6th SEPTEMISIIR, when all the Lottery
will be drawn.

BIRTHS.
Thursday, the lady of William Bailey, Esq. R. N. of a son.
fin the itith of August, the lady of Captain John Stevens, of
tits- Honourable Company's charts red ship Maitland, of a daughter.

MARRIED.
A few days since, in Esser, Mr. B. Fenner, corn-Pk:tor, to Miss
E. Rumball, daughter of T. Rumba'', Esq.
On the 21st of May, in the Is and of St. Martin's, West Indies,
ut. John Tucker to Miss Elizabeth M. Richardson, daughter
of the Lae Tht,mss Richardson, Esq.
hurulay last, James Biotite, Esq. Secretary to the Hon. Ad-
miral Berkeley, w Lady Burton, o idow of Sir John Burton, of
Soho- square.

• DIED.
On the 221 of July, with the Army in Spain, in the 24th year
of his age, Mr. John Mylne Francis Page, of the Commissariat,
the last surviving son of Jonathan. Page, Esq. of Crest Smyth.
street, Westminst-r, being the fourths son he has lost in the ser-
vice o: his King and Country during the war. '
At Edinburgh, on the 14th inst. Mrs Elisabeth Houston, wife
of John Campbell, Esq. Receiver-General of the customs for
Scotland.
At Edinburgh, on the 18th instant, David Rosa, eon of Dr.
James Ross, Edtuburgh.

ADDRESS TO THE PUBLIC.
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lic, that from the amazing and.immediate rise in the arti-
cle of G I.A S he feels /iiiitself cumitelled to advance the price of
his Medicine from .s‘. 6d. to 6s.— rite Double Bottle will aho
be advanced 6d. per Bottle; but the largest size will remtin at
the original prsce.

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has been increased in price, although every article connected
with it has made a most sapid advance.—Under these circum-
stances Mr. bricsisuay respectfully informs the Public, that on
the 10th of Aurnst, 1812, the above rrites will take place.
Dispensosy, Soho-sqware, July 22,1612.

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