Star.
London, England, 1818-12-16 00:00:00

reotted to 'Mite been is die several days.'
flap of the small clothes was unbuttoned ; the
watch which the deceased alwayi carried about him
was tot in his fob, and share was no money about
I the deceased's person, and he never went out without
taking money with him ; his pockets _were turned
out, and there were appearances of strangulation, and
a black mark on the side of the neck. I know the
deceased had a watch with gold chain and seals
when he left home; he was a very high spirited
young man, and from what I know of him, he would
not tamely submit to be robbed ; he had a practice
of twisting his watch pocket after he put his watch
in it, and I have frequently heatd him say, that he
would defy any thief to rob him, for if they took his
watch, they must also take his pocket. lam of opi-
nipn that the villains who murdered the deceased,
unbuttoned the flap of his small clothes for the pur-
pose of untwisting his fob pocket and taking the
watch. In his pocket remained the following trifling
articles:.--k watch key, Akensicle's Poetical Works, a
pair of gloves, silk handkerchief, penknife, a stick of
black sealing wax. The body was carried to Horn-
sey Wood House. An umbrella which the deceased
.had with him on Thursday night, was found on the
iron bridge. which was torn recently from its appear-
ance. From the deep marks on the bank where the
body. was found, I am convinced that he made great
fesistance ;Name of the heel marks are several inches
in depth in the ground.'
Mrs. Sarah Watson sworn.—l keep the Jolly
tcliers at Wood Green, Tottenham Parish. I knew
the deceased before he came to my house on last
Thursday evening; it was between six and seven
*Mock when he entered my house; I invited him into
the bar, as he was acquainted with my sen, when he
went to school. I asked him to take tea and he con-
sented, and sat in my bar until betiseeen ten and eleven
9'clock at night ;lie had three small glasses of brandy
and water ; he did not drink half the liquor himself,
I and my son drank with him ; there were no stran-
gers in the house all the evening. The deceased had
a watch in his pocket and some money ; he paid me
four shillings for the liquor, Ste.; it was a hunting
watch with-yellow chain And seals, which I supposed
to be gold; 'and I advised him to hide them under
clothes, as they might attract the attention of ill-
disposed persons whom he might meet, and he would
be robbed, and I saw Lim put them under the hots
tom of his waistcoat. When the deceased first came
into the bar he inquired if a Gentleman had been
,there waiting for him. When he set off from our
house it was. a fine bright moon-light night. The
'Bridge near which the deceased was found was the
nearest way home ; he bade me good night aid was in
excellent spirits when he parted

John Watson, a youth about 16 years of age,
sworn.—l am the son of last witness ; I went to school
with the deceased; he called at my mother's house,
on Thursday evening, and said that he had been on '
a visit to Mr. Pearce, of Southgate, as he was going
to write to a College at Cambridge, to Mr. Pearce s
son, and wished to know if he had any thing to com-
municate to 'him. The deceased said that he had
promised to meet a Gentleman at our house, on his
return from Mr. Pearce's, and he expressed surprise
at his not having kept his promise.
Mr. Thomas Evans, 24, Old-street, surgeon, stated,
I knew the deceased about five or six years ; we were
fellow pupils at the Finsbury Dispensary; I have nc
seen him for near a fortnight, and then he was in
good health and spirits, and I am sati,fied that he
was not under any kind of distress rr derangement of
tnind, nor-do I believe he would have put an end to
his existence. I heard that he was missing, and last
night that his body was found. I saw the body of the
deceased this day, about two o'clock, and in my opi-
nion he was undoubtedly strangled previous to his
being thrown into the water ; I form that conclUsion
from various appearances on the body ; the mark
rpund the neck i; not all I form my opinion
The tongue is forced through the teeth, there. is
a !stark also under the ear ; the deceased was an
excellent swimmer, and had he fallen into the water
by accident he could have saved himself. The teeth
of the deceased were closed, and the tongue was
forced, in my opinion, between the teeth, by the via
lence in strangling him.
Mr. Richard Henry Major, surgeon—l never saw
the deceased before his death but once, and that was
a considerable time ago. I saw the body this day,
and my opinion is precisely the same as Mr. Evans's;
-that he was strangled cannot admit of a doubt, and
he must have been nearly dead before he was thrown
into the water. I have seen numbers of bodies of
persons who were strangled, particularly Bellingham.
and other notorious murderers, and all had the same
appearances of strangulation. I am sure the deceased
must have lost all power of defence before he was
thrown into the river ; he even appears now to retain
the posture of self-defence.
Mr. Norcutt, of Gray's Inn, being sworn—l lent
the deceased an umbrella when he was at my house,
and the one found upon the Lon Bridge of the New
River is the same I lent him ; it was not torn when

I lent it to him ; the rent in it appears to have been
newly made, and in my opinion was done in the
struggle with, the persons who attacked him. The
hat produced I am sure is the deceased's. and must
have floated down the river to the grate at the
Sluice-house. I made particular inquiries at Wed
Green, nt the Black Boy, and learned that to Gen-
clematis house was robbed on Thursday night, about
the time the deceased left the Jolly Butchers, and
'have no doubt, from the direction which the thieves
took, and the road the deceased went, that the thieves
went across the fields, and met wilt the deceased on
the bridge opposite the Tile
The CORONER summed up the evidence, and said
that be had hopes, when the investigation com-
menced,pat the death of the unfortuate young Gen-
tleman was produced by accident, but after the evi-
dence which bad been received he was sorry to say,
that there was proof adduced that the deceased came
to his death by. the violent hands of murderers. It
was clear to him that the deceased was met in the
fields by the villains who took away hislife, and that
he struggled with them until they arrived at the
summit of the Bridge,. when he was robbed and
thrown into the water. That his death was caused
by the violence of some persons nothing could be
mote conclusive than the evidence of the Surgeons.
The Jury instantly returned the following verdict
Wilful Murder, against 'some person or persons un-
known, the deceased having been, in our opiaiou,