Star. — London, England, 1818-08-13 00:00:00

r p.f . I I :I;;T:FLUGENCL OF CIIANCERY, A1 7 (41 , 5T t, e I,k• •RD CHANCRI. f..' It art eared much better in •toty • hi Lori , : bovi-evei. did not feel ". • •cerre:r.:l to 5.0 ..hrotGli the task i:1 the C.tUSCS set clown. vqi-TES•:/...%V.D.ANDru r: s talon ITY OP CH NCERY. '1: L'rw i ii. %Ce.L:.olli Oil corning into Court, :%Ir.Duckwor..h , saying, }le ha l considered in which the assi , (!nee of a bankrupt and the ifc had appned to the hla.ter of the ! - er a sun; of money to be paid out cf the Court. 7. 7%:.:Acr Directed the mane to be raid for use of thc Lady, and the Accompta4nt- Gv ......., 21 ,1 g'.ccn his order an the Bank accordingly. .b c o rned. I:olscecr, the Bank refused - comidiathie, z crr.: was petitioned to interfere; " but 1 said Lk Lr. , rdshin, " alter the Master of the i"; (vier, though I should like to - know what Bank conl~ pretend to set up for their re- CO. 13 the tirst place, I cannot, consistently with tv ttsc.a prance. alter an order of the Maszer of the Id u , a.rcrizi-Irt: and, if I could, I would not k re it was for the-Master of the Rolls to inquire • icy his eider came to be slighted." Str AMU; Ptatorr observed, that he had no. in tCaclo;sia a; present case; but perhaps he might b e le ... fa it:rim suggest, that if the money were or- . d e „,; ;o oepti to trustees, the difficulty with regard 6)6..110 might be relroved. '.* m e Low • lIANChLLOR — .I I will not interfere in' this use, but leave it to the Master of the Rolls to himself upon what ground it is that the Bank yew a refuse to obey an order of this Court". Vali AND OTII DRS V. !AWES A 'SD OTIIERS. nis WAS an application by Sir SA arum, Rpm ILLY. bot.tif of :he detendaats. S r Watkia Lewes and his &riga, for an order cc . that Court, to postpone to iciti of Much next the sale of certata. Premises, of their property, which had been Advertised to ti i st a ce to mormw, the 13th instant, on the alleged of. arrears due to the plaintiffs out of an annuity. i :notion of the defendants rested on the ground, lid not received from the plaintiffs due no tz ti the intended sale. LORD CDACELLOII observed, that if the estate to ba told in the Master's Office, the defendants cor hoe received the proper notice: _ _ _ .. . . . 'Oll:i.L it. ,:11 LLY sail, they had not received --..; ~-rvars being claimed on the annnity to the of 1:3.955. In August. I t‘l7, when an order ...:! hal 11-.. en nlitaiaed, Sir Watkin Lewes, by -,0: .iir. Hardy, bade £1 700. which then he had 71; -:isi., , ,:t et paying, since from the snit with ..... il t... Court of Exchequer he was to receive ' in expectation of a decree by mit with Pon.in, in his favo ir, unit. The sale, however, was Ice of a non-performance of the 'e and foundation for the pre _ was every TCstSOll on the part Watkirr Leaves, to caicula.e on of the money by March. The ie sellins of the estate was, that midst of his general prcperty. in the case were made out, and could grant the order. he placitiffs. °Wetted. itmight tor Sir Watltin Lewes and his iv; but drat that Court would look the'dnty of admini.terhg artie.s. .In I ti(4, bet uviLy was ::cod,: but the security was on . i:atkin Night deride from the Ica' the &much of Southwark, but that 'icing an crake con iistrazion of justice, could no: bsigiltd: The second sectirky .- e , tate in Wales, belonging to laughter. The. sum at present Si: Art . :r.kia seemed desirous by potter to withhold the payment i laintiffs. But he trusted that the itittail prevent the success of such net suffer the proposed delay thierve.l, that Mr. Roupell 1% which ought only to be ad ! by aai ;cl.toa asked why the application sooner? tLy sal, he had applied for li .l fire days ago. mr.Lost s uJ he would not inter ter take its course. S.