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THE-1! ;SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EV ING, JULY
_l9, 1861

a.m. two practicable breaches were established in
the wall, the British naval 32-pounders, and espe-
cially a French rifled 64-pounder gun, which was
worked from the only gunboat whose draught of
water enabled, its being brought up, doing great
execution.

7. The English and French bridge parties, under
the protection of coverers, now cleared the stakes in
the canals leading into the moat, and established
two bridges across it.
8. As soon as the bridges were reported ready
the French ladder and storming parties on the right,
and the English, consisting of detachments of the
31st, 67th Regiments, and 22d Punjaub Native In-
fantry, on the left, advanced, the whole of the
small guns being dragged forward and opening fire
at the parapet during the movement.
The enemy, however, did not quit the walls, but
kept up a smart fire from gingalls up to the
moment our men gained the top of the breach.
9. The troops having established themselves
within the walls, the city was given in charge to
Colonel Ward, of the Imperial service, and the
allied force withdraivn. _ .

10. The next day the whole of the troops re-
turned to Soonkong to prepare for farther opera-
tions on the opposite side from Shanghae of the
Woosung river.
11. We found that the rebels had built on the
inside of the parapet a strong stockade, which ex-
tended all round the city ; this, with the parapet,
formed a passage which was covered with a beamed
and tiled roof for protection ; this roof, however,
did not afford much safety to the defenders, four
Armstrong guns having been placed in a position
to partly enfilade the wall; almost every shell
entered through the roof, and burst between the
parapet and the stockade.

12. During the attack the city was surrounded
by the Imperial troops, and Colonel Ward reports
to me that the whole garrison has been made pri-

soners,

13. In transmitting a list of casualties, I much
regret having to report the death of Captain Brad-
shaw, R.A., from exposure and over exertion on
the march to Tsing-poo ; in him the service has lost
a most zealous and energetic officer.
The health of the troops I have the satisfaction
of reporting as being excellent.—l have, &c.,
(Signed) C. STAVELEY, Brigadier-General,
Commanding H.B.M's. Troops in China.
The Right Hon. the Secretary of

State for War.

LIST OF CASUALTES WHICH OCCURRED AT THE CAPTURE
or TSING-POO, May 12, 1862.

English.-22d Regiment Punjaub Native Infan-
try—One severely wounded. Royal Marine Light
Infantry—One killed, one severely wounded.

French.—Marines—One killed, two officers and
six men severely wounded. Total, two killed and
ten wounded.

Najow, May 18, 1862.

Sir,—l have the honour to report for your infor-
mation the capture yesterday of the fortified town
of Najow by the allied British and French forces,
and I might have added with trifling loss, had it
not been for the death of Admiral Protet, command-
ing his Imperial Majesty's naval forces in China,
who was unfortunately shot through the heart
during the advance of the storming party.
In Admiral Protet the French navy has lost a
most able and zealous officer, and one whose hearty
energetic co-operation greatly conduced to the suc-
cess of the recent operations.

The mail being on the eve of departure, I muss
defer entering into details of the attack until
another opportunity.

A return of casualties, so far as I have been
enabled to ascertain, is enclosed.—l have, &e.,
(Signed) C. STAYELEY, Brigadier-General
Commanding H.B.M.'s Troops in China.
The Right Hon. the Secretary of

of State for War.

Return of Casualties of a Field Force under Com-
mand of Brigadier General Staveley, C. 8., during
the Attack and Capture of Najow on the 17th of
May, 1862.

English—Her Majesty's 31st Regiment, 4 pri-
vates, severely wounded; Military Staff Depart-
ment, 1 staff clerk, severely wounded; Royal navy,
1 seaman severely wounded. French—L'Amiral
Protet, commanding his Imperial Majesty's naval
forces in China, killed ; Navire Frangaise, 2 officers
severely wounded ; Infanterie de Marine, 2 men se-
verely wounded ; matelots, 5 men severely wounded.
Total casualties, English and French, 1 officer killed,
2 officers wounded, 13 rank and file and sailors.

