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Some Selected Reports from the Salisbury and Winchester Journal
Monday, August 2nd, 1813
Wanted immediately, -- Three Apprentices in the Fancy Dress Business. For further particulars apply to the Misses Baker, No.15, Above-Bar, Southampton.
To Journeymen Tanners.
Wanted, - A sober, active Man, who understands the management of Seal Skins.
Apply to Mr.James McDonald, of Botley, Hants.
Winchester.
Saturday, July 31.
The business of the Assizes for this county did not conclude till late this day, when Antonie Tardif, a French prisoner in Porchester Castle, was convicted to the wilful murder of Jean Le Guey, another French prisoner, and received sentence of death.- This was one of the most atrocious murders that ever disgraced human nature : It appeared in evidence, that just before bed-time all the prisoners were accustomed to retire to the privy, and on the night of the murder the first of the mortal wounds was given while the deceased was there; the wound was so severe, that it entirely opened the b[ow]el. The surgeon, who attended stated, that he found the deceased with his entrails hanging out, and supporting them on his knees by raising them towards his chin. The deceased was followed from the privy by the prisoner, to whom he exclaimed, "I am a dead man." The prisoner replied, "You are not yet dead." The prisoner had a knife in his hand, and said "There are two more for you," he then inflicted on him two other grievous wounds, one of which divided the 5th rib in two; the deceased went a little way, and fell to the ground; the prisoner said, he wished to see if he was dead, and he should be content; he pushed the byestanders aside, that (as he expressed himself) he might contemplate his victim. The prisoner acknowledged that he had conceived the design for fifteen months, and had slept with the knife under his pillow. The ground of the prisoner's resentment was a play written by the deceased, complied from some of the prisoner's memoir's, which the deceased had purloined; by which the prisoner considered himself so much dishonoured that he could not return with credit to his own country. - The prisoner will be executed on Monday.
James Floyd[?], for stealing a canvas piece of wrapper and a quantity of bacon, the property of Thos.Powell, of Romsey; James Pelham[?], for stealing a quantity of stockings, from the dwelling-house of Nicholas Stade[?], of Romsey; Robert Wilson, for a burglary in the dwelling-house of John Wing, at Fordingbridge; Wm.Ball, for stealing, in company with Chas.Ball (who is removed to Dorchester for trial) two wether sheep, the property of H.Pardy, of H..on, in the county of Dorset; J.Griffin, for stealing 75lbs of copper, at Portsmouth, the property of his Majesty; James Ralfe, for stealing various articles from the dwelling-house of John Hunt, at Kingsclere; John Aldridge, for breaking open the dwelling-house of Robert Crockford, in Odiham, and stealing 16s. 6d.; and John Lacey, alias Lace, for uttering a forged navy pay bill, with intent to defraud George Clark of �5 received sentence of death, but were reprieved before the Judges left the city.
Richard Welch, for aiding and assisting Gaspard Henry Van Tilborgh[?], and others, prisoners of war, on parole at Andover, to escape from his Majesty's dominions, was sentenced to be transported for fourteen years.- John Arter, convicted of perjury; William Johnstone, for entering the dwelling-house of William Arnold, at Newport, and stealing Bank of England and other notes, &c. of considerable value; Robert Blades, for assisting a convict to escape from the Laurel prison ship; and James Clohasy, alias Classey, for stealing divers articles from the dwelling-house of Mary Medley, at Newport, in the Isle of Wight, to be transported for seven years.
John Millard, Benjamin Whitewood[?], Thomas Burress, Henry Kimber, George Stevens, Thomas Jeffris, Peter Churcher, and James Fricker, convicted of felonies, were sentenced to short imprisonments and to pay small fines.- Henry Worthington, for forgery, and Benjamin Higgins, charged with committing a murder in Ireland, were ordered to remain until the next Assizes. Several were tried and acquitted, and others discharged for want of prosecution.
