The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-20 00:00:00

MANSLAUGHTER.

Catherine Nowlan was indicted for killing and slaying
Joseph Munns.

Os being placed at the bar, the prisoner was called upon
to plead to the indictment, when she said she was guilty
of causing the death, but she had no intention of killing
Munns.

The prisoner was again asked whether she was guilty or
not guilty, and she replied, " How can I plead guilty when
I had no intention of killing him."

The learned Judge said under any circumstances he
must be made acquainted with the facts of the case. It
would be better for the trial to proceed.
The following evidence was then given :

Ann Vincent said—l live in the Dover Road, and let
the place of business to the deceased. On the day of the
occurrence, the prisoner in company with Mrs. Allen,
came to her house. The prisoner and the deceased entered
the parlour, and she then asked him where he had been all
night. He made no reply, and she then said
" You don't care whether I have anything to eat or
not. You have been out all night spending money when
you know very well you only left me 25." The deceased said
"You can have what you like," when she said she would
have some rump steak. The deceased went out to purchase
it, but returned with some beef steak, but the prisoner said
she would get it herself. I then went out to serve a cus-
tomer in the shop, but when I returned I found the pri-
soner crying very much, and the front of her dress was all
over wet. She said " I've done it." Munns was about to
leave the room after he had been stabbed when the pri-
soner said "My dear boy, I think you are
dying." She sent fort a doctor, but, eventually, she (pri-
soner) went with the deceased to the hospital, where he
died.

Cross-examined—l had previously been using the knife,
and left it where the prisoner caught it up.

By the Judge—l did not hear any quarrelling while I
was in the front shop.
The surgeon having described the nature of the wound
which caused the death of the man,

The Jury returned a verdict of guilty.
Sentence was deferred.

THIRD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Blackburn.)
Mary Ann Harris, 37, married, was indicted for felo•
niously attempting to kill her infant child, also with at.
tempting to destroy her own life.
The prisoner, it will be recollected, threw her child into
the Serpentine, and then jumped in herself.

On being placed at the bar this morning, she was evi-
dently in such a state of stolidity as not to know what was
going on, end the jary were sworn accordingly to try whe-
ther the prisoner was capable of understanding the pro-
ceeding and of taking her trial.

Mr. Gibson, the surgeon of Newgate, said he was of
opinion that the prisoner was not in a fit condition to take
her trial.

The learned Judge said if the jury were satisfied, they
would find a verdict to that effect,

The jury immediately returned a verdict to that effect,
and she was taken from the dock.

Fanny Worboys, widow, was indicted, for that she was
an accessory before the fact to the feloniously using, by
one Morgan, a certain instrument with which to procure a
miscarriage.

From the statement of the learned counsel, the evidence
rested on a statement made by the prisoner to Mr. Hunt,
a surgeon, of Tachbrook-street, Pimlico, when she was in a
dying state, that she had been to a man named Morgan,
and at her request he had used an instrument upon her for
the purpose of procuring abortion, and that he had done so
three times. On the statement being made to Mr. Hunt
he at once communicated with the police, and on his telling
her that she might probably die before the morning she
consented to repeat her statement in the presence of the
officer, adding that about 18 months before she had gone to
Morgan when he used an instrument and procured abor-
tion. The prisoner ultimately recovered, although when she
made the statement she was excessively weak from loss of
blood.

Mr. Cooper made a strong appeal to the jury on behalf
of the prisoner.

The jury returned a verdict of guilty.
The learned Judge, in passing sentence, said the prisoner
had been convicted of a very serious offence. But until
lately by a recent statute the woman herself was not re-
sponsible, but the offence as against others rendered them
liable to penal servitude for life. The prisoner, on hearing
this announcement, here sank into the arms of the gaoler
in a state of insensibility, On her recovery the learned
Judge sentenced her to three months' imprisonment.

NEW COURT.
(Before the Common Sergeant.

Williams and Henry Duthoit Balch surrendered to
an indictment, charging them with conspiracy to defraud..
The facts of the case, which will occupy the ccurt the
whole of the day, were briefly as follows :—The prosecu-
tors, the Messrs. Barrow, are leather merchants in Ber-
mondsey, and the prisoner Williams had been an agent of
theirs, and Balch his clerk. Williams was to sell upon
commission, and return the prosecutors' firm a true ac-
count of the amounts for which the leather was sold, and
also any expenses that might be incurred in the transac-
tions. In February Williams became a bankrupt, and was
heavily in debt to the prosecutors, and upon the transac-
tions having been gone into, the books showed that the ac-
counts that had been sent in it had, it was contended,
been falsified.

MARKETS-THIS DAY,

MARK LANE.

The fresh arrival of new English wheat to this morn-
ing's market was small, and the show of old produce was
andadvancepricesbarelysoldatsBs, white 58s to 64s per quarter.
Theremoderate supply of foreign wheat on the
from
ow i n
mas
stands, and nearly all descriptions met a less active sale,
yet factors were, for the most part, unwilling to make any
concession as regards value.
The malt trade was inactive, on former terms.

New barley was in better supply, and fair request, at
from 36s to 41s per quarter.
Good and fine oats moved off steadily, at full currencies,
otherwise the trade was dull, at barely stationary priceS.
Beans and peas has realised extreme rates. New grey
peas, 38s to 40s ; while, 42s to 43s per qr.
For flour there was a steady demand at very full prices.
ARRIVALS THIS WEER.

Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour.
English__ 470 I IG° 930 120 ' 420 sack?.
Irish — I 07; I 440 I
E,410 5, 21,030

sacks.
5.0 bls,

prices are with difficulty sup-
ported. have at £lO lOs per cwt.
BOROUGH HOP.
Our market
Nov,r is
hops dull, idu
ha

WHITECHAPEL.
8 2d
3s 8d to 4s 8d ; and pork, ; mutton, 3s 2d to
3s 8d to 4s 8d per 81bs by the carcase.
Moderate supplies of meat are on sale, for which the trade
rules steady at the annexed rates :
4s 4d Beef,
;
lamb,
frem4
s Od2s toBsds to 4
Od; veal,

SHIPPING-'-THIS DAY.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRApH.

SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday Morning.
Arrived—Rebecca, from Plymouth L'Etoile and
Mesange, from Carentan; Swanage, from Swanage; Ata-
lanta, steamer, from Plymouth.
Sailed—Dream, for Newport.

(Ey MAGNETIC TELEGRApm.)
GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning.
Arrived, August 19—Susan Bayley, from Lagos;
from Nassau; Granton, from Colombo; \Vhaleys, fom St.
Petersburg; Westmoreland, from Jamaica; Susan, from
Nevis; Boliver, from kiavanilla. Sarah,
DEAL, Tuesday Morning.
Anchored—Augusta, from Gotteuburg, for Bordeaux.