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London, England, 1814-09-17 00:00:00

MURDER OF ELIZABETH PILCHIN.

William Henry Hollings was next put to the bar, on
an indictment charging him with the wilful murder
of Elizabeth Pile*, in the parish of St. George,
Hanover-square.
The Prisoner is an aged man, and appeared with a
placid smile on his countenance.
Mr. Cartwright, of 62, Lower Grosvenor-street,
Grosvenor square, deposed that the deceased was ser-
vant with his father. About ten o'clock on the even-
ing of the 4th of July, he heard the report of a pistol.
Ran down stairs, and saw the deceased lying on the
floor of the passage, supported by the man servant,
and a man standing near with a pistol in his hand.
Went to him, and took the pistol from him. The
watchman came in, and he gave him is charge. The
deceased was not dead when he ran down. She was
carried into the parlour.
William Martin, was servant to Mr. Cartwright.
On the 4th of July last, the prisoner came to his mas-
ter's house about.a quarter before ten. lie asked for
the deceased. Witness called her down stairs. Be-
lieved the prisoner had been an exciseman. The de-
ceased went to the door to the prisoner. The door
was pulled to, but not shut—they appeared to be
talking together for about a minute. He went into
the parlour—did not hear any thing that passed—
almost immediately heard the report of a pistol, and
then heard the deceased scream : ran into the passage
immediately, and caught the deceased in his arms as
she was falling: under her right arm saw a black
bloody mark, as if of gunpowder. She spoke, but
not intelligibly. She was followed up the passage
by the prisoner—he said, 44 Let me kiss her."—(Hue
the piroger aNteared extremely of and shed tear: pro-
fludy.) Several persons now catty in ; saw her clothes
torn down, and saw a wound at her side ; she was
laid on a chair in the parlour; assisted in taking her
up stairs; she died on the Sunday following; the
prisoner was secured, he made no resistance.
Crass-examined.—Saw a glass, broken, lying on the
steps ; it appeared to have had a white liquor in it,
something like arsenic and water.
Samuel Lob, a watchman in Hanover4qoare, was
in Lower Grosvenor-street, on the night in question;
beard a report of firearms aad crossed over to Mr.

tartierightis holies ; the door eras half Op& sate I
man btaading la the isage : the prisoner was that
mans be had a 'pistol in his right hand : Mr. Cart
wright gave the prisoner in charge: laid hold ofhim
the pnsoaer said, " Don't seise me, I sheet runaway."
Witness said, 14 You have killed Ole young woman."
44 Ham, P" said he, " the dZI P"..`61 1 believe
you bare," said witness.—" Them," said he " let me
him her cold lip, mad fly to her to Heave'!"

Cross-exordia by Mr. GURNEY.
Took the prisoner to the watch-house ; did not see
him throw up any poison, or see the glass alluded to
by the last witness.
William Dean, constable of the night at the watch-
house, received the prisoner into his custody on the
night of die murder ; after the prisoner had arrived
he drank a great deal of water—he vomited very
much. The pistol which was fired off had burst.—
Another pistol was found in the prisoner's pocket ;
the pistol was loaded with shot.
Mr. Heaviside, the Surgeon, attended the deceas-
a.—Th6 wound she had received in the side was
the occasion of her death ; on opening her body he
found nearly two hundred small shut in the liver,
and nearly two hundred beside in the bowels. Tb;
size of the shot was No. 2. _ _

