The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-07-21 00:00:00

• MfaRLER HORRID MURDER!
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(Prom an .dinericasi Paper,)
NEwrowN (tinsvex County), JUNE 2.--Our Conn
has just adjourned; we had a very busy Session
and ( am much fatigued ; but I must give )ou she
following account of a trial which took 111
;t:,, at
this Court', for a !milder, which, for atrocit) n„,k
unnatural cruelty, is perhaps unparalleled in the
nals of the world:—

A Man by the name of CornefinV A. cute, and his
I wife, were botlr indicted, at this Term, for the "'t.
;der a Agnes Thum', the mother of Cole's wife.—it
I was done on the Is:h December lust, and-the eels o.
very never made until the 19th last month, %h".l Ise
body of the deeea ed was found under the II or of
the house u here these people lived at the time of die
untv4er. They had•Movedue ay Into Ikrgen a nev.ti,
or two after the murder, where they were f,k,,,,
brought back to this place for trial. The wif of
Cole was convicted upon the plainest evitimco (grin,
cipally her own confession) and contliMmed to be
executed, on Friday,• the 26tb of this month, Cow
was acquitted of the murder, but plcaikl,kiilly to
auotl er in•liciment against him ter couceal:egs it, any
was ti.ied 250 dollars, and sentenced to live years
solitary confinement at hard labour in therithtliorkoio
Cole's wife acknowledged that she struek Per mother
in the head With an ex-, which knocked her doWn, and
she th.in cut her throat. The mother's Own was frac.
tared and beaten in, so that the pieces of bone settled
on her brain, and her thr Mkt was.cut quite through tie
windpipe to the neck bone. • Cole was in bed, he
says, asleep, but, was awakened by the noise, ate!
staking up, saw hi< wife busy cutting the throat of
the deceased. • Slte then wanted him to put her tr.
der the goer, which ire refused,' and he says she I;y
till day-light, when he and his wife put her-under the
• floor in a kale, where there wore somernatoes, soil
covered tee body, up with. ranee s:c.ingled ash I,
and straw. TAP fPtttttan,
,tll6 Monster in w""""'s
shape, had the hardihood and resolution to re lain
hi the house a whole week ante, white her hushaud
was absent at New fork, end •her murdered m ,ther
was lying under the floor, and. o'er whose mangled
'.anti Weeding corpse she was .to tread every
time she passed out from aqd Wu the house.

Figt,.ALout two o'clock on Sunday morning
an alarming file broke out at the house of Mr. Flood,
printer, in High-street, Canteihniy, which in a short
time exteiukd its direful influence to the adjoining
premises on brith sides. The gefierat coach-ottice, a
building composed chiedy-of tin- .r, soon fell a sa-
critice to the devouriut -element ; two er three other
houses sulft•ced maternal. ;. but, by, the assistance of
the inhabitants
~ aided by the consisting of
detachn.ents from the depofs i t the vicinity, who
• formnd a chain of elontection from the" differeht
pumps in the toww, it wits got-ender about ,h o'clock.
• A tort time since,, in- the. vieinitt of IMAM, a
parish which was but tititly inhabited, and the ef r-
oman's salary not very large, he visited them but
once a fortnight. This they comialnitesl of to the
clerk, who, telling his master, tear d. sired to lc-
quaint them, that If they won'd gild ten pounds to
his salary he would come Once a week. The fart..
ers held a consultation, and' unanimously 'agreed on
the answer, ,which was, that if he would -elate ten
pounds in his tithes, they would excuse his coming
at all.
Gturromy.—Saturday evening a jcifirneyma4
• weaver, -22 years of age; Undertook,. for a trill*
: wager, at a public-house, in the tieighb-ulhood of
Brkk-lane, Spitalfields, to eat three pounds of at
bacon, four quarts of peas, and a three-penny loaf,
and to drink two quirts of ale and a pint of gin, in
the space of forty minutes; be set down to his meal
twenty minutes after seven, and cleared the w•ole
. five minutes sooner than the time allowed, to the
astonishment of every one -present. Several bets

were depending upon the issue:
• On Wednesday last a private of the 6.1 d regiment,
of the name of Webster, in attempting to descend a
! a Short distance the awful and tremendous cliffs at
High Down, in the Isle of Wight, about2oo yards
east of the Signal House, loSthis hold, and was pre.
cipitated to the bottom, a distance, it is supposed,
of about 030 feet. A boat containing some gentle.
men, who were making a tour of the island, and
were going by water from All= Bay through the
Needles, to Freshwater Gate, happened to pass
within a few minutes of the fall, and immediately
carried the poor sneerer, in the boat,' to 'Freshwater
Gate. Surgical assistance. was procured wiihout
i delay, and the suppoCilW/ is, nat the' unfortunate
man may recover ! Areputatiqn of. the, right arm,
which was most dneadfulli iprekeii, was about to
he performed, witen•the Gentlemen left Freshwater
Gate...
•.-••• • , .
Tke French •Mhister of Commerce and Menofac-
tures, in a circular of the:l2th'olt. commun!mites to
..the Prefects of the Depteitinents, art imprivid pros •ss
for the extraction of Stiptr fronr, beet-rOot, invented
by one BontnatiOn. It is calitiinfed; ttlitt the. pre-
duce of lo49po:acres'efleA-root 4111:yield avian-
• • ... • .. • .
tity of sugar adequate to..tho. total consumption of
Prance ; and very. near this ezdeot, it is said, has
been planted in the course of the present year..
To Intr.Gotrxe.---The following article is coVed
from the Mary of Linitmus: Having been brought
to the point of *death-by the Olt,. in th'4" year 1750,
he (Litintus) was: cured by ehriilh Wood •strahlor-
i ries he ate every.seaseri as *tick of ,ttils.fruit As he
could, and as his stomach would'hear; by which
means he Auld riot _only eAraPO.:lll'e- Vat enOrelY,
but also, from sOdoing, deeite4 more bvne6t-,0;311
pthers from drinking mineral4baters, and got rid of
I the scurvy, which every-yearlendered him ,heev.Y.
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. . •31Attlt11;.1)..
I. At Cliftort Chnreh. the-Ref. Mr. lirttilford, iM. to Maeda,
I daughter of Bdtknid lValtuot,•ll4.--of Clifton. •
On Saturd:ilklatt, Alr...Thotrout !N'tlykere•h 71:
; of Frond', Newbery *f )+t. roureh-yord, to 1.1
hithrlh,,dtOightgr,..t'lrilliant Sutton, .Leq. of Caney Hatay
t hildeleira. • ' • ' ' • '
flit the Pith iost. at Bntlicigh, Devonshire, John T:tan.9rant
'Esq. to Flizabeth, cutest datighter Of the late ,Vaul
WArtkillaibi t rrq. •• • • • • . .

' - • di g tf.
00 tbe 1911 inst. kt hii resldentie, in- Spriepprdens; Da if;
Itenst, I*IT. nett St: • - -- . . 0 . :
.oas Sostordetoladokaged4lo Imam. 04 ilikhouse in Wnrrewen"4l
Filesol.smare,
,i)avid A 1100,041, M. b.
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