The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-03-17 00:00:00

MURDER AT weumrcu.

Clarks AKAN 49, was indiened forth. wilful murder
of Daniel Joseph Stone, st Waldlith, on UN 29th of
August het
Mi. Collier, C.. with who.. was Mr. Pridcatis, con-
ducted the prosecution, mid Mr. Coleridge, Q.C.,
Mr. Stock defendod the prisoner.
Mr. Collier opened the ease for the prosecution. He
min it WY Lai duty to Mato to Omni the anthems of
that extremely painful ems. Tloi priecom was • termer,
living at • village called Welditeh, about one mile
from Hridport. He occupied • good positiop In Um
parish, and had been animist end *aye. Rica. He
was • bachelor, nod lived in • home in Um willies of
Waldircli. The unfortmune man, the mum of whose
death tiny bad to iimuire into, was the first amain of
the prisoner, and he was a sear mighbour, aad lived
at Walditch about one bandied yirds hoot the
prisoner. Unhappily them near ninetiess and neigh-
bour. could not agree. What UN origin and cease of
their dissemion might have been 1.. was not informed.
It might have been trilling. bet 104•4411111111 tubs, cams
lead to bitter saimosities. He soderstood that the
prisoner for some came or other enteititinod • Aron(
feeling of hostility tonarde hie COMM.. Edurta were
mane by Um neighbours from tam to time to reconcile
them, but I ain inform. 4 Von prisoner r. f need,
and that he had used espromions which had better
some in this maim weeds from tho witmente.
The Wanted cosneel tbos went into the emit,
which will appear in the following mideoes. He
bad be in We sense witnem who would dope.. to
the feet, which was not WWII ill COW of that kind. As
far aa he meld judge it would seem that probably the
primmer liming mom muse of complaint. whether real
or imaginary against blob. it wie leipeesitile fat kin, to
toy, furoad of, to woo his duty, endesescanng to cheek
his feeling. of aninimity, appeared gotta., indulged
them until Um became too strong, and having
• noirderom weapoo in his bead he yieblioi
to Om saddeu impalas and without pnemeMtatioe
abet Stone. That was • 111011 sad ems Time were
two young men relativoi—oeightioure, who unght to
have been on terms of friendship, quarrelliug, it
might, about ruere trines, nod the end Noe stun Um
other. Oue of them luis been mot to his WI so.
mount, the other now stood upon his triel for
murder. The ease would tax, owe. thou any other
In an ordinary degree, their patience aad their sym-
pathise, and at the mom tim• Ulmer senailiesseim
moon hearing the evidence, they had any reammabl•
doubt upon your mind. •• to Um guilt of the primmer,
of worse it would be their duty to hi= to map& him.
And on the other hand if they counsidored him guilty, it
will be ditty to women hint
Mr. Princess this

icri.;;;liT 7... i Waldeck oath. 29111
of August I knew the Kilmer and the deceased,
&or. I Meow the! they .1111 eater. I ksow where
Tooke lived, and au the Ileth of Anger I was walking
oil tlis reed neer rookie hoses. TIM vtr anent half-
par sere Ii the morning. I law the premier come
out of the frost door of his hors. IM. hi. Ire
ges. Ile bail up the gun and delibertely Ind at the
back it Mr. Stow's bead. Mr. SWIM wee then Is the
atreitt walking us. looks sr about Urea or for yards
from the Averred when he Ind the vim Yr. Stews
etas shot is the bead, aid he WI down in the reed.
Jessie Parker Lad Jobs Bishop erriei him borne
vow • grapey of blood towing from hit Med. The
gen was held oil and ported to Mr. &me.
Cross-itemised by Mr. Coleridge : Mr. SWIM was
wrkiag away from his owe hors, aid! was going to
Meeting. I bad is.. out 4 tbe less seer Ifoolta's
home before fires wee shot. Took+ mow oat el his
door, bred the gee, rid went is again. I bre bora in
the primers employ. Fie kept several gam, sad he
weastiesse shot paw. I 111111.• INVOT sans him shoot
sparrow.' is the pebble street.
Re-oseasieed : I had last earned the rear before he
bred. I armee saw ears este sa the street besides /11r.
fibre.

By the Judge : I maw rooks pat up the gun to bis
sisouidor after be had is.. out of the doer.
Jobe &Atop : I an • Inspirer, sad rend. id
Walditeli. I live in • hone opposite rooks's. Os
the rooming of the Illth 4 Amen 11 was I. the lean
at kw ben of .7 boon. I hrare • gas. itati aftenir
afterwards the wife of Joseph Oesdry suss to is., sad
in soarequene of whet she ialarred as I west into
the stint I is. Hr. Duni Ifteas lyiag is the road.
He on bisedtag fro. the beak el the brad. Then
was iso on is the street. Leeks to bin, bet he ooald
sot nook. Ho breathed twice sad thou died in soy
Or.. Jessie Parker thee sane up, asd we tarried
Us. deressed to his father's hoses. [booed a emend
rrport sheet two or Ares tonnes after the Int. I
heard that it was "heady," but I 'odd a 54 tell whin it
awn from.

ViilliraThitappard szaadoed by Yr. Priderez : I an
• broihwiaker, and is August Let I resided at Wal-
ditch. Os the worries et the 211.8 of August I was
wet* is • judos opponibe Fool's's bossy I beard
the rewt of • gsa. hot that wog • 'mai thief; I did
I set tub, say *Wee of it. Tbit shots ORM IWO, to am
The Roo was died hem Fooks's lines,. *Wetly alter-
wards I beard • eloood tepoet. It IMO • dead email,
but I weld sot tell oboes it came how. I ties west
Imo the elm* sad saw • amber of moose aeosod tbo
yologoar'e bevies. A sew wed Ades. um
Uwe. Is opowego•••• at what Adams odd I west to
to the book of lb. booze. Adams aosampeaiad
we wed afterwards the meaner's nephew, Mined
AUft. kmied so. The beak dear wee open, sad I weal
opetain to the priseseet bedroom dom. I souls aa
attempt to Gm the enr. bus I moil aot gel ka—ibe

