The Express.
London, England, 1849-04-04 00:00:00

ASSIZE IN77ILLIGENCE

THE STANFIELD HALL MURDERS.

RUSH'S DEFENCE.
NORFOLK ClRCUlT.—Nonwice, AP= 3.
Before Baron Rolfe.
Difore the reporters were admitted this morning, the
governor, Mr. Pinson, called them together, and expressed a
tope that they would keep their penknives, er anything which
might be made available as a weapon, out of the reach of
Rush, stating that he did not ask this without reason. We
uaderstand that during the night the prisoner became
exceedingly violent, and vowed revenge against the wit-
nesses who had given evidence against him. It was,
therefore, feared that he might lay violent hands upon
his owl. life, if the means were placed within his power,
or attack any one within his reach. In consequence
of the threats used, and tho apparently ungovernable
rage which had taken possession of the prisoner, the
spikes round the dock were covered, some time before
the meeting of the court, with long and stout pieces of wood
The conduct of Rush during the night, we were told, was
ferocious in the extreme, and more like that of a demon than
a human being. The prisoner (with whom turnkeys have
been in the habit of sitting up every night, and wit, have
k.-pt a rrict watch over him), however, slept a.gool deal last
night; his violence came or early in the morm.,g.
These revelations caused the greatest excitement in the
court, which was again crowded.
Mr. Baron Rolfe took his scat at a quarter to nine o'clock.
The jury assembled shortly before.
Before the prisoner was brought in the under-sheriff slated
that a man, then in custody and present, had celled out to
the jury when leaving their omnihusand entering the Maid's
Head, last night, " Gentlemen, I hope you will be merciful
to Mr. Rush.
Archibald Macdonald, the man referred to, apologised for
his conduct, and d dared that it was merely addressed to a
person whom he knew in the omnibus, and not with any
bad intention.
Mr. Baron Rolfe era it was extremely important that the
jury ahould not be communicated with before giving their
verdict. His conduct was moat impr per ; a., however, he
had not sought to injure the prisoner he should discharge

him.
Rush shortly after uttered the dock. We did not notice
any change in kis appearance. Raving carefully arranged
his papers, a prone-dies which occupied some time, he ap-
plied to be permitted to put a few questions to Howe.
Mr. Baron Rolfe said he did not know whether ha Ocght
to allow it, boson's the evidence was altogether irrelevant
—whether innocent or guilty he did not believe it could

afinthim.
Rosh said he we happy to hear this.
Mr. Baron Rolfe said, however, it was for the jury to
jar-
hush said be only wished to ask two or three questions.
Howe was called and examinsd by Rush—Was in the
habit of frequenting the Whestsheaf, in London. Knew
persons in the habit of going there of the name of Harvest
and Hythe. Had spoken to the former about the murder.
Never said he would go to Norwich and give evidence If his
expenses were paid, in order that he might have • lark with
his friends in Norwich. Did not say he would give evi-
dence on either side for 201. He had said he had been oat
on the " spree" with the prisoner, which was the case, and,
that he bad said he " was a jolly good fellow."
The prisoner then commences' his address, which we gin,
as nearly as is consistent with intelligibility, in his own
words:
My lad and gentlemen of the jury, I am now about to
submit to yen my defence on one of the most awful and im-
portant charges I have ever heard brought against any one
in this country ; and, in doing so, I earnestly beg of God
Almighty to support me in undertaking • matter of such
smut responsibility, and I beg of him to prepare me to con-
duet my defence in • manner consistent with the truth, and
that he may afford me his guidance in defending myself
against this most horrid charge which has been so on.
justly brought against me lam quite aware of the inconveni- I
enes arising from admissions made during the cross-naming, '
tion of the principal witness. and also of some of the
others; bat as she [Emily Sandford] has done such
grievous wrong to herself in departing from the truth,
I have hilly made up my mind to abide by the
truth in time to come. I have made some inconvenient
admissions, although I was directed by my solicitor not to
admit anything but the truth against me. I hope and trust
in God, ;tenderness, that you will make we of such evidence
against me as tatty be necessary to attain the ends of justice.
And although you may find that I had knowledge of some-
thing serious happening at Stanfield-hall, I say at once that
lam innocent of the horrid charge made against me. On
the 18th of J y last (he continued) be wrote a letter for
the information of his imitators, giving them information as
to how he hal come to the knowledge that something seri-
ous had taken place at Stanfield-WI on the night of the
murder. By the way, he had every Cason to think that, on
amount of the way that Jermy and himself had been living,
for the last 18 :months, he should be suspected of the murder.
[Here the prisoner became confused, and paused for about
• minute 1 My lord, he continued, I most beg your in-
dulgence for some time. I request you to be so kind as
to allow me some time. The evidence is so materially altered,
that I have not had time to correct it; I hope you will allow
me • little time to look into these little thine. [The prisoner
again paused for a considerable time.] It is a most impor-
tant situation; it is an awful thing to stand in the position I
do. [Another pause] I must beg your indulgence for a
few minute.' time. I request you to bs so kind uto use
your authority and experience in allowing this. This is
what I thought to put before you, but I cannot go on. [The
prisoner seemed to be much affected.] He then complained
that the magistrates would not permit any communication to
take plass between him and his solicitors, except those coin-
' munieations pawed through the hands of the governor of the
Castle. On this matter, he mat a memorial to Sir George
Grey, acquainting him that he was net allowed, without im-
proper restrictions, to give written instructions to his solicitors,
or receive the same from them; and therefore could not
have justice done him. That letter was forwarded on
the 7th of February, and according to the answer sent down
he was only allowed to copy, such papers as the solicitor
might bring; and the same privilege was allowed the solicitor
with respeet to him (Rush). This restriction rendered the
conduct of his case quite impracticable. In the first instance
he drew out a cue to be submitted to counsel. His eolieitor
was allowed to copy 42 sheets of depositions, with his pulsate
remarks ; end he had to get copied M sheets more from the
solicitor, which cost him dl. 10s. He wished to give written
instructions, which he deemed necessary for his defence, hut
which he did not wish the governor of the Castle or the
magistrates to see. He also was desirous, as executor for his
children, to give the instructions which were necessary on
their behalf, and that without gains to the expense of having
another person to write them. His children, he thought,
would have quite enough to pay for, owing to
the expertise of witnesses, subpoena, and solicitors,
without the unceasing outlay incurred in consequencii
of the restraints which were banked on him in
the management of their affairs. Sir Gearge Grey, in his
answer, left the whole matter to the discreunn of the monis-
trues. He sent up nesse made up from the heads of evi-
dence, he., taken by his solicitor; he (Rush) had to wait all
the time those notes were taken, and then was obliged to
have another meeting to laok over the rough draft. This
method of proceeding proved so unsati-fatory, that he gave
up all thoughts of availing himstilf of such assistance. It
cast him double the time and expense which attended tha or-
dinary was o. conducting bonus,. Such being the case, he
hoped his lordship would assist him in the defence, withthe
a
vi-.w to the ends of justice. lie hoped the genth men of
jury would bear in mind the hardship he had to endure, in
beiogobgedof
gtemeotataidnetthis,
gentlemen
would also bear itt mind the way in which the examination
auboweteer beyintweoPPUeliictiietohest.o three
was condnete a before the magistrates. The re-
porters of the newspapers were s =lades" and the
public mind was prejediced against him. It was also both
unlawful end unimostitutional to take tha depositions with-
out allowing him to be present. This was a mil piece of

