Star.
London, England, 1818-10-13 00:00:00

MURDER AT CHELSEA.

Conotstres Isnunlr.—Yesterday evening, to In-
quisition was taken at the Triumphant Chariot, Pem-
broke Mews, Grosvenor-place, on view Of the body
of Mary Ann Losch.—Mrs. Arm Daps" of Law-
rence-court, Jew's-row, Chelsea, stated, that on Fri•
day night, while she was conversing with the de-
ceased, thehusband of the latter, who was standing
near them, came forward, and said toiler; " Come
home, you are drunk." She replied, " If I am
drunk, it is by prostituting myself to support an idle
fellow like you.". She had no sooner uttered these
words than he struck her with something. She stag-
gered and fell on her back, exclaiming, " lam mur-
dered; pull the knife out of me." The husband ap-
peared sober.—Richard Clark, in addition to what
he stated at Queen-square Police Office, said, that 11. H
had a distinct view of the husband b• the light of a
candle in a hair-dresser's shop ; he did not observe
him have any knife, but saw him fumbling in his
pockets before he struck the deceaied ; after he struck
her, and before she fell to the ground, she exclaimed,
" 0 my GOD, I am murdered ; will any. body take
the knife out of me?" Witness stept fonvird to keep
her up, but she fell before he reached her, and then
uttered the same exclamation; don't know who pulled
the knife out; conceives that neither she nor her hus-
band were intoxicated.—Mr. William Treadaway, of
George-street, Sloane-square, coal-merchant, was pre-
, sent at the horrid transaction ; just as the deceased
fell he heard a scream of murder ; he stepped to-
wards her, and saw past of her bowels; she said,
1" take the knife out of me." Elizabeth Harrison
cried out to the husband, " You have murdered your
wife ;" saw ne knife, but the husband was standing
by her; he said, " I am the murderer, take me."—
The husband had kicked her before, during the even-
ing, with much violence.—The evidence of Elizabeth
Harrison and the Watch-house Keeper eotroborated
the above, and the facts stand as in. our Paper of
yesterday.—Mr. John Kitchen, house-surgeon at St.
George's Hospital, said, the deceased was brought
to the Hospital on Friday evening a little past eight
o'clock ; she was in excruciating pain: She bad a
wound on the right side of the abdomen about six
inches in length, apparently inflicted with a sharp
instrument. The greater part of the bowels and part
of the stomach protruded. The bowels were cut
through. She lingered until five o'clock the follow-
ing morning. The bowels had been wounded in four
different places. The Jury instantly returned a yen
dict of wilful and deliberate murder against Francis
Losch, the deceased's husband, who was this day
fully committed to take his trial for the offence.

GUILDHALL.—FORGER —Yesterday Brown,
a lad about 18 years of age, was brought before Mr.
Alderman WArrusrAN, charged with uttering a 11.
forged note, with intent to defraud the Bank of Eng-
land.—Thomas Lloyd said, he resided in Aldersgate-
street, and sold groceries. On Saturday evening,
between nine and ten o'clock, the prisoner came to
his shop and selected a few articles, in payment for
' which he tendered a 1/. note. Witness suspecting it.
Ito be bad, asked him how he came by it ? He re-
plied it was a wry good. note, but his other answers
were equivocating. Witness advised him " not to
trifle with his neck," at all events, but tell the plain
truth. The prisoner then seid, that his .name was.
Smith, that he was a watch-maker, and resided.,iri
_Barbican. This story was not believed, and a person,
known to the witness, then in the shop, agreed to go
with the prisoner and ascertain the truth of his story.
It proved to be fhlse the prisoner was immediately
conveyed to the watch-house, and the note deposited
with the constable. The witness•afterwards gave his
charge.—The officer produced the note, and Mr.
Christmas, the Bank inspector, immediately •pro-
nounced it forged.—Alderman WArriimAs desired
the witness to look at the note again strictly. It
seemed to him well executed, and he had been made
acquainted with numerous mistakes respecting Bank
notes. He had himself known clerks of the Bank to
take in payment forged notes as good, which subse-
quently proved bad.—Mr. Christmas said, that he
was ready to admit this—" Clerks might makea mis-
take, but it was imposate for an inspector to do so."
He could tell almost at a glance wlether a note was,
good or bad !—A gentleman in the office denied thii,
and said he had known an, instance recently where
three out of five in the InspeCtor's office, declared a
note to be good, while the other Iwo pronounced it
bad ! The individual who conveyed the prisoner to
Barbican, thence to the watch-house, and who could
alone speak to the identity of the note about to be
passed by the prisoner, being absent, the latter was
remanded.

William Smith, an old offender, wac fully committed
for trial, charged with robbing Comte Vituel, late
an officer in the Imperial Cuzud of France, of his
handkerchief, Sc. in Newpte-street,. on Saturday.

Yesterday two per-sons were committed to prison
by the Surrey Magistrates, as disorderly, for creating
an alarm in the Borough on Sunday night, by crying
" fire," and knocking in a violent manner at the doors
of the inhabitants. They were required to find sure-
ties to keep the peace, which failing to do, the Ma-
gistrate signed their commitment.

The vestry-room of Taplow Church, in Bucking-
hamshire, was broken into in the night of Friday last,
and the Rector's scarf, and the cloth which corere.d
the Communion Table, carried off.

SWINDLER—A smart little fellow, pretending to be
"the son of a Banker, enjoyed himself a short time ago,
lac the expense of several respectable innkeepers in
Congleton, Newcastle, the Potteries, and we fear
other places.—lt was customary with him, not only
to neglect paying for his entertainment, but also to
procure three or four pounds in cash (or more if pos-
sible) from the host or waiter, informing them, he
had no small change, but would return it almost im-
mediately, as he was about to procure cash for a draft
to a large amourt ; which draft by the endorsements)
was afterwards discovered to be a forgery. When the
cheat was discovered, he contrived to dude pursuit,
and made his exit, it is supposed, by way of Leek.
StIDLL:: DEAlti.-011 Saturday night, an Inquisition was titkva
at the Duke's head public-house, in Princes-street, W:.strrit• ;ter,
upon the body of Thomas Morris. the deceased was the cele-
brated tabistkr, whosalame is so vnieersally known that he 4:—
ceeded the performance of the laes firers, and has exhibi,ed bo.
fore the Royal Family and most of the ',Solidity. lje had ling,
on his journey to Cheltenham, and called to see his sister in We:A-
minstc r, at whose house be was seized in a lit en Friday and :a-
rind. Verdict-s" Died in a fit uf Aroplaxy."

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