The Sun. — 1806-08-29 (London, England)

AIERICA.  POLTGHOPSIE (NEW-YORK), JULY 'l5. —On Wednesday last was' committed to the jail in this village Jesse Wood, charged with the murder of his son 'Joseph. A brother of the deceased, liezekieh, was committee at the same time as an .abettor. The circumitances of this awful transaaion which have come to our knowledge arc as follow : On Wednesday the Coroner, Major SAY RE, was called to hold an Inquest on the body. It appeared in evidence, that on . Tuesday last the said. Jesse Wood, with his • two sons, Joseph and Hezekiah, had been at work in a harvest. field. That on their return liorrielVard towards evening, being somewhat intoxicated, they got into a quarrel about some domestic affairs. The father, Jesse,. entered his: house, took down a loaded musket, and itnmediately Went- out:, In a few seconds his wife, hearing the report of a gun, .1-41 out, and about one hundred yards from the house found the dead body of her son, Joieph, lying, on the grOund, and the father and the other son near the place. The gun, 'discharged, lay not far froth' the body. . Other corroborating circumstances appeored in the testimony. • Verdi& lof- the •Inquest=z" Murder by the Father, Jesse Mod,.atetted by. his Son Ilezekiah:' The deceased was about' 24 years'olage, and had recently been married; the father upwards of 50, and his son, fiezeki-ah, about 22. The gun was loaded with a heavy '.charge of slug Shot, the whole. of which appealed to have enieted: his right breast, and to have put an- imMediateperiod to his existence. •  I A man was taken up and examined by 'one of the Magistrates laSt • week, charged with some petty. crime, who -being proved guilty, Was told, that if he chose' to serve the Kinghis punishment should be dispensed with ;' he -ask7ed 'Mr. Justice in what. Way " In- what way,"'-replied his Worship, " what country Man are you, fellow ?",--‘‘ Irish an please your Hooour."—" Have you ever been at sea ?" " Have I ever been at sea. ? Why:4es your Worship think that I was trundled over, here in a wheelbarrow' from my own country ?" On -Sunday last the following singulai.,instance of the sagacity of the 'feathered tribe occurred. .As 'a party-of ladieS 'and gentlemen 'were .walking on Tynernouth banks, towards Cullercoats, they.obServed-a hawk in full pursuit of a lark, on which one of the gentlemen shouted, and beat a sod fence near the place with. a'stick, in order to frighten the rapacious bird from his objea-, but apparently with out avail. The lark, however, made an exertion to escape; .and flew to the .feet of the-gentleman who shouted, for prote6tion, where it stopt for some minutes, till.the enemy toOk.his departure. A helper in. His Majesty's Stables at Windsor put a.period. to his existence a few days ago; his name was SaMuel Goodier : in a state of frenzy he got out of his bed, about three o'clock in the morning, took a cord from off his box, which was in' the room where he slept, in the King's Mews in Sheet-street, and went down stairs in his shirt only, into the , privyin the yard, and hung himself; he was found about half past four o'clock by Mr. Bullock, His Majesty's coachmait,under whom he worked, quite lifeless. The Coroner's Inquest Sat' on the body, and brought in a v.erdi& of Lunacy. On Monday evening last; a bOy about 14 years of :age, in a fit of intoxication, fell into the,water near the' Public Wharf, Leicester, and 'was taken out apparently;ip a lifeleis state; fortunately a party of Gentlemen arrived soon after, 'who carried him to the nearest Receiving-house, when, after the means recommended:by the LEICESTER HUMANE SOCIBTX M had been pursued fbr ore than an hour, under the direaion of Mr. LUDLAM •and Mr. ROBERT BULLEN, Surgeons, suspended animation was happily restored.—Much praise is said to be due to'Mr.. RICE, at the'ReCeiving-house, fur his promptness in preparing the 'portable bed, and .afirdin.g assistance on the above occaSion.  • SIiOtKINCi wlek,-Master Saxton, a fine boy of nine years 614 son `of Mr. Saxton, of Bri,ic6t, in Suffolk-, who. has a Very extensive mill near his hou'se,; after rising from dinner, ran towards the water-wheel; and advancing too near, the cdgs caught the skirts of his Coat, and, in consequence, the lowerextremities of the unhappy boy were shittered-hi sixth a enanher, that be opired . less thasPkwo