The Statesman. — 1809-07-24 (London, England)

SMULAR CONDEMNATION.—A physician of the name of Gertz was publicly executed last month at Berlin. lie was a man of extensive practice, and hail acquired considerable reputation; in his profession, as well as a noble fortune. The circumstances, however, which led to his disgraceful end, are briefly these :—The only daughter a Baron Crueler, of the Prussian Board of Finance, was placed under his care for the eradication of a MerOptiftiOllS complaint. His skill sown relieved the young lady ; hut after a short time the disorder returned. Ho then declared to the fattier. whose confidence he had acquired, that unless the I daughter was more immediately under his eye, he could nut answer for her complete cure. The Be.runs upon this representation, agreed to her residing fur some time in the house of Gertz, who was a married man ; and in this situation the latter I (wind means to abuse the confidence reposed in I him, by seducing the young lady. Dreading the manifestatioW of his guilt, and sensible that his patient's sittration.wonld not admit of much longer 'concealment, he prescribed a medicine which operated with much violence, and after a few days terminated her existence. Previously to her dissulu. tion, however; she made knonn her shame. Gertz was immediately apprehended and examined—he •denied the crime imputed to him, and declared that his prescription was intended to relieve her pain. No evidence could be adduced of his guilt. The deceased. did not exhibit any appearance of being poisoned, and the medicine, on bCing analysed, was found to contain no ingredient of that nature. But several physicians having given their opinion, that they did not think that a man of Gortz's ex. perience could have given the merliciue for any' other than a malignant purpose, the Judges &Tided against him. His family has been banished the Prussian territory. A shocking murder was committed on Friday night at tit. Peter's-hill, Westminster, in the neigh. bourhood of Tothill.fields, by a woman on her husband. The parties had quarrelled whilst in bed, after each had returned from daily labour, and the wife stuck a knife iii her husband's forehead, which caused almost instantaneous death.— The woman was taken into custody, arid will be examined after the Coroner's Jury has sat on the body of the deceased.  'Another murder was committed al Drlyrot, Bucks, on Friday, by a youth of t 7, of tht name of Hawes, un the body of a woman of the name of Ludlow, in consequence of jealousy. The horrible act was committed with a knife, whilst the woman was asleep, and Hawes afterwards attempted to destroy himself. Two publicans, on Tuesday, hi Edmund-street, St. Pancras, after drinking together for sonic time, quarrelled and fought: in the scuffle they fell, when one of them kicked the other in thu and knocked out one of his eyes, and materially injured the other. Last week, the child of a shoemaker, named Farmer, fell into the ditch at the side of the Small-Pot Hospital, and received so much injury that her life was despaired of.  The new. Mr. Wright, curate of Long Sutton, in Lincolnshire, returning on Wednesday se'n. night, from [anion, where he had been burying a corpse, was violently attacked by a hull, which was grazing in a pasture through which the font. road to the church posses, and was so dreadfully gored by the furious animal, that his life is despaired of.