The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-03-16 00:00:00


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i A SON alikl4 LED ,gri INS RATHER,
THROtltld /els l'a (A$ 81.1.PPOSED) FOR THE
•aeolte,t;:it!S;rtti.L%-rIFE. ,
Friday eight, about nine o'clock, 'reeky-
' street, ass the Rettrogh, a map was seen miming very
taste.. pareeed by seseral others, who eekleitglid,
4.4 Stop. him • Iltet is the murderer '."• Thetemo wen
stopped, eta taken to the house of one. Rods whore
it sairldre'lled -murdered his own son. • Too mai
-chorged,:with she' usurriei said, • that his ?time- wee
Felavettet Ivappeass that • his• too, .s youth between%
19 arid 40 yews of ages !edged at 'M r. haute;
that-lite wife also el Fawcett lived' with ;Ituith.-a•r
• Fawcett' had .beets coebeed in
sop, Ingather withAitieh ;.•'bot the latter topk.4he a'
nen t of the ins•itest4ct,..eswl. got hiolber' ty„befors.,
the forager. La snow ea.F.stwoett obtained libe'rty
he wished Ms wife tot Istere. Bash.; and come-and
with him; but the.refased, end Bosh and herself kept
the property beloooirtg.,to foseciett,,which he was al.,
lowed (according to the Act to the valms'ef,./61.) torre:l
:late when he took the benefit Olive *t.
_;rhey
faired logire ep his property..asedie 'applied to .4ie
:Magistrates at Union..hati to grant a wareatittplake
the goods. Ever since that period, Fawcett has severer
times endeavoured to persuade his wife to return' to,
hies and leave Bush ; bat ahe steadily retests', lad
.
be in a stets of mind, bordering sots distraction,. on,
Friday night, emit to .Bush's house with tlkif
reittion at shooting him,-for which puipose heinar
a loaded pistol with him from hislodgings
therstone-buildings, Bishopsgate-street. When' liR
shirred at Bush's house, he asked a "little girl olds'
was in the .shop (Bush's daughter) if Mr. Built was
at home? She replied '4 Yes," and called 4' Father."
Bush, who was in the first floor, along with Fawcett's'
wife and son, said, coming," end sent. the son
downstairs. When the youth jr4rieto the shop
Fawcett-presented the pistol, and fired it at his eon.
The pistol, which is what is Calletta horse pistol, was
loaded with large slugs. The 'contents-entered his
left side and into his bowels; He immediately_fell,
'and his father ran away. After he was secured het
• wits taken to St. Olove's watch-house; the wounded
young man was taken to St. Thomas's. Hospital.
On Saturdayobe Prisoner, John Fawcett, was
brought from the watch-house to Union-hall Pelice-
office; the crowds which surrounded him on his,:aay
may be calculated et :tract at two or three Olt/amid.
The Magistrates eta mined the following w itnesses :
Frederick John Bassett, surgeon of St. Thomas's
Hospital, stated, that he could nut survive many
hosts. He should not be surprised if, on his return
to the hospital, he was to be informed that he was
dead, for it was impossible that he could long sur-
vive.
Mr. Wm. Spick, solicitor, St. John's, Southwark,
stated, that on Friday night, about nine o'clock, he
was coming along Tooley-street, in company with
his brother, and heard a loud report of a gun or
pistol, and saw a man run out of a shop with a pistol
in his hand : he and his brother, with several others,
took him to the watch-house, and gave him in charge
of the night constable. He afterwards found the
pistol, which he then produced, in a court through
which the Prisoner had ran when be attempted to
escape. - He had some conversation with the Pri-
soner, who Manned him that he had lately been a
prisoner in the Fleet ; that his wife lived with another
man, named Bush, and that she had plundered him
of his property while in prison to support Bush..
William Bush, '2-11, Tooley•street4 Boroogh,
Po-
tetoe.dealer, stated, that he was up stairs with the
Prisoner's wife, who has been his housekeeper for
some time; the Prisoner's son was also, with, him,
arid his little gill was down stairs, when the Prisoner
came into the s':,op and enquired of her if her father
was at home? She coiled up stairs " Father," and
instead of his going doer,, the Prisoner's son went
down. The little girl has since informed him,• that
the Prisoner shut his sun (1)e moment he got, In the
bottom of the stairs. . lie heard the report of, are-
arms,
_and he immediately called out 4. Murder,"
and soon afterwards heard that the Prisoner was
taken. When he came down stairs, he saw the Pri-
son in, great agony, and in the arms -of a
'ouug man, who put him in a chair; he was bleed-
ing.verYinucli • the Prisoner'sacor lodged in witness's
house ; he had not seen the Prisoner's son fur several
months; he is by trade a baker. He (witness) %Cis
a prisoner with tan some -time riga, is White-cross-
street Ptisno.. •' . • . :
J. "Hoddinott, of 105, Moffat-street, City-road,.
stated, that he knew the •Prisuner very well. Era
June last, when Ptisnner Hied at Mile-end. he (wit-,
tiess) was pub in possession of his premises.; under
Mr. IViggintoo, a. broker: the Pristrner always he-
hared very eutrageonsty, and catried pistols about
him, Threatening to shoot people who offended hits ::
he was a person of ',intent passions, turd at limes was
,nneble to subdue them : he said, at that time that he
'Gold murder Bush ; his wife then lived with him;
theylived very upheppily, and were ever quarrelling.
While he was io possession he was freqltetitty
op to the night by their wrairtling, and by his. Wet,
jug his wife. Site took out several warrants-a/slash
Wailer assaultieg her; he was coolinually beating;
htr with violeece.•• Me did not at that tinte•think •the'
Prisoner was insane. :Ile thought that his violence
PeßciPediVi ,frotb jealousy of his wife.
; Jane. CurnreitsgS„ at No. 4, reter.,street,., Mint.
*strivt, slated, that she beard-somebody tome down
stairs, isair•the stairs are su situated, that she did not
ate tips mien. She gave the PriSouer‘,walk. towards
the twratopt of .the steins, and in a moment bard the
r. •
report of a pistol. The Prisoner and his sou cunt
'from the:bottom of the stairs together; the soa•clapped
bis'liePds, to his
,side,
_atul,,seetned in great agony:
big Pt nes looked it him very piteously, and Will
great igehre,, as if he has mistaken his man. fie
dia'oit ran away itereadlately, Wt.:pressed sorrou
for wllat,be kid finpf.... His son fell roe
.kis knees;
'and clasped those of the Prisoner's; she else took
hold itthe rtisestel.,.' and • said,' 4 6 Yoe hate. been
itimrittingrourder.." -Ile made no ansees, but torn-
'id from, ber. forced himself out of her. grasp, and ran
.with the piptul is. liis• hoed. 001 of the shop.
The Surgeon of St. Thoraces Hospital entered the
Magistrote's room at thq close of the aboverevidence,
and informed the Megistratethet the young man had
itattespired*4.e.
Ptiaagegl, Iris asked by .M r. *joint SEhLON,
be had ipp,tirorea linos to asake? Ile replied, that
be liatleotbleCtesay at. {ghat 11.211. ue ,as commit-
ted for re-riamlostiou.

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