Star.
London, England, 1820-10-02 00:00:00

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',SLICE. 1!.
Wouessr•irraner.—An inquiry has for several
dais been pending at this Office, before ROMIlly
Bitirtti.. Esq. respecting the death of one John Green,
who was taken to the London Hospital, on the 13th
of August last, in a state Of insensibility, and, after
languishing a few days, expired. An Inquest was
held upon the body at the .time, when the Coroner's
Jury returned a verdict .of wilful murder against
some person or persons unknown.
A young man, named Edward Prestidge, of No. 15, Cock
and Castle-lane, Kingslanderoad, stated, that on the 14th Au-
gust last he was in lhaney-marsh, about six or seven o'clock
in the afternoon. He bad been there about half an hour, during
which time he and several other persons were playing at a gatin
called Jingles. The witness stated the r.ature of this game to
be, that one person runs about with a bell, and all the others,
blindfolded, endeavour to catch him. The deceased, Jobe
Green, was well known to this witness; he was not playing at
this game, but was standing as a spectator. Presently witness
caught the man with the bell, and then insisted on his right Mk
a pair of &bees for which they were playing. Several of the
*layers, amongst whom was one Boxam, contended that Wlt-1
aess had not won the shoes, and they immediately, with sdekel
and their fists, commenced an attack upon the witness and'his
friends. In this encounter they also attacked Given, whom
the witness presently saw lying on the ground, and when in that
situation he saw Bongo strike him on the breast with his right
band. Green instantly became apparently lifeless, and laid on
the ground for about Site or ten minutes. In that state he
was conveyed to the • White Hart publionhouse close by, where
the witness remained with him till about three o'clock the next
issondeg, sad during that time he never spoke or opened his
eyes, nor stewed the least symptom. of life, except moving him-
Self once or twice.
Anne Chapman, another witness, stated she was servant to a
publican, at Hackney, about six weeks ago. She recollected
that the deceased, John Green, came to her master's louse on
the day of the Marsh Dance. He remained drinking beer and
smoking sill between two and three o'clock, when he went to
the bar for a glass of gin. Her master gave him a glass of gin,
and asked for the money. Green was about to pay for it,
but he swore at her master, and was very abusive. Her master
told him to go into the tap-room, but Green said he would go
when be liked. The publican then shoved him into the tap-
room and shoved him down, and his head fell against the fender
or the table, she could not tell which ; his head was cut and.
bled a great ,leaL The deceased then endeavoured to go out
of the tap-rooin, but the landlord shoved hie down again,. and
he fell on his back acrois the step of the door. He afterwards
dragged the deceased into the yard, from whence he got up and
went into the street. Witness saw him in the street, lying on
the pathway, his head bleeding, and a number of people stand-
ing by him. Ile laid there about an hour, Wham he got up, in-
quired his way to the Marsh Dance, and departed-
Mr. Benjamin /3aillie a surgeon belonging to the London
Hospital, said the deceased, John Green, was brought there
about three o'clock on the afternoon of the iSth August lest.—
He was in an insensible state, and continued so-until the hour
of his death. When he was brought in, witness examined his
head minutely, and found a wound of about an inch in extent
on the back part of his head. On the Sed of Aegoet he died,
and Mr. Baillie was certain that his death was occasioned by the
euravannion of )iisod on the brain. He also firmly believed'
that the blow which he had received on his head bad caused the
eatravasedea of blood on the brain. There was no mark of
external violence on the chest, nor on any other part of the body;
nor was there any other wound on the head.
The Publican was brought up under a warrant granted by
the Magistrate on a former dirt. He was attended by his
friends and a Solicitor. It was endeavoured on his part to be
*even that the violence he had used towards the deceased was
greatly exaggerated by the servant girl, who owed him a grudge,
because he had turned her away. It was also urged that blows
with sticks had been gives to the deceased afterwards, when he
was at the Marsh Dance, and the solicitor, Mr. Burgess, under
all the circumstances, trusted the Magistrate would admit the
prisoner to bail.
Mr. Bevill observed, that the publican could never justify his
conduct towards the deceased. It was barbarous in the extreme
that, for the sake of a glass of site a man should be beat about
and ill-used in the manner described, and when he laid bleeding
in the street, there appeared no humanity in the landlord, who
ought to have attended to a pereon suffering under wean:neat he
himself had inflicted. With respect to the Marsh Dance, if any
blow on the head sufficient to cause his death had been inflicted

by a stick in the Marsh, It must have been a distinct blow from
that which he had received from the landlord; but the Surgeon
had clearly shewn that there was but one wound on the head, .
and it was almost out of the reach of posebnity that a blow
given by a stick afterwards should be inflicted precisely on the
same sM and in the same manner as the former blow, arising ,
from the fall of the deceased at the public-hoax. He would
not, however, pronounce his- judgment as to the extent of the
crime, but that was eserdict of Wilful Murder by the Inquest.,
and it was not in his power to admit the prisoner to bail On
seem* se the ntspectehiEty of the prisoner, and the manner in
which It wore resented he had condole/el himself, it was kis.
Fhe Magi/trite s) wish to extend towards hint every Indulgence.
or his convenience he would adjourn this ease till Wednesday
nest, and daring that time he might remain in the custody of
the °latex ; bat ow the day mentioned. it woidd, under al
the circumstances, be his duty as a Magistsate to commit the
prisoner for trial.
It was intimated by the prisoner's Solicitor, that
application would be made to one of the Judges for
bail ; and the worthy Magistrate observed, that he
should be accommodated with a copy of the deposi-
tions for that purpose.
MANSION Humus--A respectable sales's.%) of Bil-
qingsgaze, named William. Forbes, was charged on
.Saturday before the LORD MAYOR, by Mr. Mitchel-
son, the Under Bailiff, with having sold unseasonable
salmon, contrary to the Statote, which prohibits the
'sale of kepper or shedder salmon as unseasonable
and unwhole,orne, and inflicts a heavy fine for the
offence. The defendant admitted that the sahnou
was a kipper, but denied that it was unwholesome;
he declareci that worse salmon was sold in the market..
11)e LORD MAYOR said, he was determined to punish
all persons against whom charges of so serious a na-
ture should be established. It became peculiarly in-
cumbent upon him to do so after the late exposure
of the shameful practice of selling an article which
was known to be so injurious, and against which it
seemed to be indispensably necessary to give the
most public caution: ills Lordship' then fined the
defendant

Thursday, the prisoners in the jail of Dover were
removed to the Castle, as a temporary place of COO-
finement, whilst the new jail is building.
Wednesday evening, as Mr. BRItTIM, of Berners-
street, Oxford-street, surgeon to the household of the
French stud Spanish Ambassadors, was coming to
town, (torn the seat of the Duke and Duchess de
CAZICS, at Harrow,,on-the-Hill, he was stopped by
three footpads, and robbed of £6O in notes, his, gold
watch, chain, and seals, and a box coat.
It is recorded of a late Noble Earl, that he was
suddenly awakened at night in his carriage by a
highwayman, who ,ramming a pistol through the
window, and presenting it close to his heart, de-
manded his money, exclaiming, at the same time,
" that he had heard that his Lordship had boasted
that he never would be robbed by a single highway-
man, but that he should now be taught the contrary."
His Lordship putting his hand into his pocket, re-
plied, o Neither would I now be robbed, if it was
notforlhat fellow whd is looking over your shoulder."
'The highwayman turned round his head, when his
Lordship, who had drawn a pistol from his pocket
instead 0( a perse, shot him on the spot.