The Sun.
London, England, 1830-03-06 00:00:00

SPRING ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

HOME CIRCUIT.—HERTFORD, Marken 5.
This being the day appointed for the trial of Jangi
Franklin for murder, at an early hour of the morning twu
Fat
approaches to the Court were crowded to excess. Fe
trials have excited more interest in the Court, and so go°l
a sensation has not been prodaced since the trial of Tilt°.
tell and his accomplices. The prisoner is highly, reepeet'
ably connected. A number of his friends and fell',
tradesmen were present.
At nine o'clock Mr. Justice BAYLEY took his seat 1111
the bench.
Mr. RYLAND opened the indictment, which obarge
the prisoner with the wilful murder of Mary Franklin, be!
wife, at Bishop Stortford, on the 12th: of December last.,
The lion. Mr. Law, for the prosecution, prefaced
statement by informing the Jury that the prisoner he
e been married to the deceased for more than twenty year'
and was the father of eight children, whom he had brougll
up with such credit as justly to entitle him to the reape
and esteem of his fellow-townsmen, and the inhabitants
of the neighbourhood in which he lived.
George Webb sworm—l am nine years old on the 10
of December. At a little past six o'clock in the eveniel
I went to sell some oysters in the tap-room of the Cut'
tiers' Arms. The deceased and prisoner were quarrelliA
5' when I went into the house. I opened five or six oyster"
and then directed my attention to the bar. I saw the dr
ceased draw some beer. As soon as she had done it 01
57: prisoner hit her on the side and took bold of her by
hair, and dragged her out of the bar into the passage. 're
deceased fell on the ground, and the prisoner stamped upe°
her with his feet.
James Ball—Was the son-in-law of the prisoner. 19,
was in the tap-room of the Carriers' Arms on the nigh.
in question. Witness saw the deceased getting up from
the ground. She walked down the passage and went olti
- of the front door. One of the children was with her',
Witness went back again into the tap-room and the pl.!'
goner soon after came to him, and said it was impossible,
for say man to live with that woman, and that he wool"!
not after that night. In a short time Mr. Quilter can't
and told the prisoner that re had kilted his wife. Prisoner!
said, " You don't mean so, de you ?" and we went int°.
Quilter's house. The deceased was sitting in a c 10"
there. Prisoner asked her to kiss him, and she did 10,'
The deceased was carried home, and put into her own 10'
In the course of the evening the prisoner told witness that
the deceased had aggravated him beyond bearing, addini
that he had the night before gone to the White Horst t°
avoid her.
Cross-examined—Witness saw the deceased before tli°
scuffle. He thought she was much the worse for liquor.
By the JUDGE.-The deceased was very apgravating•
Witness heard the prisoner tell her to keep out of his wait
but she would not.
M W. S