This was the whole of the evidence for the pro-
secution.
' Mr. Baron Gamut' then called on the Prisoner
fbr his defence.
He said he had as sincere a regard for the deceas-
ed as he had for hit own child, and would have done
'for her as if she had been his own flesh and blood.—
As to discharging the unfortunate pistol, he knew no
mote of it than his Lordship. He never had auy in-
tention of injuring her.
Richard Stone proved that the prisoner had lodg-
ed with him about nine months ; from his conduct
he did not believe him to be in a sane state of mind ;
very frequently in the morning he found that the
prisoner had done something improper in the room ;
he sometimes heard him singing in the night, and in
the morning he seemed very wild, and at times seem-
ed low and melancholy ; thought him deranged for
nearly six weeks before the murder ; the prisoner ap-
peared to be more deranged on the night before the
murder, than on any former occasion. '
Emma Mascn, the daughter of a publican in the
neighboprhood of the prisoner's lodgings, deposed,
that the prisoner used to take his breakfast at her
father's house ; she observed something in his de-
portment, which led her to believe that he was de-
ranged; he was at times melancholy, and talked
rather incoherently ; was afraid to stay in the room
with him. She believed, from his general demeanour,
that he was quite deranged.
James Cohen, a calico-printer in 'the Kent.road,
knew the prisoner previous to tie last three years ;
be lived near him at that time, and he made such a
noise with his screams as to alarm the whole neigh-
bourhood. He had seen him in a public-house,
called the Cottage of Content. He was behaving in
a very incoherent manner; be was not quite sober at
the time.
Robert Cooper lived near the prisoner seven years
previous to the last twelve months ; observed a great
deal of derangement in the conduct of the prisoner;
was called in one evening by the prisoner's daughter,
*ant tip stairs and found ham on the bid, with his
clothes on ; helms attempting to bite the shwas ;
asked him the *awn, and he said it was in conse-
quence of Betsy Pilchen (meaning the deceased) ;
this was about eighteen months back ; he was consi-
dered by all t ,ateighbours to be deranged; he
talked one even; di throwing himself over London-
bridge; lie was very humane good kind of man ;
the prisoner had formerly been a Collector in the
Collectors' Office, in the Excise; he had left that
situation about three months back.
Mrs. Bennett, who lived near the prisoner, said,
she saw such appearances in his conduct, as led her
to believe him insane. He made love to her about
three years and a half ago; she was then a married
woman, and the mother of six children; within
six weeks before the murder happened, uderstood
that the prisoner had taken out of his pocket poison
three times.
This was the whole of the evidence for the defence.
Mr. Baron GRAHAM then summed up the evidence,
and recapitulated all the circumstances of the case.
He said, it was for the Jury to say, whether, from
the evidence which had been adduced, they could
conclude that the conduct of the prisoner was of such
a nature as to warrant a suspicion of his being in a
state of insanity at the time of the commission of the
murder imputed to him ? From the clearnen of his
answers, and the conversation which was held with
him at the time of his apprehension, it would appear
that he was perfectly collected, and conscious of the
act which he had done. It was impossible, too, not
to notice the fact, that after the prisoner found himself
in the bands of justice, he endeavoured to relieve him-
self from the poison which he had previously taken.—
The main point which the Jury had to decide, how-
ever, was, whether at the time the prisoner's conduct
rsysis marked with such atrocity, he was incapable of
judging between right and wrong f This was in his
' estimation the criterion by which insanity was to be
decided. The manner in which the prisoner had
behaved himself at the moment, was the best test
by which it was to be tried , and it was for the
Jury to take all the features of the case into their
consideration, and return such a verdict as their
own consciences should, alter mature and dispasl
sionate deliberation, dictate. His Lordship also
adverted to the feelings by which some persons were
actuated, when unable to obtain possession of the
object on which their passion might be fixed, and the
lengths to which such a disappointment might lead
them, and remarked, that it was somewhat singular
no proof had been adduced of the prisoner's having
been discharged from the service of the Excise, in
which he had remained for so many years, and in
which such scrupulous exactness was required in the
execution of his duty, in consequence of insanity.
One of the Jurymen now begged to ask Mr. Cart-
wright's footman a question. The witness was im-
mediately called, and was asked whether on the night
of the murder, when the prisoner had come to the
door, and asked for the deceased, or,at any other,
other time, at Mr. Caravright's ir,Juse, he had exhi-
bited any appearances of insanity ? The witness an-
swered, " Not in the least."
The Jury then proceeded to consider their verdict,
and, after a shoretime returned a verdict of Guilty.
The Prisoner was Alien asked is the usual maim!,

