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AUGUST 9, 1856. not having other opportunity, and as she was in my way, could not do otherwise—l must stab her too. Dear Mother —Saturday evening—When I came I had not at least any intention to commit this awful act; but I learned that my dear Caroline gave me back my likeness, and as she told me she would leave, I did not know any other way in my heart-break than that leading to the cutler, where I bought a poignard, which divided t'ae hearty lovers. A r m by arm, I brought my dearest souls in the world over to the unlucky place, near the road before Folkestone, an requested them to sit down ; but the grws being wet, they refused to do so, and I directed then Caroline to go inward, and I went behind Maria, into whose breast run the dagger. With a dull cry she sank down. With a most broken heart I rushed then after Caroline, lifting the poignard in my hand towards her. Dear Dedea," cried she, with a lialldead voice, and fell down with weeping eyes. Then I rushed over her, and gave her the list kisses as an everlasting nmembrance. I c 'aid not live a more dreadful hour in my life than that was, and my broken heart could nat feel when my senses were gone; and I took both the black capes of Maria and dear Caroline, as a mourning suit for me, leav ing the awful spot with weeping eyes and a broken heart. Never shall I forget my dear Caroline and Maria, and the poignard will be covered with blood until it will be put in my own breast, and I shall see again my dear Maria and Caroline in the eternal life. Farewell, and be not unhappy about the blissful de ceased ; they are angels of God, and forget the unhappy, ever weeping, DEDEA REDANIF.S. • The second letter was addressed to Lieutenant Schmid, expressing regret at what he had done, and confessing to having " squandered away" his watch, forgiveness of which he craved, and also for the crime he had committed. The Coroner then carefully summed up the evidence. He thought that the jury would agree with him that this was as clear a case of murder as ever was brought before the notice of a jury, and they would have no difficu! ty in coming to a conclusion as to who com mitted the diabolical deed. After a few moments' consideration, the jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder" against Dedea Redanies, and a warrant was immediately made out for his apprehension. It is expected that he will be sufficiently recovered to appear before the magistrates in about a fort night. Two TRAVELLERS, Fisher and Adams, in the em ploy of Mr. Fleet, the soda-water manufacturer at Walworth, quarrelled last week. Fisher struck A lam, behind the ear. Adams fell, and soon after led. A verdict of " Manslaughter " was returned against Fisher, who was captured in a mourning coach attending the funeral. The prisoner will be tried at the Guildford Assizes. SAUSAGES should never be eaten at Notting•hill in hot weather. On Tuesday James Bridge, sausage and saveloy maker, of New-street, Notting-hill, was brought before Mr. Daman, at Hammersmith, charged with having on his premises some 1501bs. of meat unfit for use. Mr. Giles Lovett, inspector of nuisances for Kensington, said : On Friday afternoon I went to the defendant's house, and in the back parlour I found a quantity of beef, some of which was in pickle. I took some of the meat oat of the tub, and found it was quite putrid. I saw a sack on the floor, in which there were th,rteen large joints of beef, each joint having from four to six ribs or bones in them. I took some of the meat out of the sack, and found it very green and offensive to the smell. I further discovered upwards of 50165. of sausage-meat made up for use, which I have no doubt was a portion of the same meat. This I could not say was as bad as the others, as it was so highly seasoned , rith spices, ft. The sausage machine was in a filthy state, and the whole of the premises were in a dirty coalition. I seized about 15U1bs. altogether. It consisted of sixteen large joints of beef and some small pieces. The defen taut was not at home, but his wife informed me that the meat was not so bad, and they were going to make polonies of it. The defendant, of course, said that the meat was sound when he purchased it. Mr. Dayman fined him only 4/. in consideration of his being spoor man. THE CONVICT NIERDOCH, sentenced to death for the murder of his gaoler at Hastings, was hanged at Lewes on Tuesday morning in front of the county gaol. Some 2.000 persons were present. The convict previous to excl.:liana exhibited a sincere repentance for his crime, which he readily admitted, but qualified by declaring he had no intention to take the old man's life. _ . THE MODERN JACK TAR, with all the education bestowed upon him, spends his time and his money when ashore much in the same manner as his pig tailed ancestors. On Wednesday, at the Middlesex Sessions, Caroline Bowman, 20, and Louisa Clark, IM, were indicted for stealing two sovereigns and other moneys from the person of Arthur Power. The pro secutor, a sailor, having on his breast the Crimean medal, with the Sebastopol clasp, stated that on the 12th July he was discharged from her Majesty's ship Agamemnon, after which he began to enjoy himself on the arrears of pay he had received. He bad served in that ves,el three years : Now, your lordship .