The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-04-07 00:00:00

MURDER AT PETERSHAM.

Richard Wigirp, a watchman, of Petersham, was
indicted fur the wilful murder of Itobert Knight, on
the 2sth of March, by shouting him with a gun loaded
with shot. The case excited a great deal of interest.
Mr. TURTON conducted the prosecution, an.l called
the witnesses, who stated the transaction nearly in the
same manner in which it had been already represented
so recently to di:. public. •
The prisoner was s man of respectable appearance,
was deeply affected, and received x most unexception-
able character from an immense number of gentlemen
in the neighbourhood, who spoke of him in the highest
possible terms fur humanity.
11 !r. HOLLAND and Mr. ADOLPHUS were for the pri-
soner.
'1 he case went to th:• Jury under the Learned Judge's
directions, and they immediately found the prkoner
Guilty of Manslaughter. He was sentenced to six
mouths' imprisonment in the County 4iaol.

SOMERSET ASSIZES:
MeRDER.

At the last Assizes, at Salisbury, agrious and MU
Ham Cox were indicted for the murder of Joseph
Strong, in the parish of Box,on the 25th of November.
.1 he deceased was a pour man, who ri sided tit
Kingssiown, in the parish of Box ; his wife tool; in
washing, and Le was in the habit of going to and
from Bath nit!' the clothes; he was on his return from
Bath on the evening of the 25th of November, wilbia
a quarter of a mile of his own house, when he was
brutally murdered. That the prisoners were the per-
petrators of the horrid crime depended on the dying
declaration of the poor man.
Ann Norris said, I recollect coining in a cart with
the deceased from Bath to Kingsd.own, on the 25th of
November ; it was dark before we left Bails a short
distance before we came to Kings own we turned from
the new into the old road, which is by the aide of the
other; the deceased was then out of the cart, and a
little way before ; 1 immediately heard a noise, and
became alarmed ; when a man jumped into the cart,
and, with a bitter oath, demanded my money ; I said
had none, or else he should have it; he said, give
me what you have got ; 1 told him that I bad none ;
he then demanded my coat and handkerchief ; I said
I would not give it to him, and was going to crvl,
murder, but he put his hands before my mouth, and
prevented me : lie then drew out a pistol and a knife,
and holding them against my head, he said he would
blow my brains out if I made the least noise. Ile
then jumped out of the cart, and said " Tom, there is
nothing for us." I never saw him afterwards, and
heard no other person. I then called master, several
times, but received no answer. I listened, and heard
him groan : I led on the cart till I came to him,
when I found hiss, lying on his bark, and his head
covered with blood ; he said, give use your hand ;
►

tried to lift him up, but could not ; lie fell back again;
and I then fetched his wife.

Mrs. Strong, wife of the deceased, said that she
asked him how he was on the Tuesday, and he re-
plied that he was very ill indeed. He said, " that
William l'ox was the man that did him the
injury." She said, "if you think pu are dying,
I hope yon are happy " He answered, ,4 I urn
as happy as a Prince; thank God for it !" Ile

said this jest before he died. She was sent
for about ten o'clock in the morning, and repeated
what she has jest said ; he said he should die;
he repeatedly said so, and was very sensible on
such occasions ; he told her that the injury had been
done in the old road, just at the spot where she blond
him ; he did not state to her bow it was done, but
that William Cox, of Afford, did it. [During the
I first examination of this witness, she became so over-
powered that she Linted, and was taken out of the
c girt. She was brought in again, and again fainted;
she was brought in a third time, but on neither of
these occasions would she add another non' to her
testimony. She gave the whole of her evidence very
reluctantly ; it was supposed that grief at the remem-
brance of her hnshand's fate had deprived her of ut-
terance ; this opinion was pretty general at the time,
till it was discovered that she was actually to have
been married on that day to another husband, and that
it was with the utmost difficulty that they procured
her to attend the Court.]
Joseph Bartlett said he overtook William Cox on a
Sunday, while Strong was alive, at Batheaston-bridge,.
as he was going from Bath to Kingwood. A Cotner;
sation arose between them ; and the witness swore to
certain expressions of the prisoner's which formed
ground of suspicion against him. When thil evi-
dence was concluded, the Judge said t:oole was no
evidence whatever to affect tiraciowst7ax, and directed
that he be acquitted.
liradoos Cox was then sworn, and gave Ptiitente
which tendril to show that though he and his brother
were near the shot, they ha./ no coi,vera in the wanks.

