Star.
London, England, 1817-03-25 00:00:00

ASSIZES.

STAFFORD.

At these Assizes the total number of persons tried
amounted to one hundred and twenty-three ! of these
seventeen received sentence of death, viz...-.
Ann Statham, aged 28, for the wilful murder of her ckild,
aged five weeks; Richard Fenton, for forgery; Esau Henttaw,
John Shateabaft, Daniel Armwsmith, Thomas Palmer, John Sil-
lime, Benjamin Bali, Gilbert Wright, lames Johnson,
Adams, Wm. /Boor, John Lewb, and John Wright, fur burgla-
ries; James Evans, for privately stealing; Wm. Davis, for steal-
ing a cow; and John Inch, for sheep stealing.—Henry Shaw,
Wflliasn'farlington, and Margaret Yates, for severally uttering a
-breed Bank note, (pleaded guilty to the having forged notes in
%Cr possession, and thereby escaped the capital part of the
charge,) were sentenced to be transported for 14 years.
Mr. Justice Burning:oats reprieved all the capital
convicts before he left Stafford, except inn Statham',
for murder, who suffered the dreadful penalty of the
law between eleven and twelve o'clock on Friday.—
She acknowledged her guilt, and appeared to be re-
signed to her fate, although the terrors of her situa-
tion agitated her so powerfully that it required two
men,to support her on the platform. After hanging
the usual time her body was cut down, and delivered
to the surgeons at the Infirmary for dissection.

ALLOWANCE Of COS 73 TO PROSLCCTOR 11.-111 1 cast of lac.
ally, which was tried at Stafford Asllzes before Mr. Jmtice
Park, on Tuesday morning, upon at: application to the Court for
the expenses of the prosecution. his Lordship refused to allow
dem, moping as Ms reason, that since the pri•rmer was cow
witted, two General Quarter Sessions of the Peace I; td inter-
vened, at one of which the priumer :Ind ought to I. ,VI• be( n
tried,that being a compisenr tribunal tor so:di/Senders I tis Lord-
ship added, that be bad rcfmrd to grant tta eos!s in a ease At
Woreester ou the same ground, and to that mks be should al.
ways adhere.
NOT I'INGIJAM MSIZES.

Tuesday Dissle WAS tried for shooting
at George keiry, in hic dwelling-house, in the parith
of Radford, near Nottingham, On the eve,lio4 Ist the
Sunday heiore Christmas-day last, with a pistol,
loaded with leaden shot, with intent to kill and mut.
der him. There were two others also indicted with
him, of the names of fira.fier and Worley. who hale
absconded. They foamed part of a gang of Lud-
dites. It appeared that Ileterel and Wooley brought II
two loaded pistols to Diggle's font e, in Basford, on
the evening before named, and Shaw, in the pretence'
of Diggle and his wife, went and got gun powder
from a man of the natne of Pogson, and there loadeJ
two other pistols. Henfrey, Diggle, and one Burton,
then went to Kerry's, broke open the door of his
house, where he and his family were sitting in peace,
and Henfrey and Diggle went in and presented then
pistols, demanding that the wife and family of Kerry
should retire into the parlour. Kerry got up and
seised Henfrey's pistol, which Henfrey endeavoured
to discharge at the body of Ketry, but which Kerry
tinned aside, and the contents event into the fire in
the room. Diggle then discharged his pistol at the
head of Kerry, several of the sling corns from which
entered his head, and were afterwards extracted by
a surgeon. The prisoner was found guilty, and the
Judge (her. Baron RtettAtem) passed sentence of
death upon bins.
Jahn Plumb, the younger, aged 25, and Thomas
Ansin, aged '22, were charged with assaulting Richard
Green and Richard Salvia, on the 27th of December
12.4. and With intent to murder the said Richard
Green. being then on his duty, as gamekeeper to the
, Earl et Chesterfield.

Richard Green, who presented himself a melan-
choly spectacle of this outrage, his face being bound
up for the loss of an eye, and other injuries, deposed,
that on going his round:, at about three in the morn-
ing, he found eight or nine snares set in the woods
of Burton Joice, and in one of them a hare, which he
left, determine'', with &Alvin, the other gamekeeper,
to watch. Accordingly, having waited about time
hours, he saw three men, two of whom proved to be
the prisoners, and the third, named Calder (not
taken), approached the Wood. Austin and Calder
went towards the snare which had the hare in it, and
took it up. to the mean time, Plumb saw the wit-
ness and his know servant. on which he called his
companions to come away. Witness and Salvin fol-
lowed them ; witness had a fierce dog, of the terrier
and bull breed, which he brought to his assistance :
he heartened the dog, that is, set him on, so that he
seized Austin. Witness, to prevent the fury of the
dog going too far, ran to rescue Austin, who was in
danger of being torn to pieces by him ; witness ran
between them, when he stumbled, lost his stick, and.
fell upon Austin, who at the same time fell under
him. Plumb came to the assistance of Austin, and
picking up witness's stick, struck witness several se-
vere blows about the head ; witness had lost one eye.
and ftceived several wounds not recovered since ;
`did not know which of the two struck the blows which
occasioned the loss of his eye, but that he saw Plumb
with the stick in bis hand, when witness said to him,
" Come, Jack, don't be so soft as to kill one with
that stick !" Plumb's answer was---44 I'll be hang'd
it I don't ;" bat he did strike the witness afterwards.
As witness got up with the loss of his eye, he, never-
theless, saw Salvin coming to his assistance. The
prisoners wrenched Salvia's gun out of his hand, and
made off with it ; the gun was found in the vomit the
next day.
Cross-examined by Mr. DlD:MAN.—Witness did not
set the dog on till he was first struck by one of the
prisoners ; the prisoners had no weapons; he sneaked
the dog, that is, called him in, to vievent his doing
farther mischiet, alter he seized Salvia. When wit•
nen first came up, the prisoners asked, what was
amiss 3 Witness answered, he would tell them what
WAS amiss. It was with witness's own stick the blows
were given.
blr. Dzszuos contended, that here was no evidence
of intention to murder, nor was it clear that The pri-
soners (it was uncertain which had struck the blow)
did otherwise titan resist this furious attack made
upon them, and by a ferocious animal of a bull dog.
There was no settled design farther than to defend
themselves, and to get rid of the attack so made
upon them.

Several witnesses 'tyre called for the prisoners, who
gave them a good character.
Baron Ricnaane told the Jury, the prisoners' cha-
'racers had nothing to do with the question, but
simply whether• they had committed this outrageous
assault., in wh.ch there was no evidence of murderous
intent.—Tha Jury found both the prisoners Guilty
of the assault, bat not with intent to murder.

Mr. BOLIAND has been appointed by the Corpora-
tion of Reading Recorder of that Bowinglip nomad
of Mr. Justice 1i.z.644 who tesigueA.