The Statesman.
London, England, 1824-02-10 00:00:00

THE, • SSILOSMAN

was *tailor, who also kept a grocer's sloop, to Sitini t'he
ilsolvent stated he paid a debt of 1031.425. Mid., due to
him for tea and sugar. -The iaselvent some time' fter
called on Mr. Butler, and told him he had gold out his
stock and paid all his other debts, and had 10W. left, with
which he would go to gaol and live jolly.
Vile COURT adjourned the rase, and directed the insol-
vent to produce tile paper* relstietro the sale of his stuck,
and the tailor and grocer to wile lke paid the bill.
POLICIP

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BOW-STREET...--DARING 1111;0811R1r.--.40hri Adam Hen-
ley, a young man about five and twenty, was brought to
this office yesterday on a charge of stealing a watch, two '
gold seals, a gold chain and key, the property of Mr. 'reek, '
salesman, in Castle-street, beicester.square, undee the fol-
lowing circumstances :—Mr. Tuck stated, that *bent eight
o'clock on the Saturday evening the prisoner came into his
shop, and asked to look at a watch. A silver one was shewn
to him, and the price demanded was font. pounds. He said
he liked the watch, and that if it was approved Of by a
friend whom he would. bring to look at it, he would be-
potne a purchaser. He tiett'weitt twist* fet
el s friend,
t til
lout returned in an bout el alsaiT'alone. I sked_Mr.
'Mock if his friend had been ? and, on reeeivinie an answer
lln the negative, he expressed surprise, sad-observed that he
had left him playing at Insgatelle at the C9ach and Horses,
in St. Martin's-lane, bat thought he had come in: He
then asked to look at the watch, to 'Which s sold chain
and seals were attached, again. Mr. T. hatideCt to him ;
but suddenly, while he appeared to be exeinipttiat, be
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threw a handful of snuff into Mr. Tuck's eyeab .
Fortunately, Mr. T. escaped the injury inteided. and
cashed out after the prisoner, crying 11 *stop tbief." Me
saw the prisoner running down Castle-street, but before he
bad gone far, he fell with his bead against the pavement,
before he could get up he was secured. Ilia heed was se-
verely cut by the fall. As he was running, Mr. Tuck saw
him throw something from his hand, and on going to the
spot, where this was done, he found his watch and part of
the gold chain, but the seals and key and the remainder
of the chain were gone. It had been broken off, no doubt,
by some of the passengers treading on it.
The prisoner, in his defence, told a lame story aids
baying been seised by accident for another person; but
Mr. Tuck swore positively to his identity, and he was
fully committed fur trial. He is a button maker by mote,
and could earn 24a. a week by his-business.
UNION-HALL.—A stout looking young min, named C.
Johnson, formerly in the employ of Mr. Archibald Harris,
of Enfield, was charged with tue wilful murder of his fel-
low servant, James Richardson, on the 29th of June, 182.1.
A fen' days after the death of the deceased, an inquest
was held on Isis body, and a verdict of wilful murder re-
turned against the prisoner, who, it appeared, had inflict-
ed several dreadful wounds on the thighs of the deceased,
with a large scythe, which nearly cut his legs from his
holy. The following witnesses were examined—
Samuel Bricksett sworn—The 29th of June, 1821, be-
tween one and two o'clock in the afterooon, I was reason-
ing from dinner in company with the prisoner, Charles
Johnson, and the deceased, to a field of clover, which ige
had all been mowing for Mr. Harris, and as we were ask-
big the field, the prisoner said to the deceased, he would
lay him a wager. that he (Johnson), had a toot
swarth to mow than he had; they had tome further
upon which the deceased swore be would strike t 1