door We flamed le male "y• i Lifts
boa door, sloe some porom brought g laWar And I
put it to the window of the i•namor • bean"' 'isui
up the ladder and looked through the window into the
gew. I peran,d ae, rooks lying in a beep en the
Boer by the Ma. I west down the ladder, and Hallett
.hdalrif =lipmaist and las wits the door. I
famed r. lying on the and the grit *ad
mar him. I took up elm pa sad rlaced it mide, I
than directed Plif attention to Mr. ?mks, who was then
lying oh the Moor at the foot of the bed. He we
berthing hang, a. am wounded la the lip pod kit
bawl., mid spool of blood We by Ida OM. It was a
lied of gloats oh the temple. The dodo, was
mat for, nod he attended. I did not examine the gab.
I !sad eels the gen le fore the sergeant hot it. I oho
that ow of the bearers We u, mal I had some
dilletiltr in walling it down.' It wag overtiocked. The
(*her welt was down, and • peellon of thecal. was on
the nipple. A shot pooch and powder doh was on a boo
north, bed. I kept watch over the pp until the
sutler la of polite noised IL I raised Hie prisoner
from the door, and whilet I was doing no he mid,
" What are you going to do with me?' I mid "We
y
rams to hit you Os she b,d, Ifooks." He raid
hoe sod- woe long epowb. It wee after I bad
pat hien es the Ind that he said that. He added "Is
the other one dead? I hope he is." That was mid after
he wan on the bed. I °Merged two large holes on the
ceiling in the room, as if shut bad been Bred in the
room. They appeared as if they were fresh.
Croweaannued by It. Coleridge : The prisoner's
nephew wee ia the MOO with me. His wire, Hwy
Kendall, wee out in the yard. I was there when the
!encamp came. I stayed in the home nearly all day.
There wen other persons Waldo' in the house
4nsopbaad John Acllerman. The doctor mate
shoat halfwa.hour after we bad put him on the
bed, fit. nuke its in the habit of kring
guts& It was a eery usual thing for bus to fire
I off a gun in the memos when he had reamed
beam and am:manors in the middle of the day. He
fre ,eently (red in the awe direction m be did on the
sib Awash I thought the gun was find to frighten
away the birds.
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Re-examined by Mr. hideous : I don't Saw where
Beere Kendall is sow. I have sot seen het this Sep-
tember. The shots ease just some over her head.
Sergeant Lavender sail: On the owning of the 29th
of August I went to Walditah. I Grit stet to Mr.
Staten house end saw the unordered man. He was See
quite dead. I that stet 'to the prisoner', house. I
found that be was wounded oath. left side of the fore-
head. &copied hooded me • double bstreli dine. A
poonler tisk aml &hot belt were ales banded to n.e.
The left barrel appeared to be loaded, sod on examina-
tion I found that it conteined only some wadding and
• few grains of powder. The right barrel appeared to
have been mostly discharged, n. left barrel •
I also to ban bore fired. There were two maikairrhe
coiling as if Sarni by small stir About hall-sit-hour
efts, I told the pelisse that wed dead. H 6
"I sepsis be is." Ito him tint I should
take him into custady for the wilful murder of Joseph
Stone, sod whatever be said valid he steed apinst him
at his trial." He replied, "He has teased me mog
enough. I have been very nerves For the last month."
I thee charged him with the murder. He did not say
any more. Is the prisouer's pocket [found some gun
wads 'Under to that found in the left hand barrel of the
gun. I alto found some catmints* waiatecat pocket. I
peados the gun and shot belt.
Richard Ostend, brotiier-in-law of Mr. Stone : The
del:seed and the prissier were cosies. I Inee known
Mr. Ekes tied the prisms about)) years. They were
pot on the Snot tens I remember attending • vie'
try meeting in Kann twelvemonth. rook, attended
that meeting. Ile was then naywardeti. Stone also
we. peanut. After the vestry meeting I raid something
to Rooks and Stowe "We se neighbours altogether.
Let us be friends and Stake bands and make up any
old grieve/ice." Stone emanated, but Fooks refused to
do so. He said be would shake bands with me, but
sot with Mr. Stone. I believe he said, "No, never."
(howi-eaancined by Mr. Coleridge: I was not before
the magistrates. I have been salted to give this evi-
doses severs) times. The attorney for Use prosecution
sited me to give evidence yesterday. He same to me
at Hythe, sear Orldtion. He gave me • paper to be
hen to-cley. I have been talking It over with him
during the set week. The squire of my good Isdy and
Mr. Fs persuaded sue to give evidence. I ruarrisd the
Seer of Stone lest Noveinber twelvemonth& Ur,-
snently saw bite about 16 or 16 years ago. Mr. Fooks
and myself have been like brother, all our life. I
don't think there has been say difference since I have
married the deter of Stone. I have beard tat Mr.
Looks had a seams illness some years ago. A 1.A12111
oaaned Hallett sad • Mrs. rooks were there for some
time. I cent there °eminently, and hed • pas of
grog. I don't know what those women kft the hues.
When I was there last one of the women we. there, but
I cannot say which it was.
Itresamined by Mr. Collier : I am a brother-in-law
of one, and a friend of the other. I have mentioned
whet I have here stated to other people previous to
stating it to the attorney. I was at the prisoner's
hose about ail weeks before this warrens.
Daniel Reed : I am • niamiging clerk to Mr. Temple,
at Walditeh. I bate knoirb the prisSise tad the de-
mand fut the last ten or twelve years. At the time of
this occurrence the prisoner was overseer of the parish.
1 Lave seen Yoke and Stone together—they appeared
not to be on friendly term,. I have not teen them to-
;ether for two or three years. I have heard him say
in referrals to Stone, "That if ever be caught him on
his premises he would Soot his kke • rook." (Sensa-
tion in Cost.) That waa about ten .oe twelve months'
ego. On one occasion, about three pars ago. in IMO,
