Star.
London, England, 1824-09-16 00:00:00

UNION-lIALL.

Txs Mutant AT BUIEEMIAPL.—Yesterday, Throat Cbounks, the
man charged on suspicion with having shot James Morgan, at
Langley Park, near Beckenham, on the 15th of August, was
brought before L. B. Attair, Esq. and a full Bench of Magistrates.
Mr. Goodhart, the employer of the unfortunate man who was shot,
attended. Mr. Atten inquired what further evidence was now to
be adduced?

Mary Wright Lawrence, the woman with whom the prisoner co-
habited, was assisted into the office. She is a young woman of ra-
ther interesting appearance. She appeared to be much agitated,
and cried bitterly un seeing the prisoner, who said to her, as she
was passing close to the slip in which he was placed—" Don't cry,
my dear Mary; you have nothing to fear, and I am sure I have
nothing." The oath was then administered to her, and she made
the following confession, which we give in her own words; •
Mary Wright Lawrence, a single woman, of No. 12, Taxes-
buildings, Kent-street, stated as follows lived with Coombs
since the 22d or 23d of July. I met him at Deptford, 15 or 18
months ago, when I was lodging at MrMrs.Grady's, Mill lane, Dept-
ford. lie has lodged there for nearly three year& The prisoner

promised to awry me, and on the 6th of April the banns e "ne
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put
up in St.Georie's Church, where they were published an the three
following Sundays. I lived with him nearly a week at that time,when
be went into the country, saying. he would be back in a fortnight ;
but he did not return. I lived at Mrs. Grady's for a month after,
without seeing or hearing anything of him. The next time I saw
him was about the 17th of July, when be again came to Nlrs.
Grady's, where I had returned to lodge. He asked me if I was in
the same mind to have him then ? I said, he bad used me ill, in
leaving me. However, I agreed, after some persuasion, to marry
him, and came up for that purpose on the 924 or 23d of the same
month, but found I could not do so without the banns being re.
published. I then lived with him at Leodsy's lodging-house, No,
12, Taxes-buUdinp, until the time of his apprehension. I remem-
ber the Sunday before the murder; the prisoner was not front
home ,he whole of the day, except at the White Bear, in Kent_
streel, to fetch some beer. I remember the day very well, for it
was a very rainy one, and my mother and two sisters came to
dine with us at Lendsy's. They all stayed together until after
dark, when my mother and sisters left us, and the primmer and I
shortly after went to bed, and he got up the next morning abort
seven o'clock. The same day the prisoner dined at home with me,
about two o'clock, and he went out directly afterwards, and took
a bagging-hook with him, and told me he was going to a „elation
of his, a master gardener, who lived about four miles on the other
side of Eltham, and told me not to expect him home that night,
if be was not back by eight o'clock. Ile returned the following
morning about eight o'clock with the bagging-hook ; his coat was
torn in the arm. My mother was with me at the time. Ile toll
me he had been at Sevenoaks. I poked him bow his coat became
broke? be said it was a good thing his neck was not broken. Tot
prisoner then laid himself down on the Boor, and I put the blanket
over him. He laid there till tea-time, when he got up, and after-
wards laid down again in the same place until nearly day ; he dun
got up, and sat by the wit.davr. He said," Mary, Direr et( t a man."
I said, " Oh, my Goa! what did you do that for ?" He said," If
I had not done it, he would have shot me. I did not hurt him, I
only blowed a little powder in his face." Witness again said," What
did you du it for ?" He replied," The man was running after me,
and I only Wowed a little powder in his face to blind him, that he
should not see which way I was going." On the Friday afterwards
the prisoner went to Camberwell Fair. In his absence my aunt
came to me, and told me that a Gentleman's gardener bad been
murdered ; and that be had been shot; but she could not tell where
it happened. 'lite prisoner came home before eight o'clock that
night ; I told him what my aunt had mentioned to me, when he
replied, "Thank Gun, I did nut do it; and them that did," he sup-
posed, "did it in thir own defence." I then asked hint where he
had been on the Monday night? Ile said, at Sevenoaks. Says I,
you told me you were going to your relations at Eltham. He told
me he did not go there. I said, it is very curious about this mur-
der, that you should be out that very night, and stated my uneasi-
ness. Ile told me I had no occasion to make myself uneasy about
it—that I could do him no harm. I then reminded him of what
be had told me about shooting at the man; when he told me, that
it I ever mentioned it to any person in the world he would shoot
nee. I told him I would never say anything about it. He never
slept at home aftei that night; he used to come home in the day
time. On the Monday before he was apprehended, he left me, and
I did not see him again till he was taken away as a prisoner trorn
Union-hall on Thursday last. There was only one man in the habit
of coming to see the prisoner, whose Christian name is Richard,
but whose surname I do not know ; he came twice, two days suc-
cessively, about five weeks back." Witness added, that she thinks
he was a sailor - but she could not speak positively to that fact.
During the time the above evidence was read over to the prisoner,
his face, which is naturally of a pale and sallow hue, became fiushrt!,
and he wiped away the perspiration, which was profuse on his fort-
head, with the tails of his coat. When the Magistrate had finished
reading it, he asked the prisoner whether be wished to put any
questions to the woman?
The prisoner replied, " What use is there in my 'putting any
questions to her ; she has sworn to it, and I suppose her oath n.ll
be taken before mine."

