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London, England, 1819-09-20 00:00:00

INHUMAN OUTRAGE.

THE KING V. JOHN CORBET ELISHA.
The above defendant was indicted at these Sessions,
for a most atrocious assault. The Public, no doubt,
recollect the case of a poor woman, named Green-
slade, having been most dreadfully assaulted at the
house of Mrs. Corrie, Upper Terrace, Islington, on
the 6th of June, 1817. The case at the time excitod
the deepest interest and indignation, from the aggra-
vated circumstances of the outrage ; for it was evi-
dent that the perpetrator, meditating robbery, would
have carried that object into effect at a risk still more
dreadful, upon two females. A reward of £6O was
offered for his apprehension, but he contrived to
elude all vigilance and justice until Monday last, I
when forming one of the multitude in the Procession
into London, he was recognized by Harrison, the
Marshalman, singled out from the crowd, and taken
into custody.
Jane Greenslade, the prosecutrix, stated, that in
the year 1817, she • lived with Mrs. Conic, Upper
Terrace, Islington, as servant. She there formed
some acquaintance with the prisoner, from his being
employed by a relation of Mrs. Conic as messenger.
The day before he committed the outrage he dropped
a letter down the area of the house, announcing his
intention of a visit the afternoon following. He came
accordingly, and drank tea with her ; after which he
staid, and did not seem willing to go. "At eight
o'clock," said she, " I took up my mistress's supper
into the parlour. When I returned into the kitchen,
this fellow was sitting by the fire with his face to-
wards it. I heard him rattle the poker against the
bars of the grate, and saw him comb his hair over
his eyes, and I remember it was quite black. I
then looked at him with surprise, and could not ima-
gine what all this meant. He then eatight the poker
out of the fire, and gave me/ye or ss.r murderous
blows and beat in my skull—the most dreadful blows
that ever eyes beheld. He then threw me down and
pat his fingers into my mouth to tear it, and to break
my jaw bone, as I suppose. The injury of his nails
on my lips and mouth were so bad that for a long
time afterwards I was unable to speak. He likewise
gave me two violent blows on my right arm, one on
the left arm, and another on my left fingers, so that
I could not move my hands. nor even feed myself.
My left hand has, in consequence, been paralysed and
nearly helpless up to the present time ; at last the
fellow left me upon the floor, as he thought, for dead.
He then ran up stairs with the poker in his hand,
and went nut by the back-door. When rturned my-
self round and missed him, I thought he was gone to
'kill my mistress; my cries were so great that I dis-
turbed all the neighbouts. I raised myself with dif-
ficulty, and looked out, when I perceived that he
bad opened the yard door and let himself out. At
the same time I heard a violent knocking. The
neighbours opposite saw the prisoner knocking at
the door. He told them that somebody had been at
No. 11, and murdered the servant. He said, if
they would go for a surgeon, he would go for -an
Officer,' and then made his escape. He had not,
until the previous week, since been heard of. He was
formerly the teacher to a free-school, in Tooley-street,
and when in distress she hail often given him victuals
and lent him money."
The poker, which had been deposited at Bow-
street, was produced. It was a large kitchen poker,
and was still clotted over with hair and blood. It
was nearly broken in the middle, and much bent
from the violence of the blows.
The prisoner, in his defence, admitted that he had
called on the prosecutrix on the day mentioned, and
had taken tea with her. In the course of the even-
ing he had taken improper liberties with her, and
she turned round and bit him severely on the finger,
when he, in the irritation of-the moment, might have
taken up the poker and hit her.
The Jury immediately found the prisoner Guilty.
The CHAIRMAN, in passing sentence, observed,
that it was extremely fortunate for the prisoner that
the unfortunate object of his fury had escaped with
life, otherwise he would have had to answer with his
own for the offence which he had committed. His
conduct afforded a dreadful picture of human do..
pravity. He partook of the hospitality of the poor
woman, and sat some hours in seemingly friendly
conversation with her, while the whole of the time
he was only watching an opportunity to destroy her.
The offence was one which called for the most se-
vere punishment. He therefore sentenced the pri-
soner to one year's imprisonment in the House of
Correction, and at the expiration of that period to
find sureties, himself in £lOO, and two others in £4.0,
to keep the peace for seven years.
At the close of the proceedings, a subscription was
immediately entered into by the Jury and several
other humane persons in Conn, for the poor woman
who was thus so wantonly and brutally outraged.
FOKOERY ON THE BANK OF DRONTHEIM.

