Star.
London, England, 1803-09-17 00:00:00

OLD BALLET.

l'eaerday t t prifoners were tried, two of whom
w‘re capitally convicted, viz.
Ilamplrey Crawley, for having on the evening of
the 23d of July laft, malicioutly and advifedly en-
deay.iured to feduce John Hall, a Corporal in the
Second Regiment of Tower Hamlets, from his al-
legance to ids Majefty.
Mr. Kwowtys opened the pleadings, and briefly
detailed its leading features. The leas difclofed in
evidence were fimple, and clearly eftablithed the pri.
loner's guilt.
John Hall, the principal evidence, Rated, that on
the evening of the 23d of July lag he was going home
to hi. lodsings abept halt pall eleven o'clock, when
he was met by the prifoner at the bar. He was ad-
dreircd by him, and being aced to go to a- public-
houfe to have Tome beer, be accepted of the tnvira
lion. They went together to the Northumberl2nd.
liead in Fort-fireet, gpitel-fields, in =tacit limn they
met id the'firfl inftance. Bor, after they had gone
into the-haute the PriroP74r took Weld of the witnefs's
hAnd, and obferved:to him, that,he thought him a
46 man afterou own walk -- t Ile hoped that he
might ':ttit the wallet's, to which a reply was made
the affirmative. In a fee, minutes be began to;
dirclore his views more fully...rid told the witnefs that
he'willted him very mach to lsetome a member of a
fociety to which he belonged; the edit:arson to which
ihottld not vitt hint a (Ingle farthing. The witnefs
Very naturally defied to* informed what was the
nature of thts 'fociety. The prifoner informed him
that the members of it were not lets than a hundred
and fifty, and that be knew of the exillence of many
other fuck foeieties. He at-the fame time informed
the witnefs chit he could introduce him to it ist tht
courfe of a very few minutes. The witnefs, alter fhis
converfation. thought it his duty to make a difcovery.
He accordingly left his military cap and his eine on'
the table of the bat where he had beds fittingwig..
the prifoner, and Went elireilly to the watch ltiiute in
t the neighbourhood. There.he applied to the Con.
Amble of the Night to take the phfoner into cuflody%
and en his being conveyed to the watch houfe he re-',
peered the fame account.
.1
.Mr. At.r.ty crofs.esamined the witnefs.with
fiderable ingenuity, but he could not fucceed in them.,
'la that there was any contrariety in his flatement.
The tonfiable of the Night, a retpeCtable dealer in
porter, are,' and:cyder, in Old Artillery Ground, near
Fort.ireet, corroborated every petition of the firll
witrefs. He fwore to the &Mier having thrice by,
his dente made his deciaradatt; and on each occaflow
"he had appealed to the prifoner its colts truth.. The
prifoner on each appeal admitted that it was One,
• and even on the Monday before he was taken to the
Magiftrate he declared himfelf ready to avow whet
.he had previoufly uttered. This left witnefs depof-
rd as to the prifoner's having been perfealy (ober
when he was carried to the watch honfe. The twit
witnefs was alto quite free from liquor.
Mr. Jultice Cassius fommed up the evideneW,
with his ufual clearnefs and ability. He appeared to
entertain no doubt of the charge having bee' MN'
out in the cleareft terms.

The. Jury, without alinoft turning round. gave a
'cyclic% of Guilty.

The• prifoncr was an old, mifcrable looking being.
He teemed quite unaffdled during the trial, and had
indeed much the appearance of an idiot.
INVADER.

