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tiOltE CIRCUIT.
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molts:tam, ma'am. U.
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litttissp:s: v. •Dasts.
this was in anion for crininal conversation with
Plaintiff's wife.
Setjeant Suiten can stated the case with great
ability. The Defendant, heesaid, was a wealthy
miller. The Plaintiff was a prison residing at
Bognor, in this coiiniy, and the proprietor of two
fishiag-vessels, with which he was frequently at sea
for days together. He was also the father of six
children by the woman who had been thus seduced,
and the Defendant himsr;lf was also a married man,
.and the father pf
Mary Cobden prayed the marriage of the Plaintiff
with his wife, about twenty-two years ago ; he had
six daughters, the eldest was about twenty-two
ys;ars of age. They lived together, she believed,
tolerably happy, until this affair.
On cross examination, she said the lady was big.
bellied when she was married, but she k-iew nothiiig
of any connenion between the Plaintiff's wife, and
a man of the name of Gray.
Wm. Jeomin stated, that he knew the Plaintiff
and his wife ; he believed they lived tolerably well
together. He never heard there was any great de-
ficiency.
Wm. Leath deposed, that just about Whitsuntide,
1304, he was going to Master Medwick's to borrow
a saw, he found the back door fastened, and seeing
Adams's dog about the house, he thought the mas-
ter was in the house—looking through a hole made
by a knot in the boarding of the door, he saw into
die wash-house, and just opposite was the kitchen-
door, which stood wide open. so that he could see
into the room, there he saw Mrs. Medwick and Mas-
ter Adams. The witness then descried what en-
sued, which left no doubt of the feet of the adultery.
When the witness thought it would be no intrusion,
and had waited their leisure, he knocked with
the latch of the doer, and let them know some one
was there. He told the Plaintiff of this fa& some
months afterwards, when he had employed his
lawyer, but said he was afraid he must give over
for want of a good witness ; he then let him know
what he could prove. This was the case for•the
Plaintiff.
Mr. Gaseow stated the Defendant's ease with
great abiliiy; to support which he called his Wit.
Edward Peachey state 4, that he was formerly
parish overseer of the parish of Burstead. He re-
colleiled when the Plaintiff married his wife, she
was then apparently big with child; but he had
told him, that his wife had not had a child ; she
had only miscarried, and in that case no harm was

done.
Mrs. Knight stated that she had hid frequent con-
versations with Plaintiff about his wife ; he had told
her that his wile had confessed to him having been
connected with twenty men ; but he said it was not
all known to his neighbours, and he would not re.
ridge the names of those gallants, who were not
knows) to have been conneeed with her. This con-
versation she had with she P 1 iintiff, at the tine that
his wife had run away with one Clarke, a smuggler.
with whom she was absent for several days. She
believed it ended in a tight between the husband
and Clarke. and had heard it was agreed between
them, that Clarke was to visit her as often as he
liked.
Amy Wyer stated, that she had had conversa-
tion with the Plaintiff about his wife ; he confessed
that he knew of her bad goings on, but he kept her
as a gentleman put up with a bad horse. •
Henry Bridger, a farmer, at Pagenham, stated,
that on the 15th of June last, he met the Plaintiff
and his wife returning from Chichester. He fell
into conversation with them. The Plaintiff told

him that they had been to the lawyer's about Master
Adams ha .:ng to do with his wife. The witness
advised them to remember King Charles', Golden
Rule, and " r,:peat no grievances." He then
stated the rest of the conversation, which was
too gross to be repeated. It amounted to a
lamentation on the part of the Plaintiff, that the
old woman, his wife, would grant him no favours
till the law-suit was over, and they had got da-
mages against Adams, the Defendant. To which
he added, that now be had gene so far, he was de-
termined to go on, and if he did not succeed, he
would run away, and leave his family to the parish.
It appearing, on cross-examination, that this was
a respenable man, Mr. .rjeant SHZIPHERO gave
up the cause, and the Plaintiff was Neuf/med.

LANCASTER AiSIZ EN.

(Continued from our Paper of yesterday).

Milian flardiegre was indifted for stealing fifteen
pieces of printed cambric, the property of Hugh
Waterworth.
The Prosecutor had purchased the goods in ques-
tion, at a warehouse in Manchester, and desired
them to be sent to him by the Kendal carrier. The
carrier's servant called for the goods, which were
made up in a truss, and put it into his cart. After-
wards, whilst he stopped at another warehouse
for sorne more goods, the truss was taken away
out of the cart, and no trace left of the depreda-
tor.

