The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-08-17 00:00:00

THE S'TATESMAN.

Iteek.netes in it, kept for the etPl of the family
She lost •bout Nor more porket.books.

day'thst he was in cattOdy. lie bed ordered non-
comrnissi.ned officers to seerch for him.
John Itichardsnn, a serjaant in the Parham llti•
litia, said, that Eden was absent from parade on the
Sunday morning and evening, and the same on Mon-
day. 11. recollected that he found him, he was al-
most sure no Tuesday eventing, at least on Tuesday
or Wednesday. in a pohlic.house in Newcastle. tie
was rather tipsy ; he eat taken to the Guardahouse,
and was in confinement for two or three days.
The ILev. Dr. Grey, ooe of the Actin Magistrates,
said, that when George Wulf' was brought lneforel
the Nlogistrates in October lest, lastly Pest *esthetes..
and two pocket-books were produced, and upon
Lady Peat being asked if she amid sweir to either of
them she slid she could not. lie drew ber attention
to a red and green one as rather resat kable ; she said
she could not swear to it, and said one buck was like
another.
Mr. Hour here remarked upon a hand-hill, peer.
potting to b. a true and full account of the matter,
au l represeotiog that the Poisoners had voluntarily
canter-eta it.
Mr. Baran WOOD suja, that it was highly impro.
per to circulate any thing of the kind.
All the Jore dant hired they knew nothing of it.
Mr. Bunn Wotan recapitulated the evidence, and
wade several rematks on Pe Instincts parts of it.
The Jury retired about half-past two o'clock.—
It was then wronged to call another Jury for the
other Iris!. of motile,. in the Calendar; but his Lord.
ship remarked, that they could not by Is* p dto
'lsisollissr still while a Jury were 'nausea •nors mar.
der. It was at last agreed to defer the other leis'
dll ro•morrow m•rnine, at eight.
At lialf.past fuse o'clock the Jury returned. Their
approsch Picard • visible sensation through•sut the
melli:utle assembled in Court. When the Foreman
pronounced the verdict —6 uiky upon John Eden,
the general feeling enatd no longer be sapprefaed
A similar etpreseion was repeated when Guilty was
announced as the verdict on James Wolfe.- George
Wolfe ea% found Guilty. A female, said to be
filo wife of one of the .Ptisonners, shrieked art a most
agonising tone when the verdicts were given. The
Iwo wrenched ecreticts unmovrol. flentge
Wolfe bowed his bead, anti wet scarcely abbe so
utter, " 1 tbauk you," when he !wand himself act,
'gritted.