General return of Casualties of the Field Force under
Brigadier-General C. W. D. Staveley, C. 8., dur-
ing the Operations of the 27th and 29th April

and Ist May, 1862,

Her Majesty's Troops—Royal Artillery Corps, 2
gunners slightly wounded ; ditto, 1 gun Lascar,
severely ; 31st Regiment, 3 privates, slightly; 67th
Regiment, 3 privates, 1 dangerously, 2 slightly ;
sth Bombay Native Infantry, Lieut. Brown, very
severely; 22d Punjaub Native Infantry, 3 sepoys,
slightly. Royal Navy—Her Majesty's ship Vulcan,
2 seamen, 1 severely, 1 dangerously ; her Majesty's
ship Pearl, 2 seamen, slightly. Total, 17 wounded.

THE MYSTERIOUS MURDER IN
GLASGOW.

The thick veil of obscurity which has so long
covered the murderer of Jessie Macpherson seems
now to be all but withdrawn. One of the most

important links of evidence was yesterday obtained,
which it is anticipated will go far to establish the

guilt of the unhappy Mrs. M'Lachlan. Late last
night Captain Weal' received a telegram from
Superintendent Dewar, of the Hamilton District
of Lanarkshire Police, which stated that after

a very laborious search he and his officers had
found, irt a field about a mile and a half from
Hamilton, a brown merino dress and two petticoats,
much torn and saturated with blood. From the

description given of these articles there is no doubt
entertained that they belonged to the female priso-
ner 111‘Lachlan, and that they are the garments

worn by her on the night on which Jessie Macpher-
son was so brutally murdered. The clothes will, in
due course, be brought down to Glasgow by Mr.
Dewar for identification, but as already stated there
is evidence almost amounting to a certainty which
leads us to say that they will be found to belong to
the miserable woman. We understand, also, that
she has been traced to have been at a point very near
the place where the clothing was found, so that
her connection with them will in like manner be
established.
The various steps in this deplorable case have
come out with remarkable regularity, and since the
discovery of the stolen plate scarce a day has passed
but has reproduced a new discovery
all-important
in furthering the ends of justice. But none of the
former etages of this case can be compared with im-
portance to the one just arrived at ; and none has
had, in any view of it, a more serious bearing on the
position and prospects of the unfortunate prisoner.
Her connection with the silver plate was, to say the
least of it, most suspicions, notwithstanding her
assertion that she came by it honestly ; the tracing
of the deceased's clothing to the prisoner was like-
wise a fact most condemnatory, taken in conjunc-
tion with her previous denial of all knowledge of
it ; and now her own clothing having been re-
covered saturated with blood, hidden in a place near
which she is known to have been, is the consumma-
tion of the whole matter. If she changed colour,
as we believe she did when the stolen property of
Jessie Macpherson first came under her eyes after
she was apprehended, what must .the shock be
which she will receive when her own gory garments
are presented to her ?
Yesterday forenoon we were enabled to give, in a
second edition, the result of the consultation of Mr.
Sheriff Strathern and Mr. Gemmel, procurator-
fiscal, with the Solicitor-General in Edinburgh the
previous night. The intelligence arrivedin the morn-
ing, and was in effect that Crown Counsel saw no
necessity for longer detaining old Mr. Fleming
in custody, and directing that Mrs. M‘Lachlan
should be fully committed for trial on a charge of
murder and theft. This decision, of course, does
not prevent the re-apprehension of Mr. Fleming,
should anything further transpire to criminate him;
but we need scarcely say that this is most impro-
bable. In all likelihood he may be made a witness,
although in that position, we fear, his evidence will
not be of much use to either side. In accordance
with the above decision, a messenger repaired to the
North Prison between 12 and 1 o'clock. When the
cab drove up to the gate in Duke-street a great
crowd quickly collected, so that it was evident that
the old man would receive some kind of reception
from the crowd if he departed in that manner. As
this was to be deprecated, the cab was sent off to
the gate at the back of the prison in Drygate,which
had the effect of drawing off the whole of the mob,
who seemingly thought it was intended to bring
out either of the prisoners by that way. In this
they were signally cheated; for while they were
waiting with open months in Drygate, old Mr.
Fleming walked out into Duke-street, accompanied
by a friend, and got clear away unobserved. The
scheme answered well, and did not seem to be dis-
covered for some time, as the people, after seeing the
cab leaving Drygate empty, returned to Duke-
street, where they remained in small groups for
hours afterwards. Mr. Fleming, after a short stay
in the city, went down to Greenock by the 2 p.m.
train, accompanied by two relatives. He at once
proceeded to Gourock, where he joined the steamer
Vulcan, and crossed over to the residence of his son
at Dunoon. No doubt he took this route with the
view of avoiding public observation. When the
intimation was made to the old man that he was at
liberty he did not seem to be at all taken by sur-
prise, and left the prison in as hale and hearty a
state as when he entered it eight days before. At
no part of that time did he betray the least anxiety
for his personal safety, nor express the least doubt
that after inquiry was made he would be shown to
be quite free from all complicity in the murder, and
was in every respect a striking contrast to the
wretched woman he has left behind him in prison.
She still declines to take sufficient food, and seems
to be overcome by a sense of the awful position in
which she stands.
The Procurators-Fiscal were again examining
witnesses in the case yesterday, and the crowd of
hangers .on in Brunswick-street was as large as
ever, although, if they had known it, they might
have spared their pains, because the persons they
so anxiously desired to see were not near that
neighbourhood. They had the pleasure, however,
of seeing several poor thieves taken into the County-
buildings for examination, and whom they sur-
rounded in a way that must have been highly
amusing to these characters. Meanwhile, the
police are still prosecuting their inquiries, in order
to complete the evidence in the case, so that no loop-
hole of escape may be left. The publican who sup-
plied Mrs. M‘Lachlan with the liquor on the night
in question has been found, so that the bottle dis-
covered in the press in the passage between the de-
ceased's bedroom and the kitchen of Mr. Fleming's
house, may yet prove a strong piece of evidence,
especially if it be identified as having been in the
possession of the prisoner on the night of the
murder.

