Star.
London, England, 1813-06-30 00:00:00

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CCURRENCE.
'Mime HALL.- Minn Ballantine was, s sarclay
examined before Mr. Birnie, charged witlr. hooting
Mr. Charles Oakley,. ahont two o'clock yesterday
. morning, rear Weymouth.streetr in the Kent.road.
ltachael Brooks stated, that :Noe was going home,.
about two o'clock, when ,she was isset by a pen I lemait ,
she did not know, who entered into,convelsation with
.ber. They stopped a few minutes. near. Hen-street:
at the corner of Weymouth-street, and whilst con-
versing together, she observed-two men come rmining
. up the street, one in his shirt, and The other.with no-
Ahing on but a loose greatcoat. The gentlemansF
back was towards them, and the foremost of theatWO.
• called out to the gentleman, 4. You are a dead Mary,'
. and immediately discharged a blunderbuss at him.
The gentleman instantly fell, and the witness ran as
fast as the could to call the watch, having first ascer-
tained that the prisoner .was one of the Men,- but not-
him who fired the blunderbuss. When she returned,
s• he SAW the prisoner in the yard of a house near the
spot, and pointed him out to the watchman, by whom
•be was taken into custody. She afterwards went to
the surgeon's with the wounded gentleman, and home
,with him to hislouse in Kennington-lane.
• Benjamin Turner lives near the spot, and was
alarmed by the report of fire-arms; he mot up, and
on looking out at the window saw the prisoner enter
his yard, and shut the door to. He informed the
watch of this circumstance, and, on forcing the door,
they found him standing in his shirt in one corner of
the yard.
•
Mr. John Irons was near the place at the.time, and
hearing the sound of fire-arms, and cry of murder,
he ran to the spot, where he found Mr.. Oakley lying
on the pavement, who said he !lei been shot by two
thieves. Mr. Oakley Complained . much of pain in
his back, and the witness, on examining him, found
a gun-shot wound, and considerable quantitiei of
blood on his shirt and waistcoat. The witness assisted
fn taking him to Mr. Akan's, a surgeon in the neigh-
bourhood.
• Snow, a constable, being alarmed at the report of
The blunderbuss and the cry of 'murder, hastened to
,the spot, acuotepanied by Nettleton thepatrole ; they
!suet the former witnesses assisting Mr. Oakley-to the
surgeons. 'Snow proceeded to the house where he
°Stab ituformed the assassins had taken.. shelter, and
having forced the door, Ballantine was found in the
yard, in the situation described by the former wit-
tikss ; he wanted to go into the house to- dress, but
.SnOW would not suffer him, and his wife dire* him
some clothes out at the window. Snow enquired
where the blunderbuss was, but he denied any know.
ledge of it ; on forcing their way into the house, how-
ever, the officers found it concealed in the prisoner's
bud-room, and it had the appearance of having been
recently discharged. On shewing it to the prisoner,
be acknowledged it was his.
Mr. Dixon, the surgeon, described the nature of
the wound, which was so dangerous as to afford very
slight hopes indeed of the wounded man surviving.
Such also was the opinion of his partner, Mr. Saw
mai ez ; and in consequence of that opinion, they had
tailed in .Mr. Astley Cooper.
Ballantine, in his defence, said he was awol:e by a
man named Ward, who lodged in his house, knock-
ing at his chamber doer, and asking for the biutider.
bass, as there were persons attempting to get into the
house by forcing the shutters. On hearing this, he
got up, gave him the blunderbuss, and went down
stairs together; Ward opened the door cautiously,
and went into the street—the prisoner followed hint,
but stopped to examit.e the abutters ; he could not,
however, discover that any attempt had been made
on. them ; by this time Ward was got near t:.e
of the arcet, and the prisoner beard him call out,
" Stop, or you are a dead man ;" the pi isoner called
out to him net to fly, but before he could speak,
Wari had dischargedrthe piece, and the prisoner saw
the Gentleman fall; he then returned into his own
' y..rd ; he did not know where Ward went; be had
had the blunderbuss for some time ; it bad been
loaded ever since the time of Mare's murder, and
Ward knew it was loaded.
He was committed for re-examination.
Mr. Oakley, is a man of most respectable connec-
tions, and is in.the employ of a Merchant in Brodd-
street-buildings„ in the City : he has a wife and two
children. At the time the blunderbuss was fired, he
WAS near the Weymouth Arms publiaouse, the cor-
ner of Hart-street. From the position the man stood
in when he fired, one of the slugs enteted into the
lower part of Mr. Oakley's body, and one grazed the
wall of. the public-house obliquely, with such force,
.that it rebounded, and went through a window of the
st-floor in the opposite street.
An immense crowd was collected round the ;pot
during the whole of the day.
We are happy to contradict the report which appeared in our
Paper of yesterday, that Mr. Omar:, wounded a: Lambeth,
was dt ad. Upon inquiry this moaning, we find that he is still
living, and with some faint hopes of surviving.

MURMR. —An Inquisition was held in Spitalfields,
yesterday, on the body of Mary Relph (before J. W
UN W 1 N, Esq. Coroner for Middlesex); when the Jut y,
;after a patient investigation of several hours, returned
a verdict of Wilful Murder against Richard Relph, her
husband, for strangling the deceased with his own
`hands, on the night of Sunday last. .
Bo:usu.—A battle, for a purse of ten guineas, took
' place on Monday; in a meadow at Allerten, en the
(borders of Buckinghamshire, between Ned Cummesa,
,a navigator, of LI stone, and Harry Flowers, an active
El-stone man, brother of celebrated provincial pu-
gilist of that name, coachtniin to Captain HA NS. The
men bad been trained a forinight, and, at the set-to,
Flowers, who possessed tole:able science, planted a
severe hit upon the nose of his adversary, which se-
vered it ; butt Cummens rallied with desperation, and
' knocked down his adversary by a striking hit on the
;t mple. Flowers was handed to his man in time in a
i'
ienseless state,and although he fought two rounds pro-
bably in a deranged state, yet he did much execution.
me smashing rounds followed, to the alternate ad-
antage of each. After a dreadful combat, strength
revailed ; Flowers having received a felling blow
ei ind the ear, from which he did not recovi:l. for
.on.e time, and lost the battle.—Both were completely
lit blind in the middle of the tight.