lei warm towards Lim ; sad he hoped the coon would allow
hint all the latitude it could in the examination of the wit-
.

nesse' which he intended to call. He would now read &let-
ter which had been written for a considerable time for the

instruction of a lawyer in London, but which he could not
forward, because he did not wish to have it inspected by the
governor of the Castle. The letter began as follows:—" fl.
person who is known to me by the name of Joe told me on
the 4th of November that a lawyer would erne to Potash,
and 'peak to me en Friday night, at eight o'clock, relative
to the estate of Etaafield-ball. The lawyer wished to hear
from me what I thought about it. I told him I would
let him know, but to be sure not to come to
the house ; for if he did, I should be sure to
be suspected, from the way Mr. Jenny and I had
been living for the last eighteen months. I said to Dim, if
you come to the garden in the front of the house I will speak
to you. I went out that night, and had a look about the
plantation, to see if there were any poachers stirring about.
I was in the orchard, and met the lawyer, who asked me
what I thought of my undertaking ? I told him I thought
it a dangerous one, and particularly if it were attempted
with violence, and without plenty of help; and even then I
did not think it would succeed. He said that he and the
others thought differently; and had made up their minds to
prepare that night, and see what c .uld be done. I said,
' Yon will do something that you will repent of, the same as
I did when I was there before, and tuck possession."
The Judge—l wish you could raise your votes a little.
The Prisoner—My lord, I have plenty of evidence.
The Judge—l do not mean to interrupt you. I only wish
you to raise your voice.
Tee Prisoner—l hope you will excuse me, for I have had
• great deal of talking.
The prisoner then continued reading the letter:—" He
said nonsense, no one would have tried to have broken the
door before, if it were not undone for them. lam sure the
soldiers dare not interfere with them. I said, ' Yon ought to
know hest, but I think cliff. rently.' He said. . I don't fear,
if one or two are completely ruined. Joe rya he can manage
them. If the strvants can be kept from getting the alarm,
all will be right.' 1 said, ' Wait till the morning, when
others will be there to assist them.' He then said, 'lt is
getting neer the time that we are to meet, wren you may
show us the way MOM the lands to the ball.' Joe said,
' There was no envision for that. He knew the way. He
had been across the fields since Michaelmas.'
The Ind4e—Weet day are you speaking of?
Prisoner: Friday, my lord. (He continued reading the
letter.) Hs went down the lake on the way to the hall,
sad I followed them for some distance. I went es tsr as the
free, to Pee what they were after, and it they made any at-
tempt. I waited two hours, and then got back to Potash,
wh n it was near 11 o'clock. I never heard more of them till
Joe came bark and asked me if I wnu'd allow them in at
the farm. He said, "If I once get Jenny's people out, and
plenty of help from the men at Potash, the thing will be set-
tled in half an hour !" I told him I would not assist them.;
and it was one reason why I was then at Potash, thatj
might induce my son not to join them and get in'o trouble,
as so many did before. He said, if you do not assist me, we
have wholly made up our minds to do so without help either
that evening or the next morning. The majority thought it
best to make the attempt in the morning, because they would
have at least five times the quantity of assistance that they
would have in the evening. But six or seven more, besides
the lawyer, thought it better to come in the tensing ; others
thought there would be seventy sr eighty to assist in taking
possession in the morning, and not half the hubbub made in
getting possession. All' said was "You know beat; were
not there," said I, "on Friday, r you expected ? "
" es," said he, " but there were people waking about in
the lawn, and I was afraid to be discovered. We had wholly
made up our minds what to do, but we were obliged to go
back, alter waiting three hours." I said, " I think your
coming in the night is not wise, and I hope you will bud it
out before it is too late." He said, 'lt you come in the
evening the lawyer will find how to proceed." I said, " I
had rather hear nothi g of it. If you attempt to do any-
thing to-night, I shall hear how youget on in the morning."
He had thought a great deal about it:during the night,
and he had a sort of presentiment that all would not bewell ;
but he did n 4 think that anything serious would take place.
ile left Potash the night of the murder; he did not leave
till eight or nearly half-past eight ; and be thought be would
be ale to prove that inch was rho fact. He went after
poachers, and he even hod some thoughts of going to the
ball; bat be made up his mood not to go. He walked
round Mr. Jenny's plantation, and when he got to the fence
be stayed there five minutes, and he thought he would go
beck again, as be felt very unwell. He heard the report of a
gun or a pistol, in • direction from the ball ; he soon after
hear .l two more, but not so loud. He was struck with
amazement, as they always said if they took fire-arms it
should only be for the purpose of intimidation, but not to
lead them. He heard the bell at the hall ring violently,
end he then got back to Potash as quick as he could.
lie went through the garden into the bore. He
had seen the lawyer of the parties twice—once at Norwich,
and onto at Potash.
The stathment of the prisoner was somewhat rambling,
and it was not without difficulty that we were enabled to
cur. the above. He then entered upon an involved cont.

