The Old Bailey Sessions closed yesterday; when the Recorder pro-
nounced the following sentences-
Death—J. Emhery, G. Williams, W. Lathlen, W. Price, E. Miller, H. Hutchinson, J. Games, J. Rogers, it. Taylor, G. Forester, for houselneaking and larceny. Transportation far lift—W. Wright, S. Gray, W. Baggs, R. Tuttle, B. Dopier, J. Bate, J. Gin-hole, J. Smith.
Transportation ftr Purteea years—C. Collington, S. Stephenson, Sarah Stidley, Mary Hamilton, J. Smith, J. Guest (the noted receiver of stolen goods), C. Dunn, Mary White, Mary Ann Moore, R. Smith, J. Fellows, S. Fare, alias Sleith, for the robbery of Danby the young Man murdered at Enfield.
Thirty-seven were sentenced to savea years' transportation ; and t111! remainder of the prisoners to various teems of imprisonment (Iowa to fouiteit days. H. Dawson was rcspited until next Sessions.
AVilliam Johnson, the murderer of Danhy, was eKeruted at N,-w- guru 011 Monday morning. lle was in a dreadful state of ai..;itafi: :1;1:1 suffering when in the cell, and was nearly insensible when brut::: to the scaffold. The groaas and exot!rations of the crow, as sow; as he appeared there, were alum: deafiming. The followiog i•; an :Inthrtiti- cavil statement of the co:dession made by Johnson to Mr. Zi;heriff Humpitery. It will be oiowrved that Cooper, through whose c lie Johnson was convicted, is expressly charged by him with being the chief actor in the murder.
" I had with others been drinking at the pnbliehonse ; and afterwards, about eleven or half past, we left, accompanied by Denby, the deceased. On going home, Fare lert us, and then Cooper went with Waa....,taff On being left alone with Denby, he infbrme.1 me that some one had robbed him ; and I was so frightened for fear that I should lat taken up for highway robbery, that I was determined not to leave, but to get him to some house of safety ; and, in passing his relation's, the baker, I wanted to knock them op ; but he would not let me, and said they were gone to bed, and so we paSailal Ent I now wish that I had stopped there, then this would not have happened; hut it is now too late. As we were going on. Cooper eame up : he had been away about live minutes, and the moment Danby saw him, he said, in great excitation, ' This is one of the chaps that robbed me ;' and he flew at him (Cooper) like a tiger, and said he -would serve hint just in the sonic way as lie served a Black man in the East Indies aud in the scuffle we all went down on the ground, by the ditch; and I do most so- lemnly say that I did not trip up the deceased ; 'and he (Cooper) also was on the top of him (deceased); and while he was down, Cooper had a knife, a clasp-knife, I think ; but the night was so dark thatJ could not say which, and the point was as broad as my , two fingers, and he was cutting the deceased. I do also most solemnly say that I also, took the knife, and cut Denby, and did help to kill him ; but the knife was not mine,- nor do I know where the knilh castle from.- Cooper lout it in his hand when the de- ; eased was on the ground in the ditch. Knowing I must leave this world soon. I do most solemnly avow before God, in whose presence I nmst soon appear, that Cooper:- first cut the deceased, and I afterwards struck him: and afterwards I stood by, and saw Cooper take something out of his pockets. Ile said, I have got three _halfpence, or one Penny and one halfpenny. We 'were both very much frightened, and left the de: ceased in the lane, and yeut home across the fields. I do also most solemnly say, that:
• when we left the publichouse we had no idea of killing him. I do not know who_ • robbed him, but suppose it must have been Fare, as the money wasfound on him, and - it was proved he had been applying for relief from the parish. I can only say I had no
luind in robbing him, either directly or indirectly ; and what possessed me to mini-.
cipate in killing him, I }mow not; but after the deed was dem, I was ready to kill my-
self; and I now say that I ought to die for committing such an act. The knife which - Cooper said, in his examination, was mine, awl that it was a black-handled one, and • small blade. I do most solemnly avow I had lost some time before, and had no knife with me when we left the publichouse. The night was so dark I could not distinctly: seethe Mie the deed was done With ; and after it was done, I threw the knife into the ditch, and suppose, the knife not being found, that Cooper most have picked it up ; and' .ihe reason or Cooper's-confession I believe was made, thinking I should tell of hid ,first, am} have birkeonyieted; but we both said, " We shall be hanged: I have no ill; will, towards ally man, and I now leave this world for a crime which I shudder at. r luid• nothing to do With the murder of a female that was found drowned in a ditch at Enfield, and I do not know any thing about it
• . . . • " J. H., witness to the above statement." After the interview with Johnson, Mr. Sheriff Ilumphery visited Cooper, who is still 'confined in New-gate; and from his admission of some parts of Johnson's statement, and his'prevarierttion with regard to others,the Sheriff entertains no doubt of the truth • .of Johnson's tale. In the course of conversation with Cooper, Mr.Humphery suddenly_
. said. why, Cooper, your knife was used for the murder." " No, Sir," said Cooper, that could not be ; for I had no knife." The Sheriff then said," What has become . of the knife which you used to borrow of your master ? It has never been seen Since • *he murder." Cooper .duinged colour at this question and remark, and seemed much
• .embarrassed; but after some hesitation he said," I know nothing about it."
-After hisJconfession, a knife, which had been picked up at Enfield, - .11ear the spot where the murder wtmeommitted, was shown to Johnson, ... who declared he firmly believed that it was Cooper's knife, and the • identical one with which the murder was perpetrated; but in con- . sequence of the night being dark, he .could not positively say it was the same. examined at . the Hatton.. Garden Office on Wednesday, for up- .' Wards of four hours, on a charge of being concerned in the murder of Mr. H. Sheppard. • They were apprehended in consequence of the officers having received information that a prisoner in one of the gaols had: been hard to Say, that "his pals, Tom Ainslie and Jetn Martin, knew all about the murder at Mr. Williams's." Mr. Laing remanded them to the 18th.
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