The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-07-25 00:00:00

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enter the street frost the corner of the new way. They
were arned with sticks and pieces of paling. She saw
Mit:anis), with a draws sword. which he held above
his head. Witatss then identified M'Carthy and Itoebot-
tont, and said that she saw all the rest of the prisoners en-
raged in the riot. She did not know them the morning
after the riot, because she was so flurried, but before the
Grand Jury she roco!rnised them.
Cross-esamined.--She saw some persons with pokers
and shovels going into the Almonry about the saute time
that she saw the soldiers.
Samuel Ashtou lodged in the same house with Mr.
Cogle. At about 8 o'clock he saw some soldiers come
from the New-way. lie seas at the time at the top of
Orchsrd-street. -Seeing the soldiers coming, lie ran to
Cogle's house, but some of the soldiers got there before
him. There was a man in a drummer's dress in the
centre of Cogle's passage leading into the kitchen. lie
made a cut at witness, missed him, and hit Mr. Cogle on
the side of the head. Mr. Cogle fell down Gn the side of
the drawers. Witness went through the kitchen down
into the yard, aml made his escape. He could not tell
bow many had entered the house before him. He knew
none but M'Carthy. The drummer was railed by the
name of M'Carthy as he was going down Orchard-street,
and he knew bins by this circomst.inee.
Cross.exatnineil—Before the soldiers came lie had
been out 2or 3 minutes. lie saw no persons with sticks
or any thing in their hands. He was now its the watch
and clock line. He bad been in the Coldstream Guards,
and left it two years age. He had once been confined
for desertion.
Thomas Cheff was a private in the West Middlesex
Militia, and lodged in the deceased's house. At about
9 o'clock on the evening in question, he was standing at
the deceased's door, and saw a number of soldiers come
up the street. lie saw Wel:lotto's: stet M'Carthy among
them. He heard someof the soldiers cry out "These are the
b--y h--s, and we'll let them know that tois isWaterloo day."
had known Itoebottom and M'Cartisv before,bitt only
personally. To the best of his remembrance, Roebot tom
entered logle's house first followed by 11.1*Carthy and
two others. Roebottons hall a piece of railing in his
hand, .31% 'artily had a naked sword, and the rest of the
other soldiers hail sticks. He could not recognise the
three other prisoners. lie saw Ashton stain, close to
the door on the inside. M'Cartlic write a cat at Ashton,
missed him, and rut the deceased on the head. Ashton
got away, and MI 'artily made a second underhand blow
at the deceased. live the first blow tie:- deceased fell, and
as he was fliitig irby struck at hint a second time.
The soldiers came rnshing in, and witness ran up stairs,
and fainted away on the bed. Ile hail :cceived several
cuts, and the blood had flowed profusely from him.
Cross-examined.—lle said nothing :,bout M'Carthy
before the Justice, as he was never aiked about it. He
said nothing about the blow which, Cogle bad received.
Re-examined.—The deceased was nut dead before
this examination took place. 31.Cartlay was not then is
custody.
Elizabeth Irving also lived in Orchard-street, and
stated that on the evening in question she saw some sol-
diers beating a man. She could not recognise all the
prisoners. She had kno.en ArCarthy many years, but
did not know him at the time.
John Jenkins had lodged months in the deceased's
house, hut at the time of the riot lived in St. Ann's-
street. Ile saw the soldiers come, and Pal*: particularly
Thomas Lee take up a vone as if to throw at bins.—
Witness said, " My dear It .lase, if you knock others,
don't knock my brains eat." Lee then dropped his
hand, and let the stuns fall out of it. Mrs. Cogle then
put up both her hands, anti saii: to the soldiers " My
dear men, nobody wants to hurt von in this house."—
Lee then pushed her down, saymg, " V A infernal
old b—r, What JO you k • al.ont it.- Ile saw a Mail
about 5 feet ts or 9 inches in k ogle's passage heating a
man. The deceased put up Isis hands, but never spoke
a word; and than the man of 5 feet ?4 or 9 inches aimed
a blow at Cogle, amid h, wert down. The man wh•
aimed the blow was dresse.l in a white jacket. The sol-
diers were beating Patterson in the passage; witness
then ran away ; he jumped over a fence, two walls, and
then into smother street.
Mary Ashton 10.:ged in the deseased*s bowie; she was
1;110,•kill backwards by the drummer; as soon as she
fell, the drummer hit Mr. Cegie upon the head with
Isis sword; she could not reconise any of the prisoners.
Joseph Cooper, an olli,•er of gneenolisare, was sent
for while this dis:urhance was going on: he arrived on
the spot at about a quarter past eight, and saw a number
of-soldiers running the cry among the people was—
" Those are some of them running to St. Ann s-street ;"
he first saw Hardy standing over a man, and in the act
of striking him : he did not arrive at the deceased's
house heforellw fatal blow was given.
Mr. Stephenson was a Louse-surgeon at Westissinieer
Hospital. The deceased was brought to the hospital
between right and nine o'clock on the evening of the
ISth of June. There was a wound on his bead two
inches and a half in length, and half an inch in breadth.
The skull was fractured. The broken part of the bone
pressed 'loon the brain. The man lived till the follow-
ing Friday. lie died from the fracture of the skull and
the bone pressiug upon the brain.
Mr. Anthony White, another surgeon of the hospital,
deposed to the same effect.
Here the case for the prosecution concluded, and the
prisoners were called on for their defenee.
MiCarthy professed his intnwenee, and pot in a paper
as his defence, which was read. Ile only interfered be-
cause one of the men of the battalion was dreadfully
beaten by some young men who nail been playing at
mashies. lie drew Ins sword, but hit noboay. He him-
self was atritek several times. The cry was—" You
bl—dy lobsters, if von won the battle at Waterloo,
yen shall not win it Isere." Ile was very fiercely attack-
ed ; and if he had not drawn his sword he shourd proba-
bly have been lie never saw Cogle the deceased,
to his knowledge, in his life, and had never offered to
strike him.
Richard itoebottom also put in a written defence, cor-
roborating the statement of M'Carthy. He was struck
over the head, and received a blark eye. Time rtme
areal crowd, with sticks and other w a•nins, and he was
knocked down, and Licked very badly while on the
ground.
'file three other prisoner also gave in written de-
fences, all of them of a similar tendency.
The following witnesses were then called for the de-
fence :
Meredith Dobbin, a private in the Grenadier Gnarls,
was on the Intl: of June last in company with Raelot-
tom. In the evening lie was at the Marquess of tiranhy
public-house; and as he was going away there were
some young men playing at marbles. Roebottom was
tipsy. As they passed along, a man called out " What
do you kick the marbles for, you bl—Jv lobster
One of the men then began to strike Roebottom, and
witness returned back to try to get Itoehottom away.
A man then came up to him, and asked him, " Do you
call yourself a man ?" Witness said " Yes," and im-
mediately be received a blow in Isis face. lie then be-
gan to take Isis own part, and four or live fell upon him
at once, and Fot him down. He was knocked down four
or five times in this manner, and then fainted away.
Sarah Taylor lived near the Almonry ; her husband
was a labourer; she stated that on the evening in ques-
tion there were many young men playing at marbles
near the Almonry ; she curs oborated the former wit-
nesses' testimony ; she saw Roebottons terribly heateu,
and abe was much alarned; she washed lioelsotham's
face irons the blood upon it.
Cross-examined.---lioebottom jumped out of her bark
ishlow when he heard shat tiu,e it was ; and he.rinr

