The Sun.
London, England, 1839-08-16 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

CHESTER, Aua. 13.
CHARGE OF FORGERY AGAINST SIR T. STANLEY'S

STEWA RD.

Richard Blundell, a gentlemanly-looking man, aged
57, was put to the bar, charged with embezzling at
Warford and Congleton, money to the amount of 5001.
and upwards, the property of Sir Thomas Stanley, Bart.,
his master. He also stood charged with forging a pro-
missory note for 4871.
From the evidence, which was very lengthy, it ap-
peared that in February last the prisoner had, as
steward to Sir T. Stanley, collected his regular half-
yearly. rents, a part of which he was to have paid into

the Chester bank. Instead of paying in the. cash he
sent the above-mentioned promisory note, with three 51.
notes, and appropriated the money to private purposes.
The note had six months to run, and purported to be
drawn upon a firm which turned out to be a fictitious
one, and payable at a London banker's. Or.e of the
fictitious names was that of Mr. Henry Heyes, a land
agent to Sir Thomas, and the hand-writing was very
similar to his. By the depositions taken before the
Magistrates who committed the prisoner it appeared
that the prisoner, notwithstanding the warning given
him, stated that the writing was his.
The Learned Counsel for the defence contended that
this was no fraud, because by this forgery no person had
vet been defrauded. Heyes had not been defrauded,
because the firm was fictitious, and be could not be res-
ponsible ; the banker bad not been defrauded, because
no snoney had been paid upon the note ; and Sir Thomas
had not been defrauded because the note not yet being
due, non constat, it might be taken up when due.
The Learned JUDGE summed up, and differed with
the view taken by the prisoner's Counsel. Heyes might
have been liable to an action on the note, the signature
nearly resembling his, and he having been in partner-
ship with the prisoner in some mining speculation ; that
the banker might have been defrauded by discounting
the bill, and that Sir Thomas must have been defrauded
by the appropriation of his money and the substitution
of a prom►ssory note.
The Jury, after consulting two hours, acquitted the
prisoner of the forgery, but he will be tried on three
other indictments for the minor offence.

BRIDGEWATER, AUG. 13.
THE WORLE MURDER.—Charles Wakely was in
dieted for the wilful murder of Eliza Pain, at Worle.

The prisoner was put up with the first arraignment
this morning. His countenance pourtrayed anything but
that of being a man who could commit so atrocious a
crime, Upon being called upon to plead he said,
" Guilty."

The Learned JUDGE begged him to reflect upon the
nature of his crime, and the punishment that would
await him, and urged upon him that it was mordsatisfac-
;ory that an offender should be convicted upon evidence
than that he should suffer upon his own confession.
The prisoner still said," Guilty."
The JUDGE again interpose:], and implored him not
to be led away by the advice of others, but to act upon
his own judgment. The gaoler interposed, and in the
most kind manner entreated him to consider.

The prisoner shook his head, and with an air which
showed the utro3st resignation, again said " Guilty."
He was then removed from the dock, while other
prisoners were tried.

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In the course of the morning, he was again placed
at the bar, but before the Learned Judge would pass
sentence upon him, he had the whole of the evidence
completely examined into, and the following witnesses
were called .

Samuel Norman—l am relieving officer to the Ax-
bridge Union. I was at Wake St. Lawrence on the
17th July, on horseback, in the lane going towards
Worle. On getting to Snatch-cratch I could see a
considerable distance along the lane. I saw the pri-
soner come out from a ditch on the left-band side of
the road. He came towards me and turned up a lane. I
then saw Eliza Pain come out of the same place, and
go a few yards towards Worle, and then turn and come
towards me. I saw her face was covered with blood.
Her bonnet was hanging down her back. I thought
there was something the matter, and rode after the man.

I met him coming back again. ' He said, " Oh, I must
die." I asked him what he had done. At that moment

I saw the girl drop. I said, " You have cut her
throat." He said she stabbed him first. There was
blood about his right hand. I asked him what he had
done it for. He said she had done it herself.

Henry Stowell—l live with Mr: Reeves. The pri-
soner was in his service, and Eliza Pain was an appren-
tice. On Wednesday, 17th July, I saw the prisoner
and Eliza Pain go milking ; it was about five o'clock in
the evening. I was with them. They were on very
good terms. After the milking was over, Eliza Pain
went towards Worle. The prisoner asked her if she
would bring his boots from Worle. She made some
reply, but I did not hear what. The prisoner said,
" If you won't I must go and fetch them myself." She
then went towards Worle, driving the cows before her.
I think she had a basket on her arm ; the prisoner
was left behind. He said he must go for his boots, as
she Would not bring them, and in about five minutes
he got his hat and went away, going the same road as
she had. He had not spoken angrily to her.
John Hardwick—l am a surgeon, and was called to
view the body of Eliza Pain, and saw her about seven
the same evening. Her bead and face was covered with
blood, and he discovered on her neck five superficial
wounds. Over the left eye there were five other
wounds (all cuts), a severe bruise on the left temple,
and a deep wound on the left side of the neck, which
last wound was the cause of her death. It was made
by a cutting instrument. There were no other marks
of violence whatever.

Tripp—l picked up this knife in the ditch, about
two yards from the place where the body lay ; it was
closed. There was some hair and blood upon it.
Stowell—This knife is the prisoner's.
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE then put on the black cap,
and tried several times to commence his address to the
prisoner, but sobs choked his utterance, and he was
obliged to cover his face with his handkerchief. For a
short time the Judge was absent and the man alone pre-
sided. The countenance of the prisoner was the only one
that remained unaltered. He was 29 years of age, but
did not appear more than 20. The Learned Judge at
length, his voice broken by his sobs, pronounced the
awful sentence of the law.

axe, used in his trade of a wood-turner, and struck at
her head. She put up her haeds to save her head,
when he chopped off her fingers as described. He also
inflict,3d a serious wound on her bead with the axe, and
was only prevented from completing his purpose by some
one breaking open the door. The poor woman lingered
for some time in a very dangerous state at the infirmary,
but she at length slowly recovered tier strength.
A voluntary statement made by the prisoner at the
time of his committal, and signed by himself, was read.
In it he stated, " I do not for a moment deny the atro-
cious act with which I am charged ; but I bee to state
most seriously that at the time I committed it I was
not in my proper senses." In another written state-
ment, prepared for his trial, he sets out by saying, " I
have presumed that my guilty act has been proved
against me." By a third paper, put in by some of his
friends, it appeared that the prisoner had saved several
persons at various times from drowning, and had re-
ceived rewards from the Humane Society for his suc-
cessful exertions.

The Learned JUDGE remarked that he was bound to
say that the evidence did not at all come up to the
point to warrant the prisoner's acquittal on the ground's
of insanity. lie appeared to labour under a strong, and
no doubt groundless, jealousy.
The Jury, after consulting a few minutes in the box,
returned a verdict of " Guilty, with intent to murder."

Sentence deferred.
In the case of " The Queen v. J. R. Stephens," the
Counsel retained for the Crown, are the Attorney-
General, Mr. Sergeant Atcherley (Attorney-General
fer the County Palatine of Lancaster), Mr. Creswell,
and Mr. Wightman.
in the cases as to the winner of the Derby Stakes,
and the horse Bloomsbury, Mr. Sergeant Wilde is re.
tained for the defendants.
There are about 160 causes entered.