Star.
London, England, 1823-07-29 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

Qesurn-s4raas.--Crialum or Muanza.—Yesterday if
Briton Dyson was brought to this Office, 'on suspicion of his
having murdered Eliza Anthony, a young Woman with whom
he cohabited, by throwing ber•into the Thames, near West
minster-bridge, early on Saturday morning. The body has
not yet been found.
Mary Johnson, housekeeper to Mr. Boyce Combe, d Bos-
well-court, Carey-street, deposed, that Eliza Anthonyi was her
daughter by a former husband ; tete was between 18 and if years
of age, and lived several years with Mr. Joseph Wood as bar-
maid, and the prisoner lived at the same place as waiter, and
unfortunately her daughter formed, a violtnt attachment for
hint, and repeatedly asked her consent to marry him, which she
refused, as he was not in a situation to provide for her. Wit-
ness called' pon Mr. Wood some time ago, and was informed
by him that the prisoner and her daughter bad left Ills service
some time, and that he believed they were livinglogether
as man and wife, but he could not say where. On Friday
night last a woman named Elizabeth Bell called upon her,
and said that her daughter was in great distress, and very
ill, and that if she liked she would accompany her to the place
where her daughter was living, as she wished very much to see
her; she told her that she could not possibly spare time to go
that evening, as Mr. Combe had a party, but that if she called
again in the morning she would go with her. Mrs. Bell went
away, and came again about five the next morning, when she
informed her that her daughter was no more ; that she bac'
just put a period to her existence by drowning herself. Wit-
ness put on her clothes and went out with Mrs. Bell : when
they got Into Carey-street, Islrs. Bell asked her if she wished to
see the prisoner, if she did she would fetch him to her? She
replied she had no wish to see such a rascal; when they proceeded
on together towards Westminster-brldge, where they arrived at
about half-past five, and seeing a Waterman there, Mrs. Bell in-
quired if he had seen the body of a young woman anywhere in
the water? When he told her he bad seen nothing of the kind,
Mrs. Bell told him that a young woman had drowned herself at
one o'clock that morning; he told her shebad better come again.
at eleven o'clock, when the tide would be down, and she would
then have a much better opportunity of finding what she was in
search of. Mrs. Bell then accompanied her to a house in- Jer-
myn-street, where she found the prisoner; thence she went to
Queen-square. The last time she saw her daughter was in com-
pany with the prisoner, at the Plough public-house, in Carey-
street, about two months ago.
John Ellis, a waterman, deposed, that on Saturday morning,
about half-past five, Mrs. Bell came up to him at the foot of
Westminster-bridge, and asked him if he had seen the body of
a drowned woman in Ite water? when he said he had not, and
asked her how she knew that anybody was drowned? she said
she knew it from the person who was with her at the time. He
then told her she had better come again at low water. Witness had
made every search, but had not been able to discover the body.
George Sullivan, waterman, Garden-walk, Vauxhall, deposed,
that on Friday night, about eleven o'clock, he left his wherry
fastened to one of the piers of Westminster-bridge. and on Sa-
turdayanorning, about seven o'clock, he discovered that his boat
had been removed to the distance of about 100 yards, and fas-
tened to another place; on examining the boat he found foot-
marks inside, as if some persons had been struggling there; it
was also in a very dirty state. On looking under the sitting-
board,, he discovered a woman's straw bonnet, trimmed with
pink ribbon. (The bonnet was here produced).
Mr. Wood deposed, that the unfortunate young woman had
lived with him nearly five years as bar-maid, and had given hint
the greatest satisfaction; and she was a very great favourite with
Mrs. Wood; so much so, that she was treated like one of the
family. She continued to behave with the greatest propriety
until the prisoner came to live in the same house as waiter, when
she unfortunately formed an attachment for him, and never con-
ducted herself properly afterwards, in consequence of which she
left his service about three months ago, and the prisoner went
with her; they took lodgings in Sherrard-street, Golden-square,
where they lived as man and wife; the bonnet produced was like
the one he had seen her wear; he had not seen her but once
since ; he had heard from very good authority that Mrs. Ben
and the prisoner formerly cohabited together. •
Mrs. Bell, who appeared with a child in her arms, acknow-
ledged that she bad lived with the prisoner, but not lately.
The prisoner, who appeared about 30 years'of age, stattd that
'he had cohabited with the unfortunate young woman, Eliza
Anthony; about four month', and that they lived together in
Sherrird-street, but being reduced in the greatest distress, in
consequence of being out of a situation, and nothing to support
them, they had become very low and melancholy, and they wet*,
obliged to quit their lodgings, in consequence of not being able
to pay the rent ; on Fridwe.last he went out in search of a situa-
don, but being unsuccessful, he returned home to Jermyn-street,
where he was then living with Eliza Anthony, and told her he
had been unable to procure a situation ; after this she became
very low and dejected in her mind, and in order to raise her
spirits, he proposed going to the Haymarket Theatre, which she
agreed to, and they went together. After the play was over,
they walked towards Westminster Bridge, and after pacing
about there sonic time in a Ter/ nielaneholy mOod,theydescended
the steps leading to the water side, and perceived a wherry made
fast to one of the piers, into which they both got,•and continued
in conversation there some time, both greatly dejected ; and
while he was standing with one foot against the side of the boat,
he found himself suddenly immersed in the water, and the un-
fortunate young woman with'hins, who disappeared almostim-
mediately; shortly afterwards he observed her head floating
down the stream; he then got into the boat, and endeavoured to
row after her, but he could not move the mat, and he saw no
more of her; he then went to kii lodgings in Jermyn-street to
dry his wet clothe'; he protestedhis innocence.
He was remanded for further ethinination. • The etamina-
don lasted till nearly four o'clock, and excited a very general and
powerful interest.

