Star. — 1812-09-15 (London, England)

SELF-HANGING. Thaws: Vence was put to the bar, charged with basting acts+ ted and violently beaten William Crocker,au officer of the pcilice, lin the execution of his duty. William Crochet stated, that at a late hour of the night, as mentioned in the Indictment, as he was going his rounds in cints• pany with' another pat:role, he perceived a man hanging from a lamp-iron. 1 his was in the neighbourhood of Camden Town. The novelty of the sight brought him to the spl, andjuit ache had approached it, the rope or bandage, by which • lb/ person wait tied up, gave way, and he fell to the ground, when the witness tame up and instantly seized him ; upon which he assailed the prosecutor with fury, struck him, knocked him down, and, but for the intervention of another p.itrole, he must have been in the most imminent danger. He was secured, and it then appealed that he had concerned voluntarily to be liangedi under the follow- • ing circumstances :—lt seems that there was another man in his ! company, and it turned out that the two together hadbein gambling, first for their money, and at length tor their clothes ; but the defendant having los. both money and clothes, then staked his life and agreed, that if he should' lose that, his opponent should have the plea:tire of hanging him. He lost, and accor(Hugh! submitted to be hanged, and his adversary having tied him up to a lamp-post, left hint to his fate ; but the noose not having been fixed in a workman-hte manner, it gave way, and the defendant was procipitat'el to the cart', and, by the intervention of the prosecutor and the other officer, saved from an I'6. timely death. For this assault he was now Indicted; and after the case was fully proved against him, he pleaded ton tumult tk waits, and called witnesses to prove the prosecutor bad struck him three time* before he retaliated, adding, that the officer had not shewn his staff of office before he struck him, and insisting that he had a right to hang himself, as he lost the wager, and would be must. tiered unfair if he had not fully performed the bet, The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty, after the Chairman most humanely bad observed upon the folty and obstinacy of the 1 Traverser, is accusing the officer for an act of imperative duty, In preventing the impious act of intended suicide. Here the wife of the traverser personally addressed the Ili nth, s:acing, that by this prosecution she was ruined in her little shop bushiest, and her four young children were deprived of the means . of subsistence, which had cost her no feu a sum than XlB, and i left her unable to defray further cerences, in case the sentence i should require it, adding, that except some such irregular fits or.' i (relics, her husband was laborious, and attentive to all his duties. The Bench became unanimous in the merciful judgment of granting the female pleader the full liberation of her beloved husband.  Two young men *ere yesterday committed from the Public Office, Hatton-garden, to the House of Correction, in default of paying a fine of 20s. each, in which they were convicted for bullock-hunting.  On Tuesday last the Lottery began and finished Drawing at Coopers' Hail, in Basingball-street' when the following Capital Prizes were Sold in 72 Sibt;ts. at BISH's truly fortunate Offices, 4, Cornbill, and 9, Charing Cross:  • £4,000 • 0 .• •3.0 200 ▪ 2(0  8,821 B - 1Ci6,000 974 B 3,1180 B • 3,000 60tt 2,736 A • - 500 2,736 B . 3,002 • • 300 9,689 •• 2,508 - • - 300 411 . 4,863 A • - 200 4,863 B • 2,760 - - • 200 itc. &c. .., The Holders of the SUAREs may receive their money on detaand, at either of the Con: ract or's Offices as above, or Ex CILANCIL them for Tickets or Shares in the NEW LOTFERY, to be Drawn the 20th of Nt it Month, the Scheme of which contains Two Prizes of £20,000 (instead of 0C16,000), more Prizes, and the LOWEST PILIZLS of the last may be EICHANGLD for '1 ickets and Shares in the New, u under : Sixteenth 2s. 6d. I Quarter Eighth - - 4s. 6d. I Half  7.. Od. - lUs. Od.