mentsry on the evidence.
Gentlemen, he continued, the happiness of my dear
young children (the prisoner hes • large family living
at Felminglism) depends upon the issue of this trial.
Gad knows I am innocent. I have nothing on my
mind ; and I defy the prosecution, notwithstanding all the
skill of the learned counsel for the prosecution, to prove
one atom of important evidence against me, notwith.
dandle, all the evidence they have called. Gentlemen,
before I have done, I shall show you that I am utterly Juno-
sent of this crime, and I trust God Almighty will give me
strength to support me to the end of this investigation. As
0 pl founded.
ood
me
iligandt
y notwotuhlea leastgie
true as he was standing there in that dock, he ehould show
thatea ohfi e
thesus feiscival
result,
awnderehewehl
them the means of seeing the cue in its true light, and that
he was innocent. He should give satisfactory reasons why
he went out. In short, he should show them that he knew no
more about the murders than any of them. He did not at
any time shoot much, but it so happened at 'he time of the
murder he did shoot a good deal. There was one
important witnese, an honest fellow, whom they
dared not call. They had threatened him with the
prison ,• but he should call him. The evidence with respect
to the bnots wee es groan a piece of evidente as could be pro-
duced; hr. should show it in a different light. Trims, with
respect to the straw littered along the soft soil, it had been
there since the harvest, and was the track the pigs took to
the fields. The prisoner then contended that Mrs. Jermy's
evidence was moot important to him; and he trusted to
Almighty God, whose eye was upon him, to show how im-
portant that evidence war to him. The jury should hear
Mrs. Jermy's deposition, and God Almighty knew it would
be of the greatest use to him ; and prove that many of the
other witnesses had committed perjury. [Toe prisoner
stopped for some minutes, as though deeply affected.] He
would hare that evidence, in spite of what the learned
judge, or the 001111.1111 for the prosecution, said to the con-
trary. [lle made this remark with much vehemence.]
Then addressing the judge, he said, " My lord, when
should I commencer calling their witnesses ? Before
log what I leave to say, or should I call their witnesses first
and examine them, and then resume my address ?"
The Judge—What do you mean by calling their wit-
nesses?
Prisoner—My Lord, I wish to call Savory, Blanchilower,
and others they have not brought forward.
The Judge—Of course you must conclude all you have to
say before you call any witnesses.
The Prisoner—l did not know that my lord. I will go on.
The prise net then commented on the evidence of Watson,
the butler. He hoped the jury had paid great attention to
his depositions before the coroner, and adverted to Watson's
description of the murderer, given before the magistrates, and
declared his impression to be, that it was all forced from the
poor fellow. He believed Watson ti be an honest man,
and that he was oompelled, from certain reasons, to contra-
dict kis original evidence, and to state that which he did not
believe to he the truth. (Sensation.) He hoped the jury
bad made themselves acquainted with that hall in which the
murder wee committed; and if they had, and would
compare the depositions of the witnesses with their
evidence before the court, they would at once see
that that evidence was not founded in truth. Wat-
son says, the man was five or air feet from the pantry-door,
when he saw him. He was walking fast in the direction of
the pantry door. He called upon them to bear in mind, if
Watson went scat directly he heard the report, and if any
time intervened between the first and second shots, some one
or other of Watson's statements must be untrue. He thought
they would think that Watson was not in that hall at all
when the transaction took place, and that this was the rea-
son why the party who could have given the beat evidence,
and would have established his innocence, was kept back.
He believed that what was described as the banging to of
that hall door, and which occasioned so mush noise,
was nothing mere nor less than the second report.
Watson said, the man pissed him quickly : that statement as
compered with his statement before the magistrates, was a
barefaced perjary ; he brings in here Read's edition of the
affair, and says the man had on a dark cloak with a cape to
it. The fact was, and there was no disguising it, that these
false statements had been put into his mind, by persons who
wished to do him [Rush] an injury. Watson says, " I did sot
'peak to the man, but I believe he must have seen me."
Must have seen him indeed! What an expression to use !
How could the man, if Watson's previous statement
I was true, have failed to see him ? Is it not a falsehood from
beginning to end ? To be sure it is, gentlemen : it ia popped
in accidentally, the witness having been tampered with ; and
ell the evidence roes for nothing. He then adverted to
Blanchflower's evidence, which was of the most important
character to him. And, said the prisoner, I tell his lordship
that if he has read that evidence, he ought to have
Missed upon her being called. I don't care what
his lordship says about the matter, or what the counsel for
the prosecution say about it, I say, of tis lordship bar paid
any attention to the evidence at all, he ought to have had it
te COWL It is • monstrous injustice to me that it was not
produced.
The Judge.—Of what evidence are you speaking ?
Prisoner.--01 Illanchflower's, my lord. Then, as to the
evidence of Margaret Read. All the evidence she bad given
was false—utterly, wholly false. [Tne prisener made this
remark with exisaordinary vehemence.] The prisonercon-
tinned, at groat length, to remark on the evidence of Watson
and Read, repeating his belief that Read did not see any
man in the passage, and that no man passed Watson. It was
impossible, be said, that Read could have been there. If she
had been, Blanchtiower must have seen her, as they would
find when her evidence was brought be.fere them. Now,
with regard to the cloak ; it was only kAstice that he should
have that cloak put on him.
The Judge: I will have that done if you wish it, and you
are warranted in asking MO, thine. What I understand
you to mean by your observation is, that looking at the whole
of the evidence, it is not sufficient for the jury, so alto satisfy
them that any one of the witnesses ever saw a man acme out
of the hall in the way mentioned.
The prisoner Yes, my lord.

