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London, England, 1829-10-27 00:00:00

MILL OF Tin MUNIATOX 1110TiRS.

JoFut Thomas, Thomas Suffolk, and "earls Moreton, labourers of
Nuneaton, were indicted for riotously assembling, with several
other persons (more then 100), in the parish of Nuneaton, on the
6th of September last, breaking into the house of Joseph Parker,
and seizing John Freeman Taylor, placing him upon an ass, pared-
lug him through the streets, and violently maltreating bins.
Moreton pleaded Guilty, the other two Not Guilty.
John Freeman Taylor, examined by Mr. HILL—I am ware-
houseman to Messrs. Bankes, ribbon-weavers of Coventry and
London ; there has been a great depression in the price of the ma-
nufactured article, and consequent reduction in the wages of the
workmen. On the 16th September I was at the house of Joseph
Parker, at Nuneaton, at half-past ten in the morning ; a mob assem-
bled round the door, having an ass with them ; they shouted out,
"We have got him ha here." I ordered the door to be locked,
and it was locked • they cried out to Parker, " If you don't turn
Taylor out, we'll break open the door." This violence lasted
about an hour ; they broke the door off the hinges, and got in ;
I was in a workshop at the top of the house ; the moment the
door was brokers open I heard a shout, and thirty or forty per-
sons rushed up stairs; at this time Thomas and Suffolk were
there ; I stood at the top of the stairs with a spindle in my hand,
and I threatened that I would run it through the first man that
came up ; Thomas was near the top, and Suffolk was also on the
stairs. A man below Thomas (about four steps from me) with a
bill-hook in his hand, said, " If I can get at him, I'll cut him
down.' I said I did not wish to hurt any one, and I threw away
the spindle. I retreated to the back of the room, and said I
wished to speak to them; they rushed on me, and said I had
been to the parish officers, and had stopped their pay. I droned
it; it was not true. They said I was a liar, and Thomas and
Suffolk collared me. They dragged me to the top of the stain;
I took held of ;the rail, it broke, and we fell down a flight of 14
stairs. Five or six other persons fell upon me, and I was much
bruised. I sat on a bed, and said •' Don't murder me out-
right." Thomas and Suffolk seized me again, and pushed me
down the second flight. They then dragged me into the street,
placed me on an ass with my head towards the ass's head, and
held me on. There were 400 or 500 persons present; there was
a great shouting. They took me up to Abbey-street, through
the Meadow, into Abbey-end, where they pulled me off, and
placed me with my face towards the tail, and some one gave me
the tail to hold as a bridle. In Black-street some one pulled me
backwards over the ass's head, and I fell between two carts.
They mounted me again, when Mr. Taylor, the constable of
Nuneaton, came on horseback, and rescued me. The jour-
ney lasted three quarters of an hour, during which all kinds of
filth were thrown on me ; my clothes were quite spoiled.
Thomas said, " We'll keep you on till six o'clock at night ; and
they'd break my b—y neck, so that I should never are Co
ventry any more." At Abbey Bud, Joseph Moreton put a dog
on my back, and some loose silk on my head and ears, and stuffed
some into my mouth. I was unwell for three weeks, and am still
extremely nervous.
In answer to a question by the prisoner Thomas, whether be
(witness) bad not offered to give Thomas a quart of ale to protect
him from violence, the witness said, Thomas asked me if I would
have some ale. I never said I would give him 6d.if be would not
let them hurt me. _

Joseph Parker—l remember the !aft witness being in my house,
and the people coming in. I doe't know that any of the prisoners
were in my house. I know them. Thomas and Suffolk are brick.
makers ; Moreton is a shoemaker.
Wm. Taylor, High Constable of Nuneaton—l rescued Freeman
Taylor from the mob. I can only identify Thomas ; he was in the
mob, following the ass. There were several hundreds present,
making a great noise. There was no insult offered to me or to the
man after I got there.
Grwrge Pegg—l saw the prosecutor paraded on the ass. I saw
Thomas and Suffolk there.
This alined the case for the prosecution. The prisoners (Tho.
mat and Suffolk) had no Counsel. On being called on for their
defence,