Sarah Lawrence, the mother of the last witness, was then exa-
mined. She stated, that tin Tuesday, the 17th of August, she came
from Islington to see her daugh•er, who lived with tha prisoner in
Fox's-court. When site went, she asked her daughter where Tom
was? she said be was out. In a shirt time the prisoner came in, with
his coat torn in the arm. Witness offered to mend it, but he answered
ber very crossly. Witness heard the prisoner tell her daughter,
when she remarked that his coat was broke, " that it was. wonder
his neck was not btokeu." Witness went with her daughter to pledge
a shawl to get the prisoner a breakfast ; we then at down, and the
prisoner appeared very melancholy during the whok time we were
at breakfast.

The prisoner's cost was here examined, and the rent which was
spoken of by Mary Lawstnce and her mother discovered in it.
Isabella Lawrence, a daughter of the last witness, stated, that she
was at her sister's, who lived with the prisoner, on the 15th August;
the prisoner was at borne all that day.
Matthew Itiely stated, that he lodged at Grady's, its Mill-lane,
Deptford, where the prisoner also lived a short time since. About
the 17th or 18th August, witness met the prisoner, about five o'clock
in the morning, on the road between Bromley and London, a short
distance from the former place. %Vaultss spoke to the prisoner, but
he did not a nswer him at first ; he then asked the prisoner what he
was doing in that part of the country? The prisoner replied, that
be had been at work in the neighbourhood of Sevenoaks, and that he
came from thence that morning, and was proceeding on to town.
!Hely added, that the prisoner appeared to be much confused when
he was in conversation with him.

Mr. Tyler, a farmer of Ekham, stated, that on the 29th of
July, a neighbour of his informed him that he bad been robbed of
some canvass in the night; they were subsequently informed that a
taU M4ll had been observed to come out of a wood, near Elthain, at
an early ►our on the morning the canvass was missed ; they accord.
ingly proceeded them, and in an unfrequented part of it they found a
quantity of black grapes, which were covered over with some twigs;
and near the same spot they discovered a bag, in which was a gun
that was charged with shot, slugs, and pebbles. Witness added,
that he and another Gentleman watched for two nights running, in
order to detect the person, who would, most probably, come for
the things, but the party did not come.
The man who informed the last witness of his having seen a per.
son coming from Westwood, at an early hour in the morning,
attended. Hr stated, on looking at the prisoner, that he was the
very man whom be had seen.
A pattern of the canvass which had been stolen from the Gentle.
man at Eltham was here produced, and it exactly corresponded in
quality with a pair of canvass trowsers which the prisoner now wore.
The woman with whom the prisoner cohabited was asked whether
she had made any canvass masers lately for him? She replied,
that she had, about the latter end of July.
Hall said, there were other material witnesses down in the coun-
try, whose evidence would be requisite.
The Magistrates, after some consultation, remanded the prissier
for another week.

Wednesday night, about eleven o'clock, a meteor was
seen at Stratton-on-the-Foss, travelling from north to

south, and was lost sight of in the distance over Mendip
Hills, after being in view for 45 seconds.
There is at present growing, about SW yards from
Ravensworth Castle, an oak tree in full foliage, in the
hollow trunk of which nine men took shelter from a
shower of rain during the late mowing season.
REPENTANCE.—A respectable shopkeeper of Sand.
gate, Newcastle, had the misfortune to be robbed of his
watch, when he was apprentice to a shoemaker .in that
town. It was through intoxication. He made every
endeavour in his power to recover it, but in vain; he
even offered a reward, and met with no success. He
heard no more of it until a few days ago, when it was
sent' to him by the Hexham carrier, in a small parcel,
carefully directed, and enclosing a brief anonymous note
from the delinquent, saying—" This, Sir, is the watch
I robbed you of at Hexham, above 20 years ago."

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