The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-01-14 00:00:00

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three Barristereol4,-.Kelgaillibre *tibia, and Mr
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Gould, attended : their arguments went first to oho 1
that the Prisoners could be bailed, but their app) 1
lion failing, they simply asked that they Arnold a
be committed to Newgate, bat be allowed to rensail'
in the watch-house, as the more comfortable todgi
till the result of the Coroner's Inquest should,,,
known. • '
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Mr. Maim said he had a public duty to per io;;
seli
In answer to the arguments of the Learned Cosa .
he quoted the ease of Montgomerie and M`Nitaara '
in which Mr. Heaviside, the surgeon, who had_latri
been Mending professionally,was committed to New.
Rate on a charge of murder. Sr Richard Ford was
the'committing Magistrate, who at thattioneexpreased
his determination to commit the surgeons, end ell
person, who were present at fatal duels, to take their
trials for murder ; and this checked the spirit of
duelling for some time. Mr. Heaviside was confined
in Newgate for a considerable time and at a very con.
'adorable espence. Probably bail to any amount
could have been procured for Mr. Heaviside, but all
was refused. Mr. Birnie further observed, that he
did not know that Magistrates bad any thing to do
with Coroners' Inquests.
Mr. Nolan said, if the Magistrate complied with
the application, no mischief, public or. private, could
happen.
The MAOISTRATZ firmly observed, that it was in
evidence before him that one of the Kine's 'objects
had been deprived of life, and upon prima facie,aric
dence it was murder.
Mr. NOLAN again urged his notice that his Clients
might have a more comfortable lodging.
Mr. Manta mid he had made up his mind': the
Prisoners meat all be committed to Newgate to take
their trial for the murder of lieutenant Bailey, and
he was convinced that the three teemed Gentlemen
would allow that be had decided right. The Gentle.
men bowed and retired.
The Prisoners were given into the custody of the
Jailers to be conveyed to Newgate. , .
HORRID MURDER ARISING F4Oll ncasswg
URINKIN(T.
MARLSOROUGII-WIKEET.—David Ems,. a jour.
neymart roap.maker, about 40 years of age, was
brought op from St. Anne's watch-house, charged
with the wilful murder of ------., his wife, by
striking her repeatedly with a-poker on Saturday,
night, at his lodgings at Islconburgh-court, Crown.,
street, St. Anne's. The following is thetvidenco atr
length, as deposed to by the several witnesses s.—
Mary Chapman stated, that she lived with her hus-
band in a room over the Prisoner, who occupied the
i parlours, at Nn. 3, Falconborgh-court. On Satur-
day night she heard the Prisoner talking loud, as if
quarrelling, before twelve o'clock ; and from that
hour until three on Sunday morning she beau; dread.
fel groans, which proceeded from the Prisoner's
room. She went to a chandler's-shop the neat morn-
ing, when it was reported to her that Fvsns bad mar.
dered his wife. She observed the bed and pillows
placed against the window, and the curtains of the
bed-room were thrown hack, and there seemed much
confusion. All the neat day a young woman was
there; and she never knew that the wife was deed
until a coffin was brought in on Monday night. I
Aon Desmond stated, that she occupies the firat•
floor of No. 3, over the Prisoner's bed.ronm. On
Saturday night her husband COMP home drunk, ski
after having had a few words with the Prisoner, who
busied himself about the street-door, he threw him-
self on the bed with his clothe' on. The Prisoner
used very bad words to witness after he bad got into
his own room. Witness waited on the stairs, and
beard him beating his wife, and her groans were loud'
and repeated, and she alarmed the other lodges,]
stating that murder was being committed in the house,
but she could not rouse any one, and she dared Rot
go alone. The groans of the deceased grew mom
languid. Not seeing her the next morning, she thoogbei
she might have black eyes, and being a reserved par.
ticeler woman she would not like to be seen. Wit. j
ness saw the Prisoner nest morning wiping spots oat
of the floor with a wet cloth in the front paslour,,
end she upbraided him with 111 treating his wife.—
The back parlour where they slept was shot. These,
was much enquiry about the wife in the neighbour-1
hood, but witness did not-know she was dead until
Monday night, when the coffin was brought in.—
There was a strange woman in the Prisoner's apart-
ments incessantly watching the knocker of the door.
Rebecca Mucclewhit, who occupied an apartment
on the second floor, corroborated' the two former
witnesses relative to the groaning- of the deceased
1 until after two o'clock in the morni. It was like
i the meaning of a dog. She made upper mind to go
1 down stairs twice, and she got out of bed to do so,
1 but she was afraid for herself and her husband, as he
was &tittle man, although she said to him that she
Iwould not stay in a house where murder was be.
ing committed. The noise which preceded the
11 groans appeared to her like a person knocking.
down shelves with a poker, and it continued as if to
drown the noise.
Mr. Webb, constable of St. Anne's, who acted
*pen the information of one Desmond, deposed, that
Sting heard of the suspicious circumstances, went to.
the Prisoner's house and found him smoking. On
interrogating him, he said something of three Irish.
men being in his passage, and try his conversation he
seemed lobate been jealous aids wife, and he ac-
-knowledge(' having struck her in the mnuth with his.
-fist. Witness examined the front parlour, and he
discovered the floor and the wainscot round the room
besprinkled with blood.. An attempt had been made
to cleanse it, bet the very nit-striding, of the , room,
out of reach, were spleahed with it. He could not 1
, find any of the deceased'scluthes, but a pair of hoots,
which were bloody. He, afterwanls saw the body in
1-the coffin in the bedroom, covered over with a sheet.'
The cap on the head was aagoreof blood, and a Irma 4
1 head of hair was matted with ono mass of blood. T 1
back part of the bead was beat to atoms, so that a
finger could be buried in the wounds, and 'no such
appearances could have been occasioned by a fist ..t
This room was also besprinkled with blow). Wit's,*
took a poker from the fire, which, from the appal'.
once of blood, Was no doubt the instrument of death.
The Prisoner said, that the deceased .wae very bad al
seven o'clock in the morning, and he applikl but
bricks to her feet, and that she died at ten o'clock.—
The Prisoner retested to give any account of the
clothes ; but wit nest aterritiined that a man. mime.'
Dais, who resided nest door, and who workedsi.b

