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London, England, 1810-08-30 00:00:00

CARRICKFERGUS ASSIZES, AUGUST 22.

HORRID MURDER.—Charles Underwood and John
Cherry were this day. brought to trial, the former for
murdering John M'Clure, near Aghohill, in October
last, and the latter for having aided and abetted him
to commit it. From the evidence of a number of
witnesses it appeared, that the deceased having had
some pecuniary transactions with the prisoner Cherry,
the latter procured a forged bond, on which he ar-
rested the deceased ; but when the case came to trial,
Cherry was cast, and one of his sons, who had appear-
ed as a witness, was afterwards indicted and trans-
ported for warn' perjury. The deceased afterwards
eommenced an action against Cherry, the prisoner,
for false imprisonment ; and, to avoid the consequen-
ces; Cherry adopted the dreadful resolution of having
him murdered before the cause could come to trial.
To effect this diabolical scheme, he proposed to the
unhappy prisoner, Underwood, to give him the half
of Braid Farm, and his daughter in marriage, on con-
dition that he should murder IsliClure, and he also
offered to lend Jobn Galloway (who became King's
evidence) £2OO, on condition that he should assist
in the murder. Underwood and Galloway accepted
the offer, and promised tc murder M.Chire before
the next Term in Dublin. John Underwood, an un-
cle of the prisoner of that name, also engaged in
the conspiracy, and proposed that they should poison
the deceased, but although they procured poison with
the intention of mixing it with his tea at a friendly
meeting, they had not a fit opportunity for doing it.
Galloway then declined to have any thing more to do
in the business, as he conceived the Undcrwoods and
Chetry wished him to take all the risk of the murder
upon himself. He afterwards went to Cherry's house,
where he heard the prisoner- Underwood say, that
M'Clure could never trouble Cherry more, as he was
murdered ; and Cherry appearing doubtful upon it,
Underwood offered to swear it upon a Bible. Cherry
then believed him, and gave him two sheep, pro-
mising him money when he could get it from his At-
torney. Underwood?. on his way home with the
sheep, confessed to Galloway that he had drank with
M'Clure the preceding evening, and on their way
home murdered him, and buried his body in a field.
Underwood also shewed Galloway the pocket-book ,
of the deceased, conei ining his papers, which chiefly I
related to his law stilt with Cherry. Underwood burnt
the papers, observing, that if they were found he
might get hanged. Afterwards Cherry, knowing that
some money w.is due to M'Clure by his Attorney,
employed G illoway to write a letter in his name,
dated from Dublin, requiring the money to be sent to
a particular address, where he said he could get the
money instead of M'Clure. Underwood confessed
that M,Cliire was marder_d with a bayonet by a man
of the name of Courtney, but said he looked in at the
window without assisting in it. The body was in a
very putrid state when found, but several people iden-

tified it.
After the evidence, which was very circumstantial,
had been recapitulated by the Judge, the Jury found
*Underwood guilty of the murder, and conspiracy to
murder, and Cherry guilty of the conspiracy to mur-
der only .—They were sentenced to be hanged on the
Fr: d y next, and the body of Underwood to be dissected.
Cherry is 71 years of age, and denied having com-
mitted the murder, and said be should persist in it
under the gall.,ws. Underwood acknowledged his
guilt, and said Courtney and Galloway were present
when the murder was perpetrated. Cherry is an old
offender, and was tried several times, but escaped con-
v (lion. He was very lately tried at Dublin along
witlgranotber man for horse-stealing, when they were,
both acquitted, but ordered to find bail. Cherry found ,
bail, and was liberated ; but his companion being tin.
_able to get bail, he was detained, and Cherry having
neglected him in prison, induced him to inform a pro.
per officer in Dublin of the circumstances of M'Clure's
murder, which Cherry had communicated to him in
"crmfidence. The prisiners were immediately appre-
hended, and a reward offered for the apprehension of
...._those who have escaped.

