Star.
London, England, 1823-01-09 00:00:00

MURDER IN INDIA. •

Tuesday senntight, Russo .'a great match bf 102 miles in 24
.successive hours was fairly outmatched by a shriemdier belong,.
ir.g to Calton, Glasgow, on' the new road leading rts
notk bridge. lie undertook to do 105 miles io..she same, time;
and Anished the work,..andd, acclamation, within an Sour of tissi
tune allotted. A great crowd was Colleited:Wirittsess this ek:
triordlnary feat. •; * ' • • • •
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Fa-stmt.-4Thursday a' misunderstanding .t 094. plee'e in the
change Coree-rpont, Newcastle, between-42r; Alderman Sua-
nu and 11e. Gamer:or; respecting Visas, ee'6"
seipsenee of *thigh the-worthy. Alderman gave dr. GG the Litt,
G-tesented the 4'ront by a blow: This n iiintli'of his con-
dition" raised a passion for manual ezerris%.;or.tatiter. for rib-
Nation by enisl• iron, in tile Alderman, who seiziug :a shovel,
•rushed upon the bestower of. the vile blow,"'-arld isliSciently
I revenged himself, If the igz.hdionis—if enungli and, maitre -than
hissit,r-birkdequate -revenge op. such an occastOis.± 111E-
iPjatt-bl4 coat torp, in the scuffle. The -pirtlee writ •imme:.
tr • Y Umind'oSer rdiera the pease: Attempts wens-made to
trite i'dtwtot+c isithr tatinnaqionNbitt tint nse partkei or the
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One Khrisno Doss, carpenter, residing at- Beny-
apookuriof Waltreix:-.ol...,fissruxiburbs of Calcutta,
suspected his wife, a veriliiiititittil young Woman,
to have fallen in. love wit) one of her neighbours.
On the evening of the 9.6t1 Of
.April, While the Wis. •
Man and her paramour• were passinetheir happiest
Moments in her own chamber, the carpenter retusned;
,and .so much presiesi was.he witlrhunger, that, iritip.
out paying the least attention to anything thit'Was
going on befotechis eyes, he, as usual, cried out from
the very door-L.:" fat}); 4.bltift bbntsk ;" that is—
" Come, wife, set my dinner befbre-me.”. The voice
•of 'her huitiand fitted her mind with terror, and the
came gut tittgiye him a pot-of water to Wash his feet; .
and then Co up the latnp.
The carpenter took his seat upon the lower heals
of the door, and i?ne gallant. seeing no other means
left of making his escape but breaking- through the
'outside wail,..he in that manner effected iris retreat.
The noise made upon this occasion escaped not the
attention sof the carpenter, who, thus knowing the
treachery'of his ife, discovered not the least'symp-
toms of anger, but, with the same tote' as before, told
her, "Nah ami nur bhai kkabo Rohl amar born mutha
dhoriacce ; chola gye cooya Maki l." or, " I won't dine
now; I have got a severe head-ache; let us gd to
rest." They then went to bOd, and entered into a
long conversation; and about midnight, seeing his
wife wrapped in profound sleep, the carpenter ro e tip,
and to satisfy the violent passion which he had hi-
therto supptessed, he cruelly thrust a knife into her
throat, and thus at once. put an end to her days.

The perpetration of chid criminal act gave rise to a
variety of reflections in his mind, and he at last came
to the conclusion that his own life must pay for the
murder which he had committed. Very early next
morning he locked the door of his house, and went
to Callee Ghaut, where having offered a grand l'ajoo
to the goddess Canoe, he came hack to the Kutcherry,
at Allipoor, with a garland of Jova red flower) on
his neck, and a spot if vermillion on the lot ehead,
after they had been offered to the goddess. Upon
his return, and finding the house totbe a sceue of
great noise and tumult, he cried out, " What's all
this clamour about?"—" How came your wife," re-
,ined the Thanadar, "to be murdered?" At this

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lihri.,no Doss candidly confessed his crime, saying,
" It is I who have killed her; noone else; theiefore
bind me." Moreover be boldly related every parti-
cular attending the murder of his wife, which induced
the Thanadar to secure him aired take him before Mr.
BARWELL, the Judge of Allipoor.--The result will -
be afterwards published.--Smnxband Gottmatiddy.

