The Sun.
London, England, 1836-08-01 00:00:00

REX V. W. MILLER.

The prosecutor in this case was an elderly female, Sarah
Chapman by name, who gave her evidence to the following
effect :—I was going home from Bury, towards Clay-pit,
in this county, on the evening of Saturday, the 7th of May
last, when the prisoner overtook me, and coming up to my
left side, twisted his leg in between mine, and threw me on
the ground. He then snatched a parasol away which I had
in my hand, and jumped over a gate with it. I got up and
begged him to give it to me again ; hut he ran away.
Cross-examined by Mr. PENDERGAST—I was not tipsy,
neither am I frequently affected by liquor. Prisoner lives
a mile off me. I have been a widow nineteen years. My
husband only died ten years ago. I mean by that, that he
was like all men, and was sent away. I mean that he was
transported nine years before he died, and that is all the
same as being a widow.
This declaration excited considerable mirth in the Court,
there appearing so much sincerity in the old lady's definition
of " widowhood."

'Witnesses Were called for the defence, and the prisoner
was acquitted.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.—SRREwsnunr, JULY 30.
The business began here on Thursday. It is rather
heavier than usual ; there are 13 cases, of which four are
special juries, and 48 prisoners. Some of the charges are
for highway robbery.

NISI PIUUS.—JONES V. JONES.
This was an action for a libel. The plaintiff resides at
Caernarvon, and is mining agent to Mr. Assheton Smith,
M. P. ; the defendant keeps a beer-shop at Bangor, and
was the publisher of a monthly periodical called Figaro in
IVales. In February last he brought out a single number
of a paper called Philo-Figaro (the only number published),
which was purchased by a witness at defendant's beer-shop,
and which contained the libellous paragraph.
The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages,
One Farthing: end said they regretted that there was no
smaller coin which they could give.
• His LORDSHIP refused to certify for a special jury, or to
deprive plaintiff of his costs.

WESTERN CIiWUII.—EXETRit, JULY 28.
Edmund Galley add Joseph Oliver were indicted for the

wilful murder of Jonathan May, at Moretonhampstead, in
this county, on the 16th July last, by striking him with a
large stick on his head, giving him a mortal blow, of which
he languished until the 17th of the said mouth, and then
died. By the second count the prisoner were charged
with the murder, by dragging him from a certain horse on
which he was riding, throwing him on the road, and with
a large stick striking and kicking him while on the ground,
giving 11:m divers wounds, of which-he languished and died.
There were other counts to the same effect. The pri-
soners pleaded not guilty.
Mr. PRAED opened the case, and then called the follow-
ing witnesses
Mr. George Norris—l live at Moreton. I remember
Mr. May coming to my -house between seven and eight in
the evening of Moreton fair. He paid me 1/. 10s. 3d. I
gave him a receipt. • He put the bill and receipt in his side
pocket. At that time he was sober. I don't know that

he had a watch. I have seen the bill and receipt.
John Callamy—Was on the road when the body was
found. H was Mr. May. Searched the pockets. Three
of them were turned inside out. Found two 51. notes in a
pocket inside the waistcoat. The pocket-book and watch
were gone.

Mary Callamy, wife of last witness; remained with May
until the following evening., when he died. Witness pro-
duced the clothes, &c. The shirt was torn much at the
breast, and down the back ; it was covered with blood.
The other clothes exhibited marks of violence and
struggling.
William Barkwell, a stonemason, found a stick in a
ditch, at Jacob's Well, on the mornimr, of the 17th of
July. There appeared finger-marks of blood on it. Found
a frill of sl:rt, it. was. in a gore of frcsi Mood. There
was a quantity of blood on the hedge. The tracks of
hands and kness extended about sixty feet.
Elizabeth Harris was now called, and a thrill of ex3ite-
meet ran through the Court. The prisoner Galley eyed
her with the utmost intensity. Oliver scarcely looked up
for some time ; his glances were furtive and timid. A dis-

