Final Examination And Com...
The Times, 1824-05-24T00:00:00

On Saturday the accused was brought before the Magistrates, L. B. ALLEN, D. KiNG, and 5f. SIvABEY, Esqr., for final cx- amination. Loucy Dixon sworn.-I am day.nutrse in the accident.ward at 6;uv's Hospital; I remember Air. Gregory being brought there on the 2d of Mrlay; 1 heard that hc had been stabbed by his eldest son; but he never told me the cause of the wound from first to last. When I asked hOv he did,he shook his head, but made no answer, he never expressed to me his apprehension that he should not recover. Anne Constable sworn.-I am night-nurse to the accident-ward of Guy's Hospital. I attended the deceased at night, during the time he was in the hospital. On the fourth day after he entered, in the course ofthe morning, he told me that he had been ruptured for 34years. Ile raised himselfn pin bed, and said, "it wil go greatly in the boy's favour that he didl not take up the knife, intending at the time to raise it against me." I replied " Good Heaven! that all this shonld havetaken place about abit of bread and butter." MIr. ALLEN.-_Did you Hiention this observation of the deceased's to any one? WVitness-Yes, to Mlrs. Dixon, the day-nurse. fir. ALLEv.-Did Air. Gregory ever express to you that he was in extreme danger ? Witness.-He never did. AIr. ALLE.I .-WVas he sensible to the time of his death ? Witness.-Yes, Sir, to tie last, and said nothing more than I have stated. MIr. Bowley, the master of the prisoner, said he called to see the deceased when lhe lay ill in the haspiralb on asking him how he did, he said, that be had had a bad night,. and vwished to see his boys, WVilliam and John ; for if be had such anothernight. he was fearful he should not be able to speak to them. The deceased also said, " I did not feel that. I had received a wound till some time after. wards, and I discovered it by losing the useof my left side and leg. I am sure poor George isin much trouble; and if I recover, I hope and trust he will make amends for what he has done." Mr. ALLEN.-I understand that it is not uncommon for aperson receiving a flesh wound and a blow at the same time to be uncon. scious of the injury till somc time afterwards . - Air. Alirvin, the surgeon of the, hospital,, said it waa not an un- common dircmstance. M1r. ALLEN saiA that he remembered that an attempt was made to assassinatc the late Captain Paget, when at Constantinople7 by a man who struck. at him with a large-blated knife; the Captain put out his arm to save his body.; and the asssin, after giving him a violent blow, ran off The Captain's arm was slightly wounded,. and fie'thought that that was the extentitf the injary, butaoon af. terwardA he diseovcred blood streamiffg from a wound - wlhich had. been7inflicted en his breast nearhis heart, and he layin a dangerous state for vreeks. - - . -.*; hlr. W9est, a ncief boiitofthe de.eascd said thati hc aUediupon the unfdrtiate. rnanwhen~-hE was in thd hospital. aad he said l2at the inflammaion i his thigh was going on, and his Bon George had a great deal to be sory for; but he vas very glad Mr. Bowl;y had. promISeatobeep George in 'his employment; The impression wit. ness had was, that the deceased believed he should not survive. William Gregory vas then examined for the purpose of explain- inga'part of his former evidence. Hle had swomrthat the knife which inflicted the wound was not bloodv whena he saw it lying on the table after the accident; and the witness M1rarks had sworn that when he entered the house the knife-blade was bloo'lv. The explanation the witness now gave of this apparent contradiction was this--" that bis sister Jane had wiped the knife soon after Mir. IMarks entered the house, and therefore when he saw it the blade was clean-" Mirs. Dixon, the day-nurse, was again examined; and sie said that she remembered Ann Constable informing her of thedeceased bavine stated to her "that it would go in the boy's favour that he did not lft the knife for the purpose of stabbing him." The whole evidence being read over, the officers of the parish were bound over to prefer a bill of indictment against the prisoner, for the wilful murder of John Gregory his father, at the next Surrey assizes, and the witnesses were held in recognizances, to appear and give evidenceen the triaL Alr. ALL;EN said,that if tle friends of the prisoner thought proper, underall the circumstances of this lamenta- ble taut, to apply to a judge to bail the prisoner till the assizest, he would take care copies of the depositions should begot ready for It was stated thatthewife of the deceased had a large family to support by herown exertions, and that she hadnot fends to enable her to obtain legal assistnce. The prisoner was then committed for trial. FI.VAL RXA1,fINA4TIO AND COi7'lf2IT"AL OF GLO. GREGORY FOR STABRING HrrS FATHER.