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• This day the prisoners who stand committed on charges of
felony were removed from the severalgaols in London and Mid-
dlesex to Newgate, preparatory to taking their trials at the nest
Sessions, which commence on Wednesday next, at Justice Flail, ,
.in the Old Bailey. •
The -Sessions of-the'Peotte fog Middlesex begin *the Sessions
Hopes, on. Clakenwell-green, on Monday next.
SOUTHWARK SESSIOKS:—This morning the Riot Hon. the
LORD MAYOR, &MAIM, RECORDER, and City Officers, went in
state along the Southwark-bridge, and opened the above Sessions
at Use Town flail, fr the trial of offelices citormitted within the
jOrtsdiction of the City of ,London. 'On his arrival at the Hall
Ise'Wis received by the High Bailiff, Alderman J. Smisst, &c.
There arc not many prisoners for trial. ' .
MANSION-HOUSE.—ROR;;ERY ILN`THE TOWER STORZ-POOM.•••••
The military store-tooth hs the Tower Was some days ago plun-
dered of a great number of soldiers'irreat coats, which had her
worn three years, and became at the. conelusion of that period no
longer the propert I of the-Crown, hut were placed at the disposal
of the Commanding,Officer, for the benefit of the Men col-
loctively. The store-roamgraff been enteied by means of skeleton
?sere,- Indite Ofikers 'Wen:miry • enahaus to find out the thief,
lout still more desirous of catching the purchaser. Two deaiqrs
. in clothes, who reside near the ltinoties; the one named Ai/on,
the other Burgess, were brought before the LORD MAYOR,
charged by the. Commanding Officer, John Ilanbury, Esq. will
having purchased 22 of the coats, knowing-that they were stolsn

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herjeant-major Sutton, of the Grenadier Company of Gnarls,
stationed at the Tower, stated that betwern'so and GO military
coats, whichhad been laid by for the abovementioned purpose.
were stolen on the 3d inst. from the store-room. He procured a,
search wo rant and searched Allan's house,where he found 22, of
the coats. Allan, without hesitation, pointed outpurgets as the.
person from whom he had purchased the coats, affil Burgess said
he had made sale of the number specified and more, and that be
had bought them from a soldier, who told him that they on..:e
bis comrades' coats, who bad sold them to him, and that he ex-
pected to make sixpence a piece by them. - Burgess said he
should know the st-Iler of the coats, and he accordingly was
brought into the presence of the Guards at the Tower, where he
soon pat his hand upon a private named Alkid, as the person with
whom he had dealt for the stolen property. Burgess added,
that be had purchased the goods openly in Rosemary-lane, and
sold them as openly at a fair profit. •
The Comma :ding Officer said that Burgess had once before
been charge d with a similar offence, and had escaped punish-
ment in cot sequence of his poverty. To permit such a person to
escape a stcind time, would be an encouragement to the nu-
merous receivers in the neighbourhood. 'There was a penalty of
,e 5 upon every purchase of. soldiers necessaries, but it was dot
his irteation to proaccute for that penalty. He was determined
to prove:ate Burgess ai the receiver of stolen property. .
Mr. Atter, who attended on the part of Burgeis, chewed that
neither the charge of having knowingly received stoles goods,
nor that of having purchased soldiers' necessaries could be sub-
stantiated. It would be proved that the coats were openly pur-
chased, and ev:::ence had been' already given, that at the con-
clusion of the three years they were no longer soldiers' necessa-
ries, but became disposable for the benefit of the soldiers.
The Lotto bl.tros held this ohjection to be fatal to the prose-
cution of Burgess in either way. Burgess was then heard as a
witness against the soldier. Allan, the other clothesman, Wai• dis-
charged, there being no imputation whatever upon his character.
Burgess stated that the.soldier brought about 40 great coats, at
different times, to him for sale, and gave him the most positive
assurances that he becr.me. honestly possessed of them. Witness
purchased them at 3s. a piece. The soldier said he had broUght
them from Knightsbridge barracks. -
The soldier declared that he had never sold a coat, nor stolen
a coat, nor seen Burgess in his life. ,
tANsabeth Hughes, servant in the Crown and Shears, public-
',Poise, Rosemary-late, swore that sh 4 saw the _soldier deatirg
with Bbrgess in theiriariner described, :and that the forme: had
frequently-sold coats in the lave. . • .
.14urtin, the officer, stated. that upon searching the soldier's
lodgings he found a bunch of skeleton keys, one.of which ui)invd
the lock of the store-room in which the coats hadLheid- kept.
The soldier was folly committed fbr trial. .. ,: . -,
.• Goitonatt..--Wifffaln Dolma,- the coachman, charged with
saucing Cholas Warman to rob higemployers, Messrs. Br4wl,_
r ~,,,,:„"ottpdte,
i.,„.Nuaors....tialckelts: at Sbmerithotileitlbde-h;aar:t, wissfre-eianiined, and
1e..-.3fory Ticktoft, charged With Steal', ado
sovereigns from Mr. Bishop; with whouil,l, pry-
liner ltved is vermin, was fully committed for trick.
• Towis-liast.--)lr.. Mumford, proprietor of the Ktitioitigton
t, was charged by theivfortrier, Wades Cfiampnefai"with
laving the nutilber off passengers his coach is allowed to sorry,
painted on the vehicle in figures Instead of words as knob., Mr.
ilvit
blomford stated that be was not aware that the A04%4 any
difference, burin should bovr to the 'decisive of ibi bligidrate.
ffilke bit orate s3id be was biutn, d...sb:,..the:::::641111::12111 40s.
though there was no.diffetenet in a morel Po*: of
which goes to the worthy tritbsof an infornsmktaVairi of
ia tbot bus. • - -'-. '1(1 4;,;1-:
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