Star.
London, England, 1829-08-19 00:00:00

EXECUTION of STRATFORD the Murderer.

Norwich, Monday, dam It
This day at noon, the malefactor Joke Stratford aid.
feted the penalty of the law on the platform erected on the sum*
of the Lodge of the New City Jail, for the murder of names
Burgess • and great numbers of persons assembled to witseas the
execution. Every window front which the sight of the pawn
mild be obtained was crowded, and the battlements of fit Giles %
church (the tower of which let for SO presented numbers of spec.
atom

At nine o'clock, Messrs. Stevenson and Prontt, the Sheriffs, and
Messrs. Staff and Newton, their Under-Sheriffs. arrived at the
prison, where they found the unhappy object of their charge en.
gaged in his religious duties with the Rev. C. F. Millard. the
Chaplain of the gaol.
At ten o'clock the prisoners (debtors and criminals) were sum.
mooed to attend the Chapel; and when they were seated, Stratford
was conducted thither. On his way he beheld the platform, and
no ped to take a steady survey of it for nearly a minute.
the Rev. Chaplain read the Meech service in an impreadve
manner, and then delivered a discourse which seemed to make a
strong impression upon the prisoners.
Twelve o'clock having nearly arrived, the Sheri ff•• and the
dicers ofiustice proceeded to the room where the prisoner was
sv engaged th his spiritual adviser. The executioner boned his
arms and wrists. During this ceremony be behaved with on.
common firmness. and frequently declared that his sentence was
just. The melancholy procession then passed through the inner
court-yard to the lodge, the Clergyman reading. at interval.,
portions of the Wrist service. The prisoner walked with a firm
step, but he looked much paler than on the day of the trial.
When he had ascended the steps and gained the summit of the
lodge. he knelt down for several minutes upon the steps attached
to the drop, and prayed fervently, but never at ticulated a word.
At length he arose, when the Rev. Chaplain said—" Well, &rat.
ford, have you anything more to say to me relative to your friends
or otherwise?' "Sir, I thank you, I don't think that I have for.
gotten anything."
The Chaplain then told him to kneel down, which he did, and
the former reaa a prayer which be bad composed for the occasion.
The prisoner at intervals exclaimed." 1.011114 pardon mine iniquity,
for it is great I Cause, stretch out thine arm to save me!" itc.

After this be was again asked If he could think of any mute
he wished to be toads lusown ? He answered, " I believe have
said all—my work is now almost done." He then approached tie
Sheriffs, and thanked them for their attention to him, and the kind
exertions they bad signified they would make on behalf of his
widow and children. He dies shook hands with every person
within his reads, and having ascended the platform be resigned
biniseff to his fate, and the drop fell.
After his body had hung the usual time it was conveyed to the
Guildhall for public inspectioe. ; and to-morrow it will be trans-
ferred to the Norfolk and Norwich Hu-pital, to be anatomised,
porsaant to his sentence.
The prisoner was bout at Poswick, four miles from this city ;
and in that village his lather, who is 90 years old, lives to lament
his fate. He was a smith by trade, and supposed to be the most
ingenious mechanic in Norwich. It is said. tott, that be made the
iron work of the scaffold on which be was Ilse first to suffer.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.

Awe Raymond, a decently dressed woman, was brought before
lg.. Alderman ANILIT, charged with attempting to convey above
a gallon of gin and a quart of rum into the Debtors' Priscin.White.
cross-street, yesterday ftorenoon. Rogers, the turnkey, produced
the spirit in sit long bladders. The prisoner said she had been
urged by her husband's distress (be being a prisoner), to commit
the offence. She cried incessantly. and the Alderman being affected
by her grief, and learning that she had ten children at Mine, user.
drolly mitigated the term of imprisonment front three Months to
fourteen days.
HAT VON-GARDEN.
Yesterday Send Josses was charged with stealing from the shop
of Mr. lileklier. High Melbas a piece of calico, It yards in length.
She was immediately apprehended with it in her possession. She
was lolly committed for trial.
M At L BO ItOUG a-STREET.

