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away, sod on reCoeering went to s neighbour's
'Charles Giles.
Mr. i'oossox-.-1 was housekeeper to Mr.
Storey used to waist me. Ile had been with
tee o'clock in the afternoon till half-past
Perhaps he had not gone mote then five
roamer came home. Illy master was in liquor.
s always kind to me, and I don't know how
had been with me. Joseph Turnbull weal
' before. saw him unload it and take the
e put the gun OICT the fireplace. whence
If the gen had gone off. I think it would
breast. When any head and shoulders were
it was that my muter fired. Ile won taw he
harm, and then he said. "She is•not dead
murder, nor any thing like that, but I cried
a made by the gun was not loud. Gill's
not hear the notes of the gun. They Mid
. what that was Ido not now remember. I
nivtar shot at John Storey ; but 1 alletWseds
' said it was at ate that lie shot. I did silt
You must say you heard the gun go of
um with him till after we came from the Jas.
never gave John Storey any of Air. Pratt's
else belonging to him.
CLET-1 did not tell my master that Turn.
gua, but lie could not think it was loaded
down to shoot at me.
fellow-servant of G rcenwell, deposed, that after
stable and comieg into the kitchen, he
~ but his master was then in bed. Ilannah
me if I went oat for her to be shot at?
about it, mid sbe said her master bad shot
went away.
BAILEY—The gun was generally kept on.
. believe my master knew anything of what Turn.
examined-1 left Mr. Pratt's house at half.past
out 44* yards or, I beard the report of a gun.
and knew nothing otwhat took place in the

was often at the prisoner's house, when he
home, as. - __ he was not.
..‘ Gill Liveo within 20 yards of Pratt'sPra's house, but heard
- - Hannah' said thrt her master had shot Jolut
II away, but on recovering said, " be bad
me I valid have to say, that I hoard ths,
• own, to which I said, I ',overheard it. 1
the case foe the prosecution dosed.
. Justice Raes.se—la it any ease at all, Mr. Lash? The_
vt it is, that the prisoner did not know that
There is every reason to suppose, that there
straggling shots left in the gun by the man who
' shall proceed, if the Jury wish it ; but if you,
th me, the prisoner must be acquitted.
their concurrence with his Lordship, and the
derailed.
iIrICIOUS STABBING.
(hgeshead, pitman, aged 17, was capitally
ly stabbing W. Liddell, with latent to intu-
it grievous bodily harm. •
the case. From the evidence adduced it sp-
lit of May last the prosecutor went into a
great number of persons were assembled.
and his party avoided the quarrel, but
.ner and some of his own party had a dispute,
!fight. A man of the name of Vining encouraged
sad I said it was scandalous to do so; whereupon
ad hi e% words. Robert Jobion then came in, and
would do if any body touched his uncle Young. He
struck at me, and hit me below the shoulder. I fell
off. I went out after him, and said. " Ilubeacenan,
I know you." So he stood and struck at me again in the left side,
and penetrated my body. I fell, he over upon me, and when on
the ground I received a wound in the neck. I found the prisoner
was using something sharp ; that I was severely cut, when some
persons came and took the prisoner off me. I was then very sick,
and my neck bled a great deal. The wound was soon after dressed.
I was off work for nine days, and was confined to my bed for •
part of the time.
In cromexamination by Mr. Content', it appeared that there'
bad been some old quarrel between the uncle of the prisoner and
Sin prosecutor and his brothers. and that on the day in question
gritted, was luilyday) they bad all been drinkiog at several public.
sod knew little of what they had been saying or doing.
preNolkotor and his brother were "old bound men." and
smog and the prisoner " new bound men," and ditlirenees often
had taken place between them on that subject ; but the witness
tositively denied having struck the prisoner before he bad used the
sharp instrument, although he admitted that there had been a very
general quarrel amongst the rest of the company. wliontight be
enemy in number. His party were farther from their houses than
that of the prisoner.
• Several witnesses were called, who in a great depose imeohdosted
go. story of the prosecutor, but a still greater numbtaillsll.ol
Mbehalf of the prisoner, who told a very direrentetaq. Ina as
abated all the quarreling to Liddell soil his friends. .
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n.
•.