diet • entry mesons in the parish, I said to rooks and
State, "You be friends and shako hand.' rooks said
be erciald not shake Sad.. I don't think Mos said
anything. 'tiny did inkehake hands.
tltoie-essinined by Me. Coleridge I have toss
bite intimately for the partfoor or aye yeata I have
beard bun, complain of a sin in the bead several time&
He amid it arse from • chest disease, and he would may
"01, dear, it is to had I don't know what you
sre saying to me and me to you.' He Ina not cosi.
',hilted in that way very frequently, but he has
inomplained of • pain in the head. He has told
se that he has visited Mr Smith but that be did not
foil himself much better. The prisooer was of a vely
Irriteble,posi Demon temperament, and was mull; ex-
cited. He has many times mid to Martha Halatt
" Clow up the shutter, for I fancy State may be listen•
ling to whin we are saying." 1 beard hiss say on
one moans, "I would not mind abseils a . down
see." I said to hies "Do you know what the cose•
quells* would be, and he replied " I should
ocit myself." He asked me on one of therm occa-
sions when he thought Stone was listening, "Do
you think I said have then front windows closed
up and ban erlelows at the beak, so as to prevent
persons listening?" Makin Hallett weathers sot heard
the conversation. I recollect on se stasis the dogs
barking. He meet Hallett out to see what the des
were bmkine about. He took down s doehis-barrri
gun and said we will on whether there is say one
lie out here ; I will shoot him." Martha Haden was his
. niece and heed with him for some time. She left the
I hoses the day previous to the murder. On the Itandity
I previous to) the murder. Foots and myself were in.
Sled to dinner at Mr. Bonn's. He said to me "Ole.
my love to Mr. Brown end gay that my head is so had I
I ain't COW, there to day." I never baud bin. threateu
I to shoot Martha Hallett and nuke.
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1....11e-exiono•-;n7d-loi Mr:Collie-r7-fhe prisoner hes not
done the duties of an overseer for the past two years.
I waisted, with His Foots. is waking the mica I am
a letter accountant than the prisoner. The Palm he
complained of did not prevent him meditating his liuM-
nom He understood what I 'toted to Lion on ordinary
ocemiess.
Major examined by Mr. Prideanx I am a
fanner at Menton Gorge, the adjoining parish
to Walditeh. I had taown Mose for severe! years.
Boa% list. silme--aboul tie years ago—the demoted
and myself were walking near the prisoner's gelds. A
homy, divided the trimmer's Gelds from where.. were
welting. We west up to oronser's gets lending into
the told. We mow him coming on under the hedge
organist the road. I did not see any one slas in the laid
with the eseeptioa of the primmer. The latter sew me
and he then west in another direction. We did not
speak to him, and Mr. Moms went along the lane
and I west after Mon. As Show was going on
along the lane 1... his hat dy of sad a Mose roll
from his heed. It was as large as noy let. I did not
see the stop* before it rolled from hie toad. Stone
simmered and I thatch% he would ham fallen into the
diteh. Him bead was not cut open, bat there wee a
swelling. It was directly after the primmer had turned
In another direction. The primmer said " Dais' it, I
didn't intend that exactly " I aisle the reply to
" You seamed to have aimed pretty straight al him if
you didn't nomad it." He did not wake soy reply and
then went on.
Creelmj .mised by Mr. Coleridge: It was • high
lane, and the hedge was very thin. I waa not brought
Were the magletrates. I gore information yesterday
so Mr. Fos He sent for me. Mg. Goads', Is the
' sire who Sea telom so ODA Internet in We sem.
yeaserosy ono the int time I men-
Mimed it to Kr. Pox, bet I had told mbar people
shout it.
Mr. Hay, &oeuvre°. peadiaing at Bridport,
_said : I
seeds aa exammatocia of the, body of the d••••••• shout
• ght o'closk. I arm made a hasty examisatiesinS
Meet to image there was an Armies of the skin on the
forehead, now, and lip, appareetlY pludwled by a fell,
as if upon the fans I thee atainimed the bask part of
the head and Nand semral trouts, aPPeroolly shot
wounds, but there woe alio a mai& of grove wounds
pasesratiag about an mob too' on the left Ids of the
beck, sot eery deep, es if something bed carried away
the akin. It night hi,. bow produced by stoat aloti.
There were also shot moods through the lit *ar—
son* ham At that time I did sot exioniae very pror-
%ocularly them, but sabesimeatly made • more minete
eseasinetioa. On sa,.ovtng the ligamests I found
wounds se peerlessly dsse.bed. In my j0411[00•011
those wound. at the book of the bead and meek are the
mime of the death of the deessordL There eras ass
shot in the spinal marrow. After I had exunined
Stone. I weal to the prilaellell hoses, and saw rooks.
He woe an the bad Iving on Infects. There was • large
pool of blood on the door. ft ussled him over! found
Si. ripper lip injured and blackened. It wee len bat
not oi any great extent. There was • loos of sabohinee.
Tb• sedans membrose of the mouth was morehed.
That would have been produced by the dieeitard• or a
, gam The kit eyebrow and theforehead were Slackened
and scorelied. Them was • lam soap wound oa the
, loft forehead. It was blaskened mtl ••• •• • the
wound. It had oared bleeding at that time.
este no mere wounds. He pole% was clutch but 1•114°•
He was mash eseised and appeared 11101 to ••• al•
He told me totem his lore to Mr. Brown- He hoped soon
to be in heaven sad to meet me there. He said he
had been flustered, mad added, "lon see what roam
ne annoying • servoss amt." He said other things,
bat I cannel say what were the other otwervetiosui. I
could not say if the weasels went prolhow4l by • ohot or
the wed 01 Mr KM I es. the peienser se=stose
that. After • Ulm he bosom' mace isi
quarter of as hoer after I arrived. In the evening I
mw him minis with Dr. Smith.

