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Ourt.nroßn. JULY 20.
CROWN SlDE.—[Before Mr. Not.Arr.l
MA NSLA LIG If l'E

them, or to any person for them, and that if she (the said Mary
Edwards) had wrote such receipt, • she must have written it when
asleep.' And the said Mary Edwards hang been yesterday
shown such receipt, which she deities to be her hand-writing, and
declared • that she never received the sum of I/. 125., or any other
sum of or tram E. and C Hughey, or any person for
.tltem.'
Notwithstanding, Messrs. litigates sent on the 2Oth Inst. up to Mr.
Edwards, one Alarid Jones, the person who paid the sail! sum of
11. I2s. to tlae said Mrs. Mary Edwards, on the 10th of August,
11124, and at the same time received a receipt flir the said amount.
Messrs. 'E. and C. Hughes, therefore, invite die public to tend the
following affidavit, taken before Francis Lloyd, Esq. one of his
Majesty's Justices of the Peace: also a copy of the receipt given by
Mrs. Edwards for the said sum of 11. 128. ; the original receipt may
be seen at Messrs. Hughes's office, Ellesmere."
They then got Mary Jones, a servant of theirs, to go before a
most respectable Magistrate, on whom they imposed, and she swore
the following Aides it :
" AFFIDAVIT.

NORTHERV CIRCUIT.

You*, Juit 19.

• ' MILLS v. TAYLOR. . •
Mr. Seen LTV n stated that this was an action brOnfflll, by Old
plaintiff, Who wan a Iran in a low situation of life, in realer a
comperreetion in damages foe the negligent and unskilful tread.
meet gf the defendant. The plaintiff was a stone-Meson, living
near Huddersfield, and the defendant was a person who Wowed
the occupation of a bone-setter, and resided near the amine place.
He ( Ili. Scarlett) hoped that the result of this trial would iesch the
'public the (finger of puttime confidence in uneducated persona
who were unqualified fur the duties of a profession into which they
had intruded themselves. The Jury would hear in evidence, that
on the 23d of No/ember last the plaintiff had been working at a
factory, and that, whilst so employed, the sniff ad on whfeh he had
been standiag had given way, and he had had the misfortune to
fracture hie leg, a little diatance above the ancle. The fracture
had been of such a nature as a surgeon of competent skill would
have found ro difficulty in reducing, and had such a person been
applied to, the pleiettft would, in all probability, have been re-
stared is the perfect use cf Ins limbs in eight or ten weeks. line
fortunately. however. fir. Taylor, the defendant, had been ap.
plied to. The plaintiff had been removed home, and bete it had
been seen that a portion of the broken hone had protruded through
the akin, R cireturstence which, in such cases, he believed not to
be uncommon. The deleadant had first attempted to reduce the
fracture by pulling the tiro: of the deceased, but had afterwards
tied a handkerchief round the foot with a slip knot, and had see
two or three people to pull wite the handkerchief. The plaintiff
had been put'to the most excruciating torture before the defendant
had declated the bone to be see, and then splinters had been put
upon the leg, covering the handkerchief, which had been suffered
to remain utiles,. The doctor had then told them that all
would go on well, that the pain would soon be removed, and
core. a th it all that would he necessary would be to deco the wound caused
Mr. Edward and C. Hughes, Dr
by the f4ott usiou of the bone through the skin, for which be had made
1821. to M. Edwards ; £. s. d.
