Star.
London, England, 1826-03-17 00:00:00

Catherine
vein two

her by
prisod

melting _ moulding _
ceiving the officer forcing his way into the vrindo*, she
threw all the utensils into the fire, from which they
were quickly extracted by the activity or the party, and
produced in evidence against her. She has been sus-
pected for some years, and until this event has evaded
the utmost vigilance.
The jury, without hesitation,, found her Guilty, and the Judge,
Mr. Baron GRAHAM, passed senteobe of death on her.

EXETER, MAicti 15. .
William Maunder, a boy only nine years br was
capitally indicted for setting fire to a rick of hay, the
property of Matthias Trood, yeoman, of the of
BroadcliA, on the 30th day of August

hone she odca•'
December, 18124;
I with Ge:4-
of

. the parish
, in his wisdom
and take possession of her house on the
14th 1825, and to remove her household
furniture and her children to the poorhouse. At the
time that this extrao, dinary proceeding took place,
Mrs. 'Mather was from home. Jackson had, no
doubt, adop•ed this .course for the purpose, or ra-
ther the pretended impose, of preventing Mrs.• Mather
from gaining a settlement in the parish of A,hton.—
la right of her husband, the plaintiff belonged to the
adjoining parish of Duckenfield, to which place Mr.
Jackson was anxious to remove her before she had
occupied the house at S:ayley Bridge twelve months—
a period of time thdd would have made her liable to
Ashton under Lyne. Jackson was not at that time
certain that she was pregnant; bUt pregnant or not, he
was determined to cast .her and her children, willing or
'.not tiling, into a poor boost: ! The plaintiff wanted
no relief from the parish of Ashton, or any other parish,
„aiid was not likely to want any, but Mr. J. was resolved
to force relief upon her—that is, he was dereruked to
make her a pauper, lest by any possibility, at any future
period, she should b:come one. He cast her nativity,'
and found she WA$ boin under an unlucky star! When
the plaintiff went from home on the 1./th of December,
she left the care of the post.office to her eldest daughter.
On the evening of this day, the defendants, Jackson
the overseer, and Newton ind Standring, two con
stab'es, entered the plaintiff's house and sat down.—
These were no candies in the house, and one of the chil-
dren ;vas. desirous of fetching some. Tbis, however,
she was not soff:red to do, lest, as the defendants ob-

served, she should, like her mother, run away. One of
the defendants then went out, anu fetched two bottles of
:urn and a pack of cards. Newton and Standrink, then

began to play at cards and drink rum ; and Jaikson,
who appeared to be the man of mind, went up to the
news-rooru and got a newsp tper to- read. They re•
mauled in the house all night, drinkin4 and bawling
and frightening the poor children. lbe eldest girl,
while these precious officers were in the midst of tbeirl
carousals, managed to make her escape. She went to
the house of Mr. Wagstaffe, and requested him to go'
with her home. This Gentleman, in company with a
Mr. Hutton, a highly respectable medical man, ac-
cordingly went to the house; and remonstrated with
the defendants ; who drank rum and laughed at
them.—The defendants remained in the house all
night, and the next morning sent a person to take
an inventory of the household furniture. Newton
and Standring then began to pull down the furni-
ture, in order that it , might be removed. After
many cries and solicitations on the part of the poor
girls, they suffered them to retain their bed-clothes,
and other wearing apparel, which they were in the act
of packing up. Newton their inquired for the carts to
carry away the goods. He was told that the carts were
at the door ; but the carters, fearing that they should be
mobbed by the populace, bad run away. In the after-
noon, however, they got carters from Ashton. The men
stripped the house of its furniture, not leaving a bed for
the children to sleep upon. The goods were carried to
the poor-house at Ashton. Jackson then got a chaise to
remove the children. The poor little creatures, as might
easily be supposed, were greatly distressed ; but neither
their tears, nor the remonstrances of the neighbours,

who frequently offered to take them into their houses,
had any effect upon Jackson; he was sleteimined
that they should go to the poorhouse ; 66 ror," said he,
"if I let them remain here all night, that will make
up the time, and they will become parishioners."
Accordingly, after a good deal of resistance on the
part of the two eldest girls, he and his assistants forced
the children, in spite of their tears and supplications,
into the chaise. The next morning, however, thinking
he had prevented Mrs. Mather from
.gaining a settle-
ment, he took theirs back to the stript and desolate
house of their mother. Oo the 23d of Deceniber,Nrs.
Mather came home, and found two paupers from the
poor-house in possession of the dwelling ; by means of
these paupers, the defendants kept possession of the
house for the space of a month ; for 17 nights Mrs.
Mather was never in bed; indeed she had no bed to
sleep upon. On the 14th of January, they sent back
the goods, and shortly after Jackson called upon her,
and advised her not to throw away her money by going
to law. During part of the time they were in pciAes-
ion of the house, Jackson took upon himself the office
of Postmaster, And endeavoured to prevail upon Mr.
Whiteleck, the Postmaster of Manchester, to remove
Mrs. Mather from her situation ; this Gentleman, how-
ever, much to his credit, refused to comply with this
iequest, and Mrs. Mather still retains her situation.—
The Learned Gentleman, after stating the above facts,
made a most eloquent appeal to the Jury, and implored
them, as Englishmen and lovers cf liberty, and haters
of oppression, to give such damages as sllould not only
compensate the planintiff for the injury she had sus-
tained, but also teach men, dressed in a • little brief
authority, that if they stept beyond .hat authority, they
could not do it with impunity.
Several witnisses were then called, who fully established the
sae. The plaintiff's daughter, an interestin; girl of about thirteen
years nt. age, underwent a severe cross-examination by Mr.
Bannon/at. as to the state of her soother, which frequently brolight
tears into the child's eyes, but did not elicit any fact favourable to
the defence.
Mr. Dammam, on behalf of the defendants, made an admirable
address to the Jury, who found a verdict for the plaintiff—Da-
mages X3OO, being .elOO more than were laid in the declaration.

• ,
- • LENT ASSIZBIL • . bility. ' upon the house she Wen-
.pied at'Phylly Dritirun the 17th of December, 1024;
• KutiosTobb Ma= ifter ibis, stir beeame *acquainted with •II
Nam was capitally indicted foi_coiigns, tlema9 Qt pEoptity ifl the neighbourhood; of the name
two counts; The Charge was bimeght hinne to'nf Witsfatre; by thitGentleman she unfortunately be-
y Grossworth, the officer of Unistuffiall, whb sin- came.pfesnant ; this fact coming to the knowledge of
her it her house in Lock's-field*, With all her the defenJeit Jackson, who was overseer of the parish
ig and moulding apparatus in foil work. On per.' of-Ashton tinJettyne, be thought proper, in his wisdom
g the officer forcing his way into the window, she and discretion, to take possession of her house on the
all 0)e utensils into the fire, from which they 14th of Decernber, 1825, xrrd to remove her household