Oresw•aaseasect by Kr. Coleridge :I lave Minded
Ittsa bater• • geod assay y..zl ape. Fie we. thee living
at'a lane sidisd be the periebl Whiteliareh.
a. bad his hews hug naiad with Mankato wed
It was far the pupate of kaadas oat the airc..=
was apiesa sly MN. Who. 1 saw his be was paw
rally es the ..Is with hi. bead wrapped up is a Waukee.
Thai was shod 17 'WWI Ira It was the last tau* I
atteaded bin medisally. Ho had last a ceasidesabl•
visa*, of Mood tress the mood. The Khmer wee
atdirdwa ken iburspia

this closed therm. for tie ereeeetaith.
Mr. Colerblgee in addressing the jury for the defence,
said he had haver been epgaged before in hie life +here
the facts were indolet. 'Me ease Wes the of Wlf o enffi•
cient to move deeply the hail of any man endowed
with the common feelinge of husemilt). Hem ia •
yneng, blame**, and • good•netured icon
Widdenly out of this world into another in the very
fthe of day, in the atreet of the raise.. Late was going
to his ordinary work with his neigobouni all about bite,
and by the kand of • man nearly related to Lim, and
as far •s he terve and as far as the evidenee diselosed.
either sri•hed or done the aniallmt evil or errors&
and the inan who had done the deed ruthed at ouce to
bit own room, cod there made an attempt apes bin own
unhappy life, dab the very xellheame weapon, awl
• as only saved front self deetruction by dm providence of
God. whii bad thought him there that day to mend at
tl e her of, eourt .4 &shall law to remise. lac their
bands full and even join*. The fees themselves were
',lsle enough and ns be had not offered to alter the
facts of the ban in cross-exassibeibm he shonli not
make ink attehipt to mitigate it. He should insult
their understanding if lie wets diefeete the feats, he
eboold greyiously fail ill,, were to my • Piglet word in
eirennatioo. It was perfectly plain that the min was
disch•rged ; it was plain that Mr. Stone died from that
discharge, and if Shoe were an ordinary case those facts
would amount to sunnier, and then the prisoner at the
bar must die. But this was not an ordinary othr, and
the defence which im bad the boomer to present to them
er that not one,
h.d pro
, it was a defevoceed.conen. si.seadae,
t wi,tct
a
wee as simple, as clear, as short, as oanchisive, as tbe
ease which bail been presented to them on the part of
the crown. It was that although the act was done,
ethich he was not there to dispute, it erns not door, by
the prisoner at the tier when In a state of mind when
he was eesponsible for beg actions • that although be
did the act, the Oct Ma not of lila mind, and thet
he was entitled to that protection which the law of
Englaod give and wee bound to give to persons who it
had ;leased God in hie own iuyeterious dispensation to
, render insane and deprive of reason. That being the
I defence which it was his duty to offer, it became
neeemary fur him to date shortly and clearly the
prinedpire upon lehieti slick a defence was founded. Of
emote it was not a mere eccentricity. it was not a want
of control of temper, it was not anything which left •
emu in the ordinary sense of the word responsible for
his actions, that would for a moment justify them in
acquittiog the prisoner at the bar of the charge
which they had to try. It wan • were difficult
subject, more no to state with scientific accuracy, or
preying the principle upon whirdi jurymen ought to act
in judging an offence of this kind, but he Might
venture to say, if the mind of a man was no far diseased
on not to make the act, which was the subject of
enquiry, merrily, the sot of a person in • sound sthte
of mind, the person who bad dose the deed was not
rethothible, mid be undertook to thtisfy them that *mph
was the sun, aid if he 4id qol do so, then the verdict
mast par agehnt him. The learned counsel then stated
time former coodition of the law dpern fnthility, which
had now been annealed. He then entered into 'lengthy
explanatioo of the law, and instanced several cases where
persons labouring under a delusion had committed
minimal warder, and bad been acquitted, via., Attfield,
who attempted the life of George the Third in • theatre.
lie stated that Attfield had a notion he should be •
martyr, and belied an idea that by killing the king he
he would be doing• eersies to the country. The other
atm Was that dt I'ortonl who conceived snide, that
Sir Ittisert Peel hod done tate sortie personal injury
which of course was without any foundation. He tired
• pistol at Mr. Drommood, believing that it was Sir
Robert Peel, exactly opposite Whitehall. The jury
thquitted him on the ground of insanity, and iii. well
ktiowe that Mr., Norton bee been a raving manila for
several yea* The leered counsel said if be satieded
them that although Mr. nub intended shooting
at some one, he was labouring under • delusion,
under an uneootrollable iuipune, tbe malice was
taken from him that rendered him not a moral
agent, not morally responsible for the act, and it would
not be justice to Sod that man guiley. If be showed
that he wee an eccentric man that 1.1114 not enough,
but lie should show chain that conetantly the subject of
the delusion that Stone was always laughing at him and
matieg fsow at him, that be was waiting under the
window and annoying hilie tint he was from time to
tune ender an irresistible influence to abdut tome one,
and threatened to shoot Stone like • rat. He shotld
slow that he had said to persons, whom veracity could
not be questioned, • lime interest in this
matter was nothing, that his feelings were different.
and that be did out know what, would become of him
The !earnest counsel then minutely exelained the
evidence he was about to bring before the jury. The
learned mantel also gated two other cones—that of
Greenfinith, Aeon 15 emirs since, who although • eery
affectionate father, murdered one after another, four
of his children. The jury in this case thquitted the
prisoner, onosidcting that he was labouring under I
delusion. The ease of Tatchett, who shot • mast in
London, believing that he had some aniniciaity towards
him, was also instenoed by Mr. Coleridge, and in thin
ease the prisoner was acquitted. He continued Suppo-
sing that tor years and years unsound:sees and delo•
Woos AO been observable in his mind, supposing he
thawed them at that very moment they were present in
tile prisoner's mind ; that although he in. • perfectly
responsible men upon special matters not centreeted
or op with those delithous, yet upon subjects
which touched his delusions, upon subjects; with which
his diocese was connected, be won at that moment per-
fectly unsound, and if he showee them that those the'
Wawae and diseaaed impressions were the worm of, and
were intiithtely connected with the act which they
were inquiring Into, he submitted that he made out the
MS& mid entitled the prisoner to an acquittaL When
the prisoner wae irsawithed by the physician the pri- •
Noser's solkiitot was not allowed to arc
theireey him. He did not hemw why the
magistrates made nob an order. If that was the
manner in which things were conducted it Dorartabire
the wooer it wax altered the better. If they eonsideresl
that the priso.r knew wh•t he was doing when he fired
the gun, then he meat be punished. but it would be •
judicial murder to revenge the death of Stone by
banging Fool's if the prisoner was laboariag under • :
delosioa and poseresed a demean* mind. He was fully
confident that the eeideuce be should produse 'meld
prove that the priththr wim not in a condition to be
theeterabli foe his seduce If the jury acquitted him
I. would not he net at liberty, but wophi be confined
during Her Majesty's pleasure. The thanes: mined
then spoke as to the importance of ecientific °vides),
•nd cooeluded • very site 'leech by calling u, on the '
jury to give their verdict according to the evidence
that would be brought before them.

