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enraged at her paying no regard to what he said. At length she ran down stairs, and he followed her, and locked the street-door to prevent her going out. On this she ran up into the dining-room, whither he likewise followed her, and struck her several times. He then went into another room for his cane, and she locked him in.

Enraged at this, he broke open the door, and, seizing her in his arms, threw her out of the window, with her head foremost, and her back to the ground, so that, on her falling, her back was broken, her skull fractured, and she instantly `expired. A person passing just

before she fell heard her cry out 'Murder! for God's sake! for Christ's sake! for our family's sake! for our children's sake, don't murder me, don't throw me out of the window!'

We give the above circumstances as what were sworn to on the trial, in consequence of which the jury found Hallam guilty, and he received sentence of death: but the prisoner denied the fact, insisting that she threw herself out of the window before he got into the room; and he persisted in avowing his innocence to the last hour of his life. He was executed at Tyburn, February 14, 1732.

JOHN HEWIT AND ROSAMOND ODERENSHAW,

EXECUTED FOR MURDER.

THOUGH adultery is, by holy writ, denounced a crime heinous to God, and though we have daily instances of the shocking enormities to which it leads the unguarded, yet are virtue and modesty constantly outraged by the commission of this offence with impunity. No wonder, then, at the mischief arising from this vice, when even princes, who are bound by every tie to hand down to the meanest members of society examples worthy of emulation alone, seem regardless of that commandment of God which says, • Thou shalt not commit adultery.' John Hewit was a butcher, and a married man, at Derby: and Rosamond Oderenshaw servant to the landlady of the Crown public house, at Nun's Green, a widow, to whose inordinate desires she fell a victim, having been made the instrument of murdering the wife of Hewit. From the confessions of these malefactors it appeared that Hewit had criminal knowledge of both the landlady and her servant. The former of these abandoned

women, in order to secure her paramour to herself by marrying him, determined on the murder of Mrs. Hewit. To this horrid end she procured some poison, and mixed it in a pancake, which, through promises of reward, she prevailed upon the servant to give to Hannah Hewit, who, little suspicious, ate heartily thereof, until she was seized with a pain in her stomach, and, vomiting a part of the contents in the yard, a pig that ate of it soon died, and the unfortunate woman herself expired, in excruciating torments, at the end of three hours. While the devoted victim ate the poisoned food the hardened landlady appeared to be composedly ironing some clothes in the parlour, yet this instigator of the foul deed escaped; while the husband, who was proved to have been accessory to the crime, and the servant, alone met their just punishment. The condemned female reprobate, a short time previous to her execution, confessed that, through the persuasion of her mistress, she had some weeks be

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THE pillory is an engine made of wood, to punish offenders, by exposing them to public view, and rendering them infamous. There is a statute of the pillory 51 Henry III.; and by statute it is appointed for bakers, forestallers, and those who use false weights, perjury, forgery, &c. Lords of Leets are to have a pillory and tumbrel, or it will be the cause of forfeiture of the leet; and a village may be bound by prescription to provide a pillory, &c.

The name is derived from two

Greek words, signifying to look through a door;' because one standing on the pillory puts his head, as it were, through a door.

This profligate wretch, Waller, to robbery added the still greater sin of accusing the innocent, in or der to receive the reward in certain cases attending conviction. The abominable dealer in human blood was tried at the Old Bailey for robbing, on the highway, one John Edglin, and afterwards, under the name of John Trevor, giving a

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false evidence against the said John Edglin, whereby his life might have become forfeited to the abused laws of the country. On the latter charge he was found guilty.

It appeared, on this memorable trial, that Waller made it a practice to go the circuits as regularly as the judges and counsel, and to swear robberies against such as he deemed fit objects for his purpose, from no other motive than to obtain the reward given by each county for the apprehension and conviction of criminals for highway robberies and other offences therein committed.

The sentence of the Court was, that he should pay a fine of twenty marks, and be imprisoned for the term of two

years, and at the expiration thereof to find good and sufficient security for his good behaviour during the remainder of his life; that he do stand twice in and upon the pillory, barcheaded, with his crime written in large characters; and that he do also stand twice before the pillory, likewise bareheaded, one hour each time.

On Tuesday, the 13th of June, 1732, this wicked man was put in the pillory, pursuant to his sentence, at the Seven Dials, in London; where, so great was the indignation of the populace, that they pelted him to death; and the day after the coroner's inquest gave a verdict, Wilful murder by persons unknown.'

ELY HATTON,

EXECUTED FOR MURDER.

ELY HATTON was indicted at the assizes held at Gloucester in August, 1732, for the wilful murder of Thomas Turberville, a carpenter. It was given in evidence that, on the 29th of April preceding, the deceased was found in his workshop, with his brains dashed out, and his skull chopped in pieces with a broad axe, which lay near his body, covered with blood. Suspicion falling upon Hatton, he was apprehended, having made no effort to evade justice. The proof against him was little more than circumstantial. It appeared in evidence that when the prisoner was apprehended he wore a shirt and pair of stockings, the property of the deceased. His coat was stained with blood, and many other circumstances were adduced, which left no doubts in the minds of the jury. The accused acknowledged that he had been in company with the de ceased on the evening of his death; that he went with him to a certain

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eminence near the town to view some deer, and there they parted; that the shirt he had on, when apprehended, was his brother's; but this was a falsehood, and alone sufficient to fix guilt upon him. was incautious enough to call a witness in his behalf, who served only to tend to his conviction; for this witness declared that he verily believed him guilty of the murder. The prisoner's defence also varied from his account on his examination before a justice of peace, when he declared that the shirt in question belonged to his father.