Boner, if he continued to vex srtl 46: him. 7'
soner ;brew down the - 'the, • told thr
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plated it up, a.. api tb,
oath swore he would eL ds legs no.
and would leave oir annoying him. A tbia.a,...
Mantling. near each other ; the Prison, truck the
with the scythe across the upper part of be thighs, nh,
belly. The deceased fell backwards, exclaiming; at ON,
Lord! oh, dear! you have killed me." Witness then ran to'
Johnson, and said, " look what you have done; you hal*
killed the man! are you not ashamed of yourself?" 'To
which the prisoner replied angrily, that he wouldwerve
any man so who meddled with, or provoked him. Witness
then went to fetch a horse and cart, and on his return from
the village lie found the deceased lying stretched on the
grass in the same place where he had fallen, completely{
drenched in blood. The scythe was lying near the.de-1
ceased, but the prisoner had absconded during his (the wit-1
ness's) absence. Deceased expired in a few hones. At
Inquest was held on the body, and a verdict of wilful
murder was returned against the prisoner, and a resessed I
offered for his apprehension. Since that time the wilful,
had not seen the prisoner until lie was taken into custodyi
on Saturday.
. James Williams, of Hadley, near Enfield, deposed, that
on Saturday afternoon last, between two and three o'clock,
he met the prisoner in the Borough, near Sr. Thomas's
Hospital, and knowing biro to he the man wl;o stood
charged with the murder of the deceased, lie had him taken
into custody.
John Kinsey, a constable of the Town Hall, stated, that
on Saturday afternoon, on the prisoner being given into
his charge by Mr. Williams, he asked him if he was guilty
of the murder alleged against him. The prisoner replied
" yes, I am," arid without being further pressed, be gavel
the following aecouut of the transaction :—" He wee, he Weil
at a held of Mr. Harris's, with four or live other men, whew'
be and the deceased. bad some words, and the deceased threat-'
ened to sttike him. which he attempted. and while lie (the
prisoner) was in the act of defending himself from the blow
with the scvthe, the deceased, by accident,. received the in-
jury by falling on the blade. It was at the--yeasuasiok of
the men who were present, that he left the place, and 4ey
gave him money fur the purpose. lie farther stated. that
he suffered himself to be taken into custody. as be did mot
believe the charge would be made out against him. itml
that he should have given himself up before, bet that be
was fearful of the consequences that would follow. !.'
'Pi. Dualearite-,-.What balm you boemalgigeSCl r
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self since you left your home? .
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The prisoner replied tliat be hail worked for some WI
fora Mr. Coleman,-but that from about six weeks bailie
Christmas he bad had no employment, and was in cease-
qnenee reduced to great want, and compelled to part with
all his clothes. He was a married man, and had a wlfe
and four children, whoui be had not heard of since he left
bis Lome.
- Mr. CHAMBEOS.—Ia there any person present who can
say whether the prisoner was strack by the deceased 4e-
fore he received the wounds?
The Prisoner.—Yes, Sir, the deceased kicked me is a
manner which made me very angry?
Brieksett said lie never saw the 4rceased eltbee
or kick the prisoner during the time they were queer
Mr. CuAMPERS said he should commit the pri
re-examination, and in the interim, Mr. Sawyer, tb
citor to the perish of Eofield, should be apprised t
prisoner was in custody, in orderthat that gentleman alight
appear at the prisoner's neat hearieg.
The prisoner was then removed* At the time o(bia;111e.
prehension, he bad been disguised
MARLIOIIIOI7OII STaCCT--