what he had to t*, Nhy judgi,en—i of death sh9nlci
not be passed upon him ? He answere4, that if he
was found gtiilty, he felt &rfecily conscious of t::e
justice of his sentence. H ad only tr: rest on the
Mercy of the Court. He admitted that he bad Coin-
mitted the Elime imputed to him—he knew it was a
horrid and inexcusable offence, and had only to hope
that all would take warning by his fate. If executed,
he sould die Content and happy, and. with a perfect
consciousness of pardon hereafter.
The ItnisanEn then passed sentence, and the pri•
toner was ordered to be executed on Monday next.—
Me bowed at the conclusion of the address, and said,

" Thank Gon."
During the whole of the trial, the prisoner only
.seemed affected when the name of the deceased was
mentioned.
MURDER OF THOMAS DAVIS.
Joan De Silva (a Po. tuguese) was the third priso.
ner put to the bar to take his trial, on a charge of
having murdered one Thomas Davis, a waterman,
cm the 12th of Dec. 1812. In a second Connt he
was charged with aiding and assisting one +lonia
Cardoso in the commission of the said murder. The
prisoner smiled and seemed to treat the charge against
him with the utmost indifference.
Mr. Cowan( stated the case for the prosecution:
The facu which he detailed were shortly these : The
deceased and his brother, who were watermen, on the
evening of the murder were walking up Nightingale-
lane, and had a dispute with some women of the sown.
One of the girls ran into a neighbouring public house,
and called out-4g Cardoza 1" Cardosa, the priso.
ner, and two other men came out ; on coming out
the girls pointed out the deceased, and said—" that
is he, kill him dead." The prisoner drew a knife,
and made a stab at the brother of the deceased, and

afterwards ran to the assistance of Cardoza, who !hid
stabbed the deceased, in consequence of which death
ensued. Shortly afterwards the prisoner went into
the public house from whence he came, and delivered
to the landlord a knife. A Gentleman who followed
him, and perceived this act, said, " You are the man
who stabbed the young man." The landlord said—
" Can you prove it, Sir ?" and upon answering in
the negative, the prisoner, with his comrades, were
suffered to escape, with the exception of Cardoza, who
was secured, tried, and had been executed. The disco.
viry cf the prisoner was owing to one of those inter-
positiotft of PROVIDINCI4 which fully proved the truth .
of the maxim, that a murderer could never escape the
punishment his crime deserved. The brother of the
deceased, it appeared, fulfill of the vengeance of the
countrymen of Cardoza, to whose death he had been
so instrumental, thqught it wise to quit his ordinary
profession of a waterman, and to sh,p hinisell as
sailor on board an East Indiaman. H- went with the
ship to China, and while there went on board toe Sir
Charles Grant: he there saw the prisoner, whom tie
immediately recognised as having taken part in the
murder of his brother. The prisoner saw him it the
'same time, and covering his face with a handkerchief,
went away. The young man, however, f. w. d him,
and asked whether his name was not De Silva ?
was answered in the affirmative. In a week .
wards he saw him in oae of the ports of the yeast,
and said " you are the man who killed my broth. r."
The prisoner said, " t wish I had kilted >ou 4144"
The prisoner was confined in a week aiterwar&, and,
sent home to England ; and he now stood at the bar
of a British tribunal to receive that punishment his
crime so justly merited.
The Learned Counsel then called evidence to prove