Mr. Justice BAY LIT. in summing up the evidence telhitile
they most be satisfied before they found the prissr,
W detail had ensued from the wound inflicted kw
guilty of murder. They most alto ostashoiloy
was struck without any parresstics gest Is the pinoff him-,
WU et to his master, Young ; foe If them am low Owed to
--- •titd yet was offend to his master, the degree ervdesieseltip
- -mod towards each other wookt Mimi the urines
theensity of the slam" mike which this
There was a reit dad ar anirradiCbliy
~1' the provocation, and k Amid be foe
weigh it. The Jury weenie* All to rop-
er the array the prosecute, lima to
J appear that there was nothiggilll4llMriill
would induce them to decide hastily ups.
was, however, the prorlfreeof the Jury to
1 he would leave it.
a few mlnatea, and acquitted the pd.'
.f discharged.
ended to.day at six o'clock.

WWI occupied during the day in hearing
Chancery, which had not a particle o.

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Lloyd, hat Campb. OW Lord lialwilartits=•• 1141
Igh, of passbm dm who Is* S. _ )
a place lays set to bra' yet if ebel:arkilor 1
' throw open a passage, and neither roar by isnY dfahallei
that he news to ponerve all Ms rights omit, nee , anima
=twait, by paha, piehitiosaial=hpiolistaptiak,
t? the mallet all dm
'wilily* fig SaidnednaPtiaa4o43ll/1.11817:41), rm:,
beat le o, oilmold to ma it
has dation% she by Mr. aleinlo intanvialessee that.
may arias *Olll NO trownsetioa of las Mt of Parliament called for
by this reloshaad ha maw& ow, ingenieusly,shat if it be
loyal to dun a awn, it wows lfbewria be so to clean a
c=to wad Ord* many other • Wilda tho aot of Par.
r numerated as bet* of Width • mews
seems tiros) kit to the porditilar kind of
nuisance romp ;of b tiall . I ma of *pinion that
it is one that it 'is MOdy loaning to liedlekitials living
near it, and calculated to orlanaper the game health of the inhabit-
ants of the metropolis, and that, therefore, that this information
pursues the obvious policy of the statute. But be that as may, ft
seems to me that • Magistrate has nothing to do with the conic.'
nience or the inconvenience remiltiog from the law. If the begis-
lamre has enacted an inconvenience, that is the only power which
can remove it; and for Might:am to assume a power of dis-
pensing with particular swam, or part of a statute, to suit the
convenience of parties, or to meet their own views of what
is right, would be highly dangerous. Baring adverted to
these topics to satisfy the paid. that they have not been
overlooked by me, I now come to what I consider to be the only
questions before MO. By ill, 73th Goan', chap. 93, sec. 40, (being
one of the Mary-le-bonne local acts), it is enacted, that the sole
power of pitching, paving and repairing, cleansing and lighting the
squares, streets, trleWs.l, alleys, passages and places within the said
parish, and all the grounds or pavements belonging to the corner
houses or stabler, walls, or void spaces of ground, or other pro.
miles, and all new squares, streets, Isom. court-yards, mews", It'
within the limits aforesaid, shall, and the same is and are vested in
the said vestrymen. By the 89th Oeo. 111, c. 29. s.l. (being the act
under which this information is Ishii) it is enacted, that this act
shall extend to all streets and public oboes which weretben paved,
or which may be hereafter awed Tibbs the cities of London and
Westminster, and other • amed, istehollai:yet:me
the parish or St. Marysle. the hak mosim the same
set, it is enacted, that ia ease , W .In
this east Os vestry-men of se odfer limas having
pit
...k:
the coaddftif the la avethent . y mother dhotis, shall de.
taniii4thett it will beams Public Place,
or otheopiots within tinier "ve paidaderodbm district, should
be Pm' and repaired, and k'gt in Womb by beano, o it should be '
lawful hellions to repair or pars mosa, wow pat thereof, and
t
that thermos, all such stream C. shall thencelbrth bet and be
deemed to b• within the port )oriadietion of such Commis.
