The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-04-16 00:00:00

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By dud*, 11.tusitat.t. —I tad assist to raise him
up, het placed Lim ou the ground again, he was so
hear).

By the Cater Jrfricr..—it wan a dark night, they
had no lantern ; did not know Mrs. Harrison till he
was quite close an her; slid not know who they wet•
until Banrismi spoke, it being so dark.

By Jedl• Almon-ult. —lt was a dark night ;
there was like a storm no the hill at the time; it mar
lint light enough for me to see buy thin at four yards
distance.

Elisabeth Ditties. by the ATTOUNEV•GCNCILAL--
14 *meta to Mr. Jnbn [Lowland; beard the report
of a gun on the night in question ; was standing at
her insures hatch at the time; it was no great dis-
tance hem the gate; braid her wastreg son, Thilletel
Itettlantl, going op the lane ; he might be about ire
yards off; knew him by his tread; it was not light
enough to know him by sight across tha road.
To a question from the Cunt Jurricr..—Would
bare tartan a person across the road, bat did nut
see any one ; lot mast►r was about five yards from
her. and rite could nut diitioenish

Sarah Challimer, by Mr. loaarrT.-11eard the
repent of the gun ; sat a little by her fireside; then
went to the duc.r, bet hear) emitting; at last heard
Mrs. Harrison calling out, •' George, George," and
then she stoppeil ; she then shouted " George Har-
rison. 0 Lord ! George Harrison, 0 Lord he is
slot;' went down to I.er; it us. so dark she could
net see ; went hack and fetched a light ; was about
three yards stir Rowland ; ouly knew him by his
gooier, it was so dark.

John Burrows, by Mr. Courrz.—Lives et
Holt ; was there on the night of the murder; haul
the report of • gue that night, het after the mar.
der ; it seemed at a little dist.:Lco, and made ri large
report; was op the lane about twenty minutes b►.
fore the murder; west there when the claim was
given; after he bead the slam. of murder, soother
gun was fired ; forted • hat in the lea, in the getter.
by t►e aide of the road; minuted it; sham tittle of
t►e brim had gone away, ad weal shot holes were
in it ; it was darker when he bard the alarm than
before; could have known any OOP with whom be
h•d Leen acquainted two or three yards off; did not
bear she 6r•t report ; beard the nett day, th.t the
mead gun was fired riff by a man to frighten the
people away from his orchard ; the place where be
land the bat was opposite to the gap; could not
exactly my whether he could have seen • person
through the gap in the potato. fied.
Grorgr. Jones, by the ATTORSET•GrNIIIAL —ls
a argent. ; 'tummy(' the boil) of the deceased ; oho
temple boa wig completely freeload ou the left
side; the pert whelp be was wounded is co•sider►d
to be absolutely mortal ; took fifteen shots from the
part ; has them no•• ; and produces them.
Jam/4 Parry, by the Arroaursr-Griszezt..-11 a
constable; some shots were delierfed to him by Mr.
Kenyon, in the presence of the Prisoner, mhn was
a►ked in my presenc►, for the shots he loaded the
gun with, and he gave them up, withal soy objec-
tion ; they mete got oat if a drawer by the Prisoner
himself.

Mr. Jones, re-nonsined.—lfst essmined the shots
given to him by James Parry, and those taken from
the *kelt ; bas weighed them, and found they ern-
responded in weight ; found a larger size in the bag
which be did Cot find in the head ; there were eleveu
of t►is large size in the bag; the bag contained a
poontl and three ounces; the eleven were 'cry large
—larger than she rest ; the other ton rises of abuts
in the beg esactly corresponded with those in dm
head. Mr. Janes produced the shots found in the
bag, and those taken from the bead, and they were
wedeln, by the Jery.
Cross-reamiaed.—They were more shots In the
head, than he estrected ; these was one roved shot
i.s the fleshy part in the craft *Web corresponds with
one in the bag ; there were no shots that be saw; that
corresponded with the larger Om
Themas. Lloyd, by Mr. COWBETT.—Was at Holt
on the eight of the murder ; lives from 15 to 2U
reeds hoes where it happened ; locked at the place
where George Harrison dropped, and then went
over the gate into the croft ; saw the masks of he'
near t►e gap facing where the burly dropped ; did nut
see lb. marks of many feet ; saw the nark of a foot
on the bead land, which he trek for the inside of
the right foot; saw another mark of a toot on the
bank, which is jest facing where George Ilarrisnn
fell; saw the trace from that place, sheet nine yards
up
the field; the back was very hard; the bead.
land was not so bard as the bank ; the foot•coark on
the head land was directed towards the gate ; the
marks were about a yard apart ; there were some
marks of feet ender a tree; the ground est hard
there, and could not see the footsteps plain; it ap-
peared as if sernelblog bad stood there; the gap is
s►out two yards from the tree; sew footstep+ op the
ereft hem tbe►eed ; measured one foot•mark,which
we, nine yards from the gap.
William Wools's, by the Arroniesti Custom.
Went with the last witness to the potato, field, as
soon as it was light; on the land where potatoes lied
been get ep•. saw a truck, as if it bed been made by
one person ; it was abort a rood and a half from lite
gap; the footstep pointed towards the gap; there
was a kind of pother ender the t.ee, as if some pri-
son bed stood there ; when he saw the footsteps more
distinctly, theoght they were those of one person
only ; measured ono that he saw the plainest, it was
12 inches and a half in heath, ■ distinct impression,
and of a very large size (saw one of the Prisonet's
oboes, bet did not measure it); the *ammo wss
very ebb, not the eighth of an inch deep. A ;pair of
shoes were produced in the Curt, which, however,
were not proved to belong to the I'ria•.nrr.
Th. Learned Judge then addre.soll the Jury. If
they thorght it neee•ary for him to go over she eci.
&ore, he could read it to them ; hut if they ihou4ht
the evident, not sufficient to convict the l's stout', he
should hate no need to read it over.