EXTRAORDINARY POISONING OF A
YOUNG WOMAN AT HOLLOWAY•

Yesterday Mr. J. Humphreys, the coroner, accompanied
by Dr. Lankester, the recently-elected coroner for Central
Middlesex, resumed an adjourned investigation at the Castle
Tavern, Holloway-road, Islington, touching the death of
Sarah Ryan, aged 24 years, residing with her mother at 8,
Victoria-street, Barnsbury-road.
The evidence taken at the opening of the inquiry on Fri-
day of last week went to show that on the previous Sunday,
about one o'clock, deceased left her mother in excellent
health and spirits to dine with Rosina Tuck, a friend, in
service at 16, Coles's-terrace, Barnsbury-road. She arrived
there directly afterwards, and having partaken very heartily
of a dinner, consisting of boiled calf's head, vegetables,
and currant tart, remained in the kitchen while Rosin%
Tuck went out for an hour, leaving the only occu-
pant of the house, besides deceased, a man named James
Perry Greening, a lodger, in the parlour. About five
o'clock, a nephew of the servant Tuck, a boy of four-
teen years, called to see his aunt. He had to ring the
bell four times before he could get an answer, and finally
it was opened by Mr. Greening, who went away to his own
room, and the boy entered the house and passed down stairs
as he had done before when his aunt was home. Upon
reaching the bottom of the stairs, he was alarmed by deep
groans proceeding from the back kitchen, and on entering
it he discovered the deceased lying on the ground, her back
supported against the wall of the copper, no cap on her
head, her hair very untidy, the body of her dress and apron
wet from vomit, and one leg extended and exposed from her
dress being drawn up about two inches above her knee.
The boy spoke to her but could get no answer, and on acci-
dentally looking up the stairs as he stood after looking at
the groaning woman, his eye caught sight of Mr. Greening
looking down, He asked the boy what was the matter, and
came down to endeavour to restore her. The boy said she
was in a fit, and Mr. Greening thought a medical man
should be sent for. At this juncture a second bell was
heard at the front door, and Greening answered it, and ad
mitted RoEina Tuck, Tuck thought she might be -
subject
to fits, and said she found her sitting upright, and not rest-
ing against ho copper ; that her hair was no more untidy
than when she left her, and that she did not notice that her
dress was particularly ruffled. She took the unfortunate
girl into the front kitchen and laid her down before the fire
upon the hearth rug, whilst Mr. Greening left Tuck and
went to his own room, after opening the door to her. Hav-
ing conveyed the insensible and speechless girl into the
front kitchen, Tuck found her hands get cold and her groans
grow fainter, and becoming alarmed, she said she at once
fetched a medical man. Deceased had been there on previ..
ous occasions.
Mr. Wilson, M. R. C. S., of Brunswick-terrace, Barnsbury„,
road, deposed on the first occasion that he directly attended,
and strange to say, found, in his firm opinion, that deceased

