The Statesman. — 1815-01-19 (London, England)

CIIL \IY.  Ilml.mhant was indicted fm- nalatt.fnlir intrrmnrrying aElh kiie4Letii Imit•ri, hi f r.i %sife brink alit .11. the  Air. A7),,:,2r7f < =htrd the e.wt.  Hem v l'eato/.1. 11./:1,;11.1,11. of ingstNi-ttrei Thames• produced the hook in which the tuarritt ;t• the ,parish church of Kingston were rezi.soett. (M.• of the t•. rtes corded the marriage of Fratwi. B ulentriut, t, Olt a t.iustg wo. man, flame 1 Amy Patty, oil the irth of fettu•i;:r3, II it nes. signed !lie regi,ter ; and believed the : riomer to he the person then married.  Patty, the mother of the Pi ismicr's first wife, recoilecteri liodealiam Cl/1111:14 hum , with her dittg•iter. re-itfeJ ut her howe tog:- Itcr. I ter daughter uas still Its ;s r kid it ni tan children by the Prisoner—and one of them had died. Ile deserted her daughter on the first of .Inne last. They had kith liv.11.1: servants nitb Mr. Lewis, or Ealing. 1. Vincent. parkh-clerk of ileitiot. in •aiddle,es. proaoced the marriage register of Heston Church. The nar:si .ge of F. Bodenhain utiti lieatch, on the bat to June last, v.i,s • C:err itt.erted. I Elizabeth Keutch deposed, that the Prisoner had passed him; self off as a widower, uhin.e wife had died in child-LA.& Net • being aware of any iraitedimeht, site consented I.• I/1'63111C il.B a ife they were married at Heston. in June, 1811. The Prisoner, in his defence, said, that the last a nom, with-1 out any solicitation ou his ,ide, had hecot:ue violently uttne.ned to him ; and had threatened to : ake away with Inuself, oases he married her, although site knew pet reedy. al the time, that he was a niarried man. Fearful lest she should commit suicide, and luting ignorant of the penalties attached to the act, he. had unfortuna ely complied a ith her solicitations. The Jury returoed a verdict of guilty. Clllll.ll-ScIALING. Sa.• - indicted '  .carat. _.one was indicte, for fraudulently taking a female child, the infant daughter of Thomas and Mary Cfertwr, with. a •iew to secrete it from the parents. The mother of the child stated, that she was delivered of twin children about a week before last Bartholomew d air, and she used to sit nit!) ti,em and solicit charity in St. Paul's Chorch-yard. Ott the llth y October last, the Prisoner at the bar gate her some charity, and esired her to go with her to a Lady who had seeu the child, en in the street, and wished to see them at home, and that .he naiad give the witness half a guinea. She arcompanied the woman, who desired to carry one of ;he children, and she told her the Lady lived in the al inories. As they went along, the Prisoner desired her to go into a public-house to get b:.l7lPlilillg to drink, but she refused, saying, she only scanted to see the Lady. The Prisoner turned up a t. ourt. and as the witness had also another little one with her, It hich could not wnik fast, the child stumld ed over some bricks, and ?he stripping to dis•mgage the chill. the Prisoner made a sudden !tom. a d she lost ight of her. she endeavoured it/ trace her a lot., time, and advertised a description of her fp Non, hut she heart/ within of her for a long I toe. At last the Poliee-officer informed her, that a woman. amwering the de?criptiou of the :'risotter. had gone ors ship-h .ard Site went with the Officer, and immediately recognized the .tee of her child, before ••lie saw nay Illg heard it cry as she w tki in she boat. When she taw the child she knew it again, altho:-Aii it iVil4 much thinner thud when she lust it.  The 0 licer anted, that 'l.• traced ;he Prisoner the a:7curate description given of her I.er:on in the hand-oill. He c .rrotio. rated toe testimony of the last withess, and partkular!y akfed, that he recognized a piece of tlaiinel which was part of the child's c 10; !ring% . . _  A Mrs. 110,3 d, and a girl of the name of A rabella Gray, stated, that the Pris.mer lived in litigh's Mtn, .lUll4$l, that she had a long (the ai.peared to nave been preg/ and that, on the 11th of polo! ..r, e A ttt, and soon t-fter returned home with a something in her cloak. When she went home She said that sate had beeu taken in labour in the street, and had been delivered at a house in a court in 111.14.1• ary-Lute, and she produced Oer child. She was put to bed. and cot,tinis, in bed a month all out two ays. She cohabited with a sailor of the name of Swail ; and a day or Iwo atter is. , supposed dclisery, Swail and she had a quarrel, and the man t, the house, upon which she jumped out Of , ere and ran bare-legged into the street after him, nor did she sutler any inconvenience from it. 'fate girl Gray inso stared, ,hat when she first saw the child it did not ap; car to be like a new-horn infant, bot seemed from its sprigothness to be above a mouth obi, but as she was not e pehi, need as a mother of children she gave belief to the assertions of the Prisoner. Two other witnesses who saw her go out on the morning of the 11th, -:cscrihed her dress exactly as the another of the child described the dress of the person who took it away. The Prisoner in her defence repeated nearly the same ihirg she had before stated, namely, that she was in Itoseasary-lane when she was taken in labour. That a woman took her tonne to her lodging, in a coin.: in Itoseinari-lane ; that a MEM' r, sent for, and she was d,divered of the child in • gm-. ion; that they put her into a coach, in which she was staled to the mid or 114 h-coins ; that she walked from the coach to the house, wit r • -he met ter mother, who put her to bed. She atom; orals went to loin `wail at his ship, as it was intended she should go abroad with him. The mother confirmed of her emning,home ,ii the manlier described, bringi.:g the child with her. -Neither • the medical man, nor any other witness, was called, who proved that she had been actually delivered of a child. on this evidence the Jury found her Guilty.  AN ',