The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-01-25 00:00:00

'‘,l3-LTU R DIA JANUA R Y 25, 1823.

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a guard of one of the North country cosrlies, in pass-
ing through Biggleawade early on .1 Intraday morning..
that a fire was blazing at Woodley Cottage. the seat of
L. W. Pottieger, Esq. and that after the destruction of
the house, the stabling hail caught fire. however,
turns nut that the lire broke out in the stabling at two
o'elock in the morning, toroo,zli the carelessness of a
youth in setting fire to some stray in the loft where be
slept. 'fne stables sod coach house were in a short time
a heap of rain', and a strong mourrly wind n kat
eel the flames to the honse, the interior of which was
totally destroyed:- It had been pttrclsstett sad' fitted up
ley the owner, last spring. in an elegant-style,. aod was
imared fora trifling sum only,

kW.. suit SYDNEY died en the Scaffold I"

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Faunal. -
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I Sittings at Nisi Prins.
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FALSE IMPRISONMENT. • .
: , Comae v. wiling.
I ist ti ri oiYm opened the pleadings.
t rant Pew. stated the case. —At the data the trent-
hetion took place.the plebs:if lvas on infant, and ap-
prentice to a Mr. Pitt', heeding at Lambeth. On the
plight of the 24th of Attest last, the defendant called at
the boast of the plaintiff 's mother, and gave plaintiff io •
harry of a watchman, toe having been.concernettin s
eatery, shortly before committed on the premises of
he defendant ; the plaintiff was accordingly carried to
fo
!he ves,chbonev, and there detained until the following
'itioyslng: when: being taken before the Sitting Magis-
trate at Usion Hall, he was immediately discharged,
three not having been the slightest pretest* for the
charge preferred by the defendant against him.
JostylP Wryer--le a watchman. taps beaVis 1p the
Lambeth NeW Cat; on the 21th 'August last, t e de- '
Pendant requested witness to aceompany him to the
house of plaintiff's mother in Robert Street, Lambeth
Mareli ;It was about II o'ellck ; witnese.weet with de.
tfendant, who knocked at Mrs. Coke's door, and en her
-answering, asked for her son ; she said he wasin bed ;
defendant requested to see him on particular business;
plaintiff got up immediately; defendant tailed him to go
to 'his house with hint; he mild so; defendant then
oiserged plaintiff with having robbed his honer. Plain-
tiff said hr had warned defendant of the intended rob
tarry from a soispioious conversation he hail overheard,
:between some persons in a skittle ground, hut denied
having bad any thing to do with them, of he should not
have told defendant of the conversation.' An officer them
entered the r own- and asked plisititiff fir one of his
shoes, which he immediately took off autlgaTe bin?: tiolt
officer and defendant then went with the shoe to the
heck Part of the how, and when they churned defend-
ant gave plaintiff in charge to the officer, who not having
litnelooffs, tied a handkerchief ronnil his waists and took
lint towards the watchhonse. Phsintilf was asked, to
give op the names of the prisons between whops the Con-
versation passed, which he had ovetheartraitit related to'
defendant: plaintiff expressed his willitignese ets do so
if he knew their names, which he den iediarieg +impugns
mi with. . . .
Lip's-examined by Sergeant . rheiGHAN—Believes
plaintiff lives near defendant ; defendant's house had
been robbed a few nights hefure to the amount of 501.
Of COL ; plaintiff told defendant that his, reporting the
causal:yin:a boiled overheard as a warning, did not.
spree with the probability irt his having•been concerned i
in the robbery.
Awn Cook—le Mother to time plafntiff; her eon id 2f/
years 'lige; lie is an apprentice to ilkirolit and albeit
chaser; iettiembers defendant coming to her hooween
the night Ogee 24th. of A,ogpst last ; .(wit rinse corrobo-
rated the evidence of the watelittian) her son was asleep
lathe time; it was a Saturday night; he was detained in
cuttingly until the Monday morning feillowing. • '
'flint. bataford was with plaintiff an themight in gees
tion at the Nelson's ahead, in Nelson Stphire, Black-
friars Road ; it was a Hireling of odd fellows ;, emote
mind him' on his wa home far as the Coburg

