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London, England, 1821-09-19 00:00:00

monger-lane Jail. The defendant was employed by
the Governor of the prison to conduct the funerals of
all the criminals; and, where the friends of the de-
ceased were poor, was paid ES or £4 by the County
for his trouble, as was the case in the present in-
stance. After the culprit's body had hung the usual
time, it was cut down, and conveyed in a shell to
the defendant's house, where several of the relatives
attended to know the time the funeral would take
place, which they were informed would be on the
following Wednesday. On that day they went to
the defendant's house, but, to their great surprise,
were told that the funeral had been gone some time,
and every one in the house pretended ignorance of
the route it had taken. In vain they went from,
church-yard to church-yard, and from burying.
ground m burying-round—they could obtain no
satisfactory information; and when they saw the de-
fendant, the only answer he gave.them was, that the
body had been buried; but he would not tell where,'
nor give a certificate unless they paid him eight shil-
lings. This they refused to do, and then applied to
Mr. WALTER the Keeper of the Jail, to whom they
communicated their suspicions of something having
been done with the body. In consequence of the
mystery in which the matter waskept, Mr. WALTER,
sent for the prisoner to know the particulars of the
affair, but he refused to come, and in this state things
remained until Saturday last, the friends of the de-
ceased continually annoying the defendant, to know
what he had done with the corpse; and the latter
pertinaciously refusing to give them satisfactory i.l-,
formation. On that evening, the relatives of Lee
(who had watched the prennses day and night) re-
ceived information, that the body had not been bu-
ried at all, and that the defendant intended to get it
interred that evening : they remained on the watch,
and between six and seven o'clock they saw the coffin
brought out on the shoulders of two men, and accom-
panied by Mr. Candicke himself, who, on being ques-
tioned, told the people that the coffin contained the
remains of Edward Lee. The procession moved on
to Ewer-street Burying-ground, but suds was the
precipitation with which the funeral had been carried
on, that the grave was scarcely half dug, and the
coffin was laid on the ground till it was finished.—
During the interval, the friends of the deceased begged
to see the body before it was consigned to the earth,
but their wish was opposed by the prisoner, on the,
ground that it was nearly in a state of putrefaction.
The others, however, were loud in their demand, and
having been joined by some of the mob, a battle took
place, which ended in the discomfiture of the under-
taker and his party, and the demolition of the coffin,
when lo! nothing was found in it but earth and saw-
dust! As soon as the panic and consternation thus
caused had in some degree died away, a person
fetched Glannon, the officer, who took the defendant
into custody, but found much difficulty in protect-
ing him from the infuriated crowd ; at length Horse-
monger-lane prison afforded him a sure refuge from
their attacks. A hue and cry was then raised respect-
ing the dead body, which was at length discovered
at the house of an anatomist, in Soho, who had bought
it for four guineas, and not all the entreaties of the
deceased's friends could induce him to give it up
until lie had dissected it; it was at length returned,
aftei• dissection. The defendant made a long reply
to the charge against him, the substance of which
was, that the body, in a shell, was deposited in a shed
at his houie, and he had every reason to belieVe it
would remain there safe; but on Wednesday morn-
ing, when he went to deposit it in the coffin, he found
to his utter astonishment that it was gone, having
been stolen, as he conceived, in the course of the
night, by some of the body-stealers, who live in the
neighbourhood, and when he found that out, he did
not like to give publicity to the circumstance.—The
Magistrates did not appear at all satisfied with chic
explanation, and they ordered the defendant to find
responsible bail for his appearance when called upon.
Bow-Srasxr.—Yesterday James Jones, Thomas
Colley, William George. Warner, and William Warner,
were examined before G. R. MINSHULL, Esq. the
Sitting Magistrate, and the two former fully com-
mitted to Newgate for trial, on a charge of stealing
seven Fallon: of oil, the property of Wm. Clark, an
extensive oil-dealer, residing in Cockspur-street.
Martir-La-Boxm—Yesterday Richard Smith was
committed for trial, charged with robbing Miss Wat-
son, of Upper Geor near Bryanstone-square
with whom he liv in the capacity of a butler, oi
plate, cut decanters, plated articles, and property of
other kinds, to a considerable amount, which the prig
soner had pledged at two pawnbrokers' shops, who
produced them before the Magistrate, when the arti-
cles so abstracted were identified by Miss Watson's
housekeeper.

Friday next, being St. Matthew's Day, according
to annual custom, the LORD MAYOR, Aldermen, She-
riffs, and Governors of the several Royal Hospitals,
will attend Divine Service at Christ Church. After a
Sermon by the Rev. RORRRT LIMAN, A.M. they will
repair to the Great Hall, in Christ's Hospital, where
two Orations will be delivered--.-in Latin by JOSHUA
Warca, and in English by JOSEPH YATES COOKSON,
the two senior Scholars of the Grammar School.
Anna Th , the man who bad been found
guilty of will:lf:peitrjury on Tuesday se'nnight, at the
Middlesex Sessions, was on Monday last brought up
for judgment. The Jury begged, in consequence of
the extraordinary testimonies which they had seen to
the excellence of his character, to recommend him to
the mercy of the Court. The Learned CHAIRMAN,
after an impressive exposition of the heinous nature
of the offence, said, that in consequence of the
recommendation of the Jury, the Court were in-
duced to qualify very materially their sentence. the
judgment of the Court, therefore, was, that the de-
fendant should be imprisoned in the House of Cor-
rection for the term of six months.
STONING TO DEATH.—CLONMEL, SErr.l7.—On
Friday evening last, as Andrew Stephens, farmer,
was on his way home from ClOnmel to Cloncen, in
company with his wife on a car, he was attacked
near Kilmore by two or three miscreants, who lite-
rally stoned him to death; for though, in his efforts
to escape from his murderers he got into the house
of Patrick Dunn, with his wife, who had also been
struck by these ruffians, he soon after expired. An
Inquest was held on the body on Saturday. The
Jury brought in a verdict of Wilfid Murder by per-
sons to them (the Jury) unknown. He has left a
widow and several children to lament his death.