Star.
London, England, 1807-11-03 00:00:00

Ii petfeelly lure the prifnner at the bar is the perfon
who fired'the flint.

Croft examined Gtr MR. ALLEY.
He (Aid there were different piles of brides on the
premifes, direaly before the hoofe in which the pri.
foner refideJ, but that the boys did not at all interfere
with them. n pull down any of them. When the
prifrfner threw the brick bar, the boys ran r.fr for
fome iliflance. The deceafed was of the J: with per-
fualion. _ _ _ .

William Samuels, a Jew boy,. derfed, that he
works at a coal (bed io Petticoat-lane; he was hr
Stripe's-yard on the Saturday evening, when this
unfortunate occurrence took plate ; he was there a
garter of an hour befOte the boys began to play at
hoop. Witnefs knew the deceafed ;'he was aurnngtl
the boys w4in were playing. Witnefs law the pi liana
throw a brick.hat at the boys, he then went in at his
front door. Several of the boys ran away ; they
were in all about fifteen. Witnefs never faw any
of the boys go near the bricks, nor did they throw
any r f them at the prifimer's windows. When the
bi ick was thrown by the prifoner, the deceafed looked
round and raid. " There is lime one throwing bricks
at us." The prifoner almost immediately came out
of his back door, with either a gun or a blunderbufs
in his hand, and having pointed it at the deceafed,
fired off the piece ; the contents firuck Hart, but
Witnefs did not fee him fall.. Witnefs was then fitting
en a turned-up cart, and °softly after went away ;
when turning round a corner, he fell over the de-
eeafed ; he picked him up, put Aim on his knee, and
found his mouth in a gore of blood ; the deccated
exclaimed—" Oh, my mouth ! my back, my back !"
Witnefs then put his hand around the back part of
Lis neck, and found a bole ; he alfo examined the
coat' and waiftcoat, and found that there was a hole
iorrefponding with the wound, through both of
them. Witnefs then. with Come aflitl.tnce, took the
deceafed to his aunt'. in Bell-lane, a (bort diftance
fr Urn the place where he was flint. Witnefs loon
after returned, with fome other people, to Stripe's•
yard, and they having opened the front door, he law
tint prif, ner wallaing his hands.
On.his eras examination by Mr. Guiana, witnefs
Paid, that although he law the prifoner the
trigger, he could not diainguifk whether it was a
pun or blunderbufs. The witnefs was at that time
in Stripe's yard. beeaufe it was his Sabbath, and he
never did any work on that day. It was out r f the
door on the right hand, fuppollog the witnefi to have
flood with his back to the home, that the prifoner
came with the gun ; the moment he fired he went in.
Jacob Jofeph depofed, that on the evening when-
the deceafed was (hot, he met the priforier clofe to
Stripe's yard. He immediately put his hand in
right hand waificoat pocket, took out fome (hot, and
laid, " I will (hoot fume of !link am-ing them ;"
meaning the boys. Witnefs replied, " Don't ufe
shot ; but, if you want to frighten them, fire offfome
loefe powder." In a few minutes after, he heard
the report of a gun. One Nathan Levi was prefent
at the conversation with the prifoner.
Croft examined Gy Mr. ALLEYS
Did not fee when thisconvetfation took place,any
other perfon on the premifes. He had no further
acquaintance with the prifoner than merely teeing
him on the building every day. 13.ne hire no ill will.
Witnefs gained Iti. livelihoc d by dealing in old
clothes. He fwears politively that he never was
flopped by the prifoner in the aet of tlealinii timber
off the premifei. Does not know what a jr•ill as
be is no builder. Never was guilty of taking any
thing from off thp premifes, without permiffion.—
Never did hear the prifoner tell a Mr. White, the
Furchafer of the matetials, that the witnefs was the
perfor. who (tole Away the timber. Knows Anne
Terry, never had any converfation with her on the
fubjeet of the tettimony the (hould give on this trial. I
Never told her-to Rick to the evidence (he gave on
the Coroner's Inquett, or made tile of words to that
import. Never promifed to get a holiday from her
rnillrefs to fee the precinct hanged. Was never in
the !mule of leer rni (bets, although lie was her I
neighbour. Nathan Levi fwoie to the convet fation 1
between the ptif ner and the tall witnel. He never
was coo•erned in taking any timber is the days of
his breath. - 1
Anne Terry, a young girl, depofed, that the lived
as a let vatic with Mr. lfaacs, in Bell lane, a thort i
dillancc from where the boy was (hot ; (he law the
prifoner fire the gun without any pi ovocati,n :-1
When he fired it, he went into the houfe, laying
to himfelf, " D—n your eyes, you young rafcal.,
I think I have (hot foam of thole into you now.•'..—
Witnefs law no more of it, but went home with
her aild. In her crofs examination, the denied
her ever having given any different account.—
Never was in company with the witnefs, Jofeph, only
when (he went to the Coroner's Inque(l, and coming
to the Court to give her tellimony ; never Paid the
withed to fee the prifoner or any man hanged ; po-
fitively denies that Jofeph ever (poke to her as to the
evidence the fhould give ; knows Mr. White, but
never told him that the would hang the prifoner.
Mr. Gnugh, Surgeon at the London Hofpital, un-
der Mr. Thomas Blizard, T CCOIIC6I:d that the deceafed'
was brought to the Hot-vital on the evening of Sit.
turday, the toth of OCtober. He examined the
wound. It appeared to have been occasioned by a
bullet which had entered into the (pine, between the
bone of the neck and the first of the back. The
deceafed had loft the ufe of the extremities, the ufnal
conaqtrence of a wound in the Epinal marrow. He
lived to eleven o'clock in the forenoon of the next
day. Witnels law his body opened, and found the
flog, which be then produced, in the Epinal marrow.
Way confident that the decznifed came by his death
in contequence of that wound.
Mordecai Lazarus proved the death of Hart the
next day.
The prifoner being called upon for his defence,
gave in a written ftatement, alledging, that the un
fortunate circumtlance which had taken place, had
been cause.: by accident, and not by dcfign. He had
been employed as a cat penter, and had had the mil
s'rtune to break his thigh .in two places, which had
prevented him from pint-cling that bufinefs. •He was
engaged by the prop,ictors of the property, Meths-
White and other Gi Internet.), to lupe) intend it ; and
is confequence of fevtral rchberies having been corn.
muted. one of the proprietor. gate him a motket,
with fome powder, and Im'll (h 't, in order to enable
him to tepel any attempt that might be made upon
ilbfequent occafions. This muiket he fired off every