Star.
London, England, 1817-10-21 00:00:00

BRALIAM 71101INTON.

We lately announced the arrest of this man on a'
writ of an appeal at the suit of the next of kin of the
late unfortunate and lamented Mary Ashford, for
whose murder 7 hornion was tried and acquitted. The!
warrant was received on Thursday afternoon by Mr.
' Hackney, Sheriff's officer of Lictifi•id, who, ace .m
pained by Martin and Baker, two of assistants,
proceeded to Castle Bromwich, and finding Thornton
at the house of his father, took him into custody, and
brought him to the lock-up house iii &al-street, the
same night. On the f..llowing m.)rnintz, about ten
o'clock, he was convey. d by H .ckrey in a chaise to
Warwick, and safety deiivered at the county poi.—
Up,in being informed by the rdlicrr of the nature 01
his visi., we learn he quietly snomitied, without of-
tering tit feat resistance. We subjoin a copy of the
V .natal under w inch Thornton was appr..hendc..l:
WAIMICCIOIRE TO war—The Hon. Henry Verrey, Sheriff
or the emus y of Was wick aforesaid, to Joh. i-lickricy and
at has peril, its Thomas Martin, lunatban Baker, and others—
oily bailiffs, et the said ci.unty, and to the herrer of the gaol of
the said county, greeting.
" liy virtue ot writ al: appeal of our Sovereign JAM the King,
to me directed, I command you, and every of you, jointly and
sevcraity, that you or one ut you, like Abraham Thornton, of
Castle Woolwich, iu the parish of ,itston, near Birmingham, in
the said county, labourer, if he shall he found in my bailiwick,
and horn safely keep, so that I may have his body before the
Lord the King on the morrow of All Souls, wheresoever the
said Lord the King shall then be in England, to answer William
Ashford, t I the perish tit Hints, in the county if Stafford, la-
bourer, who was the eldest brother, and is the heir of Mary
A hfutd, late of Langley, in the pariah of Sutton Coldhleid, in
my said balawick, spinster, deceased; of the said Mary Asti-
turd, whereof he appealed, him. Thereof fail not, as yuu wit:
auswet at your peril."

The Statute under which Thornton has been again
taken into custody, in older to undergo another trial,
08 Account vt the murder of Mary Ashtoad, is an
Act et the 3d tit Hoiry VII. cap. 1.

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