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Star. — 1816-08-13 (London, England)

QUEIII-11QUAR1.—Scurday William Williams was brought up In the custody of Gardner, the officer, who apprehended him, after considerable trouble, iu the garden of Mr. Cock, at M.II- on a charge of violating the pension of his own child, only ten years of age. The prisoner was remanded , Yesterday Thomas Pilton, Est of Sloae-street, Chelsea ,charged William Liftman, a (Immo with riding upon the shafts of his dray, in consequence of wads It killed a sheep on the spot. He was ordered to satisfy the owner of Use sheep, and was also lined ss.  UNION liatte.-Joreph Shearing was charged with threatening the life at bb own fattier, Edward Shearing, a wheelwright, of Vauxhall, who stated, that his son is 26 years of age, and in a flood of tears, described the ill-treatment which be frequently re- I caved from him, particularly on Friday evening, when be not only broke and destroyed his property, but he swore that he would cmunit murder before he left the house; and bad it not been for the interference of a Gentleman of the name of May, the censequenees might have been fatal. Mr. Blame recollected the prisoner to bap been before him at Union Hail, on a similar charge. He was ordered to lied bail.  Guitnnat.L.---On Saturday &mei Led was brought up on a capital charge, under Lord ELLesmoaotion's Act, fot stabbing, swath intent to do some bodily harm, bee husband, J. Lock. The calmplainant stated, that en his return from daily labour on Wednesday evening last, be was stet on the stairs by the prbooer, who followed him into their room, and in loud tenni desired him "to go to the strumpet from whence he cattle' He protested that she bad no ground for such an imputation ; but. deaf to bis assertiows, she seized him by the neckcloth, which she endeavoured to untie, and take off : failing us this, however, she stabbed him in the neck with a small knife, which she held in her hand, and the noise of the opening of which he had heard; she was about to repeat ber blow, when be put his hand up to prevent ber ; , upowwhich she cut his thumb severely, and then dropped the ' knife on the floor. Complainant became foist from loss of blood, and was conveyed by his ne.ghboors eo a surgeon, who Messed Iris wounds. Un his mum home he found that bW wife was in custody. Alder man ScuoLeT. baying asked the consplainant if he wished to swear to hie evident, the unfortunate man said, the pri; sonar was his lawful wife, and be bad lived with her for many yowl; her groundless jealotwe tended so materially to mar their happinots, however, that he could fk4){ thilik , after this fresh proof of its violence, of again living with her. He bad no wish to hurt her, bat was determined that she should be bound over to keep the pause. Alderman SCIIIOLIT said, it she escaped now, he had Do security for her abstainiug from similar misconduct in future. lie ordered the prisoner to be rensaddedtilaneeday.
Star. — 1816-07-16 (London, England)

MARLSOROVOIVIITIMM—Yesterday Jame: Ryder, alias Hawker, was charged by W. Morgan, clothier, of Duke.sueet, Bloomsbury, with fraudulently obtaining from him, on Saturday last, a suit of clothes, value 4; which he stated was for his wedding suit ; and said if he would send his son, a youth about 14 years of age, with them, he would send the money back. Mr. Morgan said he would go himself and carry the clothes, and went accordingly, as he supposed, to the prisoner's lodgings, No. 38, Rathboneplace. He went into the house with the prisoner, who left the bundle in one of the rooms, and said he would go over to the public house and pay him.— They went to a public house in the neighbourhood, and the prisoner said he would go to the bar and or. der some liquor. He went, and Mr. Morgan having waited a considerable time, was surprised he had not returned. He went to the bar, and learned the prisoner had been there, but decampod.--David Tho. mas Morgan, the son of the prosecutor, having heard a conversation between his father and the prisoner, suspecting him to be a swindler, followed them at a distance,and saw them going into No. 88, Rathboneplace, and afterwards tnto the public house. In a few minutes after he saw the prisoner leave the public house, and going into No. 38, bring out the bundle with him, winch he ran away with very fast. He followed him, crying ont—“ Stop thief !" and ke was secured and lodged in Mary-la-bonne watchhouse. Mr. Morgan not knowing any thing of this, and 6ndng the prisoner did not return, repaired to 38, Rathbone-place, and found it to be a Coffeehouse ; and that the prisoner had left the, bundle and again returned for it, but that he did not lodge there. The prisoner was fully committed.  The circumstances which led to the unexpected reprieve of Joseph Perm, the Spaniard, (who was to have been executed yesterday, for the murder of Benjamin Twigg, a soldier in the Guards), are reported to be as follows :—On Saturday two women applied to the Sheriff, and stated, that had they been examined on the trial of this unhappy man, they could have proved that the deceased was the first aggressor, and that what the prisoner did was in his own defence. On being interrogated as to the cause of their not coming forward before, they said they were alarmed lest any ill consequences should result to themselves. In a case of such importance, the Sheriff considered it proper that no time should be' lost, and therefore got these women to make affidavits of the facts which they stated, which he witnessed himself, and carried to the Secretary of State's Office at a late boar in the evening. On Sunday the subject was taken into consideration, and the affida* ens as well as all the other circumstances attending the case, were referred to Mr. Justice PARS, who tried the man. The result of their efforts was, that lan order was sent to the gaol of Newgate at the hour we have mentioned, of which the following is the substance : • .“ Let treads' be stayed on Joseph Peru tin Wednesday, the 17th day of July, for which this shall be your sunicient authority. " 3055 PH
Star. — 1802-11-11 (London, England)

