The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-18 00:00:00

Galatea passed the Avoca—at 12 35 the Marina passed
Doris—and at 1 15 Mr Morrice's ship overhauled in suc-
cession the Avoca and North Star, dropping the Columbine
at 2 p.m. At 3 p.m., when Durleston Head bore north-east
by north, the ebb tide was done, and there was a calm.
The nasty roll was seen to cause the Emily to cut her
maintopsail haulyards. The Vestal, Phosphorus, and
Surge were together, with the Marina and the Mari-
tana astern of them, all vessels drifting idly during a
hot and hazy afternoon, with an easterly swell. At 4
p,m. the Blue Bell was still the leading vessel, under St.
Alban's Head ; nearest to her were the Emmet and Madcap,
with Lord Burghley's yawl fourth vessel in the race. The
Galatea was fifth, further away from the land ; inside of her
were Emily and the Julia; astern, again, of them came the
Phosphorus cutter, the Osprey, Marina, and Maritana, in
the order named, bringing up the rear of this tedious drift-
ing match. At about 5 o'clock the flood tide made, and the
tempers of owners and crews were subjected to still greater
provocation. All vessels drove back steadily with the tide
towards the Needles, except the Blue Bell, which anchored
near St. Alban's Head, as well as the Osprey, Maritana, and
Avoca, which let go their anchors at different places. The
rules of the Royal Victoria Yacht Club do not permit yachts
to anchor during a race, except to avoid danger to themselves
or others. In these cases the four vessels, as the sequel will
show, became disqualified, a misfortune which fell most
severely on the owner of the Blue Bell. At 8.30 some of the
yachts had tho wind from W.N.W,, others from W.S.V.
This latter wind was felt by the Phosphorus, Julia, and
Madcap, which wero all to the north of the Marina, About
this time the Osprey cutter reached to windward of the
Marina. .1 he Galatea reports that at 8.30 she had so drifted
with the tide that the Needles' light bore N.N.E., only six
to eight miles distant. At midnight the Galatea sighted
Portland lights, bearing N.W. N., and the Marina's log
shows that at one o'clock on the morning of the 17th they
bore W.N.W. At daybreak the weather was calm and hazy.
At dawn the Phosphorus, the Marina, and the Madcap were
grouped together; the Galatea, slightly ahead of the Vestal,
the Emily, and the Julia formed another little fleet, but
neither squadron visible to the other. At S a.m. the Marina
sighted the Blue Bell, and eight vessels named above,
together with Mr Thellusson's Aline, not in the race, turned
into Torbay, and passed between the club-houso and mark
boat at the following times

11. H. S. H. H. S.
Blue Bell.. 9 10 0 a.m. Julia .... 9 50 0 a.m,
Marina.... 9 15 0 a.m. Columbine 10 2 0 a.m,
Phosphorus 9 40 0 a.m. Marita4a.. 10 21 30 a.m,
Madcap.... 9 45 0 a.m. Emmet .. 10 21 45 a.m,
Galatea.... 9 46 0 a.m.

The Blue Bell became disci'
during the race, as previously
J. C. Morrice, wins the Then'

ualified because she anchored
stated ; thus the Marina, Mr
hisson Cup of 1864.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—LEEDS, August 17.
CROWN COURT.
(Before Mr Justice Keating.)
MURDER NEAR ROTHERHAM.

James Sargisson, age 20, labourer, was indicted for the
wilful murder of John Cooper, at Laughten-en-le-Morthen
(near notheram) on the 9th April last.
The deceased was a tall young man, 26 years old, and a
gardener; who for some time had been in the employment
of Messrs. Fisher and Holmes, nurserymen, at Hands-
worth, near Sheffield. His parents livied at Stone, 15 miles
from Handsworth, and on the day in question he started
from Handsworth to go home. Between 9 and 10 o'clock
that night he arrived at a place called Brook House and
repaired to a publichouse kept by a person named Mottram.
In that publichouse was the prisoner and other persons
who were playing at dominoes. The prisoner then was
dressed in drab clothes, and the deceased in dark clothes.
Tho deceased had two bundles, one in a handkerchief and
the other in paper, and he had also a walking-stick. In the
conversation which passed among the company the time of
night was talked about, and the deceased showed his watch
in order to tell the company the Sheffield time. After get-
ting some refreshment he went away, and immediately be-
fore or after him the prisoner left the publichouse. At that
time a boy in the road noticed a man in light clothes stand-
ing opposite the publichouse, as if watching out, and shortly
after a man in dark clothes, with two bundles with a walk-
ing-stick, was seen to walk down the read towards Abbey-
lane. The man in light clothes, who was a smaller man
than the other, was seen following on the opposite side of
the road, where there was no footpath. The deceased never
reached his friends' house, but on the following morning
William Greaves, of Woolley-tree Faun, found in Abbey-
lane the body of the deceased in a pool of blood, with a
great hedge-stake lying by his side, on which was human
blood and hair. Two hurdles and a walking-stick were also
fund close by. His hat was off, waistcoat open, and every
pocket turned inside out with the exception of one, in which
were some small things. A post mortem examination made
by Mr Latimer, a surgeon, proved that death had resulted
front violence—from blows in front of the head and at the
back of the head, so that the head was almost reduced to a
state of pulp. Thera were also injuries on the eyes and
hands. Suspicion attached to the prisoner, who made
two or three different statements, ending in a confession
that he was present when the murder was committed, but
that the blow was struck by another person. The property
of the deceased was found in prisoner's possession.
The jury, after two minutes' conference, pronounced a
verdict of Guilty, and
His lordship, in a most solemn and emphatic manner,
passed sentence of death.
The prisoner protested his innocence.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.---Aug. 17.