-SUILIWORD, AUGUST 11. B. NCiI PRIS6N: T. ROBERT nANIPTO:E. tmcnt iigliinst the defendant for !n:e. of the King's Bench Prison. instituted by Mr. Jones, the .1 the case, ar.:l stated the cir vele afterwards substantiated by Br:it:Klima clerk to Mr. Jones, ';use evidence it appear(-.1, that, of very respectable appear - Ned by ecr:)ns f.om the London, upon a wtit of .ty of the of the King's kt 1 the ho.lolt of the ]bales the natal security to the Nl,lrch the broke the , in co;'.ertucr.7(' of which the Debt : - ..1;(1 costs, to the ti.i . r.ths since the de wi!hir, the wails of ithivnt :_bout 13 months.-- t:l4t he 11;0 been to Ilamburgh, II: I , y Nil-. Annteitus, ;;;.13 dintileKiug'sßeech King's Ber r the L :.,era of the Ruiz; gave a nut to go Lt.yoad the bounds of tile Rules, the Mar nn the amount the Rules, v. - ich:a the walls of red to take tLe benefit of •:•:lled, were compre i?ra limits, marked out .t by any 411 licensed f:enta7e viol • VI:: LARD l II nsucccum 1/1/SCTVCO sold in the .slaster's Offici Ala hare received the prper notia U.:Slut:cc ito?itcLY s:atd, they .i7ears being claimed on t r ;clot 1.1.955. In August. Ib I been Obtained. Sir V w 'Act .tir.ll.trily, bade £1 700. s airro.rect el paying, since in t;•,e Court of Etchequer w. , .s also in expectatioa the suit with Pon; arcia•iier.ibleatnotisit. The sa es ,:,e, in consequence of a non-p • As a motive and found; r• 4-, there was every ri at, ..I.tzt, Sir Watllin• jetve pcssession of the mone eajta. , ...tlal - ..ad to the selling of ii the midst of his To a'S:.ivi,s 'toper in the case we k 76'1;1 t'.e Court would pint tl ilocru.i., for the pluitiffs. c be ‘t-.•,: cai.venient for Sir Watkii iliori.t:es 1.1 (r3e del iy ; but Alla I oot he . ...4a4ta to overlook the'cloty e et! f.uticn to r Tartlet. :In It t r maul alva:xed.: &tit the v - hid air iYatkin TlCight et 110 fidiii; lot the Ilinou! ujirdb7 Soli but that tei • With the . a.lusiaistratioti of ji profia so assigned: The on a reversionary estate in 11'ta] aid his daughter. Tht vas LSO), a..d Si yVatkirt see tie ,:tans in his power to withh , iisai.roint the plaintiffs. But Is •,'o,irt would prevent tl ya. and would not sutler tic 6:at 4cat. Itotttuy observed, sicAiag AbSeltiOilt which • ough wel wile' op.tai.v.tl by aai lav i t. Ikt LOYD CU sticet.Loa asked w: * *mkt) made sooner? 4 :Sto6'. It.osts.Le sill, he h t, to 60 four cr five days a;,, , T, iieLnao L'Aasott.toi s sij he tut • ale muter take its cod 41 . 31 t 2 P.S.—SUILCIFOTt! KING's B2NCII PRIG TUE KING V. ROBERT 1/A: ‘7.1 ! I 4lictmcnt ;against flaei t':: It Me. of the Kin was instiiatted b 11" :" A lLi npenti the case, a were afterward Id ,s•••• 1 '': . r,; Xr. Broochhoff, f:Cli whose evidence if:it:lr.:, a man of very II ~..:... rz7r.aved by tiibe ci.t = Shet-iff r.f London ;Lc ciismiy of the 11.1 cieadant ha I the h r rpur giving the us 1., tl:e Int::114 Nlarch 7.1.1 c , z4j,ed, in consequc ia; 01 , ii;:cd to pay deb t.. • -•11. • A icy.- Luc rc- . ..kel • d s•• I • L,•.11 absent that he e L'o.sair.ent u • • i‘v N C(.r• L slut to r•k• L • tor the 4!!Z:, h, , • a , 5m.1.1 ;-cr •:entat pri-„Ler ittlw.dea re-tlLtr„ tl.azel I. ad neve,- fi . -2red to . y.; t•bh • . . r 4 / 4 3 .411. sfa aulternitat, such as ".•:. `. withih die•ptewribcd lirt*i, were out of .th• . aVkl an ptrvari who shouji veiitare to . a?reilhfreir, wouli bs •consi.lere3 ha;AarCesi.. , ,iped isiitg the lezal custody of the NlirshAl . . .Nlr..ln,ttre hii chard observed, that the qUesti.in of I INV in the c,se whether what are calle3 The Rules of the King's Beach Prisoi, were, in point of law. a prison? whet ter a person in custody within those Rule; guilty- of an offence azainst the law in dvarting therefrom? Nov that the Rules of the King's Bench prison- were a prison, and that a person having. the bentfit of those Ilales, ;mas wrilty of as offence against the law, if he should escape therefrorn,,his Lordship had not the' figlites doubt in delivering , o :he Jury to be matter of law: and CT IlliitAvious reason, that the sla..shal would be liable to an