SHOCKING MURDER.—Mr. Steele, proprietor of the Lavender Water Ware houfe, Catherineftteet, in the Strand, was yefterday morning found murdered on Hounflow Heath. The deceafed went on Friday laft to Belfont, where he had a plantation of lavender, for the purpofe of giving fame inftruetions to the people whom he there employed, meaning to return home on the follow. ing day, it having been previoutly agreed that his wife's birth day should be celebrated by their re. fpeetive relations on the fucceeding Sunday. Not having returned at the appointed time, his family concluded that he had been unexpthedly detained by bufinefs ; and this confideration prevented any alarm for his fafety, till Monday morning, when they fent a rneffenger to Belfont, to enquire the caufe of his delay. The information there receiv. ed was, that he had let out at feven o'clock on Saturday evening, and being unable to procure any kind of carriage, had refolvedto proceed to town on foot. Since that time, the people at Belfont had heard no intelligence whatever of him. This circum (lance naturally led his relations to con. clude that fome fatal accident had befallen him, and his brother in law, with fome other friends, determined in confequence to let out in fearch of him. For feveral hours they continued in vain exploring different parts of the Heath. At length they difcovered at a short diflance from the road a piece of blue cloth. On laying hold of this, they found it to be the skirt of a great coat buried in the turf, and which, on examination, proved to be the fame that Mr. Steele had taken with him from home. Proceeding a little further, they law near a bufh a foldier's hat, and examining the butte with care, they perceived a quantity of blood ; this appearance led them reafonably to conclude that murder had been committed near the fpot, and on examining the bullies minutely, they found their fufpicions unhappily realized. They beheld, beneath, the (hocking fpeetacle of their murdered relative, nearly covered with the turf, and for feveral minutes were loft in the horror of the fcene. Upon infpation, they difcovered that the deceafed had received feveral wounds in the top and on the back of the head, and that a part of his forehead had been entirely cut away. Round his neck they found tied a thong piece of belt, by which it is fuppofed he had been ftrangled. The wounds on the head appeared to them as if inflicted with a bayonet, and this circumftance, as well as that of a military hat having been found near the fpot, naturally excite a firfpicion that the horrid deed has been perpetrated by two foldiers who were teen walking acrofs the Heath the fame evening. The packets of the deceafedwere entirely cut away,and his boots and hat had alfo been carried off. The molt diligent fearch is now making for the abminable murderers, and there is reaton to hope they will not efcape the punifhment fo jai y due to their crimes. Mr. Steele was a young man of very amiable character, and his fate is fincerely lament.
Star. — 1802-08-11 (London, England)

MAIDSTONE ASSIZES.-SMELLER D. LEVI.  The plaintiff in this action had fome time !ince entered into partnerfhip with the defendant, a Illverfinith and watchmaker at Canterbury. The concern was a 'Wing one, and an account was taken with a view to the diffolution of the partnership, when it appeared the defendant was indebted to the plaintiff, in the fum of 701. for which it was agreed he fl-mid give a note payable at fix months. It was Hated by the plaintiff's Counfel, that this note had been afterwards artfully obtained poffellion of by the defendant from the plaintiff, who, thereby deprived of his fecurity, was under the necetlity of proceeding at law, to recover the (urns he had diiburfed on account of his partner. This aftion was brought for the fum of 71. a moiety of what the plaintiff had paid for fitting up the (hop. It was proved that the work had been done, and that the plaintiff had paid for it. The maid fervant of the plaintiff deputed, that one day in her mailer's abfcnce, the defendant came to his houfe, proceeded to the place where he kept his papers, and took away the note for 701. laying he was authorifcd to do fo. On the part of the defendant it was contended, that after the diffolution of the partnerfhip, the plaintiff had called upon him and delivered up ' the note, at the fame time telling him, a regiment of foldiers was coming to Canterbury, and that it would be for their mutual advantage to continue to trade together, as they would have an opportunity of felling a number of watches. ' Judith Abrahams, a young girl, (wore pofitively the was prefent when the plaintiff Cant to her matter's honk, and delivered him the note.— It was evident from her manner, the was fwearing to a falfity, and, accordingly, the Judge commit. ted her, and ordered her to find bail to anfwer to an indiament.—The Jury returned a vcrdid for the plaintiff.  Saturday evening, in confequence of a difpute with fume girls of the town, a seafaring man was murdered in St. Catherine's Line, Eat Smithfield. He received no lcfs than lit different wounds in his breall, from thy blade of a clafp-knife, one of which proved mortal.  Sunday fenniglit four young men, Mat. Browne, Hans Browne, John Grant, and Caleb Stephens, were apprtheuded, charged with being concerned lin killing a man on the ilrand, near the light-houfe, Dublin, in a quarrel. He got his death by a (hot in the belly from one of the above-mentioned perfims. They had been on a boating party, and put in at the light houfe, and the gun which killed the unfortunate man they had brought out with them or thooting tea fowl. They were on Monday brought betore a Magillrate, and underwent examination. They are ail under twenty years of age ; the deceaftd has left a wife and children, ani lived near Temple-bar Dublin. A Coroner's Inquett was held on the Monday upon the body, after which one ut the young men, Caleb Stephen,s was ordcied to be lodged in the New Prifou ; the other three were di!charged. Saturday, Mathew Vardy and Edward Nee, wet e pillored at the Royal Exchange, Dublin, purtuant to their ftmtatce. for being concerned in
Star. — 1821-10-06 (London, England)