The prima eatinued What would tl..ey think. after
Ws sews we with the dot& on, of ht r evidence about the
sleek sot maim the knees of the man whoa she seye sae
saw in to. byf ? Ballnte I bad on that night I have
hod em beatently Sandf.rd knew this very well ;
oni I amid take my oak, if I was dying, that sine told Cann
or use as sloe bow I used to go out dressed of nights. I
will prove that she has told some one shoat it ; and they
then brought forward this evidence against me. They
pet the evidence inter the mouths of witnesses, and
slaw, in • most horrible winner' make it appear
that it wee their own adopter,' testimony. It is •
SOU providential thing that the these I had on that night
yes sot, with all *sir searaing, been found. I have that
drsr in soh keeping, and I have given instructions this
manias te have that dress produ:ect, and I will put it on.
I have so salacity against Hatay Sandford, and her mi-
en= woad have boa vary different had she been left to
bessalf, sod not Lacerated with so impt early. Atter
Wading to hie quarrels with the Jermye, he ags In adverted
to the evidence of Read, rice/sating its fabehood, and affirm-
Mg that all he waisted woo to have the facts and the truth,
idt shadd sense out before he had done, if Gal gave him
Wain sad stress& Noticing her slatessat that Miss
Army ran taws the prose, he asked Why was aut
]gin Jersey wiled t She Wad lave spoken the truth,
sad would have bees a meet impormat witness for
me. They had gelled • pose boy. sot so old as Mies Junky
sag be hod *skew the troth, whisk more han those
ihwehling polies hod deem —lie tames
cetera t
to Honor
Mimes% fifidesive, who said, see, with others, was Manilas
at the gates eit half .; at seven ; and lie handed in a phut of
the WWI* the jury, pointing oat the loaditite, and
Viethat, es she. sad Me other pa-ties mat have gas,
lefmriss the report, in the direct line in wkielt the man
wee who am sat tats hall. is was in the highest degree
imgesheibis sad lespemilie that a ma. amiss hem the tall
is that direstien wadi p by the most where sin yews pee
pie WWI LaTelial wed talking with owe swam and set be
sees by thwei. The evidence of the We eh>pelag between
is. repeat and the ether, we, ho maenad, oonfuted by
ewe a saw et the Wanes& All the sadness int taken
west to dew that the woad report wee heard isms.
IRMO Met the ant ; and if this was the sew there was
no
timer Lr Hang to go, as ha said bit did. 46 yards. He
alluded to the cook's aiding*, who talked of the time
which " imtervesei " between as Lint sad seemsd report ;
sal eemtesderi that the alums hod all been brought :o de-
lzpretty well to the suss thing, nod to ogres before the
. Alen alladiog to the dropped to the ball, one
of whisk, la his opinion. was Laid the prase, sad cow
=jlase • arias vitas= weenot salad is this point,
ai to the aliases about the %aging to the door,
whisk ha disbelieved ; sad @gala awed why Bleaehdowa
wee mot medal. They hod am warmers put into the
ben, sad am asked a single qesedem. Why did aot Ur.
Baas mil a witness se aspirant to him (the prisoner) as
Ms wits= was ? If Mr. Beams had meted se an kmour-
able man, he would have called bar, that he (Rash) might
has - the epperanity of bringing out evidences in his fs-
war. It was amenable bat that the public west see from
the report which would be published, that be bid not
been tairly dealt with. The evidesee was taken, in
the Bret amass, without the prelates of reporters: the wh-
ams' bad hew bit swan, and thou Moir ordain had
Wen imaged. Had they sot lased the Grimm of some of
the witower—how the enteemet far the prosecution had been
Feared Had they not heard how Mts. Bryant had told
MS ant the WiIIMINS to keep up her spirit. He had so
same of waseeregiag sad papering the "camases, but he
should be able to establish his we in spits of ail of Mem.
With regard to the threatening exprmraions attributed to him,
attar what had been said by the WIUSISKII whoa he had
weaned, weld they believe that he ever sal those ewa-
mien ? Them, said he, there is the alder:. of Easily
Sandbri. Tore le every excuse for bar, poor giil, Red
Almighty knows! But I shall be able to produce further
alba . m this point. I have • letter farm Mr.
Caw. Can lurking be more unfair than the way in
which her eadenes wee taken ? What prepares
pee her examination in Bridewell, dm was with the
magistrates at the ball at 12 o'clock in the mowing, and did
sec loam mail 12 at night. What do you thine she was
doing all that time ? Way she was examined over sad over
again. If I had beat able to towage her free from the in-
fants of the magistrates, I should have been sole to have
believed her, for I believe she is honest welsh to tell the
teeth. Bat what eat Ide nailer the eiseantetwoes ? What
yea shall ea by and by. What was mid by Mr. Cann ? lie
/mew all Went it, there sew be so question. It was nada.
steed when Clarke was examined that I was to have had an
spLaTi jades
uota4inatialMg him.
es asiel the pehoner maid sundae him ; and in.
guired of the wise of the scat if Kr. Clarke was there. The
ern told him he was net, bet that do would be there in
three rowers of as law; his lordship said " Vary well,
thee you am exunine Um."
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Thu prioner Gnawed, and remarked on the wi-
den.* of Feller As to the trunk of a us, which Fuller
said was laid over a ditch between Potash and Stan-
field-ball, he should show, by evidence, that, when he had
two fame, it was a gap; end the tree was may laid over ;
bat it was a so t absurd citing to In pose that any person
would venture over this at nen. It streak him, too, that
he should he able to peeve that the murder was committed
later than stated by &Nary, who sad *as he was the fiat
person in the tudi, and that it was than Witpest eight. He
noticed the 'tetanal of Walla sad oasolor Vittaell, to
skew that it was more Wyly to hen been nine o'clock; and
said from the way in whisk the Mtiaemaa gave their evid-
ence it always appeared Mot, that It wee a previously con-
esrad story ; in **Ow bed as dean, they bed agreed to fix
that time; Gain earidereil it disgraceful that, placed as he
was in the prom* esiestemate poeitlos, tan should be
brought up mans his abs sails statements with so little
regard to au*. He sensed sew diselepeneies in the evi-
dence of the yolks who eggeobseded Km, as to what was
said at the time ;ea aka to what he said was contra-
dictory evidence, by Peat, dm* the bow.' found in his
1011111; he swifts before the earner that they were wet,
bat wseed shy en the axis which had been neat the fire,
bat bean the mayiaretes Mat they appeared to have been
wiped. Ai time Wereponeles the jury will be kind enough
to take late their eisakedisa • but that then may be no
doubt on the Inhiset, he wee* prof use the Weft he were on
the night in gums en. Why hod all the premeatisa sailed
Savory ? Why, hessian they won Maio he would have
told the truth, as they hail Mei to keeper with bin. Ater
undergoing twenty ensiatien, and remaining in Bride-
well a snaking" time, they had slued to eall
He would peeks Savory to prove that he (Rush)
had takes the greatest pains to preserve the gams ; that
there bad been a great quantity of game on the farm,
and that there we. still, ntwithstanding the depredations of
the poaches. If Savory was so dishonest as not to acknow-
kdge that, nothing could exceed him for Wm.—With res-
pect to the direction he woe sad to have Mks on the night
of the murder, Mr. Dram, the surveyor of Norwich, bed
stated that the river skim wink he was supposed to have
walked, was ten or twelve kat, and eight or nine feet wide.
It was net likely that ke shield have attempted is the dark-
ness Stile night, to walk 'Nag that river, =la less Skimp
aerate it, The primer Om adverted to the "wet swan
in whisk tits witness "Maws* their first sowleation I.
the brown parlour la Stralliii ball, and massed his
saviction, that Is* Oimillsrd sad the., the
bailer, gave true ffelleme ea that emasion, and
testimony that did ast Es bin the *ghat damage; bat
that, sine that thas, tam the ea kilemes exercised
ever them, their "videos was warped sad twisted ; sad he
should show, before be hat done, that that was the cue ;
sad that Mr. Cann knew very well the gross insides he we.
doing him. After detailing some previous trueness transac-
tion with Mr. Can, the prooser directed the anatka of the
Ivy to the statem, ate of than servants who had speirAu to
vs seen his fa often at &anion Hall. Oa ens day =en-
dowed, the 2lst of November, so an had seen him, net even
Wean. Mr. Jersey wished kWtop directly through the
heat door, and elan he had anyb.sinsse to truant to call
about eight o'clock ia the 'veva., as bang the most cos-
easiest time. The statements et these wrests were all
felon; he Ivory believed that sot owe of them hed seen him
balls doses times in their line. He again declared his be-
lief that Mr. Caan had tampered with the witnesses; more
speolally with &MY Sandie* tan when me on in the
world had men grimly perjured bunt-. So mach for Mr.
Cann and the witness", with Irks he had tampered.
The ledge shad the sl he would like a few
agitates' Liens? It move a good opperautity, as he
had amended his sa llb. Omm.