aCtinn of eicA ,, e, at the salt of his pri.one-'s- creditor, if he sulrered him to depart the Rules. If the Rules were not to be considered as the prison, the necessary consequence must be, that . that privilege most, for the future, be taken away froni persons confi tea is such custody. his Lordship had no hesitation, in saying, that when the defendant had the heaefit of, the Rules, he wa; in law in prison, and in deparling those Rules, he was guilt . ) , of an escape from pri;on. The escape was admitted, and therefore the Jury must find him guilty. • The Jury accoidiiigly found the defendant and ht was sentenced - to four Months' impriionusent in the county gaol. CROWN iIDR. CHARGE OF' CHILD MURDER. • . Miry Stone, aged 29, was charted oft .the oath of her Sister, Hirriet ilAmpton. with having wilfully murdered a fema'e child E of which she (the prisoner) was-the *other, in the month of September,, 18i6, at Riclurrond. • The Prisoner; who was a most interesting looking young woman. was plated on the scat near the mirk, as she appeared too weak to support herself in the usual place where prisoners stand to be arraitrnea.--. She seemed q lire dejectef:Md'wons down her fr.', twes which were reniarkabiy intelligent aad exp.. - es• sive, iadicated extreme anxiety arid emotion. On being arraigned in the usual manner , ' and .called on !or her plea, she replied in a feint beet tone of voice " Not Guilty." • -.. The pmsectitrix, Mrs. Harriet Ilarniit • en. was then put into the witness's box. She appeared to be a &v.: young woman, about 19 or 2.) years of s age.. On , casting her eyes downwards to 'where the prisoner sat, she burst into tears, and esclsimid,'irlth great apparent anguish, 0 0 my sister, Mys.l-tei ' The prisoner fainted during her sinter s egizatitin ? but *as speedily recovered; the latter, after having been taken out into the open air, was soon sufficiently well enough to give her evideace, which she dil with leis apparent embarrarsment than Might , have' been ex pected. Her evidence was as in:lows: In the month of September, 1816, I think on 'he 25th, 1 slept, as was my custom, with my sister, Mary Stone. About two o'clock in the morning she said she was in extreme pain, and shortly after she was delivered of a female child ; it cried, and I want ed to go out and tall in assistance but she would not lit me. Very shortly after the child weal) . rti, it might be about half-past two or three o'clocli on the 'mottling of the 25th September, my sister 'forced hir hand intcrthe infant's moat', and elteltedlt, artithett thrust the body into a pan under' the bed. 'She after wards threw herself os the bed, and got up in a ma . meat, as if to do something ; I then said I ' d cry oaf s an call for somebody to come in ; 'my sister replied that if I attempted to tie so she would kill me at die instant, and then kill herself. 1 was therefme so frigh ened, that I desisted Irons attempting to give' any alatim. My sister left' the body io the-pat on that night, .and ea the foliewingene made up a fire in the room, and tried to beets it, but the flesh ..nade such a crackling noise that she vas afraid k %valid be heard, and the took it off the•fire and replaced' t is the pal.- The next morning she took it down' stairs, and burnt it in the copper to ashes—a 4 then cleaned the chpper out, and threw the ashes on the dunghill.. Cross-examined by. the Cbsissos StRJEA nT; -l am the sister of the prltinner. lirst told this storyahout s twelve months ago, or,' shortly aftei I . got married.' I let it out one Welt in mzsleep, and on being eines: boned the following morning by stay husband, Ipm fessed the truth to him; my husband is ncitshereto day. My sister kept the house we at ,Rich mond ; it was a small house, having oily three. rooms, and being thinly partitioned, s-.) *et what passed within may be heard by the reighbou.