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The Sun. — 1845-04-08 (London, England)

EXECUTION OF JOHN BROUGH, THE FRATRI• CIDE, AT STAFFORD. STAFFORD, SATURDAY NOON.—This unhappy criminal, who was found guilty of the murder of his brother Thomas, at our late assizes, before Mr. Baron Platt, expiated his dreadful offence on the public gallows this morning, in front of the county gaol, making the fifth murderer who has suf. fered the extreme penalty of the law in this town during the last twelve months. On Friday what is termed the funeral sermon was preached by the worthy pastor of the prison, during which the unhappy creature frequently sobbed aloud. He then, with much composure, received the Sacrament from the hands of the chaplain. In the course of the evening he wrote several letters, one more particularly, which was addressed to his relatives, being couched in the most affectionate terms. At an early hour he retired to rest, two turnkeys being in attendance upon him in the condemned cell, and about Live o'clock this morning he rose, and displayed the utmost contrition. ,On the Bev. Mr. Sedge waiting upon him, soon after six o'clock, he again expressed his willingness to die, and thanked all the prison authorities for the kindness they had shown to him during his incarceration. On the an ival of the sheriffs and others whose presence was deemed necessary for the fulfilment of the extreme sentence, the doomed being was informed that the awful termination of his existence was near at hsfid. Within a few minutes of eight o'clock, the whole of the mournful prepvations being completed, the unhappy culprit was led through the several passages on to the drop. He seemed not to take mach heed of the assembled mob, but evidently was occupied in deep prayer with the reverend chaplain. His stay, however, on the scaffold was but short, for the rope, cap, &c., being speedily adjusted, the signal was given for the withdrawal of the fatal bolt, and in a rely brief ptriod the wretched man ceased to exist. The mob was not so great as bad been the case on previous occasions; in fact, throughout the whole, a feeling of deep commisseration was felt for the culprit. The body, after hanging the usual time, was cut down, and buried alongside the remains of other murderers in the interior of the prison.  On Saturday the annual general meeting of the members of the Society of schoolmasters was held in the apartments of the Literary Fund, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury ; the Rev. Dr. Russell in the chair. The report was read by Octavius Blewitt, Esq. The Secre Lary stated, that his Majesty the King of the French, who had been for many years a member of the Society, had presented this year an additional donation of 101. The. Association was established in 1798, and daring the first th•rteen years of its existence, ba.l given to forty tamilies of distressed schoolmasters the sum of 7,004.. and 5.0001. in other charitable d,matiotia. The reci ipts since the last anniversary amounted to 5241, and the expenses to 3801. The report was adopted. Tun
The Sun. — 1845-12-25 (London, England)

ATTEMPT TO MURDER GEORGE READE, ESQ. The Carlow Sentinel contains the following :—" We learn from a respectable correspondent, that a desperate attempt was made on Monday night last, about nino o'clock, to assassinate George Reade, Esq., of Duneeshal, near Carnew•, county Wicklow, or rather on the bounds of that and the connty Wexford The particulars of this dreadful attempt to assassinate a respectable gentleman as communicated to us upon unquestionable authority, are as follows :—Mr. Reade had dined with a friend who resides in his immediate neighbourhood, Mr. Sawn, of Torebrain, and on his return home at the above hour, he stopped midway between Tombrain and his ow❑ residence, at a stream which crossed the road, to water his horse, when a man leaped over the ditch, presented a pistol within a yard of his person and tired, but without effect. The villain then stood to see whether his intended victim had fallen, and while in that