Ille 1-Wie—suitf iocn;whee he felt fatigued,
pi lailsem kiniship.
The primmer aide revirted to Winos's evidence, and said
it was Meer Ilk. Jabs Cana was bathe butler's paltry, al-
though the witness add he was not ; that the cloak, taken
dress Pass Weft dram at the ball ; and that the witue
gave *sir evlissie reistieg to them from what they had
me sae the aueder. He agate referred to Blaneliflower's
evidease, esetraning it** leads; and obriervieg, that he
bad put en the wig, sad the witnesses who pretended to bah
seen • num with • wig, said that he did not ressathie
him. Chantey's evident% he said, was the man eatraordt
Aar, noes the Iron et the earth, attar what she bad stated
the tint time. Thera was so sestet stoat dm wigs ; • taw
years ago he was Wag his heir, and be had a wig made. bat
his hair greerieg eras It bares at no use. He returned it
in the maker, tile would art take it, and there was tears- tion about it at the seneng meet. Be again attempted to I
weaken the testimesy slew whereto as to his identity, by
stating that he lived mem at Idadegbant thee at Potash,
Wasv sibs sat earelidi; He witnesses therefore had
net sass a knowledge of Idea as to warrant the aaiante
deeeri they hid give&
The Jptionury mew retired for refreshment ; and on their return
the trial pressedeL
The passer matmeneed by eshrring to Elise Cheatuey's
evidence, adverting to sated discrepancies and contradic-
tions, sad matenthog that the amid sot possibly have had
time to identify the m in the peony, or to 'peak with any
esetainty as to Ids same and dress.—His remarks were
bug, and at • ass wmalrfrag suture; sad having made
my obounalisas area whet he mesidered the bide oppor-
tunity the wham Wei tientittag the " men la tin kali;
he Gelled me the NOT menpuiensig to tastes the evi-
Oce co whisk Se present odour sharps wee freed.a
the satiest of divans, le enetn it
was to Ilia hod , that, If be hod genethat oat
In them, as stated, he shah have kept tissue
in the house, sad repeated that, though he sad Mr. Jerry
bad boss ea wry bed tenet, im never had say ill-feeling
towards him. Hie kaaw be was inaireent; God Almighty
knew he was haseast and he hit entails the !-try+mid
be of tbat twines Were the ease was Inkhad. Be argued
that after Mho Mufti" had bean abse. it wee argue
Ltbshe wadi bare Anna the Asia lithe as who
isisr; and Set Me milmes as to the had szkasted from
the bed, was an Whose satinet Wm, use ghat extracted
km or Wier lithos was handle Main tats ships, sad
that pethehisesk hag leas mhos been kin,
same al the amenamegams it it, as well as
=Me Mem taktm Ikea Ids empstAag, had bent wed
kr lissome of pllig 3kis Mhos, sista* bin.

Howe's aviderer was most undoubtedly eonstruired nut or
such materials. He again cumplai..ed that the r p irteti had
been excluded hoax the magistrates' 'Lamination, and
°untended that the depositions then takes were more fa-
vourable to him than subsequent ones, when other in-
flames@ were brought against hiss. The evidence of Emily
Setedfurd hod not bees given is omit so consistently with
truth m flaw before the magistrates; from beginning to end,
he was sorry to my, it bad no foundation in truth. He re-
ferred to easteges of the *Tiding, to show discrepassies
whisk be esatemini veil this assertion. Her not reed-
Isaias whoa be tamed his mother that he also named his
'Wren ; kir set lemming ea the night of the 28th Nov.
whether her watch was gels( es sot, were butanes ad-
dend why her teetimeay was an to be credited.
At this stage of his brag sad gems ally rambling. though
la tams pane forcible sad cleverly arranged addle's, the
prisoner, addenda( the cosasel for the prosecution, said,
" will to kers whether a letter Wrenn to Mr. Jersey,
and mother addressed to lie. Clarke, will,be prodeeed ?"
Mr. Seejest Bytes—lf yen ask for thou leturs„ they will
be preened, bat se web lettess wen read in avidesee.
The Pvieemsr—Those letters wen Una his children. He
thee main reverted to the abstreetioa if papers from his
ample beg, lennedieg that many of them wen of import-
'su for his deigns., sod others for the peeniary iatersate of
his Madsen. Re said S. Habissestes evidence were the
grenseat faheebeeds ; sad MSS mere adverting to what Emily
Seedbed had degeon, he mid her endues woe influenced
by what she kid heard from Santry. He should show that
elks,t had weaned fee peones as well es himself,- and es
the eight of the emeart he masa/acted by the reedy manner
in which she pee op gess, M coupling* with his
wish. She mast, be Akan ' recopied mail Wall she
entombed le isigast, Ind said he knew it woold sot do for
them is lee es they led bin doing ; sad, therefore, it wee
agreed skit sits sited* be his housekeeper, both from re.
spin to bra Ihmily sad his own. The jun 'Geld sea that
wheat dee pee her enigma she was anything bat friendly
to him, whatever she had been beSore. It was not at this
time when the emeekte about Brace woe mentiosed ; bat
whoa they were talking about pentent. He denied the
ecerestums of Emily Saniford's story as to what passed at
the tee-table, bat contended that all be wished was ad-
mitted—via., that they had est dome for an boor and a
half. He also alleged that there were disernanies in
her evident* and in the deposition beim the earner. as to
the time he was in the rasa, sad the lee wane. Ravin
again rebind to, and remarked ey Sieve's evi-
dence, and to that et the sensats,—ke ebeetrad that the
man who fired the first yea or pistol would net have nos
rend the' bell, red eatend et masker deer, just where
ail the semen nee to be lank for the perpme et sheeting
nen Mr. Jemmy. A ma keen ai thelma es well ee he
did must have hem mod to have attempted nit a thing.
It was mesh mere probable that he wend lame toned in at
the nigh Is., to oorry eat kis horrible fiIIINSSIL Looming
to UM Somihere avian, he said *at the paper D wee
prepoesd for the poes of beim @lima by Jersey,
wire he (Erbisgranead him darns
to to sanitise the terms ;
eel 's determination go with him to the
W VIM evening meationd is has avidness was a
peesselleg fraught with amok missidef, was most
sureeedlegey, and one which he weld aster understood.
The primer, in the comes of his remarks, insisted that the
witnesses were takes sad kept by the presendare in order to
enable than to substantiate theme for the preseeaeon. He
reverted to the evidence previously given abeat the door of
the ball. He than proceeded to notice the 'widens of John
Standlty.
The Jodge—All that witness proved he his ezaminties is
chief was the document in his posensien.
The prisons acknowledged the correctness of hie lordship's
remark, but nevertheless pound his guard °hosannas. ea
the incidental evidence. He thee entered epee the evidence
of the medical gentlemen and disputed the concetams of the
consiesiom at which those gesetknee had arrived in refer-
ence to some foreign material in the cartridge, the fragments
of which were found at Stanfield ball. Hi said he did not
understand what they meant by the word foreign..
The Judge explains.' that the term " forage " was
applied to material distinct—separate from the coennea
Watt! of any article.
The prisoner, after having for a nisei time dwelt epos this
part of the evidence, end diseend his enervation to the
proofs cf the handwriting the desemente were in, with re-
gard to Howe's evidence he end be never spoke to him be
five =Mutes in his life, and he believed God Almighty put it
in his mouth that Howe woe •MR Aldo. Then there was
Stubbs, than whom there was net a greater villain on the
face of the earth. . .