Thomas said I have nothing more to say, only that he offered me
a quart of ale to take care of him.
Suffolk said that Taylor bad fetched a warrant for six, and that
be bad let three of them off fur money; but because they (the pri-
soners) could not pay, they were to be punished for all.
Mr. Taylor positively denied this. The three persons who
were released were the men to whom the donkey belonged—his
son, who put the tail of the donkey to the witness fur a bridle.
and a lad who led the donkey. Mr. firming, the Magistrate.
released these three, because the owner of the ass declared be did
not know what his ass had been taken for ; and the other two
were mere boys, whom the Magistrate thought were sufficiently
punished by their confinement for a few days at Atberstone. So
far from his having accepted money to release any one, he bad re-
fused to take money, which Moreton's [Blends offered if he would
nut prosecute him.
The Cnantaws said, he thought the Jury could have no doubt
that the prisoners had been guilty of as gross au outrage as ever
was committed upon one of his Majesty's subjects. If. however,
they had any doubt, they would give the prisoners the benefit of it.
The Joey immediately found them Grilty.
The CHAIRMAN, in delivering the WHOM' of the Court, said,
during the whole period he had acted as a Masiatntit is that
Court, be hid never met with so atrocious a ease as the present.
The Court felt it was their duty to make a signal example of such
offenders, and they were determined to execute that duty. With

to spect to Moreton, be did not pppear to have been in the house,
nor to have personally participated in the violence committed upon
Taylor; his punishment, therefore, although severe, would not be
so much so as that of Thews and Suffolk. The two latter the
Court sentenced to two years imprisonment and hard labour in the
goal, and Moreton to six calendar months' imprisonment and bard
labour in gaoL
Wm. Bird, John Hawkins, Thomas Jackson, Thomas Hadley,
and Win. Cole, were convicted of having riotously assembled, with
divers other persons, to the number of more than 100, in the parish
of Stoneleigb, near Cevenuy,on the 15th of September last, on the
premises of Mr. Richard Woodcock, a stocking manufacturer, used
violent threats, assaulted his servant, and committed great devasta-
tion on Ms house and garden.
The sentence of the Court was, that Wm. Bird be imprisoned in
goal, and kept to bard labour, for twelve months ; Cole, Hadley,
and Howkins, for four months each ; and Jackson (on account of
his youth) for only two months.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING.
RACK COUILSE, MONDAY APTIMINOOII.

The following are a few of the principal arrivals :
Their Graces use Dukes of Portland, Grafton, and Rutland;
Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter, Marquis and Marchioness of
Worcester. Marquis of Graham; Earl Jersey, Earl and Countess
of Sefton, and the Ladies Molyneux ; Earl of Verulam. Earl Wil-
ton, Earl Stradbreke ; Lord W. Powlett, Lord Lowther Lord G.
Bentiock, Lord G. li. Cavendish, Lord John Fitzroy, Lowther,
Clin-
ton; Hon. Captain Roos, Hon. T. Duncombe ; Mr. and Mrs.
Thornhill, Mr. and Mrs. Scott Stonebewer, Sir Mark Wood,
Colonel Russell, Colonel Udney, Mr. Payne, Mr. C. Wilson,
Mr. Roberts, Dr. Dowdeswell, Mr. Ramsbottom, Mr. Hawker.
Colonel Crawford, Captain Macnamara, Captain Campbell, and
many others whose names we shall give in a future report.
Match, 500 sow h ft. D. I.

D. of Rutland's Cadland- iht. 71b.

Col. Log's Bessy Bedlain, list.

, Mitch 100 um, IL ft. T. Y. C.

D. of Richmond's Scymetar, Yet. 1316........ . . reed.
Cap. Locke's Bottle Imp, lat.

Match, 100, h. ft. T. Y. C.
Mr. Roberts's b. f. by &DMUS, dam by Skim
Sir M. Wood's b. f. by Stratherne .... paid.
The Duke and Duchess of Richmond are prevented from at.
tending by a domestic occuttence. Mr. Greville is here, but not
able to leave the Rutland Arms, in consequence of a fall from his
horse last week, by which he sustained considerable injury. The
accident was so severe as to create some apprehension for the first
day or two ; we are happy, however, to add, that Mr. EL is rapidly
recovering.
The list for to-day contained 13 Matches and Stakes.
Match 200 sov. h. fr. T. Y. C.

Lord Chesterfield's Cartilosian, fist. Sib recd.
•Sir AL Wood's John de Bart, Bst. elb,

One Third of a Subscription of 9.5 sov. each, for 5 yrs old, est. Ob.
6 yrs, 9st. and aged, 9st. 31b. B.C. Bona fide the property of
Subscribers. (7 Subs.)
D. of Grafton's Turquoise, 4 yrs old
The otker six Subscribers did not name.
Match, 100, h. ft. Ab. M. Bst. 71b. each.

Mr. Stonehewer's Kildare
Capt. Locke's Masaniello..... . ..— paid.
Masaniello is better known to the Sporting World as the York-
shire horse Master Burke, lately the property of Mr. Ridsdak, and
purchased by the Captain at the Doncaster Races, expressly for the
Heaton Park Meeting, where he was very successful. It was ge-
nerally supposed that the match would be run, but just before get-
ting on the Race Course the Captain paid forfeit.