The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1824-08-19 (London, England)

SHOCIIING R. IC i DE.--fivhday matting last a fora. I Vnek-street, West mitt:der, where he took the prisoner into custody, servant in the house of Me. Block, of Kimball Tow:, e.• .rtnicod and, On storinno his pcnon, focml some silver and two pawn. n most dreadful act of suicide during the &banes s' the family broker's dapticatcs. from town. The unfortunate young woman foe some dine pat Mr. nladvzsre stated, that he observed the prisoner, to his great liail been observed 'a he in a low desmotidioe nintlitiou. and. quire I surprise. turn Into the hall-door, and proceed up stairs with theta' different from her usual habit. kept aloof from the other servants. • limier Isis ann. He immediately Hallowed hits, and saw him go Beteg mined on the above aloe: ant, and search being made, her i into a back places where he began to examine the contents of the hod, was found in one of the apartments dreadfully mutilated, bee ; till. Sitspeeting, from hie appearance, he had stolen it, he ques. head being nearly severed from her body. A large carving knife, doled him about it ; hot he told him to be MI; that it was no affair with which she had einnmitted the bowie' deed, was lying by her of his. However, after a desperate resistance, with the assistance side, covered with blood, and she was perfectly lifeless. There is ,of two colliers, lie secured hint. no accounting for the transaction, as the detained bid been treated ' The prisoner, in his defence, Raid, he had taken the iii from a by the family sold her fellow domestics with the mutest kindcess. person he had a right lir take iv from—his mother. However, if The body lies for a derroner's Inquest. .„ ' they let him go, he would return it. He stated she lived at 6,  Marsham-street i pad an °Olaf WAS despatched to ascertain if his story was true. He however could not get any account, and in the mean time the real owner appeared at the office. Mrs. Swaysland, landlady of the flue Anchor public-house, St. Herman's Hill, Westminster, stated, that the prisoner, with two ' other persons, had been drinking in her house all the morning, and he had taken adtantage of her absence from the bar to make air 1 with the- till. She identified the tickets which had been found on the prisoner, and other articles that were found in the till. The prisoner was then fully con*nitted to Newgate. RCSURIIECTIOIf ME/C.—LW:Het Waters?, a supernumerary watchman of st. Margaret's, was charged by Mr. Samuel Oakley with an assault, under peculiar circumstances. At twelve o'clock on Monday night last the complainant stated, that he was proceeding with his wife by St. John's burying-ground, and he observed a hackney-coach drawn up nearly. opposite the burying-ground gate. As it was well known in the neighbourhood that Charles Cartwriph, t, who bad been executed on that morning, was buried there, he thought some of the body snatchers might he m waiting to take up the body; he therefore wished to get the number of the coach, and following it for that purpose he was stopped by Walters, who asked him what be was about, and ultimately prevented him, by dragging him to the watch-house; in doing which lie tore his coat. and gave him much ill-usage. The circumstances altogether sue deemed so extraordinary by !the Magistrates that they sent two °Mims, Weide and Porte, to examine the grave, to see if the body was in its last resting place. 'They returned, and communicated that it was still there. but- 1 pieion attached to the watchman, . who ought to have been inside the burying-gronnd ; but was not there, by the statement of the tom-' ! plain:int. The gravt had been covered with a painted board, cal! dandy to point it out to whomever would come for it ; ands second I roach las also observed coming to the place, but which was driven oil in consequence of the noise wade between the complainant and the watchman. . Mr. Oa Eiui ars, under all the circumstances, considered. as the complainant did not communicate his suspicions to the watchman, that it was his duty to bring him to the watch-house. The complaint was discharged.