POLICE.

petty, and detained it ;he wished-to make atone- applied for it by order of the Colonel. The See".
ment to those he had wronged end to his country ;
.Major proved having applied for it, and that the de
SALE OF A WIFE AT SMITHFIELD. he knew of no other way than that of entering hisMa- fendant refused to deliver it up.
jesty ''s service, and fighting in their cause : this he The defendant alledged ignorance of the piece hart
MARLBOKOUCHI-STREET.—Ann Edwards charged was ready to do. ing been issued from the public stores, and said I'e
Richard Tarlington with assaulting her. She stated, The worthy Magistrate observed, he could not had given the full value for it, viz. an 18:gellee
that about 7 o'clock on Tuesday evening she was in a
now interfere ; he was obliged to commit him for empty beer cask, and therefore could not coeceies
neighbour's room ; the prisoner came in and asked
trial ; and as to his going into the King's Service, it the Serjeant Major hat any right to deprive. him ei
her how her deary the carpenter was ?- she answered was ludicrous, for he had three times enlisted, and as his gun4arrtl,.without at the same time, restoiine hie
often deserted.
that it would be well for him (the prisoner) that he hie beer blrrel.
was as good a man ;he was dead, and she hoped ,
.
Mrs. Ball said, if it was the prisoner's intention to The Megietrate. however, informed him, Ova ill.
was in heaven : he asked her for the key of her room, make atonement, he had it in his power to put her in Jre the Act of Parliament above mentioned, any per
which she refused ; he then said he would break open
the way of coming at,lier things. son havirg arms issued from the publ:c stores in their
the door ; she told him if he did she would charge The prisoner told her he would speak to her ano. possession, and refusing to give them up when ap.
him on the watch, on which he knocked her down, ther time Sn that subject, and then requested of the plied for under a proper authhrity, as had beenthecese
and kiclred her in the ribs : a constable was sent for, Tending we.;
liable to a hue of ClO, and also to pay double eat
and the prisoner taken into custody. Magistrate that he would direct bites to be sent to a in the present instance, the party 5-) 43
, condemned regiment, and if that was not in his
The Magistrate enquired by what pretended right power, that he would commit him to Newgate. value of the arms ; and the ca r& having beet
He wasremanded to be brought up when the charge
he claimed the privilege of entering her room? After proved against him, lie, Atli well he might be igii:. .
some hesitation, she answered, that she had been of forgery was ready to be brought forward. There rant of tee offence he had committed, yet he ii.ly
married to the prisoner in the year 1792; that he were 35 charges reade to be preferred against him. pay the line, together w;t11 all the costs incurred.
used her extremely ill, and in the year 1802 he sold The Magistrate recommended them to bring them be- i The defendant pleaded distress, and a large eireily;
her in Smithfield fora guinea, without her clothes ; fore the Grand Jury. I and litejor Meymott, who attended in the aloonce ,;
The prisoner stated when he was first examined,
he even stripped her chemise off! Edwards bought Colonel Slade, in consideration of his fernily, lett:
:
her, and she lived with him until his death, which• ceded with the Magistrate to remit the fine.
that he was driven to act as he did by the oppression
happened about three months since. He had be-
of his wife's guardians, who detained her fortune in I Yesterdey a youthful depredator, nanic.l Street, was
hayed very kind to her, and she was then in weeds ' charged by Mr. Turner, a joleller and silversmith,
their hands. This is not the fact : the Lady is one
for him. The prisoner now claimed her again, and of four children of a late respectable Attorney. He residing in Great Surrey-street, Lleckfriars-road, with
threatened to strip her, and expose her once more to cutting a pane of glass out (of the shop window, and
left each of his children £5O per annum, to be paid
public sale at Smithfield ; and also, that he would stealing a fancy ring. It appeared, that Mr. Turner,
them by his executors, who are four in number, and
sell the furniture left her by Edwards. She conceived, ; whilst standing in the shop en Ttiefe!ay evening,
men of the first respectability they have regularly
as the prisoner had once disposed of his right and _ beard a noise against the window, and 10(1k;11g (flit
performed their trust, which has been a most trouble
title in her, he could not again claim to be put in
some one, and are now in advance to the lady. perceived the prisoner, and another boy, whom he had
possession of it. She had in her custody the bill of ob-eived before standing near the window; and, (a
WORSHIP.STREET.—Yesterday, .Elii abeth Fox, a
sale given to Edwards. a cli:eer examination discovered that ter.: r 1 the squares
' woman of the town, was charged with havine robbed
The prisoner in his defence said, that the prosecu- o: geiss in the window had been cut, net went out a,A
a Gentleman the preceding night at a house in the
trix had stated the truth as to the marriage, but not we. prt v mush-
parish of St. Luke, Old-street, of a gold watch, chain, secured the prisoner, whose companion I