Kezuwey, for the wilful and malicious mur-
der of Ann his wife, oh the ad day of Augaft
•in Earl's-place, Brick lane, Old-trees.
Mr. KNOWLYS, Counfefor the Profecution, Gated
the circumltances of this atrocious cafe as follews
The prifoner had been married 14 years to his de-
ceafed wife, during all which time the had fuitained
the molt ferious ill u(age. The Prifoner bad been
conftantly threatening to murder her, and continu-
ally addreffingber by the molt opprobrious epithets:
Arne time before the event tbr wbieh he-ftood in-
! ellited, he had beaten and broiled his wife in r bar-
barous manner, and he.believed that the coadaft of
. the prifoner would turn out to be fuck, upon evidence,
,that the Jury would not have the (*mallet hefitation
' in concluding that his mind, when he perpetrated
the murder, was fraught with perhaps more malice
and favage brutality, than ever they had beard proved
in a Court of Juftice. Even though it flowld appear
:that the deceafed had laboured under a difeafe that
might probably terminate her life at no great diftance
of time, (till if the treatment the (offered from the
prifoner had accelerated her death, this, in the eye of
:the law, conftituted murder. The Learned Counfel
,then briefly hated the particulars, which afterwards
came out in evidence.
Mr. Attar followed on the fame fide. He exa-
mined the witneffes with his accuftomed ingenuity
. and perfpicuity.
The firft winters who was called was
1 Ann Myers. She depored that the lived in Earl's-
tourt, nest door to the place of jelidence of the pri-
foner. About half after eleven on the morning of the
ad of Angtift, fhe law the deceafed bufy walling,
when the r ifoner came home. He had a part of .1
neck of mutton in his hand, and the firs words he
fail were," You are damned buiy, you blafted bitch."
She Paid, " My dear, here's two nice cauliflowers,
!hall I drefs them for dinner e To which he replied,
" What do you think, you blafted whore?" Soon
after the heard a violent noife that (Look the houfe, and
heard du. eldeft daughter call out, " You have killed
Lei." She thought it had been the fecond eldeft
daughter that was meant, as he had often threatened
her life. When the went in the faw blood upon the
nr to the threfhold of the door, and the deceafed
i lig on the floor in a Hate of infenfibility, with a great
deal of blood about her lace. She was frightened and
went our. Afterwards the heard him ay, " I will
Lave my dinner by twelve o'clock ;" and the deceafed
answered, " I will." Soon after that the faw him go
out, and he returned shout twelve. She then heard

hini fay, that he would cut her bloody lives7Wci
tongue out, that he would not roll tin he had mur-
rlTred her and the children. Mr. Belk, the father of
she woman, thenehaneed to come op. The witnefs told
the old man that the priftmer was murdering his
se:A. and defired him to take care, left be fhould kill

bins-alio. The father however went in, and in a few

.nintetes after the deeeafed was brought out tot ally
;.ernfible. She remained in_ that nate for about a

4-irter of an hour. When the came to herfeli, the
....‘l,O I hare jot my death blow from my butband."