stoners; and that an provisavas dila Am. 0•4 in powers and Ml'
thorities of the Commissinotos, wed all powers and
diFions of
any local Art and if this Act altsll extend thereto. bein&
as I conceive, the law upon the subject, I apprehend where the
Commissioners, vestrymen, ke: named in the Act, bow jurisdic-
tion, that of the magistrate follows of course, it being the dun of
the latter to maintain and carry into effect the powers lis
the former. It is in evidence before me, that the plow hi 110101i011
and every part of it is pitched, paved, repaired, cleansed, watched,
and lightedly the parish, who exercise the same jurisdiction over
it as over Oxford-street or Portnian-square, and the fact charged in
the information, vie. that a quantity of dung was placed upon the
carriage-way pavement by the defendant on the day therein men.
netted, being admitted. and being of opinion that for the above rea-
sons Mansfield-mews is a public place within the meaning of the
Act of Parliament, I feel myself bound to convict the defendant,
which I do in the mitigated penalty of 49a...
110TTOW•GAIDEX, Ana. 4.—This clay Mr. Sergeant Sgt.
tog 001 occupied for a considerable time in the investigation of a
most desperate outrage committed on Tuesday evening law, at •
house in White ilorseoalley, Clerkenwell, an obscure pbrioa, gene-
rally inhabited by chametera of the very worst description.
Cornelius Sollieen, • stout athletic man, by trade a waterworn,
was charged with violently beating and otherwise ill.treating • wo-
man, named Jane Harley, with whom he cohabited, whereby bow
life is placed in imminent diihger.
Susan Welch stated that on Tuesday night, between eight and
nine o'clock, she had occasion to call on a person who lodges in the
same house with the prisoner, in White florse.alley, and on con.
ing downstairs she heard a woman shrieking " Murder I" and in a
minute or two afterwards the prisoner'srootn.door opened, and he
came out, dragging the woman, who passed as his wife (Jane Har-
ley), by the hair of her heath to the top of the stairs, when he tool
her by the legs, and pulled her down the whole flight, her head
sod body receiving heavy blows as she dropped from step to step ;
to ma Sight he acted by her in the same manner. There were
several Wow= audjossie boys collected, but knowing the extreme
violence', the polober's temper, they all appeared afraid of inter-
faith" Wilma however went down a part of the steps leading to
the all". whoa -obi saw Solite= deliberately take off his neck.
chill. said tie it Waal the woman's throat, no doubt with the
Meade" a( otaosibi her ! "Pitiless then called out " Mur-
der r Ist so Ms Mae to her assistance ; and prisoner then took
up lftiree4 ef a liWkw their, Mb which lie beat the woman
Wesley about bad end wail all appearance of life had
ceased to nat. pslwawka~lw bi search if a constable;
tam
hut before'', primmer made off. The unfortunateoiiii
sorban, oa bib • gar, was found extended on the hearth.
stone, her heed ' coder the grate, bleeding copiously from the
mown Ilia Sillik her lace quite black. On Thursday morning
Sing
witness seatelorpri in through Ray-street, Clerkenwelf,
when she axed 01112 hat he had done ; " Oh, you villain,"
mid the witness, " murdered your wife; I will have you
taken up for hi prisoner swore a dreedfal oath, that
" if she spoke *wad at eocld murder her also."
Mr. John, Campos, allgeoll, of No. 32, Cowcrosa-stmt, stated,
that on i!L_litameowstog be was called to examine a woman at •
haus is oraellFey, who w represented to him to be in
a dyfitg owe: as
tation was, indeed. but too jest, for
he Me. CalPle) at =Jew was led to believe that the un-
fortunate wows had already tamed to exist ; the extremities were
quite cold, aid be. pulsation was very languid. There was some
warmth, borover, remaining about the region of the heart. and he
advisable to open a vein in the arm, but no blood rot-
circulation being almost wholly suspended ; he then
tvrieel the temporal artery, and with some difficulty succeeded in
obraining • pretty fret flaw of' bloed, by which the patient seemed
to experience relief, though from the nature of the injuries she had
sustained, it was impossible that she could live even for twenty.
four hours. There wipe no cuts or stabs on any part of the bed' s'
but there were man: bruises and other marks of violence about her
bead, neck, and shoulders.