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handle. whbek the Primmer hod osnosepodotw) Wt.
Webb trot ed the boodle,ugeod the etotiles eenbrehlid
the herrid art. Some bee* washed. The,
sewer said, Mrs. Ditio sad Mrs ;man laid Me wigs
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set.
George Gillen, a dent,: •IMPelkillts tit, weld.
Atimat..keeper,r:orroilorated leak and added • that
the Priattnee.told hint that he• gemerelleal with. Ms
wife becaese site could clot uttlieglit le bias Ist
2s. 1044. out of B*.; that be weit„froot owe public..
boom. to another until be was drinsk, and that a map
told Itim he was living .ssith a *oasis glee wife;
he•tbew related , above lapiu . the btliSS '&
applying warm bvicks, we:ll.4llw • I t
The Prisoner's defence was as Feist, et what he
hid told Webb stud. Galen.; that Davismitti iteiretie
about till he got verrdeopk,. sod that Wean', him. ;
self going on leaving the 4rbt•houie, Wheß h. gar,
home be could just remember that en Irishert
strack him, sod one of the women, Desmoid,
him that ben beguiled bed -criminal knowledge of hie
wife. • Ile seal of the mousey short, applyhig
bricks to her.feet, noising bee tea le the night, .4,jit
her going to bed ;. and that Resit and be foaled 'Ur
deed in the bed in the morning. Tile coffin, ha said,
washed from Westminster.
MAGISTRATt.—fIow oft,* did you strike her?
sod how came the room so Moody ?
Prisoner.—l suppose the blood came from my
wife's heed. I was very tipsy, and don't remember
striking her more than once. •
MAGISTRATE.—glow came the blood cc the pnkeo?
Prisoner.—l might have struck her head when she
was lying by the fire.place, as I tried to pick her or,
but being giddy let her fall again, I believe.
• The Pr issuer was remanded till Friday, when the
undertaker and his man, and the.two women who
laid the deceased out, were ordered to attend.
INFAMOUS 1 M POSTOR.
USION-HA LL.—M nudity a woman, of masculine' ay.
pearauce, about 30 years of age, accompanied by a
boy who she stated was her son, applied to the Ovei.
, seer of Christ Church parish, near Blackfriare.
bridge, and in the btoad brogue of Ireland solicited
relief. She said that her name was Mahone', she
was the widow of a soldier, and was travelling front
Barnet to Susses. The Overseer thought that Imbed
some recollection of the face of the applicant, and
told her very plainly that he had relieved her spoof
some former applicatiou. She most positively denied
that she had ever befote seen his face. tfpon threat.
ening to lake her into custody, and after questioniog
her very closely, she acknowledged that she bacl
once assemed the mane of Crawford, and at another
time that of WGinnis. lie sent for a constable,
and she was taken into custody. Upon searching
her were found several forged passe., blank forma af
passes, and a War-office pass, signed with fictitious
names. By the marks of various parish officers on
the latter pass, it appeared that she had extorted 240.
feral pounds; by the others she had received at ttke
rate of 12s. and I li. each day from parish oflicei,
through whops parishes she had pu.sseti. Yesterdor
she was tr.ken before Mr. Serjearst SELLON, the Si,.l
tine Magistrate: the Overseer stated the aboie.ci.r.
cumstance, and added, that it appeared by tke va-
rious documents found on her person, that she bed
net received a less sem then .501. in charity wittkits
live or six months; there were several persons v. be
obtained a subsistence in a similar manner.
The M AGISTR 4TE said, that several impostors of
the same description had been broeght before him.
She was committed to the quarter Sessions as la
rogue and vagabood.
QUEEN-SQUAD C.—John niChfirebotT. alias, inatit,
was yesterday put to the bar for a further exanrina-
. tion, on a charge of having robbed Nlivart's hotel
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Lower Brook-street, of two coats, a waisicesel., and
a pair of pantaloons, belonging to George-Edwall
Oxendon, Esq. air ()Ropier'. and son of Air
'Ozention, Bart.—Prisoner remanded till Friclay,