position, Mr. Reade had full opportunity of identifying him as a work. man and tenant of his own, named Ronayne, who, finding the isle)t had not succeeded, turned round and fled through a fox ccver. Mr. Reade returned back to Mr. Swan's and rode without delay into Carnew, and calling out the constabulary, they proceeded in pursuit of Ronayne, whom they arrested in his bed. His shoes were fitted to the tracks found on the spot by the police, and were found to correspond precisely. Being fully identified by Mr. Reade, who was thus providentially spared to his family, Ronayne was committed to Wexford gaol on Tuesday, to abide his trial at the ensuing assizes."  The following additional particulars are given by the Wexford Independent :—" We are informed that the cause of this horrid attempt was, that Mr. Reade had, on Monday, refused to give gang or quarter land to the man in question, as he was giving it to other men in his employment. Tne reason he assigned for his refusal was, that the man had an improvident family, and he had focnd it requisite, a few months before, to forgive him ten or twelve pounds. At that time he decided on paying his wages weekly, and did so thenceforward. such were the reasons which Mr. Reade himself assigned to the man for refu,ing to give him the quarter land. As the unhappy individual is now in custody, we forbear from further observation. We have reason to hope, however, and indeed to believe, that there was nut a second person in any manner concerned in the dreadful design, nor aware of it. Mr. Reade has nearly fifty persons in his employment, as he occupies about seven hundred acres of land, a great part of which is under tillage. It would be a severe loss to the several poor families thus supplied with the means of supporting themselves, that the life of their employer should be madly or wickedly taken away. We are sincerely rejoiced that he has escaped without injury ; and, next to this, we feel pleasure in believing that no other individual in his employment, or residing in his neighbourhood, had any part in the nefariuus intention to terminate his existence."  RAILWAY SR sR.E
The Sun. — 1845-01-30 (London, England)

THE YARMOUTH MURDER.-We understand that a reads. have been at Yarmouth on that night, and remembered having seen a person coming out of Mr. Cate bpole's house and going up the opposite row with a bundle under his arm. This was between eleven and twelve o'clock. i nCga Candler, er the , bethoughtnewspaper an In order to satisfy himself that it was really the place where the murder had been committed, he came over to Yarmouth on purpose to look at accountna n of from In le murderAYish a m o f' mr the house. Having fully assured himself that he was correct, he wrote a letter to the mayor stating the circumstances, and expressing his willingness to come over to Yarmouth and identify the individual whom, he said, he should certainly know again. lie was sent for, and on being introduced to the gaol swore positively to Yarham being the man he saw.—Cambridge Advertiser. Mr. Sturges Bourne has received intelligence of the death of his sister, Mrs. Martin, mother of the Rev. George Martin, Chancellor of the diocese of Exeter, who died at Torquay, on Sunday, the 19th inst. It is a singular circumstance that the Rev. Chancellor should lose his mother and his father-in-law (the Earl of St. Ger. mans) on the same day. The deceased lady was in her eighty-third year.  - - • ' 4 may; _ , , •' ' . - / , - , . - ' •••• /. ..t..-/- ./1 Z-el. ,r'-----_.......->"/.6-':-. . .. ~ .. / a:-/e,-- ./ //,' -/ 7 Z .. • . • • • • . . .. K-.-e----29' • -, PIT ,v- -7,- , - ~__P,_ j, lIVI • / 4_ f. . ;!' !I ...., . . .-4 I '''''''' , '•, L, - Nk \- ci: ,ti II 41,,..-.4 ._ •• , ~,..:„ ~,,.... ~_ , • -I .•.. • . ' ' ''''.'4:' .'''nf ~.,:i'W:P,.:;•;•• , . s' .' :\ L' -k!"<• • P;'71...::. 4-4'3,, ----il-L ' 4514'-' - Pr''-I,°. '''. _ 2:: 0,/ ' ' ' '-' . :•,14!..., e 63 , 1.4 ' ...„ • ~ . . ~.;L. . .4,,,, I - 4 i ~" $ • ''' ". , ''. ,•••/' ' ' ,e, ..„, ~ .4'.. - ' • . -. TS _ll. -- '1 /• %#11.; • 0 -•'!',.l-,:,,;.., '-d3/4"e„. 