8 throve of Sinew at 4r. 1 12 0 Ha opening in the selintere. For some days the plaintiff had
suffered the most intense pain from the tight handkerchief
Received Mary Enwarde. which had been drawn pima his foot. but the defendant had
August the 10th. coniintr, dto assure him that all was going en well. At
Sworn before me at Ellesmere this 28th day of Oct. 1025. length the great toe of the foot had been observed so be of a blot
• F. Lenten. colour, and maggots had been seen to proceed out of the wound,
s.The original receipt has been compared with one given by the whilst at the same time a stench, almost intolerable, lamed from the
above-named 31. Edwards to a respectable tradesman in this town, lug. Still, however. Mr. Taylor had soured them that all Wad
and the hand writing proves to be the same." er,ll, and had refused to unloose the handkerchief or bandages. At
The beamed Counsel concleded by submitting to the Jury, that length two medical gentlemen had been called in, and they hai
this was a case which called for very heavy damages, though the
bard
out to the wife of the rlaintifF the danger to which her hurt-
action was more instituted for the protection of the characterrsad was exposed. Mr. Taylor, hie:teeter, persisted in going on in
than anything else. his own way, until a mortification became evident even to him, and
A printer, rending in Ellesmere, then prored that the defendants teen he had perceived, thus' unlers the leg etas taken off, the life of
earns to his office in October last, and dictated the libel in question the plaintiff must be sacrificed. Another person had then been
to him. When it was finished, witness read it over, and in the called in. and the leg amputated above the knee. Ouch was the
first instance they ordered 300 to be printed. Afterwards they case which he (Mr. S.) had to submit to them on the part of the
entered windier 100, and as the marketnlay drew near they ordered plaintiff. He was far from saying that a surgeon ought, in all
a fifth hundred. casein to be made answerable for every emelt which might prove to
One of the copies of the paper was here put in, and was about to be unfortunate. But the setting of a Woken limb was an operation
he read, when to which every person of ordinary skill wits competent, and, if a
Mr. Tel NTON objected that it was not identified to be the very person without that ordinary skill exercised 'his profession to the
copy published by the defendants, and therefore could not be teat f. detriment of any one, he became liable to an action. In like man.
Mr. Francis Lloyd then proved that he received the copy pro- nor, it the practitioner were not ignorant of hit art, but, by a neglect
duced„ and it Was directed to him with his name and address. of those symptoms which he might expecnto. ensue, produced the
Another witness then proved that this was the superscription of same result as would have been produced by ignorance, he was
one of the defendants. The paper was then read.
equally liable at law. In the present case the teak
of the Jury
Mr. Francis Lloyd was then re-examined, anti seated that he was would be easy, because they would be told by skilful surgeons that
a Magistrate of this county, and the affidavit in quesien was axone
ape stir who knew any thing of the surgical profs:Won would have
before him by the defendant, Charles Hughes. knosn iha a tight ligature, fastened like the handkerchief which
Another witness was then railed, who s ated teat defendant, ('has. the defend nt had suffered to remain on the foot of the plaintiff,
Hughes, had given the hand-bills to him, and told him tottistre u•e mus: *Done, or later inevitably produce mortification. On the sub-
them to any persons who were likely to know the plaintiff or him. ject of dam gee he hardly knew what to say to them. nl'hat could
sell, and he did accorcinarly distribute five hun,lrcd.
compensate a man in any class of life Mr die losa.of a limb ? If
Win. Jackson proved the distribution of three more of the pap ea.
all the riches in the world were offered in exchange. foe a limb,
Crass-examined by Mr. Cam Pit ELL —Never recollected to have would any one but a madman accept the offer? The injury; how.
heard the plaintiff say this was 31r. Murrell's action and Lot her ever, having bean inflicted, the plaintiff had a right to such a coma
own. • pensation as money could afford him. He hoped that the Jury
Further proof was then given of the extensive circulation of the would give a liberal compensation, and, by doing so, read a useful
hand-bills ; one was sent even a 3 far as Liverpool, to tire brother of lesson to 31r. Taylor, and afford a protectton to the rest of his Ala.
the plaintiff's late husband. jestv's subjects.