Yesterday about half past twelve o'clock aperenst
was passing the house occupied by a OMR named
Bell, No. t 9, Dover-street, Illackfriari-coad, and
heard a cry of " fire," and upon lookittg throdat
the window saw a great blaze, he rushed into the
house and found 'a child about seven years of tuts
enveloped in flames. Ile put nut the fire i quick a;
he could ; the child was burnt from tklyiko
legs, too &neat to describe, and Wasrekrrted
an agonizing state to St. Thomas's itrippital.,t
appears that the father and mother were
work, and left the children (fire in ItUffit/er) i4i.l
house. They began to ,pliy with the'tre, and Ow
-girl so dreadfully berried, whose clati4a irewellmert
took fire, and She is not •%pectertito.lice Olaf
hours. Had the child been rlsessell in irmitlest, ty
almost venture to say, the accident tad' .net kip
Ipetted. .

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On the 12th ingtant. Hie 1.14) of O. H. iiniiinZ JO tb
General Powt-Officr, of n $Oll.

• WED.
A few days aro. at Lytham, nc.r Presjon. Mrs. •Swati,
relict of the late Mr..J..*saa. of Wigan.
On the lib instal Srariibuck, near Orookirk, very voiflenl!
,Mr. John Towers, innkeeper.
• On she lU inst. in the 72d year of hr, age. Mr. Matllte
Hu, tritest At. John-sisnare,Clerk en will. printer.
I.^ OA the lith joss. after three iatioth.' inste-s. in the nth yrs
of his tyge. ss hik taking hit tea. Mr. John Skirvelyof 240.111
Hawk( Iliaitsfay,sirinter. while he had 'been establiyl?o,4setic
t•
.40._yearc and o its universally respected.
Lately, at 'lathy, Neethasinotion.hire. Mr. Ge.w WWId
formerly of %velum, at, an solsaiiced age, leaving five,gailsketW
lament hi,
Oa she ith inst. deeply lamealrfl. lit. Daniel
Christ's Iln.pital.
(hi the Ithis• instant. after a final-ring Mato-. Mrs. Sa'
Iliplitsworis. wile oat Mr. Jae nukkradrth,,vilegovin.re,
WU' w ori h. axcd3t) •
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Amsterdam. 11 9 V.V. NlA:fd. 494
Ditto, at sight, II 6 Venire. 22
Motterdmo, 1130 1 U. Wpler, . f' •
Antwerp. ll II Palermo. per At.
Hanthurgh. 31 4 424 U. I.liliain,
Alums. Si It. • Optertn.
S days's sight,,24, 30 • Itio;Jasseiro, 63
()into, ti 30 2U. OfitsTio, per Cent.
lloortkniric. •3 eltry*ssight. It 50 Cf' .`Ol4 per Cent.
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