Star. — 1817-03-25 (London, England)

NOT I'INGIJAM MSIZES.  Tuesday Dissle WAS tried for shooting at George keiry, in hic dwelling-house, in the parith of Radford, near Nottingham, On the eve,lio4 Ist the Sunday heiore Christmas-day last, with a pistol, loaded with leaden shot, with intent to kill and mut. der him. There were two others also indicted with him, of the names of fira.fier and Worley. who hale absconded. They foamed part of a gang of Luddites. It appeared that Ileterel and Wooley brought II two loaded pistols to Diggle's font e, in Basford, on the evening before named, and Shaw, in the pretence' of Diggle and his wife, went and got gun powder from a man of the natne of Pogson, and there loadeJ two other pistols. Henfrey, Diggle, and one Burton, then went to Kerry's, broke open the door of his house, where he and his family were sitting in peace, and Henfrey and Diggle went in and presented then pistols, demanding that the wife and family of Kerry should retire into the parlour. Kerry got up and seised Henfrey's pistol, which Henfrey endeavoured to discharge at the body of Ketry, but which Kerry tinned aside, and the contents event into the fire in the room. Diggle then discharged his pistol at the head of Kerry, several of the sling corns from which entered his head, and were afterwards extracted by a surgeon. The prisoner was found guilty, and the Judge (her. Baron RtettAtem) passed sentence of death upon bins. Jahn Plumb, the younger, aged 25, and Thomas Ansin, aged '22, were charged with assaulting Richard Green and Richard Salvia, on the 27th of December 12.4. and With intent to murder the said Richard Green. being then on his duty, as gamekeeper to the , Earl et Chesterfield.  Richard Green, who presented himself a melancholy spectacle of this outrage, his face being bound up for the loss of an eye, and other injuries, deposed, that on going his round:, at about three in the morning, he found eight or nine snares set in the woods of Burton Joice, and in one of them a hare, which he left, determine'', with &Alvin, the other gamekeeper, to watch. Accordingly, having waited about time hours, he saw three men, two of whom proved to be the prisoners, and the third, named Calder (not taken), approached the Wood. Austin and Calder went towards the snare which had the hare in it, and took it up. to the mean time, Plumb saw the witness and his know servant. on which he called his companions to come away. Witness and Salvin followed them ; witness had a fierce dog, of the terrier and bull breed, which he brought to his assistance : he heartened the dog, that is, set him on, so that he seized Austin. Witness, to prevent the fury of the dog going too far, ran to rescue Austin, who was in danger of being torn to pieces by him ; witness ran between them, when he stumbled, lost his stick, and. fell upon Austin, who at the same time fell under him. Plumb came to the assistance of Austin, and picking up witness's stick, struck witness several severe blows about the head ; witness had lost one eye. and ftceived several wounds not recovered since ; `did not know which of the two struck the blows which occasioned the loss of his eye, but that he saw Plumb with the stick in bis hand, when witness said to him, " Come, Jack, don't be so soft as to kill one with that stick !" Plumb's answer was---44 I'll be hang'd it I don't ;" bat he did strike the witness afterwards. As witness got up with the loss of his eye, he, nevertheless, saw Salvin coming to his assistance. The prisoners wrenched Salvia's gun out of his hand, and made off with it ; the gun was found in the vomit the next day. Cross-examined by Mr. DlD: