Star. — 1820-03-06 (London, England)

MARCH 3. John Bell, who stands char2ed in Middlesex, with being an accomplice with Richard Be!yord, in the wilful murder of a Gentleman, named John Thomas Taylor, at Hornsey, about 18 months since (the mysterious circumstances of which are fresh in the recollection of the Public), was tried here on two indictments, the one charging him with stealing a lamb, and the other with stealing sixty pigeons. The evidenc. not being sufficient to support either indictment, be was Acquitted on both. Mr. Barow ti A ItROW then ordered him to be remitted to the County of Middlesex, to take his trial for the alleged murder abovementioned. This man was indicted at the last Assizes for the County of Essex, with a gang of desperadoes, for a burglary, three of whom were convicted and executed, but on that occasion he was acquitted, and moved to the jail of this County. Thomas Pertly and George Butler had been indicted for the wilful murder of Wm. Hart, who was thrown off the Holyhead mail, of which Perdy was the driver, and which had been upset by the Chester mail, of which Butler was the driver, in consequence of the misconduct of both prisoners, who had been racing their coaches, near St. Alban's, in the.month of Augut last ; but the Grand Jury having thrown out the bill for the capital offence, they were now tried on a charge of Manslaughter, and both found Guilty. The Learned JUDGE, in passing sentence, commertted on the conduct of the prisoners in terms of strong animadversion. His Lordship laid it down distinctly, that it was unlawful for the driver of a public coach to put his horses into a gallop, and that he was answerable for all the consequences of an infringement of this law. The driver of a stagecoach was bound to protect oven the intoxicated, the blind, the aged, and the helpless, against their own want of caution or prudence. Its Lordship, in this case, felt it his duty to pronounce the severest judgment that the law will allow, which was, that the prisoners be severally confined in the common jail of this County for the term of one year. Catherine Hughes and Thomas Kentish were indicted as principal and accessory for an assault upon Eliza Harris, an infant, under the age of ten years, with intent to commit a gross outrage on her person. It is impossible to enter into a detail of the circumstances of this atrocious and diabolical transaction, which excited, in an immensely crowded Colin, feelings of horror and indignation. The father of tile proeautrix is a respectable grocer in 1.ond;1, and M'.l a country-house at llemelHempstead, where he left the female prisoner,. Hughes, in the month of December lila, in care of his five children, with permission to another woman in the. neighbourhood to sleep in the house, and keep the. prisoner company. Na sooner was Mr. Harris's back turned, than these infamous women admitted into the house their paramours. On The 10th of Mcen:ber, the atrocious transaction in question took place. The prisoner Kentish was aided in his nefarious purpose by the prisoner Hughes ; the health of the unhappy child is seriously injured. The case was proved by the most conclusive evidence, and the Jary found the prisoners Guilty. They were sentenced to three years' imprisonment eaJ: in Hertford jail. William Catlin. was convicted of burglary ; and Dollimore and Joseph Newman were convicted of sheep-stealing.  I,,,nky and Drummond, now incarcerated in Chestcr Ca:Ate, for liot and sedition, have, for certain refr.►ctory act, been put in iroas.