Xenia Hallett said she was nieee of prisoner's, sad
bad lived with him shout 15 years. Her mother and
three sisters went to live with him. Aliciot • year after
the three sisters went away, and the mother also
Jane Pools. lived it the house for 11011111 tine. She re-
-
collected her uncle having on Moms eight years ago. He .
complained than of. pain in the stomach and esteem-
Drys in the head. She recollected that when they looked
at him be sailed and said they were laughing at him
He was rather strange sometime.. I was not afraid of
him when I lois a child. From that time up
to the day of the murder, he, at intervals was
similarly attacked and complained of nervousness.
'She had frequently Neon him hold hie bead
Lay that he could hardly bear himeelf. He *ltem
applied vinegar to his heed. He was ern' food of
shooting, and when be returned hairs he (requently
shot off his gun into the street. She had also sees
him shoot uet in the daytime. Whenever be hoard
the dogs bark be wool' go out with his ran and shoot.
Ha was mach worm about a month before the murder.
He became very straoge miseries' is him ways. She
remembered two boy. named Parker and Clarke who
who was in his employment at the time of haymaking.
He turned them away, but previously had been Vary
kind to them. ile bad kept one of the hoy's
mothers for eta mouths. He discharged them both
without giving any remain, although he was short
of heads. At that time his head was bad. Wm
recollected Yr. Humber calling at the prisoner'.
house cue day is July last. She was peewit,
and she beard rooks say Kr. Humber had
better take hi niece home, as it was not wife for beg to
stay. He felt that he could shoot anybody, bet be could
not tell for what reason. He mid be felt very queer
somitimim. He also told Nis Fooks she had better leave.
Sh• did not think he smarted any reason for expressing
hinokif thus. One diy after that he told them to go
when she was in the kitchen. He said he wished her
to leave as he wanted to be by himself and block rip the
windows. ibe asked him what he would dolor food
and be replied that he could do without any for a fort-
night. She told hien she would leave if be wished, but
afterwards be asked her to remain and she did no. In
the sflersooe of the mine day be said she was
sot safe to reveals thane as sometimes be felt
so dreadfully nervosa, sad he said be would as soon kill
anybody as kill • at. Ile mid be did not wonder at
Ple committing esieide. He said if he killed any
one elae be should kill himself after. After an hour or
two lie got better. He said she was not to tell shoat
what he had said, or else they would take him to the
whim. There were lisestreds not so had as bin taken
there. He was dill complaining of his bead. About
• week dim Randall name and stayed at Took.' boom.
He remained going into the orchard to look at the
reapers. A grater of anliour after be tailed them.
and said they bad bees goes about two hours. He
said oho could leave as moos as she liked. After, be
asked her not. Tina be said he didn't think it my mon
harm to shoot Stone thee to shoots at. He mentioned
nothing about 'hooting other people in particular. He
said he fancied be mast kill every one he raw. He
said he should shout himself after. She recollected
prisoner going to Barton. about • week before Stone
was killed. He mate bask in the afternooo. He said
he heard Slone wanted to drive him out of the
parish, but be had may one more to drive,
sad that was the devil. He said if Stone passed
by Um window at that time he would soon pick
hisi dews. Next morning she was out in the garden,
aced Foot. same to her and said she bad bees talkie( to
fleoece. She knew Stow, but Uwe was no intimacy
between them. He told her to leave, and she said she
would. After esittlag his breakfast she west apetairs,
when be called her down and said she moat sot take
any natio* of • crazy man. That day Fooka went to
Berton again, aid on amiss beck said she had had
Stose in the hones all day, sad told her to have.
Afterward. he seed her to stay, sad said it hi own re-
lations could net put up with it, be did not know who
could. She left Um day belies the murder became she
was afraid of him Whim elm went away be looked
very ill. She recollected Mr. Reed being there one
night when the dogs barked. He west oat with his
gun, awl said if be found anyone teens( the dogs be
would shoot them. After that be mid he should. like
to have his windows so that peold• wield mot hates
under the windows in Use street.
Crom-ezaarined Fooka was immistimes merit pat
out. He was not angry. but very irritable. Be
Inv:astir mimed her of talking to Stem. He sever
toad feat with her frY talking to rinse mem Fooks
memiged his Wen Mama He kept two seem and
three hey.. He saiwisteroded the farm for years, and
did go at the tins af the Dammam.

Jane rooks, eternised by lfr. Stook : I sea the
d.eghter of Thomas rooks, sad the primates is my eeelt.
I WWII to live with him shoat three yearn eta rOried
that time hie behaviour wee very kiad. I wia own
foerrnee whoa I Ana west. He rid the pale la his
Mod WM very mat. About three taostiib.foo. ale
la fret Tyr) M. He said if soy toe esitoyed him be
fancied be could shoot Ham. He motional Mose sad
his serkprople es viewable him by isechieg
sad doled things 4:misery to his wallas He said that
he woman surprised AM other people ',modeled
mud.., se be had sea mover hasp, be forded be

toed shoot any oue. I recollect /Jr. Humber being at
eh/ home. Toots said our lives were in clang r, nib.
Was afraid lie mmuld shout us. He gave no reason. He
raid lie fancied 16. &vett very emelt annoyed him.
Thomas Humber, crissinegamined by Coicri.ige :
I married Martha Hallet'a mother. I. lay tad, abbot
ilia weeks' before Stone's death. I went lo ree Looks.
I was there • Golds of days and nights. Icm not
with h?. much wiali. epent the evening with him, bainu
out in the day. e omen/tined of p.his in his stomach
awl head. He said be did tat know Where to go or
what to do. The haymakilig was ;ring on. He i:aed
to walk op and down the geld taking no nmic• of any-
thing. I recollect talking to him about Hanks He
said he would reed her to Teller, and Jane to her
lootLar. He mid they were not trusted or were trust.
worthy to bide with He said he could shoot say.
body if he was up in • passim.. lie said his head was
very had, at the mine thug he talked of shooting. He
said ha was not seuaihla what Le aid say ordid.
. _ . .