1.,,,,,,.• ---'" ~. --- - A.V..citf., i• ..: I •::',. ! 54* 1• -• .;. .1.; . , • ~. , ,00 -e••••,e. ,1.-011' At ' V.9? ,fic, 1,,- %,,," ,61,,, . —;, , ..,li,/,:y __ ",••• • , 40,-. - -,,,,x--- 16, I, vY°tt 1 -- I' ' 4'1.1 101 iL' 1.- r- / ''_,...-.-11e-' .., o,3l&.____ •--4----",-.4..; vs,ro-il. , pi.. 'l/41‘., -I.p.k t' ' - ---,irt.',' a..," .i4i3l`, . ' t,-44,...- .„.-,' s,_ 4%. cho. - ' ,4,,-; ~,,,,,"17,.,,,,i,,-.~. ‘ , ---....„4,, a, , ~, , :, . ~...,,. ~,_ 4,,, , 4,.. .4 •., •,. • ••• so --4, ',--- 4. 411101114) , . •••...-rr, .._ , - ' .4' •, . 1 0,:. .. taalt, ''' -' R OTT .' - ' A, ~..'',',,,;- --..,,•, :3, i , ''' I' • /ds ... ~ .. , `,\,:.,t,:.. ..„,v.„ ....-..r.,1'74.2....,,, q%... , ..:7,517..,,,,...,:ta1,....,, ~.- ... vr-,,P,....1,1., ..^-1.,....,--,../(-, ~,,....,.....,,,,,,,,,........n....IMINUOIMIMMIPTORSIMP6IIO2IIIIIL,etraCt..II2mOrtVrx.-.7,:5eTrvv.e.,....e...,...t.a,,,i11aTr.fir.71.141.0,..160-11Pia,C.,..~11.4115.116.1.1MFM1C1N1MAM 3.....erreaHralk: - - . -- - - -
The Sun. — 1845-01-22 (London, England)

MILLS—He was to watch it against persons cutting wood. I had been out before, and I was going out. I told him if he saw any one cutting not to interfere, but only to get near enough to see who it was. I was going to Uxbridge market on that day, and when I got down against the Six Bells, the landlady came out and asked me to give her a ride. A man named Meadows came out and asked me if I had heard a gun go off in my cover ? I said, no ; but got out and went across to John Brill, whom I found stopping the gaps according to my direction; that was the last time I saw him alive. I then told him, when he went horde to his dinner, to stay at home until I returned, which would be about three. On my return, finding that lie did not come to open the gate, I thought something was amiss, for he was a lad that was always to his time. If you told him to be anywhere in the middle of the night, he was sure to be there. I had heard threats against the lad, because he was a witness in a charge of poaching which had been preferred against a man named Lavender. I then went into the woods to see if I could find him ; and searched about the woods, hut could not find him. I then sent to his father, who, with another man, went in search of him, but could not discover anything of him. Next morning, at daybreak, the search was renewed; but they did not Lind him. Did not search on Saturday, having heard that he had run away, and had been seen at West End. There were one-and-twenty persons search• ing the wood on Friday. On Sunday the search was resumed, and had not been continued more than half an hour, when he was found by James Lavender, who cried out murder. I went up and saw him lying on his back dead, by a bush, witk his arm hooked up against a bush ; his cuff and bill lay at his feet. Some blood ran from his ears. The body was taken to the Six rens, Ruislip-common. his head dropped as if his neck was broken, when they first lifted him up. I was not present when the surgeons examined him. I did not see any bruise on the temple or other part of the head. I saw on the Monday that some underwood had been cut at about 23 or 30 yards from the place where the body was found. Mary Allday—l am the wife of Thomas Allday and live at Ruislip-common. My husband is a labourer. I recollect John Brill being lost on the 16th February, 1837. On that morning I saw the prisoner Lamb at the Six Bells. I was looking out at an upstairs window of my father's house, where I then lived. He MIA going down the footpath leading to the wood now overlooked by Churchill, and had a bill in his hand. I saw him again a little after twelve the same day; I was up at my grandmother's house at the time. He was then coming from the direction of the wood with a bundle of wood on his shoulder—large green bits in the middle, and the smaller pieces outside. It was green wood, and apparently freshly cut. He went towards his own home. Mr. MILLS (to the prisoner)—Have you any question to ask ? Lamb—No, Sir, what she has stated is perfectly true.
