The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-07-30 00:00:00

I.OIVDOY, FRIDAY. JULY 1819

petty of the Defendant. . The. Plifintiff and one of

WILTSIIIRIR ASSIZRS, Jirsr 28.

his•concianbins entered the yawl by a cart-way lead-
lag into it, by u shifting bar. They left the csrl.wsy CROWN et DR.
about nine or sew sod whilst the Plaintiff was ItORRIBLR MUItDKR %ND Nottnror.
reaching et a bench of nets be trod upon the wire of Robert Welkin:, vitae Robert Tanner Wodriat,
sprios•gen, which immediately went off, and a suit Itidaterrri Moltke, were indicted for I r wilts(
great part of its content., consistine of No. 4 shot, murder of Stephen lioduiss., late of Cricklarle, In
lodged is his Ili. fle fell against a tier, bled pre- this county ;,the first for hieing actually committed
rosily, and in a mangled state he +as conveyed tot the murder and robbery, arid the latter for being ate
his father's house, where he was conenoil to his bed acmes,' eater the fact.
for .boot • month, and was not able to do any week Mr. CAoSCIII2 opened the case on the part of the
we'll the December following. It appeared that shot, prosecution, • 1.4 stated the I het., whirh will
tared b.rnsroly been • Path iturnegh he fully detailed in the tobsegeent eeideoro, talt;rh Is
but whirl had since bees stepped ep by the Defend• of a oaten, completely circonastaatisl it wee
snits outgo.; that odor or nine bell.messle sprit g- ko•ever, as edited leave as doubt we the intort of
Wino were opt to the wend loaded, sight and day, of any one that the Prisoner, Robert Watkins, had
which stalk* was stack op in three places, not con• been the perpetrator if the horrible crime. The
tricot as. on the eet.isle of the perk, in the fellow- I loomed Coons's! oblong's!, that upon a review of
leg •iirdst—" Meti.itirps and spting.gena are poll. I the circmosteneirs, he found nothing to criminate
lively set in this weal—John Wilk 5." The wood Edward Watkins that could warrant bite In seeking
was of considerahle rodent, being elbow 60 acres. for hi. conviction. 11-, elroold, therefore, put
On the erase esamination of the Pigintiff's wit. epos the present occasion, entirely Out of the cues
nesse% it appealed that the Plaintiff nap altar, that I 4011. and ennfine himself to the charge agoind Roe
soeg-guns wrist art in the Defendant's grounds, sod bete Watkins.
ha.' been resitioned by his mother and ethers to be! Pease!), as this is a ease which has 'tithed a very
earful hew ne went into the wand in question. ' considerable degree of interest In the county, it may
Mr. Ls MI, the surgeon, of Perlisment.sireet, who or° hf."`lrd se mill the recollection of war Readers
.spototi to be hohi ce
,seri „owl., „um, pl. it as to the time at which this most mysterious traassetion
his opinion that the Plaintiff might, for the roma/oder took place, which was on the 7th of May lasi; It
of hi. dem he
effected, more
or less, by the joie. I made • great write et the time It happened, and our
ries he had received from the accident. There were 61e of pipers will show the 'evictions which were
new • great many shots in his leg. The Plaintiff's etcited against several innocent persons. use al whelk
ease Irving closed, in particular was charged obliquely by the murderer
Mr. Maasteer addressed the Jury on behalf of.us being the actual criminal, het who, r.rtenstedw,
the D-1 idant,and pranging his enwillineeess teenier far 'milli' we. enabled to prove an trifle Is the molt
ei. I satisfactory manner.
into the general question of law, for the
The evidence was as follows t—
toiled to, contender!, that there were three questions ,
P• ciao Groynes lives et Potion SI the. lb the tobti
raised for their consideration upon the evidence ad- j
bet wriest Porton end Cricklade; was on the 1.11%4 gra
diced by the Plait tiff—first, whether there was, in
twill. of fall, a faro pith in the wool in question; Ftida). the 7'h of May,et a quarter utter ten at night;
moo in the road s. dead ;• my horse(' was ridfirg)
was in the I ;It ezereise of any right of font.
wend, vao her 'S... l'loisslitr, at the time of the ac-
took fright ;it oat eta bend is the IW 't tog
foam Crickladein Porton ee&f,seg.ll the 1141 rni,
pith ; snit third, whether lie Led not bad sufficient •
at S•oke-strett, neatly bit a mile nr not so f ; that
Stoke of spring-goi.s holding been tel iu the groebds