cussion took place on a point raised by Mr. Smith on The
admission of her evidence, she being a convicted felon
under sentence of transportation.
Mr. PRAED put in a free pardon, being the Royal sign
manual and countersigned by Lord John Russell.
Elizabeth Harris examined by Mr. PitAED—How old
are you ?—Twenty-two. Look at the prisoners ; do you
know them ?—Yes, I do, perfectly well (looking stead-
fastly at them.)—The first time I saw them was coming up
the Exeter-road. How soon after did you sec them again?
—About an hour. Where were they then ?—Corning up
through the fair. Were they together then ?—They were.
Did you hear what either of them said, and was it said in
the presence and loud enough for others to hear ?—lt was
said loud enough for every one to hear, but it was said in
the way that they speak, that unless they were travellers
nobody could understand. What did you hear ?—I heard
them say as they passed, " It's a fine looking gaff." Which
of them was it ?—Buckingham Joe. Buckingham Joe
said that to the other.—What do you call him ?—Tur-
pin.--What did he say? Hf_.:Said,'" It is a fine-looking gaff;"
he said, " There is some crusty-looking blocks, 'and we must
have some gilt in the rot ?" Now,didyomWerstand what
it meant ? I did ; a gaff Meant it wasaififOiloOking fair, and
the blocks were fine-looking farmers,-_,444 the gilt was
money, and the rot was the evening.—ln•the course of that
evening did you go out of the 'town of Morefon ? I did.
—For what purpose ? To go to Exeter.—At. what time ?
Between nine and ten.—Did you meet anybody on the road
on your way ? I met the- two men.—Did you go on
through the turnpike ? I did not.--Did you keep in the
road then ? I did ; I met a farmer coming on horseback.
-What pace was he riding ? Very slow.—Now, did any-
thing happen to him ? Yes, there was a man came over
the hedge, and laid.liold of his horse's head.—Did you hear
whether he said anything ? I think lie said to the farmer
" Good night." I think he said, " You arc just going
home, farmer ;" and -I think the farmer made answer, " I
am."—What was the next thing you saw then ? I saw
Turpin come out of the hedge, on the same side of the road.
—ln front of the farmer, or behind him ? Behind him.

—Tell me what 'you saw done? He had a stick, and the
big end of it appeared to me as thick as my fist, and he
gave the farmer two blows on the head. (Turpin here
tossed his head, apparently in astonishment, and com-
pressed his lips.) Now, what was the effect of .these
blo vs ? The last blow did not quite get him off his
horde. Buckingham Joe let go the horse, and came
and pulled him off, and, in pulling him off, they both
fell together, Mr. May and then Oliver.—Where
was the other man, that you call Turpin, then ? The other
man was standing close by.—Now what took place when
they were down upon the road ? I believe there were many
blows passed between Buckingham Joe, Oliver, Turpin,
Galley, and the farmer, after they were down, but I cannot
tell how many. Was there a struggling ?—Yes, very great.
Did the farmer get up at all ?—He did not get up again
after they had him down. They were struggling for five
minutes I should think. He got part of the way up. They
would be struggling, Buckingham Joe and he, but Turpin's
blows would kep him down. Did you hear the farmer say
anything ?—I heard the farmer say, " If you rob me, for
God's sake don't take my life." After you heard that did
you hear anything else ?—The farmer wanted to speak,
but it appeared to me as if he had a hand or something be-
fore his mouth, and could not. Did you stay in the road ?
I stopped, and as'soon as I could get up I went back to
Moreton. How long did you remain after they had left ?
I think it might be about ten minutes. Then you cannot
say whether you heard a groan ? I think I heard a groan
or two.

The COURT—If I understand you right, you had no
doubt as to these two men, and if they had seen you they
would have taken your life ?—I am quite sure it is the men,
and I am quite sure they would have taken it if they had
seen me. And you saw Turpin, as you call him ? Galley
is the person who gave the blows with the stick.
The COURT—Edmund Galley, do you wish to put any
question to this woman ?
Galley—Can you look at me with a clear conscience, and
say you saw me commit this depredation upon this man ?
Yes, I can.

Buckingham Joe—You are swearing away as false as you
can.

Galley—My God, my Lord, I cannot help speaking.
Here 1 stand by the side. of this man. I never saw him
since the day I was born, at one of those fairs or elsewhere.

Thomas 111‘Gill, sergeant of London police, apprehended
Edmund Galley in Coldbath-fields on the 9th of April. He
denied that he teas called Turpin. He did not know
Buckingham Joe. On taking him into the charge-room at
Bow-street, he saw the bill offering the reward for May's
murderers, and Galley turned after reading it, and said, " I
suppose that's about the thing I am charged with." On the
coach he said, " God knows whether I ;hall ever return ;
he knows I am innocent."

