The Sun.
London, England, 1838-07-13 00:00:00

h ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT—YORK, WEDNESD.4
Moses Walker and John Alison were indicted for the man-
slaughter of John Picrcy, at Great Driffield, in the month of
May last.

His LORDSHIP intimated that there was no case against
Walker, and the Jury brought in a verdict of Guilty against
Alison, with a recommendation to mercy.
To be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for three months.
John Reed, officer to the sheriff of York, war indicted for
forging and uttering, knowing it to be forget, a certain under-
taking for the payment of money, in the following form :
" 1001.-1 promise to pay Mr. W. Bellerby on order the sum
of 1001. or such other sum of money not exceeding the same
as he may incur, or to be put to,. for or by reason of his becom-
ing one of the sureties to Mark Millbank, sheriff elect for the
county of York for the year ensuing, for John Reed, of this
City, sheriffs' officer. ," VALENTINE WILSON."

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Mr. ROEBUCK for the prosecution ; ki vOTTINGHAM for
the defence. His Lordship summed up, and the jury, after
some deliberation, brought in a verdict of Guilty; but
sentence was deferred on a point taken by Mr. Cottingham,
as to the manner in which the instrument was described in the
indictment.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

THURSDAY.

Gotthard Roake was indicted for feloniously forging an
order or warrant for 601., with a view of defrauding Rotbs-
ehilds and Co. He was also indicted for uttering the same,
knowing it to be forged, After hearing evidence,

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The Jury found the. prisoner Guilty of uttering a fcrgvt.ik,
document.

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The prisoner was again indicted for steal:llg twenty silver
faletespeens, several.silver forks, two ladles, one pair of sugar-
tongs, and ether articlee, the property of the Rev. Wen.
Tyrrell, residieg near Eaton, Leicestershire.
The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
JUDGMENT OF DEATII —Mr. Tustice Parke directed that
the prisoner John Rickey, who w?s convicted the previous (fey
for the wilful murder of Sergeant James Hamilton, of ese
12th Lancers, at Hampton Court Palace, to be brought up..
Proclamation of silence having been made by the Bailiffs of
the Court,
Mr. Justice PARKE, having put on the black cap, proceeded
in an impressive tone of voice to address the unhappy convict
as follows John Rickey, you were tried yesterday for the
awful crime of murder by an attentive and considerate Jury,
and the investigation occupied a considerable portion of the
!rime of the Court. Every circumstance vs as taken into con-
aideratforee and you must know that there was no wish on the
part of the parties prosecuting to press the case too strongly
against you, but sirrip!y to sustain the cause of public justice,
I not then proceed to pals sentence of death upon you,
although I and my Le ernes.! Brothers had not the least doubt
of your guilt, but there' were: matters which induced us to
postpone judgment. A more creeel and premeditated murder
than that committed by you has I:eiee disgraced the judicature
of England—committed, too, upor: sene who never injured
you—sending him to his awful aceorzet without prayer or
preparation, and with his sins upon hie .head. You
upon beers in prison some time, and must haveo
your greet crime. You will,by the law or Ecgland, have
additional time to reflect upon your awful seen:n;on, and I
sincerely trust you will employ it in prayer and repsentance.
The jury who tried you, with a false notion of things, need not
consulting what was due to the interests of public justice, `e-
commended you to mercy. I regret that that recemmendatione
cannot be accompanied by mine. The crime of murder is
mast hateful to the Almighty, and his law is, that ' whoso
slieddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed, for in
the image of God made he man ;' and it is also declared,
The land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein
but by the blood of him that sheddcth.'—( His Lordship was
here much moved, shedding tears as he spoke.) There was,
however, one great consaletion for the prisoner—a merciful
GO, and that through the blessed Saviour's merits and this
great atonement, that God may hear your prayers, if wholly
penitent." The Learned Judge was again very much af-
fected :when is passed upon the prisoner, in the usual form,
the awful sentence of death.
The prisoner then walked from the dock, exhibiting the
same composure as .hes had maintained throughout.