Star.
London, England, 1816-08-24 00:00:00

THI KING V. COWL

This was also an indictment for miziag clay with
flour. Rowe was the servant of Tyahar, and lived at
Treyew Mills, near Truro. •
The first witness was R. Brown, a constable, at
Truro. In May, 1814, he went to search Treyew
Mills. He there met R.Ave, whn had the manage:
meat of them. There were two mills ; one appeared
furred round with clay. •OR examining the premises
with Clemence, another constable, they found in a
loft, the door of which they broke open ( Rowe saying
be bad. ant the key) a heap of clay, about two tons,
and a flue sieve, and some flour in bags. He took
some of it and carried to Truro, before a Magistrate,
and he was ordered to remove all the flour from the
Mill, which was condemned, and thrown away. Did
not know wkether Trahar was master of the Mill or
alt. Had seen Rowe driving Trailer's cart.
E. Clemente, a constable, at Truro, searched',
Treyew Mills. Rowe was in possession. He took',
particular notice that there were two mills, one of
which appeared to be used for grinding clay, and the I,
Mbar-foe corn. (He here produced a sample of the
lour and clay which he found on the premises). His'
evidence was to the same effect as Brown's.
Grace Warren said, she kept a shop at Falmouth ;
knew Rowe, who is a milkr ; dealt with him in 1814,
and received several parcels of flour. At one time
she complained to Rowe that it was very bad, and
wished him to take it back again. Rowe said, he
would send better. Witness had given some to Dr.
Edwards. 'She had eat some of the bread made
with the flour, and it had a very bad effect upon
her : several other persons had also complained of its
bad effects.
Cross•examinei.—Does not know Trahar. The
flour she had for sale was kept in a back kitchen,
which was not locked. The bags were marked Rowe.
Dr. Edwards took three samples of flour at Grace
Warren's house, which he analyzed ; they all cone
tamed about a tenth part clay. In that proportion it
was very prejudicial to health.
Two or three witnesses were c. died 'to speak as to
Rowe's character.
Guilty.—lusprisoned two years, and fined £lO.

ANTRIM ASSIZES.—CARRICIORROUS, AUGUST is.
This day the Court met at nine o'clock, and imam,
diately proceeded to the trial of John Magill, Jams:
Dickson, John Doe, Janus Puri, and Joseph Madden.
The indictment contained several counts, charging
them with conspiring to set fire to the house of Mr.
Francis Johnson, also conspiring to murder him, also
of having made an attack on hit house, and of break-
ing into it, and setting it on fire, oe the morning of
the 28th day of February last, &c. &c.
Francis Johnson, the first witness, deposed, that on
the 28th February last he lived i Peter's-hill, Belfast;
he is a muslin mannfacturet; is the month of Au-
gust, last year, his house was Bast attacked; leis hall-
door was tarred and set fire to, a basket with tar was
also placed at the hall-door and set on fire sit was
during the night; he never discovered who it was
done by between this time and February follovring
he had received several aaonymous threading let-
ters ter for weeks previous to the 28th February
be bid etttirWed John Lewis to watch his boase,
and be bad got the shutters ef his parlour and kitchen
windows iheiliod with iron ; on the 28th February he
employed at least 450 men. On the preceding night
jtis windows were shut, and be and his family retired
bed up stairs between twelve and one/ lea iat

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' and four in the tnotniajj‘ be NM **bite bt a greit
noise, as if!** door was breaking open,' he got Ns'
and went fUthe window*-of the bed roout,-'opened the
shutters and looked out.; he saw a great number el
persons in the street; opposite his hoose4 he did net
know any of them the noise cootinued below as:ef
windows breaking, and Lewis called to.him that tiny
were bursting in ; he took his -blenderbuss and fired
among them, when if* persons in the streetformed
into 4 kind of line and fired into the windows, priori.
pally into the window next to him ; a short pause
then ensued, when two men came forward and fired
a shot each I he saw three men run from the parlour
window-above which he was standing, and he fired a
pistol anthem; he then went to the head of the stairs,
and was about to go down, %her an explosion took
place which shattered the house almost to pieces,
leaving it a perk" wreck. Mrs. Johnson had goer
down stairs at the time be was firing, and in going'
down the stairs, which was covered with pieces of
wood, he heard her voice frone a dark closet off the
stairs ; she said she „haft been thrown there by the
explosion, and was much hurt ; the side of the stairs
'had been boarded, and these were all mocked to
pieces; he made his way down and found the door of
the closet broken to pieces, and blocked up with pieces'
of wood, brick, &c.; when lie got his wife extricated,
he found she was very much bruised, the hair of her
forehead and eye brows a good deal burned s he ob-
served that the kitchen door and several ethers were
broken ; the kitchen was taking fiat, particularly
some clothes and the pieces of wood scattered abort ;
the partition wall between the kitchen and hall was
completely levelled to the ground ; he called toLewis,
to bring water to extinguish the fire in the kitchen,
but he made him no answer, and be found him ly!ng
insensible in a back hall, but he recovered in a short
time. The front wall of the house, which was. three
stories high, had been separated from the gable, and
the joints Of the floor on which he had slept were
broken to pieces. Had this article which exploded
in the kitchen exploded in the parlour, it would have
destroyed the whole house and family ; but the back
hall door off the kitchen being -open, gave vent to it.
John Lewis—Was in the service of Mr. Johnson,
and was employed by him for some time before the
ach February to sit up from twelve at night till six
in the morning ; he was there that night, and had a
pitchfork with him; about three or four in the morn-
trig, when he was in the kitchen, some persons came
furiously to the door with sticks ; he went to the door
and hailed them, and then called on Mr. Johnson ;
at that time he heard shots outside; he saw in the
parlour the window next the door broken, and some-
thing coming in resembling a man's hat ; he made a
stab at it, and sunk his tork deep into it ; be retreat-
ed into the hall, but it stuck on the fork till he reach-
ed the kitchen, when he forced it off with his foot ; he
saw something like a spark of fire in it: it was about
the size of two crowns of a hat ; when he had left it
two steps it exploded, when he was blown into a little
closet, with his face and hands much burnt; he was
blind for same time, aid after he recovered he found
the house in ruins; the partition wall was blown
down, the furniture, tables, chairs, dtc. thrown about
and broken.