MURDER AT HIGHGATE.—FINAL EXAMINATION. —Yesterday being the day appointed for the final examination of Barrett and his wife, on a charge of robbery at Mr. Rothschild's, and to be re-examined on suspicion of the murder, they were brought up from the /louse of Correction at an early hour, and at nine o'clock the Justice-Room was crowded to excess. The following appeared in evidence yesterday before Dr. OWEN Elizabeth Hopkins remembers on the morning that Sellers, Mr. Male's watchman, was murdered, at about half-past six o'clock she was going with her husband's breakfast to a field where he was mowing fora Mr. Thompson, in Hornsey-lane : on proceeding along she saw the prisoner Barrett turn down the lane, and he stopped to consider which way he would turn; he crossed a field called Ashbutt'sfield, exactly at the back of Mr. Hale's house, and near some hay-stacks there was a black man sitting in a hollow ; Barrett, who appeared us if he had left the black man, crossed the field and climbed over a stile at the further end, and proceeded in a confused direction to the point where she had first seen him; the black man went away. She could not be mistaken as to his person; she had known him previously to that morning. Dr. OwEN remarked, that it was on suspicious circumstances that a shirt with marks of blood upon the sleeve had been found under the bay-stacks mentioned. It was found by a man.named Field, who had it in his possession. A man named Murphy had been apprehended on suspicion of its being his, in consequence of his having put a new shirt on, and in order that he should give an account of the old shirt he had left off. It was, however, involved in a mysstery, and for the want of evidence he was discharged. A bloody stocking was also produced here, and inspected, which had been found at Barrett's lodgings. The prisoner Barrett denied strongly that the witness, Mrs. Hopkins, saw him cross the field, and climb over the stile. He went in the morning to tell the deceased's son that his father was dead. _ Dr. OwEN asked the witness whether she considered that way which the prisoner Barrett.was going the nearest to Crouch-end, where Barrett said he was going to, or would she have gone that way to Crouch-end ? Witness said that it was not the way to Crouch-end. She would .not have gone that way, had she been going there: she saw him get over some fences. Barrett was again asked whether he wished to say anything? He answered, all that he had to say was, that he was going to the deceased's son at Crouch-end, but he never went out of the road all the way, as GOD was his judge. Mrs. Hopkins said, he was dressed in a short shooting jacket, and the same dress as-he now bad on. . Barrett said he had a nephew residing at Tottenham, and they had a pint of porter together at the Swan public-house the same night. Mrs. Hopkins,said that• she afterwards saw Barrett, and she pointedbirn.out to a man as the person she saw-under mtpicl ,Circumstances on the morning of the murder rtl3t man bad removed from Highgate, but he could be found. A boy again wai examined, and sworc•that he saw
Star. — 1821-06-11 (London, England)

