The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-13 00:00:00

were of opinion that he caused the drug to be ad-
ministered with a view to procure abortion, and the
woman died, then he was guilty of murder in the
eye of the law. Did he cause it to be taken ? The
mere act of procuring did not amount to causing:
her to take it ; there must be something more. It
WllO one thing to procure it, and another thing di-
rectly or indirectly to counsel and induce, and by
influence over her to cause it to be taken. It was
not necessary that he should hand it to her, if, be--
ing art and part in her act, he advised and induced,
her to take it. If he advised and counselled ,her to
take it to get rid of the child, he caused her to te
a erk
it, and, if death resulted, was guilty of murd.
His lordship observed upon the disadvantage at
which the prisoner was placed when before the
magistrate at the time when the deceased mede her
deposition, the charge then being of a less serious
kind than now, and the prisoner unassisted by an
adviser skilled in cross-examination, and dealing,
too, with a witness who was, morally speaking, an
accomplice, suffering ftom poison, and oppressed,
no doubt, with a sense of heavy moral and legal
guilt. However merciful he might wish to be to the
deceased, he must, in justice to the prisoner, say _
that her statements were inconsistent, and she had,
though quite as guilty as the prisoner, if not more
so, endeavoured to throw the burden of it upon him.
His lordship commented in detail on the conflict of
her statements, and censured the conduct of a police-
man who had endeavoured, by questioning the pri-
soner, to obtain evidence against him. He left it
for the jury to say whether the prisoner procured
the drug and caused the deceased to take it, and, if
not, to say whether the prisoner procured the poison,
knowing the purpose for which she wanted it, in
which case he would be an accessory before the
fact to the woman's administering the drug to her-
self, which would be a misdemeanour at common
law ; if so, he should direct them that, her death
ensuing, she was felo-de-se, and the question of lave
which he should reserve would be whether, as an
accessory before the fact to a common law misde-
meanour, which by the woman's own act ended in
felony, he did not become guilty of legal murder.
The jury found specially—first, that the prisoner
did not procure and cause the deceased to take the
drug ; and, secondly, that he was accessory before
the fact to the common law misdemeanour.
His Lordship said that he should reserve the
question whether the finding of the jury amounted,
in accordance with his direction, to one of murder,
and respited the sentence, informing the prison be
er
that, so far as it lay with him to say so, he need
under no apprehension that his life would be for-
feited.

NORTH WALES ClRCUlT.—Wnsuroold,
March 11.
The commission was opened on Monday, at Welsh-
pool, by Mr. Justice Keating, and the court opened,
for business on Tuesday morning at ten o'cloclr•
There were only five prisoners for trial, including
one indictment for wilful murder.
Ishmael Jones was charged with the wilful mur-
der of his wife at Lianfair on the 30th December last-
The principal evidence against him was furnished
by himself, in consequence of communications hir
had made to several persons, who, of course, BP"
geared as evidence against him. It appeared that
jealousy was the cause of the fatal act. The pri"
soner suspected that a neighbour named Evan Evans
was on terms of too great intimacy with his wife,
and on the day in question he was in a field near to
the road which led from Evans's house to his own,
where he saw him and his (Jones's) wife walking
and talking together, and also overheard some cow
versation about kisses, which was explained 11
Evans to have had reference to another man an
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woman who were a little before them on the road:
According to the prisoner'sown statement, be calicd
to his wife over the hedge and told her to come
home and get him some dinner. She then left Evano
and went home, her husband following. She wep
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down the garden to get some potatoes from a hod
or tump, and there the murderous act was car
raided. The husband had taken the spade fronl
her, and struck her several times, causing three
deep wounds in her skull, which the medical atterr
dant considered would produce almost instant death,
The alleged intimacy was strongly denied by Evan!'
A plea was attempted to be set up that the Prf'-
soner had been in a desponding state of minder
some time, and was subject to delusions ; butt he •
medical attendant, in reply to the learned judge;
stated that he had known him for a long time, air
had no reason to believe that there was any unsound'
ness of mind.
His lordship summed up with great care and Per:
spicuity, and the jury, after an absence from Cont',
of three quarters of an hour, returned a verdicn:w
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wilful murder, accompanied by a recommendat
to mercy.
Sentence of death was passed upon him.