The Sun. — 1845-11-17 (London, England)

CHIEF BARON—The objection taken was that there were no instructions on board of the Felicidade. The Learned Chief Baron understood from Mr. Godson that these Portuguese treaties of 1826 ended in 1830. By the treaty with Portugal the slave-trade was only partially put an end to. By the treaty with Brazil it was declared piracy. The Learned SERGEANT here read from Bth and 9th Victoria to show that the mixed Commissions at Rio Janeiro, and Sierra Leone, ending on the 12th March, 1845, were extended by mutual agreement of both Governments for six months longer. As to the Felicidade, there is no pretext for confounding the provisions of the sth Geo. IV. with those of the treaty of 1836. The words of the treaty are —the carrying on of the slave trade, under which terms he submitted the present offence could not be brought. He bad no intention to differ from the dicta quoted on Homicide. One of their Lordships remarked that was nothing as to the place where the case was to be tried. The Learned SERGEANT argued that the Felicidade was not the property of the English Government. It has been suggested that there was a locus penitentim, but that there was no evidence of any desistance from the purpose ; but the Learned Sergeant suggested that the locus penitentire did not end till the slaves were on board. Mr. COLLIER said, under no circumstance is a person subject to. the laws of a country who has not, by some act, complied with them. This proposition has not been :haken. He would not say more of the distinction as to prisoners of war. It has never been decided in any case that any person on Ward an English vessel is therefore subject to English laws. It is claimed on the other side to extend the jurisdiction of England over the high seas to the exclusion of other nations. This can never be done. Surkera's submission was to superior force, and gives no jurisdiction ; he threw his arms overboard when he surrendered. It is not shown that the jolly-boat from which the Echo was taken was the jolly-boat of the Felicidade. The capture, under the circumstances, was illegal. The boat was on board the Felicidade. Any English captain might evade the treaty by sendingn boat's crew to any number he plea, ed on board English merchantmen; thus giving them a legality to capture; that is, if the capture be in this case thought lawful. As to the instructions, those pointed out in the treaty of 1826 are by the treaty with Brazil that if these instructions are not changed, they should remain in force fifteen years after the slave trade was abolished, and these ending only on 13th March, 1845 ; and this case occurring in February, the instructions of 1826 were at the time in force. Again, it must be proved that if a captain unlawfully detain a seaman, and he kill, the case is murder. He quoted to the effect that it would not be murder. Mr. COLLIER having now concluded, the Court rose at a gamier to four o'clock. The Court will sit again on the same cause at two o'clock on Saturday next.  COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Nov. 15. (Before Mr. Commissioner GouLnouns.) DT RE
The Sun. — 1845-11-17 (London, England)

BARON—The objection taken was that there were no instructions on board of the Felicidade. The Learned Chief Baron understood from Mr. Godson that these Portuguese treaties of 1826 ended in 1830. By the treaty with Portugal the slave-trade was only partially put an end to. By the treaty with Brazil it was declared piracy. The Learned SERGEANT here read from Bth and 9th Victoria to show that the mixed Commissions at Rio Janeiro, and Sierra Leone, ending on the 12th March, 1845, were extended by mutual agreement of both Governments for six months longer. As to the Felicidade, there is no pretext for confounding the provisions of the sth Geo. IV. with those of the treaty of 1836. The words of the treaty are —the carrying on of the slave trade, under which terms he submitted the present offence could not be brought. He bad no intention to differ from the dicta quoted on Homicide.  