judgment, and the prisoners were remanded to the King's Bench prison. Between this and the time of their execution they were visited by Mr. Dyche, the chaplain of the prison, and by several other divines. They continued to flatter themselves with the hope of life, till the warrant came down for their execution; and endeavoured to extenuate their crime by a variety of frivolous pretences respecting disputes between them and the deceased. On the 28th of June they received the sacrament with great devotion, and did the same again on the morning of their execution. Their behaviour at the place of death is thus recorded by the minister who attended them. "On Friday the 5th of July, 1723, about eleven o'clock in the morning, they were conveyed in a cart to the place of execution. When they came to the fatal tree they behaved themselves in a very decent manner, embracing each other with the utmost tenderness and affection; and indeed the son's hiding his face, bedewed with tears, in his father's bosom, was, notwithstanding the barbarous action they had committed, a very moving spectacle. They begged of all good people to take warning by their ignominious death; and were turned off, crying, Lord have mercy upon us! Christ have mercy upon us! The bodies were brought from the place of execution in two hearses, to the Falcon inn, in Southwark, in order to be buried in St. George's churchyard." They suffered at a place called St. Thomas's Watering, a little beyond Kent-street in Surry, the father being fifty eight years old, and the son within one day of twenty-four, at the time of their deaths.

AVERSHAW, LEWIS JEREMIAH, (MURDERER,) a most depraved character, who had long been the pest of society, and whose unparalleled au

dacity did not terminate but with his life. On July 30, 1795, he was tried before Mr. Baron Perryn, at Croydon. He was convicted on two indictments: one for having, at the Three Brewers, public-house, Southwark, feloniously shot at and murdered D. Price, an officer belonging to the Police-office, held at Union-hall, in the Borough. The other for having, at the same time and place, fired a pistol at Bernard Turner, another officer attached to the office at Union-hall, with an intent to murder him. Mr. Garrow, the leading counsel for the prosecution, opened his case to the court and jury, by stating, that the prisoner at the bar, being a person of ill fame, had been suspected of having perpetrated a' number of felonies. The magistrates of the Policeoffice in the Borough of Southwark, having received information against the prisoner, sent, as was their duty, an order for his apprehension. To execute the warrant, the deceased Price, and another officer, went to the Three Brewers, a public-house, where they understood he then was drinking, in company with some other persons. At the entrance of a par lour in the house, the prisoner appeared in a posture of intending to resist. Holding a loaded pistol in each of his hands, he, with threats and imprecations,, desired the officers to stand off, as he would otherwise fire at them. The officers, without being intimidated by those menaces, attempted to rush in and seize him, on which the prisoner discharged both the pistols at the same instant of time, lodging the contents of one in the body of David Price, and with the other wounded Turner very severely in the head..' Price, after languishing a few hours, died of the wound. Mr. Garrow was very pathetic and ani- ́ mated in his description of the several circumstances composing the shocking act of barbarity. To prove

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it, he would call four witnesses, whose evidence, he said, would be but too clear to establish the prisoner's guilt. The jury would be enabled to judge from the facts to be submitted to them, and would undoubtedly decide on the issue joined between the crown and the prisoner at the bar. The learned counsel accordingly called Turner, the landlord of the house, a surgeon, and a fourth witness; but as the substance of their evidence is comprised in Mr. G's opening of the indictment, it would be superfluous to repeat it. Turner said positively, he saw the prisoner discharge the pistols, from one of which he himself received his wound, and the contents of, the other were lodged in the body of Price, who died very shortly after. The surgeon proved that the death was in consequence of the wound. Mr. Knowles and Mr. Best were counsel for the prisoner, but the weight of evidence against him was too strong to be combated by any exertions. Mr. Baron Perryn summed up the evidence, on every essential part of which his lordship made several apposite, pointed, and accurate observations. The counsel for the prisoner, he remarked to the jury, had principally rested his defence on the circumstance of several other persons being present when the pistols were discharged, by some of which they contended the death wound might possibly have been inflicted. But, with respect to that part of the transaction, it would be proper for the jury to observe, that the witness, Turner, had sworn positively to his having seen the prisoner in the act of discharging the contents of the pistol. The jury, after a consultation of about three minutes, pronounced the verdict of guilty. Through a flaw in the indictment for the murder, an objection was taken by counsel. This was argued nearly two hours, when Mr. Baron Per

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