11 r. Tau wrote then addressed the Jury for the defendants, ann •
ilia,. Mills sworn—l am a son of the plaintiff. My father was
insisted that in point of fact I:is clients were the persons who had employed on the 23d of November last by Mr. Kay, of Iludders-
be n calumeiated, and this handbill had been published as neces. field, and fell from a scaffold and broke his leg a little above the
stay to the vindication of their reputation. lie then called the fol. twee. He was brought to his own house, which is about a mile
lowing witnesses. from the place where he fell. • Mr. Taylor, the defendant', was sent
Maria Jones examined by Mr. Cattenene.—l am in service of for. The skin where the.tes was broken was opened, and part of
the defendants, and have been so for seventeen years. In the month the bore came out. The Doctor first pulled at m lather's
of August, 1821, I received IL I2e. from the defendant, and took foot, but he could not set the bone, and a person named Dawson,
it to the plaintiff; to whom I paid it for some straw. I told her my
e who came with the Rector, said, " Will not a handkerchief be
master had sent the money for the straw. She said she was macs ben r?" The defendant then twisted a handkerchief round the
obliged to them, and gave me a receipt. She said nothing of any
ancle below the broken place. It was tied by a Islip hoot, so that
other den:and. In October, 1025, ore of my:tnasteri ordered me to the harder they pulled the tighter it was twisted. Three men pulled
go up to his house. In consequence of what he eard to me, I went
at the handkerchief. When the defendant drought the ham
to 31rs. Edwards's house, and lola her my master had paid for the was
art. he Tait a large plaster over the broken part of the leg, and
straw, and had a receipt. She said my master must stow the re- over the handkerchief. He then put splinters over the piaster, and
ceipt for the straw. I then went and got it, took it to her, and
boiled them with bandages. He eta a hole through the splinters
allowed it to her. I went afterwards before Mr. Lloyd, and swore
opposite the wound, so as to leave it open. and he gave us some
the affidavit, which is true. salve to dress it with. Daemon asked the defendant if the lumdker.
Cross-examined by Mr. 0. Rs SSEL L.—lt was very shortly eon
chief ought not to be taken of. Taylor said, " Vein it ought by
the death of Mr. Edwards, in Aug. 1824, when I went and paid lice.
right." Dawson then cut of the ends of the handkerchief, but
Miss Letitia Hughes.—l ant daughter of one of the defendants,
he troll not cut it any where else, it had stalk so deep iron,
Mr. Edward Hughes. I recollect the plaintiff coming to our house tire fl. eh. Taylor thee said, " Never mind it, it can do no
about seven o'clock one evening in October, when she said she had harm." My father remained in great pain from the tight.
never.seen the colour of either of the defendants' money. She said
nets of the handkerchief, for several days. On the Sunday
she never had given them a receipt for straw in her life. Site added
.1 after the accident, Mr. Astill, of Huddersfield, was called in to
" If ever I did give a receipt, I must have written it when asleep.
give my father some medicine, as the defendant did not send out
My mother observed, it was not very likely she should have written
medicine. Another surgeon, Mr. Bradshaw, was called in the
it in her sleep. The plaintiff then repeated the same words several
same day. They did not give my father any medicine. The next
times over. She appeared to be in a great rage against my uncle
day my mother told the defendant that Mr. Astill and Mr. Brad-
Edward. Neither my father nor my uncle were in the house at
,haw eaid that the bandage was sadly too tight. Defendant said
this time, and I afterwards communicated this to my father.
that they did not understand it; he then took off the handkerchief.
Cross-examined by Mr. 0. Resseto..—This was on the 20th of The leg then smelt very offensively, the skin came off, and grubs
October, 11325. To the best of my belief I have not read use of
and maggots came out of the wound. Taylor land the maggots
these papers since that day. were of no consequence. Where the handkerchief had been there
Mr. John Chester, a maltstt•r, in Ellesmere, recollected
was a hollow all round the foot, into which I could put the side of
being in Edward Hughes's tan-yard with Edwaid Hughes, when my hand. All the sinews were entirely bare. Taylor called several
Mrs. Edwards came up, and said, " I have a small bill against
times, and said everything was going on well. I saw that my fa-
you." Edward Hughes sans, " I owe you nettling." The plain. ther's great toe became blacker every day, and at last it became
tiff replied, " You clo." Mr. Edward Hughes said, " Come, and
quite black tred dead. On Christmas-day Taylor came, and was
I will show you." They both then went towards Mr. Edward
shown the toe. lle said it was well that it had fallen into the toe,
Hughes's house and I left them. This was about seven o'clock instead of going up die leg. The next day Taylor brought Mr.
in the evening. Wright, a surgeon, with him. The splinters and bandages were
Miss Ann Hughes recollected that the plaintiff called at her fa. than taken off, and the leg was found to be full of holes up to the
ther's house about eleven o'clock In the niernine on the 27:11 of knee. Taylor said to Mr. Wright, "We must have this great toe
October last. My father came in with her. When they came off now, I expect." Mr. Wright answereu, " The toe will be of no
into the room, my father went to fetch the file on waich the receipt
use, he roust lose his leg altogether." Mr. Irright came the next
was. As he was coming in at the don,, the plaintiff said, "It day, with another surgeon, and took off the leg. My father cannot
must be a mistake, I never gave a receipt; and if you have one it yet walk without eructate&
must be for something in poor Mr. Edwards's time." This is the Ctoss.examined by Mr. WlLLlAMS—Defendant is what they
receipt that was shown to her. She then said, " This s not a re-
call a Whitworth doctor. Illy father's leg at first bled a good deal,
evipL" He put Iris Heger on the word received, and said, " IVhat
and they could not fasten their bands to it.