-s. My sister and I always slept in the same bed ; my t-teet , heart then, but husband now, slept in the opposite room to oar's ; a man of the name of Davis Kenyon, rand my brother, generally slept in the third room:— I never sa'd my sister,, who was an unmarried wo man, was pregnant before this matter took plate. ' I don't know that any body noticed it, for she gene. rally slept in bed for a time before she lay in. When she killed the child, I *as afraid to alarm any body, lest she should carry her threat into 'execution of making away with us both. My sister used use rory ill since this transaction; her ill usage coiiiiientei about a fortnight after it happened ; she then thre.ate• cited to turn ase out of doors, anal wished that every bit 1 pet aa nay mouth might choke me. She dis liked my marriage, though I never bad the smallest ill-will to her, or expressed myself to that effect to• any body. I never said to Mrs. Wilkes that I'd ruin the prisoner, or that I wished her dead to get the. £soo'out of the Bank. I never said that as I was not of age, I could not get the money yet, or hoped that she might die first. I believe we are entitled to £5OO, which is in the Batik ; Messrs. Smith and Walton are the trustees for my brother, sister,, and', self. My brother told my husband of our harlug' this property, but I never mentioned it to hi cause I did not know exactly how the money - 40dt My sister had a child before this last, it is a grown boy, has always lived with her, and she treats it well. She reduced her last child's bones to ashes, and.threw the ashes on the dunghill—this Was whet I said be-, fore the Magistrate.—On a T e enage ta.t hi aw itaess's depositions, her words were found to nave been," My ; tiger raked the bones out of the fire, and threw them on the dunghill.”—The case for the prosecutihn being • closed, the Prisoner was called on for het defence, but sbc declined saying any thing.--Tbe followin witnesses Amy called on her behalf: . . Mts. Elisabeth Wilkes said, that in Septtynber . 1816, she lived at Trentham, where she knew the . . Proultinr ',roe lilt tie primpier. itA land I w. * wit% 1 - isi in shomitakm . g. Wittiels.repe tredlv heard .the pre,eutrriz wish for her sisser s Ore pri d= 4 . tlees) ' death, aMihig, on such occasions, that . she wanted her money. he remembered her saying •+n, one particular occa.ion ; " wish she was dead, for then I woul have the money, and my hush Ind and me could get iato business on our arra account."—' Alma • three weeks after the marriage of ila iet I Hampton; she complained to witness, that the priso ner demanded Ms. a week from her hus!sand for the time his wife had lived with her before she knew him ; and she aided, " I'm afraid she'll get the amount from the trustee, Mr4midt, who i s her friend." Mr. Walton, of Kingstan; proved that he was a trustee under the will now produced, by which £5OO Was bequeathed to the prisoner, her brother, and sister. with the benefit of survivorship. The mar , tied sister was not yet of age. Mr. Justice Assort. charged tho Jury. He said, that the consideration to which their attention was amw - called, presented, in whatever way -it coald be viewed, one of the most melancholy 'instances of human depravity which the mind could well conceive. If they believed the witness for the prosecution, they muse convict the prisoner of the foul and horrible crime of , the murder of her own new-born child; if , they disbelieved her,- they must decide that one of, the Iwo sisters had falsely and infamously conspired, seeinst • the life of the other, in. the shocking expec tation of thereby coming a adroit time sooner to the. possession of some small property, than she was likely to do in the usual course of things. either• alter-native the reflection was most revolting. Thy. story, as related by the prisoner's sister, undoubtedly went to ...hew that to herself had not trcted as she ought, if her own statement were correct, for she net only by her