Mr. Sergeant Sexson—ln the event of immediate dissolution,l
dr you fed yourself authorised; to say,.that those bruises would
have produced such a vomit.
Witness—Yee, Sir, most certainly. I have no doubt but that a
concussion of the brain has taken place, and had she not been
blooded. she could not have aurvired even so long. I should have
recommended her removal to an hospital, but that her state would
not permit, not that it could be of the slightest use, as recovery is
altogether impossible.
The constable. Ladesman, who apprehended the prisoner, septa
tented him as a most desperate fellow, and stated, that he had been
tried at the Ohl Bailey, not many years ago, upon a charge of the
mine nature. He had been from home ever since the night ash"
outrage. and they bed met with him merely by accident that
morning, when they had great difficulty in securing him.
The prisoner, with the greatest effrontery, denied the charge in
toto' and undertook to prove an alibi, which Mr. Sergeant Sellon
desired him to reserve for another time, as at present, it could be of
no avail whatever.

Mr. Sergeant STI.Lorr then caked the surgeon, if he thought it
possible to elicit any evidence from the woman herself.
Mr. Cooper replied in the negative; she had, he mild, remaired
in state of total insensibility. and he was certain never would be able
to articulate a single ay:labia.
The witnesses were then ordered to be in attendance at one o'clock
tosmorrow, when the final result will probably be known, and the
prisoner was put in close custody.
RASUMED INQUEST ON NiLiftlEL COOK.
the adjourned
Arabella-row.

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'butt, bet 1 faiwea away, 1
h t a , and the conversailds spo 1111 bouse—to the house of Chi
he hest • be went a end I was eentlahfreitim seta) Cross..inamirted by Alt
be Wed have . home togs nmibeek farledialings; Platt lathe Mew, and Scot
he said 11. would call wok, W' ' me that day from three
Jobs Jade aa/d, I took after the plaintiff% horses. I saw this eleven o'clock at sight. I
hone COO away by Julia William.. I saw the berm when it was minutes before niy mute
"rine* thefts' might; he was then very lame, and continued Before this time Its was et
se some time. he knew that Storey hit
Clow-ettactileed by 31r. C. PHILLIPS—The horse was very using the ran the night bt
lame ; It would have Dee,, cruet to bave rode him for a length of shot out. After that he
time after. I won't swear, I did not ride him in the streets of my master took it down.
Le • ea bard as I could the very day after. I know James '..eve shut me in the bre
Pem•ber. Won't sweet that he did not remonstrate with me fbr my behind the wall, then it w
fu rietts Tidier. had not done me any ha:
Jabs Williams said. lam servant to Mrs. Trotter, who lets out yet." I did out shout lIIL
gtep. The defendant hind one of her gigs on the day in question, a good deal. The noise r
sad I. Wyllie direction, fetched the plaintilra hone to put in ft. people, next dour, did ni
l'beimmikandegig came back late the nest night. end the defend- something about it, but a
urges me b. to tab, down. 'He told ma to make the hone told (idle Ant m muter
look okesal ahlreib • .1 toot him home.
itsre
recolleeted myselfy , and s
SUWON ffellatitriald. if awn Docklow. I know the defer dant ray to Charley Gills, '• Y
mod Ai/ ilkidly. 'I saw MO, tad his wife, and his apprentice, at for I had no conversation
Wines 41,1 tb•141114 of Me day on which the hone was hired. tices's at Chester. I nor
The rated ewe et what tune I was going home, and ob- money, nor any thing elsi
Erse& bi mote over in Mrs. Trotter `a gig, with the By Mr. Justice BAYLI
Patina' s. tbe from Leominster to Worcester is VI boll had unloaded the gu
at
arses . .•. _ . ._ _ at the time he took it don
Apigtirriread. I live at Leominster. and was returning Jonas Smith, the fellow
hclitt *Om ft the coach. I saw the defendant on a petting the horse in the
Lytham, is driving this horse in a gig ; two other felt the smell of powder,
pianism*. ; km kept pace with the coach, though the was crying, and asked n
rood watt*. . I said, I knew nothing a
Cape in Richards wad, I live nem Leominster: 1 hair at her. Hannah thee wet
peoid to be In tke plaintiff's shop when the defendant came to hire By Dlr. Justice Bay.
she bone; I saw the horse on rte return, and I observed to the Mil loaded. Ido not believe
wile 104 it. Morse has been more than six miles, for he is bell bail done.
