The Statesman.
London, England, 1824-01-02 00:00:00

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MARIO' ASMAKM.--(II3TIMPAIr.)•
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'•••Triffore Mr..Jitstsee MEL)
,4ohn.SWaptetd. 'was put to the bat, on itainitintment
ithsiii?iitle Vitt iseitV baiting feloniously and
eetiltre ttrthli.irtfasi of Mary Bonsai, in the Pansh
of
St (twee's. Southwark.
311..hiiitsiiitifted the ease. • •
Mariannetsvender iiworn.--Lines, in Tiverton Street;
hoes/Mary RonsoLashe Was a widow : she is dead ; she
reeisliorentir is/illicit; she died on' the 13th of October.
k Coffin' sworn:--Alts." ildesbl was witness's aunt;
stir !Wet is London Road; she is dead.
lisints'Ree'ree deposed that he is clerkto thelifsgistrate,
OlnimberS -'took dawn correctly tile depositions made
he Riad. ;•tbey were read over before Mrs. Bonsol
andlale priioner. Those handed to him are the same
seliitdi We took down.
(Treks-examined by Mr. ANDREWS.—She was several
stein • examined at Union 11411 —believ•s it was Mr.
&ba4tbers who took all the examinations on the case. The
bookieln Conn, and can decide it. Mr. Chambers took
be eitaroinations on the 151 h of September. On the 30th
MK-Allen was the presiding Magistrate, and took a
snintee of a statement made by her. viz. that her house was
• barred, an4l had not been insured; under the flute of the
Ws of October, there appears a marginal note, importing
ttsot•tthe ;sorties were hound over to prosecute at the
Aisizes.• The depositions of :llrs. Ronsol, now resul in
Canrt, were made np of declarations which bad been
made by her at several times, and in several portions.
Sow Mrs. [tenant affixing her signature or mark to the
deposition. The original statements of Mrs. lionsol were
taken down by witness in the office-book. The present
eersrisition is a transcript of these several statements.
: [The reading of the deposition was deferred.]
Henry Cuthasli sworn. Lives at No. 11, Loudon Road.
is a cheesemonger, within four doors of Swatbeld's house.
Rimiembers the 13th of September. Was in his own
hoose afroat 12 o'clock, went out some time after ; saw
liweffield's shop open, returned to his hoose, beard a cry
pi. -fire, went out. Swatheld's house was on fire. Wi:sess
• leafier open-the shop door ;• found fire in the back part of
'the eitap, remote from the gas-lights. Assisted in breaking
crop _the. private door. Saw the prisoner the Monday
followieg, atoms o'clock near witness's house. Mr.
Aisveffiedd Altai katl wits ese for his assistesice in suppressing
the fire a'. his house host night, and for imputing the tire
:to him (the prisonel;- witness denied that he bail said
Ilset.he was the nut in Woking open the door, and that
'the firs was in the hack part of the shop. Swaflield
seplistd.no. that the lire corostseticed shove stairs, and that
Ile knew the house eau on fire twenty minutes before he
(prisoner) left it that night ; witness said " would you
take _goer with of it "r" , There was pole sly present when
Swalield first came and spoke to him. There was a crowd
efts/wards. Prisoner was. (rite- indignant at dhe. idea of
• hie being suspected of setting pis Louse on fire. .
S.reissisitnined-71115 words were as neatly as witness
• rreollects. " it must be the upper part of the house which
.117-0 took fire." . .
' (lento Walussly,• a pawnbroker, lives next door to the
• Orfroner s house; saw the fire; S3O/ the prisoner the
following *Men 'ay in the London Road with embus!,
he ,rd him ply the hoose was on fire twenty minutes before
• he left tlivisonse,seal that the fire eoinmenced above ateirs;
duel not recollect whether .Mr. Cstbash made ails. (oter-
•v•slion•ots that ; there was a instilled' of persons present ;
"be. tenet t say whether prisoner's words were the fire
• west have barn above stairs, and it mist hasebeen twenty
initiates Wore he left the 'moats." Mr. Swathe'd said be
knew that tbe honsemes on firesirenty minutes before he I'
sent air +y: • . .
Cotlntsit reossamined.—Witness• was opposite to
Mr, Swelfield's boos, at. 12 o'cfork that night ; the shop
was ones, and lightest like the other shops for the purpose
of business; went away; beard the cry of fire souot 20 ,
Minutes after.