oivn coofession,•was present at the, murder, buy had refrained from giving the slightest alarm, and also concealed it fix the long period which had intervened between the alleged commis sion-of the act, and the tune when she gave the in-' formation. It was for the Jury to say whether, taking all the circumstances of the story together, they mold •ookarpon it as entitled to their credence. Nothing was surely more improbable than to believe that a woman in.a small house, like the prisoner's, with very little room, at the moment occupied, and the thin partition scscommunicating with theadjoininglouses, that what passed in one was audible in the other—no thing, he repeated. could he more improbable, than that a wotna t should. without making the smallest noise, or expressing the slightest pain. so as to be audible oirside her roam, have borne the generally severe and acne pains of child-bearing. There was not,f besides, the smallest evidence to shew that any body had seen the prisoner in a s.ate of pregnancy before occurrence was said to have taken place, -and it was most u rlikely that an unmarried woman could have evaded observation in such a state. 11 The body was burned is the manner described, how had it happened that the very offensive effluvia arising from such a process, had never attracted the notice of any body in this small house.? • Taking the whole statement together, it stood uncoitfirrned by the tes aimouy which might, were it true, be addaced iu i:s support. The L . earated Judge concluded by °biers , . int; to the Jury, that if :the prisoner had sadly coat matted the act id the manner described, nothing was. moire unlikely than that she should hike . quarrelled. I and almost immediately after the fact, with the per. son whir ba b lancedher . life ia her hands. The Jury, without any hesitaticar, returned a ver dict of—Not.Guilty. . . it,X021111 . 014 BCC O. COMD-31WIDER. Tjte next prisoner . put to the bar was Mary Pouher, a Aleacate lookinggig, only thirteen yearn of age la.n Agway, who sto6Margesi with the wilful murder of a fentatebtistard child, to Which she gave birth on :the Ath of last June. -.Several witnesses proved thei birth of this child in a healthy state. bu the 214th of June. The pristiner seemed food of it, but it was l found dead with hey two d tys afterwards,. and wiz!: some livid marti about its. mouth, whit.h the womln who principally :assisted .ja 4:liaising the .child•after its birth, attributed to sornetlting _like a convulsion fit. The chief witness.to prirve that the child died of a violent 'deatb;..was Mr. Newman„ a sur l ieon, who _was:decidedly- of opinion, from the examination of the infattesheadtand throat, esternally and intermay, that it Met its death by .strangulaLion and fractures in the head, whi‘h .catited a rapture of someof the vessels,.end al extravasation. of blood. .On twg r . of the former witnesses , who chick re. rnain . edissith. the prisoner and child,. being rec.dled., they. r epeated thew declarations, that her treatment of the.child seemed maternally. kind and attentive. Theittry, after an able charge from the JuJgc, ,returned . 3i verdict oC—Nat Guilty: ..WEDNESDAY, AUGUST if. .11URDER: ?HS XING V. curzou. AND CDALCRAFT. At a very early 1101/e this morning the Court, and all the avenues leading to it were filled up, so great was the public ant ieiy to hear the trial of these priso ners. At eight o'clock Mr. So:jeant LEN.i proceeded to the Court, when the prisoners, George Chennel and J. Cliekraft, were arraigned fort.lie wilful murder of 0. Chennel, at Godalming, on tle nith of Novem ber last ; and on a second indictment, fur the mut , der of. Eliz. Wilson, by fracturing their skulls with a htmtner, and cutting their throats. The following Jury ; were lava/wiled and sworn: Veers, Trinanwr, Thomas Clarke, Cb. FauCkner, John Taflor, John Mattlx.ws, Wm. Smith, Simnel Savage, • James Street Thomas