—She Continued fo for kraal days, and frequently
put her band to her fide, laying the was In crufhed
and bruifed in her infide, that the thought the could
never get over it. She told the witnefi that the was
running from her hatband, tharthe had fallen on a
candlettick, that it had broken in her body, and that
altogether the was Pure the could not live.
William Belk (an old man who appeared much
agitated) laid he was father to the deceafed. He
was on his way to his daughter's houfe on the ad of
Augull, when his grand-daughter came.running to-
wards him, crying out that her father was murdering
her mother. He went into the houfe, and taw the
deceafed lying on the floor and the prifoner beating
her. The prtfoner's youngeß daughter was prefent.
The eldett had gone out in fearch of aConfiable. The
youngea daughter was near is years of age; and
the other about 13. He feized the prifoner and
drew him away, though he could not remember dd.
tinaly whether he afterwards continued kicking her,
his own paffion was fo great. He remembered that.
he carried his daughter out to the pelage, when the
dropped from his arms like a log of wood'. He had
punched at her with his knees and feet. The people.
at the door threw water in her face, and the recovered
in about 15 minutes. He faid to the prifoner, "You
have often promifed to do this job. and now you,
have finithed it." The prifoner replied, " Yes, and
I (hall loon finial your job too." He heard him often
fay that he would never red fatisfied till he had mur-
dered her and him too. • The prifoner came back in
about half an hour afterward.% when he was feized
for the fake of preventing more mifchief. The de-
ceafed laid all along that the Ihould die of the hurt
the had received, and the did die on the 15th day
after. She often repeated when lie went to fee her
that the had got her death blow by her hutband.—
She, however, defired him to prevail upon the Jullice
to let him go, for if he were to be hanged tor her
death, her children would be left wholly dellitute.—
The Magittrate did accordingly at that time let him
go, but after his wife's death he wasagain apprehended.
(I2..reftion from the Court to the Prifoner.—Do you
with to aft: the evidence any queltion ?
, .Prifoncr.—After I had been confined and libe-
,rated ; did I not fend her word that I would give
.her a one pound note, and eked her to have tome
wine ? After I had procured a bottle, then I kitfed
her, and went into the country to earn tome money.
Anfwer.—You fent a one pound note.
Mts. Ann Graham faid that the kept a chandler'sl
(hop at the corner of the place. On the 2d of Aug.
the heard an alarm, went out of her Ihop, and fa*
the decoded fitting on a chair at the door, leaning,
on her ddell daughter about t 3 years dd. On the
daughter faring, " Mother% here's Mrs. Graham,",
the turned round. and clafped her in a wild manner,
laying, " Oh, Mrs. Graham, fourteen years have I
bone this of e, but now I have got my death blow.
If you could -he me from my ancle bone to my pri-
vate pans, 'nn heart mud bleed for me." The
wits**, told her to cheer up, and the would get bet-
ter. The decoded, however, faid, " No, never!" The
-bridge giber note was broke, and the noteflatted to
her facet the bad betides a !hocking black eye. The
witnek alke4 her to have fume nouriniment, but the
faid that But really could not, her infide was fo bad
with the kicks and bruika the had received. She had
been much kicked fo about her kidnies that the thought
they had parted their places. Many times the faid that
the had got her death blow. She died on the (7th,
and about half an hour after her death the witnefs
went to fie the body; on turning down the theet,
from her aide to her thigh. was as black as the wit.
nels's cloak. Her right grtin was very much (welled,
and on her bottom there was the plain impreflion of a
foot in a broiled mark. On her nomads, fides and
eheft there were feveral finaller brui(es. The de-
coifed bad dealt with her for about t a months, and,
as far as the wittier' could fee, the was a very notable
prudent fort of woman, contlandy wafhing and keep-
ing
herfelf and her children very clean.
John Young, who went in immediately after the
father, faid, that he law the prifoner grafp his wife
in a ravage manner. who was leaning againft the
wall. The old man had hold of him, but could not
get him away. The witnefs, however, pulled him
away, and the old man went to *Gift his daughter.
MaryAan Kearney, the prifoner's youngelf daugh-
ter, a very fentible child, laid, that the knew her cam-
chifrn, and the nature of an oath; that if the told a
lie the (hooed be put in the pillory in this world. and
go to the devil in the next.—When her father came
borne on the ad of Auguß, the ran out of the houfe,
but beard her father a(k her mother, whether the bad
dreffed the meat. and then firike her a violent blow
on the note, which knocked her down. When the
came in, her father had hold of a pot which had been
on the fire with one hand, and of her mother's throat
with the other, which threw her into convulfions.
Her lifter had gone for a conftable, and returned with
her grandfather, to whom the was crying, that her
father was murdering her mother.
Mr.Atts T.—Did your father lay any thing to your
grandfather ?—Witnefs. Yes : he raid he would have
his heart's blood out before he (leer.
Emma Kearney, the eldett daughter, (aid, the was
at home when her father came at half paR eleven—
he ordered his dinner at twelve o'clock—her mother
ft.d (he would do her endeavours to get it ready—
when he returned at twelve o'clock he (truck her
mother on the note. and, by a fecond blow on the
Itomach knocked her down—the then ran for the
conftable and returned with her grandfather, but was
in fuch confufion that (be did not dillinaly recollea
any thing farther.
Prifoner.—Did I knock your mother down at all ?
Witnefs.—Yes, you did. twice.
William Dyer faid nothing of importance, only
that he beard the prifoner threatening his wife.
William Evans, furgeon, aged as years, a pupil of
Mr. Cline, denoted, that be was fent for one Friday
to examine the body: leveret parts had been violently
bruited. He did not examine its Rate between her
ancles and the private pans, or kidneys; the intide
of the t was much difeafed ; the whole membrane
which lines the theft was mach inflamed, which
might have been occafioned either by erternal vier-
knee. or from a cold. The lungs were much coke-
rated; and appeared to have been in that Rate for
force time. The heart was much enlarged, which
might have been in pan by violence ; an alarm
would have occafioned anenlargement of thole parts.
The nate of the lungs might have been accelerated
by the ill stage of her hatband. He perceived that
the had an althrna, which, be believed, wag the pie-
cipal carafe of her death.