does that mean ?" She then put her head down to it and said
Mr. Astill, in surgeon, residing at Huddersfield, stated that he
she could not ace it. My father told her it was paid almost as soon
had been sent for the Sunday after the accident, to give the plaintiff
as the straw was delivered, inconsequence of a note she wrote, say- some medicine. %Fitness saw the leg, but did not unloose the
ing she was very much in want of the money. To that she replied,
bandages. The bandages were much too tight. Witness was nut
she did not want money half as much as my father and uncle did.
aware that the handkerchief was on the foot. Had heard the ac.
My father then told her to go. out of the house, and asked her if
count of the manner in which the handkerchief had been applied,
she wished to be paid twice over. After the quitted the room, I from the evidence of lust witness, and believed that it would have
heard her making a noise, but could not distinguish what she said ;
the effect of causing inflammation and mortification. The plaintiff'
but when she got into the street, as she passed the window, she
was at that time in a high fever. Witness told the family that me.
seemed iii a very violent passion. dicine would be of no use unless the bandages were loosened, and
Cross.extuninen by Mr. IVIIAT EL Y--Never heard the plaintiff'
ld !Ered then to tell defendant so. In witness's judgment no sur-
say, when she saw this receipt, " that is not the bill I mean." Never
on of ordinary skill would have pursued the course which the
said so to any one. I know Mr. Bloxam very well. (there the
defendant had done.
young lady tittered. and Mr. Bloxam looked abashed, for we un-
Cross-examined—Witness offered to take the case into his own
demand Iris Wart is no longer his own, but has migrated into the
hands, or to meet a regular surgeon, but would not meet Mr.
bosotn of the lady.) I never said so to Mr. Bloxam.
Taylor.
Mary Turner corroborated the occurrence at Mr. Edward
Mr. Bradshaw, a surgeon residing at Huddersfield, was called
Hughes's.
in on the same afternoon as last witness to give the defendant some
Ann Jones recollected the day the bills were printed. The day
medicine. He examined the limb, which was much swollen and
before Mrs. Edwards canoe to her master's house, and was thrown
inflamed. Did not know of the handkerchief. Thought that the
into the room where Mr. Charles Hughes was, where she made a
handkerchief would not have been left on by a surgeon of mope.
great row, and talked loudly. As sire was going out into the street
Sitnewsnrnan Jean 19. t• t %kill Witness told plaintiff and his wife that a mortification
she said she would trounce the Hughes's name, for she would put
In consequence of the late hour at which the Assizes terminated it Into Mr. Al urrell's hands. He is an attorney, and has an office tent
soon' enekue, if it had not already commenced. Any surgeon
at Stafford yesterday. Mr. Sergeant Peake came on here to open the in Ellesmere.
Commission for the Learned Judges, wino followed in the afternoon, Mr. Lee, a fanner near Elesmere,nas in Ellesmere in November of competent a ill would have seen that mortification was in pra-
and both of them got here leen:eight. last. and met Mrs. Edwards in the street. Witßess's brother said grew.
and tnexamined-31elicine would have been of little use without
relieving the limb. Witness advised them to have a reguntr.
to Mrs. Edwards, I understand you are going to bring an action This morninn they went into their respective Courts, Mr. Baron
nn
against the Hughes's. and she said, No, site was not ; but 3lurrell Gamow presiding on the Civil Side, and Mr. Justice Burrough on
"Mr. It:Atka:Kr, surgeon to the IlueLletsfield Dispensary—l was
was on his own accord.
the Crown Side. On the Civil Side there are no less than twenty.
eight causes, seven of which are Special Jury cases, some of them
Mr. RUSSELL then addressed the Jury in reply, and was pro- requested by Mr. ght to accompany him to the house of the
piaintiff, to be present at the amputation of the leg. I went with
expected to take two days in trial. On the Crown Side there are ceedingat some length, when
but fourteen prisoners, but there is only one case that appears by Mr. Baron HARROW suggested the withdrawing of a Juror. him the day following. I examined the leg. On uncovering it, it
the description in the calendar to be of importance, The suggestion was instantly and that is apresented a mass of disease. No union of the fractured bone had
an land there ended the case.
case of murdering a bastard child, taken place. The bone above the fracture was quite dead, and
CIVIL SIDE. CROWN SIDE. readily yielded to the knife. I have heard to-day of the violence
used, and think it was quite unnecessary.
trillium Cooper. who was removed by Habeas Corpus to the.