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the cry of murder, she weld and looked at a neigh-
bour's clock, and she found it was fie minutes past eight:
she did not go before the Coroner's impost ; this was
the first day of her appearance.
Thomas Stephens, a lance-corporal in the Coldstream
regiment ; sergeant Wm. Child, Samuel Church, of the
Coldstream, and George White, proved to the same ef-
fect as the former witnesses. The latter witness swore
that when Alleartby was in White's-alley, near the Al.
mony, a man came up to him, and hitting him in the
face, attempted to draw his sword. M'Carthy said, that
won't do, and he afterwards saw him running up the
New-way. M'Carthy was the last of the body of men.
It appeared to him that the soldiers were running after
some men who were making a disturbance.
Several soldiers were then called, who proved the ri-
otous disposition of the inhabitants. A female witness
of the name of Pullen proved that the comrade of
M'Carthy, who was walking by his side, was struck by
a man of the name of Jenkins (one of the witnesses ex-
amined for the prosecution) with a pitchfork. She also
proved, that just as the soldiers went into Cogle's
boost., M'Carthy ran down St. Ann's-street.
Elizabeth Flyn proved to the same effect, and added,
that none of the soldiers, excepting M'Carthy, had wea-
pons on that day.
Josiah Ashton, drum-major of the regiment in which
M'Carthy served, proved that on the evening in ques-
tion, the prisoner was present at a quarter before nine
at Knightsbridge-barracks. At that time time the roll
was called over, and M'Carthy seemed to be calm and
collected.

The evidence for the defence here closed, and at
o'clock Mr. Justice liolroyd began to sum up the evi-
dence. At about 10 the Jury retired for about half an
hoar. and on their return found a verdict of " Man-
slanchter against MiCarthy and itoebottons," and ac-
quitted the three other prisoners.
The trial lasted for nearly 13 hours, and the whole
or die time of the Court was crowded to excess.

