The Express.
London, England, 1865-07-22 00:00:00

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TRIAL AND CONVDDIittiN OV•OONATANcI

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( The following report eppeereti in oar late edition yes-
terday 'venial! :J
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SALISBURY, FINIDAL
This morning the court was thrown open at 9
&clock and the very limited spew appropriated to the
public wis immediately filled by pence anxious to
hear the trial of Coestwee Kent. The arrangements
of the peliss, however, were perfect, aed an the wise pre-
caution wee adopted in this ease of admitting no more to the
court than it would comfortably bold, anything like undue
crowding wee avoided. A short time Wore the entrance
.of the jade* We Rev. Mr. Wagner awl Wass Greek who le
knows as the Lady Superior of St. Mary's Hospital, entered
the wart and took their seats on the beach appropriated
to witnesses, which is a little behind the dock. They
attracted some attention by the peculiarity of the dress
of the lady, but it was avocet immediately diverted
from them by the entrance of the learned judge and the
high officiala of the sedge. The jury had base previously
called, and directly the court was opened the prisoner
was brought up. She was dressed in deep black, and
ewe black gauntlet gloves. Her face was hidden by
• black worsted yell, which she rand on being
called upon to plead. She wore a plain black
cloak, but her bonnet was adorned with a black bugle trim.
ming. There wee nothing striking about her personal ap-
warm*, nor probably would she be considered in ordinary
society particularly lady-like, her features being dull and
heavy, her forehead low, and there being an entire abase.»
of anything like vivacity in her air and countenance. She
wee acoompenied by a female warder. Directly
after she entered the dock, Mr. Medway, the solicitor of
the family, stepped up to her, and littered into a short but
apEsiceitly earnest conversation of • minute or two's dun.
I Um.

Having hew formally gives in charge by the Governor
of the ()minty Gaol to the wart, the proomdings were com-
menced by
The Clerk of the Anises, who, addrensiog the primmer,
said—Constance Emilie Kest, you stand charged with
having wilfully murdered Francis Saville Kent, et Road-
hill-house, oaths 30th of June, 1860. How my you, are
you guilty or not guilty?
The prisoner, who spoke in so low a toes as to be almost
inaudible, replied—Guilty.
After a paces of about a minute,
Mr. Justice Willes said—Are you aware that you are
charged with having wilfully, inteationally, cad with malice
killed your brother!
The prisoner (who never raised her head from the front
of the dock)—Yee.
Mr. Justice Willes—And you plead guilty to that?
Another pews here took place.
Mr. Justice Willes—What is your name"
The prisoner st ll remained
Mr. Justice most repeat to you that you ere
cbaried with bevies wilfully lied intentionally and with
=dim, killed and murdered your brother. Are you guilty
or not guilty?
The prisoner—Gtulty.
Mr. Justice Willem (ate: a pause)—The plea must be re.
oorded. . . . .

This having been done by the Clerk of Arica,
Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., end—My lord, as counsel for the pri-
soner, acting on her behalf, and by her direct instructioes.
I desire to say two things before your lordship pulses sea.
iiioll. First, solemnly in the presence of Almighty
God, and as a person who values her owu end,
she desires me to say that the guilt is has
alone, and that her father and others who have
so long suffered most unjust and cruel suspicions ore wholly
and absolutely innocent. Next, she desires me to say that
she was not driven to this act, as has been assorted,
by any unkind treatment st home, as she met with
nothing there but tender and forbearing love. I
hope I may add, my lord, not improperly, that
it gives one a melancholy pleasur, to be made the
organ of these statements, beumae, on my honour, I believe
them to be true.
Mr. Justice Wilts.—She roust be called upon.
The Deputy Clerk of the Arraigns—Ooostaace Emilie
Kent, you hare confessed yourself guilty of the wilful mur-
der of /*minis Saville Kant ; what have you to say why
sentence of death should not be peered upon you according
to law!