- --
Dr. Smith, of We)mouth, ezow.ucd by Mr.
Stock: From time to tone I have attended
Looks. I saw him lirst In the year 1846. He
won brought by his landlonl, and ems in • stste of de-
bility and considerable nervousness. He was labouring
under dyspepsia, which would produce • highly nervous
and excited nate. He consulted PO fregil•Otly by letter.
I attended hinted that time for six weeks. I afteresrds
attended within six weeks If this occurrence. I advised
bliss so have • medical man on the spot, but he woull
not. He came about twice • year. His cantplaint eon-
tinned the same. lie said he felt • burning beets and
he wanted something to go through him. At the fmrt
interview, July and August 1882, he said she devil ernt
Inside him, and he wanted something to drive it out.
On all occasions he spoke of being much deptramed and
St for nothing ; el.n of weakness, being forced to leave
iris stork and he doted lie tiompliunisil of restlesenese
from his heed. On the last °Damian be said be would
rather drown himielf then live in 311013 torture. On
Friday, 26th August I was milt to see him. I
towed • large wound upon his head. Hi. 1/111 were
very mash •wollen anti blackened from prred,r. I
askol him what tadamid him to commit stitch no act
he was atensed of. He replied he did not know,
but Dist he suppoord he meet not have been in his
right mind, and he would shoot one hundred men
under rich provocation. He said he had been tra-
duced and all hsd been going wrong for 1101111, tone. I
asked him if he recollected when tin saw me loot? H.
mid in July, shish was correct. He repeatedly maid all
was going wrong. He had much to be thankful for;
he was pieced beyond the reach of povetty, and bad
no one to contrail his action.; or pleasures. He said
I am not so well off as formerly; I am unlucky in
many things, limo &mum you. I can't look after the
things me I ought, Ia y bead is too bad, and rut AI for
nothing, and some times don't know wbst I am about,
and can't mind nothing—ell confusion; I motet settle
to anything as I used to do, but I know you will won
set me right ; I want very strong medicine.
-- Hanker, • brass founder, at firidport, exkmined
by Mr. Coleridge: I have known Looks for the last
, nine years. I hove been two or three timeis • week at
' his hones; oetraiouelly oftener. Hs used to go to
church; he hit it off when Cass altered. He never
went to another church. 1 wee there the Huntley and
Monday al thie happened. He had been ailing some
time before that from his stomach. He was in a
nervous state.

George Hallett, crose-sxamined by Mr. Stork: I
have known the prisoner for twanty years. I thought
him a sensible man till the last few years. I thought
him very excitable. His spirit was sometimes low and
sometimes his nerves were shaken. I was in the
kittben in August, and WAS speaking to him of Mr
Templeitulteg a&widvilkt at Crewkes ne. Fooki said that
would be his lot. I sated him why? fie aid, You
dou't know my feelings, &hey are so queer. Ho said
be fancied people were telleting remarks spun him
when they pasted b, and laughed and steered at
bit: but be didn't mention names.

Dr. Harrington Tuk• I have given a great deal of
attention to the subject of Lunacy for many years. I
went yesterday to nit gaol and had a conversation of
three quarter'. of an bouts <Panties with the prisoner.
Tbe surgeon of the gaol and the depatreovernor were
present. He talked freely enough at fret and received
I no es if it was an agreeable morning visit; and ahtrough
' I told him I was a mad doctor he paid much more
attention to the surgeon and deputy governor than he
did to me. He said his general health is now good;
that be had not required medical treatment while in
I the gaol; that be slept well every night; that everybody
I was kind to hint, and that he was as coinfortable as
could be, that be knew the positive, he was in, and how
dna Ifni it wan. I asked him Aria his first illness.
He said he taw Doctor Smith sixteen of eighteen year.
ago —Likd seen him at intervals, ever since—he had
tarred from terrible pause in the bead and was very
bad in his inside ton. I told him I thought his
inside armed very well than, and he said I was wrong—
that he rtill had pains in his head and Dr. Smith told him
he bed DO 00St to his Moniach at all. He spoke freely
about this unhappy attack on Mr. Stone ssid he never
thought he should Cava hart anybody. I asked him if
be thought be was deranged et the time. He said "oh
no
no, sir; I hunt mad.' I asked blot if Stone had
injured him in any way. He said no, not exactly that;
he was always mocking and scoffing at use and spreading
reports of any character. 1 premed hnn for an instance
but be would not give one. Hs said he did not know
why he did it, but be knew he did it. At the close of
the intemiew, about ball ea boor after, I went over
this again, and be repeated what lie he said. I said.
You sisal remember some act; and Kr. Fmk, evidently
took great pains, against his own doleyesta to remember
something, and then be scsi, "Well, I was once told an
1 acre and • half of my fields had been planted with dosks,
I and fare enough there it was, and Stone might ham
dose it." He didn't shoot Ina fee that., but for mlr•
lag away his chanister. Hs thought Storm might have
listened at the wisdom. He was very unwilling to
speak about persona jeerieg at him, but, be said, I
suppose, sir, I taunt tell you. He tamed to think he
moat sneerer my questions. He said he sew Stone.
from hi. window, coming up the road, that he fell all
of a dam, that he matched up • loaded can, ran down
to the door.and diseharged it et Mr. Stone. Hr. Goode.
the surgeon, asked bite if he was aware of the dreadful
deed he'd done. He said, " Lord bkies'ee, air, I thought
no
mere of it than shooting • rabbit." I then
asked him about his attempt at Naiads ; he became
dreadfully agitated, sad said, "1 can't beer to talk
*bout it. He said Le put the berm I nearly to his mouth
—that be could sot kill bisteell, the gun only contain.
ing melding and powder. He therefore loaded again,
and fired at his own bead. He could give no roman
but that he was "quite loused"; he wouldn't knee
killed himself for eli tisrebester. The osighbours used
to muff and jeer at blin, be dvi not know why, and he
pent away two of his mei ffining the haymaking time,
because they mocked and tooled him. Mocking anal
scoffing he frequently coutphined of. He said he never
threatened suicide; but if Dr. Smith said he did be
supposed be did. He quite knew bis position. He
thought he bad an Mame to-morrow. Did not know
what defence there could be. I could do nothing for
• H• mid be treated his ohm to get him • game
certificate before she left. I said that was an odd thing
for • man who wes going to shoot another. He
laughed and said 'twee. TWA ethers laugh and jeer
at them is • common delusion among inane people ;
and my examinstioe left no doubt on my mind but
that lie is et this moment of unsound mind; that he
Ims homicidal and suaidal tendencies, which ODD, on
periodically—the natural characteristic of the disease.
I would also my that the particular form of malady
under which be miffels renders nugatory nay effort at
nall-control. The eill especially suffers in such eases,
and I do not believe hint responsible for his motions.
Cromemniined by Mr. Collier: Do you adopt the
id.• of an irresistible tesdestry to commit homicide I
Witneee : I never saw such • case.—Mr. : Then
you do not Wave this to be • case of irresistible ten-
dency to commit homicide !—Witness : Ob ym, I do
when there is disease of the brain—Mr. Collier; Ds:
you believe in an irresistible tendency to steel IL—Wit-
ness Again I must say, if be has disease of the brain.
I should require evidence of a dimmed brein.—Mr,
Collier At the same time you (amidst them is •
I disease of the brain which develops nein into an in.
elination to ,teal?—Witnem bowed assents—That is
called Kleptomania, is it not?— Witness : That is the
scientific term.—Mr. You are • Kleptomanise?
(laughter). I mean you believe in Kleptomania .—Wit-
neat : You have mid so, I don't may so at all—a man
may be road, and bare an iodination So steal, but there
most be disease of the Minn.—Mr. Collier: Then do
you believe in • homicidal IIIIhni• that may be called
pare and .411100, Or Dot Wi•••• I 011•er ND such •
eme but the evidence is so irresistible I meet believe it.
—Mr. Collier: I understand you to say it • very CODITINDI
thing for • mad man to suppme that personative hiebLil
at him. My opinion of his insanity was partly
on his statenamt that Slam had annoyed him. I bed
no means of knowing if it was true.—Mr. :
Then if that was founded in truth, your opinion would
be altered : No, it would not. Suppos-
ing it had been proved that Stone had jeered
or laughed at him, it would not amount for
the evasive revenge he took. It would lessen the
delusion, hut be an maggerstioe of the fact, whit* would
amount to insanity.—Mr. Collier Thee do I under-
stand you to lay deem the principle that • man man
be so far aggravated as to shoot • man unties be
is mad I—Witarms A man in the height of prim
might; huts man deliberately to go mid shoot mother
and then himself berme he was mocked sad jested,
seems to be impetigo:l4mM sanity.—Mr. : You
think it would bsevideues of inanity for soma to Moot
another, unless immediately after the jeer. I—Whams :
Or unless a man bad showed such • disposition lobe
isonsietent with his former life.—Mr. Collier: Well,
suPPose you lad that the man was of sena • temper
that he had declined to be revonaled —that be had
thrown • atone st him—would that alter your opiaios
—Witness: 1 should assume the sante delusion was
still going on. There was mere here than jeering—WE-
/J.3g away his character, tradosing him—Mr. Collier :
Wall, gunman' it had been Mown that he had doom so.
that weaM among, for it I—Witness: That would
amount fee hi, anger, but sot for his shoodag.—Mr.
Collier: Thee do you think that if • man snooks another
for jeering, be meet have been uoder a delusion ?
Witness : No ; I think you ace potting it too strong—
Kr. Collier: You don't go that length —Witness;

