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hen coo,mi—erl, and by a desire that the perpe-
tr.oor, • f c, lute should he puoiso.d. The Learned
C )unsel ,h,n, with great force, analysed the evidence
to show that there was nothing in it which at all
brought home guilt to the prisoners; and urged very
strongly upon the jury the fact that the prisoners had
not attempted to leave the neighbourhood; they had
remained where they were known. Was there evi-
dence upon which they would even hang a dog? But
he should cell witnesses to show that the prisoners
were at different places, and differently dressed from
that to which the witnesses for the prosecution had
• spoken.
Witnesses were then called, who swore to baying
seen the prisoners in Frome somewhere near about the
time the murder must have been committed.

Mr. Wool' then arldre,s-d the jury in reply.
The Learned JUDGE summed up, and the jury,
after a lengthened deliberation, returned a verdict of
Not Guilty.
As soon as the verdict of Not Guilty was delivered,
Hurd said, "My Lord, we are all innocent. Pro-
vid,.nce has done this.
"
Maggs then said, "I declare to Gad we are inno-

cent."

Sparrow said, " Wo were not within a mile of the
spot. God has done it.".
lord then said, "My Lord, it will all be found
out within a month. Let me speak to Mr. Smith (the
detective officer.)
They all then said, " Let us see Mr. Smith."

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.

(Before Mr. Baron MARTIN and Mr. Justice TaeFouan.)
FORGERY.-- Mary Ann Mannson, aged 29, described as
a spinster, was indicted for feloniously forging and ut-
tering a receipt for the sum of 101, with intent to de-
fraud the governors of Christ's Hospital. The prisoner
pleaded not guilty.
Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Bodkin appeared for the pro-
secution, and Mr. Lilley defended the prisoner.
Mr. CLARKSON opened the case to the jury. There
were various annuities payable by Christ's Hospital,
founded by various charitable persons deceased, and
amongst them was a fund out of which a certain number
of paor blind persons were paid lu/. a year. In Feb.,
1851, a person named Lusby became entitled to the an-
nuity, and as neither he nor his wife, who was in the
same service as the priHcner, could write, he secured
the assistance of the prisoner in preparing the necessary
certificate to be signed by the clergyman and church-
wardens of the parish in which he lived, upon which
be was to obtain the annuity. He was paid the first an-
nuity of 101. in January. 1851, but in the month o
March billowing Lusby died, and the widow requested
the prisoner to caq and couitaunica:e the fact to the hos-
pital authorities. She, boa ever, never did so, and when
last January arrived she forged a second certificate, and
obtained another 101 in the name of the deceased
Loshy.
Some formal evidence having been put in as to the
issuing of the blank form of the certificate, and the
payment of the first anti second annuities, the two certi-
ficates were produced. The receipts for the money on
both occasions wt re signed Maly Ann Lusby, and the
amounts were paid in two 101. Bank of England notes.
Eastaheth Louisa Lusby examined by Mr. BoDani--I
am a widow. My husband was named Robert Lusby.
He died the 15th March, 1851. Once before his death
ho received an annuity from Christ's Hospital. We
were living at the time at No. 1, North-place, Walwortb.
I knew the prisoner then. She lived at Miss Sea-
ward's, in Grosvenor-park, Walwortb, where I
used to go to wash. I remember being at
Miss Seaward's when something was said about
going to receive the money. My husband called
with one of the papers produced, and the prisoner
told me to go with my husband to Mr. Garland, the
churchwarden of Newington, and get it signed. The
prisoner afterwards met me at the hospital, and while I
and my husband waited outside she went in and got the
10/ in a note, which she gave to my husband. After
my husband died, in March, I asked the prisoner to
write to Christ's Hospital and tell the authorities of his
decease. She said she would do so, and when I saw her
again she said she had written. Just before last Christ'
mas I saw her again, when she repeated that she bad
properly reported the death; but on the sth of JanuarY
of the present year she asked me if she should got the
money this year for me, and I refused to let her do any'
thing of the sort. I afterwards went to the Hospital
and found that my husband's death was not known
there, and that a second 10/. had been paid on his ac:,
count. The prisoner then
,threatened to throw herself
in the river if I said anything about it. I knew the
Prisoner in Miss Seaward's service for nine years or
more.