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wamsesweeesss,
mystery' of his Nth, for which purpose he bad resigned his
Commission. He had only left lteland Id the course of
last week. The Magistrate advised him to avoid such pro-
ceeding for the future, urging him to Ito back Id Ireland,
which, on his promising to do, he was discharged.

CORONER'S INQUEST.

Yesterday an inquest was held at the parish workhouse
of Saint liot Opts, on the body of Jane Rooks, whose death
was occasioned by falling from the window of Mr. Abra-
ham's house in Houndsditch, in attempting to escape, on
the alarm of thieves being in the Louse.
A- watchman stated that at five o'clock on Saturday
morning, he heard a screaming as be thought of fire, at
which time the deceased was leaning or sitting on the sill
Of the window of the fourth story of the house. She
called for a ladder, and he desired her to keep her seat, as
there was no danger of fire or any thing else. She coo-
tiaued to cry out," Fire. fire!" and while a patrol was
gone for a ladder she fell upon her head into the street, and
never spoke after.
-A surgeon found her in a dying state with her skull
shockingly fractured ; she died in about two minutes after
he saw her.
Mr. Woods. who resided at the next door, heard a noise
about five o'clock in the morning, and some one cried out
either " Mother !" or " Murder !" and soon after be heard
the report of a pistol. He saw the deceased sitting on
the ledge of her window with her legs towards the street.
She distinctly cried out." Murder, murder," bring me a
ladder, and soon after fell.
,lames Roberts -,also saw the deceased sitting on the
window ledge. He went down stairs, and found a hate
through which a bullet had passed. A window in use
kitchen was open, but had not been forced. There 'oust
have ten danger in getting into the house, as there was a
distance between the window and the wall. There was no
to tmark, neither was there a tile broken. There was no
ladder nor symptom of escape to be seen.
The shopwan of Mr. Abrahams, heard a noise about the
same lisiur. Soon atter he heard the noise of footsts•ps as-
cending the stairs. One board creaked very lout'. He
then heard the creaking approach his room, upon which he
jumped out of bed and took up two pistols which lay under
his pillow loaded. In going down stairs he heard some-
thing moving about twelve stairs before him, but it was
too dark to distinguish what it was. Witness sold, " von
d—w-d villain, if cos move another step you are a
dead man." and immediately afterwards be heard foot-
!steps receding from him very quickly. Satisfied that it was
not any of the family, he floe', and he had no means of ascer-
taining whether the person was a man. After he had fired
he ran down stairs and kicked something with his foot, and
called out for a light, saying be bad got the villtin. He
descended into the kitchen, which was on the first floor,
and from thence to the door that led to the leads, and fired
off the second pistol, but did not see a human being. He
was the last up, and had fastened all the doors before g
to bed. The deceased load gone to bed before he went np
stairs. After returning, from the leads he went up to Mr.
Abrahams' door, and called for a slight. Mr. Abrahams
opened his door, and the witness took a light which was
horning in oil, bat in his baste be put it,out. He then went
to Jane's room' and cried out, " Jane, for lion's sake give
nte a candle." He heard her say three times," They are in
my rooms—they are in my room!" lie knocked sever.-1
times, but there was no answer returned. Mr. Abrahams
and the witness then here in the door, and the witness got
the tinder-box which was under the bed, and lighted a
candle. She - not then in bed. Upon going .'own
and ri at the door, and

The ..c wai rock
passed through, but from thesingolar situation in which ill
was found, the bullet must first have penetrated through
the stain; an ceiling.
The Conamta observed that, in the situation in which
Staples stood when he fired, the ball could not have
passed through the hat in the manner which it smeared to
have done.
Mr. Abrahams was awakened by the report of a pistol on
Astiirdey morning. On getting up he went to a drawer
Where he kept • pistol and powder-flask, and he beard
Staples-say, " bring a light, a light!" This witness, in
other• respects, nearly corroborated the testimony of
Staples, but said he dial I.,rt know that Staples slept with
pistols under his pillow. Staples kept pistols in conse-
quence of an attempt having been made to rob a former
master of his.
The Colarren, in summing up the ease, said that it was
extraordinary that a thief should have made so much pre-
paratian.to secure his escape.
TheJney,tifter fi►e hours consnitation, returned a ver-
dict. " That the de ceased came to her death i• consequence
of having attempted to escape out of a window in her mas-
ter's !inure, in her alarm, fearing that she would be either
murdered or burned to death."