Ann Carpenter—l travel about with lace. On Monday,
the 13th of July, I was at Exeter. I staid at Mrs. Ma-
rengo's, and I saw two those men, and a woman with them.
The woman was called Black Anne. She was an English-
woman, but dark. They went away together on Monday,
and raid to Mrs. Marengo, " We are going to Zeal fair."
The woman remained behind. They were both together,
and had their dinner together. I never saw Galley at all
afterwards till I saw him in gaol ; but Oliver I saw at the
time of the Wilton races, the second Monday in August.
It was at a lodging-house that I saw him. There were two
men in the room with him besides the landlord. Black
Anne was there. Oliver and Black Anne were there
when I went in. I said to them, Didn't I see you
in Eter ?" He said, No ; what county was it
in ?" "I said, " It wasn't so long since for you to for-
get ; I am positive that you are the man." Black
Anne denied that they had ever been there. Then
when my daughter came in, she said, " Mother, there's the
people we saw at Mrs. Marengo s." Black Anne said, I
was there with another man, but this man was not with
me. My daughter said he was the man, and he made no
answer whether he was or not. I remember Black Anne
bringing in a smock frock the same day from the garden,
and he held up and looked at it, and said it wasn't
washed clean enough, and words and blows passed be-
tween them abtolunitt i.
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vitriol would burn. Then Elizabeth Mackinlay said, loud
enough for him to hear it, " It was more likely to be the
blood of Mr. May." Oliver said nothing. I saw the
smock as it was held up. It was only washed at the side.
Gardner, one of the turnkeys of the gaol, produced the
smock-frock which Oliver had on when he came to prison.
John Hiscock—l live at Broadway, near Dorchester. I
was committed to Dorchester Gaol in April, 1835. I re-
mained till March, 1836. I know a man called Thomas
Oliver. That's the man there. He came into the prison
about the 16th of September. I bad the care of the ward
in which Oliver was confined. We were both in the same'
ward. I had repeated conversation with him. He told
me amongst the rest that he and a person named Turpin
were at Exeter in July last, and they were also at More-
ton fair, and a farmer was robbed there of the name of
Mr. May, of some money and checks, more than once or
twice, or a hundred times.—[Oliver—" Nox that tells you
are a liar, because you said 51:1 many times:l—And that

rone—Krthur Padrew veKteen bail for it, buts &db..°
he knew nothing of it.(- asked him if th ncve r
arrad of being taken. He said " No," for Turpin always
carried loaded pistols with him, and would at any ti e
any man that should attempt to take him. He said further,
they went Moretonhampstead to London, by wdy of
Taunton, and from thence ,to Bath, and they stayed at the,
Fox and:Hounds in Walcot-street in Bath, and they were.
afraid to stay there ; and Oliver went to the York-house,
in Bath, and paid the fare, two sovereigns and odds, to
London.
Galley, on being called on for his defence, denial hat he
had been in Devonshire before last May, and that he nei er
knew the other prisoner.
The Learned JUDGE summed up with great mimeo:lees.
and evidently with a favourable leaning towards Turpin.
His Lordship occupied three hours.
The Jury turned to consider their verdict at twenty-fi‘o
minutes to 10 o'clock, and at eighteen minutes to ten re-
turned a verdict of Guilty against both prisoners.
On being asked if they had anything to say why the
Court should not award judgment against them to (lie ac-
cording
.to.the law, both the prisoners repeated their inno-
cence of the crime laid against them. Oliver loudly de-
clared that he never saw Galley before they were charged
with this offence, and neither of them knew anything more
about it than a baby just born.
After some minutes of apparently deep consideration,
his LORDSJIIP put on the black cap, and proceeded to pass
sentence.

Oliver—My Lord, I have a statement to make : I hope
your Lordship will hear it. I did not do the murder. I
know who did. Thii man is innocent. He has never
been with me in this country before. I never knew him
before now. He is innocent, my Lord.
Galley—My Lord, I never saw him before. lam as in-
nocent as the babe unborn.
The JUDGE—Then all I can say is, that you are the most
unhappy of men,
because you have been convicted on an°
accumulation of proof—by evidence from people on whorn
there can rest no particle of suspicion—not from one, two,
or three, but one after another, who, without difficulty or
hesitation, have spoken to facts which you so strenuously
deny, and have denied throughout these inquiries, until proof
has been so accumulated to the minds of the jury, as tojeave
them without doubt. !7;?-
Galley—My Lord, do you not think it hard to he tori
dernned and to stA'er when you are innocat ? lam sure
you would not sentence an- innocent niAtlitt;-have his life
taken away. God knows I •.am innocent ; and I thank God
for it.

Oliver—My Lord, I never was with Galley within this
county before. lam innocent of this murder i; do not send
him to the same gallows with me. I was noQconcorned in
this murder, though I know Who it was ; it $31.4
.not he, it
was Turpin, the Kentish youth.—(Great
His Lonosmr —All I can say now is what I said at
first—we must act on the -evidence ,offered. to us. How-
ever strongly you may assert your innocence, it is impos-
sible to entertain a doubt on that evidence. .4:repeat it is
not my intention to aggravate .your feeling's, by any descrip-
tion of the nature of this offence.
Galley—My Lord, it is an- offence for which any nun
who commits it might to die. My Lord, I am innocmt.
I never was in this county before now.
Oliver—My Lord; he never was. He is mistaken for
another man (turning to Galley),• It is now all over,
friend, but you are not the man `who did this murder.

