Star.
London, England, 1821-09-29 00:00:00

TUE OUTRAGE IN CHARLES-STREET, DRWIT-LANIL

—The examination of the three women who were
committed from Marlborough-street Office, charged
with ill-treatinig and precipitating Thayers from the
second floor window of a house in Charles-street, on
Monday night, did not come on yesterday, in conse-
quence of the very dangerous state of the man, whose
removal to give evidence was impossible. He is now
in Middlesex Hospital, and labours under the most ,
excruciating agony. From the neck to the abdomen
is one continued bruise, and the swelling is very great.
This was occasioned by his fall from the window, a '
height of $7 feet, and his legs and arms are much 1,
cut by the blows from the men who attacked him
while down. He cannot take any nourishment, and
there is but faint hopes of his recovery. In his ac-
count of the attack which was made on him, he says
that he accompanied the woman Pethick to the house,
and being extremely hungry, requested her to pro-
cure some supper, and for that purpose gave her
half-a-crown, and she quitted the room. While in
the room alone he laid down on the bed, and sud-
denly a man entered with a stick in his band. He
instantly started off the bed, and asked the man what
he wanted ? the fellow very composedly begged his
pardon, and said he was merely looking for another
person. He then withdrew, leaving Thayers again
alone, who now perceiving his danger, was about to
quit the room, when Pethick returned with the sup-
per, and, on his asking her for the change, she bade
him be quiet, as the remainder of the money was per-
fectly safe. This he conceived to be a sufficient hint,
and was opening the door to retire, when the man
who before presented himself, appeared to dispute his
passage. Thayers promptly told him that he was
determined to quit the house, and if his passage were
impeded, he should certainly oppose force by force.
The fellow, with a volley of oaths, swore he should
not get off so easily, and made a blow at him ; he
succeeded in warding it off, but nearly at the same
moment a ruffian struck him a blow on the back of
the neck, which, had he not seized the banisters,
would have knocked him down the stairs; he was
then attacked by the man in front (whom be should
know again), and by several women behind ; he main-
tained an unequal conflict with them for some mi-
nutes, until he was knocked down and beat senseless
in the room on the floor; he recollects nothing. more
until they were about to fling him from the window,
when he recovered for a moment, and called for help,
entreating the wretches to save his life, who, regard-
less of anything he said, beat him on the head, and,
from the loss of blood, he became senseless. He soon

afterwards was found as before described, lying in
the street, by the watchman.

An,'ammo SceNc—Josiah Gutman, aged thirty-
four, who, it may be remembered, pleaded guilty at
the late Sessions, to a charge of uttering a forged
ES note, on Wednesday received sentence of death.,
He was formerly elrk to an eminent solicitor, in
Clerkenwell, and we understand that bis conduct,
while in that situation, was in every way praiseworthy
and respectable. His wife, aged 27, who was also
condemned to death at the same Sessions, for the like
crime, appears to be a woman of superior address and
education. Great interest was excited in the specta-
tors, when thy)* were pladed at the bar to receive the
awful sentence of the law. When the Clerk of the
Arraigns asked Cadman what he had to say why
sentence of death should not be passed upon him ? he
attempted to address the Court, but he was so over-
powered with grief, that he could only articulate—.
" He hoped they would spare his wife's life." When
the same question was put to the female, she said she
had nothing more to say, than that, " If her husband
died, she hoped she would die with him." The scene
was truly distressing, and the feelings of most prcscpt,
particularly the females. were quite overcome,