Vt
- • •

Mr. John Long, of bionkton-Yarleigh, deposed
that there had been another man apprehended at
Bath for this murder, and who was to be tried at the
Somerset Assizes, on whom the suspicions of guilt
were very strong.
After a considerable time the jury returned a ver-
dict of—Not Guilty.

SOUTHWARK SESSIONS.
Yesterday these Sessions commenced before the
Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, the Common Serjeant,
the High Bailiff, Alderman J. J. Smith, and Sir Wm.
Leighton.
The Cosmos: SZRJII.OI7, in charging the Grand
Jury for the Borough, congratulated them on the ex-
treme lightness in point of number and crime, of the
Calendar for the present Sessions, the state of which
dirt considerable credit to the police, there being but
sixteen prisoners, and of these there were but three
cases of felony, the remainder being common outrages
against the peace.
Daniel Jefferies, a youth of nineteen years of age,
was convicted of having stolen a flitch of bacon, the
property of Mr.Oram, a cheesemonger, in High-street.
The prisoner was sentenced to be imprisoned for one
month, and to be once publicly whipped.
Three lads named /Vaughan, Parsons, and Hogan,
were convicted of haring stolen sonic lead from an
empty house belonging to Mr. Pearson, 31, Fore-
street, Horselyduwn. They were sentenced each to
be imprisoned one month, and to be twice publicly
whipped.
In the above cases the Court gave special directions
to the gaoler that the ceremony should not be a mere
matter of form, but that the correction should be ap-
plied in the most effectual manner, so that it might
make a lastinl impression upon their memories. The
Court expressed their determination to try the efficacy
of the timely application of corporeal punish-
ment upon juvenile offenders, since mere confinement
seemed to have 'lithe effect in arresting their career . f
crime.

and took them into custody. Oa being isiftiledo
flambee of picklock keys, a dark leathe l
rs, aad a elap
bar, were found upon them.
The Court sentenced Richard Josses to six
and John Jones to three months impriseamset.
On Thursday, a man who has a stand andel Ike
portico of the Pantheon in Oxford street, for thaw,
of baskets, &c. *as indicted at the instants if the
parish for a nuisance.
Edward Francis, who stated himself to he gi §g
Spector of Nuisances," said that the defendant had kw
some time past occupied a stand under the place la
question, to the great annoyance of foot pallangen.
He had been repeatedly told that be would be balky
for nuisance, to which be paid no attention. ki
cross-examination he admitted that the defendant kw
been several times before indicted for the samesehnt
and acquitted. The Jury returned a verdict 0f...4
Uuilty
J. &nab, late a Serjeant in the Ouse, ib
dieted for assaulting Serjeant-major Middisteaaf do
first Foot-guards.
Serjeant-Major Middleton stated, that on them/ming
of the 17th of December last, he went' to the sett%
house, and saw the defendant them, who, asked him
if he did not owe him, the Serjeant-Majer, a shilling
—he replied, he was not aware that he did t uhe, de,
fendment immediately called him a perjured mesh a
d--d villain, &c. and then struck Isis' tieleeihlme it
the face, with a stick. Several witnesses teriskeestei
the Serjeant's statement.
The Jury immediately found him Osiky, aid tie
Court sentenced him to 14 days imprisonment, is ths
House of Correction, and to find sureties foy his geed
behaviJur, for three years, in his own recognisance.

LONDON MARKETS, AWL S.

~~

COTTON.—The business done in Cotton no Friday
and Saturday last was extensive: on Mob.* the
quest was checked by unfavourable accounts from List,.
pool: since which this market has been in a livid
state; the whole purchases by private contract ilk
week not excreting 41W) bags. The %Vert India desnip.
Lions sold at lower prices, the Sea Islands at a fusilier
able redaction, the boweds supported the presioas go.
rency. The accounts from Liverpool, received flit
morning, continue very unfavourable; no business dsisg
this week; the market changing from extreme 1t .
ness, to total stagnation. Purchases of Cotton esa le
made In both mark..ts congiderably lower.
SOL+ 11-1 hr demand for Muscovades this wsek*
hero very considerable, sail any good Sugars et WA.
Inners have gone off freely at rather higher prices. ?Si
forenoon a public sale was brought forward; it 1111110.
rd of 423 casks British Plantation Sugars, Tobago sal
l)emrrara descriptions, the whole sold heavily, bet th
liarket cannot he stated lower. The Refined satin
continues to improve ,• the request for export has hes
very considerable, and, as few low goods appear at Dir-
ket, purchases have been made of goods deliverablenne
weeks hence. Lumps have advanced Is.
COFFEE.—The public sales of Coffee early IN in
week went off without spirit; the Jamaica and Dew
rare descriptions nearly supported the previous priers;
St. Domingo, Havannib, and Brazil met with as par.
chasers, and the whole quantity was withdrawn tally
Is. per cwt. under the late currency. The mute te.,
mains heavy at a small reduction in the prices.
RUM, BRANDY, owl MOLLANDS—Tliahass
market continues exceedingly heavy, no fortber.olo
tion can, however be stated. Brandies and (Isere
are still in the same languid state as far some weeks
past.
0113.—8 y public sale .n Tuesday—l2o teas Set*
era Oil, sold 211. ss. and 21/. 10s.; a few lots 211. Us.
and 221.-20 casks Sperm, 621. ss. a 6.V. 15s.
TALLOW.—The market remains in the same
state as for some weeks past, no reduction in the
can however be stated—Town Tallow is to day void
50s. which is the same as last week.