the fact.
The prisoner put in a written paper in his defence;
it was written in Portuguese, and translated into Erg•
lish by an interpreter. In it be most positively pro
tested his innocence, and stated that he had been se-
veral times in London subsequent to the murder.
Witnesses were called who proved this latter asser-
tion.
' Mr. Justice DAMPIER, in summing up the evidences
remarked, that he did not think such tesom. ny had
been adduced as would lead to a fair conclusion that
the prisoner was either a principal or an accessary to
the murder which had been committed.
The Jury were clearly of opinion that the evidence
did not warrant them in finding the prisoner guilty of
•
the murder.
The Learned Judge then summed up the evidence,
in order that the Jury might term their opinion as to
whether the prisoner was guilty of m inslaughter He
remarked that, it they were of opinion Ow the pri-
soner had gone out of the public-house a Ith the vie .v
of joining an some illegal act, death having ensued,
then he was guilty of manslaughter; it they were of
opinion that he had merely gone out to protect the
girls, who had called for Cardoaa's assistance, then
be was not guilty.
'The Jury pronounced the prisoner—Not Gulty.
MURDER OF MARGARET "JEWETT.

Edward Medgett was next tried on an indictment
charging him with the wilful murder of Margaret,
his wife, in the parish of St. George's, kianuver•
square, on the Bth of June last.
Elizabeth Sanderson knew the deceased ; the pri-
soner was her husband. Was at the house in ‘• n•ch
the deceased lived on the night of the Bth of J site.
SO was very much intoxicated—assisted her thy
stairs—was in the house when the prismer came
home. Did not hear any high words. The pris,qter
came down stairs, and asked wi to go up. She
went up and found the deceaseoThildressed, very un-
well. The prisoner asked witness if anything ci Ind
be done for her ? Witness told him to go for a doctor,
He immediatcly went. The deceased was atterwards
Liken to the Hospital, where she died.
Mr. Bailey, a surgeon, proved that the decea.e.l
was brought to the lit.spetal on the 16th of .I.ine. lie
had some conversation with the prisoi.er, who Aated,
that on the morning of the Bth, his wife was I.;oing
with a party, and wanted him to go w itli her. He
refused, however, as he had had some quarrel with
the party. His wife, however, went, and c Ante lii.n,e
tistoxicated. The prisoner said he timid M.t g.t her
to bed, and an altercation aro.e, which induced
him to kick her. The result of the kick Was, that
some bloo,l flowed, and the Jece.ie.i .ifteroards died.
fne prisoner chewed every humane attention to his
wile.
From the other testimony adduced, it appeared,
that the deceased had been afflicted with an extraor-
dinary swelling in one of Ler veins, end that a slight
blow might have produced the cif. cts whet' had ue.
curred.—The iier was in consequence only Woad
Gut), of Manslaughter.

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MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

Yesterdly Jol4 Mathews and• Chas. Cooke, Officers
of Hattor Garden, and Thomas and George Dud, field,
who were .n Wednesday convicted of assaulting and
false impri-.aning Mr. Cha-les John Taylor, of White.
chapel, on a pretended charge of felony, prefeir 'd
azainst him by the Du Melds, tl-1 Officers having no
-wan rant, and ititfterwards appearing that no felony
had been committed, were brought up for judgment.
The Court observed, that it appeared much con-
trivance had been adopted by them in bringing this
charge against Mr. Taylor, and procuring Ms being
taken into custody, and therefore the sentence on them
was, that thy should be imprisoned six months.—
With respect to the other two defendants, Cooke and
Mathews, the Court had considered, that they being
Police Officers, and that promptness of action was
always necessary for forwarding the ends of justice,
were willing to believe that they had been deceived
by the misrepresentations of the other two defendants.
It was necessary, however, that they should on all oc-
casions be careful they did not abuse their power, by
wantonly depriving any person of his liberty ; but it
was more particularly necessary that they should as-
certain that they were proceeding on good grounds,
when, as was the case on the present occasion, they
had no warrant, or any legal authority to go upon;
and in hopes it would have the effect of rendering
them more cautious in future, the Court would now
sentence them to ;ray a fine of 410 each, to the King,
and to remain in cOnfinement till such fine was paid.

POLICE.

