At the Leicester Assizes, Henry Roper, a fine-looking man of
sixty, was tried on a charge of ravishing a woman, who was murdered near Kegworth, in the year 1802. The only evidence against him was his own confession to a "ranting parson," which he afterwards retracted. Ile said the parson terrified him when he was ill. His character was excellent, and he had brought up a large family very reputably. The Jury acquitted Roper.
At the Launceston Assizes, last week, two men, whose real names were Oliver and Galley, but who were called" Buckingham Joe" and " Turpin," were found guilty of murdering Mr. Jonathan May, a farmer. Of Joe's guilt there is no doubt ; but it is suspected that another fellow of bad character, known in Cornwall as the "Kentish Youth," and also as " Turpin," was his accomplice in the murder ; and that the witnesses have sworn to the wrong " Turpin." " Joe " says positively that this is the ease. Further inquiries as to the fact are in progress ; for making which, time will be allowed, under the new law, which abolishes the practice of banging nunderers within forty-eight hours after sentence.
Six valuable houses were destroyed, and several others damaged, by a fire which broke out in Rochester on,Tuesday evening. Three greyhounds, the property of a person at Clifton, Beds, pulled down and worried a woman in a most dreadful manlier, tearing the flesh from her arms ; and would no doubt have killed her had they not been with difficulty beaten off.—Herrford Reformer.
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