ceived were sufficient to have killed six or seven men: for he had two bruises on his breast, three large ones on his head, and twenty-two on his back. The elder Athoe was taken into custody on the following day, but the son had fled to Ireland; however, those who had been concerned in favouring his escape, were glad to use their cadeavours to get him back again. The murder was committed in Pembrokeshire, but the prisoners were removed by a writ of Habeas Corpus to Hereford, and on the 19th of March, 1723, they were indicted for the murder. On the trial, the principal evidence against them was the surviving brother, who was even then so weak as to be indulged to sit down while he gave his evidence: but the jury, though satisfied of the commission of the murder, entertained a doubt whether the prisoners could be legally tried in any county but that in which the crime was committed; on which they brought in a special verdict; whereupon the case was referred to the determination of the twelve judges; and the prisoners being brought up to London, were committed to the King's Bench prison, where they remained till the 22d of June, 1723, and were then taken to the court of King's Bench, in Westminster-hall; when a motion being made by counsel in arrest of judgment, the court directed that an act of the 33d of Henry VIII. should be read, in which is a clause, ordaining that " All murders and rob. beries committed in, on, or about the borders of Wales, shall be triable in any county of England, where the criminal shall be taken; and that the court of King's Bench shall have power to remove by writ of Habeas Corpus, any prisoner confined in Wales, to the next county of England to be tried." In consequence hereof, the court proceeded to give

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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 below 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 parlour 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