RECORDER'S REPORT.-011 Wednesday, the Recorder of Londmi made his Report
to the King in Council of the prisoners capitally con. vieted at the Old Bailey Sessions for April. Henry Jones, aged 22, Mary M‘Mahou 17, Joseph Coleman 25, Elizabeth Smith 26, Timothy Cronan 17, John Broach 39, James Walton 42, Job Davis 58,—steal- lug in a dwelling-house ; George Henry Ralph 25, George Potter 3/, Thomas Wall 16, Richard Flanagan 19, Joseph Spraggs 19, Elizabeth Brown 35, Ann Bird 37,—housebreaking ; James Reeves 20,—high- way robbery ; George Widgett 48,—sheep-stealing ; Mary Ann Lee 27,—cutting and maiming : all of whom his Majesty was graciously pleased to respite, except George Widgett and John Broach, who are ordered for execution on Wednesday next.
DESPERATE Buttol.mt.—On Monday evening, Mr. Charrington, coal-merchant, residing near the New River, went out to a party, and, expecting to be late, took the key of a side-door with him. On his re. turn, between one and two in the morning, he saw a light in the parlour; and thinking some one had waited up for him, rang the bell. In a few moments, a man named Jones jumped over the paling by the side of the house' and Mr. Charrington immediately followed. On his coming up with him, Jones immediately struck Mr. Charrington a severe blow cut the face with a hone which be had stolen from the house. Mr. Char-. rington did not flinch at this, and a fierce struggle ensued between them. They both fell on the ground ; when Mr. Charrington managed to get the hone into his hands and to inflict several blows upon the prisoner's head, which rendered him powerless. Mr. Charrington was thus enabled to take him a short distance and give him into the custody of a watch- man ; who stated the facts of the case, at Worship Street, Mr. Chars rington being too much injured to attend. A prayer-book was found upon the prisoner, and some other things, which furnished conclusive evidence against him. LONDON INSTITUTION.-...A person named M'Cabe was charged at the Mansionhouse, on Thursday, with purloining books from the library of this society ; thirty-six volumes were traced to his possession but the number abstracted is supposed to be much more numerous. He was re. mantled for further evidence. The trick is a common one. If the title. page and the boards were stamped like those of the books distributed by the different charitable societies, it would be rendered less easy and much less productive. CHARGE or MURDER.—About eight o'clock on the morning of Sun- day last, a man named Wilkins, passing near a pit of water in Mythop, near Lytham, observed in the water the dead body of a child, in a state of extreme decay. A piece of flannel and a smaller piece of check were wrapped around the body ; and, on dragging the pit, another piece of flannel, having within it several stones, was drawn out. It had beets whispered about, that a girl, of the name of Hannah Foxcroft, had had a child, and that one William Mercer, a weaver, was the father. The constable of Lytham, accompanied by Mr. Clifton's land bailiff, wag coming into Preston on Monday morning, to acquaint the coroner with what had occurred, when he overtook William Mercer near Tulketh Hall, on his way to Preston. This raised a suspicion that the latter, having heard of the discovery of the body, was going to Bury, where Hannah Foxcroft was living. Davis, Mr. Clifton's bailiff, inquired at one of the coach-offices, and learnt that a man answering Mercer's description ha taken a place for Bury by one of the coaches, and was to be taken up outside the town. Davis got into the coach when it started ; and when it arrived at the bottom of Church Street, the coachman pulled up, and Mercer got upon the coach. Davis then crept through the window on to the roof, and made the man his prisoner. Mercer was taken before the coroner; to whom he admitted, that on the 15th of September last Hannah Foxcroft was brought to bed in Preston of a female child, and that on the Sunday but one following it died, and he buried it in Wharton churchyard. But when requested to show the place, he denied his previous statement. The woman Foxcroft corrobo- rated the statement of Mercer as to the day on which the child was born; and said that he came to see her on the two Sundays following, and ore the latter requested her to accompany him to Lytham, where they were to be married. On their road thither, she stopped, and he went for- ward, taking the child with him. When she again joined him, he had not thechild ; she several times requested him to tell what he had done with it, but he continually refused. She identified the clothes found in the pit as those which the child had worn. Mercer said that the infant never breathed after he took it from the woman, and that he buried it in a potato-field, in Mythorp. The Jury were occupied about seven hours in investigating the case ; when they gave a verdict of" wilful murder" against Mercer ; who was committed by the Coroner to Lances. ter Castle.—Preston Pilot.