quite so correctly as to the sale ; for perceiving that escaped ; on examining a box of trinkets vied: stood
and seals, with which the prisoner absconded ; but
after
silo they had been
gaol age went after married, she got a kick
he in
being immediately pursued, she was apprehended with near the broken pane, tie found ere was gone ; it v a
talked t het about it, a
her p, that is to y, snd rha other s
some of his ar men, u-
the property, in Golden-lane, which was produced and
n it, however, in the prisoner's possession ;but he was
p g o pe
identified by the prosecutor. She was fully commit- o served to throw a large case knife into the road,
ments might be striking ones ; yet she followed the ted to Neweate for trial. which, when examined, appeared to have been sharp.
Thomas li'atfilall, a soldier in the Tower Hamlets 4
same course ;he was at last convinced, that the same cued and tempered as it for the purpose cutting
Edwards, whom she praised so much, dishonoured
Militi2i, was charged with breaking open the bar of glass. He was committed for re-examination.
his bed ; that he agreed to sell her to him, which
Mr. Wood, the sign of the Black Bull, Kingsland- .
1 HUH.
he accordingly did, at Smithfield market, for a gui-
road, and stealing thereout a laree quantity of cop-; stana.jy, the Lady of the it.ts. S. C. Jaroi:e, of a daughter.
flea ; but it was with the consent of the prosecutr.ix.
per coin. The prisoner was commuted to Newgate i
The Magistrate would observe, that during the life- trial. - DIED.
time of Edwards, he had never troubled him or her, At Telszmoulth. on
otfhte 21 ettini instant, Mrs. George Byng, wide
MAssioN-HotisE--Two stirg:cal soidents, Wigan /
for be considered her as the property of Eldtvards ;
Deane and Charles Daily, were on Tuesday brought . of August
um
at{ Cork
.la. at Gen. Ilouyil's, Mrs. Morgell, relict of
but when he died, the lien to the property cannged : ,_ ,
before the Lotto MAemt, on a charge of disorderly els! late CrosLie Morgell, Esq. and mother Of Lady Denny Floyd.
although he gave a bill of sale to Edwards, he did
conduct he Bishepsgate-street, on the preceding night. At Cadiz, on the 1 ith July, 'Aleut. William limes, oldie 94th
not give it to his heirs and assigns, and all that he
It appeared from the statement of the Cast! on the Iniment, 'Wen Jul of tun" In"' li:'4l. of }".."l' ....
could have claimed was a life interest, which was now Gardens, on the 34th instant, aged GI, Mrs.ZUZI
part of the complainant, a guardian of the night, that lisirrg ite,lwinigie of Thom, Herbert Harris, En. Commander In the
at an end ; and like all other property held by such
the defendants were feeling the pulse of a fair derma HAM E3ft India Company's servce.
tenure, it revolved to the source it came from : so in under the window of an apothecary in a very rude and
course of things she again became his property. It
boisterous manner. Nat suspecting that the gentle-
, was not only his right to look after her, but it wa: his
men were professionally employed, witness requ ',red
duty, afraid she might again relax into bad habits,
them to keep moving—they, however, convinced of die
which by another sale he might obviate. He was innocence and purity of their intentions, refused to
informed that he was entitled to every thing !eft to her obey the command ; threatening, at the same time,
by Edwards ; for although he could not have any.in-
to trepan the interrupter of their practice, if he did
forest in them during his life, yet the moment they
not immediately abscond. By this advice lie very ,
became vested in the prosecutrix, by the death of Ed-
obstinately would not be guided, and springing his
wards, they became as much his property as if she
rattle, with.the assistance of some of his brethren, he
was in possession before the sale. As to the assault
secured the medical men and Ceeir patient, and conveyed
' complained of, the law bore him out there ; tor tithe
them to the watch-house of the ward, where the usual
goods and the room were his, no person had a right care and attentions were paid, and the proper restsra-
to keep possession of them against his will. It 11;rd
been decided, that a man had a right to protect his
live: applied.
i The gentlemen in their defence had nothing fur-
house, and even to use force for that purpose; and ther to urge, than that they had human.-ly stopped
what he had done only amounted to the same thing; . the lady alluded to for the purpose of enquiring into
for he only used force to get possession of the key of i the state of her health, and being ruddy accosted
his room. Under these considerations he trusted the ,by the complainant, their dignity was offended, and
Magistrates would discharge him.
I they had, without considering the consequences, used
The prosecutrix, in reply, said she acknowledged language which upon cool consideration they had sin-
that the sale at Smithfield took place by her own con.;
cerely to lament.
s rot : she was glad to do any thing that would re- i From this assurance the Loan MAvon, with a suit-
lieve her from the cruelty of the prisoner : it must able reprimand, discharged the-otTendeis.
be a severe law indeed that would allow her to bel G
VlLDll4l.L.—Ttleilly, a Platonic pair, who live
sold more than once, and she never would live with for each other, and who scorn the shackles of matrimony,
