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RE-EXAMINATIONS  

BEFORE THE  

LIEUTENANT- GOVERNOR, AND MAGISTRATES.

WEDNESDAY.

Richard Jackson made a voluntary de- claration that he was a principal in the Rob-   bery on M Breeze and that Joseph Samuels     and John Russel were his accomplices in the    

crime. All this prisoner advanced was ex-     pressly contradictory of what the evidence    

for the Crown had declared on oath. Samuels had asserted that Jackson had no concern in     the Robbery, and that Russel went into the   house and brought the box out, whereas from Jackson's confession it appeared, that   he had, with the assistance of Samuels, forced   the door, and had himself taken out the desk ;   he also owned, that a quantity of copper    

coin lay buried at a small distance from the      

spot on which the murdered body lay, and being sent to point it out, this part of the property was also found.

Samuels being next brought before the Bench, and confronted with Jackson's con-     fession, owned that all he had said on his       EVIDENCE the day before was false ; but added that he would now begin to utter    

facts: -By this declaration his evidence be- came in all respects invalid, as he had al- ready perjured himself.

Jackson also led several attendants to the spot on which the desk had been first opened,  

which Samuels had before attempted or ra-   ther intended to do, without success. Here a number of pins, needles, and waters were     found scattered, which as far as it went, cor-   roborated Jackson's confession.                      

Some wearing apparel, found at Sim-   monds's, was produced, on which such marks were visible as required to be accounted         for. --- this account he gave, but the Bench passed no opinion on the subject.

Samuels here declared, that during the Coroner's enquiry, he heard a person then   in custody on suspicion, make use of an ex- pression which had an immediate tendency        

to the fatal business. His motive for not implicating Jackson in the Robbery, he ac-   counted for as having a particular REGARD        

for him, which regard had induced him to

add to his other offences the abominable       crime of perjury, in the most awful circum- stances in which a human being could be placed.

After an examination which took up the   whole business of the day, Samuels, Jackson,     Russel, and Simmonds were returned to Pri-     son, and Hefcott ordered to remain in custo-     dy. All the others were discharged.

John Maloy, was on Thursday apprehend-   ed, for having in his possesion a Jacket that   Samuels had stolen from Richard Phelps, and the property being found upon him, he   was ordered to gaol.

Same day Connor Murphy received a cor- poral punishment, for «u.ing a correspon-         dence with a prisoner in close custody, con-

trary to orders.

On Thursday evening last a man was de- tected in an attempt to get in at a back win-   dow of Mr. SMYTH'S Dwelling-house. He raised the sash, and was half in; but was timely perceived by a little girl, who gave the alarm whereby he was apprehended on the spot.

Last week a Baker purchased a quantity of     Wheat at Nine Shillings per Bushel ; in an hour after a different person tendered him           any number of bushels at Eight Shillings,

including the expence of carriage ; and a third shortly after offered to accommodate him with an immediate supply at Seven Shil-  

lings. However advantageous the latter  

overture, he did not avail himself of it, but    

sincerely regretted that in the first instance he       had become a purchaser.  

             

The scarcity that prevailed two years ago    

enhanced the value of the above article to more than a Guinea a bushel ; last year it reached to Twelve Shillings without an actual    

necessity ; and Ten Shillings were demanded .  

                   

during the last Month, but upon what princi-    

ple the demand could be justifed remains a     secret Such as are overlooked when the        

commodity may prossibly find sale for it at the     established price, but certain it is, that hoard-  

ing at present promises to become a BAD

SPEC.  

 

On Sunday last the body of Joseph Luker

was very decently interred, a procession fol- lowing the cornfe ia which all his Brother   Constables assisted, with a number of other    

inhabitants. The solemnity of the funeral  

was much heightened by the awful circum-             stances of his death, and the doubt and anxie-   ty that existed in every mind. The initials   of the deceased were on the coffin lid, and his      

age also, which was 33 years. He was low-     ered into the grave by four pesons belong-      

ing to the Watch, one of whom is at present   in confinement on suspician.  

The deceased was a man of very, fair cha-    

racter throughout the Colony, and was a free   man a length of time previous to his a\X:íii- j

nation.  

Two boats were last week put up by auc-

tion, and were purchased, one by M. Cour    

tanc , Commander of the French B;ir !

I'Adele, for 30 Dollars, the other by Mr. Kable, for the sum of 1l.. 13s.  

A Promissory Note was last week tendered

in payment at severaI houses in Sydney, but was       rejected on account of the carelessness of iits diction. It laconically promised to pay One Pound of Copper but: as the word Coin had

been omitted,different conjectures arose as     to its real value. To strengthen the objec-

     

tion made to the instrument, one of the plead-    

e «? quote as a case in point, the promise of

a Westcili/iiniler Oilman to give a Portion with his daughter of One Hundred Pounds, the day     after her marriage to a young grazier ..... When he came to demand his wife ' K. ün^, he was agreeably informed by the old gentle-            

man that he should make a voluntary addition of Twelve pound to his, first promise ; then   turning to the {hoirn-i*, gravely desired him   to furnish his. fiJv.mfa-ü son-in-law with a Hundred Weight of the b.'it PUTTY.  

The price of Sugar has again taken wing,         and its flight rwi i nely io L-c .Miie<l."d uuiil an arrivai clips the pinion. Whether the   advance may not in a certain degree be the   effect[?] of a peint i"V'ui j .''- cannot readily be

determined; but uit.u' >ViK> 'i,vv. a small        

iandale toi,.-nic «vi t j,,.i jig-; a cu.lerner wiu.'i ...iiy quasi....', ui .t vf . Y ¿'- £ AS-; .-. r\ s ., E rat*, j iv.j'/is^u «."..-. io [/*?.:"; two ^ui.O"ä oi tea wir«! every ¿>t,u-~. i ..:'? JJ a tjix u,)ou n cedity ' L J i ;?* c ui^i no a, i *' io >'v*nio:t the .i<.an ;es

u« Ílie uuii) 'iu : OJ^.iif ;, / of the iaUvumig' oí"-, is, i^ w.uii'. ! mai-.., . it one article is in .i cuu i-' í lu »v.nLui aaj .:iv requisite, though. the o i «T may ii'¡d ni \n\ -a wholesome kin liiuue to tue cmac-adng and pernicious

uuahuV i f Pea.

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