The National Register. — 1811-06-02 (London, England)

MAYOR. Baron GRAHAM, Mr. Justice GROSE, the RECORDRI4, Elizabeth llortcm, an interesting looking girl, only fourteen 'fears of age, was capitally Indicted for stealing in the dwellinghonse of Richard Knightley, in the parish of Shoteditch,two silver table spoons, six silver tea spoons, a one-pound note, a guinea, and other monies, his property, on the 21. st instant. Tt 'appeared that the prisoner went into the house ot the prosecutor t purchase some trifling article of linen-drapery, and while there found means of purloining the articles in yttestinn ; suspicions having arisen in the mind of the wite of the prosecatGr, she gave an alarm, and the prisoner was secured and searched, when the property specified in the indictment w.is found in her possession. This fact having been clearly proved, the Jury returned a verdict of Guilty—Death ; but recommended the unfortunate gfil to. mercy, on-account of her youth. Sarah Johnson, an aged woman, was next tried on an indictment charging her with stealing two silver watches, three gold sals, a gold chain, and various articles of wearing apparel, in the louse of John Ciozees at Spitalfields, on the 23d of April. The prisoner it appeared was a servant in the house of the 1,,-osecutor,. and in the absenee-nf her master and mistress the property in question, and conveyed it to a neighbour:ill. paAvnbrokers, where it was afterwards found, and the prisoner wrs identified as the person who had stolen them—Guilty— Death.  CHARGE or MtlßDEß.—Friday, John Colley, 45 years of age, a sailor, was put to the bar to take his trial on an indictment charging him with the wilful murder of Mary his wile. The prisoner. it appeared, had but recently retureed. from a voyage, but did not reside with his wife, who, it was suspected, cohabited with a man named Ferguson. Or. the evening of the ltPt h i!ist. Ole orienner went to her lodgings fin -Sand-court, \Vaiiping, where she was in company with Ferguson On entering the room he said, 44 This is my wedding day, and it shall be clAy of murder," and in au an instant he drew a knife from 11:s pocket and plunged it into the left side of the abdomen of his w;le. lie then rushed towards Ferguson and attempted to stab him, bet Ferguscn warded off the blows, and at length secured him in a chair until a- neighbour, named Josef, came to h's assistance. The deceased died in the course of the everin7. is consequence of the wound, and the prisoner was conducted to prison, whither he went without the slightest resistance. The case for the prosecution t:aving been closed, the prisoner was called on for his defence. He said he had always been an affectionate husband to his wife ; but she, in company with Per. gnson, with weeoin she cohaMted, had treated him with great unkindness. At an early period of his life he received a fracture on his head, in consequence of which he was occasionally deranged, and he supposed he must have committed the dreadful act, with which he stood charged, under the influence of insatetty. in support of this defence several persons were called, from whose testimony it appeared that the prisoner had ctrt his throat when on board the Ceylon Fast Indianian in 180(3 ; from which time down to the day on which he committed the offence for which he wa, indicted,'„his conduct was such as to bear the Most manifest walks of a disordered mind. Sir NATHAN' EL Gft as c having summed up the evidence, the Jury retired, and after au absence of an hour and a half, returned with a verdict of—Not Guilty,  SATURDAY, JUNt 1.