The Sun.
London, England, 1825-08-10 00:00:00

SETTING FIRE TO A WOOD.

In the Criminal Court, Edward Zone/ was indicted for Ira'
liciously and feloniously setting fire to a coppice, called the
Beacon Allotment, the property of the Duke of Beaufort, at
Treleigh, on the 19th April last. It was proved that in the
middle of that day a fire broke out in the wood, and consumed
the trees standing on 10 acres of land ; but there was no ev"
dence whatever to affect the prisoner, except that he was Seen.
going towards the wood about a quarter of an hour before t 1,6
fire, and was observed near it shortly after. No combustible-
was found, nor any other circumstance of suspicion suggested.
Mr. Justice BuRROUGH declined to call on the prisoner fof
his defence, as there was nothing against him, and he directo
an acquittal.
Mr. Cnoss, in applying for costs, observed, that though
there was certainly nothing against this man, the prosecutO
was rendered necessary by the frequency of fires kindled amovg
the woods of the neighbourhood in order to destroy them.
The Learned JUDGE allowed the expences.

CROYDON, TUESDAY, AUG. 9. aftit
Ilanna Sturge, a single woman, was indicted for the vr.,
murder of her female illegitimate child, at Lambeth, on
18th of March, by suffocation in a privy. Second count charg
the prisoner with concealing the birth.
Mr. THESIGER, who conducted the prosecution, stated. 0
the outset, that he proposed to abandon the capital charge, lna
asmuch as he was in no condition to prove that the child nr
born alive. The jury would therefore have to confine the
attention to the charge of concealment.

Mr. LAW conducted the defence.
It appeared in evidence that the prisoner (who was in el);
deepest distress during her trial) was a charwoman ;
lodged at the house of a gardener, named Turner, in Lark-ha f,
lane, Lambeth. For some time previous to the 18th of llarcii;
her landlady had observed that she was pregnant. The beat'
of the parish also taxed her as to her condition .and Wartlei
her to leave the parish, lest she should bring-a condition,
nee;
Lambeth, to which she did not belong. She, however, dens
her pregnancy. On the 18th of March, the prisoner, in6tese,
of going out to her daily work, as usual, remained at il°1111):.
In the course of the morning Mrs. Turner's (laughter
served her carrying something in a pail to the privy, ta„,rt
with her a birch broom. About twelve o'clock Mrs. T'lr"-h..
who had been out, came home ; and learning from her d3ogr,
ter what she had observed, asked the prisoner what had.btisch
pened to her; and remarking that her shape was very 191.i,e
altered, taxed her with having disposed of her infant.
,he
prisoner said nothing had happened to her, and denied thaVitj
had had an infant. Upon being farther pressed, she adglioto
that she had become a mother, and bad thrown the chi!" "was
the privy. In consequence of this information the Prill,an-
searched, and the child found ; the birch broom above .-7hocii,
tioned having been used for the purpose of pushing thq .• •
into the soil.
The prisoner was too much distressed to attempt any defer
Her Counsel did every thing that could be done in her be'l jurf
Mr. Baron Gil AI% 31 summed up the evidence, and the
fourd her Guilty, of the concealment. of.
Sentence—Three months' imprisonment in the 11°°'
C Louisa Catharine Jeffreys, and Louisa Billington, WI to ser
dren under the age of 14, were indicted for a conspiracY„',.
fire to the factory of Mr. John Byng Banks, lace-marje-ft
Bermondsey, and after a trial of considerable length
found—Not guilty.

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We understand that on Sunday nest, th 1 e ider
inst., the Catholic Chapel at Chelsea, which has been coll:conn
ably enlarged, for the purpose of affording v
additional be I
modation to the veteran soldiers of that persuasion, wl". celr
opened for Divine Service, and a Pontifical High Vas' •
prated on the occasion by the Bishop of 1i Lin.

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