( he said), on the 13th, you know was at the Sir Hugh . Nlyddeltonpublie-bouse, - by the Sad ler's-wells Theatre, when who should I fall in with but THE PRESS. these two gals here, and they was very soon alongside of me ; and says I to them, " You can have a quartern of gin and cloves," for them ere sort of gals is very fond of gin and cloves, you know, my lord. (Loud laughter.) But," says I, I'm a-going to have none of it, as I shall have some of the beat half-and-half," which I did, just having a toothfal of brandy now and then to bring me to, like—for, you must know, had drunk a trifle, and, to tell the truth, I got tips',. - The 4 A - ssistorr -Jul:our : And some one stole your money ? _ _ _ _ Prosecutor: Some one? Oh, my dear lord, it was this one here ; Clark is her name and that's a fact. (Laughter.) Well, I was so drunk they could have heaved me overboard and I shouldn't have knowed it: still I kept on filling, when a gentleman wakes me up from a stupor and axed me if I had lost anything, so I looked round and the gals was gone, and it then flashed over my mind that they had got my money as I recollected they had been busy about my trouser pockets, and so they had ; they took my money and left me in the larch, and did'nt care what became of me. ( Loud laugh..er. ) I had sense enough left to know that, hut it was little enough, God knows. Power's purse having been found on the prisoner , Clark when apprehended, the jury returned a verdict of Guilty. Sentence, six months' hard labour. A SCENE occurred on Tuesday in one of the Equity Courts, before the Lord Chancellor and the Lords Justices. On their lordships taking their seats upon the bench, an elderly woman, accompanied by her daughter, who seemed to be about forty years of age, rose to present a petition in relation to some pro. perty she alleged herself to have been cheated out of. The Lord Chancellor said he could not listen to her, and she must sit down. The daughter then jumped up, and in a loud voice said that her mother must be heard; that she was unjustly kept out of her property, and that she was starving ; and she com plained that now, when a decree might be had in her favour, the court refused to hear her. The lady went on speaking with much vehemence and volubi lity, until the officers, directed by the Lord Chancel lor, induced her to leave the court, still calling out that all the judges were acing with cruelty and injustice towards an old woman whom they allowed to be robbed of her property by a set of swindlers. MR. DOVE, in all probability, will be executed this morning. Sir George Grey bas left London, and it is understood that on Wednesday he declared to Mr. Barrett, of Leeds, his determination not to recom mend the prisoner for mercy. The convict during the last week has exhibited the most sincere re pentance. THE OLD STORY OF SHAME, DESERTION AND SUICIDE was repeated once more last week at Walton, near Colchester. A young lady with an infant ar rived there some three months since. She took lodgings, represented herself to be the guardian of the child, and lived in comparative seclusion. For the last few weeks it was evident to the landlady that the poor young creature was getting into dis. tress. She had no money, was in debt, and appa rently had no friends to whom she could apply for relief. On Tuesday week she left home as she said for London, but, going down to the beach, she hired a bathing-machine, went out into deep water, and deliberately drovrued herself, for she was found with her clothes on, her bonnet only taken off, and her bead firmly fixed under the steps of the bathing machine. " A Near Relative," writing to the Times on Tuesday, denies that the poor girl was ever aban doned by her friends : It is not true, air, that the unfortunate young lady was ever abandoned by her relatives and friends. Blinded by a fatal passion, she persistently abandoned them. Terms of reconciliation and return—such terms as are alone com• patible with the sacred obligations of domestic life and personal self-respect, and urged with all the power of ear- nest entreaty and affectionate remonstrance—were always freely offeted, and always, alas. refused. There are, indeed, those living who have incurred an awful re sponsibility by the precipitate death of this young lady. It is not my object to speak of this now. Over her grave no word of reproach shall ever be uttered ; but the lacerated feelings of surviving relatives and friends demand this justice, and I am sure, sir, I shall not appeal to you in vain to give this note a place in your next issue. This statement does not coincide with the poor girl's absolute distress and poverty, and her death alone therefrom. The jury, at the coroner's inquest, re turned a verdict of " felo-de-se." A CORNISH COMPROMISE. JURIES have occasionally returned verdicts which astonished the judge as much as the prisoner and public ; but a Cornish jury at Bodmin last Friday managed to achieve the acme of notoriety in such proceedings. Ann Matthews, James George, and Richard Jose, were charged before Mr. Baron Martin with the wilful murder of an infant born of Matthews on the 27th March last. From the statements of counsel it appeared, as a specimen of rustic morality, that Matthew; (a widow) and Jose (a labourer) and George and a girl nam"d Burns, were all living toge;her in adultery in the same cottage. Matthews