Star.
London, England, 1821-04-27 00:00:00

OLD DAILEY.

Yesterday, -Thomas Gunter, aged 16, was indicted
for stealing from the person of Sir H. Dalrymple
Hamilton, a silk pocket handkerchief.—The prosecu-
tor was called three times on his recognizances, but
did not appear. It was stated that he was not in town.
By the evidence of Hewer, Wren, and Cooke, three
officers, it appeared, that on the 27th of February,
the prisoner was seen in New liond-street, and being
suspected, the above officers watched him; shortly
afterwards an alarm was given of the prosecutor
having been robbed, and the prisoner was taken into
custody, with the handkerchief near him on the
ground, which was afterwards sworn to by the pro-
secutor, at the Police Office.
The Commos SERJEANT said, that in the absence
of the prosecutor, the Jury must acquit the prisoner,
there being no proof that be took the handkerchief
from the person.—The Jury accordingly returlied
verdict of—Not Guilty.
The Learned JUDGE then admonished the prisoner
on his way of life, and observed, that if Sir 11. D.
Hamilton had been in Court, he must have been
convicted, and would have been sentenced to trans-
portation for life.
- The above was the last case on the calendar, and
the Jury were then dismissed, the COMMON SER-
JEANT thanking them for their attention during the
Session. The Itzcaanza then took his seat on the
Bench, and proceeded to pass sentence on the pri-
soners, beginning with those capitally convicted, viz.
Julia Cochet D'Ocrane, for stealing in a' dwelling house;
Richard Jackson, Thomas Brooks, John Rees, Thomas Lee,
and Thomas Langton, for burglary• ; James Jordan, William
Donald, Thomas Steers, and Abraham Isaacs, far housebreak-
ing; Jabez Pickering, Henry Ilewings, George Davis, and
William Pavely, for stealing in a dwelling-house ; Wm. Chosely,
for horse-stealing; Matthias George Driscoll, for stealing from
the person ; John Smyrke, for a robbery on the King's high-
way ; John Childs, fur sheep-stealing ; Cephas Quested, for il-
legally assembling with firearm.' ; and John Snape, for forging
the signature of the Captain of the Spartan, and other persons.
The latter prisoner, who is a most respectable looking nun, on
being put into the dock, read a long written paper, in which be
contended that no fraud had been committed, and prayed for
further inquiry into his case.
Transportation for Life i—Mary Webbe.
For Fourteen Years —Elizabeth Vincent, Henry Miles Fast-
gate, William Sears, Henry Stevens, John Frederickson, and
John Knight.

For Seven Years :—James Dwyer, David Douglas, Joseph
Sanderson, Abraham Donier, John Taylor, George Hughes,
William Adams, John Bird, John Brooks, Charles Wildy, Gro.
Ellis, William Barnet, Tames Goodwin, William Harlton, Tho-
mas Newton, Henry Sanderson, Thomas . George, Timothy
Caton, Thomas Platt, John Williams, Michael Twyeross,
Eleanor Edwards, Margaret Murphy, Joh!) Hart, John Fell,
George Crawley, Henry Allen, James Payne, William Cullen,
Thomas Smith, Thomas Connell, John Tibbins, Joseph Peel-
ing, John Bitten, William Appleby, Isaac Crawley, Robert
Callow, Joshua Jones, Thomas Jones, James Lacy, Henry
Newland, Benjamin Stevenson, William Sack, George Smith,
Ann Williams, John Smith, Edward Vale, Thomas Brans-
grove, and Samuel Aylett.
Sarah Holt, Thomas Lake, Mary Ann Lorden, Thomas
Evans, John Crawley, Michael Machin. James Dogherty, anti
Martha King, were sentenced, the latter to two years, and the
rest to twelve months imprisonment, In the House of Correction
fur London.—Sixtl-four were ordered to be imprisoned in the
House of Cofrection for Middlesex, and two in Newgate for
various periods, several of whom were to be publicly and pri-
vately whipped, and several judgments were respited.

Sessions adjourned to the 6th of June.
PgRTH CIRCUIT COURT, APRIL 16.

