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Sattirday J. Await was indicted for the murder of
Catherine-Dienton: Isaac Pudditord deposed, that he
was acittiOnted-vrith• the deceased ; and' on the 13th
• June was in her room at BOw. The prisoner soon
aker came • in. He brought something in w bottle,
sad set it do . the table. Witness and Mrs. Demon
drank some gin together. While she was in the cor;
ner, near the clock, .the prisoner looked stedftly- at ,
her. He then rushed against' her—she sorest:lied,
and the blood spouted out into the corner. He then
saw the 'knife drawn from her in ti prisoner's !mid.
She ran screaming, and witness secured the prisonii.
Deceased lived a month after.

Mary Anne Denton, daughter of the deceased, de-
posed, that the prisoner and her mother had been very
intimate. In the morning of the 13th he was at her
mother's. He came again in the evening, and offered
a brAtle to her mother, but she refused to take it--
Trier mother then gave last witness some gin, but Den-
.ton got none. Prisoner then said something to her
mother, who told him to go out of her house, for
be was a disgrace to his sex. Her mother went to
wind up the clock, and Denton jumped up and said,
14 Am I a disgrace to my sex ?" The deceased said,
44 Yes, you are, John." He immediately ran a.t her
mother, and witness saw him draw the knife out of
her arm. She ran out screaming. The deceased and
Denton had some e!ifference in the early part of the
day, because he had struck a woman named Wright.
The deceased ordered him to leave her house, arid he
struck her on the arm, and went away.
.Cron-examined.—The deceased was a widow, and
her husband's name was John Denton also. He died
at sea. She did not know that it had been settled be.
tween the deceased and the prisoner that they should
live together as man and wife, that her mother might
still enjoy her pension, as a•sailor's widow. .
J. Doubleday apprehended the prisoner at his sis-
ter's, and found the knife there. It was b100dy...-
Witness asked why he had done the rash act ? he an-
swered, gg it was love."

Mr. Beal, a Surgeon, said, the wound had nearly
divided the arteries of the arm ; it mortified, and she
died in consequence. Witness was called in after ano-
ther surgeon, and found the prisoner with a slight
wound in his side, which he had-inflicted on himself.
J. Fitzgerald, and two other seamen, shipmates of
the prisoner, proved, that at times he behaved like a
madman, in consequence of a fracture on his head,
which he received by falling into the hold of the
Royal George. In one of these fits he jumped over-
board, but the Captain being informed of the acci-
dent, dismissed him without punishment, and desired
• that none of his shipmates would irritate him.
Ellen Starley, his sister, with whom he lived, said,
be was frequently so outrageous, that she was obliged
to hide the knives from him. On the morning in
question, he struck the witness. Mrs. Denton came
in, and bade him beat her more till she (the witness)
gave him money. The deceased had frequently taken
her out of witness's house to go home aed sleep with
him. He was so fond of the deceased, that he ne.
sleeted hishusiness after he got in league with her.
On the 26th of December she went to market ; she
was not 20 minutes gone, and when she returned, she
found him suspended to her bed, by an old apron of
herj. She cut him down.
Crowexamitred —He was put under no constraint,
nor had any medical man been applied to respecting
his case, because she had it not in her power.
After a few minutes consideration, the Jury ram--
sled a verdict of Guilty ; and the Recoanen passed
sentence on him, to be hanged on Monday next, and
his body to be dissected.—He remained quite unal-
tered during the whole time.
T. Fora, or Fouler, was indicted, first, for forging
bank note fbr ; and secondly, a bank promissory
note. Mr. GAnnow said this was a most extraordi-
nary case ; for it I arely happened that all thicircum-
stances, from the making to the passng of the notes,
could be proved. He then stated that the prisoner
had is rmerly worked as a journeyman in printing
-bank notes. After leaving that employ, he had car-
ried on business, in partnership with another person,
as a copper-plate printer, and had learnt himself the
art of engraving. That notwithstanding he had two
presses, f:a. which he had no regular employ, he had
purchased a third, without acquainting his partner,
employed at another place. It appeared, however,
that he had made a material error in printing the
date, having in the first place put the year 1513, and
ijn the second 1812.
Two accomplices, named Norman and Gwynn,
gated, that a soft stone had been purchased, and on
this he had cut out the impression of the water-marki
this impression had been taken off in melted pewter,
and the ci pper-plates had been engraved ; the psi-
Boner signed the notes, and directed the witnesses,
before they passed off a note, to write two r r three
names on the back, that it might not appear fresh
from the bankers; that the witnesses went :o Billericay
Fair, where Norman purchased a horse for £is, and
paid for it with .16. good and A 9. bad notes, which
led to their detection, when they, unknown to each
other, turned Kinges evidence.
Mr. Harper, printer to the Bank, gape it as his de.
tided opinion, that the nanies signed at the bottoul
of the notes were of the prisoner's hand-writing.
The prisoeer cock notes occasionally during the
trial, and in Lis defence gave in a written paper, in
whch he alluded to the danger of deciding on the
evidence of such men as Norman and Owynn, wins ,1
by their own account, were guilty pf passing forged
nistes. That the case of Holloway And Haggerty
furnished an example of the little credit due to ac-
complices ; that it could hardly be supposed a person
el.bis knowledge, who ad been employed in printing
; Bank-notes would commit SO great an error as to
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affix two dates to one note.
Two witnesses were called to his character, one of
whom represented him as 4 man whose honesty was
ursimpeached, and whose auehtioti AO industry could
not be excelled. - • • •
The Judge, if 4 summing up, took occasion tQ ad-
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yen to she case of Holloway and Haggerty, of which
be said he svae pertain that, from tke knowh :haracter
of Sir Simon Le Blanc, who presided on that occa-
sion, the evidenciol an ateninplice would be enter-
‘ined only bo' - ant by thr ----imonY of
eri4 fact
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