Information being given at the Police Office,
Nadin, the constable, applied to a woman of the
name of Roberts. to assist him in discovering the
goods and the thief.
This Rolterts, it appeared, kept a public-house,
was well acquainted with the persons and haunts of
all the principal thieves in Manchester, and. had
often before been employed by Nadin in the honour-
able office of betraying her friends and supporters.
She set about her work with great activity, and
meeting the Prisoner in the street, and thinking
him as likely as any of her friends to give her in-
formation on the subjed, she accosted him,by asking,
1, Whether he followed his old trade, and whether he
had any thing to sell ?" Hardman at first pretended
ignorance ; on which she said, " Come, you need
not make it strange, I am up to you!" She then askei'
him whether he had got any prints ? lie answered,
that he had got fifteen pieces in plant, but would
not break them." He said farther, that " he had
lit of a sweet Peter on Tuesday, and had got it from
a drag in Cannon-street." All which corresponded
ezadtly with the theft in question. Upon this she
agreed for the prints. and appointed a time for the

Prisoner to 'bti.ag them to her house, ssi.cte she
introduced him and his Peer to Mr. Nadir., who
took charge of them with great .willingness.
The goods being produced and Identified, the
Jury immediately found the Prisoner U'dtfrv, atid he
was sentenced to seven years transportation.
Bridle was indiaed for hurglaric.u,ly en-
tering the dwelling house of William Cocker.
It appeared, from the statement ot the Prosecu-
tor's Counsel, that the mode of entry adopted by
the Prisoner, was getting down the chimney. But
when he was near the bottom, the chimwy grew
so narrow, that he stuck fast, and could get neither
backwards nor forwards. In this situttioii, had
only to choose between the certainty of suffocation
in remaining where he Was, or tl
e chance of hang.
ing, by alatm;ng the family. lie prtfelred the
latter; and, in so doing, it appears he ael:od very
wisely ; for the Judge (Mr. Justice Rook:.) being
of opinion, that as he got no farther than the chim-
ney, he colld not be said to have entered the house,
direlled an arquittat.
It is a singulav circumstance that the prisnoer was
tried a' the fait assizes fur a burglary in the same
house, and had then a vet y narrow escape ; and he
had not been released from prison more than a
month, when the present attempt was made.

Mari 7n-Ason, aged 20, was inclined for stealing
to the amount of more than forty shillings in a
dwelling house.
This young woman was indineJ, last assizes, lot
the nimaii;r of the woman whose property she was
now accused of having stolen. The prisoner, it ap-
pear., was acquainted with the deceased, and used
often to visit her ; on which occasions the deceased
had often shewed her clothes and little trinkets, one
of which in particular had attracted the notice of the
prisoner. It was a small enamel box, with this
rhyme on the lid,---.‘ I love tao well, to kiss and
tell." A fed days before the robbery and murder.
she had been talking of this box to a girl of her ac-
quaintance, and had promised to make her a present
of it. On the day of the robbery, the Prisoner had
at work in a factory at Manchester, as usual, till
dinner time, hut did not return after dinner till
about two Is Airs later than ordinary ; during which
time. it appeared decisively in evidence, that the
murder mulct have beef; committed. On her re-
turn, she brought with her several half guineas,
some silver, and some trinkets, and among them,
the box before mend med. These trinkess she gave
away in the most open manner among the gills at
the faiaory, saying, they had been given her by a
sweetheart of het's. whom she named ; but no per-
son nt the name ha; been, or can be found. In the
evening, when told of the murder, she appeared
surprised, but neither alarstecl or confused, and
continued her ordinary employment and residence
for some days, till her apprehension. When search.
ed, several other articles of the deceased's property
were found upon her, which she told the conttablehad
been given her by owe George Cheetham, which was
a different name from that which she had before used.
The only circumstances in her favour were, the little
alarm she exhibited both before and on her appre-
hension; her not having used the fall opportunity
she had for escaping ; her not having been seen in
the neighbourhood of the deceased near the time ;
and the sudden and resolute violence of the murder,
which seemed to requite more strength and resolu-
tion than what could be expected in a girl of 19.
For the deceased had been strangled, as it should
seem, so •iolently and instantaneously, as not to
alarm persons who were in the next room, which
was only separated by a lath and plaister partition,
and the windows of both of wt.ich rooms were
open. It should be added that the deceased was ill
in bed.

Upon the evidence of the above facts, the prisoner
had been Arvented .of the murder, but was found
Guilty of the robbery.
Sally Eddletlais, aged only 19, was con.'icled of
stealing 861. Gs. out of the dwelling lleu•e of John
Wiswall.

She had been servant to the prosecutor five years,
and had had many opportunities of knowing where
he kept his money. She had left his service about
six weeks, when she returned one afternoon, and
entering the house without being observed, pro-
ceeded immediately to the drawer, where she knew
the money to be kept, and, by pulling, forced the
lock off. She then rifled the drawer of its contents,
and departed without being seen by any one. She
first excited suspicion, by appearing on a sudden very
finely dressed; and lavishing about her, most pro-
fusely, sums of money, impossible for a girl of her
description to have come by honestly, and which she
gave very improbable and contradiaory accounts bf
her manner of obtaining. From these circursstanc2l
she was apprehended, and when carried before a
Magistrate, made a full confession ;if all the above
facts.