Ebenezer Brown was indicted for the murder of
Wil-
liam Henderson, in Netherton of Dunfermline.
Ann Henderson, is widow of the deceased,who has a
daughter called Ellen, between whom and the pannel
(a married man) an illicit intercourse had subsisted
for some time, the former having been absent from her
father's house, to which she returned in the month of
July last. Witness went on to say, pannel sent for de-
ceased on the 13th of July to speak with him, in a
public-house, at ten at night; witness said deceased,
was in bed ; prisoner came and knocked at the door;
refused to let him in ; her children,Ellen,Ann,Marion,
and James, were in the house at the time ; Ellen-said
pannel should get in ; Ellen went out; witness and
Ann followed; sound Ellen and pannel talking toge-
ther ; Ann threatened to throw a stone at paunch if he
did not go away; pannel said if they came out he
would make corpses of every one of them ; had a stick
in his hand; witness's husband came out partly un-
dressed; orderectEllen to go in; she refused; prisoner

gave deceased a push: Witfteit said el hold off a poet
old man e. Ann pushed Ellen in towards the door ;
deceased went behind Ann to assist her ; Ellen cried,
" on, Eby r prisoner threw deceased over amongst
some loose stones ; deceased fell on his face, raised
himself up, then fell again ; did not see prisoner strike
deceased with his stick ; Ellen went away east of the
Netherton ; prisoner followed ; witness also followed
them ; prisoner threw witness on the ground, and hurt
her arm; returned to the house and found her husband
in bed speechless; he had been that day in good health;
was aged 63 ; was not subject to epilepsy or fits; was
nervous when in a passion; sent for Dr. J. Stenhouse
that night ; he did not come, but sent medicine, which
her husband could not swallow, his throat being full of
blood, and his jaw fallen ' • Dr. Stenhouse came next
day; drew blood, which had no effect; husband never
stirred or spoke; died that night ; Ellen never returned.
Cross-examined.—Ellen gave witness "a little drive"
as she went to the door ; door of the house narrow ;
husband had no hat; when he fell the second time
Brown was at a distance; deceased followed them a
few yards ; was in a great passion ; daughter Marion
had fallen down in a nervous fit ; did not say to Fer-
guson, who held her husband's head when it sins
shaved, that this fit had lasted longer than usual ;
heard that the deceased had had a fit many years ago.
A. I ienderson corroborated her mother's testimony.

Dr. James Stenhouse opened the deceased's head;
made a report at the time, which was presented to
him and certified—deceased met his death from a
suffusion of blood in the brain, occasioned by a lace-
ration (If the brain by a piece of the inner coating of
the skull, near the junction of the spinal marrow,
being separated from the skull by violence ; this vio-
lence might have been applied to any part of the
head ; a severe concussion in any way might hive oc-
casioned it ; bones of old people more brittle than
those of young; a mark on back of the head; might
have walked 60 or 70 yards after the laceration, and
back again, as the blood suffuses from the small ves-
sels gradually ; does not think the appearance the
brain presented would have been produced by any in-
ternal passiol or affection of the mind ; the suffusion
of blood might have been hastened by it.
Dr. Dewar, who opened the head along with Dr.
Stenhouse, confirmed his testimony. Epilepsy would
not have accounted for the laceration ; a man would
not lie for 18 hours in an epileptic fit.—The following
witnesses were called for the defence :

James Ellis dwelt in the same street, opposite; saw
Henderson with a stick following Brown; heard de-
ceased say if he got a stroke at Brown he would knock
him to eternity ; heard Henderson speak when in the
house; his tongue was not bit when he put him to bed;
it was bit afterwards ; when neighbours said he was in
one of his old troubles ; wife said she never saw him
so long in one in her life.
David Ferguson went in between four and five in
the moraing ; found deceased insensible ; lying very
similar to the way he had seen him in twice some
years before ; held up deceased's head when it was
shaved ; saw no marks of blows ; tongue bit. .
David Ilutton.—Deceased's family not very peace-
able ; Brown a very quiet man ; served in the Fife-
shire Militia with him three years; steady soldier;
sober ; Brown volunteered from the Fifeshire to the
79th Regiment ; Henderson a very passionate man.
Provost Wilson, of Dunfermline, wrote to the Com-
manding Officer of the 79th Regiment, and got a
very excellent character of Brown, which was read
in Court.

James Drysdale.—Deceased was subject to a fall-
ing sickness; deceased was servant with witness's
father 54 years ago ; none of the servants would eat
out of the same dish with him.