SUSPICION OF MURDER.  At seven o'clock, on Saturday evening, an Inquisition was taken at the Key, in Bell-greet, Paddington, before TimmAs STIRLING, Esq. Coroner, on the boiy of Sarah Summit, whose remains were discovered in the cellar of 14, Steven's-buildings, Bell-street, where it is supposed she was murdered by her husband, on the evening of the day after Christmas-day,, and where the body had lain from that time until last Thursday evening. The deceased lived a considerable time as cook in the family of Mr. Brathwaite, the engineer, near Westbourne-green, and James Summit, her husband, was a servant in the same family when they married ; they went to live at 14, Steven's-buildings, where they occupied two parlours, and had a milk-walk ; they lived there three years and a half ; his usage to her was extremely cruel ;-she had been missing from the evening mentionA until last Thursday evening. Mr. Brown, the landlord, went down into the cellar, which when rain fell was usually ficoded, in order to have a drain made to carry off the water; he happened to stumble over a broken crock, and stooping to remove it, he laid hold of a woman's leg, with a boot on ; he immediately gave the alarm, and the whole street was thrown into the greatest agitation. A shell was brought from the Mary-la-bonne Infirmary, into which the body was put. She had all her clothes on ; a pitchfork was, found in the cellar, with one prong broken off, and there appeared a wound on her neck, as if inflicted by some such instrument, and traces of blood about the breast. Shortly after the disappearance of the deceased, the husband quitted the house, and went to live in Cato-street, where he cohabited with another woman, giving out that his wife had eloped with another man. Verdict—Wilful Murder against James Summit, the husband.—The Coroner immediately issued his warrant, and the.prisoner, who sat very unconcerned in the tap-room, was taken into custody, and conveyed to prison.  A sad event—of which, happily, the instances are rare—forms at present the conversation of the whole city of Brussels. M—, an inhabitant of —, having surprised his unfaithful wife, in flagrante deficto, killed her accomplice, and severely wounded herself at the same time. Her accouchement had only taken place six weeks before. It is affirmed, that the outraged husband was immediately pnr in prison. THOMAS WILSON, Esq. Banker, of Weston, in Lancashire, returning on horseback from visiting an e•,tathe possessed in Wyersdale, a few days ago, a as seized with an apoplectic fit on the road, and died soon after. Wednesday evening, the 30th ult. the audience at Ipswich Theatre were alarmed by a glass bottle being thrown from the gallery on the Stage ; by the activity of the peace officers the person who threw it was secured, and proved to be a young man named Wheeler : lie was immediately committed by the MAYOR to Bridewell, and on the following morning was examined, and recommitted for a month. On Monday, the 28th ult. No. 14,041 was drawn a Prize of I.:21,000 Consols, and sold by Mar, in Shares, viz.  One Quarter at -
Star. — 1821-12-19 (London, England)

WELLE.LEY was expected to arrive on Friday or Saturday at the latest. The following are additional particulars respecting the murder of Mr. Wiwi, an account of which appeared in the STAR of Monday: " As HENRY WILEY and WILLIAM WILEY were returning on Tuesday evening, about seven o'clock, from the fair of Longwood, to their father's house at Cullestragh, they observed a body of men, about 20 in-number, standing at a little distance before them upon the road, and upon coming nearer, two of the men advanced out of the crowd and passed thetwo WILEYS, who bade them good night, but received no answer. —The WILIER then passed through the main body, but had not proceeded far, when the men began to whistle with their fingers, and instantly pursued them. Hiwav WILEY observed to his brother, " There is something in this." " Do you take the fields," WILLIAM answered, 46 and I'll keep the road, whatever chance I have, you have none." They accordingly parted, and WILLIAM was found nest Morning with his head literally severed from his body by a razor he had in his own pocket, and which he had that day bought at the fair. A shovel was also found near the body, broken in several pieces,' and with which his head had been split in two.— A most respectable Jury, in the presence of Major 0111,ittoonus, found it " Wilful Murder against Michael Paine, and others." Paine has been-apprehended, and it now committed' by the Ccironer to abide his trial.—A younger brother of the IWlLzys was a witness in the case of Mr, Cantais minder.  Lord BYRON, In the Notts to his new Tragedy The Two Foam* just published, pays a high compliment to Lady MORGAN, whose Italy he styles " a fearless and excellent work." His Lordship also acknowledges a curious coincidence between Lady MORGAN and himself, in their both having called Venice " Some of the Ocean," though their Works at the time were unknown to each other. In the brilliancy of the sun of 'Sunday last, the idea of Winter was quite lost ; no May Day could be brighter, milder, or more cheering to the spirits. Sir ANTHONY CARLISLE attended on Monday evening to deliver his concluding Lecture on Anatomy, but was prevented completing it by a most disgraceful scene which took place. A mob of persons assemoledearly, under the aschway, at Somerset House, and endeavoured to gain admission by forcible means. The confusion which took place in consequence pievented the access of many of the Members. Sir ANTHONY declared that he considered the conduct of the visitors an insult to the Royal Academy, as well as to himself. It was particularly unfortunate for the students; it prevented the possibility of bis displaying the actions of the muscles upon living figures, as he had intended. The Professor disclaimed all knowledge of the means by which so large a number of tickets were procured by the visitors. The Lecture,l in consequence, was materially curtailed. Sir T. LAWIENCS was in the Chair.