We have already stated that General Smarr, on
going to the Admiralty on Tuesday,*entrusted his
cabriolet to a sailor-looking fellow,- who drove off
with it. Nothing was heard of it until Friday, 4-lien
a letter arrived from Witney, in Oxfordshire, con-
veying information that it had been stopped near that
place. General SMITH, accompanied by Taunton,
one of the principal officers of Bow-street Establish-
ment, proceeded immediately to Witney, where they
found the man whom the General had entrusted with
his cabriolet in custody: He was examined before
the Rev. Mr. HYDE, a local Magistrate, when it 'ap-
peared that between five and six o'clock on Thursday
morning a man in the service of a Gentleman who is
the proprietor of Witney Park saw the prisoner drive
the General's cabriolet out of the main road, about a
mile en the London side of Witney, into a field, where
' he unharnessed the horse and turned him loose, and
was walking away, when the man stopped him, and
asked why he Was leaving the horse and vehicle
there ? He seemed much confused, and said, hesi-
tatingly—" Oh, lam only going to leave it there for
a short time." He then walked away, and the man.,
suspecting something wrong, put the horse in the ca-
briolet and drove.tia his master, whom he informed
of what he-had seen. That Gentleman very naturally
suspected that the °weer of the cabriolet had been
murdered, or that some violence had been perpe-
trated upon him,: and be immediately sent men in
pursuit of the prisoner, who was taken at Witney.—
There were pair of hoots and a military cloak in the
cabriolet when the prisoner took charge of it at the
Admiralty, and these he had pawned on the road. A
duplicate for the boots was found upon him. He made
no defence,.aad was fully committed for trial at the
nest Assizes for that county. Taunton was ai.fir,e
about to bring him to London ; but as it was, Mere
convenient for die several witnesses that he should be
tried' itt.Oxfordslii!e, and as by law a man may be
, tried in whatever county he happens to be found in
the possesgon, of stolen property, it was thought best
, to commit him for the Assizes.
A Young woman of Plymontkelied there last week.
in consequence of having been in the habit of lacing
, her stays too tightly.