Zfinkith Ryden, a lady most ekvatly attired, an embroiderer.
residing in the vicinity of Piccadilly, was yesterday brought before
the Presiding Magistrate, H. M. Drag, Esq. charged with vie.
Witty assaulting a young woman in her employ of very respectable
appearance.
Anne Lawless, the complainant, stated that she had been en- .
gaged as journeywoman to the defendant. Yesterday morning,
without the least provocation, the defendant threw a tumbler at
her,and otherwise assaulted her ; and she Immediately applied for
the assistanei of Goddard, an °Meer of this establishment, who
took her into cpstody
Mr. Deaninnukid what the defendant had to my?
Mrs. ikyoki replied that she did not deny the assault.
The Magistrate ordered the lady to put in bail.
A groom named Jain Davie, who bad described himself as
having lived in the service of Mr. Chitty, the Barrister, was charged
with the following cruel assault.
A genteel-looking young female named Mary Ann firers, re-
siding in Greek-street, was the dmiplainatit ; and it appeared that
on Monday evening she was returning home along Regent-street,
accompanied by a friend, from the Regent's Park. when the pri-
mmer came up to them and seized bold of Miss Ivers,dedared that
she was his wife wbd had eloped from him, and insisted on her going
home with hint. She resisted ; and Surfing be was determined on
andOyiag her, she ran of towards lltchborne-street. The defendant
pursued her ; and as he said it wu is a man and write sparreillug,"
no one interfered for her protection. On overtaking tie poor girl
be beat and kicked her in a shocking manner, and almost tore her
clothes off her back. He was proceeding to further acts of violence
when he *as secured by the watchman. He retorted an the com-
plainant by declaring that she followed him as a girl of the town.—
He was committed ie 'default of bail.

LA M BETH-STil HET.
Yesterday morning three Irishmen end two women were placed
at the bar, charged.with being coucemed in's riot of *nom mur.
demos description, which took plate List everting in the neighbour.
hood of that sink of iniquity, Wentworth-street, Whitechapel.
From the evidence it appeared, that on the previous evening a dis-
pute arose between some Irish, and the thieves with which that
neighbourhood abounds, in the skittle grounds of a public-house to
Thruswl-street. After the most abusive language the parties came
to blows, and mimics of every description were interchanged.
The thieves having the worst of the affray,likipatcbcd a messenger
for assistance, but their opponents were by no mean. behind-hand
lu procuring auxiliaries, 'and the row became nut only general but
must destructive, few of those engaged in it escaping without some
personal injury. At lingth the disturbance assumed' to tearful ail
appearance that almost all the shops lu the neighbourhood were
cgised, and it bream:. necessary to call in the assistance of the
Three of the Akers of this establishment, assisted by the
chief constable of the district. hurried to the scene of action. and
succeeded in quelling the riot and secueing the prisoners. It ap-
Oaring that two females were so severely injured as to endanger
their lives, they were on Monday night sent to the hospital ; and
the prisoners, each of whom burr the marts of their wartirei
Identified as having taken an active part In the engagement. and
with assaulting the Milker, two of them were ordered 'to pay Si.
each, or suffer two months' imptionment : and the other three to
find 1044 Vent hall tor their good belt iviour for three months.
UNION-HALL
A few-days k.i) several firemen complained at this Mice that on
a recent occa-ion, *hen a Orr had broken out. and they had ap-
pliid for the whose ot the parish of Ctirtitchurch, the person who
had the care of it reflimil to permit th,m the use of it.
Yesterday the.stratchhou.e-keeper id the parish mated tb..t the
asurehwardeus bad given eiders that the engine should not be
taken out in fire day time.
Mr. Crumbles said that such a regulation was absurd, because
fires took plsce in the day as well as the night.
The Churchwardens said they were willing that an arrangement
should be mails by which the logine should beat the service of the
inhabitants of the parish by slay as well as by night.
Mr. Coastlines was surprised •tba engine should have been re-
fused at any time, 'and the parties withdrew.

11AltRIED.
•
At Brackley, Notthamptunshire, J. W. Cowley, Esq. of Buck-
ingham, to Xlizabetb, Only daughter of Thomas Arnold, Easi. of
the former place.
-At Spring l'ark, Walter, Burke. of Burkeville, to Julia, only
daughter of the late Walter Nlatale, Fog. of Rouuslfseki, county
Galway.
At Drumsolien Church, Dr. Kind, 33d Regiment, to Hannah,
eldest daughter of the late Wm. Beggs. of Armagh, Seq.

DIED.
At Paris, 4vls Matiasetion. aged 24.
Ie Nurtbaiiiptoii-:quire, Peter &akin, Esq. 75ti year ot
his age, 00C of the
Illerrlos.eiluare, Dublin,
'or tier age, Mar-
.ee 'from Ilse United
Sclatibses.
I:etrtibnr' Wit albs' efa°
Orme% Ma 11. Pleltemplags, Tent* Sr.

his age.
lir. John POlviarth. sen. in the 8241 year of h
Oldest itduibliiiitt's of Piitillco.
At hit 11b6et In fleitiiMism-street. Bierr
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Sad, irdeg do;liblerof Johi CAW,
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