The prisoner made no reply.
The crier of the court—My Lords the Queen's Justices
command silence while eenteow is being pronounced.
Mr. Justice Willis, assuming the black cep, said—Coe-
stance Emilie Kent, you have plcoded guilty to an indict.
meat charging you with the wilful murder of year brother
Francis Saville Kent, on the 30th of Jane, 180). It is my
duty to receive the plea which you have deliberately put
forward, and it is a satisfaction to know that it was not
pleaded until after you have had the advice of counsel, who
would have freed you from this dreadful charge if you
could have been freed therefrom. I era entertain no
doubt, after haying read the evidence in the depositions,
and after having considered this, your third confession of
the crime, that your plea is the plea of • really guilty per-
moo. The murder was one committed under cironmatsucu
of great deliberation and cruelty. You appear to have
allowed feelings of jealousy sod sager to have worked in
your breast. until at last they assumed over you the in-
dooms and power of the Evil One. (The learned judge
here became so deeply affected that he was
unable to proceed with the sentence for a few mo-
menta. At length, however, mastering his emotion,
he continued)—Whether her Majesty, in whom aloes the
prerogative of mercy rests, may be advised to consider the
fact of your youth at the time whom the murder was com-
mitted, the fact that you have bees convicted chiefly os
your owe confession, and the feat that that confession has
removed suspicion from others, isa question which it would
be presumptuous in me to answer here. It well behoves you
to live what is Wt you of We as one who is Wont to
die, awl to seek for more enduring mercy by sinew,
and deep oontritlem, and bye reliance on the only redemp-
tion, mutilation, and satisfaction for the sins of the whole
world. It remain for me to discharge the duty which the
law imposes upon the court without alternative, and that
is to pass upon you the eenteece which the law adjudges to
wilful murderers : thatyou be taken from the plan where
you now stand to the place from whence you came, from
thence toe place of execution, that there you be hanged by
the neck until your body be dead, and that your body when
dead be buried within the precincts of the gent in which
you may be last confined, and may God have mercy upon
your soul.
The prisoner, on the whole, heard the sauterne with
extraordinary composure. When the learned judge said that
she had allowed feelings of jealousy to sock in her breast,
she murmured • word or two almost inarticulately, but
which were stated by two gentlemen at the bar who were
seated just below her to be "not jealousy," but the words
certainly did not reach the reporters' box, though it could
be seen that she bed uttered something. Immediately
afterwards, when the learned judge said that her feelings
bad weaned over her the power of the Evil One,
she burst into a fit of hysterical sobbing.
The learned judge, also, was so affected that, im-
mediately after passing sentence be was obliged to retire
from the court for some time previous to proceeding with
the trial of other prisoners. Among the spectators were •
considerable number of females, who, however, appeared to
regard the whole proceedings with perfect equanimity. Sees-
ral of thejurymen more+ reddeeply affected. Immediately after
the sentence was pawed the convict, who w.s accompanied
by 'female warder, left Murdock with • firm step sad without
the slightest help descended the stairs leading to the cells
below. A very large crowd had assembled outside the
court-house, but owing to the precautions adopted by the
authorities there wwo no undo* crowding within the court
itself. Kuck incredulity was at first manifested outside the
court when the people were told that the trial was all over,
as the proceedings scarcely occupied • quarter of an hour.

MUDDED AND &JIM/L.—OD Thursday morning
Kr. Priest, who is • very bard-working respectable mar, '
Deft Ids home, io the village of Wadeld, at sit o'clock is I
Me morning, leaving his wife and one child (about 18
meths dd) in bed together, and two children in bed in as
sdjoiaing room. Re had net bees gone long before the •
woman went into the next room to her other children with •
1 gash in her throat, and the blood gashing out. The children
of cosine raised as alarm, sud some neinhhoura went in.
They found Me child (the one 18 months old) in bed with
lb throat cat. and unite dead. and the mother apparently
Tbursteld, of Bridgeoith, was sent for, but
%tile got there the woman had ceased to mist There is
so resign to smign for this niumtut al act on the mother's
pert. She had been cautioned by the doctors net to amble
her child so much.— Birmingham Poet.
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