SURREY ASSIZE&

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trtoyDow,..JULY 26.
•
•Mitheid Rock was indicted forthe wilful murder-of
Elizabeth Chamberlayne, by stabbing her with a
knife on the left side of the head. The second count
alleged the mortal wound to have been inflicted with
a piece of earthenware plate.
Mt. Law said, the deceased, an elderly woman,
occupied a house in glary gold-street, Bermondsey,
and let lodgings. Tice prisoner lodged in a room
behind the apartment occupied by the deceased. He
was, prior to this transaction, a man of irreproach-
able character, and was in the service of Mr; Wade,
"ship-builder at Bermondsey, whose humanity bad
induted him to:furnish the prisoner with the able as-
sistance of his learned friends, Mr. Andrews and Mr.
Adolphus. He then called the following witnesses:
R. Crispin deposed, that on the 11th of July, he
lodged at the house of the deceased. Witness came
home in the evening, and found the prisoner and the
deceased in the room. ' The prisoner said -to her, he
should like to have a slice of cheeie, a twopenny loaf,
and a pint of beer; and added, " will you fetch it, Mrs.
Chamberlayne?" She replied, that she would. Wit
ness.then went to bed. He had not been up stairs
more than a minute, when he heard somebody going
out, whom he believed to be the prisoner. After that
he heard something fall on the floor in the room below.
The person who went out soon afterwards returned,
and he heard the prisoner say, " Mrs. Chamberlayne,
what do you lie there for ?" She said, " She would
lie there if she liked." He said, 11 You are not so
drunk but you can get up yourself." She said, " She
would get up when she liked." He said, 11 l'll help
you up, and get you into bed." She replied, " Let
me alone—l'll go to my bed when I like. The pri-
soner then appeared to have retired to the back room,
where he slept. He could not then distinctly hear
what the prisoner said. In continuation of the
conversation, witness heard the deceased say, " You
are a cursed liar, and never mind that." This she
repeated three or four times. Witness fell asleep,
and heard no more till the next morning about five
-o'clock, when the prisoner said, " Young man, are
you asleep?", The prisoner must have passed through
the room of the deceased to get to the foot of the
stairs from whence he called witness. Witness asked
him what o'clock it was? He replied that it was nearly
five. He said, 14 What a state this woman has been
in all night ; site has fallen and cut herself somewhere
—she is all blood, and there is blood oh the flour."
Witness said, " I know she was very drunk.' He
heard the prisoner go out: then 'witness continued in
his bed about a quarter of an hour, and just as he
got out the prisoner came again, and said to witness,
"Are you getting up ?" He replied, "He was dressing."
The prisoner had not been in the habit of calling wit-
ness before. As soon as witness got up, he found the
prisoner standing at the foot of the stairs, close to the
door of the deceased's room. He saw blood on the
floor, between the doors of the front and back room,
about two or three feet from some drawers. The de-
ceased was sitting in a chair under the window in her
own room ; her left elbow resting on the table, and
her head lyirig on her right arm. The greatest quan-
tity of blood appeared to be between the two doors.
The prisoner said, " we had better call some persons,l
for it is not fit she should be left in this state.
. Mr. Sterry, surgeon, of Bermondsey, examined ;
between eleven and twelve o'clock on the 12th he
was called in by the Parish Officers; she was sitting
in the chair; her arm reclining on the side of the
chair, and her head upon the arm. There was a
wound of an inch in length, and in depth to the bone.
'The temporal artery was divided. Without consi-
derable force, a blunt knife' could not have inflicted
it. It was a transverse wound. The outer edge was
not so irregular as the internal parts. It must have
been inflicted by something between a blunt and a
sharp instrument. The figure seemed in a composed
Gime in the chair. In witness's opinion, the deceased
aright have fainted from the loss of blood, recovered,
and placed herself in the chair, and died in the pos-
ture in which she was found. This was possible.
Cross-examined.—lf she had fallen on the point of
a knife, the wound might have been inflicted ; look-
ing at the latch of the door now produced, and hear-
ing that the deceased had been drunk, he conceived
it to be within the scope of possibility, that the
*round might have.been inflicted by her falling against
it. Falling on the fender might have produced the
wound. The edge of the thumb part of the door
latch' sufficiently sharp to
.have inflicted the
viound by MINN; against it.
By the Jury.—Supposing the face of the deceased
to have come in contact with the latch, the handle
which projected above the thumb part would pro-
bably have bruised the cheek.
Mary Towers deposed, that she heard the prisoner
say on the 16th, to her master, that he ought to have
been at work on the morning of the 12th at three
o'clock, but that he was disturbed and could not get,
up. He said, he was coming out that morning and
the place was very dat k, he saw some-blood against
the door. He saw the deceased lying in a bad state,
and he hoisted orlifted her up.
John Nicholls, master of the last witness, deposed
to the same Conversation.' The prisoner said, " What
a thing it was that they theuldput about a report re-
specting his having 'Murdered Mrs. Chamberlayne."
He added, that he was coming out of his room to go
to work about a quarter before five, when he sawthe
old woman wallowing 'in her blood ; ind that he
lifted her up and put her in the chair. Witness asked
I him if she was then dead? .gnd he replied, that she
just breathed.
The prisoner, being tailed upon for his defence,
said he would leave into' his Counsel. The following
witnesses were called :
Mary Ward deposed, that she was- servant to Mr:
Wade, the prisoner's master. On the 11th of July
the prisoner's mistress told him to kill two fowls,
which he did by putting them' between his kneel.
His =unclothes were stained with the blood. There'
was also blood on his hands • at the time. In the
evening of the same day, as late as seven o'clock, the
blood was not washed bff his hands.
Mrs. Tic key deposed, that .she lived next-door but
one to the deceased. On'ttie'morning of the 11th, a
little aftei five, the prisoner told- herthere was enme-
thing the matter With Mrs.Chamberlayne-; that he
thought she had been up' all night,. aad that there
was blood on the floor. • Witness was alarmed and
aid not go.
Mrs.Griffiths deposed, that she spoke to the pti•