The Judge: Yon have beard all the evidence ia this
awe. As • maa of miasma, from what you have as.
of tit. primate sod what you have board of the tree,
can you undertake to say that whoa be raised the gun
against Yr. Stone, he did not know it would kill Wm.
Wits...: I ain merry to say I think be did know
it would kill him but I this'll' be palled the
Limiest tit* uateri:l aid healthy promoting, /PT:
Naiad—that be *mkt not control kintea I have seen
petisate of my own exclaim with regret against their
tendency to suicide, sad immediately after attempt it.
The Judge From what you beard of this ease and
seen, is. you. aa a poyfeasional man, with dee regard
to the tokmaity of your oath, say that, in your opinion
the time he Reed that gun, he did net know that
what he was doing was otos'?

Witness : I have the greatest digit:shy is answering
thiit quetion. He certainly knows it is wrong DOW.
Bet, se say oath, whistler he know it to ho right or
woe', he was sailet as usecatrolLblo impels.

Kr. Cellist then WWI
Mr. Geed. surgeon st the gaol, who meld : I lure he-
quietly sees the primmer shine fispbriaber 441.. 1 Uwe
men hies Welly Wee or three times • reek. I have
had leo opportunity of losing smythiag that would
/0414 .1 elybeg lo 1a.... I sever sow soy**
• bit. I. ons MO 11.41••• be woe home or=
under • delusion. I hare sot read &Reuel or
bet I hare Taylor. Illy priaolpal sonde at weak kr
sot been obtained from bosh. WO how innistao nom
When yen senvesse rid' • man I de sot think same