must have died about two hours before, and under very sus-
picious circumstances. The case was accordingly adjourned.
On the present occasion Mrs. Ryan, the mother,
Rosina Tuck, and her nephew George Tuck, were
thoroughly examined and cross-examined at great length,
by the learned coroner, and the evidence elicited, though
singularly strange in some points agreed in the main with
that given above. Mrs. Ryan swore positively that her
deceased daughter was a good, steady girl, had no followers,
and had got a new situation, and had bought a pair of new
boots that very day, and she was sure did not expect death.
Rosina Tuck left her well, and admitted that Mrs. Burt
was her mistress and landlady of the house, and now out of
town. She saw no recognition at a chance meeting in the
house that day between deceased and Mr. Greening.
Mr. John Wise Wilson, M.R.C.S., was here recalled to
give the result of a post mortem examination. He corro-
borated his former evidence, that it was close upon 6 o'clock
when he attended the deceased, and found she had been
dead at least from one hour and a half to two hours. The
face was extensively livid, the eyes very prominent, and the
pupils much dilated. The stomach was very much dis-
tended on account of the time that elapsed before the post
mortem examination was made, He described other ap-
pearances in various parts of the body of poisoning, and
then went on to say that he did not discover any particular
inflammation in the stomach and intestines such as would
be expected from poison. The womb, on being opened, had
a peculiar appearance, which he was not satisfied about,
and he gave it up, with other internal portions, to Pro-
fessor Harley for analytical examination. He could find
no disease or other circumstances to account for death.
Dr, George Harley deposed that he was professor of
medical jurisprudence for the University College. He re-
ceived from Mr. Wilson, in sealed jars, the stomach and its
contents, a portion of intestine and its contents, the womb,
and the heart. In opening the womb, he detested concep-
tion of between the second and third week, and produced it
in a phial. The stomach was filled with gas and carbonic
acid, along with which was a peculiar odour. The contents
were first tested for a mineral acid, but with a negative re-
sult. Neither was there any alkaloid, but he was enabled
to detect a fragrant essence, resembling fine liqueur. On
testing this fragrant essence, he found it contained prussic
acid, and he here produced some Prussian blue obtained
from it. On testing the contents of the stomach directly,
he found it threw off a vapour containing a small quantity
of prussic acid. As cherries and other food which he found
in a partly digested state contained prussic acid, he tested
such food and found that it gave an entirely different odour
to that of the fragrant essence. It was also different to
that odour emitted from such food with pure alcohol. He
next obtained essence from cherries alone, but by no means
could he obtain such fine essence, so that the conclusion
was that it could not have been the action upon the food,
or the contents of the food itself, that produced that es-
sence. To show that the poison was not produced
after death it was important to know that the essence
he obtained the first day was sufficient for
his purpose, but, being very volatile, it diminished
gradually the next day, and the day following, and finally
disappeared altogether. That was also important to show
to the world the necessity of making analysis as soon as
possible. The present analysis was not made until the sixth
day after the death, and if it had bean delayel a few days
longer, it would have considerably diminished, so as not to
be discovered ; and again, if it had been made earlier, he
would have found very much more. From all the circum-
stances, he could come to no other conclusion than that
deceased died from the mortal effects of prussic acid.

Mr, Wilson recalled, swore to the same opinion from a]
the appearances.

Mrs. Ryan was nest recalled, and swore unhesitatingly

that it was her firm conviction that her daughter had not
died by her own hand, and that she thought it remarkably
strange that upon her arrival at the house she found her
body perfectly dead and cold, presenting the appearance of
death having taken place some hours before, as stated by
the medical man, whom Mr. Greening informed that she
had but just died.
The learned coroner lucidly summed up, and told the
jury that with such facts before them he was disposed to
again adjourn. The cause of death was now ascertained to
be from deadly poison, and the next point to be ascertained
was, who administered that deadly poison.
The jury briefly deliberated, and unanimously agreed
with the coroner upon the necessity of another adjourn-,
ment.

