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London, England, 1825-10-29 00:00:00

OLD BAILLY SE:BBlOiNz, OCTOBER 28.

William Harwood, a highly respectable and vene-
rable locking ream, seventy-one years of age, stood in-
dicted for thelful Murder of his grandson, G=orge
Barton, on the 19th of October last, by stabbing him
with a dagger. The prisoner was also charged, on the
finding of the Coroner's Jury, with Manslaughter.
Ann Hill sworn—l have been for eight years house-
keeper to the prisoner; he is a coal undertaker, residing
in Unien.street, Shadwell ; on the evening of the 19th of
the present month of Oct. the grandson of the deceased,
George Barton, came home; be asked me for some
meat? and the prisoner soon afterwards came in ; I was
cutting meat at the time; the deceased asked me to cut
him some lean? and the prisoner replied, "it must be
cut fair ;' I said, " Nonsense, I am cutting it fair:'
The deceased said, "I must have some money." The
prisoner said that the deceased should not enter his
house again ; the deceased exclaimed, "I will have some
money or his (the prisoner's) life, a old —;"
and struck the prisoner with his double fist on the
moull ; I said to him, " George, for Heaven's sake,
don't." He replied, " Curse his old eyes, I will have
money—that is what I want." The prisoner left the
room for a short time, and went up stairs. He had
'storey up stairs, but I do not know that he went to
fetch any. When the prisoner came down stairs, he
said to the deceased, "Get out of the house." The de-
ceased replied that he would not, and he gave the pri-
soner hard blows with his fist doubled, as b:fore, on the
chest. The deceased was a powerful young man,
tvisraty-three years of age. When the deceased had
given the blows, the Risoner struck the deceased in-
stantly with a dagger which he held in his hand ; the
deceased, on receiving the blow, staggered against the
door; I took hold of his hand, and told the prisoner to
go and call the watch, or some one to assist ; the de-
ceased appeared faint, and I said, "George, what non-
sense is th;s ; what is the matter ?" The prisoner went
for an officer, and came back again ; he did not attempt
to run away ; I had, before that time, heard the deceased
declare, that he would have his grandfather's life, and
I told the prisoner. The deceased, about eight months
ago, threatened to rob the house, and he did rah it ; he
also threatened to have my life; when he Was stabbed
and fell, I said, "Oh ! he's killed—he's killed, go fetch
the watch." The prisoner heard me; I saw nothing in
the-hand of the prisoner when he came down stairs.
Cross•examined by Mr. Cuawoon—The deceased
was a very wicked, profligate young man ; the prisoner
was very fond of him, and tried ail in his power to
reclaim hun ; from the threats of the deceased I
lieved the prisoner went is fear of his life.
John Jennings, a coal-whipper, sworn—l was in
company w ith the dece 'sed at the Phceirix Tavern, on
the evening in question ; the prisoner was there, and
there was a subs'cription ler a distressed person ; the
prisoner gave a shilling ; the deceased said he had half
a crown, and some one told him to keep it, as he
might want it himself ; he replied that the prisoner
should give him more money, or he would have his life.
Cross-examined by Mr. BRODRICK—The deceased was violent;
passionate, and wicked, and the prisoner was very kind to him. '
W. Wilson statad.—l took at prisoner into custody ; on the
way to the watch-house he said, * I have done his job, you will
never take him again :" I have bad the deceased in custody for
felony, and was looking for him for another.
Cruse-examined—The prisoner was in great distress of mind at
the time be said I have done his job, &c.
Joshua Millar, a surgeons—l ,txamined the deceased ; the point
of the dagger had passed through the lungs into the right ventricle
of the heart ; there was a great effusion of blood.
The prisoner put in a written tletence.—lt stated
that the deceased was a profligate, abandoned young
man, and that be had always treated him with great
kindness, and had always supplied him with food,
clothes, and money, and his house v, as constantly open
to him; be was violently attacked by the deceased,
and was unconscious of what he had done at the time
be resisted it.—He expressed the utmost sorrow for the
death of the youth ; he had, notwithstanding his
crimes, always felt the most fatherly affection for him,
and it was not likely he should commit the dreadful
Fume ot• murder at a time when ke was, from age and
maturity, about to sink into the grave.— He concluded
by duos himself on the. merciful consideration of

