The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-05-22 00:00:00

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CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT, May 14.

!OICCLUSION OF THE CASE OF THE REV
MR. HATCH.

The trial of Mary Eugenia Plummer was resumed on
M 1111 l lay morning, before Mr. ilarun Cluumell and Mr.
Justice Keating.
The defendant was brought into Court by her father,
and took her icat in the place she bad occupied during
the previous days.
Baron Cluinnell, when the names of the jury had been
called over, proceeded with the summing up, which oc-
cupied seven hours and three-quarters in its delivery,
and at a quarter to 6 o'clock the jury retired to de-

liberate.
Thee reterned into court at 8 o'clock and gave • ver-
dict of Guilty.
he lon:testi of the jury at the ume thee handed to
the lesrned judge • written paper, which his lordship
directed to be read. It was in the following terms :
We find the prisoner, Mary Eugenia Plummer, guiltv,
and while we recouiniend her to the utmost extent Of
mercy, we venture at the same time to express a hope
that your lordship, if you hare the power to to so, will ,
direct that any imprisonment to which she way be sub-
jected way be accompanied by a proper course of train-
jug awl educat. , ol which she has litherto been de-
pi ived, and probably would still be deprived at home."
1 There was a burst of applausc when the verdict was
• delivered, and it wall not without difficulty that it was
stopped by the officers of the evert. A great number
of persona hail assembles' outside the building. and the
result of the case was received with loud cheering.
Baron Chantedl said he Phonld consult Mr. Justice
Keativo with regari to the flClltelleC to be pronounced,
awl, in the meantime, the defendant might go at large
upon the saute recognisance* as before.
The father of the defendant was called upon to give
the required recognizances, hut he was not inattendanee;
awl eventually a gentleman connected with the solicitors
for the defence entered into a recognisance in the sum
of EtitSt for the defendant's appearance, cud she left the
court with him.

MAY 15.
Mary Eugenia Plummer, the young girl who was con-
victed of perjury on Monday evening, was called upon
to sui:ctider, and she was taken into custody and placed
at the liar.
She did not at,pear to exhibit any concern at her
position.
itaton Channel' aildresaing her said that the jury.
after a very long and patient trial, lied found themselves
compelled to and her guilty of the crime of perjury, but
they hail, at the same bin..., tint only recommended her
to ineicy, hut to the very fullest extent of mercy the
Court could award in reference to the nature of the
offence. The Court had considered the cave with the
most iiixiooo attention. It was most lamentable to see
• young child of her tender years standing at the her of
is coort of criminal justice convicted of such an offense,
but as he understood the venlirt of the jury, they were
of opinion that her pomitilin way in a great measure to
be attribilted to her want of moral and religious reloca-
tion. The crime of perjury was one of the most serious
character, for it olaced in je,pardy not only the pro-
perty hut the liberty and lives of tier Majesty's subjects;
but be thought in her case she had made • statement
that was not true for a isirtirular porpoae, and he
should not enter into the question whether her parents
were instilled in believing that statement, and in pre.
ferring the charges they subsequently did against Idr•
Hatch. She certainly was not responsible for that pro-
Deeding, and there was good reason to believe that she