The inquiry then adjourned, after lasting several hours,

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

NORFOLK CIRCUIT.—AYLESBURY, July 17. I
(Before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn.)
Antony Tomlinson, engine driver, was charged
with the manslaughter of Edward Oliver.
The prisoner was an engine driver on the North-
Western Railway, and on Feb. 22 last was driving
a coal train from Rugby to London. The deceased
was a cattle driver, and was travelling in the break
van of a cattle train proceeding in the same direc-
tion, and on the same line of rails, which left Rugby
10 minutes before the coal train. The cattle train
left Rugby at 9.55 p.m., and on approaching Hans-
lope points, about 3 miles and a quarter from Wol-
verton, found the danger signal, indicating that the
line was blocked. The driver of the cattle train
thereupon slackened speed and proceeded at the
rate of 7 or 8 miles an hour towards Wolverton.
While proceeding at the above rate, and when about
half a mile from Wolverton, the coal train ran into
him, and a collision occurred by whieh the deceased
was killed on the spot, and other persons more
or less injured. It appeared that the coal train,
which was driven by the prisoner, was proceeding
at about 15 miles an hour at the time of the col-,
lision, and the charge against the prisoner was that
he had neglected his duty in not shutting off steam
on seeing the danger signal at Hanslope.
The jury acquitted the prisoner.

WESTERN CIRCUIT.—WINCHESTER, JULY IS
(Before Mr. Justice Williams.)
THE FORDINGBRIDGE ATROCITY.
This court opened yesterday morning under circum.
stances of great excitement. Every cranny and corner
of the plate was very soon crammed, and hundreds
of persons could not obtain admission.
George Jacob Gilbert, agep 30, described as a
labourer, was indicted for the wilful murder of
Mary Ann Susan Hall, at Fordingbridge.
Mr. Prideaux, with Mr. Cole, appeared for the
prosecution, and Mr. Bere defended the prisoner.
The prisoner pleaded not guilty.
Mr. Prideaux opened the case on the part of the
prosecution. The young lady whose violent and
melancholy death was the subject of this inquiry
was named Mary Ann Susan Hall, and was the
only child of a farmer, residing upon a farm called
Midgham Farm, in the parish of Fordingbridge.
The distance from Midgham Farm to Fording-
bridge Church was about a mile. There was a
public footpath leading through Midgham Moor.
At the end of that moor was a stile, and then a lane
called Holmes's-lane, which was bounded on one
side by the moor and on the other side by a field
called Harding's or Pinhorn's. In Harding's field
there were two cows. Holme's-lane had a high
bank and hedge on each side ; it was a very wet
lane, having water running through it. The path
went on to Fordingbridge Church. On the morn-
ing of Sunday, June 22, about ten o'clock, this
young lady left her father's house for the purpose
of going to Fordingbridge Church. She had on a
bonnet with green flowers. She had in her hands
parasol. She had a cloak or mantle, with some
tassels; and she had with her two books which she
was in the habit of taking to church, which she
carried in her pocket. Mr. Hall's dairymaid would
prove that it was about ten o'clock when this young
lady left her father's house. He should call a little
boy who sat in the same pew in which Miss Hall
was in the habit of sitting, and he would tell them
that Miss Hall was not at church that morning.
He would call a witness named Hicklin, who would
say that about a quarter past ten that morning he
had occasion to go to Harding's field, where the
cows ware, and he observed the cows running about
in a state of great excitement and disturbance, but
he did not look in the lane. Between two stiles
there were several marks of footsteps, as if there
had been trampling about, and on the following day
a piece of the green ornament of Miss Hall's bon-
net was picked up there. There were marks on the
bank of the lane, showing that struggling had been
going on in the lane. About half way up the lane
a tassel was found in the branches—one of the tas-
sels of the young lady's mantle. Up to the end of
the lane, covered with mud, with mud in her throat
and mouth, with her dress much disordered, her
pocket torn out, with several marks of violence on
her throat, this young lady was found dead. There
could not be a doubt that she had been murdered
there, and after a violent struggle, resisting the
attacks which had been made upon her—and it was
by the sacrifice of her life that she had preserved
her honour. But there was a gleam of light amid
the shades and the darkness of this most melan-
choly and painful transaction. It would be some
comfort to them, and a great comfort to her sorrow-
ing father and her friends, to feel that, although
this young lady was compelled to struggle to the
death, yet she had struggled with success, and had
Passed through nature to eternity as unsullied in
her person as she was pure in her mind. That she
was murdered after a great struggle there could be
no doubt. Then the painful duty the jury had to
perform was this—who was the man who committed
the murder? He would briefly point out to them
the material facts upon which the prosecution relied.
On two different Sundays, five weeks and three
weeks before the 22d of June, the prisoner was
walking with a young man named Turner, when
they saw Miss Hall pass on her way to church ;
the prisoner, upon seeing Miss Hall, made use of
some indecent expressions showing a desire to have
improper intercourse with her. Turner asked him
ll
why he should like to go
with her more than with
any other girl. The prisoner replied he did not
.
know there was much difference, but there was a

little more fancy. A witness named Haskell would
tell them that on the morning of the murder, about
7 o'clock, he had occasion to pass through Hard-
ing's field, when he observed the cows, which were
perfectly calm, and. there was nothing that
attracted his attention; but on again being there
about half-past 10 he observed footsteps by the
lane, apparently of trampling, and that so far

