Star.
London, England, 1829-08-01 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

THE MURDERS AT PORTSMOUTH.
WINCHESTER, Inv 50.
Joins Stacy, the younger, was charged with the wilful
murder ("Samuel Langtry, on the lst of March last, and
!aka Stacy, the elder, with receiving, harbouring, and
maintaining him, well knowing that be had been guilty
of murder. The younger prisoner, when asked whether
he was guilty or not ? in an audible voice pleaded " Not
Guilty.'
Mr. C. F. WILLIAMS gave an outline of the case to
Jury
ury.
Mrs. Dyat examined—l knew Langtry and his house-
keeper ; they lived in Prospect-row ; Mr. Langtry was
between 70 and 80 years of age, and so crippled that he
was only able to hobble along, and when he was moved
it was by a chair with rollers ; the last time I saw him
and his housekeeper alive was on Sunday morning; I
was at Langtry's on the Saturday ; Stacy, jun. was there,
shaving the old man ; Mr. Hendy told me what had hap-
pened; I went afterwards to Mr. Hendy's house ; on the
way there I saw the younger prisoner ; he crossed over,
and asked me " if it was true ?" I said it was, and it was

a shocking thing.
John Cullamore, examined—l am an apprentice to
Mr. Linnett ; Stacy, jun. used to sleep at my muter's.
Oa the Ist of March, I went with him to Portsmouth to
a Mr. Price's house; we went to buy a " Book of Mar-
tyr* ;" I went with him to his father's house ; we took
some tea there. We finished to!) .between five and six,
after that Stacy parted from me ; I asked him if I should
go with him, and he said No ; and also said, " what row
I get into I may be able to fight my way through with-
out you." I remained in the house the whole time he was
gone ; he came back in .about two hours ; he knocked at
the door, and I opened it ; he ran quick across the room,
and went up stairs. He said, " Father, I want to speak
to you." His father followed him ; he was up stairs a
quarter of an hour ; they came down stairs and went into
the kitchen ; I heard water splashing as if some one
were washing ; in a few minutes the father came into the
room : he gave me a shilling to get me some bread and
cheese ; I went and got the bread and cheese, and was
absent nearly half an hour ; when I returned Stacy, jun.
was at the fire-side, with his shirt off; there was a fire,
and a shirt was drying : part of the shirt had been
washed—the wrist had been washed. I saw Stacy, jun.
In the afternoon before tea sharpen his knife on the steel ;
it was a ruor-bladed knife, with a sort of horn-handle.
He said he had been fighting, and that his nose had
been bleeding ; he showed some blood to me, which was
on the trowsers below the knee, also on the instep of the
stocking, and on the shoe ; he showed me the blood on
the wristbands of the shirt; he said he supposed this
blood came off the cuffs ; I slept with him ; next morn-
ing he got up before me ; he put his clothes he had worn
into a handkerchief, and said he should get them washed.
James Heady examined —I knew Mr. Langtry and
his housekeeper ; I know the younger prisoner; he told
me there had been some misunderstanding between him,
'tAngerl
and Jolliffe, about some money which was
missing ; he said he understood there was a bag of money
in Langtry's house with 600/. in it. On the Monday
morning I went to Mr. Langtry's home ; I saw Charity
Jolliffe lying dead, her throat cut, and covered with blood ;
I sent for a constable, and we went up stairs, and saw
Langtry dead in the back room, with his throat cut ; there
was a box open, and some deeds, papers, spoons, and
gold scattered about.
Thomas Waylie—l am a police officer ; on the 2d of
March I was sent for to go to Langtry's house; in the
room where Charity Jolliffe was, I saw a brush broke into
three or four pieces, alongside her, which I have in my
possession ; I found a glove in the room—this is it.
Mr. Rout examined—l know Stacy, the younger ; I
made him a present of a pair of gloves about six weeks
before the murder, and the glove produced is the one
which I gave him.
Wm. Tayne—l was in prison for a violation of the
Custom-laws. Stacy was put in the same cell with me.
On the 17th of March I said his father had told where
the money was, he said this is worse than all, it is a
done job. He said he did not do it himself, it was another
chap ; this chap told him how he did it ; he said he got
in over the pales and into the back door, and saw the
old woman coming down stairs with a candle and candle-
stick in her hand, and he caught her by the throat with
one hand and threw her down, and got the candlestick
from her hand and beat it about her head, and beat it
double ; he beat her about the head with a brush till the
handle came out, and broke the handle in three pieces on
her head ; in the scuffle with her he lost his knife ; then
he went up stairs to the old gentleman, and he caught
him by the collar and asked him for his money ; the old
gentleman struck him once or twice with his stick. He
caught hold of him, and then he let the old gentleman
go ; the latter fell out of the chair ; he looked round the
room and saw a hammer ; and then he beat the old
gentleman on the head and left him for dead. He said he
went down stairs and saw the old woman struggling in
the room below ; he searched about and found his knife,
and cut her throat. He then went back again up stairs
and cut the old gentleman's throat.
Mr. Reid examined—Stacy, jun. bought some seals of
me on Friday after the murder ; he paid me on the Mon-
day following a sovereign, and had 12 pieces of gold more.
Mr. Weeks—l saw Stacy in prison on the 10th of
June ; I said I was sorry to see him there; he said he did
not do it ; it was Bill Downer.

William Downer was called, and he satisfactorily
proved that he was at the Antelope public-house from six'
o'clock in the evening (the supposed time when the
murder was committed) until about ten o'clock.
Mr. Justice BUIIIIOtIOII then summed up, and the
jury found him Guilty. He was then removed, and ad-
ditional evidence given, which proved the crime imputed
to the father, against whom the jury brought in a verdict
of Quilty.—Both prisoners were then sentenced. The
son to be executed on Monday next, and the father to
`be transported for life.

About half-past one °clock yesterday, the house at
the east corner of Southampton-street and the Strand,
which has been for some time propped up, the house
which adjoined it having been removed to make way for
the Charing-cross improvements, gave way with a dread-
ful crash. Fortunately the walls fell in at the Strand
side, and within the palings which have lately been
erected there. No accident consequently took place,
but a considerable part of some valuable furniture which
the house contained was smashed to piece. The premises
were in the occupation of Mr. Sparks, linendraper anti
silk-mercer, and it was stated that upwards of 2,000/.
worth of goods were deposited by Mr. Sparks for safety
in the back parlour of the house, all of which it is
feared are considerably injured, if not totally destroyed.
Information of the circumstance having been received at
Bow-street, a party of the patrol, under the directions of
Salmon, were ordered to the spot to keep off the crowd
and prevent accidents. Part of the walls are still stand-
ing, although expected to fall every moment. Mr. Sparks
had removed his family on the previous evening. • It Is
disgraceful to the parties concerned, that this catastrophe
' had not been prevented.