The JUDGE—I can only strongly recommend you to em-
ploy the Short time. you haVe remaining to live, in earnest
and anxious endeavour to obtain forgiveness in that quar-
ter to which you. have so frequently appealed, to obtain
that mercy which in. this world cannot be extended to you,
and which you must not expect. The duty, the very
painful duty,' now di wolves me, and God knows how
willingly, how gladly I would, at any expense and any sa-
crifice, have avoided this duty ; it is now my bounden duty
to pronounce the sentence.
Oliver—l hop Li your. Lordship will not hang an innocent
man. 'I hope you will not. He (Galley) Was not with me
in this county. `1 never litiew.iiiin'beforewe met here.
His LORDSHIP-The evid'6n4,that.-yo. were together is
accumulated taisuch a degree ris''to lea Veto doubt oa the
minds of the Jury. I 'lover, in the'whilli: course of my
experience saw such a quantity broughtfor" rd. The.sen-
tence of the Court, therefore on you, Earn ' Galley, and
sk
you, Thomas Oliver, is, that for this yOtti nce, you be
taken to the place from whence you camp, atid thence to
the place of execution, and that there. you: severally hung ,
by the neck until you are dead, arid that your bodies be in-
terred within the precincts of the prison in which you have
been confined since your conviction, and may the Lordhave
mercy on your souls.
Oliver was about to make some other remark ; but
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noise of the Court was so great that he could not be ~ • ",,.•
and the Judge ordered the prisoners to be taken dOw.-47:,.4,,
The prisoners were then removed, loudly ietiaae. ~
innocence.. They will be executed on Monday for ''' = t: l'''''
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2,70./ZTILEAW CIRCUIT. Arr. Wed STLF, ..14 --...,,:. '
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This morning, at haIF-past eleven &Jock, Mr. Baron
PARKE proceeded to charge the Grand Jury for the City,
and Mr. Justice COLERIDGE that for the County. There
arc but fourteen prisoners. One for murder, one for man-
slaughter, one for forgery, and the others for robberies of
various kinds, none of them of a very aggravated nature.
There is one special jury case on the 1V7.7i Pries list, an
action for libel, appointed for two o'clock to-morrow at the
Guildhall.
CROWN Counm—Robert Dixon Fleming was indicted
for robbing James Murray. Guilty. Sentence of death
was recorded.

Richard Pdis was indicted for stealing a sheep, the pro-
perty of Robert Riddell. Verdict—Not Guilty.
FRIDAY, JULY 29.
aUOCKETT V. HERNAMAN.
Tbis was an action for a libel, alleged to have been pub-
lished in the Newcastle Journal, of which the defendant is
proprietor, on the 12th of March last.
Mr. William Henry Brockett is a merchant. in extensive
business at Newcastle, a magistrate, and a councilloe of the
borough of Gateshead. On the 12th of March last a para-
graph commenting u' on some proceedings of the town
council appeared in the Newcastle Journal. In this Mr.
Broken was.made the special object of attack, and himself
and his conduct commented on in such a way as to give rise
to the present action.

The jury brought in a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages
40s.

CROWN COURT.—G. Wilson was indicted, in five severa
indictments, for forgery.
'rho prisoner, a person of highly respectable appearance,
wept nearly throughout the trial. It appeared that these
transactions had been going on for a considerable time, and
to a very large amount. The first indictment was for the
forgery of the acc?ptance, and indorsement of a bill of ex-
change, purportkg to be drawn upon and accepted byJacob
Liddell, publican, Great Whittingliam, and indorsed by
Gco. Davidson.'

The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
His LORDSHIP sentenced him to be imprisoned and kept
to hard labour in the House of Correction at Morpeth for
the, period of six months, and subsequently to be transported
for life.

The prisoner was removed from the bar in an agony of
grief.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.

On Saturday Matthew _Peers, the driver of a waggon
from Ely to London, and Mary Jones, the keeper of a dis-
reputable house, No. 2, Lombard-street, Fleet-street, were
charged kith conspiring and confederating together to se-
duce Mary and Elizabeth Vale to leave their homes, and
lead an improper.life.

The waggoner said the charge was altogether false.
Mr. Alderman WOOD, after hearing the testimony of the
sFsters, said there was a sufficient case of conspiracy made out
to go to a jury ; and committed both prisoners to Newgate.