Cs+forge Lowe was indiiled for uttering knowingly,
a forged Bill of Exchange, for the sum of 291. 14s.
The Prisoner had gone into a shop in Manchester,
and purchased a watch, for the payment of which,
he tendered the bill in question, signed by J. Pod-
more.—Being asked, whether it were Mr. Podmore
of Exchange-street ? he said nu, it was a mucle better
man ; it WAS Mr. Podmore of King•street. The
hand-writing of both these persons was disproved,
as being that of the drawer of the bill.
On the part of the Prisoner, it was proved that
the bill was aelually signed by a Joseph Podmore,
and therefore it could not be a forgery, but a fraud
only. The Prosocu:or then shewed, that the Jo-
seph Podmore who drew the bill, was a person in
very low sircumstances, and could not possibly
expeet that a bill would pass upon the credit of his
name; and general connedions between him and
the Prisoner (though not as immediately relative
to this transaelion) were proved. Upon these cir-
cumstances, Mr. Justice ROOKS left two questions
for the Jury to consider. First, whether Joseph
Podmore, when he signed the bill, intended it should
be passed off as the bill of another person ? 2cily,
whether the Prisoner knew of its being drawn with
such intention ?

The Jury found both these fads in the affirma-
tive, and a general verdict of Guilty was taken.
Christapwr S;mpine was indicted for higway rob-
bery. 3tephen Sparrow, the Prosecutor, *as met
by a man on a chesnut horse, abeat eleven o'clock
in the morning, on the road between Lancaster and
Liverpoiil, and about seven miles from the former
pl ice. The man presented a pistol, and robbed
him of his watch and money. The Prosecutor

then stated, that he believed the Prisorer to be the
man ; but as it appeared, that when rAhed, I ,
been very much alarmed, and had once before
pointed out a different person, the Council for
the Prosecution thought it right to go into (alter
evidence, which was nearly as follows;—The Pri-
soner,inou •ted on a chesnut horse, was traced the
•same day from Lancarier to Kendal, whrre he
stayed one night, and, in the morning, bought a
deal box, in which he packed some articles, ritre.t!.-
ed it to " C. D. Williams, Liver pool, to be left till
called for," and sent .it to the carrier's war, house.
Some suspicion arising, the bos was stopped and
opened at Preston ; and the Prosecutor's watch,
among divers ether articles, was found in it.
These things were taken nut, the box was sent fore
ward, and the Prisoner apprehended, enquiring for
it at Liverpool. Ou this evidence, the Jury found
him timid",
1 he country may be congratulated on this con.
vielion, as a more alive aid determined robber
seems baldly ever to have existed. He had formerly
robbed five pe•sons on the same day, near Tierra
ford ; for one of which !IC was condemned to die,
but his sentence exchanged for transportation foe
life. Whilst ur.kr this sentence, he escaped from
gaol, and came into that part of the country,
where he did nut at all relax in his exertions; fur it
appeared that he had stolen the very horse on
which he rode; that he committed more than one
robbery on the night he was at Kendal ; that all t'ie
articles in the box he packed Oleic were stohn ;
and in his lodgings were found three large chests of
stolen goods.

MARCH £4.

This morning Mr. Justice Bonet passed Sentence
of Death upon A/4,1,/ Jertrov, Sally Eddlestor,
James Frrreejt, Geor."e Love, Christopher Sasipsy,s
hav dord Barlow. andlticiGrd Weeds. He beg 4,
by telling the two latter, that there were circum-
stances in their cases which would weigh with him to
represent them as fit objeas,of mercy. He then
addressed each of the others severally, and com-
menting with much energy and perspicuity on the
Gras and nature of their crimes, told them they
were not to exist& mercy on this side the grave.
He then gave them an admonition, at con.iderable
length, on their unfortunate situations, and recom-
mended them, most earnestly, to use diligently the
few remaining hours they had to live, in humbling
themselves with penitent and contrite hearts before
their Maker, in whose mercy, through the inter-
cession of their Blessed Redeemer, Alc bni theta
expeet forgiveness, if with true faith and penitence
they sought it. He then cot.duded a most solemn
and impressive harangue, by pronouncing the WA-
tenee of the law.

The Court was unusually crowded, and the spec-
tators much affeded by the awful solemnity of the
scene.
Immediately after the sentence was pronenrced,
the two unfortunate young women fell down sense-
less ; aad George Lowe wac so much affected, that
he was with difficulty removed from the ipot.