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handsome young woman, about 18 
years of age, dressed in a white mus- 
lin gown with long sleeves and yel- 
low gloves, straw bonnet, and vel- 
vet shoes, was found in the agonies 
of death, by the watchman in Belvi- 
dere-row, near the king’s bench 
prison; she lay between two carts. 
On being taken up, and on opening 
the door of Mr. Gibbs, near the 
spot, she fell forward, and breathed 
her last. After the body was con- 
veyed to the watch-house, it ap- 
peared that she had received several 
severe bruises about the head ; there 
were likewise some marks of vio- 
lence about her throat and neck ; a 
piece of flesh was also found to be 
cutand torn away from thelower 
and secret part of the body! On 
Saturday evening, an inquisition was 
taken on the body, at the Yorkshire 
Grey public house, opposite St. 
George’s workhouse; when, after 
a long and minute investigation, the 
jury returied a verdict of ** Wilful 
Murder against some person of per- 
sons unknown.” ‘The deceased, it 
was proved, was an unfortunate girl 
of the town; but all who knew her 
agreed in giving her the best charac- 
ter that a woman in her situation 
could have. The deceased was ad- 
dicted occasionally to liquor. Whe- 
ther to the jealousy of man, or the 
envy of women, (ainoug whom, we 
understand, she was an object of 
jealousy,) her death is owing, re- 
maius at pseseut enveloped in uncer- 
tainty. 
At the Suffolk assizes, held at 
Bury, among other prisoners who 
received sentence of death, were 
Luke Castle and Samuel Wheeler 
(both under 22 years of age,) fora 
burglary in the dwelling-house of 
Mr. John Chapman, of Stradishall, 
and stealing sundry articles of wear- 
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ing apparel, &c.— The atrocious 
conduct of thesé two offenders can- 
not but convince every reader of 
the justice of their sentence. The 
villains, who had long infested the 
neighbourhood, and belonged to a 
gang of that class denominated gip- 
sies, ‘entered at midnight the dwel- 
ling-house of Mr. Chapman, whe¢ 
resided therein alone, most cruelly 
beat and tortured him with a bayo- 
net, in order to extort from him his 
property, and afterwards attempted 
to enclose him in a hutch, which not 
proving of a sufficient length, they 
threatened to shorten him by cutting 
off his head ; however, they con- 
tented themselves with binding him 
down in his bed with a table-cloth, 
still continued the use of the bayo- 
niet until the sufferer was nearly ex- 
hausted ; they then, before they de- 
parted, obliged him to kiss a bible; 
and swear he had no property but 
what they had taken ; and with 
shocking imprecations threatened, if 
he attempted to unbind himself be- 
fore they returned, to murder him. 
In this situation he remained about 
an hour; when one of the villians 
came back, determined to put in 
practice his horrid intention, had he 
found him in any other situation, 
but that in which he left. him.—= 
Jane Ellis, who was an accomplice, 
was admitted evidence against them. 
At the Surrey quarter sessions, in 
Horsemonger-lane, of seven lamp= 
lighters found guilty of stealing oil 
from the proprietors of Vauxhall, 
three were sentenced to three 
months’ imprisonment, and four sent 
on board the tender.—Thomas Ro- 
gers, for assaulting and beating his 
wife, and attempting to put her into 
a copper half full of boiling water, 
was found gui/ty.—He prayed to be 
allowed to serve as a soldier. The 
learned 