Jadge—There was ao sash maa mamba,
Primmer—No, they were frightened Se pot Mm is the
witness-boa.
After some hardier remarks the eoart broke op at 8 o'clock
tit this messing, whoa the primmer will mese kis addross.
He bad bees M&eming the wart slime 10 o'clock.

OXFORD ClRCUlT.—(3l.ovourn, Amur. 3.
THE BRISTOL HIIRDER.—TRIAL OP SARAH THOMAS.

Tt; trial of SaroA ii;sTra foe the murder of her milder,
Him Elizabeth Janice, commenced at the Gloucestershire
assizes, held in the Shirehall In this city, at nine o'clock this
morning. It was made known last night that the trial was
fixed for to-day, and the Hall was, at an early hour this
morning, besieged with eager applicants for admission.
The prisoner, whose age is stated in the calendar, and who
is dsecr.bed as of the class of offenders who can read and
write well, was charged in the indictsent with " having
wilfully murdered ELsalbeth'Jefferies." Her appearance in
the desk
IiMI oamoMl the
d. greatest sensation. The prisoner ap-
posed s ve
Mrs. Wheeler, a charwoman, of Bristol, deposed that she
esmalhass went of errands for the deathbed, who was oo-
adenala without a servant. She was a woman of violent
temper. The last servant was the prisoner. Lucy Chad
=d bor. Witness called on her en the Friday,
B, sad was to call again next day. Did call in the
shwas= of that day, and found the house closed.
Ana Has stated • that she lived with her husband at
No. 6, Tresehara-street, Bristol, next deer to Miss Jeffs. ies.
On the amain of Saturday, the ad ef March, about
five o'clock, witness was awoke by a sereamieg in Miss
Jefferies' bedroom, which ad' bet awn, bang divided
by a party wall. Wieser being alsimed, went Se the bed-
room -40 Mrs. Fry, in whose head she lodged, and found
that she, toe, had been awoke by the wise. Witness, at
Mrs. Fry's suggestion, honked at the wall of the bedroom,
end about a alma allsewswis the esniasthei eased. At
about 7 eels* the same MIMS(' the please MIS to har
bona. and .M her mistress had sat her le say she biped
Ye. Fry would not be alarmed at what she hatead that
monde., he that the at had get ea her sehMem's bed sod
frightened her, and she said that she was rag to leave bar
service, lee that bee mistress wise bed &mem
Mes._ Ihy sorreheisad the testieseey of the lest witness.
andailoilthat the primmer bad Gelled her mistress an old
wreteksisibi she was goiag to leave her.
Mr. formerly a eargeon, and brother to
the that she was 61 lof age, and had
beta esterest=i leers
the family. Oa Wednesday, March 7,
the whams assompaand seas aliases ti the boas of his
dike, and ea proses up stain hand the body lying en
the bed partially covered with **bedclothes. Waren de-
=Med the besrible spate& presented by the came, the
ads glebe ma, whisk streamed in blood, and other ap-
poolroom prenatei. Wham mimed several articles of
jewellery, of whisk the majority were afterwards produced
M sea* having been head on the prisoner and in her boxes,
the whole of whist be identlied as the property of his Sc•
cambia and mardersd deter. _