NeTwhienglitoenv: Mrstat.eodatshlaotw,hethei,i
grneecdtortheof
firtiihte
cpearraifishcato:.
This year he reciived a second blank certificate, which
he returned to Mrs. Lusby unsigned.
Ite were
thennot
inp the handwriting roved that the
o f h
etiname s
those
sthe
partieslast h
cwe rtoi fis;
cat
signatures they purported to be.
Mr. Reid, who resided in the same house with Mr.
Lusby, where the prisoner formerly lodged, stated that,
after Mr. Lusby received the blank certificate from the.
clergyman he went to the hospital and ascertained the!,
a second annuity had hem paid. He was shown a book
which was signed Mary Ann Lusby, and he believed the
writing was that of the prisoner. This witness giel
identified the hand-writing en the back of the meow'
10/ note as being that of the prisoner.
George Kinnair, police cons'ahle K 1, stated that tlio
woman at the bar WA., given into his custody on a charge
of obtaining a 10/ note from Christ's Hospital under
false pretences. She said sh 4 had never received a for.i
thing from Christ's flspitr.l. in her li'e, and asked
there was any gentlernsti at the ho.pitsl that could
identify her. He told her he could not say th, re wes'
and she then asked who was to be brought against her‘i He told her, and alio then said she did
receive 10/., and sign papers for Mrs. Lusby, which she knfw was wrong.
She had two 5/ r.otes, two wvereigns, 7s. 6.1. in silver,
and a savings bank book in her
pssession when she was
searched.
This was the case for the prosecution.
Mr. LILLEY then proceeded to address the jury for
the defence, ar:d contended that the evidence which had
been produced was not sufficient to substantiate the
charge. At all events he vvus convinced that the forger,'
and
sf utterinng in this case had not been proved to the
a?,tio
called for a ver ofdie discriminating men, and he therefore
r ofuittal.
The Learned JUDGE hotving summed up,
The jury having retired, returned into court with a
;The is senter tied to he imprisoned and 100
verdict.porfis Gonueirl q
w•
to hard labour for nine n3oi,ths.

YW IR D CO 7.
(134-ire the COMMON SERGEANT.)
SINGULAR CASE,--A labouring man, named George
pis Hudson, pleady guilty to a charge of perjury and cell-
cy.
Mr. UIFFARD said, he was instructed by the Commis'
siouers of Ba ikruiycy who prosecuted, to mention till
nature of the charge, and to leave the Court to des
with the prisoner as it thought proper. The prisoner
was called as a witness at the Bankruptcy Court, in Ova' case of a bankrupt named William Denman, au
he swore that he borrowed from Denman 251. en
the 29th of January, 1852, and gave him a stamPed receipt for the money cn that day. The receipt wa'
produced and identified by the prisoner, but on mania;
ing it it was discovered that the stamp was not issue°
from Somerset-house until the 12th of February, 1852'
about three weeks after it was said to have been given to
the bankrupt. Seeing the truth could no longer be coo'
cealed, he at length admitted that his previous story vy9s
a concocted fiction, and that he never received the money'
On being searched, a paper was found on him containing
swaryi tttne nt
hi
en sct,r)umcmt i oi
sni,si
ebaye
rthe
respectingbankrupt
as to what he was t°
circumstances, the Commissioner ththotieglhoat
send the case to this court, but he wished it to be Men:
tion' d that he believed the prisoner had been used as a
tool by the bankrupt for his own purposes.
andAl hr.adPbßeEe
sup', whose wife camgenintgo
said he was a poor and illiterate, though an honest man,
bank'
NaDlEedFtGinA:siwho. whoaappeared for the prisoners
distress
nit. Uhinsddeurttybestoo
and begged him to attach his signature to the p.apal::
He could neither read nor write, and was entirely Igo°,
Ile now expressel:
rant of the consequences of his am
d the Coon'
his great contrition for the offence, and hope
thehimrecieniptgbryeatthe
would deal mercifully
with him in consequence of lit!!
wife and family,
. who would have no means of sou
sistenco if he were imprisoned for any long period.
Several pers, ns gave the prisoner a good character
for honesty and veracity.
The COMMON SERGEANT said he would postpone pus"
Sonhia Butler,spinsters
ROBBING CHILDE , , 16,
__
• d for siealiog eapven half crowns, the metier
the prisoner.
of Sarah Johnson, from the person of Maria Johnson.
It appeared that the prisoner accosted Maria Johnsol3,
girl, as she was leaving a shop on Ludgate.
il,n,agssieunctielco:e up( n t
bill, where
r
wishaelrie"siebe had just received some money for he,
mother, and pretended to know her family, and induce:
wak with her along some retired lanes in the
her
City. Taking
ingadvantae of the opportunity thus afforded
her she succeeded
girl's pocket, abstracting the money from the
The jury found the prisoner Guilty.
Thee were several indictments against the prisoner
for similar robberies upon children.
The COMMON SERGEANT sentenced her to imprison'
meat for twelve mouths.
The

Je Liverpool Watch Committee have decided
that no member of an Orange or Ribbon society shall be,
allowed to remain, or be engaged, in the police force or
the borough.

BIRTHS.
OF A ao On the 7th inst., at llarnbledon, Hants, the wife of Erasalli3
Saunders, Esq.

On the Bth inst OF • OAUGHTETit.
Captain Pell. ~ at the Willows, West liam, the wife of
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On the 21 inst. MARRIED.
hey. Thomas Ilotchinson, vicar assi•ted by the Rev. Joh('
t ht Sawbridgeworth Church, Herts, by all
DJohnsone, M.A., Charles Keilat:d Lee, Esq., of pip/wall,
evon, to Fanny, eldest daughter of the late Francis Edo,
sq., of Pishohury Park, Herts.

D
On the 2d inst., Lieutenant AndrlED.
ew Dunlap, R.N., aged.
36, youngest son of the late J. Dunlap, Esq., M.D., of SY d ell
ham, Kent.
On the Gth inst., at, St. Vincent's, Addington, aged 2%
Mary Rachel, wife of George Rusher, E,q.
Oa the 7th inst., at liattle, Napoleon Drew, Esq., aged 28.

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