•.? eel op, wed lame of the off fore leg. John Storey examined
rworad Well odd. lam a smith, but I practise es a farrier. 1 eleven, and whet about 4
examined the home; he was lame of both fore legs. I think that I did not return back, an
arms Goat aumbdgue. house.
James Rickets, another farder_, proved that the horse was pot Cross-mmined-1 we
..idtpsbis cam trig* very lame. This whiten considered the in- was at horse, and when hi
down hill. He did not think Charles Gills—Lives a
. to
'W762 itilleeTotlYaiscl„„erly. no report of a gun. Hat
bt Mr. C. Peuxues—l gave the hone the re, Storey, and then fainted
lasomeary. I wont tell what they were. to slot at her." She midi
ti
ir)
bastrilirea him remedies, I should have had no report of a pus, to which,
Mae the cue fa die in
Rom
..‘...17as an at Leominster. The defend- Mr. J %mice ;Larks r-
iot Wu Whist T the a horse and gig to Worms- di/lenity 1 have about I
tina,
nib 1 sajj tirCmildilkeip • and sex shillings for the hone the gun was leaded. Ti
„ng:
dens He rid filispolo id" Xt. LUTON, bemuse he had ware only a few sersgebn
!welding a few miles, but had been obliged had cleaned it. I shall ;
reirialie bilairisteetlitl about 1101111 business he did not know of Gentlemen, agree with au
. . . The Jury declared the
- 'VC: isslititmelt addreeled the Jury on the part of the defend- primmer was insutody ..du
grimy owsterding with great force, that the lameness of the
-
tits*
itie mem *likely to have arisen from bad shoeing than bad Robert Jo lIIALII
bson, of (Mt
lathered for 'maliciously al
Qua- thi3ury—You May ♦'very easily lame a horse by bard dm filth „de him some RI
IltIP HOLT stated the
• daidrit. Painsrts said he should show that the plaintiff's own peerett, that on the 21e
servant was tidies very hard the day after, and that the horse ap. public-house, at which a
peered to tread awe stew and fail lame directly; and that that At lint the prosecutor
was the cause of his lanumeab shortly utter his brother 1
Another Atrar---Trisidivio a stone might lame a horse. atedebey **moot to fight.
Trit.t. PAILLIP, was to see that be had one sensible man , ,Uht. BA sa 1
laded with. a laugh.) e was convinced that when they heard 424911114,111.1 d hilt r
the whole cow tireugh. they would be utiafied that the Injury u the would aoil
arose horn the eetelAs pkintiff's own servant riding the horse fu. immediately struck et r
timmoly Anal' hillabod as to the going to Worcester, a fair coin- and he mete off. I won
peusatiOn hadinie allied fee it. I know yon." So he an
Ms. Janke Buiksiotron--That is, you hires horse to 10 sir and penetrated my bud,
militia atid you drive himthy, and then say that It is no breach of the ground I received a
the eohlrect. I was using something she
darn* Jones said. TAM • glover. I went to Worcester with persons came and took th
Ws had the plaintiff's hone. We went eleven and my neck bled a great
likelleziadantr. • triad loop a trotting pace, but the horse would one
dy I was off work for nine
tams few weds and then walk. We thentetocklhim tojnightsfor - part of the time.
bir...tro::-.1.-„,,,...,...,,,t,....n.,ie:150, r00r„,,,,, the In cromexemination I
bged beeneveoimtore oalnddquirt
dart onergpeid the plaintiff 13s. for the journey', and that the
plaintiff asked ids. which was batlyday)thr
!John Pemba said, I saw the servant of the plaintiff on the Sun- imases, and knew little
day waning ,
_. be was riding this horse u hard as he could on the The prosecutor and his
tared "mete Or roe•••^ltee after that, on the macadamised road. Young and the prisoner '
rlaiidli to isim. apt said if your master was behind you he would had taken place between
itandfie yes tortding so bard, and he palled up. it W._ rather positively denied having'
holm MIL _ . _. . shams iniamment. ilihne