DII that afilitta eve that appearance to tie lungs?
—Yes.

He farther Rated, that he could not perceive any
blow to have accelerated the enlargement of the heart.
The bruifes were dying away.
Mr. John Underwood fworn.—" I have prafhfed
for myfelf as a Surgeon for eight years. I have
heard the defcription given of the appearance of the
lungs, and of other parts, from injuries; I think
the appearance of the lungs might have been canted
by external violence : I think, from what is Rated to
have taken place on the ad of Auguß, and the death
happened on the trh, fifteen days afterwards, which
is about the period when inflammation from external
violence terminates, that external violence might
have been the carafe of the death. That is the period
when inflammation canted by external violence, is
fuppofed to produce death ; when its effeets are in-
compatible with life. Inflammation from external
violence may be fuppofed to end fatally about that
time. When inflammation does not produce death,
'during the inflamed Rate, the difeafe will go on to
fuppuration, and the (late of the lungs then could
hardly be dillingoifhed from the Rate of the lungs
of a perfon who had died of an Alma. With re.
(pat to the enlargement of the heart, I have opened
the bodies of perfons who have died of other difeafes,
when the heart has been enlarged, and fometimes
diminifhed, where the patient never complained of
a pain there; fo that nothing, in my opinion, turns
upon that. Suppofing the lungs had previoufly been
in a difeafed Rate, external violence would have
battened the death ; but admitting her to be under
an aniline, even the alarm mull have inereafed that
afthma, and I do not know that the alarm alone,
without any external violence, n*ght not have bat-
tened the death.
Q.... From the Bench.—From what you have heard,
can it be ditlinely Paid that the Rate of the lungs did
not proceed from the Rate of the difeafe, but.that it
neceffarily proceeded from violence ?
A. I cannot fay it neceffarily proceeded from vio-
lence. I only fay, that whatever might have been
the Rate of the lungs, external violence might haVe"
accelerated the death. It could not have been given
to any perfon in an unfound (late without confiders-
ble mifchief.

Mr. John Smith, an Apothecary, proved that the
deceafcd came to his [hop, which is in the neigh-
bourhood, to be bled, but his evidence was not upon
points that were material.
Here the cafe was about to dote for the Profeco-
.

Lion, and the i:ironer handed in a written paper, in
the Shape of a Petition, alledging, that he was de•
prived of the means of employing Counfel in his
defence, on account of his father-in-law, the mother
of kite Prifoner's wife, having,purloined all his pro-
perty, to whom he imputed much malice • that he
was a foap.manufatturer by trade, and worked at a
diftance from his dwelling, came home on the sd of
Atigufi, was engaged to meet his Mauer on bulinefs
before one o'clock that day, wanted his dinner by
Is, on account of which a quarrel arcfe between
him and his wife, and blows paired on both fides, but
that he had no malice spina her, but on the eon-
trary had afterwards provided wine and ether things
to comfort her, and had fhewn endearments to her;
that the Witneffcs who appeared in fupport of the
Profecution were prejudiced againft him, and that
he was not guilty of the crime imputed to him, not-
withltanding any thing that was (worn in Court;
that She died of an anima, Sec. _ _ _