Went four yards up
attracted his attention that he
the lane, but was then stopped by the depth of
water in the lane ; he saw a pressure on the bank,
and it was evident that somebody had gone up
the lane. He then went into a field called Lopez ;
he went along the footpath and saw the pri-
soner coming up through Harding's field, some
little distance off. They got within 20 yards of
each other ; the prisoner had on a dark smockfrock.
The trousers of the prisoner were wet up to the
knees. His boots were unlaced. The cows appeared
to be disturbed, and they were looking into the
hedge, near which the body was found. Haskell
went on towards Fordingbridge church. He ob-
served that the prisoner followed him until he
came to the stile. He then got behind a tree, as if
watching him. The next witness would be a man
named Gosney, a shepherd, who had occasion on
that morning to go to look after his sheep. He
went into a field called Amberland, in which the
sheep were. He sew the prisoner sitting in a dry
ditch in which there was neither water nor mud.
It was perfectly dry, and had been so for some days.
The prisoner was sitting in that dry ditch, appa-
rently rubbing down his trousers, and as Gosney
approached him he took up something, and he then
walked on in the direction in which ho lived. The
next witness would be Mrs. Philpotts, the wife of
the half-brother of the prisoner, who would tell
them that he breakfasted with the family that
morning; he went out at half-past nine; he had
on a white shirt which she had washed for him; it
was then without a tear. He came back again a
little before one o'clock. Her little boy said he had
seen his uncle George hang out his stockings in the
hedge, and he put his hands on the prisoner's trou-
sers, and said, "Lord, uncle George, how wet your
trousers are !" The prisoner made no reply. He
then sat down and went to dinner with the family.
After dinner the prisoner said he wished to change
his shirt, which was a white one. Mrs. Philpotts
told him where to find another shirt, and he went