Cumnust.L.—Saturday, about eight in the morn•
ing, as 31r. Ruse, auctioneer, of Church-street, Old
Jewry, was passing thS spot where the new offices
were erecting upon the site of Old Blackwell-hall,
he observed two men come out of the court leading t.•
the !dings with two Portland stone chimney jambs.
Ce followed them to a house under repair in Bread-
street, Cheapside, where, having seen the pair of
iambs safely deposited, he returned and informed Mr.
Coleman-stren, the builder employed by the
City in the erection of the new offices. Tiro masons
rosined Robert Crossley and John 1111-ley, in the rut.
ploy of Mr. tiritfith, who carried them there, were in
consequence apprehended and brought in custody to
this office.

Besides the two Portland jambs, a quantity of York-
shire stone was found at the house in Bread-street,
which Mr. llriffith suspected to have been also his.
pr +forty, and time was requested to make inquiry of
the other workmen as to the persons who hail brought
it there ; the prisoners were therefore remanded, and
directions given that u..ne of their fellow workmen
should be permitted to have communication with them
in the interim.

Witen the prisoners were brought up on Monday
before Ste Clandius Hunter, Hartley asserted the
jamks to be his property, as well as the Yorkshire
stones timid upon the premises, and that he bought
them on the previous Thursday, at the wharf, near
the Snnthwark Bridge, the Portland from Ale. An-
drew Dann. and the Yorkshire from Mr. Shepherd,
and to the astonishment of the prosecutor, called Mr.
Shepherd, who attends the wharf of the proprietor, to
prove the fact. This he did satisfactorily, as far as
related to the Yorkshire stone; he stated also that be
knew Dann ; and when questioned as to the Portland
stone, lie shook his head, and said there were no Port-
land to be bought there ; Hartley, however, persisted
that there was, the prisoners were again remanded to
produce Dann. In the interim the prisoners consulted
Mr. Humphreys, the solicitor, and when brought up
yesterday, assitnied a more bumblei tone. Mr. Dann
made his appearance, and their solicitor submitted his
clie•tts to the mercy of the prosecutor.
Mr. Oriffitlis said, he had suffered so much by de-
predations of workmen, that he felt itaduty to make an
eitawpie of the prisoners, and they were accordingly
co:omitted to Newg,ate for trial.
Bow ,rarer.—Yesterday an Irishman of the name
of John Dunn, was brought up in the custody of!
Bishop, one of the principal officers, by whom he was ;
apprehended on Monday night last, at a public-house,
in Islington, in coasequence of a warrant which had
been transmitted from the Head Police Office, Dublin,
in which he was charged with being the person who
stands indicted for the wilful murder of Wm. Cruise,
Esq., of Belgrave Castle, near Dublin, on the 3tl Jan.
The follo..sin,,a particulars were obtained from the
messenger who brought the warrant to England :
„'The deceased, with a party of friends, was out on
a shooting excursion on his estate, adjoining his re-
sidence, and during the pursuit of some game which
hail been started, he got separated from them, and

owing to the spot being extremely woody, was fur
•ome time prevented from discovering what direction
Lis friends had taken; he at length descried them at

.ome distance, and was making towards them, when
he met the prisoner, in company with another man of
the name of Cara•. who, on passing him, turned round
upon him, seized him unawares, and forced his gun
front him, with which they knocked him down, and
continued beating him ivith the but-end about the
head, until the scull was completely broken to pieces,
and the brains protruded in many places. After re-
turning twice to ascertain whether they had effectually
done this horrid deed, they made off. In this dread-
ful state the deceased was found by his servants, who
lia,l been dispatched in search of him in consequence
of his long absence.
The wretched accomplice, Cary, was taken about a
fortnight after the perpetration of the murder ; was
convicted on the clearest evidence, and has since suf-
fered an ignominious death.
The inhabitants residing on the spot raised by sub-
scription the sum of eight hundred pounds, which was
offered as a reward to any person who, within the
space of six months, should cause Dunn to be appre-
hended. Unfortunately for the officers the term has
expired : it is, however, to be hoped that they will not
go unrewarded, as the prisoner made a most violent
resistance, and it was not until Bishop drew his cut-
lass, and threatened to run bitn through the body,
that he suffered himself to be handcuffed.
Morris, a conductor of patrol, who was assisting
Bishop, received several coutusionts from the prisoner.
He was, by the order of Sir Robert Baker, the sit-
ting 3lagistrate, ordered to he delivered to the mes-
senger from the Dnblin Police, who will immediately
eJnvey Lim to Ireland.