became with child. The fact was known to scarcely any one. The greatest secrecy was maintained, te- 755 cause an allowance from the parish for herself and her other children would be withdrawn if she had a natural child. Some attempts had been made to procure abortion, but had failed. On the evening of the 20th of March the pains of labour appear to havo commenced. Matthews complained of being very ill, and retired early to bed. Jose came home from his work, hut did not go to bed that night. George and Burns went to bed, leaving Jose sittini up in the kitchen. About four o'clock on the morning of Thursday, the 27th of March, Matthews came to her full time. She arse from her bed and went down into the kitchen, and was there delivered of a female child. Jose was also downstairs, and he called the girl Burns, and asked her to come down to assist Matthews. Burns soon went down, but found the kitchen door fastened. She asked Jose to open it, but he said he could not leave Matthews. During the time she was standing at the door she heard Matthews groan and a child lry strongly. She at length got into the room, and saw Matthews, Jose, and a baby. George came down, and then Jose asked George to help Matthews upstairs, which he proceeded to do. As Matthews was going out of the room she told Jose to stop the child's cry ing. After George and Matthews had left the room Jose thrust his finger down the throat of the child with great violence, but that did not destroy its life. He did this for five minutes. Ile then sail that would not do, and he went into another room and fetched a pan, into which he poured a quantity of water from a pitcher, and he then put the child into the water and drowned it. After the child was drowned the body was put in a box, and the same evening, on returning from work, Jose, accompanied by George, carried the body to a pond, about a mile from Truro, attached a stone to it by a cord, and threw it into the pond. On the 29th the body was discovered, taken out of the pond, and carried to Truro by a man named Snell. Mr. Painter, a surgeon saw it, found it to be the body of a female child f ull grown, that it had been born alive, and that it had come to its death by suffocation. A coroner's inquest was held, and a verdict of " Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown' was returned. On the 31st the four prisoners were taken into custody. An inquiry took place before the magistrates, and Jose then said the child bad been destroyed by poison. The body was then disinterred and again examined, but it was evident that that had not been the case, but that it bad been suffocated, although the injury to the mouth and throat was sufficient to have caused death very speedily. All four were then committed for trial, but Burns was admitted Queen's evidence. The chief witness, the girl Burns, supported the above statement, and added that when Jose bad his finger down the child's throat it straggled, and that she begged Jose not to kill the child. She also said that the child was alive when Jose put it in the pas of water, and that she again begged him not to kill it. The prisoner George, when in custody, also cor roborated the girl's statement. The testimony of two surgeons who had examined the child went to show that the death was caused by suffocation. They also described the injuries in the throat. The ap pearances were consistent with Burns' statement of what had taken place. Mr. Baron MARTIN summed up, exculpating George entirely. The jury retired, and, after a long consultation, returned the following verdict : —Jose Guilty of manslaughter; George Guilty, as an accessory after the fact ; and Matthews Guilty of concealing the birth. The Judge then said he did not know any legal ob stacle to their finding Jose guilty of manslaughter, but his opinion certainly would have been that he should have either found him guilty of murder or have acquitted him, but it was the verdict of the jury, and he should therefore sentence Jose to be transported for life, and Matthews and George to twelve months' imprisonment. So gross a compromise between duty and " death " on the part of a jury is only another proof of the ob jection of juries to inflict the punishment of death if it can possibly toe got over. 81RTH.3.1 EVEREST—On the 3rd instant, in Westbournautzest, Hyde park, the wife of Colonel Everest. of a son. LODDER—On the 91st ult., at Leigh-bill-house, Cobham, the wife of Major W. W. Loader, 59th Regiment, of a son. MARRIAGES. BYNG—COOK—On the sth instant, at East Pedant= Church, the Hon. James Byug, to Caroline Louisa, daughter of Wm. Cook. Esq., of lloydon-hall. Kent. CONYNGH ARBUTHNOT—On the sth instant, at Clon mei, Lieut.. Colonel Wet. Fitzwilllam Lenox Conyughius, of the Londonderry Light Infantry, to Laura Calvert, daughter cf the late George Arbuthnot, Esq, of Elderslie Lodge, Surrey. GEARY— PRIG R— On the sth instant. at St. George's, Hanort rt. square, Francis Geary. Esq., son of the late Sir William Geary, Bart, to Fanny IsaWki, daughter of A. R. Prior, Esq. - • DEATHS. BARNETT—On the 4th instant, at Round Oak, Engielield•greens Lieut.• Colonel Charles John Barnett, aged t 6. CR AN LEY—On the kod instant, at Princesiate. Arthur George Viscount Cranley, son of the Earl of Onslow, aged 36. GRANT—On the lit instant, at Boon, Sir Robert Innes Grant, Dart., of Dalvey, aged fa