The Court was occupied for five hours in trying an action of
Court of King's Bench last term, and held to bail in the sum of Cross-examined—A bad compound fracture is always a matter oi
trespass, tine only question in which was, to whom about nine feet
of a hedge belonged, which was between the lands of the plaintiff'
1,11001. and two sureties for 5001. each, charged with stealing some hazard. A fracture is more dangerous in proportion as it is
and defendant, and which tire latter had removed. 1,5001. in notes of the Wenlock and Bridgenorth bunks, from a near a Met. The prac ice of surgery in a ease of fracture is first
LIBEL, coach travelling between London and Cheltenham, surrendered to to relax the muscle, and then use gentle extension to reduce the
take iris trial, and was discharged, a ass the bill of indictment w
EDWARDS 7'. liveries AND ANOTDER.fracture; but I would never use great violence. Mr. Wright is a:
This was an action brought by a widow woman residing at ignored for want of evidence. York. He came with 31r. Taylar.
Ellesmere, in this county, to recover a compensation in damages fur Henry Moss alias 'lard:, was inelicted for stealing two geldings, By Slr. Justice Pan IS—ls the defendant a person of propert) •
a scandalous and defamatory libel, of and concerning the plaintiff, the property of Mr. Dicken, of Waters-Upton, in this county. —He is.
published in the shape of a handbill. The prosecutor stated that on the 11th July last, his horses were Air. Wintaeats —Pray what are your charges for attendina a
stolen from his premises. and in consequence of information he re. fracture?—it it is a single fracture I charge a guinea; but my
SAir.te
tared the case to the Jury. This, ceived, he traced the prisoner and another man, together with the charges vary with the uses.
lirr..
O WLNDANTAELIK. .yR oirsesnuedul the
, pleadings .
he said, was an action brought by the plaintiff, in vindication of horses, to Buxton in Derbyshire, where he found the horses put Mr. Justice PARK—You take Into consideration the means et
her character from the most foul and malignant aspersions ; for, into a field to grass. With the assistance of a constable he took your patients. For instance, you would not charge tins plaintiff su
though not a very wealthy woman, she bore a respectable repute_ both prisoner and the other man irto custody, and was bringing much as you wattld charge rue ?--No, my Lord ; I shuuld clues:
tion in the town of Ellesmere; and to her character was as valuable them to Shrewsbury, when the other man, who was mounted on a a gentleman handsomely. (A laugh.)
as to the proudest individual in the land. The short facts of the heavy cart horse, complained that he could not get on fast enough There were two other witnesses called, but they meetly co:, .
case were eimply these. The defendants, who were Ms. Edward because his nag was so jaded, and he complained also of being ill. firmed the statement of the first witness as to the cundition of tart
and Mr. Charles Hughes, were tanners, in the town of Ellesmere, The prosecutor was mounted on a fine blood mare, and putting the fractured leg.
and shortly after the sleuth of the plaintiff's husband, in 1824, fellow on her, leaving him in charge of the constable, he rode off This was the plaintiff's case.
they purchased a quantity of straw, far which they paid 11. 12a., the cart horse with the prisoner. As soon as he had got well out of Mr. WILLIAMS addressed the Jury for the defendant. Ilia
and she gave her receipt, boom after that, in her character of exe. sight the other fellow clapped spurs to the mare, left the poor eon- Learned Friend (Mr. Scarlet* in ht. opening address, had a:.
cutrix to her deceased husband, she made application to them ism stable in the lurch, and neither he nor the mare have been heard of tempted to inflame their minds by calling upon them to read the
the payment of a small sum which had been owing to her deceased since. The prisoner, however, was brought to the Polio this county. defendant a lecture. He (Air,Williums) would tell them, that L.
