The Express.
London, England, 1865-07-21 00:00:00

sECOND EDETION.

'BESS OFFICE, Four o'Ciod.

TO ROAD MIIRDEat.

00010TION OF CONSTANCE E&CLLIE
gliff, AND SENTENCE OF DEATIL
Wag osa UMW, ISPOITIR.)
SALLSBDRY, Fisatar.
!Noon* the court was thrown open at 9
00 awl the vary limited apses appropriated $o the
Ail 10 hamedistely filled by persons anxious to
ep trial of Constance Kent. The arrangements
W— sook however, wen whet, sad as the wile paw
i IP
sow adegftd in this ream d admitting ao more to the
osiget ft weald comfortahly held, myth* like undue
am avoided. A short time beam the statue*
isige the Ser. Yr. Wagner and Miss Green, who is
Lady Saperior oi St. Mary's Hospital, entered
led trek their mats on the beach appropriated
,700.11, whisk i • little behind the dock. They
„mpg roma atteetioe by the peculiarity of the dress
lady, bat it was sharet immediately diveated
abaci by the entrance of the learned Page aid the
pry a the swim. The jury had base previously
7.Tiaud dircaly the court was opened the prisoner
07-itimid op She was dressed in deep black, and
lAA putatlet gloves. Her face was hidden by
vet
ohs vented veil, which she missal oa being
out ,res s, plead. She ware a plain black
ok. Ina aar breast was adorned with a black bugle trim-
pig. Tills was nothing striking about her peraosal
err *Obibli would she be considered in ordinary
170: rupaslarly lady-like, her features be* dull and
bem bar forehead low, and there being an entire abeam
d .***l a • vivacity in her air and countenaace. She
,re smeapaaied by • female warder. Directly
'par mtavd the dock, Mr. Medway, the solicitor of
*bay, stepped up to her, and mitered into • short but
Npanaly tamest otavenation of • minute or two's dem

is
twig toss formally giros in charge by the Governor
diboaenry Gaol to the coed, the proceedings were cow-
tool 10
D. Get of the Amine, who, addressing the prisoner,
16-038"seBmelie Bent, yon stand charged with
pig arally murdered Francis Saville Kent, at Road-
goon oe the 30th of Jens, 1860. How say you, are
pa ray or not guilty?
al rummer, who spoke in so low • tone as to be alnioet
oak* rolijeci—GailtY•
afur a paw d about • uncut.,
it. Julia Will.. rid—Are you aware that you are
oplaiwith having wilfully, intentionally, and with tuella,
hid year bream !
be primer (who never mimed her head from the front
dthe dost)—Yea
It. Julies Willes--And you plead guilty to that?
Mother yams here took plans.

IL Julia Willai—What is your name ?
Silo= still remised admit,
ILJrda Willrl must repeat to you that you are
WO with having wilfully mid iuMntiosully sad with
el., bled and murdered your brother. Are you guilty
esstgailty I
Its miemer—Guilty.
rc Julia Willie (after a patme)—The pies must be no.
sei.

ti Inv* hem doos by the Clerk of Assize,
laColeridr, Q C., said—My lord, as counsel for the pri-
m, acting on her behalf, end by her direct instruction.,
lairs to my t►o things before your lordship passe/ sea-
mile. Link solemnly in the prewar, of Almighty
sad se a person who values her own soul,
▪ dwires me to my that the guilt is hers
dim and that her father and others who have
slug sabred we. unjust and cruel suspicions are whoUy
NZ
sheilntely iszoesst Next, she destine me to say that
is see not driven to this act, as hew been asserted,
//// tinkled treatment at borne, as she mot with
Wing there but tender and forbearing love. I
by I may add, my lord, not improperly, that
it Pim en* a melancholy pleasure to be made the
ape Alms Malamute, because, on my honour, I believe
ism to he no..

IL Jostles Willes—flbe most be called upon.
Ile Deputy Clerk of the Arraigoa—Oonabsatte Emilie
Issk yea to.. teamed yourself guilty of the wilful min-
aret Prude Saville Hens; what have you to say why
Woes of duals should not be passed upon you according
Mite!

priloo4l. made no reply.
The use of the court—My Lords the garnet Justices
egenad &ea while entente is being pronounced.
L.I. Wffles, aiming the black cap, said—Con-
seals We Bat, you have pleaded guilty to en indict.
antehuging you with the wilful murder of year brother
hamilleldle Kent, on the 30th of June, 1860. It is my
aly h nave the plea which you have deliberately put
fenea, edit is a 'etiolation to know that it was not
*Wean after you have bad the advice of counsel, who
wail tea hoed you from this dreadful charge if you
aid lea been freed therefrom. I can entertain no
do 1, she laving read the evidence in the deposition,,
alefter baring moldered this, your third coufesaioa of
16, aim, that your plea is the plea of a rally guilty per.
The reader was one committed under oircumstances
dau deliberation and cruelty. You appear to have
dual foliage of jealousy and anger to have worked in
Mart, mail at last they assumed over you the in.
laesseed power of the Evil One. (The learned judge
let hone so deeply affected that he wee
rasa pouted with the sentecoe fora few mo-
ll* At heath, mastering baleinotlon with ao effort,
issuithostl)—Whether her Majesty, in whom slogs the
!illative of may rate, may be advised to consider the
Midyear youth at the time when the murder was oom-
lihd, the fed that you here been convicted chiefly on
Peen cohesion, and the fact that that contagion has
eared napicioo from others, isa question which it would
Illesurgatuote in me to answer hers. It well behoving you
MT, what is left you of life as tee who is about to
~adio nett for more enduring mercy by anon
ed EOP itstritioe, aad bye reliance on • the only rederup-
olrecitietion, eadatidsotan for the sins of the whole
well It remain for me to discharge the duty which the
11., *la open the court without alternative, and that
*I WO epos you the sentence which the law adjudges to
Wllleciriarets : tlistyon be taken from the place where
la oersted to the place from whence you came, from
.1164t°4 Mae of execution, that there you be hanged by
mat mail your body be dead, and that your body when
illilisburied within the precincts of the gaol in which
Pilaf be last confined, and may God have mercy upon
lea ad,

triscner, on the whole, heard the sentence with
~1141646,417 composers. When the learned judge said that
lei allowed fersliop of jealousy to work in her breast,
~_.6""lnresed a word or two almost inarticulately, bat
w~eduted by two gentlemen at the box who were
/Isabela, her to be "not jealousy," but the words
417 aid sot reach the reporters' box, though it could
ta that she had uttered mouthing. Immediately
L...illortea, when the learned judge said that her feelings
"Woad over her the power of the Evil One,
7 burst into a fit of hysterical sobbing.
41, brood judge, also, was so affected that, ins.
11°1444,14f* passing sentence he was obliged to retire
7111,1 tout for some time previous to proceeding with
gal of ohs/ prisoners. Amour the spectators were a
number of females, who, however, appeared to
"wattle whole oroceedings with perfect equanimity. Sue.
aid •
ti•
bl"lmieslsreared deeply affected. Immediately after
ty was passed the convict, who was accompanied
ieele warder, left the dock with a firm step and without
674littlea help desonded the stain leading to the rude
f0„.,,1 The) large crowd had assembled outside the
...---notss, but owing to the precautions adopted by the
—▪ ""luls dun was no audits crowding within the oourt
Eseis incredulity was al irst manifested outside the
1.111/te the people were told that the trial was all over,
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