William Gray said he was a muslin weafer, and
was its the employment of Mr. Workm,aqo 'knows
Mr. Francis Johnson, and recollects the morning of
the 28th February when the outrage was committed
on his house. About eight or ten days before that,
he was called on to attend a meeting of muslin wea-
vers at the house of one Watson, at the head of Mill-
street, Belfast ; it was John Magill, one of the pri-
soners, who called on him. He west there with him
in the evening. when it was darks he found several
persons there an an upper room, among whom were
James Park and James Dickson, two of the prisoners.
They were all talking about Mr. Janson having
lowered the wages, and. .they thought it would be
right to put a stop to it if it could be done. They
then spoke of putting something in his ware-room
that might destroy it, and that might be a means of
stopping him, and thought some combustible or
something of that nature Would answer the purpose.
Nothing was determined upon that night, but was
deferred till another night. When he first *eat into
the house, it was thought necessary that every man
should be bopnd up by an oath to keep the secrets of
the meeting, and they took the oath.-09 the night
of the 27th, at eleven o'clock, he was in the house
of one Hewett, near to his own, at the Rookery, when
the prisoner Magill called on him there, and there
was another man with him whom he did not know.
Magill said there was to be a meeting that night, and
wished him to go to it, and.said he would call on
him again. About two hours after that, Magill,
William M‘Dowall, and the same man who had been
there before, called on him at. his own hoist. He
immediately went with them towards .mason's
house, and wbea he arrived there he saw sevlrral per-
sons at the entrance to Lodge.lane, opposite to Mr.
Francis Johnson's door, He then found they were
about to put in execution the plan that Mad been
spoken of on the former night, and to nit tombus.
tiblesioto,hislesse. Jobe DOesis4 Joseph
Madden there, but Aid not see Dixon or PAK at the
lane. Doe said that witness and him watt° stand
at the gateway going. backwards into the,office.—
Witness then got a pistol from a person ho.did not
know, but it was afterwards taken ifOgi him and
given to another person, and he got a blade:bun.
Doe had a bright musket and so had Madden. They
were to be all stetioned at proper places, and when
they heard the first shot they were all to proceed to
the place where it was fired. It bad been agreed that
something was to be put is at the windows. and 'he
saw the end of a box under a man's at m. It appeared
to be about five or Sin incises square. When the
order was given hawthorn to come to the frost when
they beard the first shot, they were at the same time
ordered not to fire in at any windows, as apme of
them did not know Mr. Johnson's house, and alight
fire into another person's windows. The firing was
meant to deter any poops. from coming forward.—
The person who was appointed to put the emboli.
bles in at the window, was to fire as a signal 4hat he
bad got it done, and it was then that ail wage to as-
semble in front. Theo west eighteen or =
persons in all, ad of these tea or twelve wets
He soon after bear/ the glass sadist is boat of the
house, and got beg after he-beest Aos. uppe,whisil
he and Doe came tu the fent, where they sin saw,
persons stinding, gad ethers coming frees wear
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James Dickson went with him to Portadown, in the
neighbourhood of which they called on one Malcom.
son, with whom Dickson was acquainted, and they
went into Portadown, where he had his hand dressed
early in the morning by Dr. Sanderson.
Sarah Gray, wife of the preceding witness, corro-
borated a part of his evidence.
The Jury retired, and remained enclosed for some
time. They then returned their verdict, finding
James Dickson and James Park Guilty of the conspi-
racy, and John Magill, John Doe, and Joseph Mad-
I den, Guilty of the attack on Mr. Johnson's house,
Vie. The Jury recornmended diem to mercy.
MAYO ASSIZES. •
Ext It &ORDINARY TiitAt.
Tuesday week, at these Assizes, Hauer Deacy was
put upon trial, charged with the wilful murder, on
the 18th of May last, of the daughter of John Joyce,
of Westport, a child aged eight years, and with re-
ceiving money under false pretences.
John Joyce, the prosecutor, sworn.—Said he be-
came acquainted with the prisoner when severely af-
flicted with rheumatism, seven months before the
1, murder charged in the indictment, in consequence of
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beinginformed of her skill in the management of va-
rious diseases; that in prescribing for him, she direc-
ted him to purchase sixpenny worth of arsenic, which
he did, and mixed it with other ingredients, and ap-
plied it, without success, to the part affected.
Sarah Joyce sworn.—ls mother of the deceased
child : prisoner came to her house on the night pre-