husband, but in vain. She repeatedly applied, but could get no Mr. Justice Bun aouGli read over Ore evidence to the Jury, and read lectures did not form part of their duty ; they would, if they
direct or satisfactoty answer until the month of October, 1825, they found the prisoner Guilty. thought the defendant had unskilfully conelucted himself, give seen
when they set up the receipt for the amount of the straw as a re- The Learned .1 eDGE then asked the Governor of the gaol if he moderate damages. as would suit the justice of the case ; but they
ceipt for the other demand. Airs. Edwards was of course indignant knew the prisoner. would recollect that it sometimes happened that the gifts of sin.
at this, and insisted on her claim ; and then the defendants thought The Governor replied that he was convicted of horse stealing at cation were bestowed upon individuate to whom they were of 6,1
fit to publish the following handbill : this place, in 1324 ; but his sentence of death was commuted into rise ; so it was tensible that great information was posscesed by the
" A caution to people paying money, to take a receipt."— transportation for seven years. He was then sent to the hulks at Whitworth doctors, without the aid of much educetion. lie pr ....
Wheres, etre. Mary Edwards, widow of the late Mr. 'l'. Ed. Sheerness, and after that put on board of a transport to be conveyed tested. therefore, against the mode of address adopted by his
wards, of scodand.street, Ellesmere, having repeatedly said and to Botany Bay, whence he escaped, and had not been heard of until Leaned Friend, It was unsound in principle, and ilio.t unsafe in
most solemnly declared that she never received any money what- apprehended upon the present charge. practice, to hold out to a Jury, when they were trying a question of
ever from Messrs. E. and C. Hughes, of Ellesmere' tanner, or His Lonnstt it' then said that lie should not now pen sentence; damages, that they ought to mown the man' and medical chair.
from any person for them ; likewise, that she never had given a rat but broadly intimated that he should leave the prisoner for ca. and read a lecture for the benefit of the public. Whether the
ceipt for the sum of 11. 12s. to E. and C. Hughes, or to either of ecution. Whitworth doctors were to ne put down lay the Iludilersflsl4 dam.

IriMinn Stark was indicted for teloninu;ly killing and slaying
John Crewdaon, no the 61h of April, at Hazlemerc, by striking him
on the head with a pitchfork.
Dlr. II u own re a conducted the prosecution.
It appeared in evidence that the prisoner, a labouring man, was
a person of great imbecility of mind, and subject to epileptic fits.
The boys of the village of Hszlenzere were much in the habit of
annoying and jeering him. On the day in question he had been
plagued and irritated by several lads, who called him by the nick-
name of " Barney." Among them was the deceased, who was in
the habit of annoying him. The prisoner happened to have a 'pitch-
fork in his hand, anti when the deceased approached him he aimed
at the latter with the handle end. Fite blow did not take effect,
and the deceased got away. The prisoner then tossed the fork
into the air, and in its descent one of the prongs struck the back
part of the head of the deceased, penetrated the skull, and entered
the brain to the depth of two inches and a half. The deceased lan-
guishell until the 16th of April, and then died from the effects of
the wound. All the witnesses concurred in stating the prisoner to
have been of unsound mind from his infancy, and, when irritated,
incapable of governing his passions.
The Jury found the prisoner Not Guilty, on the ground of fa-
tuity. juul he was ordered to be detained until his Majesty's plea-
sure should he known. .

" Maria Jonas, of Ellesmere.-inthe county of Salop, widow,
maketh oath and said', that she this deponent is a a -rvant to Messrs.
E. and C. Hughes, of Ellesmere, in the county of Salop, tanners,
and Math been so for upwards of sixteen years : and thin drponeat
Maria Jones further saith, thaton or about the 10th day of August,
11124. Mr. Edward Hughes, one of her said masters, sent 11;:r to
Mary Edwards, widow of the late Thomas EdwXrds, mobster, of
Scotland-street. Ellesmere, with the sum of 1/ and 12s. to pay to
the said Mary Edwards for straw, which sum of 11. and 12s this de-
ponent Maria Jones did then and there deliver unto aid pay to
the said Mary Edwards. at her house in Scotland-street, Elles-
mere, and this deponent further saith, that the Wine-named Mary
Edwards did at the same time in return for such auto of 11. and
l2s.i give the deponent a receipt in writing, of which the following
s a true copy. Manta JONES.

