The Sun.
London, England, 1839-04-06 00:00:00

AS:SIGE INTELLIGENCE.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT—LirREPooL, APRIL 3.
CROWN COURT.

Mary Ann Ryan, a good-looking young woman of
the age of nineteen years, was indicted for adminis-
tering and causing to be taken, by one Martin Power, a
quantity of arsenic with intent to murder him.

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After hearing evidence at length, the Jury found the
prisoner Guilty, but recommended her +.O mercy on account
of her youth, and no life being lost. The sentence was
deferred.

Mr. Baron ALDIZRSON disposed of several causes to-day,
not one of which possessed the least public interest.

OXFORD CIRCUIT-GLOVCRSTER, APRIL 3.

L'EAUGIER V. WILKINSON.
This was an action to recover the value of an I. 0. U.
for 2,000 f., value 801., given by the defendant to the
plaintiff in Paris. The defendant pleaded, first, that the
money was lent to enable the defendant to game at an un
lawful game ; and secondly, that he had paid it. Mr.
Sergeant Talfourd conducted the plaintiff's case ; Mr. Ri-
chards the defence.

The jury without hesitation found a verdict for the
plaintiff—Damages 801.

CROWN COURT.
THE QUEEN V. WILLIAM DAVIS.
The prisoner was indicted for the wilful murder of John
Butt, at the parish of Westbury-upon-Trym, within the
city and county of Bristol.
John White.—l am a police-officer at Bristol. I know
the prisoner, and had known him for three weeks before the
9th of February. In consequence of something I heard,
I went on the 10th of February to the Old Passage, which
is twelve miles from Bristol. I saw the prisoner come to
the Passage. I was in plain clothes, and was leaning on a
wall waiting at the Passage-house, hen the prisoner came
up, and I directly took him into the Passage-house and
searched him. I found a purse in his pocket. There was
a fourponny piece in the purse. I asked him whether the
fourpenny piece was his own, or whether it had belonged to
a watch ? Flo said that it belonged to the watch. In the
purse was a half-sovereign, a half-crown, a shilling, and
two farthings. In the other pocket I found a knife and
tobacco-box. It was a large clasp-knife with a rivet spring.
I took the prisoner to the police-station in Bristol, and
about six o'clock the same day he was taken to the infirmary.
I was present when the fourpenny piece was shown to the
deceased there. It was done in the presence of the prisoner
and two Magistrates.

Thomas Phillips, a sergeant of police of the Clifton di-
vision—l was at the station-house on the first day the pri-
soner was in custody, and went into the place where the
prisoner was. When I saw the prisoner in the cell, I said
to him, " William, is it you ?" The prisoner immediately
answered, "It is, and it is a sad job." He further said,
" They all say that I struck him with a hammer. It was
no such thing, I did it with a stick."
The statement of John Butt, the deceased, was then
put in and read. It was to the effect, that being at the
cowhouse of Mr. Warre, his master, in a field adjoining
Coldharbour-lane, the prisoner came and spoke to him;
that on leaving the cowhouse shortly after, and going down
the lane, the prisoner had struck him with a heavy stick on
the head, end beat him very severely; that after he was on
the ground the prisoner had taken his watch from him, to
which was fastened by the chain a fourpenny piece, which
was the same fourpeany piece which had been found upon
the prisoner and had been shown to him at the infirmary ;
that he, the deceased, had then endeavoured to crawl along
the lane for assistance. The statement made by the priso-
ner, was to the effect that he struck the deceased with a
stick, and not with a hammer.
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Mr. Justice ERSKINE summed up the evidence to the
Jury, who found the prisoner Guilty; and the Learned
Judge sentenced him to death.