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helots. His wife ran op stairs, and desired him to go Into Isl.
Ann Newton went up stain, and I saw Lim in the bed-room. ,
When I went up he was putting on his jacket and shoes. He soil
to ine, "Oh ! yes, you know all." I had before said to him.
" iVilliain, don't go down, you can be of no service." Aan Too-
-1 lor had then murky finished laying out the child. I followed bun
d>ae down stairs. He went towards the wood corner. I saw blis
tako the shovel out; and I ran out, for I was atra:il to stop loops
I ran into the road ; Martha!! le:lowed me, roaring and making •
Idreattful noise. I heard • voice cry, "Jane, Jane! Moat!.
murder!" The solve was behind me.

Crosseexamined.—When I first went into the house be Wadi
in a dreadful state, and said to Ann Taylor and ore, '`Tbeask
nod, some one is come." Ile desired me to feel his breast ; sisui
he said, "It is all gone." Ile appeared to be speaking of Midi&
He jumped up and walked about the boom in a very outrimated
manner. lie made a roaring noise, like "Ob 1 oh ! oh!" IGM
his blister dressed by his wife that evening.
Jane Troutc sworn—l was at W. Marshall's on the 29th Jane;
when he came down stairs that night the chill was stretched oat
upon the tilde; it was a naked corpse in the house; when he tool
up the shovel, Ann Taylor and I ran odt tregether; I ran fastest
!I ran to Mr. Hartle's gate; W. Marshall was running after tis ; I
turned round and cried murder; when I got there, Ann Taylor WWI
ahoyt four yards behind me; I heard Ann Taylor say, "
Cie Wi'• Marshall, what are you going to do with me!Y' Marshall
said, Wbat are you going to do with my chilli, you are going to
destroy my child, you are going to carry away my child ;" I thew
saw him strike her tedb the shovel several times; she fell on the
road.

(lace Harris re-called—l did not see W. Marshall from AI
morning of die "Alb June, until 10 o'clintk that night. On heariug
a cry of murder, I ran out and /tanked into the road; I har
prmde running away, crying " linnt bare mercy u;ton us, where
P I aall we go. what shall we do?" I was then attracted by a noire,
like a shovel strikit g against something hod, but it did not soitsd
as it it was striking atzait:st slime or wood; I then heard Mardi&
say, " thank liod it is done:" I was positive it was W. Illarwhall'i
voice; 1 said, "111arshall, Marshall, what are you doing of ? You
are conunittinz nturl,T;" lie said, come and see, and I'll serve
you the sante. ' He instantly left what he was about, and aimed td
strike me aeons the wall. A man then rade up, and mid, ••
11r-
shall, Marshall, what are you going to do?"' 111arsltall then Wrist
across the road to the man on Itorseek. When I atiw 51Irshig
in the morning 1 did not observe any thing pardenlat in his
manner.

Abraham Smith sworn—l parsed the prisoner'. !tunic, at ekitins
on the 211th June. Two girls passed Me.' They begged ate to ticl4
back, for Wm. Marshall was going to murder a woman with •
shovel. When I had turned, the prisoner rut right against me.
and said, " Where are you cuing, tell me, or I sill chnve you and
your horse down ?" I " Nonsense, Marshall, don't by is
such • passion." I 'Oud him what he had been doing, and he
said, " Caine and see, come and ace." 14Ir. Harris then come out
of hie gate, and said to me, go and see, young man." The aril.
soner went before us, and we went right along the mail until we
Came where the betty Is/. Then we turned back, oild up
the horse at Mr. llama a. The prisoner followed us, and We se-
cured him. I have known the primmer, but not long.
Crow-exantlacal—When the prisoner saw the dead Lois', be said,
" the Lard have mercy upon me ; I hate dune it ; tote Lord's w.ll
be done."
John (Istria confirmed the evidence of the last witness.
Mr. Thomas Cross sworn.—l ant a surgeon of Thornton. IA
was called to examine the dead body of a woman at the lied Lion,
at Broad Cllst. There were two wounds on the head I one on thd
hack. and the other on the side of the head. They had been in •
Simi! by a sharp instrument. The skull was fractured. no
wounds would produce instant death. tln this part of the trial dm
prisoner was seized with an epileptic ht, which contitmed for •
quarter of al hour his countenance was dreadfuly distorted, and
his pulse very rapid: the prisoner was taken out of Court, and oa
his return Mr. 8..r0n liarrow asked him if he were quite ready and
prepared to attend to his trial. If not he begged of him not Ws
hurry hunself. The Court would wait for him as ion,/ as ho
wished.)
Examination continued—On the Coroner'. ir.qrtest is had to s
shr.ilor attacks to the one lie has now had. I did not count kw
pulse. These ware epileptic fits. The nature of them is to pro-
duce idiotcy—not frantic madness. I never knew an instance of
these tits producing frantic madness.
By the Co t: al —These fits are likely to break doer the into&
of persons atfiicu.rl with them. Idiots ars sometimes eitrems!..y
mischievous.
lids Loanstria asked the prisoner If he had anything to aim
in his defence.

He reillted that he had not.
Mr. Trnarr. here stated that the Attorney far thz prisoner had
ende.troured to subpcsna the .`Suri,..cm of the parish of liroatichsr.
without success.