As no farther light was thrown upon the circumstances attending the murder of Turberville, it may be fairly presumed, notwithstand. ing the proof was not positive, that Hatton justly underwent the sentence of the law.

The editor, however, recollects a story, although he cannot state the names of the parties, where an innocent man suffered in France,

on a charge of murder, and which should, at all events, caution jurymen, when sitting on the life or death of a fellow-creature, to be extremely guarded in giving their verdict of guilty upon circumstantial evidence alone. A gentleman was found murdered in his own house, and by his own sword. Some persons, coming to the house just after the barbarous deed had been committed, were shocked at seeing his servant-man, in great consternation, running out, with a bloody sword in his hand. So great was his agitation, that he gave an incoherent account of the transaction, and was secured. A surgeon was

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sent for, who found the master dead, and, comparing the wound with the sword, declared that the weapon, or one exactly similar, caused his death. This, with the proof that there had been quarrels between the deceased and the prisoner, was the evidence given on the trial; and he was found guilty, and executed. Some years afterwards a late neighbour of the murdered man lay on his death-bed, and, when his confessor came to administer what Catholics call the extreme unction,* he confessed that, having had a dispute with him, he entered his house privately, and, in revenge, killed him, as already has been described.

ELEANOR BEARE.
CONVICTED OF PROCURING ABORTION IN WOMEN.

IN our dreadful catalogue of crimes, committed by man upon his fellow-creatures, none is attended with more pernicious consequences to society than that which we now, with much reluctance, are about to describe. The hope that this relation will cause every female to reflect, with detestation, on a wretch who could make such murderous practices a kind of business, alone determines us to give a place to the case of this abandoned woman.

On the 15th of August, 1732, Eleanor Beare, wife of Ebenezer Beare, of the town of Derby, labourer, was tried before a most crowded Court, for procuring abortion in women.

We forbear following the reporter of this trial through the evidence adduced against the prisoner;

let it therefore suffice to quote the speech of the counsel for the prose cution on opening the case, which was as follows:

'Gentlemen of the Jury,

"You have heard the indictment read, and may observe that this misdemeanor, for which the pri soner stands indicted, is of a most shocking nature. To destroy the fruit in the womb carries something in it so contrary to the natural tenderness of the female sex, that I am amazed how ever any woman should arrive at such a degree of impiety and cruelty as to attempt it in such a manner as the prisoner has done. It has really something so shocking in it, that I cannot well display the nature of the crime to you, but, must leave it to the evidence. It is cruel and barbarous to the last de

This ceremony of the Catholic faith is thus performed :-A priest, when summoned for that purpose, forms a procession, consisting of an oblong canopy of cloth, borne by four of the inferior clergy, under which he walks, preceded by a boy, bareheaded, tinkling a little bell; at the sound of which passengers prepare to pay it due respect. They kneel down as it passes them, cross their foreheads, and touch their breasts, repeating a prayer. Arrived at the dying persons' abode, the priest receives their confessions, and then, for a small gratuity, absolves then of their sins, and declares that their souls will be received in heaven. A happy religion for those who can have faith in such superstition!

gree, and attended with the greatest danger to whoever it is practised upon.'

It was proved that this dangerous person had not only procured abortion in different women, but even persuaded a man named Nicholas Wilson, upon having a quarrel with his wife, to poison her; and for this purpose gave him a deadly powder, which the man, more humane, instead of adminis tering, dug a hole in the earth, and buried it.

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The learned judge before whom she was tried was greatly moved in summing up the evidence, and giv. ing charge to the jury. He declared that he never met with a case so barbarous and unnatural. She was sentenced to close imprisonment for the term of three years, and to stand in and upon the pillory on the two next market-days in the town of Derby.

Pursuant to this sentence, she was exposed in the pillory three days afterwards, being the next market-day; when the populace expressed their indignation by pelting her with rotten eggs, and any filth they could collect; and she

might have expiated her crime with her life, had she not, in struggling, disengaged herself, and jumped among the crowd, from whose fury the sheriff's officers with great diffi culty rescued her.

The next week she was again brought out of prison, and pilloried. As soon as she mounted the platform she kneeled down, and begged mercy of the still outrageous mob. The executioner, finding, from her struggling, some difficulty in getting her head through the hole of the pillory, pulled off her head-dress, and therein found a large pewter plate, beat out so as to fit her head, which he threw among the spectators. As soon as she was fixed, a shower of eggs, potatoes, turnips, &c. assailed her from every direction; and it was thought she would not be taken down alive. Having expended all the ammunition of the above description, stones were thrown, which wounded her to such a degree, that her blood streamed down the pillory. This somewhat ap-. peased the resentment shown against her, and she returned to gaol a spectacle shocking to behold!

JAMES QUIN, ESQ.

CONVICTED OF MANSLAUGHTER.

THIS celebrated hero of the sock and buskin was born in King Street, Covent Garden; but his father, who was of an ancient family in Ireland, was induced to return to his native country with his son, who was at that time of a very tender age.

Quin received his education at Dublin, and afterwards appears to have been sent to London, to study law, chambers having been provided for him in the Temple. Here he fell into that decoy which proves fatal to so many young men upon

their arrival in this great metropolis-dissipated company. Legal pursuits were, in a great degree, abandoned, and our hero was oftener to be seen at the theatres than in Westminster Hall. His father dying soon after this period, Quin's prospects in life underwent a considerable revolution, arising from circumstances of an unusual nature, connected with the marriage of his father and mother, the latter of whom appears to have miscalculated respecting the death of a former husband, who had been absent

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