body was hies on the bark ; rode back so So..ke,
to warn him of his thing., ? If the Jury should find
all
these
ge...inns in the air...mite, he
submit...l. sod met Sir. Bathe, he came back with me, and he
that tics Ploialiff loaf entitled to extremely moderate "Er dead nun.
damages. William Bail e, Solicitor, of Petl,,n, saw the set
i Ribose, who came to him at half-•issi ten, on the
Mr. piton G ARROW charged the Jury in pint of '
rib of May; went with Per to Om place where the
law in the way anon inctol in the beginning of the hod
was eg; I went le the spot sb • person
css ; end upon the *object of damages, he was of , lip
o
e name of Parker;
saw the body of Mr S ephen
emful..n • tsat.hey ought not to deal shoat out with a moo'. 'way lying wore the road upon hi. hack, with the
saw ,d hto-1
; legs and at... wended ; a person of the name of Low.
The J'.., after consi•tering the case a few en-
fence •satitatof o.is p. diets, there was setting bet •
""t", loured r 'h" ".1.11 ; t•lpewee in she right hand .ai.tccst tread: the
iit • agreed that the 'Menden' should have liberty t hod mu takes s„ Bey • „ •-„,„ •
o• is a' await ;M. a
to to•.ar to enter a nonottit, end if the Court above • Y
re•geon, Mae and saw the body, the hotly was •arate
he of opinion that the case ought to he turned Willem Wells, surgeon, of Cticklade was called
insets special verdict, the Plaintiff etas to hate liberty jup en the 7th of May, abort half ef •.ra SSW
so to do.
' the body on the spot, bat did not easmitut ft till it
was brnoght In t! .e Roll; thee was e gunshot wooed
itt the middle of the chest ; saw no other wound that
evening. On the 'Sunday following. 'boot else
o'clock, I opened the body; there were three bounds,
one large sad two small oriel, Die os each side,
about an inch from the large one. Before I opened
the body, a female attendant gave ale a ballet anti
two heads of nails ; a brooch had been driven in with
part of the breastbone, and had ruptered the prin.
cipal ascending artery ; further In, I teemd three
heads of horse•stalls, one in the vine, another at the
end of the sibs, and the third in the longs; 11.0. spine
had evidently been perforated in one place by a
ballet ; the rapist* of the artery caused the tamed!.
ate death; the other 'sounds would hate caused
death, hut not immediately ; Rod say meal hate been
in a bending petition when wounded, as the ball
passed obliquely through the body.
Cross-examined.—Did not #26llnille the body till It
was brneght to the Bell; Rndway was subject to
asthmatic affections, end 1 supposed he might hats
raptured a vessel; there wet no mark of the dee
ceased having struggled for a moment ; the hands
were pettedly dean, which could not have been the
ape if he had struggled; I did not think he had been
shot till the holy was brought to the ; the artery
wee replered in three places • either witted have
reeled death; very little blood effused paternally,
bet the chest iris fell ; there was a little appearance
of convulsion round the nieuth ; the bullet and other
things may have s ten disrherged from s
—liabignod, of Cricklede Whoa, married a
daughter of Stephen Rodetay, who was • coosidete
able salt and cnal.merchent; I mens_ed the whole
hesfnets for him ; Rodway went from Crick lade to
Wotton It tssett, about one o'clock, no s black how ;
he lad • ugh, great coat tied up hetet- him; Wottee
Bitsrte is 'ell miles from Cricklatie, the road
hist,. hes off'n one ;aid at the turnpike to Porto.
A (-sr r'sys hernre Rodway's death, I paid Lim a bee.
pool(' Wok F. 'gland note, and two one-po•nd
Ilsok of F. tiond, it.t...•1 other nines; this was
t 3.1 of Ml.>. I had eneorsed the five.ptionll nein
•Ith the name of John Willi.ars, from whom I re.
calved It ; Williams wrote the name of the person of
whom he took it ; I paid him also two Abiegden
notes, nee Gloece•t•r, one M•riborn‘th. one Ogren-
/moor; 1 narked a't the not..; f n, eked the Mod.
Is note with the name of , awl an the Cie
tretireem, the ware of John D.niets ; I should know
the woos "loin.
II Cos, mason, of Walton Bassett. knows Re.
W,litine: was at the Whit. flare, Celt Wed., on Ow
ye , nip/ley,d wide the Primroses, Ihoseembellt 8 •••C!..ek
1.. the mooing ; ales itesse• the Priseore Nog, he is •
baroque, ; his wife Is lately dee toddle t tee (I'd°
1110.6 the Pritower Mid be was poorly; they drank

