The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-01-14 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SRISIONS, ./4N. 13.

This day the Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the
County of Middlesex commenced at Hicks's Hall,
Clerkenwell-green, before W. MAtNivantstG, Esq.
and other Justices of the County, when several cases
of assault were tried, most of which were petty
squabbles, but the following was of a more aggra•
vated nature.
Jacob Fletcher and wife, were indicted for as-
faulting a poor old woman who lodged in their house,
and who kept a mangle. It seemed that they were
desirous of getting rid of her without giving her any
notice to quit, hut she refused to go, under the ad-
vice of her attorney, without a quarter's notice; not
, being able, therefore, to succeed in getting rid of
her, they devised all means to plague her; particu-
Ilarlv they would shut the door and make her wait a
! considerable time, before she could get admittance
into the house. At length, on the day stated in the
indictment, as she entered the house, the male
Pri-
soner saluted her, by throwing a pail of water in
1 her face. Ile after-wards knocked her down, and
kicked her in the stomach and breast. While he was
doing this, his wife [(galled more water, with which
he sluiced her while she lay on the floor. The blows
he gave her, were of that violent sort, that it caused
her to vomit blood, and as one of, the witnesses said,
! when she came into the room, the poor old woman
I was dripping with water, wet through, and spitting
!up blood, which she had occasionally done ever
I since.
The Jury found them both Guilty,• and they were
sentenced to pay tines—the man WI. and the wife
1 101.
IMichael liquid was indicted for assaulting Thos.
James. The Prosecutor, in telling his story, began
a formal harangue with ." Mr. Chairmaia, and (ien-
tlemen of the Jury," and then detailed a long liar,
rative of :he Defendant's attempting to assassinate
hint. It however turned out, that the Prosecutor
was a barber, who, with some other gentlemen bar-
bers and journeymen mechanics, had subdued their
reason by Meuv's entire, proceeding home together
in this state down Coram-street, the Prosecutor told
them they should hear a specimen of his abilities equal
to Mr. Kemble's, and began with " My name is Nor-
val, on the Grampian bilk ;" upon which another,
seized with the fit of playing Glenalron, pushed
Norval into the mud, who, enraged thereat, began
vociferating " Murder and assassination !" But it
was positively stated, that all the damage done was
muddying his dress and spoiling his speech. The
Jury on 'this evidence found the Defendant Nut
Guilty.

.110 L ICE.

. M A RLBOROUGH-STR

Mr. Thompson, a. cow-keeper at Pimlico, wasl
brought to the Office to give an account of the pos-
session of a stolen horse, the property of Mr. Pin-
nion, a farmer, at Ashtend, near Epsom. It ap-
peared that the horse was stolen from Mr. Pinnion's
stable, as long since as October, 1810, and he was
identified ou Saturday, in Thompson's cart, Long.
acre. It appeared by the statement of Thompson,
that he purchased the horse at Smithfield-market
twelve months since, but the book. was neglected,
and from this neglect the person who sold it is
unknown. From the respectability of Thompson's
character, there was no doubt of the truth of his
statement, but the horse was ordered to be delivered
•
[ to the owner.