BOW-STREET.—Mary Newingn, servant to Mr. New-
ton, of Long-acre, was charged with having robbed
her master of a pocket-book, containing a one pound
note. On the officer searching her, he found the
pocket-book, with its contents. The prisoner said, her
mistress had told het to keep it. This statement
was, however, contradicted, and she was ordered for
re-examination.
G UILDIIA LL.—Yesterday M. Evans was charged
with creating, a riot around the house of Mr. Roper,
tea-urn manufacturer, on Snow-hill. Mr. Roper
stated, that he had employed the prisoner as a car-
penter, on his premises, paying him 245. per week,
that having discharged him, he was grealy surprised
on his presenting him with a bill for £9 for work,
- -which he.preterided he bad done. Aware that he
owed him nothing, he desired him to quit his pre-
mises. Mr. Roper afterwards tinkled town, and on
• his return was surprised to find, that in his absence,„
he had been summoned for an alledged debt of ..‘l4
his. and for which,.by default of non-appearance, he
had suffered judgment. He-likewise learnt that the
man had frequently, in his absence, raised riots be-
fore his door. On Thursday he again came and col-
lected a mob, calling Mr. Roper the most opprobri-
ous names, and demapding to know why he did not
pay his debts? Mr. Roper immediately gave him in
custody. Evans, to:day, seemed convinced of his
"error, and upon Mr. Roper's intercessian he was dis.
charged.
J. Collis: le l; charged with stealing a gown, be-
longing to one of she officers of the Old Bailey Court,
from the kitchen of the Bell public house, in the Old
Bailey, and was remanded for further examination.
Qtregn-socani.--/Filliens Williams, the proprietor of
the Reading coach, who was convicted at this Office
on Saturday se'nnight of carrying eight outside i?as-
sengers more than he was licenced to carry the
licensed number being twelve), and, in mitigated pe-
nalties to the amount of /153, yesterday gave security
for the payment of that amount, preparatory to his
lodging an appeal against such conviction at the
Quarter Sessions.
Mary Haig was brought to this Office by Pace, the
officer, charged on suspicion of having robbed Abra-
ham Simmons, of the Strand, the great tailor and mi-
litary dressmaker, of a gold epaulet, and divers other
articles used in the way of his trade, to a considerable
extent, in quantity and value. With a view to ob-
tain further evidence, Mr. Simmons begged that the
business might be postponed. for a few days, at the
same time swearing to the property being his which
bad been found in .her apartment, as well as the epau-
let which she had pawned. The prisoner, who was
rather an interesting and genteel looking woman,
Nelda a child at the breast, was accordingly remanded
to be brought up next week.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.

Mr. Sarriuel .Eady WAS re-examined, when he was
apposed by Mr. POLLOCK, on the ground of being
as uncertified bankrupt. He had not before yester-
day given notice to a Mr. Atkinson, his assignee, or
the assignee GC ceitain creditors of the prisoner, which
was not sufficient, there being many debts not ap-
pearing in the schedule now presented.
Mr. I°. Starr ft, for the prisoner, contended that the
.objection ,a as not available, as the Act of ramie kno-i
raw was: distinct (my, and independent of the Bank-
rupt Law-,
Mr. Serjearit PAttann regretted to see such a case
before hint, but in coni,feration of the difficulty thete-
of, and t' accommcd Ite Mr. Pollock with time, he
ali,
felt called upon to os,pone the final decision till next
Wednesday, alai aof opinion against the validity
of- the 'objectioe. The prisoner was remanded till
Wednesday next.

Wednesday senaight, at South Shields, a poor
woman, in a fit of delirium, jumped out of the win-
dow of a high house, and, very strange to relate, after-
wards walked to her room without assistance.
Monday se'nnight, a melancholy accident happened
en the Kenton waggon-sway, near Newcastle.—A
young woman, named Margaret Dobson, in service
at Shields, daughter of a waggoner at Coalodge Col-
liery,' had leave to visit her parents, and returning
she and another woman seated themselves on a board
'Shields
her father's loaded coal-waggon, to ride to the
'Shields turnpike, over which the wagon-way passes.
Near East Benton, a waggon which followed tt.em at
some distance ran amain, and they suiposing it
might be stopped before it reached them; did n,,t
move till it came too near, when M. Dobson, in en-
sleavouriug to escape, unfortunately slipped, and fell
with her neck across the cast-nietal rail, and the sharp
metal wheels severed her head from her body. The
ease had ter foot severely crushed.

