Star. — 1830-07-26 (London, England)

WESTERN CIRCUIT—WINCHESTER, JULY W. MURDER ON BOARD • COSTICT4IIII,....Ww. mem, and Smith William., two convicts from the Hulks at Portsmouth, were indicted for the wilful murder of William Money, on the 15th of January last, by striking him a blow on his forehead with a hammer, and also with cutting his throat. It appeared that the deceased was deputy foreman of the convict sawyers eptployed In the Gun Wharf at Portsmouth ; he was known to be of penurious bobby, and to have occasionally obtained tobacco, spirits, rite. which he after. lords retailed to other convicts, by which traffic he was known to make money ; he had, besides, been neon With sovereigns in his pommels& —At eight on the morning above described, he, with several others, went to the Gun Wharf, where be was seen about half-plat eight talking to a labourer, and at half peat nine he was Antra in a shed with his bead almost severed from the body, and the skull, near the temple, fractured. From a careful ex. amination of the fracture, and its effect, it was clear that the  wound mot have been inflicted by sonic blunt instrument, before the throat was cut. When the deceased went to the shed it was observed that Brown watched him vay narrowly, followed him in, and cams out shortly after. Immediately after the deceased was found in the situation above describa The principal evidence against the primes was John Purcell, guard of the convicts. On the 28th of January I saw Brown on board the Yak ; I learnt that he wanted to give some information respecting the death of Winney ; I said to him, " Brown, I understand you know something about this business ; why do you not disclose it, as as one in the ship suspects you were concerned in it?" herepli " I am not the person, but I know who did it ;" be then na the person; I said, " how do you know that ?" be said that a passe told him, gave him six. pence and a bottle to get a quartern drum, and that he returned the bottle and rum to the person, with the change, which was procured by one of the Board of Ordnance men on the day prior to Winmy's death; he then said he saw the person going over to the 4e&seed in No. 11, and in the course of a few minutes after he saw him come out with his hands and clothes apparently covered with blood ; he said he asked him what he had been up to ? he replied, " Never mind—hold your tongue—all is right ; ' he then said the other person went over to thepump to wash his hands, and that he followed and asked him what the devil he bad been up to ? He said, " Hold your ton all is right ; I have planted the come money, and when we all will be right, and we shall di• vide ft." He said it was ei in • battle, or the neck of one; I said to him, " It appears to me you premeditated this business ;" he said " Yea, thew weeks or a month before, but he did not think the person would have murdered the man, but would have koouassd him (sent him to sleep with laudenum) so that he might have been robbed."  - - ii; pence he alluded to was the other prisoner, Williams. Williams was accordingly taken into custody, and his clothes were found to be covered with marks of blood. The money taken from the deceased, viz. six sovereigns and six shillings, were found in another shed, in the neck of a bottle. The Jury found the prisoners Guilty, and they were ordered to be executed on Monday, and their bodies to be delivered over for dissection.