ase.;Xaroiatest by Mr. Sergeant V a ucitatr.—His
been an odd fellow for right months:- knew sky boar
Yrom having heard th'. watchman call the half hoar;
witness believes the plaintiff to have been the only odd
fellow taken np that night—thought it very odd.
William Pius.--la the master of the plaintiff, who has
been his apprentice for six years anti a half, during
which time he had conducted himself pith great pro-
ptiety.
.Ir. Serjeant Vat:GRAN would not deny the importance
of the present case to the character of the plaintiff;
but he thought, that when the Jury had heard the case,
they would have a very different opinion of the bearing
of its merits. No malice had been imputed. witch less
proved, against the defendant ; and it would seem that
he could not have acted as he did towards the plaintiff
but in error; for if not to malice, to what other cause
could the charge made against the plaintiff be attributed,'
if not to error in the defendant ? I!tlach emphasis had
been laid upon the communication made by the plaintiff
to the defendant, as having been made immediately after
it had been overheard, but lie should prove that such
communication was not made until a fortnight after it
was known; and what was the inference to be drawn
from that circumstance? Why it was this. that the
plaintiff was the associate of certain fellows (not the
odd fellows*thatThad been alluded to), and a party with
them, to a proposed burglary; he, however, thought
proper to split, and save himself from all ill conse-
quences of his evil association, by disarming the plaintiff
! of all probable ground of suspicion of bring concerned
in the actual commission of the robbery.
At a quarter past three o'clock, the Jury returned a
verdict fur the plaintiff—Damages 3111.
His Lordship directed that the name of the Land-
lord be forwarded to ttte Licensing Magistrate of the
district.

CONSIS fORY COURT, FRIDAY, JAN. 24.

RAWILIN6 AGAINST AIACYIE, FALSHLT CALLED IlAfrXINs

This was 4 causeof nullity of marriage promoted by
the husband against the wife, by reason of her having,
at the tint* of her marriage with the party proponent, a
former husband, who was then still living. No defence
was made for the wife.

Dr. LusittNurost having read the evitlence both as to
the fact of marriage and the identify of the parties,
Sir Cnat,Totmea lioniNsom asked hint how he
meant to de'tl with this sealed paper that bad been
brought in ? . _

(Tills paper contained the deposition of Mackie, the firs
husband, to the facts above stated )
Dr. Immo:B2.ox apprehended :t toight either be car-
ried into the Registry in its present state, or be destroyed,
He recollected a cue in the Prerogative Court, in which
the former course was pursued in respect of the depo-
sition of a wife %ho had been examined to her husband's
interest.

The COURT said, the doubt in the present case arose,
because the witness was the first husband, and was now
deceased. The Court's predecessor, however, in a former
rase, did admit such a paper 6. de bear esse". The fact
was, that tor* might he most important evidence cum
tained in such a deposition which the Court could not
get at from any other source.
Dr. LUiIIINGTON reminded the Court, that in all pro-
secutions for bigamy, it was customary to allow tile
second wife or the second husband to be examined, in
order to prove the injury ; but the first husband, or the
first wife, was excluded from giving evident e.
Sir C. liontmsoN then recapitulsted the circumstances
of the case, which merely went to establish the facts of
the first and the second marriage the id -wily of
Mackie. with Elisabeth, falsely called Hawkins ; and
the dates of the two marriages. The first tuirriage of
the party with Mr. Mackie took place in 1809. The
second or•pretended marriage with Hawkins its IS$ll.
Abundant evidence was addaced to show that at thislatter

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PRICE sittst

' period Mackie was still alive :. and up"-• dierpreofs add
decal, the Court felt itself bond to peouitaile4 the Pei-.
tenest.of tie lave, that the wards. of Ells. Mackie Witt(
,Hawkise was null sad void.

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WiII'ESSION OF A MOST NOTORIOUS OIN/
FENDER;
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Out readers. will reoollect; that answitg An last gs
of uoimppy criminalsmbo expiated theft offences with
their lives, at the Olt Bailey, were two yoga' mon,
naified FraAk Pvrdom and Win. Corbeet, alias Frain*.
These perking, it nisralasi be remembered, were con—
victed of a burglary, and stealing to a Wee amount int
money, ie the Bine Anchor public hawse, kept by a mob
named Crawley, in Blue Anchor-Yard, Rosemary Lase,
. a home which had been long a notorious flash bane, set
place -frequented by thieves, and whore them/ men add
soma others succeeded in carrying off dmk wbole sten
jeddek tbryoblisantad. am apart for tbw proem of bill
brewer the next day. In the accoaate twee it dui
newspapers of the execotlow of these guilty men it wad
boated, and .truly, that Pardons to the last denied being
in any way concerned io Crawley's robbery; though bso
bad been is the peblie boom several times la the course
of the Sunday evening on which it was committed. It
was also at, the same time elated, that he confess/iodise
I the Sheriffs that " he bad been a very bad fellow," ant,
that lie deserved to die by the band of the extend/met.
though not for the specific offence ot,which Im hadissmA.
tiiutid guilty. how truly his wvarhardened and soli
r p,,
condemning conscieoie might ' ltha to admit that
Ito have been Ma desert, within . -xfrons the !oboe.
ing minutes of his etioftsilon,ta to sown from his own,
liini..lay one of iht'wgzdama who sit op with bins, and
Isis sabappy, pupae/ is iinity, the night previous to
thoiiiir ezerution , outs. • . •
We Anil Jay'befoie readers this narrative in the
writer's prig pbraieology.end ',dingy add alfew observe-
"
d' to riOl.l°44olool4it wilitlit appear obscitro-or but
darkly hint' ,tit. • ' -.. II
" a Topa. COPT,OF VIE noire ~.OP MAWR PURDOX •