SUSPECTED Munona.—About three months ago, a lad, named Taylor, was sent by his father from Rochester, where he resided, to Aylesford, for the purpose of receiving nine shillings from the parish officers ; being the monthly allowance granted by the parish for the sup- port of the poor man and his family. He was last seen near the Lower Bell, on the Maidstone Road, returning towards Rochester. On Wed- nesday last, a person, accidentally passing through a wood near the Ro- chester turnpike, discovered a body, which, although in a state of ex- treme decomposition, was recognized to be that of Taylor. From the circumstance of no money having been found on his person, it is gene- rally believed that he was robbed and murdered ; but the state of the corpse is such, that the medical gentlemen who have examined it find it difficult to say whether or no death was caused by violence.—Kentis4 Gazette.
Fonorny.—A person named White, holding a respectable station lit society, in Dublin, was some days ago accused of a capital forgery, to the amount of 6,0004 He ran off, but was discovered and brought back. On Monday he was brought before the Magistrates ; when Mr. Dixort the barrister, and Mr. Hall the attorney, attended on his behalf; Mr. Fleetwood and Mr. Darley were in attendancezs the Bank solicitors, 'on behalf of the prosecution. One of the Ba,nk clerks proved that several. gorged powers of attorney were given to him by the prisoner ; and they were identified by a stock-broker. The prisoner is a very young man,
• evidently not more than twenty-three years of age. Ile kept his carriage, and his lady and himself lived in a most extravagant style of splendour. —Dublin Morning Register.
A FAMILY OP CRIMINALs.—James Campbell was executed at Glasgow last week, for the crime of housebreaking and robbery, of which he was onvicted at the last assizes. This unfintimate criminal was in 1822 -sentenced to be executed for a similar crime, and at that time had his , sentence commuted to transportation for life. He was liberated from the 'hulks about nine months ago, and returned to Glasgow ; since which -time he has constantly associated with bad characters, and, according to .116 own aceount, has been engaged in several robberies. Campbell was • about thirty-six years of age, and had received a good education. Camp- -hell's mother is a respectable woman, above eighty years of age. She has, besides the unhappy criminal executed to-day, a son transported for 'fourteen years, and another in the Bridewell, who at last circuit was -sentenced to transportation for life.—Glosyou, Chronicle.
EXTENSIVE HOUSE Rommur.—The house No. 23, Bury Street, St. 'James's, the mansion of 5fr. A. Goldschmidt, was entered on Saturday night last, and a jewel-case stolen, containing ninety lonis d'ors, eight sovereigns, and some silver, two rows of pearls, gold and coral necklaces -and chains, bracelets, ear-rings, two cases filled with rings, and a great variety of articles of the most costly description.
EQUIVOCAL Pa000s.—A young man, named Daniel Brien, who had been a tutor in the family of Mr. Robert Eager, of Coumshanna, a mountain farm adjoining Glanbegh. county Kerry, was found dead on - the morning of the 3rd instant. An inquest was held on the body the next day, and subsequently adjourned to the 6th ; when a verdict was returned which leaves it still doubtful whether the deceased was mar- -tiered or not. From the circumstance of the neck having been broken, • -there is strong reason to apprehend that the former fate awaited him.- - Limerick Chroniele! [Perhaps it did, but broken necks are not an all- - solute argument of murder ; in this country, at least, they as often await the murderer as the victim.] Massifs. Deummosas' CiantK.—The whole of the securities and notes carried off by this young man have been sent back to his friends, 101. only excepted. The other man, Enderson, whose mysterious disappear- ance was noticed last week, it will be seen, has been found in ate Thames.
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