ceding her child's death ; she took the child in her
lap and kissed her; she appeared to be intoxicated,
end was offered a bed, of which she accepted : in
the morning, at nine o'clock, she sent the child to
witness, who was at a neighbour's house, saying she
wanted to see her s witness came and asked the pri-
' soner what she wanted ? Prisoner replied, that it
was only to tell her what she might have told before,
but she did not wish to alarm her, viz.—" that her
child was to die soon—that she would get sick within
two hours, and die before six o'clock that evening—
that at all events, except she (the prisoner) could
save them, the father or the child should die ;" and
she put it to the witness, which she would rather
lose, her husband or her child ? Witness replied,
that if either must go, she would wish the child to
be the one ; but asked why she should say her fine
little girl, that was in good health, was to die ?—Tlie
prisoner answered, that although she supposed she
slew her very well, that it was not her child that was
there a: all, hot kr shadow, as the child had been
overlooked—( a,superstitines expression in use amongst
the ignorant). Witnt,s consented to put the child
under prisoner's care; witness immediately went to
see the child, found her look very ill, and severely
griped; she soon afte-wards discharged quantities of
green stuff from both her stomach and bowels; wit.
ness told prisoner how the child was affected, who
replied, it was best so, and that those were the pro-
per symptoms. The prisoner then directed witness
to get twenty-eight half-crown pieces, and to take
them and the thild tc wards Murrisk, about four miles
from Westport, where the money was to be thrown
against the wind, and if it was retsina, the child
would live, but if not, she certainly would die.—
Witness accordingly procured the money, and, ac.
companied by the child's aunt and the prisoner, set
out as directed. When they came to a small river
near Murrisk, the prisoner informed the aunt, that
she should return home ; for that if she passed the
river, she would be in as great danger as the child :
she therefore returned, and the prisoner then called
to witness for the twenty-eight half-crowns, with
which she ran away furiously out of sight ; upon her
return, being asked what she had done with the
money ? she answered, that she had thrown it against
the wind—that it had been received, and that the child
would recover : the prittiner brought home the child,.
wbo continued all the way in great agony, crying
out for drink, which was supplied from every pool
of water they passed ; the evacuations of green of-
fensive matter were frequent, and the child now com-
plained principally of her throat, which she said was
burning. Witness proposed to prisoner to call in a
physician; to which prisoner objected, saying-44 for
what did I come front Castlebar last night, at ten
o'clock, but to save your child ?" She died about
six in the evening.
liridget Mugging, maid-servant, confirtned much
of what had been sworn by the former witness, and
added, that the child slept with her the night before
her death ; that she got up and went to School, from
whence she returned at nine in the morning. in per-
fect health ; prisoner called' to witness about that
hotir for a jug of water ; the child came to her after-
wards for more water for the prisoner, and again
for a tea-cup, and some salt for her ; all of which
she gave.
Honor M‘Greal, the child's aunt, corroborated all
that had come within her knowledge of the foregoing
facts; and farther stated, that the prisoner told her
that a girl In the town had give: the chill as evil ga i
that she would recover if a piece of the girl's gown
was burnt and given the-child to drink ; this was also
done; the child died soon after, when prisoner fell
into a fit, foamedat Mlle mouth, threw out some blood,
and was very violent.
Surgeon NichOlsda, South Mayo Militia, saw the
child dead, and has no doubt that her death was
occasioned by poison—by arsenic, he believed ; hot,
upon openipg the body, be could not discover a par-
ticle of it.
Richard Kelly proved that he lodged in prisoner's
home in Castlebar, during the last election ; that in a
quarrel with her husband, who is since dead, she
mid she would have satisfaction, and put an end to
his life in a short time; she then took a tea-cup full
of water, and taking a paper from her bosom, with
powder of white or yellow colour in it, mixed some
of it in thaesuu : the husband gang it against the end).-
Witness prisoner what she had pus into the cup ?
She replied, as much poison as would kill a hundred
men. He naked what she would Isere dime if she bad
Fiona the men ? She said, if he had taken it, she
insult have, cared him; witness took up the paper,
Ltbt powder that remained -in it to a dog,
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shortly after. • • ..•
.-i-Hatei the mention closed, and the isholetaudi-
, yappeared so have bets struck with horror at the