The Sun.
London, England, 1852-12-23 00:00:00

effect. I think that there were a greater number of in-
fusorial shells in proportion on the coat than there were
on the boot or in the ditch.
Robert Harrison, a surgeon-dentist in Hull, corrobo-
rated the last witness.
Elizabeth Casson—l lodged at Mary Ann Robinson's.
Smith and Snipe lodged there too, and also a woman.
Two women came with them the day before the murder.
I lodged in the back-room on the second floor, and the
men and woman in the garret. Between two and three
o'clock in the morning of the night of the murder, I was
awoke by hearing the front and the back doors slam. I

got up and listened, and heard men and women talking
on the landing in Robinson's room. After they had
been talking ten minutes I heard them go up stairs, and
Robinson's door close. I then heard them talking in the
garret. After the murder Mrs. Robinson appeared to
have more money.
Ann Balderson—l was tried and acquitted at Beverley
for stealing a visite. Before my trial I was in that gaol,
and I and the prisoner Ann Smith, who was there,
were before the matron to have otir ages taken. The
matron said to her, " It's a good thin, for you that
you left Snipe on the night of the murder." She re-
plied that she did not think it was, as she should
be transported, and that she would as soon go with
Snipe as any one else. When we got into the yard, I
asked Ann Smith if she had anything to do with
Snipe ; and she said that he was her man, that she had
left him-on the night of the murder, and that she wished
to send by me a message to the Leeds Arms, in West-
street, Hull, to tell the landlady (Mrs. Wood) that they
had offered her (Smith) 501. and a free pardon if she
would confess about Snipe, and that she would not
turn round upon him if she was transported. After I
was acquitted I went to the Leeds Arms, and asked for
the landlady, and the prisoner Robinson followed me
out and said, " It's a bad job it happened so ; it was
Snipe that did it all ; Smith was watching until Snipe
did it."

Edward Moon—l was in Beverley House of Correc-
tion on a charge of shooting a woman, but it was only
with a ginger-beer bottle. I was in the same cell with
Snipe, who was taken out to be seen by one of the
witnesses. When he returned, he said to me, " What
are you in for ?" I said,. " Oh, for shooting a woman."
He asked me what was said about young Maplethorpe's
murder. I said that whoever did it deserved hanging.
He said to me, "'Tis a pity the poor man was hung too
tight. What an awful thing it would be if he was topped
for it."

Mr. Dearsley then addressed the jury for the prisoner
Snipe, contending that the evidence was purely circum-
stantial, and that the jury could not convict without it
excluded every reasonable conclusion of innocence ; and
even admitting all the facts suggested by the prosecution,
they evidence would not be sufficient. The learned coun-
4;el then went through the evidence, and submitted to the
jury that no portion of the case was conclusively proved.
Mr. Digby Seymour followed on behalf of John Smith,
and warned the jury against being influenced by public
rumour. lie contended that no policeman had seen any
of the prisoners under suspicious circumstances on the
night in question, and strongly commented on the ab-
sence of all proof that any of the property taken from
the deceased was traced to the prisoners.
Mr. Overend then addressed the jury for Mary Ann
Robinson, and contended that the case as against her
was a fabrication.

The prisoner Ann Smith then addressed the jury, and
said that from 9 toll o'clock on the night in question she
was with Snip, but that she never saw the deceased, and
did not know Prospect•place ; they left West-street at
half-past 9, ant she then went into a detail of several
spirit vaults they had been in, which had occupied the
time from 9 to 11 oclock, and described a quarrel which
ad taken place between Snipe and Macdonald in Paragon-
street, when the former fell to the ground, and a police-
man came up and told them to go home.
His Lordship then summed up, going carefully through
the evidence.

As soon as Ids lordship had concluded, one of the jury
was seized with an epileptic fit and became totally un-
conscious. Be was immediately attended by two medi-
cal men, who gave it as their opinion that he would not
be able to attend to his duties for some hours. One
of the medical men having been sworn as medical
bailiff, the jury retired, and his Lordship adjourned the
Court.