Star.
London, England, 1820-07-24 00:00:00


By Mi. Jo ....-On my oath I have dovetbilection
of having ordered her to wash the bloody clothes.
Mr. Justice PARK summed up.' It was a case of
most infinite importance. The Jury -would give it the
Most careful consideration.
The Jury retired ten minutes before two. They
returned again in twenty minutes to ask a question
of Wheatley, who now said that the chair was against
the wall, and the deceased's head on the front part of
the chair; and the Jury pin retired. At three
o'clock they returned a verdict of—Guilty.
Mr. Justice PARK proceeded immediately to pass
sentence.—" Your case has been considered with suit-
able attention by a calm, temperate, and intelligent
Jury. They have found you guilty, and lam bound
to say, that they have.given a cautious and correct
verdict. Your crime is one ofthe very deepest heinous-
ness. Your wife, the mother of your children, whom
you were bound to protect and cherish, you brought
to an untimely and violent end. Believe me, un-
happy man, I wish not to give you unnecessary pain.
From your station in life, and your appearance, you
must be sensible, without any observations of mine,
of the deep criminality Of your conduct. In a few
hours you must appear before your Goo; yet you
have longer time to prepare for death than you al-
lowed to the unhappy wife of your bosom, whom you
hurried out of life with her sins unrepented of on her
head. Let me implore that you will earnestly apply
to GOD, if haply he may touch your stony heart,
which at present, as far as I can discover, is impe-
netrable. Seek for the road of salvation—you may
yet find it ; knock at the door of Divine Mercy—
it may yet be opened for the Merits of Jzses CHRIST.
The Word of Goo—of him who cannot lie—assures
us that the sighs of the penitent sinner come be-
fore HIM in Heaven. With GOD there is mercy and
plenteous redemption. The sentence of the law is,
and I adjudge, that on Monday next you be hanged
by the neck till you are dead, and that your body be.
given to be dissected and anatomised; and miy GOD
have mercy on your soul ?"
The prisoner, who had stood without the least
symptom of emotion, even when the verdict was re-
turned, and who looked at his Lordship during his
most solemn address with a staid stare, deliberately
said, as he was leaving the bar—" My Lord, I am a
murdered manr

The prisoner is large boned and ruddy in the face.
His prominent nose, long cheeks, and grey locks,
gave hint an appearance of gravity and respectability.
It was remarked he had a very unsteady hand when-
ever he had not whereon to support it, and we ap-
prehend the mind was much more agitated than the
face expressed.
At the rising of the Court, Mr. Justice PARK
passed sentence of death on the following prisoners :
James .shelmendiae and Rickard Cook, convicted of
burglary ; Patrick Murphy, convicted of highway
robbery ; and George Graham, convicted of forging
a Bill of Exchange. To the last prisoner, the Judge
held out strong hopes of obtaining a mitigation of
his sentence.

LINCOLN, JULY st.
CHARGE OF RAPE AT SPALDING.

Richard Mitchell, an Irishman, aged 21, was in-
dicted for a rape on the Bth of July, in the parish
of Spalding, on the person of Mary, the wife of
George Andrews.
Mary Andrews stated, that about eight o'clock in
the evening of Saturday, the Bth of July, she was
washing some potatoes at her house door, and the
prisoner was standing opposite; she had some con-
versation with him, and had an opportunity of ob-
serving his person and dress; shortly afterwards her
husband came home, and they got their suppers.—
The family consisted of her husband, herself, and
their daughter, a child about tea years of age.—
After supper, a neighbour of the name of Lewis,
came in, and he and her husband went out together;
witness said to him, " Don't go away, if you do I
shall go to bed ;" a little before ten she and her little
girl did go to bed ; the prisoner had continued stand-
ing against the house all this time. She did not lock
the door, expecting that her husband would shortly
return ; and she lett a light burning in her bed-room.
—A little past eleven she was awakened by finding
some one in bed with her, whom she at first thought
to be her husband, but afterwards discovered it was
the prisoner. She then detailed the circumstances
of the completion of the rape. On discovering that,
it was not her husband that was in bed with her, she
shrieked out " murder !" as loud as she possibly could.
—After the prisoner had made his escape, some
women; her neighbours, came in, having heard the
scream she had made at the window; she did not
relate to them the whole of the circumstances, but
did to her husband when he came home. She could
only swear to the prisoner by his waistcoat.
Geoige Andrews, husband of the last witness, cor-
roborated her testimony respecting his going out
with Lewis ; and further stated, that the prisoner was
leaning against the pales in front of their house for
a considerable time on the night in question ; and '
that he was engaged in tending beasts in a lane near
thereto. Lewis and witness thought he had a very
suspicious appearance, and that he was a man likely
to steal their pigs, or to do any mischief in his power.
They communicated their suspicions in the hearing
of his wife. In order to get rid of the prisoner, they
went and had his beasts pounded ; the conversation
of his wife about going to bed, the prisoner might
hear very well.
Mr. Baron Gmutow considered some of the cir-
cumstances of the case as very suspicious and extra-
ordinary. Why did not Mrs. Andrews lock the door
' on going to bed, particularly when she heard the
suspicions the prisoner's appearance had excited in
'the minds of Lewis and her husband ? It was also
very strange that the man should be able to pass
through the house, up the staircase, into the bed-
room, in the dark, without creating so much disturb-
ance as to awaken the woman ; and yet she had sworn
that she was not awakened until she found some one
in bed with her. The only thing, too, by which she
had identified the prisoner, was his waistcoat, and
he (Baron Garrow) would venture to assert, that
sixty out of every hundred Irishmen that came to
this conntry under such circumstances as the pri-
soner did, wore waistcoats very similar to his. .
The Jury without hesitation acquitted the prisoner.

Tuesday night the house •of Mr. GRANT, near
Cheam, in Surrey, was entered by means of false
keys, and robbed of plate, money, and apparel, to
the value of nearly one hundred pounds.