The Express.
London, England, 1849-10-26 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 26, 1849.

Mr. Parry then put it to tke Attersey-Genes al whether be
would exercise the sight in a ease where the Jives of two of
his fellow.ereatures were at stake.
The AttornerGemeral mid that the law gave him the
right to have the last word. He should not have trucked
the right on this umelen but that he consideted it due to ,
the administration of justice, Ikeda' the peculiar &tun-
stances of this ease, that the *ales of justice should be
held evenly between the parties. He did not thin
that Mr. &dentine was justified in complaining of the course
that bad bees by the learned srajemat. Be wad-
dered he had wa dunshis duty as as adroit*, to his client,
and he mast say** it appeared to him to be the more
manly °ours' boldly to state • Amp NOM a party, and
the grounds upon whisk the show wasiMods than to
insiaaste 11, and not Mu ths Wien* slake the ae-
ensatios. He mulls*, reseed to Ohs he* murder, it
was admitted, took passe in Minesellsoe, sad be would ask
them if it was Isks* Ms hue been sonsultled by one
paws, and whether IMO mould have sawed the death,
dogshe hole, sad * the body in the position in which
it wa found. WM reowd to the time when the murder
was alleged to have Joke eemmitted, these did not appear to
be any evidence when it was actually esnimilled, and it was
very possible that the met might have bees sammitted after
the return of the female prise ner from the house of the
deceased. They had been in negodatlem with Bain-
bridge for the sale of the whole of their furniture,
evidently planning a sudden retreat; and why
should the female prisoner purchase a sew shovel
on the very day before the murder was committed.
He did not believe that oa the Thursday evening the
female prisoner task away any property. He believed
her object was to Sod the deceased and get him to come to
the house in Minver-plan. The female prisoner admitted
that she had cleaned the back kitchen on the
day of the murder, and she must hems been aware of
the state It was in, and she then ran away
and assumed • false name, and in her possession was
found the greater portion of the proceeds of the sale of the
stolen Eastern Counties Hallway shares. As to the male
prier:wee, let them look at his own statement. He admitted
be was present at the murder, and, although ha unworthily
attempted to throw the flame upon his wife. he asked them
as reasonable men whether be could have been inucceatly
present when such a dreadful set was committed.
The Chig Berms, at a quarter pa-t fire o'clock. commenced
summing up. He said, the primers, Frederick George Man-
ning, and Maria his wife, were indicted for the awful grime of
murder, and they had pleaded "net guilty," and the jury
were tossy whether they were gclity or not. The law, as it be
been laid down by the Attorney-Osneral, had been coneurred
in by the learned counsel for the prisoners, and he would
only say that if the jury should be eatitfled that both prisoners
were present when the crime was committed, or that it was
arranged to Joke place by one of them beforehand end com-
mitted by the other, in that case they wcnld both be liable
to be convicted of toe crime imputed to them. The come
into which they ware now inquiring was, he believed,
almost unexampled. There could be no doubt that •
murder of the meet dreadful kind had been committed,
and the question then was, bad the prisoners been proved to
hava committed that murder. The learned judge, having al-
luded to the circumstance, under which the body was found,
said that it appeared to be admitted that the murder meet
have been committed by some parsons who were it the
house. The prisoners appeared by different counsel, and
each charged the other with having committed the offence,
but the jury would give no more effect to the state
mutts of the learned counsel than their own experience
would justiiy them in doing upon the facts of the ease. They
would consider whether it was probable that the murder
should have been committed by the one or the other of
the prisoners; and whether It was possible, under
the circumstances of the ease, that the act could have been
perpetrated by one of the prisoners without the presence or the
connivance of the other. His lordship then proceeded briefly
to refer to the principal points in the evidence, commenting
upon them as he proceeded. In the course of his obserra-
dons he said that the male prisoner admitted he was present
when the murder was committed, and although his declara-
tions with regard to the other prisoner were not evi-
dence autos: her, and yet when they found that
immediately elute the transaction she was in possession
of the kejs of the deceased, that she went to his
lodgings and took away an the property she could get hold
of, and the other circumstances of the case, it was for them
, to say, as sensible men, whether such conduct on ter
part was consistent with iancoence. The case was
now before them ; if they entertained any serious
dcu',t as to which was the guilty party, they would then
pr hably feel it their duty to as quit bath the prisoners;
, but if they felt that the charge was established against one
, or both of the prisaners, it would then be their
, duty to say so by their verdict. They would
, look at all the circumstances as men of sense, men
of experience, and men of the world, and he was sure they
; would act fearlessly upon the result which snob a consider-
, ation esaveyed to their dads.
The jury retired at six o'eleek.
, [ rho verdict will be glees is • Tided Edition of the
Express.]