lie-ersminetl in ri.i.f.—She had had fregoent *cc..
to 1111.• the prick•t•bent for taking illusive nut 01 it.
`Om bid discharges' Mr. Greottii, the !ittiiiittlr, horn
bringing on a prowstinn.
Mr. baron Woos.—S I the roomier of a poor ier.
Cant girl wee not worth prosecuting.
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Her Ladyship began • speech in reply, which
threatened to be very long, but his Lordship soon es•
pressed himself satisfied.
Diehl Sinclair had been in the service of M •
Mnoncey and Richardson; furriers, its Sontleileml.—
George Wolfe was in the same employ. On Mon.
dev,the 211th of August, witness was at work, but
G•orre Wolfe not nut there on that day. Ildween
eight and nine on Tuesday morning he came to work,
hi; left eye wag black, and his left cheek scratched.
There were three scratches from his eye In his
whiskers. The Prisoner did not say how he got the
black eye and the scratches.
Cross-examined by Mr. 1101. x.—It was not on-
erominon for workmen to be 'learnt on Mondays.—
, Wolfe dill not come on Tuesday so early as usual.—
He eta? ed at the work Amp I:I weeks after. Wit.
net* never saw UM have • black eye before : he had
[ aiveis this rridence Caret in Nosrinber last, when
1 Wolff as 3% taken and discharged, Wit II ilit'lending ,
it's, evidence. When report came of Wolfe the fa.
tier losing been laken, mid being brought from ear-41
lisle, there was a talk in the factory of the black rte
and scratches on Wolfe the son, and enemas remenis
bored it from circumstances.
Mr. Nicholas Fairless. a Maelstrate. proved thel
declaration of George Wolfe, that the book pro-is
dared was the one presented to Wolfe at the time,
and he felt strongly imp d, from Lady Peat's
countenance, that she knew the book, although she
' declined to swear to it. • •
The rumination was pot in evidence. It stated,
that the poriket•bnok had heron his wife's fathelt,
ea hied come to her from her father when he died,
ela years ago, and bad been in her possession aver
eiere.
The evidence now respelled James Wolfe, the
father.
Lady Peat (s Rein) said, the elder Wolfe had been
bye tenant, and ceased to be so in he y.time, in 1614.;
Me paid very badly, and had gone of without pay.
tem, although she had declined to execute a distress
whirls hail been got against him, with the hope that
he could sell to greater advantage. Ile afterwards
said, that he would be revenged, and that he was
not done with her ?et : be said an at five or s'et dif.
ferent times. The house be cited iu was left clo-
seted.
James Shaw, a gardener, at Sandrrlantl. worked'
with James Wolfe at i quarry, about the latter end .
of 1614,1nd remembered a par•icularly windy bight ;1
it was Friday eight; a stall fell down and tilled a
man. On that day witness and Wolfe had a center.
Wien, as it was sorb a cold day, about some having
so much and some so little. Wolfe remarked
how much that b—cb, Miss Smith, had, lid that,
he would think nothing of robbing her horse. Wit. •
ness sail, it would not be easy done, as theen **el
so m. 11) houlev.• Woift said, if-witness knew what ,
was good for hies, he would go with them; he knelt
• hack way by which it was easy to enter the holm*.
Ile ridded, that witueschirl a d.'e--i,il bed heart lie
his belly to be in such poverty. On the next mesa&
ins, Wolfe asked witness, if he had thought epee
it, and made bp his mind. Wolfe asked 'tithe's tat,
go to tabor a view °film house on Sunday, and said Ire
would himself go a pirt •uf the way, hot not to
Herrington. for be should be kmown. Witness en.
gaged to come on %"--y, tritirerin view the hear.
Wolf.? had ;sill, that Miss Smith lied diifreesed him
at moth as she could, and said, " D— her, Irlifie
revenged ; no ono one will be antry;.it'sherlthre
rololted." Witness said, it would beponr rerengweief
put his life in danger. Wolfe said, if he hail othil
two with him, it would be easily done. Witness
said, she would be sore to make •n alarm. He said
he would soon put a stop to that ; if site Sid, Ire
would think it no sin the killing of her. James/
Wolfe, the Prisoner at the bar, was the man. '
Croas.essmined by Mr. llovr.—lfe heard of the
reward offered. When he saw the bill, skiing the t
murder, at a public-house in Essington, on the 6th t
of September, he said to the landlord. -II i
4011
" 11—o it, I know who has been at the bottom of POL/Gfi.
this !" Ile was taken before the Magistrate on the —art—
charge of being himself concerned, aud was bound
.IttarENILF. Dl.Pill ()aloes.
Oyer ; he was soot committed.
John Eden, in his defence, said, that he land netme C uvulae am. —Yesterday' Ir.. Wells and ht.pli
seen James %Volk io hie life, till be was prisoner with Coop., two lads, the oldest of whom was not more
him, than 't 3 mars of age, were brought up before Alder.
James Wolfe said, there was not one word of troth man J. J. Sattru, on a charge of felony.
in whet Miss Smith (Lady Peat) told coocenhing him, , Thn younxest boy (Wells) was
in the employ of
and that be bad neve; seen her since he left the false Mr. Win. Woods, wire-worker, 4, Nowcastle.strvet,
till now. liket.n.athet, and his tonster having missal articles
I George Wolfe laid he was innocent, and katw of some value at dilf•rent times lately, at length brgall
seething at all about it. 4o suspect that lie was the thief, suit wntclind him,
Witnesses were then called for Eden. as he thought, very narrow:y. Notwithstendina,
The ltev. Sir Robert Peat said, that Eden had lin
oo hns w
is ?hich Iron:motion, on
No skit
h cero ng ser stme siJesuilver
been committed about It months since, some time sp the nt ho (t% on
after the commitment of James Wolfe: he saw Eden Saturday, ore tahlr.spunio had diatp;•eored. , 1(
before his commitment : Edeu always declared that was usual wills Mr. no s
d tout giveon Chia boy his
be was perfectly innocent. suprr on a Sotoorday
.night. bsien
Thomas Tarn, Sir Robert's t, was present .lu, left Lis work ratty, and went away without
at searching Eden". house. Every part was readily tat aitiog fur his lotion, which tended still stronger
shoats to them, and they found nothing. .4 to increase Mr. Wortls'! suspicion Laciorditogly„ on
Cross.easimitied.—lt was in December last. roe hil's condom to tarok on Monday morning, be.
Mary Smith trades with glasses, &c.: remembered . sent for Worrell. the officer, mid in his presence
the Durham militia marching into Newcastle on • : taxed him with the theft, which the koy.immeeistely
Satooday, about four year; ago. It was about the : confec.ed, se) inn, he was induced to it by the Pri•
time of this murder. She saw Elen then, sod saw !soorir George mod ten gills of the town; sod that
him neat day between ono mid two o'clock. Ha was I lie had given the ,1,...n to n•• of the girl,. Wells
lin liquor then, very Brook. Ile stayed till the Mort. I was acewtliiialy scot to l' se enmpter. and before his
!dry morning. She soil her family fiord wit!. him all ramninatiiiii;'Arne artjeViDelay. ;he t,ffier hod secured
the time. Sbe must have known it if lie bail left the George. and the two girls. named Anne (Vllifts anal
boose. She had befit then a widow. I .Nary llarreg, and he otrahtthem in 'us-orly Co the
Cross-esainineri. —ller mother and daughter, and ./2111V.fn011,. ' Well; ecknowleolged that he luid
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two sons, lived with her. Eden was to have married molds'd bit master several Shoes, that George tolnl him'
'ber for her second hoshatod, hut it MS4 riot her lot. (ordeal wilt he creed, diekting mg,, at she same ti"
The Jury here wished to have two witnesses called ;Is bring what his stele Alm Its hop (Geoige) or to
respecting Eden's ablest. from the regiment, and this girls, to whom be lostroduced him, and they
they were called. . would dispose of them ter gilts.
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Serjeant-Nlajnr,.Simpson said, that 'he recoltedetc . WheitGe‘ore., vibe is abosis.boy with Mr. Roper,
Eden being reported absent on the morning anal even. enriersiiiiih. Smssa•bill, 0F4•14.114•440•ftti1.1,111 lewd
log parade cn the Sunday. and the Wee on Mond 'Y, the de•ectims and confession of his ciomp..iion ; be
and slid 11.4 wee hien till Folds', but to the beat or I.i, •140 confessed that he bad been is she 4 I.llst i•it bolsi*,
bele it wee relrerted to blot on Wednesday or Thurs. of steitile the a.. PI fete the wareli.mise ever siure