Mr. Cot.EIIIDGE said, that he had just heard from Sir Thomas
Ackland that the Surgeon of the parish was too ill to attend.
The Learned Junta: observed, that he bad no doubt such wee
the fact, for no man, educated or uneducated, would willingly re-
fine to attend of a trial in which the life of a fellow creature wed
at stake. His Lordship here observed, that he understood that *
very eminent medical gentleman was in court, to whose judguteut
he should wish to refer nee to the nature of the fit that the primme'
had just been visited with.
Doctor Miller was then sworn, and mid have no doubt the It
, the prisoner has just had was an attack of epilepsy. 1 ten confident
that it was not a feigned lit.
On the part of the defence,
Ann Heath was called, and said, I beard of the death of Ana
Taylor. I saw Marshall on that day, the 23th Jure, at a quarter
past two, going into Exeter. He came into my house, and asked
for a drink of water. lie said he was taken very comical, and did
not know what ailed him. I went out, and at that moment he was
drinking, and with the remaind:r of the water he washed his face.
I afterwards saw the prisoner in the road, and I said, " Marshal%
witat is the matter with you ?• lie said, " I ant taken in a comi-
cal manna; I don't know what ails me." II: thought the plane
was rantiing round about with him, and the road appeared to hin,
he said, as broad as three or four road*. Ile then looked very. palsy
and ill. I lire in St. Sidwell's in Exeter. The prisoner said be
thought he shoold scarce' ybe able to proceed, but ho felt better
alter he had washed his lac?.

Mr. Henry Mercer sworn.—l am a surgeon, and have heard de
whole of the evidence given on this trial 1 believe when lie com-
mitted the act for which he was arraigned, he was in a state of
mania. I felt his pulse on the lit he has just had in court. It was
the pulse of a person labouring under epilepsy. I gave it as air
opinion to Mr. Marriott, the clergyman a Broadens:, some Donate
ago, that the man was i. a bad way.
Cross-examined.—l have been in the profession all my life. I
am not a member of either the College of Surgeons or A pothecarks.
Epilepsy is more likely to produce mania than idiotcy. I have pre,-
' tised in London and Brighton. I have been in some of the first
houses In London. I was an Maim aut at Mr. Jones's in Molina.
street, Grosvenor-square, and at Mr. Pointer's in St. Juba's-
, square. I was an apprentice at Mr. Hargrave's at Brighton, and
recollect a person named Watson btvowing a maniac in conse-
quence of epilepsy, and remember many others. I have known
the prisoner four Tears on the 7th of May. I met him when ha
talked to me of his disease. The parish of Broadclist was applied
to for me to attend him, but they refused to allow tee say thing
because they thought Marshall was feigning. I did no: consider
Marshall a dangerous person to go abroad.
Hr. Miller was again called, and his opinion !eked as to the sa-
nity of the prisoner. He said, lam decidedly of opinion that the
prisoner was not ins sane state of mind when lie committed the sea.
Dr. Collins, who was alio accidentally in court during the paw-
eeedings, was sworn and stated, I am quite certain Marshall mei
nc in a sound state of mind at the time he committed the murder.
Dr. Daniel, another hysician who bad heard of the trial. being
sworn, said, lam decidedly of opinion that iii: man was deranged
when lie committed the act.

Mr. B;ron Gan aoWsummed up to the Jury at some length,
recapitulating the whole of the evidence, and commentin7, upon it
as he proceeded, particularly adverting to the improbability of s
sane man, who had been affectionately weeping at the death of his
child, becoming the murderer of the woman who had been perform-
ing the last kind offices fur that infant ; if he had been in his right
mind, front his former conduct it was evident he would have re-
ganlcd the deceased with the deepest gratitude. Pticulting but 14-
%amity could make him feel unkindly or act violently agains: a pits.
son in the relation the deceased stood towards the prisoner. Under
all the circumstances, he left it to the Jury to say if the, coda
have any doubt of the insanity of the prisoner at the time he killed
Ann faylur.
The Jury, without hesitation, returned • verdict of—Aot GaUtg
on the ground of Insanity.
The crowd in Court, and in the avenues leading to it, was Terry
great. Lven the Judges' otScers could whit difficulty get to tha
places.

CIVIL SIDE.
ROWE V. GRENEELL.
This action, which excited great interest in Exeter and its
neighbourhood, was brought to recover the value of a quartity et
i copper ore, which had, at various times, been raised from a mine a
which the plaintiff alleged he was sole proprietor. The stint
claimed on this occasion amounted to nearly 200,tt00!., but that wail
a small proportion of the value of the property, the tight to whit:4
depended on the issue of this case.
Mr. Sergeant PELL stated the case for the plaintiff., who was a
celebrated character throughout the kingdom for his mining epees.-
litions. He had become possessed. in IVO, of an estate called
Idamellen Moor, which he sunk a shaft upon in that year, and be
that means had brouiht ore to the surface. In a short time -ls
Company, called the Last Crinnis Adventurer., took possession cf
the ore, and appropriated it to their own use, by reason of some
alleged powers they erOtiyed.
Several witnesses were called, who Preyed ante of ownership*"
' the part of Mr. Rowe on this estate. The whole of their evidence
I was a mere rec ipitulation of transactions by *hies ownership was
I proved.
On the part of the defendant, the title-deeds
called for. as it was con:ended they lutist be in . . ,
ses•ion. No such document, however, wes produced.
I The cittar J VAT IcE observed. that in the iransfr
the Duchy and other mineral districts, is was use
I property in minerals, should any discovery take ,
tide-deeds were not produced, it was inToss.hle .
' reservation had been made with r, col to Mr. Rowe
hider these circumstances, Mr. Howe submi—
with liberty to move to enter a verdict for the Alai:
argument in the Court above.
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KNIGHTS HORlab:Rfl.-111 the Dieison
made in the 31st year of Henry 111. there i
curious clause:—" Knight. and Esquires wl,
and among the principal robbers in wars and
if they have no lands, but have goods, ab'
their goods for their redemption, and find a.
henceforth to keep the peace of the king and

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