William Willis was indicted for feloniously killing and slaying
William Melling, at Walton-upon-Thames, on the 27th of May
last, by striking him with his fists on various parts of the body.
It appeared in evidence, dial the prisoner and the deceased were
bargemen. On the day in question a party of bargemen were
playing at skittles at the New Inn, at Walton, when a dispute arose
between the prisoner and the deceased, the latter being the ag-
gressor. The deceased challenged the prisoner to fight. lie ac.
espied the challenge with reluctance, but went to the field, when a
regular stand-up fight took place for half an hour. Several persons
desired the deceased to give in ; but he refused, saying that be
would fight as long as he could stand. In the ensuing round, the
deceased fell to rise no more He became insensible, and in two
days afterwards expired. On examination of the head, after
death, it appeared that there was a great quantity of estravasated
blood suffused over the brain, uhieb, in the opinion of the surgeon,
was occasioned by external injury.
Mr. Dow Limo, for the prisoner, called several witnesses, who
proved him to be a man of peaceable and hamiless disposition.
The Jury thornd the prisoner Guilty ; and, in consideration of
his having already had eight weeks' imprisonment, the Court, under
the circumstances, ordered him to be confined in the House of Cor.
rection foe seven days.

[Before Mr. Justice Hor.RoYn.l
COINING.

R. Fox and G. Wilms were Indicted for feloniously and trai-
torously Colouring, with a certain wash and they materials produc-
ing the colour of silver, a certain base and counterfeit piece of
metal, to the likeness and resemblance of a shilling of the current
eoin of the realm.
Mr. Sergeant Oxsr.ow, Mr. Gi• rums', and Mr. llot.r.astn,
conducted the prosecution on the part of the Mint. ble. PnwTT
was for the defence.
It appeared in evidence that In constvenee of information given
against the prisoners, Limbrick, Drown, and Lee, officers of pp.
lice, went to the house of a person named Seeger, in Wellington-
place, Surrey-road, between ten and eleven at night, on the 27th
March, and in the front room, first floor, they found the prisoners
with some beer before them. On examining the hands of the
prisoners, they appeared to be dirty, particularly the lingers and
thumbs of the right hand, which were In some degree whitened.
In an oven cupboard they found on the shelves 58 counterfeit shil-
lings, 34 of which were in a finished, and 24 in an unfinished state.
Some cream of tartar, grease, blacking, sand paper, and other
materials used in colouring and preparing counterfeit money for
circulation, were found on the chimney-piece, the table, and other
parts of the room, which had evidently been very lately used for
that purpose.
It was proved that the prisoners lodged together in the room,
and usually left the apartment unlocked.
In their defence they strongly denied their guilt, and said that
their room being always left open, some other persons must have
placed the suspicious articles in question in the apartment without
their knowledge.
One witness gave them a good charac.er.
The Jury, under the Learned Judger directions, found the pri-
soners Guilty.—Sentence of Death was recorded.
CIVIL SIDE.
TOY V. 11EACY.4. -

This was an action of tresmasafOrmifficiously killing a dog of
the plaintiff's. The defendant pleaded, firs:, the general issue ;
second, a justification that he killed the dog in his own defence;
and third, that he killed it, in order to prevent it from worrying a
dog_ of his, defendant's 11 wn. Issues on these pleas.
The plaintiff's case was conducted by Alr. GunwEw and 31r.
THESIGER ; and the defendant's by Mr. Sergeant Ta Dim
It appeared in evidence, that both parties resided at Sutton, in
this county, the defendant being a toll-gate keeper. On the day
mentioned in the declaration, two terrier dogs—one the property of
the plaintiff, and the other of the defendant—thought proper to
fall out, and began fighting. The plaintiff's dog being the most
powerful, the defendant interposed on behalf of his own dog,
and, taking a knife from his pocket, stabbed the plaintiff's dog
three times, and killed it on the spot. II was argued that the
defendant was justified in the act complained of, in order to
Prevent the plaintiff's dog from worrying and destroying the de-
fendant's.
The case went to the Jury ; and they, under the Teamed
Judge's directions, found their verdict for the plaintiff—Damages,
two guineas.