A Witawfs of the name of Bentley, an Excife Of-
ficer, living in the Borough, was called to the eba-
rafter of the Prifi.ner, but it mined out that he could
not (wear to any thing to ferve him, for he had not
feen the deceafed to learn how the and her hufband
lived together fourteen times in fourteen years.—
They had been that length of time together, and five
children of that marriage are now living.
Mr. Belk, father of the deceafed, faid he never
knew her complain of any altlimatic affeftion, un-
lefs,like other people, the might happen to have a cold.
Mrs. Meyers !wore the fame, and the knew her in-
timately.
Mr. Baron Hareass delivered a moil able andlin-
mane charge to the Jury ; and in, the recapitulation
of the evidence, he obferved that fuch cnarfe and
hardened expreffions as it had been Rated that the
Pritiner made ufe of, were not to be confideted,
when ufed among the lower order of people, as evi-
dence of the in:toner's having committed :he crime
with which he was charged; neiti.. r fliould his con.
due, however brutal and inhuman it was, be thought
fufficient to convict him, if they did not think the
blows were fuch as occafioned her death. There was
fume difference in the opinion of the profeflion, but
that mug always be the cafe when they drew conclu•
lions upon the Rate of the interior parts of the body,
which they were precluded from feting until the
fprings of life had ceafed to perform their funftions.
The Jury retired about ten minutes, and when they
returned gave in their verdict—Criity, Death.
The RICOIDEft immediately palled the fentenee of
the law upon him in a particularly totem manner,
pointing out the enormity of the crime of murder in
general,but particularly when that rout der was aggra•
'sited by fuch repeated acs of barbarity as he had been
guilty of again a defeacelell woman, and when that
woman was one whom he was bound to proteft by
his folemn promife at the altar, and by every law
both human and divine.

The appearance of the Prifoner was that of a very
brutal and infenfible man. He did mot feem to be
much affelled at his fituatinn.

Fre were minified of felony, viz.
7. Rkieriy, for ftealing a quantity of tobacco, the
property of ?sleets. Fould and Co. ; /. 'war, for
Realing • gold feat and other articles, the property
of fome perfun unknown ; J. Drew, for Reading two
pair of breeches and other articles, the property of S.
Bradley; Saw. Raid/. for (leafing a quantity of
tea, the property of EaR India Company ; James
Cool, for haling a &milder of mutton, the property
of C. Brignall.
And four were acquitted, among whom were
Therms Havaintsfea, and !Wert Iliontarrpri, who
were capitally inditted for Realiog a brown gelding,
value 301. the property of Jofeph Weßon.
Mr. Welton was a fanner refiding at Biggkfwade,
in Bedfordibire, 43 miles from Loudon. It appear-
ed that the boric in quellion was in his field on the
evening of the t7th of July, and that on the follow-
ing morning he was miffed from the field. Nobody
could tell by whom, or in what manner the horfe
was taken. About five weeks after this, the two pri-
loners called on a farrier of the Dame of Lay, raid-

ing in Sun Tavern fields, Shadwelt and having
fume knowledge of him, Robert Helmer(lon Paid
he had got a famous honk that would jull fuit him„
The horfe, he laid, was worth 501. but he would ht
Lay haver him for Th:s was the very horfc
which had been flolen from Mr. Weflon. Thome
flummerflon was at the fame time riding on a mare.
A perfon named Camper, who was prefent at this
time, alked Robert how he came by the horfe ?—he
anfwered, that lie had fwapped him for a poney to a
clergyman in Berkfhire, and gave a confiderable pre-
mium in exchange. On the prifoner being eased
where he could be found in cafe the bode Mould be
claimed by any body ? he made no anfwer, but rode
away : he came back again to bargain with Lay for
the honk • but in the mean time fume police officers
came op, took him and the other pritaii into
cuficidy.