Peter Moller, a foreigner, was indicted for feloni-
()lady endeavouring to procure a certain copperplate
block to be engraved and made, to represent the pro.
missory notes of the Bank of Drontheim, in Norway.
The indictment contained fifteen counts, and was
framed according to the international forms agreed
upon and embodied, by consent of the Sovereigns of
Europe, into an Act, which received their sanction
at the Congress of Vienna.
Mr. Robert Scott, engraver, residing in the Strand,
stated, that on the 27th of last May the prisoner
called upon him, and inquired if he could execute
some curious engravings for him, for which he would
agree to pay a large sum of money, if they were
finished to his satisfaction. Mr. Scott agreed to make
an effort to please his new customer, and desired to
he furnished with the necessary instructrOns respect-
ing the curious engraving which the stranger wished
to have done. The latter said he would call in a few
days, and Wing with him the Fattens which he wish-

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ed to have copied. Accordingly, in a few days, the
prisoner called a second time, and presented to Mr.
Scott what struck him at the instant to be a foreign
bank note, desiring him to make a plate exactly re
sembling the copy he had strewn him, and saying, if
the copy was well done, he would pay handsomely
for the work, and perhaps have further business for
j the engraver. Mr. Scott agreed to undertake the
llwork, but said, he merely did so with a view to de- I
tect the party, whom he strongly suspected at the
time to be contemplating something that was bad.—
He
therefore kept the note which the prisoner pre-
sented
to him as the copy for the new engraving, and
which, on subsequent inquiry in the City, he ascer-
tained to be a genuine promissory note of the Bank
of Drontheim, in Norway, and payable for a.stitn.of
about .555. British currency. The prisoner said he '
should want 3000 copies; and Mr. Scott also under-
stood that two other foreigners were endeavouring
to engage artists to make engraved copies from notes
of the same Bank, which, if they had succeeded,
would have given each of the three, in the course of
a month, forgeries on the Drontheim Bank to, the
amount of £BOOO steeling. Mr. Scott communicated
with Baron Sternit, the Swedish Envoy, and apprised
him, from time to time, of his progress in the plate,
and the visits of the prisoner, and means were then
taken to secure him.
The prisoner's Counsel urged objections against
1.. e form of the note, as applicable to its description,
but they were over-ruled, and the Jury found the
prisoner Guilty, when the Court sentenced him to one
year's imprisonment in the House of Correction.

BREACH OF THE PEACE.
Job Crompton was put to the Bar, and articles of
the peace exhibited against him by a Lady in Sloane-
street, who had been annoyed by him for some time.
He was in the habit of taking his station in front of
the Lady's house, and following het wherever she
went, talking of love and piety. She was at length
obliged to take this mode of getting rid of the pious
exhortations and amorous attentions which the old
would-be protector was so lavish in obtruding upon
her. He was a cobbler, who resided in the neigh-
bourhood, and about twice, at least, the age of
the Lady.
The Chairman asked him how he could think of
annoying a latdy in this manner ?
The prisoner feigned deafness ; upon which the
Court desired one of the prison-keepers to tell bib
he must enter into sureties, himself in £5O and two
others in £lO each, to keep the peace. He appeared
suddenly to fall into possession of his hearing, and
said he knew he had committed great error, and he
WAS very sorry for it.
The Court, however, ordered hiin to enter into the
necessary sureties, or be remanded to prison.