prefessieeal skill in reel/tired. IS the muses of &bat
esievenatioa yen might ernes at the truth.
Istme net seen any et his family, nee of any lir-
Iffilese's. I don't know any ell the people is the 'snob-
I laid not recourse to any other pennere to knew abet
were the points epee which lx• was wrung. I dame
think it would have emend my observation if he had
sheen symptoms of madness.
lfr. Curiae, surgeon, esananed 1.1. Mr. Probes;
said I have been in preetieu ease l 829; in Dorebeatee.
Dttring the abeenee of Er. Geed, I attended the poisoner
from September 19th, to October 7th. I saw him every
day. r conversed with him. hot not to any pest sa-
fest. I saw any iodic:skein of suicide in his ace-
duet, nor vet of homicide-
Cies-examined by Mr. Coleridge I imaitine4 and
usilerstoed the reason lie hal two warder, wee besesse
he hail a tendency to suicide. All knives were kept
from him. In the presence of the warders and In the
absence of inetruments it might be difficult to instedest
the homicidal tendency, but not impossible. I hare net
given 11111011 attention to shish I hare read Taylor and
• little of Gaspe upon insanity.
Re-examined by Mr. Collier; I do not know that
when a man hen attempted suicide it is a regulatios
the prison for two weeder. to be with him. I have WD-
vaned with Lim, but never discovered soy symptom of
insanity.
Mr. l'obridge ably summed np for tbe defeeeta con-
tending that the evidence of the surgeons did sot era-
travene thet of Dr. Take, who had gained hie *spiel-
ence by study of 20 years is epees of delusion sod mad-
yeses, whilst the two surgeoes were not acquainted with
the Menu. He considered that be had toads out the
Glee, and that the prisoner was entitled to an aseenikaL
Mr. Cellist, ite his able epeeeb it seaming up the
whole cam on the mitt of the crown. said the jury, if
they believed that the prisoner really was of unsound
mind ; that he did not know who be was sheotiag at
the time that he had not sufficient reason to knew that
the set he was cemmittieg was wens; and flint he
WU breaking the laws of his country, they would he
bound to aornit him, but he felt bienet bound to
remark that it was • denterees doctrine to society
—• very dangerous doctrine to innocent veneer
—to set ey that angoverneble passion was s roof
of insanity. It bad been proved that be had tr.
inveterate nudge lutanist his neighbour. and instead el
praying to God to mishit bite to overcome it, he fed
be breaded over it, until it overmastered him. If they
, allowed these uncontrollable prams to fern, excises
I for murders, it would be very dangerous to society.
The object of the administration of the criminal laws
was for the purpose of controlling these gestates. If
they considered that what was called an iteniable
Impulse was merely the raking op of the old mad in-
veterate grudge they would discharge their ditty by
lading a verdict of guilty.
The learned Judge summed up with great cleanses..
He said be must tell the jury that the law preonsed
every homicide, erery killing of a man, to be murder
unless the contrary appeared, and it was not incumbent
anon the preeecution to prove that the men who killed
an.rther had any malice towards hire. They were there
to diseater the truth ;I and the life clan innocent man
wee dear to the country; but it was advisable that
murder should not go unpunished, and if the counsel
for the proseeution had the means of peering that the
person who had conimitted the homicide had a grudge
against the person he hal killed, it was his duty to
bring it forward. It wee not pretended that the prisoner
at the her was ea:orally inane or that his manta wax
bed. ft was ehewn that he had mind enough to con•
dud the ordinary business of life. It had been said and
it could not be derOed that he was eessidered Take:tend
enough in his parish to be waywarden a sheet time
before this deed was committed. He might not have
been a good accountant, but lie was a man sufficiently
trusted by his parishioners to manage the affairs of the
parish. The law of insane delusions, as he understood
It, was this If a man was really under an insane delu-
sion as to the existence of a state of thing; which, if it
did exiat, would justify or excuse the sot, thew be was
not pantshalde, but if at the time the prisoner came out
of the host.* and raised his gun to his shoulder, he wag
under an 112.21 e delusion, yes must be satiated that be
was aware of what he was doing. But if be was under
an insane delusion that Stone estertaieed an icretersie
malice against him, and had dose him injury by scoffing
or jeering at him, and traducing him by taking away
his good name among his neighbours, then, if that were
all true, It would not justify the killing of Sloes
be him. The defence raised was that the primmer
laboured under homicidal mania, which he could
not resist on account of a dinned state of the
brain : sad it would be for them to eonsider whether
be was under such controllable influence at the
time he levelled the gun at the deceased. Every-
man was presumed by law to be sufficiently re-
spoilable for his entries until the contrary be proved.
To estiblish the defence of insanity it meet be clearly
proved to their setidaceion that at the time he did the.
act he laboured under a defect of reason as not to know
the nature of the deed he esa doing, and that he did
knew it has wrong. To labour under • delusion that
another person was doing you some personal injury WY
net sufficient ground for murder. It at tie time he did
this set he knew of the wrong he was doing, and the een•
weenies that would result from it--if his mind was not-
in much a stale of disease that be did not know it was
wrong, then it WM their duty to and him gel . But
If. haling into their calm and oimocieutiousoossldevatioo
the emcee:stemma, of the history of his disease for seven-
teen years—the diesuo in the *hest, the disease in the
head, and the frequent expressions of readiness or wit-
lingoes.. to do that widish none of them would think of
doing -that they rosily and seriously thought that at
the time he pulled the trigger of the gun he did not
know the nattire of the set, or was in a reale of mind
so unsound that he did not know it was wrong, then
they must acquit him. He begged of them not to
harry to a conclusine, nor to let any ewe of fatigue or
we .riness prevent Oast giving the cam the fullest con-
sideration. He desired them to deliver their verdict
like Orin and honest men, be it for the Crewe or the
prisoner, so that they might ever look upon it without
sell-reproach. . .

The jury asked permission to retire, which wee grunted.
They were absent about a quarter of en hour. and
on their return the forewen give a verdict of GUILTY.
There wee a slight apples,* in the Court when the
verdict .ss delivered. which eras instantly suppreseed.
. . .

The Clerk of Arraien• then asked the—PricoOd. in tie
usual way whether he had anything to my why matinee.
of death should not be pared upon, but the primmer
made no reply.
The learned Serleant having &mowed the black
asp, addremed the prisoner as follows Charles
Fuchs: Too have been convicted, alter • very patient
hearing by the jury, of the crime of wilful murder. It
is the greatest crime known to the law, and I am boned
1,, any that I sec no reason for doubting that the jury
have come to • correct 'occlusion, or for doubting that
you, under the indoenoe of your bad passion, your ill
feeling to the unfortunate deceased, whom you sad
without any time to make his peace with God, out of
thin world, hens been guilty of the heinous diced with
which you have been ebarpd. It is my duty, and it is
• duty not merely of jade:* but a duty of charity and
kindecea to you to tell you that I cianoot bold out to
you the smallest hope that your life will be spared. U
you have any regard to your own real intereste—tbees
interests which most of us in thia world are too meg.
leetful of—the interade not of this treasitory life but of
eternity—you will lose not one single moment when yea
return to your call, before you endeavour to make your
pe woe with God. Avail yourself, I do earnestly and
humbly entreat you, of the amictaace which you will
receive from the eshaplain of the gaol, or any other
roiaister of your Church in whom you have eionlidepee,
to prepare yourself for the awful champ which awaits
you. end depend upon it if you do that—if you at ones
•pply yourself to that, the most important duty of as
all, that in to prepare oereelyes for the world that Is to
seen.; but now, in an especial manner incumbent open
you, you will, before the justice of the country is
canceled upon your, arrive at • tone ef mind resting
upon the merits of the redemption which will
give you wont pews of mind. MOM eonsoldion
under the awful circumstances in which you are
planed then you ma new peeribly imagine. And red
assured new, It being neseenu7 for the peewee of justice
and for the preservation of your fellow-subjects—that
these awful examples should be made—that there are
millions among your emuntrymen—that they count not
by thoniends hut by millions—who still take • deep
interest in your fate, who will rejoice more than words
: can express at any evidence that you may give of re-
Distend —that you are endeavouring, although it
:1 is not possibly to receive mercy upon earth, to
obtain mercy at the throne of grade. It only
remain@ for me to pass upon you the awful pretend
' of the law, which is" That for the crime of wilful
murder of which you are now ceiwieled, you be takes
from the place where you now are to the prises
from whence you cams, and then at • day appointed
you be taken to the place of exec:dime, that you there
be hanged by the nook until you be dead, and that
your body he buried within the precincts of the gaol,
and mey the Lord had mercy upon your sold."
The learned judge was visibly affected whiled musing
sentence, but the primed maintained • stolid iedifler-
roc* not a invade moving, and be walked paseively
from the desk without uttering • word.
The Court rum about i pest? o'olosk.