MIDDLESEX SEssioxs.—Thomas Bradford, an old Chelsea pensioner, was sentenced to
twelve months' imprisonment for an assault upon a girl of ten years of age. On Monday, six fellows, named Eagle, Renard, Williams, Browne, Trimmer, and Jones, were sent to the House of Correction for six months, for unnatural practices.
At the Gloucester Assizes on Friday week, Thomas Cox was condemned to be hanged for the murder of an old man of the name of Wicks. Wicks was reputed wealthy, and he lived quite alone. The proof was circumstantial. Cox was seen to enter the house the night before the murder was discovered, and his clothes were found to be bloody afterwards. At the Chester Assizes, James Gleaves was condemned to be hanged for cutting and stabbing Matilda Arandale, who was with child by him, with intent to cause her miscarriage. EXECUTIONS.—Thomas Cox, who was convicted on Friday last wee of the murder of William Wing, suffered at Gloucester on Monday. persisted to the last in his declarations of innocence. On Saturday, Jam
Williams, a lame man, was hanged at Hereford, for the robbery of a person named Willington, a Chelsea pensioner. Two persons convicted along with Williams, one of whom was declared by the latter to be innocent of the rob- bery, have been reprieved. MURDER.—A poor man named Munro, a cotton.spinner, was found mur- dered in Little Street, of Calton, Manchester. He had received several blows on the head, his lip was cut through, and his throat bore marks of strangulation. Several men were observed running from the spot, but none of them were caught. On Friday last, about nine o'clock in the morning, the bodies of two children, male and female, were found in a coppice in the parish of Ham- moon, murdered, to all appearance, by strangulation and the effect of several stabs from some blunt instrument ; strings of tape were tied round their necks, as if the inhuman murderer had completed the work of death by means of strangulation, which the wounds previously inflicted had failed to accom- plish. Five infant children have been found destroyed by violence, within three years, in the immediate neighbourhood where this foul murder in par- ticular has been perpetrated.—Dorchester Journal.
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