ANNUAL REGISTER, 1805. 



420 



Vith that excellent chaiity which is 

 already established for the relief of 

 their widows and orphans. 



14th. This night an inquisition 

 was taken at St Bartholomew's 

 hospital, on a view of the body of 

 Thomas Aries, who was murdered 

 in Feathers-court, Holborn, on the 

 night of the 11th instant. After 

 the jury had examined the body, 

 ■which exhibited a shocking spec- 

 tacle, the following evidence was 

 given: — William Owen, a very in- 

 telligent boy, about 13 years of age, 

 deposed, that lie lived M'ith his fa- 

 ther, in Westou's-parli, Lincoln's- 

 inn-fields. About 1 1 o'clock on 

 Wednesday evening, ivitness ob- 

 served AVilliam Moss go from Wes- 

 ton's park to the window of Eliz. 

 Rimes's house, No. 12, in Feathers, 

 court, where he pulled ofr his jacket, 

 or smock-frock, and looked in ; he 

 then went away, and Mitncss follow- 

 ed him to the end of Feathers- 

 court, and lost sight of him until 

 about ten minutes after, when wit- 

 ness saw him scullling with the de- 

 ceased, at Rimes's back-door ; wit- 

 ness heard blows given, and saw 

 Moss hold up the deceased with one 

 hand, and strike him with the other; 

 aftLT which the deceased fell down, 

 and groaned ; and when Moss saw 

 witness, he ran away. Witness 

 then went to the Crown public- 

 house, and exclaimed to the land- 

 lord, '• For God's sake, go up the 

 court ; there is a man murdered !" 

 Afterwards went in search of a sur- 

 geon, l.'it was unable to procure 

 one. Witness was well acquainted 

 with Moss's person. Several wit- 

 nesses corroborated the statement 

 relative to the situation in which the 

 deceased was found. Mr, Hardy, 

 house-surgeon, of St. Bartholo- 

 ■lew's, deposed, that on Thursday 



he opened the body, and there was 

 not any extraordinary appearance 

 internally. A small quantity of 

 water was lodged within the braifl 

 and membrane ; but witness did not 

 consider the same essential to his 

 death, though it was rather uncom- 

 mon. Witness could not speak 

 with confidence of what occasioned 

 the death of the deceased ; it Mas, 

 however, his opinion, that he might 

 have been killed by the injury he 

 had sustained. The jury returned 

 a verdict of wilful murder against 

 Moss. — On the 20th the prisoner 

 was tried at the Old-bailey, where 

 the same evidence was given. Judge 

 Heath told the jury there was not 

 sufficient evidence to convict the 

 prisoner of murder; and they ac- 

 cordingly give in their verdict-— 

 Manslaughter. 



16tli. As a gentleman and lady 

 were walking across the fields from 

 Hampstead-road turnpike to Prim- 

 rosc-hill, they met a person of gen- 

 tlemanly appearance, who rushed oa 

 the lady, and grasped her rourid the 

 neck. The gentleman was asto- 

 nished at the stranger's conduct, 

 and concluded him to be a lunatic; 

 but while in the act of attempting to 

 disengage him, the unfortunate man 

 fell, and expired in a fit. 



17th. The gazette of this night 

 contains a notice from the city of 

 London, of their intention of ap- 

 plying to parliament to provide for 

 the enlargement and better regulat- 

 ing of Sraithfield-market ; and for 

 making a new street from the north 

 end of Fleet-market to Clerkenwell-. 

 green, and thence to the great north 

 road, near the south end of Isling- 

 ton. 



19th. A number of hay-stacks, 

 valued at 20001. were consumed in 

 NottiDgham-meadows last week, by 



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