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London, England, 1822-01-12 00:00:00

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Yesterday Joh* Lane, aged 19, for breaking into
the housl sot John Goddard, and stealing twelve so-
va'figot, &e. and Jobs Redgrave, aged S 6, for a
butglatyln the house of Edward Young, and steal-
ing seven hams, Scc." were capitally convicted:
Thomas Stratford stood indicted for the murder of
Mr. A. Slade, purveyor to her late Majesty. The pri-
soner was also indicted upon the Coroner's Inquisi-
tion 7 charged with manslaughter.
W. Jones, a watchman of Mary-la-Bonne Parish,
was toining down the Edgesvare-road, in the even-
ing orthe 29th of November and saw a gig standing
alongside' the kirb, and a Gentleman standing by the
side of the horse. Witness had gone on about twenty
yards, when he heard the cracking of a whip, and
soon afterwards saw a coach lying on its side in the
road. Witness ran towards it, and saw a Gentleman
dragged from under the coach. As he was going
towards the coach, he met the gig, the horse was
running furiously, and, the gig was tumbling to
pieces. The road is lighted on the side where the
gig was standing.
Mr. T. Este, of Portland-place, Edgeware-road,
saw two women looking in at a jeweller's shop. They
went on, and a stage-coachman, who was on his box,
invited them upon his coach. Having placed one of
the women on the box beside him, he drove off ra-
ther rapidly, and' in a moment after witness heard a
scream. He ran to the spot, and saw the woman
who had mounted the box lying on the ground, and
a Gentleman leaning against the rails ; he seemed in
great agony, and was taken into a house. He saw a
coach standing in the road, and was going to aster-,
tain the name of the owner, when the coachman
drove off at a furious rate, so that he could only see
the words " Notting Hill" upon the panne'.
W. Gosling, D. Griffin, and R. Saunders, con-
firmed the substance of the above evidence.
Caroline Johnson knows the prisoner. She was a
passenger on his coach from the Star and Garter, in
the Edgeware-road, to Bayswater ; she was on the
box. When he got through the toll-bar, he got down,
and gave her the reins to hold. As he was re-mount-
ing, the horses moved on, and she dropped the reins.
The prisoner got upon the box, but did not get the
reins, and the horses went on. This was about 100
yards from the place where the accident happened.
She cannot say whether he had the reins in his hand
at the time of the accident. When the accident hap-
pened, the witness was thrown from her seat, and
she fainted.

Mr. Griffith, a surgeon, in Tottenham-court-road,
attended Mr. Slade on the 29th of November, and
until his death. His death was occasioned by exter-
nal bruises, but particularly by one on the knee joint,
which mortified. Sir Astley Cooper attended with
the witness, and everything was done that could be
done for the deceased.

D. E. Stevens, cle: kto a Solicitor in Po!and-street,
was sent for by Mr. Slade. He said, "I am dread-
fully wounded, and am sure 1 shall die, and I want
you to make my will."
Here the surgeon underwent a close exarninwion as
to the state of mind of the deceased before his death,
in order to ascertain whether certain declarations
v. hich he made as to the transaction, were made under
the impression that death was approaching, without
which they could not be received in evidence.
The Learned Judges, after a consultation, decided
that the declarations could not be received.

Mr. Justice Bunttoucti summed up, and the Jury
found the prisoner—Guilty of Man4laughter.

The following were convicted of felony, viz.
Robert Simms, aged 40, for stealing a watch; Charles Evans,
aged 25, for stealing a bridle; Frances Sadden, aged 63, for
obtaining seven by fain: pretences from the Church-
Wardens, &c. of St. l'a.icras and William Rolfe, aged
23 , for uttering a counterfeit half-crown. •

The Grand Jury returned true Bills against John
Tamphetv, William Holmes, John Barclay,
..,George
Clarke alias John Jones, and a man whose name is
u iknown, for the publication of blasphemous libels,
in Carlil&i, falsely called Temple of Reason, in Fleet-
street. These Bills, with the exception of that against
Clarke (preferred by the Society for the Suppression
of Vice), were preferred by the Bridge-street So-
ciety. It will be recollected, that three of the men
committed from Guildhall refused to live their
names, but sire that time Mr. Murray has succeeded
in obtaining the names of twe, namely, Vamphew and
Bolmes. Yam phew is the miserable shirtle.s old man,
described in the Guildhall Repora. The third man
persists in his taciturnity as to his name.
Denis Mahoney was indicted for the murder-- ofl
Richard Needs.