up and changed it. The white shirt was torn as i
in a struggle, and the sleeves were wet. He should
then prove by the dairymaid that at 12 o'clock that
day she went to a christening at the church. She saw
nothing to attract her attention in Harding's field.
She returned about one o'clock to dinner. Miss Hall
was not there, but the family thought nothing of
her absence, as she sometimes went to her cousin's. At
3 o'clock the dairymaid left her master's for the pur-
pose of going to church. She saw the prisoner
going towards Midgham-moors. Mrs. Philpotts
went out with her little boy about half-past three
o'clock for a walk. She had not gone far when she
saw the prisoner coming in the direction of her
house ; he had a parasol in his hand. She said,
" Wherever, George, did you get that parasol ? "
The prisoner replied that he found it in Harding's
field flying about, and the cows making a great
noise. He then asked her if her husband was at
home. She said he was, and asked what he wanted
with him. The prisoner replied that he had found
a woman dead down in the ditch, smothered in mud.
The prisoner had given three accounts of finding
the parasol; one was that he found it flying about
in Harding's field ; another that he found it within
18 yards of the murdered woman, and that it was
in Coomb's field, It was impossible, owing to the
thickness of the hedge, to see the dead body of the
woman unless a person went close up to the hedge.
He should call several witnesses who were present
with him when the body was removed. The prisoner
did not assist in the removal, nor did he go into
the lane. Other persons went into the lane and
took up the body, and had the melancholy duty of
taking it to Midgham farm, and disclosing to the
young lady's father the distressing event that had
occurred. It must have been shortly before half-
past 3 that he said he saw the parasol flying about;
whereas, the dairymaid who had passed shortly be-
fore that saw no parasol, and the cows were quiet.
When the prisoner was taken into custody two
policemen were present ; the prisoner was cautioned
in the usual manner, but he said and persisted in
it that he was at home all day until 1 o'clock, and
that he had had a nap in the garden. He was out
during the whole time ; he denied that the white
shirt was his, 'and said that he had on a
coloured shirt, and that he had changed it
before breakfast. He should prove that he had
one white shirt which he changed after din-
ner. There was another strong circumstance,
some spots of blood were seen upon his waist-
coat, which were evidently fresh. His account was
that his nose had bled a fortnight before. One '
of the policemen told him it was important for him
to prove where he was on. Sunday morning. The
prisoner, after a short consideration, sent for Gos-
ney, and asked him what time it was when he saw'
him in the ditch, Gosney said about a quarter-past
11,
and the prisoner said " That's right." His boots
had apparently been washed, but there were pieces
of mud adhering to them. In the dry ditch three
pieces of grass were found as if torn up, they were
wet and dirty, and smelt like the mud in the lane.
There were some other statements which the pri-
soner made to the constables. He stated to Rod-
doway, " I have been in pretty near as bad a mess
as this ; do you think it will be a hanging touch ?"
The constable said, " I do not know, it makes me
feel ill to think of." The prisoner said, "Soit do
me. I should be glad to get rid of it. This will be
the last time you will have to take me Eup." There
was another remarkable fact—A person named
Jefferys, who was the sexton of the church, would
tell them that they were working together on the
Saturday. The prisoner was working in his shirt-
sleeves, and he had on a white shirt ; that was tole-
rably clean, and was not at all torn. Jefferys took
particular notice of his boots ; tney had nails all
round them, and he thought they corresponded
with some footmarks which were near the lane. He
believed he had now stated the leading facts of the
case. It was peculiarly a case of circumstantial
evidence. The facts were themselves very slight,
but it would be for the jury to say whether these
were reasonably consistent with the innocence of
the prisoner. If they were, let them by all means
acquit him, but if they brought home a conviction
to their minds that the prisoner was guilty, he was
sure they would not hesitate to do their duty by
convicting him.
The witnesses were then called in support of the
statement of the learned counsel, but as that evi-
dence was given in extenso in The Sun of the 4th
inst., it is not necessary to repeat it.
Mr. M. Bere then addressed the jury for the pri-
soner. He stood in one of the most awful positions
possible; he was the unexpected advocate of the
prisoner. As the summing up and the verdict
might be influenced by the address he might make,
he felt he was in a most terrible position. No ex-
pense on the other side was spared. Counsel of the
greatest eminence were engaged—one eminent for
his eloquence and the beauty of his language, and
the other eminent for his skill and experience—who
would watch well every word that was uttered. All
the sympathies of every one were properly enlisted
against the prisoner, for the facts proved were not
of a common kind. The unhappy young lady had
left her hitherto pleasant home to attend her reli-
gious duties, to pray for forgiveness of her sins, and
to ask to be protected from any temptation that
might assail her, but was brought home in torn and
dirty garments, and laid a corpse at her unhappy
father's feet. Every feeling was against the pri-
soner, and his only hope was in the impartiality of
the learned judge and the honesty of a British jury.
His learned friend had opened the case with great
forbearance and in a manner that did him the
greatest justice. It had been said that circumstan-
tial evidence was much safer than even what was
called direct evidence ; but they must see whether
each link in the chain had been clearly made out.
He thought there had been a determination on the
part of the witnesses to carry the case against the
prisoner as strongly as they possibly could, and this
applied particularly to police officers, who looked
upon every person taken into custody as a most un-
mitigated villain. He did not know at what time
the theory of the prosecution considered this murder
to have taken place. If the jury thought that the
time when the cows were first seen to be disturbed
was the period when the murder was committed, then
the first link in the chain was made out ; hut how
did that show theprisoner to have had anything to do
with it, for Haskell said the man he saw at that time
had on a dark slop, whereas the prisoner wore a light
one. But if nearness to the spot was to be taken
-as a test, then Haskell was nearer to it than the pri-
soner. As to the trousers of the prisoner beinwgewet,
why could not the prisoner have
got t ?
em
fThe act of
any other place than Holmes-lane?
the wetness of the trousers was not conchlusive of the
,e i
Ten came the
prisoner having been in that lant
murdered girl.
blood. No blood was found on the bodyaid t ohfa
ttheh poore o t
The prisonerher head. IVli ht t
over the hedge and lifted up
for it was not seen until aer p
t e risonerhad gone
the blood have got upon
ftispwahistcoa.t at gino
inner. Another fact was, that the pri-
soner after d
apur
se hneerhhaadve
soner was the first person who gave the information,
and therefore it was said that hme
amdues
different
ihffaevree beennt th
state-
ments as to the manner in Which he first saw the
mwbuyrdceor,
body, but animals had seen it, and, if they saw it,
seen it. lie saw the
could and
dt
thebec
parasols be heard the
Cows making a noises and he
got over the hedge to
see what it was, and that he
did not know who it
was ; but other witnesses
said that the body was so disfigured had
that they
not for some time discover who it was. It could
hard that the unpractised was very
answers given by 4 wan to

