Star.
London, England, 1803-03-19 00:00:00

KENT ASSIZES.

MAIDSTOVP, MatcH 17.—Lawrence Innis was
indided for the wilful murder of John Price, at
Greenwich, on the 21a c.f January lad.
1 Lis wa‘ a cafe of the moll Lone and feroci-
ous i,arbarit'• we ever recolleet to have heard in. a
Court of plaice.
The prifoner and the deccafed •a•ere both pen-
-F. ones s in Greenwich Hnfpital, and the following
is the account given of the traufaltion by the wit.
ttefic :

Jame:, Millar Paid he was a Greenwich penfioner,
and his birth was in the Clarence Ward ; his ca-
h'n wis next to that in which the deceafed fleptt
On Tuefcl7:r night, the Both of January lafi, jolt
is he was in bed, he heard the prifoner and the
deceafed came op the gallery together; they were
talking—the deceafed laid to the prifoner—" Go
to bed, and then there will be no more on't."—
The prifoner replied, " I won't." The prifoner
then went away to the fire place in the hall, but
loon returned to the cabin door of the deceafed,
and called out, " Price, Price, Jack, Jack !" The
deceafed did not anfwer ; the prifoner went away,
but returned a fecond time, and called out as be-
fore. The deceafed then anfwered him, and laid
to the prifoner, You will prepare to appear be-
fore the Captain of the Month to-morrow—l have
you upon the Complaint, for ftriking me to-day
at the Tyger's Head, in London-ftreet." To this
the prifoner replied, " Then you have done me,
have you ? but d—n to you, I'll do you in return."
The prifoner accompanied thefe words with a
blow, which knocked the deceafed down. The de-
ceafed called out mureer ! upon which the witnefs
jumped out of bed, and the prifoner was fecured,
and the next morning be was carried before the
Committee, and molded two months tobacco mo-
ney for his ill behaviour. This was the morning
preceding the night of the mauler. As he came
out of the Committee room, he laid to the witnefs,
" Millar, you have borne falfe witnefs againft me,
but I hope to Goa I fhall live to feet revenge."
On the fame evening he did not fee the prifoner
till eleven o'clock, he then few both Price and In-
nis go to their cabins. The cabin of the deceafed
was about four feet from the witnefs's. After he
bad been in bed a lhort time, he heard the prifo-
ner come out of his cabin, and go to the cabin of
the deceafed. From that he went to the fire place
in the hall as fart as he could go. He rem. ned a
feeond time to Price's cabin. He Raid a fecond nr
two, and then agaio went to the fire place, and once
more returned to Price's cabin. In a little time he
heard him (hut, the doer foray, and he thatight no
more of it, tilt about a quarter of an hour after.
wards Bryan came to him, and told him for Goo's
ke to ice up, for the boatflain (Price) was mur-
der%
folio Hawfcrd, another renfloner. laid he flept
in the tren.ce Ward, at Greenwich Hofpital ;
about. eleven eclock on the night of the sift of
January, he law the prifoner pals backward and
forward in the gahery ; he faw him returning the
Left time, when he h. td fornething in his hand like
a Crick, or a piece of iron. The gallery, he Paid,
was lighted with lamps and led to the hall ; each
or their cabins bad a lits•le window looking upon
the sailers%
James Bryan gave evideace as follows :—I lay
it; the fame cabin with the deceafed; we were
talking together not ten minutes before he was
murdered. The prifoner's cabin was nearly op.
polite to ours. I heard the priftuvr open our dour
foftly, and he looked in—we appeared both afleep.
As loon as he looked in, he went away towards the
hall fire place. He had one great coat and two
nightcaps. He came back, and when be came
into our cabin he looked at me attentively. He
again went away and returned with the poker.—
lte turned round and gave me another attentive
Irsok, and immediately after lirtiek Price five or fix
heavy blows i.n the head. At the fit ft blow his
hest! ci Eta I don't I:now w hether the tillers
hit him. as he had done it, he again
turned and I- k.. 1 at rue, but I lay fill a' though
afleep. lie wen; snit and hauled the dour
b.ttly after bun, but did wit lack it. clis limn as
he was gone, I got Lp, g.-.re the rl.trm, and the
priinner WAs 1-CClired.
James C trran, atirth-r pennonel. fle'erilssd
flax in which lie found ate thczaied ; his head
wa' beat in, and, on esaniiniaz tine p 'ker, there
sv..s blood, fume ire:r, and a ini.l.lpie,:e brains ,
or it. . . . . .

The prifor.er, in ticknee, (:d, that the
r:ies were in a confpir.:cy him. The de
ceafed. h: f.tid, had come t doer with the
poker in hi. !lane, and avern;,:td to (bike hi:n with
r, bat that he wrcncLl it frt.rn him, and give
him a knock rn the he J w:C:. it. He added, that
niter the ac. ident the an had undrclied
the -het-eared, And l.ul hum is i.it bed, to make it
be believed that he, the bid murdered
him fleeping.
The jnr), withmt a mrar.7:-.e7.11:.7..atirn, found
Guilt;• Ord the ; idge pructudcd

ltrimelataly to rronounee the fentenct of the law.
lie t tha: h: never law a cafe of clearer
malice, or or.. more chocking to tine f,:elings of hu-
manity. leamcn had in general a high
cede of hcn our, and would revolt from the thonglit
of inurde.ing a fleeping enemy," far lets a rneff.
mate .tnel companion. He then pronounced fen-
'ent, that the priforer fhould be banged and dill
feted.

The prlfoner feemed very little affefted, and ex-
hibited ilrong lymproms of a brutal and favage
nato.-e. He appeared about fifty.
Mary Lcvett Rood alfo indifted for murdering
her ba lard child, at Cranbrook, on the 3otli of
November, by throwing it down a privy.
Mr. faddy Rated, that the prifoner lived fer-
vant with a Mr. Bonnick, a miller, at Cranbrook,
whole honfe was kept by his filter. The prifoner
was ohferved by that Lady to be very large about
the month of November left, and cn the 3oth day
of that month fhe had boen to :he privy, where
the Raid a long time ; Ate loon afterwards went
there a fecond time, and on her return to the
houfe fhe was very much difordered ; at IA the
coddled to her millrefs that (he had milcari led,
On the sad of December following, the parifh
officers had notice that a child was floativ in
the flream over which Mr. Bonnick's privy flood.
The child was immediately taken out and exa-
mined by a profcflional man, who pronounced it
to be full grown. Whether the child was born
alive or not he could not pretend to fay ; but
rpon the teftimony of that Gentleman the caufe
mull depend.
The Learned Judge cut ells caure very 116:4
for as the Surgeon could not noilertake to fay the
child was born alive, he tlirefted the Jury to ac-
quit the prifoner.

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