•ND W. COIUMTT, .wince TOOL. PIACI TSB NUM?
,partopr. :Tom wiscurtoti:i— • • •

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" I remained in the cell, No. I, with the aboveinee-
tianesi.auea :and J.ltoitette Oxeillited4or robbing a p en-
down oti Tower•Htily 'When we • (himself and kis
brother wardsmen) entered *wee'', Wm. Corbett made
tee of the. horrible espneesion;• •May his soul never'
outer the kingdom of Heaves; if Purdom and hie bro-
ther Joseph (Corbett) were not totally -innocent!".
Purdurn, in answer to this, said, if he (William pot-
belt) had st.ted that at the time of their trial they would
have heen acquitted, butte wonld not do it, hitt esidea'J
enured to tong him •(Purdorn) and save timself.'—;
Kellam-theta said, g if he was efec•eod be should bit
marderedi not but that he deferred hanging rdetv*
years ago.' lie then went on to State that he hedbeed
guilty of every mime imaginable—Ore murder! He
sato that thewomau whoop he lived with swim not hi(
wile, but the wife-bf bit'coodie, aka that' by hili (Par-
don') she had three chili:leen, out of which three the
eldest is now living. The yonngest diel &ripe Ire
father's confinement in the cell, but ifia to the mooed
Andy*. diihtislof 111104 rat kids. •
" He went onto state asfollows :—That *lien the child
was about four Mont!', old, he was obliged to coactal
himself for baring ',early Jailed a man "whom be bad
r.,bbed; and during his concealment it house belnest
cruelly beat the woman above spoken of; and *ben the
infant was crying, he took it by the arm and threw it to
the oth.r end of the room against the wall, making use
of . the Jierfiblo exsression, ' there, you little go to
—l'aftes. which he said the child breathed no more!
". He also said his cruelty to the woman (the mother
of the murdered innocent) ought to have buog him, but
he had escaped the hands of justice (for that): He said
at that present rime there was a watchman who bad no‘
been out of his lied for eight months, through hia (Par-
doni's) haying he,ten
He also stated that the gentleman who was a clerk.
and who was rol6ed near Whitechapel 6014, and died
afterwards of his wounds ;he declared that' was con-
cerned it, and was a long time out of the way during
the disturbance, and while the band bills were out,
whereby his Maj..sty offered a free pardon to any *team-
plice giving information, and a large reward for the
apprehension of the murderer or murderers.

" I then requested him to allow me to pot it (the con.
frssinn) to paper, and asked him if he would sign it ?—.
Ile s,id ' no,' nor either did he wish any mention tube
made of it until after it was all over (meaning his exe•
cution) ; but he tl:en wished me to communicate it to
them whom it was proper.
' I then asked him if he had any thiag else to com.
menicate ? He asked Corbett what he had done with
the remainder of the 400 sovereigns which he had to his
share, there being only three of them in the robbery?
Peirclorn continued, that he ought to have been in it, but
they put him in the hole (watchhouse), Corbett said
h.' had only 1781. 144. left, and that he had made over to
Mary (the woman with whom he had lived). He said
the concern which they was here (in Newgate) for had
cost him nearly 6 )1. Purdom then said 'he (Corbett)
(slight to lavehetn sent to for his hiving pet him
(Perdom) int he hole, but he supposed they should meet
there together.

" 1 then rrad Jiff-rent prayers to them. and Robert.-
advised Purdoni ani Corbett to confess the ws.ole to tie,
and then they cool I devott the remaining part of their
time to prayer. l'urdout then said there had been greet
exertions to find nut the perpetrators of the murder of a
woman, and that a parish officer had made great exer-
tions to find it out, but without sarersm.

"He then clasped his hands and fell on his knees, and
hoped Clop ivould forgive him fur having mingled his
bands with the blood of so many. lie then went into pray.
er, and when they heard Mr. Barrett (a turnkey) cowing
to unlock them at five o'slock in the morning, they all
tell on their knees and thanked Goo that their time was
so near at hand. They both (Purdom and Corbett) then
wished me n..t to mention it (meaning these confessions)
until all teas over.

(Signed) " RD. TAYLOR.
" To John Wontner, Eq. Governor."

The above may be depended upon, as far as it goes,
as conveying a true sketch of what tl.ie unhappy man
uttered in the presence of the persons appointed to at.
tend upon him during the night and morning previous
to his being cut off from the number of the living. It is
indeed awful. to contempl.te the short but too Success-
ful career of guilt which he had run. for at his death be
was not more than 27 yeers of age; though for a long
time lie had been known to the police as perhaps the
most desperate thief in London, and as one r. i o it was
supposed woul•l stick at nothing to prevent his falling
into the hands of that justice which at length so fatally
visited his enormities. •
The watchman allotted tQ id the above confection wee
au ai man who had made hiniselt obnoxious to Pardon
and the rest of his gang. hi Watching theiniotions and
not nhfretinentif defratirrjr their °Orations. On this ac:
count they one night attacked tbcii victim in a body, and