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W. Haggerty, for the defence, said that he heard
the deceased, on the night in question, threaten to
take away the life of the prisoner if he did not give
him money. The prisoner said that be had given him
enough. The deceased replied, " I'll have more, or
your life."
Francis Meyers corroborated the last witness.
Mark Hodson sworn—l produce a will which the
prisoner had in his possession ; I was a subscribing
witness to the will on the 6th of February last ; tl.ere
is a b:quest of 1101. to the deceased, and all the pri-
soner's household furniture, plate, linen, watch, &c.
A number of witnesses gave the prisoner the highest character
for kindness and humanity.
Mr. Justice PA rain, in summing up the case, said
that he and his brother Garrow were of opinion that,
the crime did not amount to murder, supposing they
gave implicit credit to the whole of the evidence. Toe
question was, whether the offence was manslaughter or
justifiable homicide? He thought there required more
evidence to shew the prisoner was justified in the assault'
on the deceased. The prisoner might have retreated
from the vio:ence of the deceased, and have locked
himself up in his apartment till a watchman had been
obtained ; and unJer all the circumstances, he thought
the Jury would be warranted in finding the prisoner
guilty of manslaughter, leaving it to the Court to take
into its consideration the facts which had been elicited.
so very favourable to the prisoner, during the investi-
gation of this most melancholy case.
The Jury returned a verdict—Guilty of litaneauglacr, under
great provocation.
The Rsconozo said, that under all the circumstances of this
unhappy case, the sentence of the Court was, that the prisoner pay
a fine of 40s. to the King.
John Rankin, aged 26, was put to the bar, charged
with the wilful murder of Mary Anne Hunt, on the
23d of September, by strikir7, her several blows on the
head with a board, and inflicting several mortal
wounds and bruises, of which she immediately died.
He was also given in charge, on the Coroner's Inquest,
for Manslaughter.
Mr. ANDAEWS opened the case to the Jury, and in
particular directed their attention to the evidence which
would be given by the two principal witnesses who
were to appear in support of the prosecution. These
were the daughter of the deceased and a woman named
M'Mullan, who were both present at the trarsaction,
but whose accountsof it would be found to differ in some
very important particulars. It would, however, be for
the Jury to hear both, and decide to which of them
credit belonged.
The case for the prosecution was then gone through.
Tire prisoner in his defence said, that the deceased
had for several nights got very drunk, and annoyed him
.very much, and he could get no rest. He remonstrated'
with her, but in vain. He also declared, that on the
night in question.the woman struck him twice before he
returned the blow, and when he did, the woman fell,
but could not say whether the injury she received was
from the fall or not. _

Prisoner described himself as a labourer at a wharf,
but his address and manner of delivering himself be-'
spoke a person much above one of that class. No
wit-
nesses appeared to give him a character.
At five o'clock Mr. Justice Pau began to sum up, and went
through the evidence with great minuteness, remarking, as be
proceeded, on the discrepancies between the statements of the
two women, as far as they bore on the case.
The Jury, after a few moment's consideration, returned a
verdict—Acquitting the prisoner of Murder, but finding him Guilty
of Manslaughter.
Alji•esi Flowers, a young man, was put to the bar,
charged with the wilful murder• of Simon SuLivan, a
child with which Mary Sullivan was pregnant on the
20th of September last, in the parish of Mary-la-bonne.
'Die prisoner gave the woman several kicks on various
parts of her body ; she was taken ill in consequence,
and delivered of the child, which was baptised Simon
—he languished some days, and then died from the
bruises and kicks which the mother had received; the
offence took place in Oxford-street.
Mat y Sullivan and others having deposed to the fact,
The watchman who was near the spot, sm.!, that he
heard the woman call " Watch !" He went up and
found the prisoner and Sullivan fighting. The woman
gave charge of the. young man with the white coat on,
saying, that he had insulted her, but she did not say
more. He took the -whole of them to the watch-
house together.
In

.He stated that the two Sullivan, were
upon Flowers it the same time. Verdict—Not Guilty.

NEW COURT.

Thomas Sharpe Bur eliw;sinciited for stealing several
articles at wearing apparel, the property of W. Elliott.
The prisoner made no defence; and the Jury found
him Guilty.
Mr.Serjeant A RABIN told the Jury, that the prisoner's
relatives were very respectable, and to prevent their
.being further disgraced by his misconduct, the Court
would send him out of the country for I,le.

John Hooper, alias Thomas Ha-toe, a Lieutenant on
half-pay, was indicted for stealing some silver spoons,the
property of George Wall. The prisoner underwent a
long examination at the Mansion house, when it ap-
peared that he went into •a coffee-house in the City,
ordered a sumptuous dinner, without having any money
to pay for it, and dining the temporary absence of the
waiter he put the spoons in his pecker. The prosecutor
and witnesses did not appear, and he was acquitted. .
George Baines Collin:ore, aged 22. was indic:ed for
stealing a silk shawl, belonging to his sister.
The prisoner, when called upon for his defence, said
he was innocent, and that his sister had stated that she
would lay things in his way to induce him to steal
them, and. that she would then prosecute him, and do
all in her power to get him out of the country. The
prosecutrix, who is a respectable-looking woman, as-
sured the Court that she had not said anything of the
kind. The prisoner had robbed his parents, and she
told him that if he robbed her she would prosecute
him. The prisoner contradicted her, and called his
mother.in.law to•confrm his statement; she, however,
had only heard the prosecutrix threaten to prosecute
him if he robbed her as he had robbed his parents. She
gave the prisoner a good character.
The Jury deliberated about three quarters of an hour, and then
returqed a •erdict of Gmilly.

No tidings as yet have been heard of the male child
belonging to Mr. Weller, that was stolen, from the girl
intrusted to nurse him, on the 6th instant, near the Duke
ut York publtc•house, in the Borou;h. The reward has
been increased to fifty pounds. fhe mother of the
child is inconsolable. _

The French papers contain accounts of the refusals
of the Cures of Versus, near Chalons, and Coberstany,
near Perpignan, to bury two young women who had
died in those places. One Cute refused on the ground
that the deceased had not been married in church ! the
'other, because the grave was too near the windows of
his house The Mayors interfered, but the Cures being
Lobstiaate, the bodies were interred without religious rites.'

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