am. Merryman, Richard Dare ' , John Fry. The undermentioned Gentlemen were challenged by the prisoners: • Ed. Lewis,- • John Arnold, Win. Jackson, John Simmons, Wm. Uh.mrller, Diehard Itobloson. • Mr:.Gunvav, as leading Counsel• for the Crown, stated the case to the Jury He observed, that even the itOrrid crime . of murder had its gradations of atroCity. It was aggravated when committed by the strong upon the feeble aqd unresiting—when by the ' , servant against his master—and above all. when by • the son „agaiast his agedfather. Tne last was the dreadful charge which was' imputed to the prisoners —the, one was the son, -and the other the servant of tire deceased. He mentioned thil not to mite their passions ; on the contrary. they must not safer them .selves . to be transported, by their indignation and abhorrence at the crime, to be caused, by a pre inatute judgment, to pronounce the isccused They inn* discharge from their minds all they bad heard else Where, and found their verdict only upon the evideneewhich shank be adduced before them, tise, that alone they, had se-ors to fruA their mt. With respect to .11 it evidenCe, fr in is.l.l:h they must forth the result :Of their I tiAi it of necessity be colhicie ► ft,.tu a rat iely s.f ci cunz tta:zces, all tending to the same end. he mut de:•er did not do his tOul deed in the prese ,, ce yf wit. nerst;s. He chase night and Solitudesfw the perpe. tra.ion of •hia clime. The. deceased, Mr,. Cliei;nel, was a respectable trade man at Godalming, near this place, and wac also a man Of considerithle i .roperty.. The prisoner Chennel wat his son, and the other pri• sonar his carman, and had been so for many sears, he having a little farm in addi:ior. to his trade of a currier. Elirnhedi Wilton, ti,e cfaer Ferson Mur dered, was a harmless old woman, who had bees also for many years his housckzeper. The pcisoner Chennel lodged in tjie ogiets of Godalrni4g, and usually took his me a l s at his fiPier's , but d+l not lodge there, and, it would bp pr o ved, bad not t 112; lid feeling which a son ought to have for a father. On the morning of Tue Jay, the Ilth of November last, about seven o'clock, the town of llodalming was alarmed with the accnant that Mr. Chenal end . his housekeeper were bolt fnuni inur&zred ! in . ;heir house, Which - was in the ruill:e of ale street at Go= dalming. The old gentleman in his Ito& anil the housekeeper in what was called the tront'kitthen..-- They were last seen alive at about ei:;ht o 'clock on the Monday 'evening, and flo,t circunivancer, the murder must harkbeen committed 1,-..rn nine to ten. The old gentleman was a very rogalar man; 4:16.1 went to bed usually at nine Lis hothekeeperfar up after him for some time, and ti . ually reired to rest at ten. lie was found in his bed; and thereto:* it was done.after he had retied; she a t found in the kitchen, where she had been at ssAit, not having bean to bed, and the work which *a.: i.ear her lia.ti a shirt of the prisoner's, %%hit+ the was ntersidtig . b y r It was therefore presumed, that it was before her usual time of going to test. The person also, who 'lived in the next house and whese ted-room ad joined to Mr. Chennel's, went to bed at ten deltick e and could bear any thing that passed in his room— did not hear any noise after that hour. ' In addidea to this, A person was passing the house about half. past nine, and heard a scream, and afterwards some thing fall, but did not b i pect any thing of the ahead. sinvd which was th. must probabl in perpetra. tion. 