;cave, an assistant-surgeon, was called in to
attend the deceased at Mrs. Quilter's house, shortly after
six o'clock on the 12th of December last. Witness thuugl'
she was in a dying state, and sent f.r Dr. Tweed. Ever)
thing that could be suggested was done for the deceased,'
When she was put to bed the prisoner was admitted to "4
her. He knelt down at the foot of her bed and asked bet
to forgive him. She said, " You know you trampled
upon me." Prisoner then said, " I fear if you forgive nie
the laws of my country will not." She repeated again'
" You stafsped upon me; you trampled me to death."-'
She kissed him about a quarter of an hour before she died'
This was the case for the prosecution.
Eliza Franklin stated that her father returned home about
five o'clock on the evening mentioned in the indictment'
Her mother was very unkind to him about a hat he bsd
brought with him from London. The deceased had bee°
drinking very freely during the day, and was rather tie
a short time after six o'clock. The deceased went 00/1
into the passage, and was about to go into the tap-room''
when her father interfered. Witness was standing before
the deceased, and her father was behind. He trod on lief
gown, and she fell on the floor. He had one foot on the,
step of the tap-room, which slipping, it came upon the
stomach of the deceased.
Martha Franklin confirmed her sister's statement.
The Rev. Mr. Stewart, rector of Great HallingburP
the vicar of Bishop Stortford, Charles Douglas, Eq.,
George Perry, Req. and a number of other highly re—
spectable persons in the county, bore testimony to the
good, moral, humane, sober, and industrious character
the prisoner had always maintained.
The Jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
The announcement of the verdict was received will;
laud cheers by a large concourse of people assembled
outside the Court. When the prisoner's two daughters
were under examination, Mr. Justice Bailey and the pi,
goner wept bitterly, and there was scarcely a dry eye in
the Court.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.--OXFORD, Maacn 5.
SEDUCTION.—GOODALL V. ROGERS.
This was an action for seduction; the plaintiff was a
tuber merchant, the defendant a butcher, at Nettlebed.
Mary Ann Goodall—l am the daughter of Mr. George
Goodall, residing at Nettlebed ; he has four children be-
sides myself, I am the eldest, and was 20 years old lasl
December. The defendant lives at Nettlebed, the nest.
house but one from my father's ; he is a butcher, not
married man, between forty and fifty; he has lived nee/
my father for about six years ; my father and he veer-1
particular friends. One of say brothers is an apprenticl
with him. He was sent to Mr. Rogers about 12 months
ago. At end of the year before last a Mrs. Wilkinson was
living with Rogers, as his housekeeper. In Septembet
she went away to see her father, and on that occasion I was
applied to to superintend his house. I used to go there in
the dey time. Rogers had no servant besides Mrs. Wil-
kinson. I continued to supply Mrs. Wilkinson's place
about ten days, and superintended his household affairs.
While I was there Mr. Rogers addressed me by way of
making an offer of marriage. During the winter months
he continued talking to rue on this subject when be serf
me, till January and February. I met him on the 2d of
March Ltst year. I had been out on an errand, and
was then going to my aunt Glover. I met Rogers that
evening in the road. He asked me to take a walk
with him ; he had done so frequently on former occa-
sions. I walked down the turnpike road with him ;
there is some wood ground, or coppice, about there ; we
did not go so far as the wood, but kept down the road ; it
was a light evening ; we walked down a footpath by the side
of the road. Wecontinued to walk for about a quarter of an
hour. I wished to return, and he begged I would not. He
pulled me down by theside of the road, and effected his pur-
pose; he talked to me of marriage, both before and after-
wards. When this was over I upbraided him with his
treatment, and said I would not return home ; he begged
that I would. He prevailed on me at last to go to my
aunt Glover's ; I staid there an hour, and then went home.
I saw him again on the 6th of March ; I met him opposite
my father's door ; I then told him of his behaviour the
evening before, and he then made me the same promisee
as before, of making me his wife. After that I saw him
frequ-ntly. In June I discovered that I was pregnant,
and I told the defendant of being in that situation ; he seid
I was not the first that had been in such a situation. The
last time I told him of it he wished me to deny it to my
father; I said I would not; he then wished me to get
some /ravine tea, and that, he said, would get rid of it al-
together; he told me he had known it done many times;
I told him I would not do it, and that he meant to get
rid of the and the child too ; he told me that I might do
it without hurting myself at all ; he desired me not to
mention he had proposed my (loin.' it ; I told him he had
better have acted as Corder did. When this conversation
took place I was about seven months gone. I never sass,
him between the time of this conversation and the time I
was delivered. I repeated the promise he hal made, and
he said words were but wind, and I must not lock back oa
what was passed. In November I was delivered of a
child. Defendant has not seen the child, nor in any way
contributed to support it. I had the entire management of
my father's featly.
Fanny Goodall, sister of the last witness, proved that
when her mother discovered her daughter was pregnant,
it had such an effect upon her, that she became seriously ill. •
For the defence several witnesses were called, who spoke
to the loose conduct of Mary Ann Goodall. Some spoke of
familiarities which had taken place between herself and
others, and some of having themselves taken indecent
liberties with her—the details of which were an disgusting
dint we forbear presenting them to our readers. The gene-
ral appearance and mariner of these witnesses were not
such as to obtain for them much credit.
Mr. JERVIS addressed the, Jury for the plaintiff.
Mr. 13aron BOLLARD summed up, and the Jury found
for the plaintiff—damages, 3101.

The East India ship the Marquis of IVel-
livton has made the voyage out to 13, regal in a shorter
time than has ever before occurred, having been only 81
days from the Land's-end to the Sand-herds, otrCdlcutta.

His Majesty's packet Briseis, Lieut. Dow-
NEI', left Halifax on the 9th of January for Bermuda,
where she remained for three days; and was hack again at
Halifax n the 24th, performing the pa.saze in 14 dam
including the three days at Bermuda. This is the short-
est period in which voyage was ever made by a packet
ship. The Briseis has since retu ned to the packet
station at Falmouth.