questions put by a practised and well-skilled police
officer should be brcught against him, not for an
offence which subjected him to banishment or impri-
sonment, but for a crime which would take from him
his life. Was not the prisoner's conduct consistent
with his innocence, if not inconsistent with his guilt.
Would they convict the prisoner upon the evidence of
the smell of mud ? Did they think that when there
had been this death-struggle to protect her honour his
coat would have remained without a tear ? The pri-
soner must have been an unheard-of villain to have
sat down in a composed and calm manner to eat his
dinner with the family immediately after he had com-
mitted so dreadful, so diabolical a crime. He thought
he had gone through every fact. Did they ever hear
of so brutal a murder having been committed without
a motive ? He knew not what the theory on the other
side was, but he urged that the medical evidence had
completely shown that there had been no violation.
He did not believe that such a villain existed under
God's Heaven, who would commit such a monstrous
crime without n motive, and he confidently con-
tended that no motive had been proved. Why did
the prisoner give the information ? Why, if he
committed the murder, did he not leave her there?
Instead or that, he went and told his brother, and
took him with him to the spot. If they could say
prisoner was guilty, they would say so, without a
motive being shown. He hoped they would give
his observations the attention they might deserve.
If they acquitted the prisoner, and he should be
guilty, his suffering mind would be a greater
punishment than his immediate removal from this
life. Let them pause before they pronounced the
solemn word of guilty. If they did pronounce that
awful word, a scene would in a few days be enacted
in this city, when the bolt would be drawn, and
the prisoner, with all his sins upon his head, would
be hurried into eternity.
Mr. Justice Keating then summed up. They
would look to the evidence and the evidence alone.
It was a case of circumstantial evidence, which re-
quired to be carefully and vigilantly watched. No
human eye looked upon the deed except the mur-
derer and his victim. It was not for the prisoner
to show how he committed the murder if he did not,
but it was for the prosecution to make it out to
their satisfaction. If they allowed the considera-
tions of the consequences of their verdict which had
been urged upon them by the learned counsel who
had so ably addressed them to influence that ver-
dict, then they would fail to discharge their duty.
The learned judge then went through all the evi-
dence. When a prisoner was in custody on a
charge it was better that the police should abstain
from putting questions, although accompanied by a
caution ; but if a prisoner made a statement volun-
tarily it was the duty of the police to take it. The
magistrates' clerk had gone beyond his duty in
putting questions to the prisoner. The jury would
give their verdict upon the evidence—on the one
hand, discarding from their minds any rumours
they might have heard before they came into that
box, and disregarding any suggestion of conse-
quences on the other hand.
The jury retired for about 25 minutes and then
returned a verdict of guilty.
His Lordship then addressed the prisoner—After
a long, a patient, and fair trial, the jury have
found you guilty of murder—murder, under cir-
cumstances of aggravation which present a case
almost without parallel in the history of crime.
That unfortunate young lady, upon whom you cast
a lustful eye, you attempted to dishonour; but von
experienced a degree of resistance which led to
her cruel death. Ido not advert to these circum-
stances for the purpose of aggravating the horror
of the position in which you stand, but I advert to
them for the purpose of endeavouring to induce
you to forego the hope of any mercy here, and to
look for it hereafter. Time will be given you—
that time which you did not give to your victim,
for you hurried her to her great account at a
moment's notice. The law will be more merciful
to you. You will have some time to think of your
past course in this world, and endeavour to pre-
pare yourself for that which is to come. His
lordship then passed upon the prisoner the awful
sentence of death, and the prisoner was then re-
moved from the bar.

COUNTRY MARKE2S.

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WAKEFIELD-JULY 18

The weather since this ieTy week has been variable.
For fine fresh parcels of wheat the demand was steady,
at an improvement upon last Friday's rates. Barley and
beans fully as dear. Oats and shelling unaltered.