Henry Garrott is a watchman at the London Roa•l,
'heard a cry of file on Saturday night ; it was Mr. Swat.-
_field's; Moose that was on fire; saw persons breaking oper
Mc *lslip door ; sou' some butter fists in the back part of
'the shop on fire; the roam inside the shop was on fire ;
the lists were near the partition, which divides the shop ,
from the room'; remained very near the lotto. until three ,
o'clqk in the morning; did not see the prisoner come ,
ti• at the house all that time.
• latish Raker tires at No. 22. London Road ; his house
ja sitnated within five doors of Swaffiald's; was present .at ,
• the fire; the shop door was shat; assisted in breaking it ,
open; there was smoke in the shop, but no fire ; assisted ,
lo b ~aking the door of The hack parlour, saw fire ell
. 01.0110 the hack parlouto; the flames were breaking or
had•broken intii the hack ST the shop from the inside
' prisn': assisted in lifting al boy op to the window of the
firs: floor; Vie boy broke the windows, and got through
. jhem into the house; the flames afterwards wade their
. way through the ceiling of the slop to the upper part of
:4 the house; *rent with constables into the Ilona. s
• -days after e— fire; a constable found • candlestick in the
4fornis,'in the back part of the house; this 'occurred not
.Ibore than ten slays after the night of the fire; that part
of, the ruins where the candlestick was found by the eon-
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stable;the firemen bad not been digging lei remained at
*._the fire until four o'clock in the morning; did not are
• the pritoner there at all that night; the premises are deep
and narrow.
•-- James llarridge sworn.—Keeps an eating house in the
London Raid; lives next dour to Swaffield's house.; there
•• was no gas light for some time past in the back part of
• the house; the gas light in the shop is six fret distant from
Abe partition, measuring toward the shop door.
• Cross examined —ls not interested in this prosecution ;
does not defray the expenses; never. said that his testimony
a :you'd convict the prisoner, and abut he would bet two .
t'. vine's the prisoner would be convicted; dues nut mum.
. saber:to liaveSsiiti so to a .person named Plant ; might.have
.'s 1011116; dla AOt to his knowledge; does rot know that hr
• sinpressett ,an opinion, or oiler to make a wager oa the
i:d tineviption. •
41 •• Josiah Shergold swornols a night constable of the
aSititey SSE Road ; was present at the fire for ah nut four
• stt bronverneerea we_ atm -prisoner there; took him into
•..susleisskiendity falowing, in the pres,nee of a snob, whip
were topisting."4 reproaching him . with having wilfully
~.1; np4 Isis baiter on hie.; in. the watch house prisoner said the'
..tairetasounneneed above stairs. Witness warned him sot to
iopy• nil thing. that would criminate• biro, as he (witness).
yousidered 'this duty to report it to the .11agistrates. Pri:
saner then staid. he knew time house had been on foe 20
,minutes before be' left it that night. The prisoner in the
upurse of, conversation, told him be intended to 'Ake* house
~jas Wmliog Street: it was lucky for blot he had heeo•is-
,.. Awed at mcloas trilliog sum fur three years at time same
. gatfiCe ; Hai he- feast a considerable quantity• of goods to
, inconsistent, with; does not think the prisoner's words
weres• fire uses' hare been 20 minutes above stairs
before gawked belov ;" his impression was then. and
now, i,s„that ttse prisoner said he knew the boase was on
fire hstore he left it.
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• _William Johns.everns-ls centiliter ; Rini** tbe etanstezl
, i tileliliosaatlsi in ronduotingthe prisoner to the Watelshouse
eso, s:oti•lisy; while in the wetehhOuse, prisoner asked her-
metopes presence, what was the charge against
;often Shereold answered, tbat the molt charged bins
"r wials,setting.isis house on tire ; he said he knee, tilse fire had
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ceseinieneeld above stairs 20 minutes before _it reached the
19wer part, bisergold advised him, (sotto say shy thing to
crinuneie Idluself: Prisoner *4 kid been. insured,
;;Loeitily* for jails. There was a 504 ;tidy of arinitables
sasetorii the house keep oft the mph to preservi the,pro-
.mirtty; asiti-Isat.ta penpreetor from endeae.otilng
sewn' ts it.goods, not sorttibe.,'Rcjeone, tstere
• •tkight.•,'•ite tisinki that vii prisoner's ezpieasidis ere
'ma that the fire aka Asia, kit tlait the phloem keen the