Mr. R. Harrison, a pupil at the London Hospital,
deposed,thai. he saw the deceased when he was brought
to the Hospital on the 13th of November. He had a
wound on the front of the head, but he did not dis-
cover that. his skull was fractured until three or four
days after. Mere fractures in the skull do not in
general produce death, and witness did not think at
first that the deceased was in danger. He, however,
gradually got worse, and died on the 9th December.
The cause of his death was an ittfiam7nation on the
lungs. The body was opened, and it was found that the
deceased had been subject to pulmonary inflamma-
tion, but the fracture of the skull was the cause of
the inflammation of which he died. Witness was of
opinion that the man would have died of the frac-
ture of the head if he had not had the inflammation
of the lungs, though the latter was certainly the im-
mediate cause of death. There was a suppuration
and a mortification of the membranes of the brain.
Could not say whether the lungs were actually in-
flamed before the fracture was given or not. It was
three weeks after the blow was given that the de-
ceased died, and the inflammation of the lungs might
have existed longer than that time. Witness could
not judge positively from the state of the lungs.
T. Staggs, landlord of the Green Man,Whitechapel,
swore, that on the night of the 12th of November,
about twelve o'clock, the prisoner and the deceased
came into his house together, and after being there
some time, the prisoner said to the deceased, "You
know you gave me a slap in the face once, and I did
riot deserve it." Deceased said, " You do not bear
malice, do you 7' Prisoner replied, "I have not for-
gotten it, and you had better look out for yourself,
tor I shall look out for you." They were drinking
together before and after this conversation, and ap-
pesred friendly.
Cross=eiansined.—The quarrel at which the slap 1

the face *as given took place sixteen Or eighteen
months ago. 'The prisoner and two of his kapds
went out -before the deceased. There was no attempt
on the part of the deceased to detain them. De-
ceased was a lamplighter, and the prisoner was a la-
bourer in the Gas Works.
G. Stubbs deposed to the same effect. •
J. Harris, a cestermonger, was at the Green Man.
Prisoner and his two partners went out first, and the
deceased went out alone shortly after. Witness and
Francis. went out behind bins. The prisoner
and his two friends were walking before the deceased,
and all at once he saw. Needi fall, and the prisoner
and his friends run away. When Needs fell he was
not above two yards from the prisoner. Witness
pursued the fugitives, but could not. overtake them,
and he returned and found the deceased in the care
of a watchman. Witness, with the watchman and
another, took deceased home to Catherine-wheel-
alley. 'He was wounded on the side of the head, and
bled very much. He seemed very ill. Witness cut
his hair off, and applied a plaister to the wound, and
then went away.
J. Francis lived with the deceased in Catharine.
wheel-alley. Was in company with Harris at the
Green Man. As they were walking along, after
leaving the house, witness heard the prisoner call
out, come along Dick" (meaning the deceased).—
They walked on, and presently Needs fell. Pawner
and deceased were about two yards apart when the
latter fell. Prisoner and his companions ran away,
and witness pursued and called out to have them
stopped, but they escaped. When witness went
home, he found the deceased sitting. in a chair be-
tween two men, bleeding. He was taken to the
Hospital the next day.
' Crospesaminucd.—The deceased had a bad cough
for a twelvemonth before he died ; but it had got'
better lately. Witness did not think the prisoner and
the deceased likely to have met often in the last 16
months; but they might have met. There was no
quarrel before the deceased fell. The only words
spoken were by the prisoner, " come along, Dick."
Mr. Harrison was again called, and examined by
Mr. Justice PA K IL— The fracture on the. skull might
have been occasioned by the fall of the deceased
against the pavement.
J. Partridge, a night beadle of Whitechapel, ap-
prehended the. prisoner, about seven o'clock, on the
morning af.er the affray, and took him to the room
where the deceased was in bed. Witness asked the
deceased to look round and say, if he saw the man
who threw the stone. The deceased did so, and nodded
to the prisoner, and said, " 'That is the man." Pri-
soner muttered something, in which the words,
"am sorry for it" were heard. On the 9th ult; the
day the deceased died, witness went to see him, and
found him in bed, surrounded by his friends. .This
was about four o'clock in the afternoon, and deceased
died about six or seven. IVittress asked him if he
was aware of the situation he was in? and he replied,
" I am, I am." This was the only declaration made
by the deceased as to his own state. The Surgeon
begged of witness not to disturb him.
Mr. Justice Panes said, the declaration " I am,
I am," was not. sufficient to shew that the deceased
was aware that he was dying, and the inquiet' as to
What he said afterwards could not be pursued.
T. Yearley, a watchman, saw the prisoner, the de-
ceased, and the others, going up the street, and heard
a voice call out " Needs, Needs, come along !" and
almost at the same instant Needs fell. He fell on his
left side, :rad his head was mach cut. Witness, after
taking the deceased home, returned to the spot, and
about seven yards .ftom where the deceased fell, he
found a large stone, which he produced.—{lt was
a stone eight inches in circumference).—There were
no other stones but a very large granite stone, lying
in the street.

John Sansum, a patrol in Whitechapel, produced
a hat given to him on the night in question. It was
much indented on one side. Witness was present
when the prisoner was brought into the deceased's
room, and the latter identified him.

The prisoner, in his defence, said he knew nothing
about the matter. Several witnesses gave the pri-
soner a good character for humanity.
Mr. Justice PARKE summed up the evidence, and
the Jury found the prisoner—Not Guilty.
Thomas Coxwell, aged 23, for stealing a piece of
timber ; and Joseph Capper, aged 28, for stealing
several decanters, were also acq.litted.

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