I

I

r

We bare the pleasure to inform the public we )tars
contracted with the Lords of the Treasury for a New
Scheme of 20,000 Tickets, in which there will k the
greatest display of Prizes ever presented to them. Ws
have to apologize for the extra delay of a few dim
occasioned by the arrangement of a Plan with tit
Treasury, by which the Cost of Whole Tickets is
ie
tended to be Reduced to 14 Guineas each, Sixteesdn
to Tv !NTT SIIMLINGS, and other Share• in proper.
Lion ; in a day or two we hope to advertise it at fell
length, when schemes at large may also be had at all
the Licensed Offices as usual.
J. & J. MIVEWRIGMT,
37, Corohill, 11, Holborn, 1114. Heyserkil
SUPPOSED CHILD MURDER.—A considerable Pensaties
was excited yesterday in the neighbourhood of Pimlico,
by the discovery of the supposed murder of a new-born
infant, by its mother. The following arc the mow
stances under which the discovery was made. A woe's,
nearly forty years of age. residing with a laundres
B s, is
Little elgrave-place. Pimlico, had, for some past, beta
suspected of being in a state of pregnaney, and was ac-
cused of it ; but at first she denied the fact. Saber-
quently, however, she acknowledged that it Was 90. 0.4
Thursday night, about twelve o'cloelc, a woman, 'sista
confined to her bed in the house, heard some one stem
in the lower part of the premises, and shortly after +r
the reflection of a light in the yard. Supposing that
there was nothing particular in this eircunistatice, too or-
tice was taken of it, until yesterday morning-
e.,rlr, sties
it was discovered that the woman hefore alluded to, ss
ill, and there nail a great alteration in her appearsam
Suspicion fell upon her, and she was questioned.
blur'
fused to give any answer, and an officer was sent isc.
who searched the yard, and found a new-born female He
fant, apparently of full growth, and a reinarhablyi"
child. On inspecting it, he found a large coetusitia so
the back part of the head,but no other mark of riokace.
A surgeon was then sent for, and be and other ear"'
enced persons had no hesitation in declaring that t".',
woman had recently been delivered of a child. %ea
refused to answer any questions, and confirmed to
trt
worse in health; and the surgeon declared it nosldea
danger her life to remove her. Some parish eonstahll
were therefore directed to watch her alternately, Pm
she should recover sufficiently to he conveyed Isiste,s
Magistrate- A Coroner's inquest will be held epee il'e
body of the child.

MARRIED.
On Thursday, last, Dr. Warburton, of orwa.
Bond-street. to Ann. eldest daughter of JohnCllf Alterttl4,
Esq., of

by.
Citillelh

DIED.
On the 3th in. at her brother's house. Newinan's-row•
Lincoln's-inn-Gelds, after a short Illness, Mra. illateb
aged S.
On the 4th tilt_ at Barisedoes. whithar he had gone for 111
recovery of health, James Bowden, Esq., or 110"1:.
3119111111..
Early on the anornieg of the 6th 'nat., in Sew Dloittit'
street, I ries P1e....111,30090'ha Reet.,eged 70.
Loudon Edited. Printed, and Pubilsnett at the OD& of
" TM' STATitill•es" and" Tilt COS 7, IUT1110" (#lll6ll
Paper, 114. Synod, opposite tit. 4 leimest's 000'7
by R. WARDELL. Jun. 1.1.. It.: to wh,,as a:t ot•
cations, Orders, de. are requeoetl to be 3.14r...5et.