the prisoner. Although Edwards bought her, he al- I exhibited a reciprocal complaint neainst each other
ways behaved to her as a kind husband ; she would ' for assault. 'l'lle gentleman stared, that the fair en-
for ever respect his memory. By the little n;eans he , slaver of his hear: occasionally combed his hair with a
had left her, and her own industry, she was able to thrre-/essed stool, and breathed the veins of his temples
support herself : she would not dispute the law with ' with a poker; but, notwithstanding all this, he was
the prisoner, as he said he had been with an attorney; ! desirous of living and dying at her feet, so deeply was
however, she did not believe it could be so uncorisci-.; he smitten with the irresistible charms of her person.
onable as to oblige a poor woman either to live with 'f he lady, on the contrary, denied that she had ever .
a man that she hated, or to be beat and put up at i touched a hair of his head, and signified that the hap.;
public sale. 1 piest hour of her life would be. that on which s4e sa at •
The Worthy Magistrate observed, the question fore her ic„,i,r 1,,,.:..r, who was continually placing her eyes
him to determine was, whether an assault 11,1 d ,r had ,in hate:me/wale: by kicks of iris rtes laid in the Loren
not been committed ? and he was fully f i i
o- (1"1-`)11 ;of his graadmah:r, long since censigned to her parent
that there had. He therefore ordered that the pri-
soner should find bail for his appearance at the next !
i The Magistrate recommended a separation, and
Quarter Sessions ; which, not being able to obtain, : dismissed the complaint.
he was committed for trial. I John Thompeon, the servant of Mr. Cox, of Wo•
William Harrison Craig was brought tap for re-exa- burn-place, Russell-square, was brought to this office,
mination, on a charge of having defrauded several yesterday, charged with riding over a poor tr..us in
tradesmen of their goods, and robbing divers lodgings Long-lane, Smithfield, the preceding c,vening, and,
of plate, linen, arc. +by that means, woundingh'm su severely in the head
The Office was crowded with people of different : and arm, that he is at present confined to his bed iti
trades, ready to bring forward their charges ; but the Bartholomew's hospital, in a very &ulcerous sette.
Magistrate observed, that he would only take three ; , It appeared, from the testimony of several persons
two of which we give ; and the other one, for forgery, who witnessed the accident, that the pri:emer was SO
which was not ready, we understand, only waits for much intoxicated, that he could with dialculty keep
an answer to a letter from a Noble Lord, whose name his seat ; in that state he role will the utmost fury
is supposed to have been forged. through the streets, frequently endangering the lives
Mr. Ryder, a shopkeeper at Bayswater, deposed of the passengers, until at length he came in contact
that the Prisoner came to his house, and took a lodg- with the poor man in the Hospital. lie was imme-
ing—he said his name was Kenyon ; be was a tea- diately stripped, and on the spot received some cur-
dealer in London, and wanted the lodgings for the rection for the impropriety of his conduct.
sake of the air. He remained in them only two days ; In his defence he had only to urge his inebriety ;
he went out on the third day, and never returned.— he expressed his readiness, however, to compensate
On the fifth day, the prosecutor forced the door of the injured person.
the room taken by the prisoner, when he found the , The Magistrate held him to bail, until the real state
window curtains, a pair of sheets, two pillow-cases, a of the wounded man cari be ascertained.
quilt, the bed-curtains, and two silver teaspoons, were ; Three bakers were brought to the Office by the
done. He did not see the prisoner again until he was ' Annoyance Jury, as the Parish Inquest is termed by
in custody. : these public plunderers, for having in their possession
, Two pawnbrokers produced the articles, which they , loaves of various sizes, under the standard weight.
deposed were pledged with them by the prisoner. ' The first charge was against Milne, of Harp-alley.
The prisoner said, he had no question to ask,. fn. On the bread being weighed, 47 ounces were disco-
he had not a doubt but the prosecutor was the per. , vexed to be deficient.
son he had wronged.
I The next was preferred against Forsyth, of the Old
Mrs. Ball, of Kensington related nearly a similar Bailey, who had 23 ounces deficient.
story as the last ; and her loss was much the same, . The last against Smith, of Long-lane, who had 12
except she had not been able to trace out the articles ; ounces deficient.
and when the prisoner was going away, he gave her : The worthy Alderman, after a suitable reprimand,
the key of the last prosecutor's room door instead of imposed the usual penalty. •
her own. I UNION-HALL.—James Golder, a dealer in old iron
The prisoner said, he had no question to ask her ; and. marine stores, was summoned, under the Vith of
he knew he had wronged her, as well as several the King, for having in his possession a firelock be-
other persons ; he was drove to it by distress, and the 1 inging to the corps of Lambeth Volunteers, ani for
oppression of those persons who held his wife's pro- riusinrto deliver it to the Serjeant Major, whet I.e

