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her head, Aar death, be found on the eight side of
it four ounces of coagulated blood, occasioned by
the ruptu►e of • vessel iii the brain. Her liver also
sheared that appearance of disease which hard drink-
ing would create. Hr hail no doubt her death was
occasioned by the bursting of a blood-vessel in the.
Flis opinion was, that she had not died fruits
any external violence ; there was no external mirk
of tiolence on the side of the head where the ver—
sel was ruptured.
Mr. Justice Buititoutte here asked the Jury
whether the evidence of the surgeon did not put Hit
rod to the case ? There seemed no ground tut the
charge against the Prisoner.
The Jury concurred, and instantly calor:EA a
verdict of Not Guilty.
The Priestlier, who war genteelly dressed, was
immediately discharged.
STEALING A BANK NOTE.

!loofas Coates wls indicted for stealing a Mt.
Bank nine from the Rev. George Whitney, on the
1 tii lisy of A pril.
Mr. GURNEY stated the case to the Jury, as it
was detailed in the following evidence :
John Harper was clerk to Mr. Langley. the
Chamberlain of the Corporation of Bristol. tin
the 10th of April the latter remitted a 10!. Batik
note to be delivered to the Rev. Mr. Whitney. at
I'.4rdslisiitl, near Leominster. It was enclosed in a
letter, lifter being copied by the witness as • pruner
precaution.—(He here produced the copy.)—Tiw
. note was dated 231 October, lti 17, No. 15,490,
for 101.; and he also put a mark on the note, and
witness took the letter in which it was cticlon-r1
and put it ill the post-office. The Bunk note now
handed to witness was the same note he lied put
into the post-offioe. It had also Mr. Langley's t•ig.
nature, besides the number and date already men-
tioned. When witness put the letter into the post-
()trice he paid thu postage of it to Thomas South,
one of the clerk..

Thomas South was a clerk in the poet•office at
Bristol ou the lOtli April last. It was hi. linty to
make up the Worcester bag, into which the Leo-
minster letters would be regularly put. Wilmot.
Of course, sealed the bag after all the letters were
put in ; it then went forward by the regular mud
coach. _ _ _

Cross-examined by Mr. A LISA'.
He did not recollect this particular letter on the
day mentioned. There were two persons besot, a
witness to receive paid letters at the office. M
seven o'clock at night the mail start* from Bribtot,
and arrives at Worcester at four o'clock on the 6.1-
lowing morning. He had apartmerits i.s toe
Bristol Post-office, and never quitted it except at
meal times. Whet, a letter is handed in and post
paid it was witness's duty to place it with the other
paid letters, put them in the bag, and seal it in
the evening. He was certain that lie performed tilts
duty on the evening of the 10th April.
John Parry was assistant to the Postmaster at
Worcester, where the Bristol mail coach arrived at
the usual hour on the morning of the 1 lth diesel
last. He should of course put an Earlsland letter
into the Leomiuster bag. It was a cross-road, and
the bag was carried on by a riding boy. The post
buy was generally sent on this route about our
o'clock in the day. The person on the l Ith April
employed to send forward this hag. was the Pri-
soner's father, that is. he contracted fur it, but the
Prisoner was generally the actual mats who rude on
with the bag. He could not with certainty say lie
was the man who carried it on the 11th Apial, but
lie thought he was, from the circumstance of the
Prisoner's having paid in an arrear of road-money
oil that day, wh.cis was Saturday. The Prisoner's
father lived at Leominster.

Sarah Nichols, said, she was wife of the Post-
master at Leominster. and transacted the business
for him, with her daughter. The Prisoner's father
generally brought the ‘Vorcester bag to the office,
though he may nut be the actual rider who brought
it the whole way fr. m Worcester. Any letters to
the Rev. Mr. Whitney were usually sent to an inn
out of the town where he puts up. She recollected
no letter having arrived at Leomiaster for Mr.
NVlntoey on the 1 Ith. April. Prisoner's farther was
a pulrlican, and the Prisoner generally acted as an
ostler to him.

evoss exaniimetl.—When the Worcester hag came
ou that day, it was settled as usual, and appeared
quite perfect.
The Rev. Geo. Whitney said he revided at Bur-
ton Cottage, Eari.land, near Leominster. He was
in the habit of receiving remittances front Mr.
Langley, for a blind man, who was an annuitant of
Ins. He did nut receive the letter w►th the 101.
note which was the object of the present prose-
cution.

J. Clarke was book-keeper to the Worcester
heavy coach. He knew the Prironer at the bar,
who cause to him on the 14th April, to take a place
for London, on the outside of their coach. Ile paid
for his fare a IL Leominster bank note, about
eleven or twelve o'clock on that day. He slimily
afterwards gave Win two Bank of England notes of
IL each, for two local notev.
Thomas Coulson raid, he lived at the King's
Head, in the Cointuervial-road. In the middle of
the month of Apia the Pitsuner come in hi. hou-e.
He tame to lodge there llw got a iciest,. Ile
applied to witness fur change of a ten pound Batik
of England note. The note now proalticed was the
swine note—he endorsed it in the Prisoner'. mint
at the time he gave the change. The Primate/
lodged with wittwara for about &unreel days, wild
he gut a groom's place with a gentleman at Wan.
stead. When the potir•e officer called at witness's
to Inquire for the Prisoner, he mentioned his ad-
dress. Weeks had elapsed before the Primmer was
token, but though the Prisoner knew of the in-
quiry for I almost immediately after it nes first
made at witness's. lie utter quitted the service of
Ins plaster at Wilhelm!, or attempted to iobscosid.
The case being unit rinsed fur the prosecution,
floe Prisoner, oil liking called upon for his defeuce,
►aid he was innocent of the charge, and had no
money at the I►n:e alluded to but M. which was
gibe's him by ins fnarl)•. He got the Ittf. Ilasek
stole iu exchange for local notes, et the Worcester
Bank.
Mr. At.t.xy produced the followinz witnesses :

Hron• Correa Will the I'n-oae►'s father, and the
contractor inr ronve)isig the Worcertt r hog to Leo..
monster every day. Ihe mail was always ►ealed
with an iiisprev%iosi to denote the place it comes
(ruin ; he neve► took notice of the vamp. The
w►tutw generally carried it linen 'inlet in the week,