The Ferman Nt the Jury, in a very short time,
said, we P-.d uo evitiouce to cuunct the Prisoner; h•
is riot Guilty.

A low daft ago t hrnther‘s G. Irving, am! 39,
and W. being, aird 3-2, both of Annan, nr• i!ans ned
in the Uiterstnn Canal. They hail 141 the elllit
Taaarn, intending to Ko on bowl the :;n•lan,l, of
which George 11/11 Molar ; but a p n;gb. Lc::.z
they 14 31ktd iato 'he water by tn;A•Lr.

ROBBERIES. ACCIDENTS, Oc.

irednesday evening Mr..Sesith, of Intnbeth.welk.
vent a girl about incite years of Gee, with a bundle
containing a umber of silk and other handkerchiefs,
and linen, to the hoes, of Mrs. Bryant, • laundress
and mangler, to ham them mangled. As the gill
was taking the bundle up Founiain.court, *hem
Alas. Bryant resides, a young man stepped op to her,
and said. " I was jest coining to year horse fur the
Moss • Mts. Bryant is wailing for them. The child,
I supposing he came from Mm. Bryant'. houati, with.
oat hesitation gave him the boodle ; he walked a little
I way towards Mrs. Bryant's, and then ran off and ee-
-1 aped with the property.
Saturday morning • petson went int• the shop of
Mrs. Wilkinson, gas-smith, St. Thomas.street,
Baia-
Sal, to purchase s pair of second.hand pistols, and
in taring the strength of the trigger and lock it
proved to he loaded, and onforineately allot Mrs.
Wilkitmon through the body, who died a few ml.
• notes after. The pistols bad been in the shop some
mime, and had not be.. easmined when purchased by
Mrs. Wilkiuson.
Drowned, en the 7th instant, off Bridlington,
Yulkshire, in his 350, year, Lieutenant Charles
Jame. Griffin, Commander of his Majesty's cotter
Scan. This melancholy accident 'roomed by his toe
gip3i ansiety to get on beard his roller in a heavy
Or, when the bolt was dashed against the Pier,
• Lich caused the enrlmely end of the clerk and Iwo
seamen, with their Commander ; foot other seamen
haprily escaped by eliegiug to the piles of the Pier
until boats from the @twee mime to their assistance:
thus peri!hed, is the prime of lift, on his native
thine. from an envious and ermines performance of
his fluty, a pilaw and enterprising Officer, who
tint iog twenty-two jeers bad been in continual active j
serviee, sod hod eloped all the dangers of protracted
war, and of *eery vitiety of climate. By his strict
attention to his defy, and• rigid, yet mild mime.
alum of it, be had uttered the high approbatiee of
Ms superior, sod high esteem of his brother Oicem,
who will unite with a large circle of private friends
iu deploring kis premiere and uneisocholy fate.
A murder was committed in the neighbourhood of
Stara, a abort time since, ender the following cir.
cumrtances :—A young married magpie bad some
disagreement, and the genre' was espoused by the
father and brother of the yawn woman, said all three
elected the murder of the young man. We ender.
Vend the parties have been committed to plison,—
(Limerick Amnia)
At Stepney fair, on Wednesday, I pugilistic
rencontres took place, in one of which, between two
sawyer*, one received in severe a fall as to break three
of bis ribs, sod was taken to the London Hospital.
The pickpockets committed depredations with Ms-
posity. Numbers were robbed of meaty, Lc. A
Mrs. Salmon was beetled just by the eettatite of step-
Dry churchyard, in going hoarse about eight o'clock,
and they took from her a voluble straw!, and her re-
float., containing Bor disc Mr. Snatchy, a brewer,
of Mile-end, lost a Weer watch, and his deeguter
her umbrella, and • far tippet from her neck.
As the watchrose was going his minds, in Keefe.,
street, Brick-lane. on Wednesday morning, he saw a
man sitting et a door with a knife in his hood, his
throat cut in two places, sod three stabs in his belly.,
The watchmen, with dillboalty, eot•hins to the Low.
don fleapits!. It appears his .came is Smiley, a feta
lowship porter, upwards of 60 years old. lie wait'
slit, on 'Derails); merging, mod net wittiest hopes Ml'
recovery. The caste of this rash est seems le have
been jealousy.