Mr:Bath* inftthee, a Bristol, who was called in to
Lupe* the body, mere fully partlealartred the nature of the
wens& whisk bad been Misled. They were aultuively
upon the heat There were seven wounds ea the heed,
titres of whisk in his maths et Irene hid been mused by •
blew been a liege slime head is the bob by the side of the
Ire, in the bedroom, nth whisk ease had bees kept in the
bents hr the purse el keeping epee the kitchen door.
Mb meat, produced in coos, was • very heavy otte, and
would be a surderens instethesst the Wish of a deter-
mined ameilist.] Mr. theme& &seedbed the appearance of
the body hem merainada takes at the time. His opinion
wee, that death bad been caused by asenesion of the Wain,
produced by the blows en the he d. Is cues of concussion
the sufferers usually were Inespabie of crying out, bat be
had known cases when parties so wafering had both able to
ay out.
A number of polimmes were then examined to state the
proesedinp whisk bad bees take. en the discovery of the
murder to detest the perpetrator.. Thies witnesses made
the discovery of she ease on the bob of the grate, and which
was praised ia court and bore marks of biped, baying also
es* or two grey hairs ups& it. The pethoden of the
muderesswsapaa suited great eme In the court.
Pow or Ave poNeemen were ealbd, emit of whim produced
some portions of the steles frees the Mese of the
murdered woes. awed& were heal in the boss,
of the prisoner's :thaw, law she bed tribes sehnieell.
where she was appreheeled in • melba* half
This mewl, sonsishd of rings. Isseshee, and ether
Jewelifez, Methee, and auntarenis other artistes, all of which
were y sad very satisfactorily idestilled by Mr. Henry
Jet/sties, the brother of the deceased. In the pocket of the
prisoner were Mind between thirty mad forty sovereigns. The
prisoner was trend home with a number of boxes, o bird
were unwed hem Treashesdotrut partly by herself and
putly by aME whim she enema. She left her buss
he a theft time (et a parties of them) at a confec-
tioner's, sad called ter them afterwards in a ily. This was
es Saturday cereals, sad it wee proved that she had stated
to one penes that she had left Miss Jefferiee suite on
Thursday, and to another an Saturday, while it wee clear
that she had not left there until the Saturday, the morning of
the murder, whoa she wee seen by the nut-door neighbours.
The trial wet ',weeding when the lest available trete left.
Aram 2.
Coma Cocar.—Before Baron Matti
Ten BADMINTON BOILDIZ.
This wee_ essethei the greater part of the day. J. E.
Hells theilleepth with the wilful murder of lames Watts,
at Beekebbes, es the Ist of December lot.
The widths* ef • number of Utensils west to prove that
es the night Ode let December the pelesser,_ the deemed,
and namerens ether parties, were alt theWessellie Inn,
eau the ma Mlle Duke of Besehth, at Badminton. A
sariloitl comeWiwi= the deemed sad the pelmet and
MOMS slant !Yid it out" in the street when the
P
eel John
the Leah. a, •
igroo
m
.
who IWien theed at the
tuned parties tdm red, a
deal of stabs
penis/ wee limed maid& end a hil, end it appears
Mos dys the" 18012=111. 1111 ti the ground.
Meths eftenennis idi the - end wise hcsee, sad a
sheet lima IBIEM•16011; BMA the ostler at the Port-
cullis, wet kalag nest the elabesiard, he found the dr-
afted lying en Ms hee. Me Oath for a Seth sod amu
named ese came esipiihei up the deemed, hat found
Ms vas SUL noes wen no esters nods of Wary
no Minns& TM hog ehollimoil the Omer to
BIM kr a sowersigyaglaltl wool wpm ben the eel-
dross of the some! witnesses Sol be babe's the
of SW'S Weis So bolligensta fell=
o=th W