The exculpatory proof was here clo•ed.
Mr. MENzias, in addressing the Jury on the part
of the prosecution, considered the fact of Henderson
having met with his death, in consequence of the
scuffle with Brown, as completely proved.
Mr. WlLsos, for the prisoner, dwelt particularly,
upon the evidence of Henderson being subject to fits;
on the time that elapsed between the scuffle and his
fainting fit ; on the prisoner's quiet, and on the de-
ceased's passionate disposition—and said, that had he
been allowed, he was prepared to prove that Brown
had come to Henderson for the purpose of restoring
scme articles belonging to Ellen ; that he did not
wish to take her away from her father's house ; that
he separated himself from her immediately after-
wards, and that she was now living in the same house
with his wife in terms of perfect amity.
The law, as it stood respecting murder and culpa-
ble homicide, and the power of the Jury to bring in
either of these verdicts, were laid down by Lord
SUCCOTH, in summing up the evidence.
The Jury, after a few minutes' deliberation, re-
turned a verdict of—.Culpalde Homicide, and the pri-
soner was condemned to seven years' transportation.

GUlLDHALL.—Yesterday, Mr. Gibson, of Trump-
street, was summoned by one of his journeymen
weavers, for having paid •him a less price than is
marked in the regulated scale, allowed by the Jus-
tices in Session. The information was laid by the
Society of Journeymen, several of whom, with their
Secretary, were in attendance, assisted by i% ALLEY,
who stated the case at very considerable length.—
Mr. BOLLAND observed, that the complainant had
had work given him to be made of a certain quality,
but he had made it much stouter, and then demanded
the increased price. The question was, whether any
thing was due, after having thus wasted his employer's
material; and if he had any remedy, it was at the
Court of Requests. Mr. Gibson had paid for the qua-
lity he had ordered. Mr; ALLEY contended, that if
his client had a remedy at the Court of Requests, it
did not bar the information. The rate of prices could
I not be violated on any ground. Aldermen ROTH-
WELL and C. SMITH decided, that the case described
was not one which came under the cognizance of the
Act, and dismissed the information.

Bow-STREET.—Yesterday, three well-known pick-
pockets, who have for a long time been a pest to the
neighbourhood of Bond-street, underwent an exa-
mination before RICHARD BIRNII4 Esq. the Sitting
Magistrate, and were fully committed for trial, being
charged with picking the pocket.- of Mr. Richard
Holt, of Orchard-street, Portman-square, of a pocket-
book, containing three one-pound notes.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—DISCOVERT OP A NEST
07 SHEEP-STICALERS.--This system of robbery has of
late been carried ots is the environs of London, not
only in the- fields, but from
_slaughter-houses. in
town. No less than eight persons are under nail*

nation at this Office, charged with the above offence.
—Eight sheep were stolen in the night from the
slaughter-house of Mr. Garment, butcher, in South
Audley-street, and they were traced to Dennington's
house, where they were killed, and afterwards sold
much under the value. The receivers are also in cal.
tody. The said eight prisoners are alsO charged with
stealing fourteen sheep from the neighbourhood of
Notting-hill. These sheep were also traced to the
wholesale market, in Chick-lane, where they were
killed, and afterwards disposed of. The prisoners
were all remanded, as the others concerned are act
yet in custody.

