Star.
London, England, 1818-10-14 00:00:00

MURDER IN THE ruin' PIMA.

Conosra'sQuasr.—Yesterday evening an In- I
quest was held at the Fleet Prison, on the body of
James Leerwood, whose death was occasioned by his
being struck with a tailor's sleeve.board.—Charles
Johnstone, a prisoner in the Fleet, being sworn, said,
on Saturday, about ten minutes before five, he was,
standing six feet from the window, opposite to it:
saw the deceased fall from the shop-board, (deceased
was a tailor). Witness saw him working a few mi-
nutes before. Stepping up to the window, saw a
man, named Daley, beating deceased with a sleeve-
board, deceased being upon the ground. Witness
opened the window, and, witnessing the violence,
called out for assistance, and said to Daley, " In the
.name of Gon, don't you kill the man ; upon this
'Maley seized the deceased, turned him upon his belly,
and seizing his thigh, said, " D—n your eyes, you
rascal," and struck him three or four times upon the
breech with his sleeve-board, he then threw down
the sleeve-board, and sprung through the window,
and swore he had not given him half a threshing:—
Daley returned to the deceased's room. Seeing
Graves, a lusty man, witness asked him to go into
the room ; Graves went in, and witness saw no more
of it. Witness believes Daley was sober at the time.
Would have entered the room, but thought it dan-
gerous so to do. Witness saw blood upon the head
of the deceased beTore Daley turned him on his belly.
Graves, a prisonr in the Fleet, saw Daley
standing outside the window, near the room of the
deceased, and heard him say he had struck the de-,
ceased three times on the breech with the sleeve-
boird, and swearing, said he would not forget it in
a hurry ; had he not been an old man he should have
beat him worse, but being an old man he did not
like to strike him. Witness heard Daley say, that
deceased had behaved vet y ill, by not giving a letter
he had found, to him, instead of giving it to Lewis,
who keeps the chandler's shop. After this, Daley, in
a pas,,ion, jumped into the room of the deceased, and
abut.ed him respecting the letter. DeCeased was then
itatding against the fire-place. Witness said, "'Tor
G CD'S sake don't let us have any murder done." Da-
ley did not strike him at that time. .Witness went.
into the room to prevent any mischief. Daley bad
charged deceased with having given two letters to
Lewis, but witness kaew to the contrary, as it re-
garded one. Deceased denied having found any
letter belonging to Daley, nor had he given any to
Lewis. As witness was leasing the room, Daley said
"he had not done with him yet."' Then witness and
Daley left the room together.—Several other witnesses
were examined, whose evidence corroborated the
above, and the facts stated in the account which we
gave yesterday.— Some Medical Gentlemen alio
examined the body of the deceased found coagulated
blood in the ventricles of the brain. This, which ap-
peared io be the effect of external injury, they consi-
dered to be the cause of his death.--after a few mi-
nutes' consultation, the Jury returned a verdict of—
Wilful Murder against John Daley.

Saturday se'nnight, Matthew Clydesdale, a collier,
was tried at the Celia of Justiciary, at Glasgow, for
the murder of Andrew Lore, in the palish of New
Monkland, in the county of Lanerk. From the evi-,
donee addlce.l in sir•Ti•rt of the charge, it appeared
that ill: pri ,oner ha.*l f_rr some time borne malice of
the strongest nature against the deceased, who was
cighto years of age, and a man of the most peacgul
and industrious habits. One Sunday morning they
chanced to meet near a coal-pit in the neighbour-
hood, when the prisoner attacked the deceased with
a pickaxe, such as arc used in collieries, and gave
him some dreadful wounds on different parts or the
head and beady, under which he languished till the
Thursday following, and then died. son of the
deceased was the principal witness ; but the whole of
the evidence was so conclusive, that the Jury, with-
out a moment's hesitation, found him Gstilly.—Lord
Gums, the presiding Judge, then gave the prisoner
a most impressive address qn the enormity of the
crime of which he had been so justly convicted by
the Jure. To expect mercy on this side of eternity
would be in vain, for to crimes of that horrible de- i
cription the law had very properly affixed the highest
punishment. He might be thankful that by the law',
of Scotland he was allowed longer time for prepara- '
tion for death than he would have had in the southern
part of the country, as there he would unquestionably
have suffered death within 48 hours after the sen-
tence of the law was passed. To seek the Divine
compassion by prayer and heartfelt Contrition was!
now his imperative duty, for to indulge in any hopes
of human clemency would be at once absurd and
nugatory. -After a most eloquent speech, which of-1
-fected every person in Court, the Learned Judge sen-1
tenced the prisoner to be taken back to the prison, to
*be fed on bread and water, and to be executed on
Wednesday, the 4th day of November, at three o'clock
in the afternoon, his body to be then delivered to
Dr. Jeffrey, Professor of Anatomy in the University,
for public dissectien.—The prisoner heard this awful
sentence with the utmost apathy. He kept his eye
constantly fixed on the Judge, and heard the solemn
address without in the least being moved. From the
declaration he made while under examination before
the Magistrates, he appears, by his own account, to
have been a person of a most brutal character, and
several instances of cruelty to animals were stated,
which are too shocking to be mentioned. He has
made a full confession of his guilt. He is SS years
of age. and has a wife and four children. The Court
was much crowded during the trial, as the deceased
was much respected in the parish he belongd to.—
There has not been any person executed in Glasgow
for murder since 1817: nor hare there been four per-
sons under sentence of death, at any one time, for
the last forty years, although the population of the
Circuit exceeds 250,000
Saturday night the Welch Chapel, in Guildford-
street, Southwark, was broken open: the robbers en-
tered through a window, by forcing one of the shut-
ters with a eFow-bar : the chandeliers from the pulpit,
the branches from the pillars, the money in the Four
box, and a box belonging to the Bible Society, with
the contents, were carried off.
Monday night the counting-house of Messrs. Cole
and Teibe, of 65, South Audley-street, was broken
open : the robbers entered from some stables at the
back of the house. Fortunately they were not able
to force open the iron chest, where property to a
considerable amount was deposited. They found £l6
In cast: and Cotes, which they carried ott.