Cuatous CtRCUNISTANCIL—A few days since as a brick-
layer, was repairing this roof of Mn. Hall's house, in
Tark's Head Lane, in this city, he discovered an adder
lying in a leaden gutter adjoining the chimney ; it was
quite dead, measured about IS inches in length, mad of
mere than a proportionate thickness. It is difficult to
conceive how this reptile could have obtained possession of
the situation in which ►t was found; as these creatures are
-s►ldom to be met with in streets or houses, their natural
abode being in hedges, or dry banks exposed to the sun.—
`(Carlisle Journal.)
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A fatal and most melancholy accident took place in our
river on Monday evening. As the Sarah and Mary, Capt.
Livesey, a Leeds and Liverpool trailer, was passing through
the second lock opposite the Nether Mills, the Captain
isposseetttrwitsice top soon, io 000seetoessea
pf which the writer rustled with such impetuosity into the
vessel as to cause
.ber•instantly to sink. The wife of the
Captain and his two boys, one four and the other two yea' s
of age were in bed. The mother was with great difficulty
saved, but the children, we regret to state, were both
drowned. On the following day an ibquest was held to
investigate the circumstances of this most distressiog ()CM-.
MOM—Verdict. Accidental drat b.--(4.,0de Mercury.)

lIRLANCROLY ACCIDILMT.—On the 22d ult. a man named
°envie Ilastie, a naval pensioner. having gone from A -
' *Won, where he resided. to Whitehaven, for the purpose
rof receiving hie quarterly pension, he remained in town
until the nest evening, when, after purchasing some gro-
.oeriee, be set forward to return home. Not having arrived
on the following 4a7, his friends proceeded in search of
bins, and having ascertained that he was seen on the road
Afcleden after dark, they determined to examine the
%oce, whoa, after a long search, they discovered a band-
Icitief,iontaiolog the groceries he had purchased, lying
of tbe. poth. and about 200 yards from an old coal pit,
'At to the Earl_ of Loa:Wale, which is uncovered,
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lay him a wager, that he (Johnson), had a toot wider of my room I—they are in my room!" lie knocked sever,'
sward] to mow than he had; they bad tome further'worft times, but there was no answer returned. Mr. Abrahams
upon which the deceased swore be would strike the pi:111 and the witness then hare in the door, and the witness got
toner, if he continued to vez arkl irritate him. The p - the tinder-box which was under the bed, and lighted a
sorter then threw down the scythe, awl told the deceased candle. She was not then in bed. Upon going o'neen
to at ' if be dared. Tbst-tleceas;.l. did not litt • - • ri- stairs he beard a knocking and ringing at the door, and
.. - •,,bo"rerga-ioUffseert they took bin.
meets rll4O . . ,- 4,,fr ''.—
soner ran to where it scyt e WAS in: • . • vast an apfaitttolvet
picked it up, and approached the deceased, an.t bath an the witness's own. In the dining-room he saw some
oath swnre he would chop off his legs, unless he were qttliet, .amall articles of• plate, and a necklace which belonged
and would leave olf annoying him. A Its' ••• - -• the deceased lyisg in an apron. A hat was found by
emitting. near each other ; the prisons truck thi • - d ne of Me oMeers dlt the landieg-plate, and there was a
with the scythe across the upper part ot be thighs, • • i e shot hole In it.
1... n.. 'l'l.. dereaged fell backwards, exclaiming; 4 On, The bat wni produced—near the crown a bullet had

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m tiptoe ss a bgloogsng to the Earl •of lionsdale, which is uncovi
car.—Yesterday a military loisbbeg gild without eitlier railing or fence of any kind. It U
been a .Lieeteount in the 57tb, refs., diately occurred to them tbgt the unfortunate man. ie
Hier the following extraordinary err. darkness 41 the sight, had lost his way, and that s
id, as taper, deposed that Da Swig, ormisreg the bogs sod boles, had dropped his ham
we O'clock be saw the Prisoner kneel- Wet, anttefterwards plooged into the pit, which nu sl
'runt, Itegeet.strest,prsying smokier!. hoo bean his enbapff fates tboagb.na traces of the.
perms, and the. greeters sindielop can be4liaceiered. Some years sitter. ' similar ace
testing bhp tio.dgaist it Dgly • gettlereslaeaciterwiek-oposeTweeslcieikere a person, I
way with. greater seergy., --.-• lid tatatfr“ Ir. rode late se ambettated coat*,
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ice. that be bad received. ad. ' IPOt Noble.. .• Deft 14( his brought, so actieweg
I requested his. it, pcograirdii the proprietor of the pit, and retreeredztillol,lateegiei
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