--•••11.

BARNETT GUEST,:CHEMIST, LONDON,
INFORMS the PUBLIC and his,FRIENDS
In BIRMINGHAM and its ENVIRONS in PARTICULAR,
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with Gout, Rheumatism, Pleurisy, Head-Ache, &c. &c.
which have been admitted into one or-more of the
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returned from them without being relieved, on apply-
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one hour, did receive such relief as no other medi-
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not only by the patients, but by the books of said
Hospitals.
Humanity alone would have induced B. G. long
since to have made these discoveries more generally
I useful, but as these Chemical Preparations are corn-
' posed in part from Exotic Vegetables, which during
the war could only be obtained in small quantities,
and at uncertain intervals, it consequently rendered
it impossible. This difficulty being now removed,
he is enabled to execute orders to any amount, and
will, in future, grant an exclusive right to a respectable
Chemist or Druggist in all the principal Towns in
this Kingdom to practice with them; but no one will
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About one o'clock in the morning of Tuesday I,
se'nnight, a party of villains, with their faces blacked,
broke • into the house of Mr. FLETCHER, at Great
Heaton, near Middleton, Lancashire, pulled Mr. and
Mrs. F. out of bea, beat them with the butt end of
a gun, until they broke it to pieces, and set a man to
°watch the son, whom they threw on a bed, and heap-
ed drawers and boxes upon him. They then ran-
sacked the bout!, cutting open the beds, &c. and ,
made use of the family writings to light themselves
abcut the house, whence they decamped, after re-
maining there an hour and an half, carrying away
all' the money, plate, &c.
Toe SAILOR'S HAPPY Itenfew.— At the beginning
of the late war with France, a sailor named C—l, who
lived in Shoreditch parish, was so reduced by sickness
and poverty, that he could not maintain his wife and
children. He entered on board the tender, and left his
wife half his pay. She was, however, driven by distress
to the workhouse, where she lay-in of the child with
which she was pregnant,which was reared in that poor-
house. At the close of the fourth year, her pay was
stepped, and her husband supposed to be dead. Thus
destitute, she struggled on for three years more, when
she married a carpenter, who died a short time ago,
and left her again plunged in greater distress than
ever. She used to carry the child she had by him on
her back, and, with a basket of matches and ballads,
sought a precarious livelihood; she had no home but
a two-penny lodging-house, and if she had no pence,
the sky was her canopy, and the earth her bed. It hap-
pened, about the beginning of last month, that chance
directed her wandering steps to a public-house where
her first husband used to frequent; and as she begged
the humble guests, who were drinking in the tap-room,
to lay out a halfpenny with a poor widow, a sailor,
just discharged from a man of war, sprung up, and al-
most overturning the table and guests, seized thepoor
ragged supplicant in his arms, calling her his long-lest
wife ! She was so much overjoyed at thus meeting
alive with one whom she had long reckoned among
' the dead, that she was near tainting. Mutual expla-
nations were soon made, amidst the tearful eyes of
the spectators.—" I deserted you in the midst of want
I and misery," said the penitent, 4, but I have•sought
you for weeks and weeks, without being able to hear
of you. We must forget and forgive. I am now
well to do, and will henceforth be a good husband to
• you."—After regaling her with the best the house
afforded, he took his astonished wile under his arm,
- and completely new•sigged her. His boy—still in
I the workhouse—he went to see, to reclaim and pro-
vide for. He purchased some decent household fur-
niture, and is now looking out for employment whereby
to support binaaell and 'sandy.