HlOl-1 WATER AT LONDON MIDGE 'JO-MORROW.
M0rning............
Ake/memo - lO minutes eh r 9

DIXON'S CELEI3RATED AN I'IBILIOUJ PILLS.
THESE PILLS have long obtained a just cele.
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Apothecary, and front their great success in malty obstinate 13t-
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particularly the Duke of 11:tlf srtl, .sir George Warren, Sir Gre-
gory 1',11;e Turnt:r, the Duvra;;:r Lady Say and Sele, theViscuuto
tens Bak:ley, &c. &c. he watt persnatled to offer thee to the
public, tinder the: approloriun and cmction of their name.
" Deal Castle, ilaverfordwest, South Wales, Feb. 24, IVA
" Captain Lloyd presztito his compliments to Mr. Dixon: ;is
though not personally acquainted with him, wt uld take it as
favour, if he would send hi•n f.ser or five boxes of his Pills as bast
as he possibly can. Mrs. Lloyd, who has always used the Mali.
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family, Captain Lloyd f,:elo it his duty to recommend Ihe Fib
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The Plitt are found to he an incomparable remedy for restorirf

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TO TitomAs TAYLOR, F.SQ.
No. 9, NEW BRIDGE-S MEET, LONDON.

11/1/N9VItED
rEr; Icave to inform yon, that ever since the yen
1790, I had been afflicted with the Lues Venerea ; w:tich,tott
its ohitittately resisting every cLyirse of medicine pv.crilkil by tue
nscut rm.:gent of the faculty here, and under;oing several sera(
courses of salivation, and twice difaharg,nl tenon the llosititalove•
little relief, would appear t he of the most inveterate nature. h
the spring of last year my disorder had gat to suck a head, as
nearly to Lott a period to my existunce.. I had a 'urge ulcer on the
crown of hay kra.l, one on each arm, and my le,ts were tiro'se•
era: in a manlier ; my right w:3 dreadfaily painful,
11•44 been in a state of nlct•razion for the last seven years; my kir
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me sto.ii excruciating pain, parrieularly when warnt in bed, s
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_ _ _

Swan's Close, Hiel-street, Edittbuith-
Prepart.l and sold by the sole Proprietor, 'Moms, Ti)
Membyr of the Royal CGllege of Surgeons in London, at his •,e
No. 9, New bridge-atreet ; where, after a ooustaat :veldt-at/it
more than 40 years, in a practice particularly direeud .!
Cure of Venereal Complaints, and those intik:42l to !to
Parts of Generation, with that InvitlaLle secrecy which
of his profession should always &nave in such caws, I.r •
ten himself, the advice and assistance he gntuitousi '-
nisters to persons taking this Medicine will be esteemed, by
cerning Public; as an advantage seldom; attained and void •
ambiguity.
They are also sold by his appointment, at the Perfairee.:> g
35, St. Alban's-street, Pall Mall ; the 'Foy-shop, No. lo!', 41'
ford-street ; Mr. Disborough's, No. 7, Fish-street-hill, warts (
posite the Monument ; and by one person in every co.ols ;*
town in England, &c. in boxes only tee. 91. each, ;qv 11.

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