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finite? etatuirrdevollred on his brother, Mr. An:
thony Gwynn, who, accompanied by Mr. Dew-
ing, of Guist, and a constable, went, between
seven and eight the following evening, to the
house of the Prisoner ; they found the door fasten-
ed inside; when they entered, they saw some mut-
ton boiling in a pot on the fire, and in the same
mom, shank bones of legs and shoulders, not cut
up in a butcher-like manner. Here also they found
seven or eight pounds of mutton, uncooked, and
jammed to pieces ; and the tallow and liver, like-
wise, of a sheep.—All the meat was quite fresh. In
the same place there stood a tub of water, with a
sack in it, bloody; but the skin could no where be
found. On desiring to know of the Prisoner how
•he came by the meat, they were answered, " ho-
nestly ;" aor could they obtain a more particular
explanation. The Witnesses then proceeded into
the yard, and in some ash muck, near the Pt isoner's
door, discovered two large earthen po's, filled with
different parts of mutton, cut up in the same
mangled way as above described, and near to them
• a pair of nun's shoes, in which were concealed the
fore-foot shoes of an ass.—On examining the fere-
feet of the Prisoner's an, they observed them to have
,the appearance of having had the shoes recently
torn off with violence, some of the nails remain-
ing in the feet ; and, en fitting the shoes found
in the man's shoes, on the ass's fore feet, saw that
they corresponded with the utmost daftness. In
the course of the evidence, the Prisoner frequently
interrogated the Witnesses as to their having seen
him put the meat in the ground, ; and in his
defence stated, that the house which they searched
was on common land, that he never slept in
it, and some one might put the meat there without
his knowledge. The Judge, in summing up, ob-
served, that the evidence here adduced was en-
tirely of a circumstantial nature, apd that there
must necessarily be great difficulty in attaching the-
theft to the Prisoner. His Lordship admitted, that
the evidence was of a kind to implicate some one
in the Prisoner's house ; but still the farts, although
under circumstances very strongly suspicious, could
not be brought home with such sufficient clearness
and precision as they ought to be in order to affeft
the life of the Prisoner.
The Jury, after some deliberation, returned a
verdift of Not Gallo; bat the Judge told the Pri-
soner, that, although the yerdia had this time been
in his favour, yet, had it bens otherwise, he certainly
should have left him for execution, as he knew him
to be an old offender, and to have undergone
transportation for a sinsi/ar offence ; and earnestly
recommended him to spew himself deserving of
the great leoity which he had experienced, by a
thorough amendment of his conduft through his fu•
tura lite.


William Watson, a youth of 19, was tried for
stealing barley ; and as his case regards a pradice
exceedingly mischievous, and but too prevalent
amongst farmers' servants, it may be proper to no-
tice the circumstances of it. Mr. John Girl Mg.
farmer, of Little Hautboys, had missed corn out of
his barn at various times ; and accordingly, tak-
ing measures for the discovery of the offender,
found, by the• confession of an accomplice, a sta-
ble boy, that the prisoner hid secretly gained en-
trance into the barn, aad had taken-thereout a
quantity of undressed barley. It appeared, howe-
ver, that the only use to which he had put this corn,
WAS the feeding his Master's horses ; which, when
called on fur his defence, he (the prisoner) described
to have been reduced to a very weak state, from the
want of proper and sufficient nourishment. This,
however, the master positively denied to have been
the cast, mentioned a liberal quantity of corn as the
allowance he had always given his horses, and stated
the risk which the animals ran of their lives from
such unwholesome food.

His Lordship observed to the Jury, that this was
a case of an extraordinary kind, and such an one as,
till then, had never come before him ; his opinion,
was, however, that the offence could scarcely, from
its nature, be considered as chargeable with a felo-
nious intent ; since the prisoner could not be said to
have robbed his master ; he had, indeed. stolen his
master's corn. not to sell away, nor to feed his own,
or any other person's horses but his master's, and the
presumption war, therefore, that however improper
(and highly improper was the condo& of the pri-
saner in so doing) and howeverrnischievous the con.
sequences, yet he had still in view the benefit of his
master's horses. •
The Jury found the prisoner Not Guilty.
Alice Olyett, a girl of only 14 years tine. was
indieted for wilfnlty setting fire to the house of in-
dustry in the parish of Great Witchingham. The.
charge was founded on circumstantial evidence
given by the Governor and Governess of the house,
and confirmed by the confession of the prisoner
himself, two days after the as was committed ; as,
however, from the detail of the trannetion, it cgd
not appear that this unhappy creature had been in-
fluenced by any malicious motive, to the perpetra-
tion or so heinous a crime ; and, more particu-
larly, in consideration of her extreme youth ; the
Jury found a verdia of Guilty of setting fire to the
How, tart net maliciously ; which .colosequently
amounted to an acquittol, and the prisoner was dis-
charged.
Jolla Dole, alias Deasy, was indiCted for marry-
ing Elizabeth Agghurst, in the life-time of Mary
Woodhouse, his former wife. The registers of the
l'risoner's marriage at the churches of hVelborn
and Hockwold with Wilton were produced, by
which it appeared, that he had been married to
Mary Woodhouse, at the former church, and to
Elisabeth Agghurst, at the latter. The Prisoner,
in his defence, said, that he was never married to
the first woman ; lira he had been in the army, and
knew nothing of her, having never seen her until
the time of his commitment; and insisted that Eli-
zabeth Agghurst was his only wife; but as two re-
spedtable Agghurst was hi; only wile; but two re-
spetsble Witntsses were produced, who identified
the Prisoner, and positively swore to his marriage
with Mary Woodhouse, the Jury, under his Lord-
ship's slireaion. found the Prisoner Gail',; but, in
consideration of the very large family which this
man has by the woman he last married, the sentence
WAS mitigated to the payment of a fine of Is. and
imprisonment for six months itt the castle.
Edward Andersen was indiaed for stealing a trap.
The Prosecutor, Solomon Lowers, a publican, at
Outwell, stated he had set a trap to catch rabbits,
on a spot of warren ground. where he was author-
iced so to do. and had afterwards farad it is the