One of their Lordships remarked-that was nothing as to the place where the case was to be tried. The Learned SERGEANT argued that the Felicidade was not the property of the English Government. It has been suggested that there was a locqs penitentiEe, but that there was no evidence of any desistance from the purpose ; but the Learned Sergeant suggested that the locus penitentiEe did not end till the slaves were on board. Mr. COLLIER said, under no circumstance is a person subject to the laws of a country who has not, by some act, complied with them. This proposition has not been shaken. He would not say more of the distinction as to prisoners of war. It has never been decided in any case that any person on board an English vessel is therefore subject to English laws. It is claimed on the other side to extend the jurisdiction of England over the high seas to the exclusion of other nations. This can never be done. Surkera's submission was to superior force, and gives no jurisdiction ; he threw his arms overboard when he surrendered. It is not shown that the jolly-boat from which the Echo was taken was the jolly-boat of the Felicidade. The capture, under the circumstances, was illegal. The boat was on board the Felicidade. Any English captain might evade the treaty by sendinea boat's crew to any number he pleased on board English merchantmen ; thus giving them a legality to capture; that is, if the capture be in this case thought lawful. As to the instructions, those pointed out in the treaty of 1826 are by the treaty with Brazil that if these instructions are not changed, they should remain in force fifteen years after the slave trade was abolished, and these ending only on 13th March, 1845; and this case occurring in February, the instructions of 1826 were at the time in force. Again, it must be proved that if a captain unlawfully detain a seaman, and he kill, the case is murder. He quoted to the effect that it would not be murder. Mr. COLLIER having now concluded, the Court rose at a qaarter to four o'clock. The Court will sit again on the same cause at two o'clock on Saturday next.
The Sun. — 1845-10-15 (London, England)

VMERSMITIL  MURDEROUS OUTRAGE ON A WOMAN.—A labouring man, named John Leydon,. was brought up in the custody of the police before Mr. G. Clive, the sitting magistrate, charged on the police-sheet with having committed a most murderous and outrageous assault upon a woman named Ann Wheeler. who is now lying in St. George's Hospital, without any hopes of her surviving. Inspector Smith, T division, stated that the case was a most serious one, the unfortunate woman being covered with bruises from head to foot, and several of her ribs were fractured. He hod sent that morning to the hospital to know the state of the wounded female, and had learned that she was as bad as she well could be. The following certificate had also been sent  " St. George's Hospital, Oct. 13, 1845. " This is to certify that Anne Wheeler is an in-patient, and is at this time afflicted with severe contusions of the head and face, and fractured ribs. " G. COCKBURN HYDE, for A. JOHNSON, House-surgeon. " Gearge Langston deposed that he lived at Holmes-cottage, in the brick-fields, Gloucester-road, Kensington. On Saturday night, after paying his men their wages at the Coach and Horses public-house, James street, Kensington-square, he saw his daughter standing outside with Ance Wheeler, who had a child in her arms. They both ultimately went home with him, and sat and had some beer. The prisoner came in while they were doing so, and quarrelled with AnueWheeler, and st ruck her s,verai times, after which he left. Anne Wheeler remained and laid with her clothes on outside the bed: About three o'clock on Sunday morning he way awoke by hearing the front window smashed in, and saw the pris,m.r in the room, awl saw him drag Anne Wheeler off the bed, and after knocking her down and beating her dreadfully, jump on her as herd as he c,u'd, first on the lower part of her person, and then on her face and head. Witness thinking she was killed, laid hold of a large pistol he kept in the room, and thinking it was loaded, threatened to shoot him if he did not de=ist ; but the pistol was not loaded, and the prisoner after kicking the woman out of do:4.s, lett her there quite insen Bible. Witness being unable to tasi t Anne Wheeler tk% himse!f, did not at first know what to do, but eventually went into the Fulham-road, and at the Admiral Keppel publicbons, hired a cab, and, with the assistance of two policemen, conveyed her to St. George's Hospital. The prisoner not apprehended until Sunday afternoon. The prisoner, in answer to the chirge, said he had been living with Anne Wheeler as man and wife for the last seven years, and had had three children by her. For some days previous to Saturday she bad been away from him, and he suspected that she was cohabiting with the witness La.ngston. He further explained that it wars in a fit of jealousy and rage at her refusing to go home with him that he committed the assault. He was remanded for a week.