'rne next morning when a fanning sei vant of Mr. Chennel's came to the stables tor the hones at about six, he found Chaleraft there. as usual. ana it was the conduct ci Chals:raft that esci.e.i suspicion a4ainst him. They dressed their horses and %seat to the house, where usually the old gentleman a.al his housekeeper ws,uld be sitting at that hour. The door was open, but no one appeared ; at length Chaleraic went into the front kitchen, and the other heats him calling his master, but no aylper. Now it K mild be proved, that the murdered &lily a the housekeeper Lid in such a position, that whet he open.:d the drier, he must have seen, and indeed have stet ped over it, to tret 'to the' stair foot door, an.f ileiefore his ar • fecting no:to welt was matter oft.eat 'suspicion. In addition to this, when the alarm was given, hestated that his master was nird,cred up stairs, before he ur any one had been up stjin.. He w.l, known to he the constant companion of the 4 rAer inii oacr, che;alel, and there.rotehe see: for, and cat searching the boa kf two 1.1 were found, one of • them sligittiy tiaged with b'sorri, whiehnoles'would. be traLe•tf•t• 11. e ps : s,es.ion of :Le father a few days before. Taff pris.l.r:r a: once aC• knowleJged the notes to be his ta:ne...s, Atli said that .his father gave them•tO hi rt my the InecetiiagSon. day ; he should, however, c4ll evidc:ice to la;:ve that pris;:rier,intheearly part *of ccUld not pay a stLA ca bid. but about tea k un Moaday eveuiag ► alter the murder wt, supews,d mined: 41e went to the kichmoad ‘.;:rnts is that town .4n,1 sciaaude.ed *money • very yrc.lttseiy. As they . : were both . suspeetedi they were re.l..lre.i to say where they hid been; and whether they - were to,Jec.ier on the Monday: evening ? rs.t.t. they ' had net seen ea - ch'othew since the pretedidg Friday. The falsity of this sditement wrac.i be al,4;idatitry proved, fur both Chalct'aft and el:cr.:tat v. ewe s. en cn. the s e ut ai half-pusr.niueon evening of tlie mnr-' dens; und.Chetittel was seen standing at the'very s.tp:which led to the decased's house, and a wittiest . attervierds passing by raw a woman walking 4ack-: . ward'ind fprward before tie door, apprrolt4 oa the watch.. Ttis•wobtan, it seas tinw evident, • was one Sarah Hitrst, an arcrurplice.-atid Chatcr.tfl u•ake seen wa:king talk Ards his hpme, .• him, and Chemed at the same time went 'aas.k to- the Richmond Arms, which he had Lit some nefose,' he insisting that he went .otit to look after a woman,' and was gone so short a ti...e, i...tt the pi . 4 he lett behind him was burning wlien he W;:‘ • also singular that Chat..tali had a shurt time beiwe declared, "there N:crild he a bier Lon' belure long than Ciodalming had e've'r to Chennel, the prisoner, he ssa, se h 7atat , ...l Lon' t.is ' wile, and was in the constant halrit usio, tives against his father end the old wo: - ..aa. These were the circumstances of supiciun, bur r in addition to this he should call Niaty.llurst, hue accoo.plice of- the deed. The Jury knew - that an e-'as' an infamous character, and otly,ln hot to be heliuved unless chntitmed by tiller te,t.11...ny, and. ia to the prisoner, he was bt.und to state t1:-.it itiii as complice, Hurst, had accused . and %torrid . not mention names, who, urcn eve clearly innocent. -'They would hear t..e whole cast:, and decide impartially. " For the prosecution there were then called aboa thirty witnesses. • • George Woods and Charles C,osion rroved seeing the old people alive about eight o'cloc. on Slonnav, the 10th November. John Currington, the farming.servant,"stated, that . • . • on Tuesday morning, about hiaii•past sir, Ile went to the stables behind the house; he foun, Chalcratt there; the side door of the kitchen was (lieu ' but his master was not up, nor thuhousekeel.,:r. He cid Cha'craft breakfas . te d in the back kitrhbs,• and as nu one appeared, (-laid-aft Said h.. He heard him open the doer leadins•ln the kirchcn, • and call master, but no reply leas even. 'll e wit: nest aftlawards went, and on (elling IF.e door, he' saw a puddle of blood and the nc,:iwkoei er head; he put his finger down and t..ujit d tl.e !load:— They then both ran away into the str,i.t, and alantaci the oeighboursc W. H. C,oston, the test door neizt_bcur, 'etitee • I t i . t • • r lt 1 I - 1 141 i