MIDLAND ClRCUlT.—Wanwtca, Aran. 3.
Kin rave.—Before Lord Mal 'make tend..
lITONNLLIGH ABBEY.—LIBEL ON LORD LEIGH.
Teta Qucax it. Gums%
Titian DAT.—The defendant called several witnesses pee.
terdsy, who wicks to the former existents of the M 10111111411.6
Churn to Christopher Eager, yohn Con.
stases, and others, members ofthe Leigh ; and
also to the traditioos respecting the imputed murdins.
Mary Dram being very lotheo,was accommodated with a
chair. After inch rambling evidence about the esonuateste,
she said—Jelin Willcox, who was errand boy to the Hon.
Mary Leighomes came to my home and brought a bloody glove,
telling there had bun two ma killed u the abutment of
the Wig* by a heavy steno Salim on them. but it did not kill
them deed, sad Chanthe Leigh rushed upon on, and with the
Sellilliallell of Jones cut his throat. (Loud laughter.) At the
moo time be said Mrs. Leigh naked nos the other, and,
with the bob of Jesse, they strangled hint—Owned
lankrot)...mul be sever wee so frightened in his life. Chan.
dos, new Led Leigh, Woad sad dropped hie glove, and it
wee se mask as they said de to get him out of the abutment
of the bridge. He (Wass.) said he picked it up next morn-
ing, and brought it sad showed it to me. This was Kea
after the ISIS was heard In the House of Lord.. I have
nothing else to la the time by. I heard the same story from
Bann; who aka said that one Blinn had been shot by
Jahn Haywood sad James Pardon. He said they put him
is the mar s% made • addle out of the laths sad
obi sad barisd him is Stonabla churchyard.
M sign. Hie told me this in 1835. I find of the two
moo is the Inds* from Mrs. Smallboaes, sod from several
men. I heard George Shaw say he was there when the
man were killed. He said he was hired hoist the stone ea
the two men. He mid the men were had in the abutment
by Chance Leigh sad Mrs. Leigh. OM lens held one and
Billy Wood held the other ; and after that he said he was
=to go sad take the monument mat et the church,
received 17 epade•a:astrit::das to de b. toll
mme hog men had died beef sad miefiln,wbo bad
ben rimed, end they all at the toile. He would
have bees poisoned as well as them, had be partakes eft,
bet he west is the larder sad be4ed himself. I asked
what bad bosoms of them, and he said they had sunk down
in the peen where they sat, and he never saw more of
them. (Laughter.) I mentioned to him that he was as the
aleatmeat when the bloody deed was dons—the m.rder of
the two men. He said be way, and he never was so frightened
is kb IMe. I asked him who the beef was pow; by, and
be mid Mrs. nmellbenes. I west down and and
the odd it wee John Witham who did it. He said the chink
these no had was poisoned. I did ant ask the names of
the four moo. He did not say why they had been poisoned.
He said he was afraid ke When thefts* et Bpawson, by
kis bong damned. I Tenth* bob( Int kr by Km
theallbsese ; the was uvhg at the Cone id, it worth,
about Fad pith hem my been She wee eery in, and she
sin krone, to maim • oenfeedemetthe edam she had con
Wits& The was about August la the year is white she
died. She died two years ago, as the 15th of Donner.
The thet thing U. bid see was she bed penned the 3111111
ohs moat Is sok he sem boot, obi be hod whoa bo pt
hie Milk; sad they nob hint bone la a ems. the said
Mrs. Leigh gave her the pin, and told her to pit it in his
drink and stir it up with a nesm. Bite did het know the
ma's name; he was takes he Warn*. She mid it was a
moth funeral ef James Heavy_ Leigh. She said Mrs.
Leigh took her, Mrs. Colt, smithy. Kickball into her (Mrs.
Leigh's) room, and mud thin to sign bar in the mock
funeral. They had fifty guineas Neb. and went into the
Sto get a pies* of daber to repossat James H. Leigh.
took the timber foto Mr. Leigles nom put it in a
, all ready revered for it, end wrappeda sheet off
lir. Kirklasd's -table nand it. ithesaidthwe sealed the sheet
tip, and showed how it was den by bolding up her apron.
She said they had a plaster of Paris face put on this wood,
napped a napkin round the throat and thin left the room,
kale( the door. She said Mr. Leigh had gone away that
day after dinar; a mea nested Mark Bir.ell went with
his Ike said she never saw James Hooey Leigh after.
There were reports abroad shout this mock funeral ; but
people due not speak out about it. I was told of it in my
own house by Bassett. He was afraid to speak of it, sad
told me la a whisper. I heard others tall of it at different
times; sad the uses who worked at the Abbey said Jane
Henry Leigh did not die when it was reported. I
knew aiding of the vault. The second lbw I
went to Mrs. limallbones, se I was going Into the
room, she said (referring to Daniel TO ingleyl "sM
eat the string and let him down." I asked who est
him den. She replied, I did, and I triedAs carry him;
bet I could not, he was so heavy. She then said, nee
end John Hayward and Billy Woed serried him to aWe
Mrs. Leigh had dug to put him is. She said they
carried him to this plan. Mrs. Leigh carried the candle,
sad they all helped to cover him over, and put his hat at
the foot of the grave. She said she had nothing to do with
the other twe men who were killed. Mr Jones killed
them ; she only lighted the candle. She said Billy Weed
and John Haywood hang the man is
churchyard
She said the garden was like a with
dead bodies ; and added, I could tell • great deal men. I
asked her whom) bodies, and how many, but she weld not
tell me. She was at the time she told me all this is great
fear of being hanged. She said there was • man of colour
swore all the servants to aecnsy, and she was afraid if they
heard of her telling she would be hanged. She told me
there was a John Leigh murdered there, and be was
buried in the wine vault with his clothes and boots ciaLa4kil
added it was that which caused James Henry Le
to lean them; and that he would not stop at
the abey after he had heard of it. She cried
out, "Poor Sprawsoa I poor Sprawson l I wee very
sorry for him to be drowned, for he was such a geed
man." She said these four men who were poisoned with
the beef were ordered to be taken to Addlestrop to be buried,
and there were four of them put into hampers and seat
away in their longue cart and one broke the
basket end discovern what ;as in It, and caused
poor Sprawson to be drowned. Wilton, who weal
with him when he came back, told what bad happened, and
then Mrs. Leigh said he mast be put away. The same night
he was made drunk, and taken over the green bridge, the
nearest road to As ow, and she and Mis. Leigh went into
the grove to hear the splashing when he was thrown in. He
was thrown la by Billy Wood and others. She told nt.,
when the two men were killed at the bridge, Chandoe Leigh
cut the throat of one, and Mrs. Leigh strangled the other,
assisted by Mr. Janes and Billy ood. I asked her
how she eueld bear to see each things? She said
she was never frightened until she saw the blood
the next catning. She did net tell me whether Mr. George
Jones at the Abbey had done anything she. She told me
she had a good sapper after these murder. and slept u well
ea ever she had done in her life. She pointed out the sew
bridge to me, sad said everything was buried there. I was
very ill is soesenence of besting thus things. and could not
go to her again for some time. I sent to Mr. Griffin to come
and take her deposition. She would not allow a magistrate
to be sent for. Mr. Griffin suggested one should be sent for,
but she would not speak if soy one bad came. I begged elf
her to send for Mr. Wise who was • kind gen.
Wan ; or to tell it to the clergyman • bat she
cried, and would not. Mr. Griffin took her evidence dna
in writing. I was not present then. I had conversation
with Mr. Griffin on this @abject. I thought the Ligh both
ought to know of whet had ban said. I told Me..oAffin all I
Inn. I was anions everybody should baser; but I did not got*
the Leigh family sad tell them. As far eel know nothing was
concealed hoot me. She saw James Leigh twice, nee before
and one after he had come out of prison. She cried both
times. I, James 'Leigh, and Mrs. Blackburn, now deed,
were present together, with Mrs. Smalibonee. She desired
me to write to James Leigh to go the second time, and I
did so. He same end brought a gentleman with him,
to take her deposition. His name was Howarth ; but she
would not give it to them, expressing her fear that she
should be hanged. She would sot speak to him 'then. She
desired the picture of a favourite dog of her husband's, and a
stuffed canary bird to be even SO James Leigh. She saw him
a few days after Howarthlad sees her He and myself went
to me her the mooed time. She cried and rid, " Janus, I
have bees a wicked, bad woman. I helped to rob Ton of
you estate; but now I will try to gin it yet again.' Ethe
had some private talk with him anrards. which
I did net hear. She said, bow sorry she was
that they had sat him to prism and then told him
what OM bed told me. You (Mr. Griffin) came to my house
afterwards, and left with Mr. Yates. You took down • state
mane made hp dhow There were many 410111.“100,11 with
nee, and ether pose as, in my pressisse, WU with the dein-
daub at my bus. The 'abject of the oonnersatioa was die
merino. I reediest the one etas bridge was mentioned. I
recollect the advice you gave nee to go up to Sir George
Grey, and that tha -nee should be laid before the higher
powers.
The enneel he the Grown twom.esamined this witness, bat
elicited gothic of importanea.
A swan, etWitnemes made similar statements to those
of Mn. Draper. Oa, witnees ewers that he wee in the
old vault at Stonaleigh, en one °eines, with another
person, who was copying the ineeriptioa from the nee.
plate of Christopher Leigh ; that they west to dinner at an
early hour, and on their return to finish the copy they met
Mrs. Julia Leigh, with Mr. Darby, eomisg out of the vault,
the former hang a breastplate in her hand. On re-entering
the vault, the plate they had been copying was gone. The
man who had been copying was engaged an hour, but had
not dabbed it; he was old, and a poor writer.
This morning the ease for the defence was resumed.
Evidence was called to skew that several of the workmen at
the bridge, whe were ilootcheten, had suddenly been missed
from their lodgings said the neighbourhood witheut any
wiShc.nraw,essisirld oanthderest,atritilontsthoef
asßarasignast,Lamems.ressem. Tviheikeallzeg,
presence of Len Leigh, Mrs. Leigh, sad Mr. Jones, at the
murders at the leidge wen repeated bi=rons witnesses,
and others spoke of thi turn wiper skull la *good
stab of presendin, with hakes the sad the nostrils
prism, in the Pagoda Coen, NM kw adore. Wilco:
is sa thbir ovrimay, end it b be will ix cal;e
Them hes me our halm been ted in the evidence,
the
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