(Before Mr Justice Byles.)
CONVICTION FOIL MUILDER.

Mary Hartley, alias Annie Bowen, 29, a good-looking
young woman, was indicted for the wilful murder of Henry
Bowen.

The unhappy prisoner appeared to be in a most wretched
condition during the trial. When she was called upon to
plead, she sobbed violently, and it was with difficulty that
she could give utterance to the words Not Guilty. She was
allowed to be seated while the witnesses were giving their
evidence, and during the whole time she buried her face in
her hands and seemed to be crying bitterly.
Mr Sleigh and Mr Williams conducted the prosecution.
The prisoner was defended by Mr Orridge through the
humanity of the sheriffs.

The learned counsel for the prosecution merely gave a
brief narrative of the facts of the case, and the following
evidence was then adduced.

Eliza Taylor deposed that she was nurse at the Clerken-
well workhouse, and the prisoner came there on the even-
ing of the IGth of July, in labour, and she was delivered
the same night of a male child. The prisoner behaved very
well to the child while she stayed in the workhouse, and she
left with it in the morning of the 30th of July. The child
was at this time perfectly healthy, and she afterwards saw
it dead at the Harrison's Arms public-house.
Cross-examined—The prisoner behaved as kindly to the
child as any mother could do while she was in the work-
, house. She wrote several letters on the day before she left
the workhouse, and witness took two down to the gate to be
posted. The prisoner read a portion of one of the letters to
her—and she remembered that she asked the person to
whom the letter was written to bring her some gin, and
stated that she should turn up her nose at anything com-
mon when she came home, after living on the fat of the
land in the workhouse.
Eliza Scruby deposed that she was servant at the Harri-
son Arms, Gray's-inn-road, on the 30th of July last. The
prisoner came into the house about half-past 10 o'clock, and
witness observed that she had a parcel with her. She went
into the parlour and called for some gin and water, and
witness took it to her and left her alone. In a short time
witness wont back to the room, and the prisoner asked her
tO shut the door, as she wished to arrange her drawers.
Witness then left the prisoner again, and in about five
minutes she loft the house, and upon going into the room
a few minutes afterwards witness saw some soot in the
grate. This induced her to look up the chimney, and she
saw something which led her to speak to the potman, and
she saw a parcel taken from the chimney.
Henry Talbot deposed that on the day in question he was
in the Harrison Arms. and in consequence of something
that was said to him he looked up the chimney of the room
whore the prisoner had been and saw a parcel which he took
down. It contained the dead body of a child partially
wrapped up in a piece of calico, but the head and shoulders
were exposed. The body was quite warm, and the legs of
the child were tied up close to the body. There was no
paper round the child, but witness saw some pieces of paper
in the stove.

White, a police-constable of the E division, proved that
from information he received he went in pursuit of the pri-
soner and overtook her in Hunter-street. He asked her if
she had been in the Harrison Arms, and she said she had,
and witness then turned to Hubbard, the pot-boy, who
accompanied him, and asked if the child was dead, and the
prisoner said that it was. As they were going to the police
station the prisoner said she was sorry she had done it, and
she wished she had taken it to the workhouse to have it
buried. When the charge was read over to the prisoner,
she said that she did not kill it.

Mr Orridge made a very able address to the jury on behalf
of the prisoner, and he argued that all the facts that had
been deposed to merely made out a case of strong suspicion,
and that there was an absence of anything like that positive
testimony which alone would justify them in returning a
verdict the effect of which would undoubtedly be to consign
the wretched young woman at the bar to an ignominious
death.
Mr Justice Byles then summed up the case with very
great care and minuteness.
The jury retired at ten minutes to 1 o'clock to deliberate
upon their verdict, and at three they returned into court,
and found the initialer guilty, but at the same time said that
they strongly recommended her to mercy, on the ground
that she had been a good mother to the child down to the
period of her leaving the workhouse.
The prisoner was then called upon in the usual form to
state whether she had anything to urge why sentence of
death shoald not be passed upon her.
She appeared to be almost unaware of what was passing,
but after a short interval she sobbed out, " 1 am not guilty."
The learned Judge then put on the black cap, and passed
sentence of death in the usual form, and the wretched pri-
mer was carried in 11D. almost inseusible state from the dock.