The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-07-24 00:00:00

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WIRAIP DAD or Tallfir filmy -•
. ' ins 44T11 THOS. alms?, £SQ.
' - kiatiltireborre stated, that this osiestosatt
ea the 7th of May last, hi ihNiterditeef,.
are, intestate. and a bachelor. His ap
was, that administration of iskickaalit
;gist issue to Mr. Maple. tho'Ss of Ida
's Treasury, for the use of His llilajettrOrder.'
ed accordingly. • .
AM GBRA RD NOEL, BART. P. BIDDLITOB AND 011asite.
In this ease a monition had issued against two gestle
men is the law' Hears. Shaw sod Stepheas, as possess.
ors of a certain Will. _

Mr. LOVIDAY Obit Proctor) said. if the Coast consi-
dered that the monition was proper, they had no objec-
tion to bring in thewili.
Dr. BURNABY thought there could be no objection to
produce the Will, and ordered the prodnetion of it ac-
cordingly.

YORK, MONDAY, JULY 21.
mutton.
Wes. Mead and Robert Belt were %dieted for the
wilful murder of James Law, on the night of the 12th
or morning of the 13th of February at Rurmeston, near
Scarborough, in this county. The prisoners pleaded
" Not Guilty." They were men of most respectable
appearance.
lt will be recollected, that an application was made
last Spring to have the venue removed front the county
of York, in this trial, on ',the ground of the violent fen
want whii• prevailed among large parties of the people
of the neighbourhood, who avowed an interest in the
result, which, if participated in by jargon, was incom-
patible 'with the impartial administration of justice.—
The circumstances which led to this agitation were prim.
tipsily these:—Tbe prisoner Mead had bees actively'
engaged in assisting the officers of the revenue in des
testing smuggling transactions, and bid been sloped
some time ago i 9 prosecuting a number of cases in the
Ekehepier ; in one of these, the deceased Law was the
defendant, but was acquitted, and he subsequently pro-
secuted to conviction Mead, for perjury upon that trial.
Mead, after his conviction, obtained a rule for a new
trial, and was enlarged on bail. There bad been a great•
riot in Scarborough on the day before Law was shot,
ahil he was said to have been with others actively en.
gaged in tarring and feathering some persons who were
alleged to be mach on the alert in suppressing smog:
cling transactions. The trial was fixed specially for
t',is day, and seventy witnesses were said to be in attend-
mace. A considerable number of
.persons came from
Scarborough and the vicinity to give evidence for one
or the other of the parties; there was a complete congre-
;salon of farmers and seaaring people of every descrip-
tion from the Scarborough coast.
As it was understood that at least two days, if not
three, would be occupied with the trial, beds were pro.
vitled in an adjoining part of the Court-house for the
inters. A full panel was called, and several were chal-
It need on both sides.
Mr. JONES stated the case to the jury. He entreated
them to dismiss from their minds altogether the various
and conflicting statements which mast hare previously
reached them upon this subject. They had a solemn
and an important duty to discharge both to The prison-
ers and the public, and they could' only discharge that
by a temperate and dispassionate consideration of the
evidence which it would be his duty to submit to them.
The first witness, John Watson, examined by Mr.
VERNON.—Iie lived, near Scarborough, and Thursday
seas the marketolay at that place. He saw the deceased
imes Law, there on the 13th of February last. He had
Fres iously met him there in good health at the Talbot
inn, where his horse was kept. Witness and he left
Scarborough on that night in coropany together. There
were Some others in company with them, and some of
them were fresh in Iltuor. Law had taken his share,
but was not drunk. Witness was sober. The place
called Bormeston lay direct between them and law's
house. I! lien they got to Burmeston, Law and another
turned their horses and said, they would net go by
William Mead's house yet ; that house was then within
100 yards of them. It was agreed to go to Adam Cal-
vert a to take a tankard of ale before they went home,
Lac the people of the house would not get, tip
to let them in. There was no one in the street
at the time. They stopped before Mead's house, and
began to sing; none of thew offered to molest the hoose;
tie house was separated from the road by a sort of cause-
way, near two feet higli, and a yard broad. Neither the
witness nor any of hie party were on that causeway, nor
d' I they alight from their horsei. Witness did not
think any of the parties had sticks in their hands; they
used no angry expressions, but sang the words of the
song ;it was a song concerning Mead's perjury. Wit-
s '55 saw a small gun or pistol fired from Mead's house,
five or six minutes after they had began the song ; be
looked up at the window,because he heat d glass fall on the
causeway before the shot was fired ; nothing was said
from the house ; they rode away after this took place.
because they found Law was shot, and they wawa to
assis: him ; they went into John Dodsworth's house,
whirl' was nearer than Law's; when there, Law said
that Wiliam Mead bad shot him, and he appeared anxi-
ous to make his will. Wh..n that shot was hred, he could
soear that Lass's horse was turned towards the middle of
the road ; it was a thickish dark night. The moment it
teas light on the same morning, witness went to Mead's
Louse and saw the glass lying on the causeway ; the look
nt the window over where this glass was, was this—the
lead appeared bent out, and the glass gore. He had
goue-to London before that as a witness on Exchequer
p. !teeetli age. '
In his cross.examination by Mr. Wda.lams, be said
that Law's horse's head was at the time the shot was
fired turned in a contrary direction from the house, and
witness was not more than five or six yards from Law.—
lie could at the time distinguish each of his companions :
be knew one Robinson a publican in the village : wit-
ness would not say they stopped there, but they certainly
made no Maim: oredirtubance. Robinson's was about
100 yards from Adam Calvert's. They bad passed both,
anal gut close to Mead's, when they were on the turn
again. When Law said they must have more ale before
they passed Mead's bou.e, they were not afraid of Mead.
What they wanted at Culvert's was in consequence of
Bedewed!), who said be wanted to sell him some bacon.
Did mot see it was comical to turn back at 2 o'clock in
the morning. either to sell Bona bacon, or have some more
drink: Would not say yes or no if Law had a stick in his
band with a hook upon it. The witness said he had been
twit* io London during Mead's trial, bat was not exa-
mined, except a single question about one Thomas
'keen, and then be was "acquitted" from the witness
.lax. Witness did not know, when is London, one John
Dodson, but en the 1311) ofFebruary he saw a man who
was called by that name is the street. He pryer saw,
that man relied in or ducked in a kennel.
Mr. doses took as objection to this mods of examina-
tion, which applied to circumstances quite distinct from
tlie_sitol!sar the present trial.
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