CROWN t OURT.

The only
dee were thr following:
John Merrington aid Joseph Merringion were
nlllllO4 indicted for a h•rgiary in the de•iliog.
hoes. of the Ref. W. E. Fitathemas, at West Tit.
hwy. in the night of the 16•11 of Jane, and st•alina
therein plate end other articles to more than the value
of WO.

Mt. RRODRICI conducted the prosecution, end
Mr. A out.ritui the defence.

It appeared that the Prosecetnr's bogie was en.
tered 011 the night in question, by means of sawing
away the inside 'hotter of ■ pustular window, and
,he ropes'', mentioned in the indictment carried off.
The proof of the Ptiainiers' guilt was brought home
by a long train of circumstantial evidence, It sp.
pirating ,hat when their houses, situated in Red Cow.
lane, 11.1....iid-I•ne, were •earthed, some trifling
articles taken from the Prosecutor's house were there
found surf identified by the latter.
itsiesse. were called by the Prisoners In chem.
ter. but ibis Jury found them Gailtl—Death.
The Learned Judg►, in pas►ing sentence, gate
them nu hopes of mercy.
James Tucl, the person who was tried and ac.
quitted two years ago at the ad Bailey, for the
murder of a man at Es.firbl, by 'bruiting him into
a well at the hack of a publie.house occupied by the
Prison.,, was indicted for stealing • chest of oranges
from • waggon, in the pariah of Epping, on t►ettt
April last.

Mr. Jatecter rentleeied the Pleintirs CUP, hod
Mr. ADOLPIII.II the ,Irfrnce.

There *Pr. some circumstances of (10•10 In the
eaae,+nd 'h. Jury Inwood the Pi i 40.10/ —Not Guslty.
Maria Peacock, a gir I thew eo }eats of sop., *44
crinaiir..il of • burglary in the daveiling.
house of John Waterman, in the parish of Hatfield
Bros look, nn the 10th of big, In the clsy-time, no
person !wing ',weir,.
Mr. DOWLING colluded the prosecution.

Tbiabeing the second lime the Prisoner was con.
skied of the like offence, the Lesrsied Joao, in
passing sentence of death, held out but smell hops
et merry.

Mr. Jesileo PAUL flood a joveliti.man in ihIP lee
of Ave pounds, for pretvtning to take Moping, for
the admission of a spectator into the Cool., awl
otter being in eostody for the *hole day, she 1"1,01.
ed Judvi kingly consented td remit the kn., open
the offender's expressing his eemtrition. sod be cos
discharged after a suitable admonition.

A few days or., as a man belettging I. flO Ar.il.
tory 'alba Croatian Fl.et•rtreef, eras Ttesopl.-11.e,
was toadied deem by a cnal.wagioa, wharf, saatirr.
ad Isis ler in a dreadful asaanor. He was takt a in
'a comb to St. illiothelissowq 11440181.

I nigr.hP, .

one ne th,.. Sorra," was here taken HI, and net
being like', to Weed Wettish the trig!, 4u ,41. r