The last trial was that of the young men who were concerned in the duel at Carisbrook, in the Isle of Wight, and which our readers will recollect took place on the 9th ult. between Lieut.Blundell and Ensign McGuire, with his second James Gilchrist, and Anthony Dillon and Daniel O'Bryan, who were deemed accessaries, surrendered themselves yesterday. They were all four convicted of murder, and sentence of death was passed on the, but they were respited till the 21st inst.
In the Nisi Prius Court there were thirty-seven causes, five of which were special juries; the most interesting one was that of "the King v. Bingham." The defendant is a Clergyman and a Magistrate. The indictment charged him with corruption in the discharge of his magisterial duties; and, after a very long trial, the Jury found him Guilty.
The General Quarter Sessions of the Peace for this County commenced on Monday last before James Burrough, Esq. Chairman, and a full bench of Magistrates, when David King, for using false scales in serving meat to the depot at Winchester barracks, was sentenced to be imprisoned twelve months, and to pay a fine of �100; John Whiting, for uttering false and counterfeit sixpences, to be imprisoned for a year, and find sureties for his good behaviour for two years; - Thomas Furzey, for stealing a sheet, the property of Chas.Lee, of Whitchurch; Peter Christien, for stealing divers articles, the property of John Westlock, of Beaulieu; and Wm.Gardner, for stealing a gown, the property of Sarah Chase, of Wymmering, to be imprisoned three months, Augustus Wankline, Cornelius Blake, Thomas Brooks, Joseph Fletcher, Joseph Jacob, Wm.Bell, and James Fry, were sentenced to be imprisoned for short periods; six were acquitted, and two discharged for want of prosecution.
On Monday last was married, Mr.William Booth, of ..chingsewell, farmer, to Miss Deborah Foster, second daughter to Mr.Foster, Old Farm, Kingsclere, both of the county.
Salisbury.
Monday, August 2, 1813.
On Saturday Mr.Baron Graham arrived in this city, and opened the Commission for holding the Assizes for the county of Wilts, the business of which commences this day.
The following prisoners are for trial :- John Webb, remanded at the last Assizes on a plea of insanity, charged with breaking open the workshops of Joseph Phelps and Abraham Lloyd Edridge[?], clothiers, at Chippenham, and stealing one superfine woollen cloth, value �40; - John Osmond and John Burton, for stealing coals and hay from their master, S.Whitchurch, Esq. of Salisbury; - Thomas Plank and James Tapp, for feloniously entering the dwelling-house of Betty Young, at Marden, and stealing various silver articles; - Daniel Waters, for stealing a bushel of wheat, the property of Joseph Grace, at Nunton; - William Salisbury, for stealing three heifers from John Edwards, at Carston; - John Bond, for stealing from a stable at Calne, a bridle and a saddle, the property of Peter Peace; also a blue coat, the property of Isaac Taylor; - William Hunt, for stealing a piece of cloth, in the parish of Calne, value �17 and upwards, from a waggon belonging to Messrs.Cruttwell, of Bath; William Truelock, for offering an altered promissory note for payment of money, with intent to defraud John Barnes, of Westbury; - John Horsale (bailed) for opening a letter, and taking the contents, of considerable value, the property of Mr.Robert Fowle; - John Rose, for stealing from a waggon, at Trowbridge, the property of Messrs.Godby and Co., a painted deal box, containing various articles of wearing apparel; Sarah Hanks, for entering the dwelling-house of Charles Porter, at Malmesbury, and stealing one guinea, two half guineas, and eight seven shilling pieces; and Sarah Godwin, sen. and Sarah Godwin, jun. for aiding and abetting the said Sarah Hanks; - William Lawrence, for stealing eleven fowls from off the premises of Joseph Brind, of Liddington; - John Brimsden, for stealing a silver watch, the property of Robert Lawrence, of Mere, also some sheep-bells, the property of W.Hockey and James Mills, of Mere; - Betty Brimsden, for receiving two sheep-bells, knowing them to have been stolen; - Robert Silk and John Norris, for stealing from the dwelling-house of Richard Trubridge, of Corsham, two silver watches and some other articles; - George Trowbridge, for killing and carrying away a fallow deer, at Alvediston, in the uninclosed part of Cranborne Chase, the property of the Right.Hon.Lord Rivers, - John Hardiment, for stealing four loaves, the property of George Gray, at Sutton Mandeville; - Isaac Helps[?], for assaulting Sarah Baker, at Brancham; - and Jacob Pearce, on a charge of bigamy.