sorter on the morning of. the 12th, whilst hr was in
the toom with the dead body. Witness said it wag nil
xsiful'sight ; to which the prisoner assented, and said
it was exceedingly unpleasant to be in a housewhefe
such w thing' appened. Witness put 'hee-band itpon
the shoulder of the deceased, and looked in the face'
of the in-isoner •to see":if he was agitated. lie was
not in the lea,t agitated. The prisoner said she had
I not been dead along time, because she was timing •
when he went to call for some assistance.

Mr. Wade, a shipwright, in Charlotte-row, Ber-
mondsey, examined.—The prisoner was in his em-
ployment from last February twelve months. After
the Inquest he was adrnitied to bail, and witness he
came his surety., Ile afterwards surrendered. The
_prisoner bore an excellent character.
Several other wilnesses. gave the prisoner a very
good character for peaceful and inoffensive conduct.
-Mr. Serjeant ONSLOW premised his charge tit the •
,Jury by saying that this was one cf. the most painful..
and difficult cases perhaps ever pre-ented to a Cour::
of Justice. It was involved in the greatest obscurity
Clear it was that the deceased had comeby her death
in consequence of a wound inflicted ; but whether the
wound was accidental or intentional, was a matter of
uncertainty. There appeared certainly to have been
no adequate motive assigned for the violence im-
puted to the prisoner.
The Jury retired for about three quarters of an
hour, and found the piisoner guilty of Manslaughter,
but recommended him to mercy on account of his
previous good character.
He was sentenced to six months imprisonment.

The prisoner had the appearance of an old worn-
out seaman, and was blind of one cye. On retiring
from the bar, he solemnly rrotested his innocence.

•
In the Vice-Chancellor's Court, on Sltur.iay, Mr.
W. A us-rt N, theprotcgrle of the late Queen CAROLINE,
claimed a sum of 55631. now in the hinds of the Ac-
countant-General. By a grant of the Crown, a man-
sion at Blackheath was vested in the late Duchess of
Brunswick, who subsequently devised it to her daugh-
ter, the late Queen. The latter first executed an as-
signment of her property in favour of her brother,
the Duke of Brunswick ; but in this deed, a dathe
gave her a right of revocation Soon after, having
borrowed 23001. from a Mr. Hooper, she partially
revoked the assignment, so as to give him a- lien to •
that amount on the estate. In 1814, she executed
another assignment, vesting this mansion in her
daughter, the Princess Charlotte, but being witnessed
by one individual only, was void. In 1816, a Com-
mission, under an Act of Parliament, bought the
Queen's interest for 40001. but which sum was raid
into Court, and was now clairned,'with interest, by Mt.
Austin, to whom the Queen, upon the death of her
brother and daughter, had transferred all her right as,
to this property by deed of gift. Mr. Hooper, it
seems, has been partly repaid along with the Queen's,
general creditors ; but a question was now raised,•
whether he should, not be paid wholly out of this
estate ; and, secondly, if this sum should not alto-
gether merge into the fund for the' payment of the
Queen's debts? Some other claims were set up to
this sum of 58631. but the VICE-CHANCELLOR de-
cided Mr. Austin was entitled to it, if Mr. [Loper, or
the general creditors, hud not a legal claim—which
question therefore remains open for future discussion.

• IHRtHS.
Wednesday, at Hope Cottage, near Cowes, the Lady of Capt.
French, of the 47th Regiment, of a still-born son.
July 19, at Otterston Fifeshire, the Lady of Rear-Admiral
Moubray, C.B. of a daughter.