28 September 1813 Sessions at Old Bailey - Cumberland and Westmorland Newspaper Transcriptions

28 September 1813 Sessions at Old Bailey

Old Bailey Sessions commenced Wednesday, nothing of importance until
Friday when LEARY, for the murder of Edward CLIFFORD, was put on his trial. No
fresh facts came out. The prisoner made a lame defence, and was without
hesitation found Guilty.

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       Saturday, John DENTON was tried for the murder of Catherine DENTON,
with whom he cohabited in Bow-lane Buildings, Bromley, Middlesex. The deceased
having reproached the prisoner for striking his sister, he took a knife from
his breast and stabbed her, which caused her death a month afterwards.

       The defence was temporary insanity, from a wound received on board
ship. He likewise was found guilty, and both executed this morning before the
debtors door of Newgate; their bodies were afterwards conveyed to the surgery at
Bartholomew's Hospital, for dissection.

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       Thomas FORSTER, formerly a copper plate printer in the Bank of
England, capitally convicted of forging and uttering notes, purporting to be those of
the bank of England. Principle witnesses against him were NORMAN and GWYN,
agents of the prisoner, and detected uttering the forged notes at Billericay
Fair.

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       At these Sessions Friday, a youth named Richard CUMBERLAND, being
convicted of picking pockets, hurled a clasp knife from the bar, at the
prosecutor, which grazed his cheek, but did no injury. For this violence the Common
sergeant immediately sentenced him to be transported for life.