The. prifoners in their defence Rid brought for-
ward evidence to thew, that they had purchafed the
horfe in an open market. For this purpofe the deck
of the tolls in Smithfield was fink called ;—he pro-
duced his book, in which was the following entry
On the sth of Auguß, William Dunn, of Chelleat
fells, and Thomas Hummerlion buys, a borfe for
281." He did not fee any tile ;—all he knew was.
that three perfons came into a room where he wagon
the sth of Auguft, and direCted him to make the
above entry. A perfon of the name of Curtis, whti
Paid he was a porter in a warehoufe, and who had
Come knowledge of the prifoners, limed, that on the
sth ult. as be was palling through Smithfield, he faw
Thomas Hummerfion pay a man 281. for a boric.
The next evidence was to prove an ani on the pare
of Thomas. A publican, named Walker, who re.
fides in Peter.ftreet, Wellminfter, faid, he (pent the
evening of the ,Bth of July at his houfe, and that he
faw him at eleven o'clock on the forenoon of the fame
day. A brother of the ptifoner's, •named William
Humrnerfion, keeps a shop in Weftminfter. It was
pofitively (worn by this perfim, as well as by a mar.
tiedwoinan, who, with her bulhand, lodged in his
hoofs, that ThMmas Hummerlion flept at his bro-
ther's on the night of the i7th, and that he was fees
coming down hint the next morning, and (pent the
day there. They remembered the day, becatafe Wit.
Liam was celebrating the anniverfary of his woddisg.
day..—The Jury acquitted both the prifoners I but
they were detained, in order to be tried on another
indiament.

IV HEN Profedional Men of education and
te-
fgamabßlty deviate from the general fyftem by the Medics
ef a peculiar priori. the fandion of long continued (meth Is
Ira criterion of fuperiority..
' Ten years have I devoted my pradice to the etcharrve treatment
of THREW DIPORDERft, and the fueceftful rtfutt of my son
gives use addltionsl ardour to own& as far as lam able the ray
ones of chafe complaint. which arc the osoß important in the tats.
lope °flagman infirmities.
After loAMetott Into every branch as an Army &mean, I
heated a Vrillaitt an nary period of Prelim to rekue Individuals
from the ignemmee of uneducated Mesh, or the equally dangerous
preelpkuney ofstmeral Pradtitiobers.
The THREE DItOR DERS, to the core of which I have devout
my attention, comprize every 'pocks at VENEREAL INFEC-
TION, whether of a recent or long duratian.—odly, Al kind,
at DRIIILITY, whether wiling from the habits of Schoolboys, or
the indulgeoce or mature age, sad laßly thin sienagenaqn of the
fyftenain Women which is called BARRENNESS or STERILITY.
Numerous difeaks are the refuk of ignorance or haße la the
treatment of a fimpk Gonorrhea, and it net tmfrotplently
that the feeds of Life are poironal by the ladfferetima of an unguartl-
ed hour. By a liperior method fuck complaints are roily cared,
and «en where others have failed, I trait that I may palms to
offer a radical roeitablitunent.

Few, however. are the cafes of complicated MING in the ar.
nrder, compared with the cahunitous Ideation. of Mee, who from
indulgence In a SOIJTARY VICE, or the prevalent Dalmiss
a fathionahle Life, acquire that Rats of Debility which le din
unavoidable courequerice of fuck pernicious habits.
Where the unhappy fuTersr bloods over his mirery, but easeful,
conceal. his misfmene. it my be forte conidatioo for kin tar
knew, that although It be an objed of doubt or member?. with
wiser I ra linkmen, the removal of tilde DEFICIFIENEII by do
gradual progrcfs of renovate° us the acquirement of my experienot.
If the rites of Ikeda or Venus have bepn to reduce manly vi.
gout, much ..nriety will be prevented by an early countaadion er
this languid Rate, and in tbde cafes no great dillintlties will come
But where this deficiency has for years tailied, a prima Fes.
reverence is indifpeofibly regulate to revive the Bassiscriogf rka
of Life, and to re-animate the Coaftitution.
MARRIED WOMEN, who have long been deappainted It
their expeditions of a Family, may be twed, tild ill malt M.
tam fil s th defeds are mumble by Medical &M.
The SECRECY which is foeffential to my undertaking, and dm
eludificatiens which 1 have pesfumed to Rate, form the Balla or
my pretenßons, and In coincidence with fuck Ws intinsaden
given, that Mr. BREE may be conflated parotid* or by lettas
inclning • fmall note) at his bask, No. so, A *nada
near Tanple-Bur.
There is an additional entrance in Water-ftraet 61141146.14,
the name is on bath the door.