Fourteen venires are entered for trial, three of which are special jury causes.
The Assizes for the county of Dorset, commence at Dorchester on Wednesday next. There are only ten prisoners for trial viz. Nehemiah Blandford, for feloniously killing Richard Scott; Mary Lawrence, for stealing a watch; William Bignell, Jacob Hodder, and Robert Chedd, for stealing money; George Lemon and Robert Moore, for an offence under the statute of the 6th Geo.cap.36, and Ann Mitchell and Martha the wife of John Mitchell charged with the wilful murder of a new born female child.
We hear that the advertisement of the meeting of the Wilts Auxilliary British and Foreign Bible Society, which has appeared several times in this Journal, has excited considerable interest in the county. The remembrance of the first meeting is revived in the breasts of many. At the approaching anniversary, those who regretted their absence the last year will have an opportunity of uniting with their friends in promoting the great objects of this society. Happy shall we be to record in a future paper, that so beneficent an institution has an increase of patronage and support.
On the 19th ult. a general meeting of the Branch Bible Society of Melksham and its vicinity was holden in that town, John Audry, Esq. the president, in the chair. The society appears to have produced the most beneficial effects in that populous neighbourhood, where all denominations of Christians cordially unite in promoting the important object of the institution.
On Thursday se'nnight died, aged 44 years, to the inexpressible grief of a numerous acquaintance, the Rev.Robert Denison, M.A. Vicar of Westbury, in this county, son of the late Dr.Denison, Principal of Magdalen Hall, Oxford : he has left an afflicted and aged mother to mourn his loss. Of a large family she has now only one child living - The Rev.Wm.Denison, Rector of Cobbington, Bucks.
Monday died, at his house in Paradise-row, Bath, aged 62, Mr.Benjamin Starling, formerly of the Weymouth Arms Inn, Warminster.
Thomas M�h, a lad of nine years of age, has been discharged, cured, from our Infirmary, having been relieved of a stone in the bladder, of near one inch in diameter, by the operation of lithotomy.
Early on Friday morning last a fire broke out in the dwelling-house of Farmer Rugg, of Blackmore Common, Dorset, which in a short time consumed nearly the whole of the same; we are glad to hear that the greater part of the furniture was saved from the flames.
On Tuesday morning, between two and three o'clock, the Bath and Exeter mail-coach was overturned on its way from London between Reading and Newbury, in consequence of the horses taking fright and bolting from the road into a gravel pit. The coachman was thrown from the box among the horses, and received several contusion from being trodden upon. The guard, and a foreigner who was on top, were precipitated by the shock to such a distance, and with such violence, as would probably have proved fatal to them, had not the earth and gravel on which they alighted been saturated with the rain which fell in the course of the day; and to the same cause may be ascribed the trifling injury which was done to the horses and the coach. In a few minutes after the accident took place, a Bath coach came up. The passengers rendered every assistance in their power, and with some difficulty succeeded to extracting the inside passengers from the mail, among whom was a naval Officer, who was going to join his ship at Plymouth, but he had suffered so much from the concussion, that he was speechless and unable to move. The guard was immediately sent on one of the leaders to Reading for a post-chaise and four, to forward the mail, and for a surgeon, who arrived will all possible expedition. The Officer was conveyed to a small cottage on the road side. A young lady who was also in the coach, and we understand was asleep at the time the accident happened, did not receive the slightest injury, and proceeded on her journey. It is a matter of regret and astonishment that the lives and limbs of so many of his Majesty's subjects should be in jeopardy from want of fences on the road side. Such conduct in the Commissioners and Surveyors is highly reprehensible. - No blame whatever attaches on this melancholy occasion to the coachman or guard, both of whom are remarkable for their sobriety and attention, and have been in their present situation upwards of seven years.