.4.
Mr. Baron Woon prnnonneed tfe awful sentence
to this effect ;—" John Eden. aid James Wulf',
you hue been convicted of the crime of wilful
murder, one of the greatest crimes which map tort
commit, a crime penishable wills deaths wet only by
the laws of Ibis land, by! by the law of sus/ the
voice of nature. In your care, surd!, was also at-
tended stills aggravited iircumeaniev. You com-
mitted lite mo Orr 1.. entivilifbrOkftig joie a house
at mi and rethhiwg It of meets property ; ind
to conceal 11,r carder, tea set fire to the borer.—
Such ail arromiii•iiiiii of crimes bus bun seldom
liesrd of, air, I h .v will never be beard of spin in
this country. One ..1 you, I ern sorry to ob. ,
seemed to hate considered and planned the act inme
time before, end it seems es if psi determined to
carry it Seto elevation st all Outs. The other of you
seemed to base determined to kill Miss &Mitt, if else
bad been there. Nothing seems to. bse interrept•
ed you in your nefarious course. (James
.Wutfe
Isnre exclaimed, " I em clear es*Gut in beaten.")
—But 'smiler seldom pusses undiscovered or on.
pessi,hesl. By the Providence of Cod, cistern.
stances wetted which have brought your crier* to
light, and it is now my painful duty to pronousce
you punishment, whith most be quiet into caeca-
tion. I hope yea have repented, and continue to re.
petst, tritest varnrsilY recommend to you to. apply
110' prey,' to God for that merry in assetber world
tintsiels min cannot give you bete. Nothing now re-
'mains for rue to do but in pronounce the **fel stn.
fence which the law ortjsins fur your crime. That
sentence is', dist on Monday ant, the 1611 i of Au.
gust, you be hangid by your necks ilti yno ere dead.
and yeser bodies afterwards given lobe dissected and
soeuseised-; and may God have merry ow your
souls !"
J.hu Eden wools., faio enter into furrier protests-
lions &t his inaprencv, bet be has cot allowed. As he
us, led teat he looked tooards assumed behind the
duck, and he Was inoncent, he had never seen
the man, sad he hoped his cite would be h wtrni: j.