IRELAND.—Oornacrt..—On the night of Mon*
the 16th instant, a most barbarous murder was cow
mitted in the neighbourhood of Banagher,in the
King's county. Between the hours of twelve ong
o'clock, a body of villains, in number about thirty.
most of them armed with muskets and fixed bayonet'',
attacked the house of a man of the name of Murphy.
On their shooting the dog outside the house, Murphy
took the alarm, and had scarcely put on his clothes,
when his door was burst in, and five or six fellows
entered, against whom, having seized a pitchfork, he
defended himself with desperate resolution. The vil-
lains having retreated, had not courage to enter into
the house a second time, but dispatched three of their
gang to a short distance for fire, with which to hurl'.
the house and its inmates, consisting of Murphy, his
sister (t woman about forty years of age), his aged,
blind mother, and his nephew (a boy about ten rays
old). The roof being set on fire, Murphy's sister first
endeavoured to escape ; but, on her coming eut, one
of these savages stabbed her in the sle with a bayo.
net, which pierced through to the back of her head,
whilst others beat her about the face with the butt.
ends of their muskets, until a musket-shot through
the heart,• from the hand of another, put an end to
the period of
,her existence! The house being in
flames, and part of the roof having fallen in, Murphy
heat rushed out, when he instantly received a mthket-
ball in his head, which traversed the skull; a second
shot passed through his body, and lodged in a block
of wood upon which he had fallen. The next Ades
was the poor, old, blind mother, whom they carried
to a deep bog-hole, into which they threw her. Oa
departing, they struck the boy with the butt-end of a
musket in the mouth, by which several of his teeth
were knocked out ; they then fired at him, and lodged
several slugs in both his legs. Colonel L'Estrange,
of Moystown, as soon as he was. informed of the out-
rage, repaired with a party, of his Staff to the house,,
and afforded the unfortunate man, who was still sm.
viving, every kind assistance, and had him conveyed
• to the Barrack at Banagher, where he now lies with-
out hope of recovery. Nearly twelve months ago,
the house of Murphy was attacked by a body of Rib-
bons:len, who demanded his fire-arms. The assailants
were repulsed, and finally beaten Off, which is sup-
posed to have been the cause of this dreadful outrage.

A few days since, the body of J. GOWAN, Esq. a
Lieutenant in the SOth Regiment of Foot, was dis-
covered lying dead, on the road from the town ci
Goree, Ireland, to the seat of his father, Joss
HUNTER GOWAN, Esq. in the county of Wexford, but
without any external mai ks of violence, from which
circumstance great doubts were entertained as to&
manner of his death; but it having been since clearly
ascertained, that at the time he set out from hose
he had about him a silver hunting-watch, a mo:octo
pocket-book, containing notes to a large amount, and
a purse containing several gold sovereigns, which
had been evidently taken from him, as his pockets
were turned inside out, there can be no doubt that
he fell a victim to the sanguinary cii,positionofsonse
wretch, who knew of Mr. GOWAN carrying property
about him to such an amount.

Sunday, W. Jenkins, ferryman, at Lawrenny, Car.
marthenshire, took a Gentleman and his horse into the
boat used for conveying foot passengers from Loot
and Lawrenny ; when about 400 yards from the
shore, the horse became restive, bilged the boat, and
leaped into the tide. Jenkins used all exertions to
regain the shore, whilst the Gentleman kept throwing
out the water; but the wind and tide being againa
them, it became completely water-logged, and was
sinking, when, about 30 yards from the shore, the
Gentleman leaped into the water, and gained the land
by swimming; but Jenkins sunk to rise no more.
Tuesday, while the steam-engine of the copper'-
works, at Morriston, near Swansea, was at work, a
poor boy very inadvertently placed his foot upon the
safety-valve, which occasioned the barrel to explode,
and there being three men at work in another pact
or the engine-house, the steam, from tile sudden et•
plosion and consequent rarefication of the air, fie,'
carried one of them to the stairs, a distance of no
less than seventeen feet; -the others were pressed
violently against the door, leading to the office. One
of the windows was shattered to pieces, and the wall
much injured. The men escaped unhurt, and the
boy is likely to recover, with the exception of the
loss of his right leg.
Yesterday afternoon, a woman with a child in bot
Arms, going along Holborn, near Furnivals Inn, hap
pened to slip, from treading on an orange-peel, and
was thrown forward with great force, the child was
pitched out of her arms, and, falling on its head,
fractured its skull.

BIRTHS.
Wednesday, Mo. Bally, of Stantford.bill, of a son. ,
Wednesday, the Lady of Captain O'Connor, Royal Nciii.
Hereford-street, of a daughter.
At Italbegno Castle, on the 11th inst. the Lady of Orga.
Ramsay, of a son.
At Roscommon, on the 1I th Inst. the Lady of Cafilikilk
lace, of the Kiug's Dragoon Guards, of a

DIED.
April 12, Sir John Clarks Richardson, Bart. Commands
the Royal Navy.
On his return home from the Island of Ceylon Ca
Thurlbw, of the 16th Regiment, second son of the Rev. r,
Thurtow, Prebendary of Norwich Cathedral.
Marti 2, on his passage home in the 27th year of Wine,
James Carnegy, Rs* late merchant

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