The Sun.
London, England, 1849-07-31 00:00:00

No. 17,737.] LONDON) TUESDAY E v -7 JULY 31, 1849.

• AGENTS WANTED.
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The Right Rev. William Morris, D.D., Acton, Middlesex.
The Right Hon. the Lord Stafford, Cossey Hall, Norfolk.
Sir Henry Paston Bedingtield, Bart., Oxburgh, Norfolk.
Sir Richard Jenkins, G.C.8., Director of the Hon. East India

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Thomas Barnewell, Esq., 15, York-terrace, Regent's-park,
Thomas Eyre, Esq., 62, Pultency-street, Bath.
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YEBROWS, MOUSTACHIOS, and WHIS
AROMATICmatic herbsand R E GENE-
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EA KERS produced in a few weeks, and Baldness removed and
prevToenßted,
anbyestsheentl
ui:espoifet? Rdrla3wnlSTfrOoNm am
E'S
a few drops of which cure headache in a few minutes; it is also
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/13 I fit LAMB.
This lady had the felloWing letter inserted in the "Times" news.
paper on Aug. 7, 1846. Reader, remember, this letter was put fat
the paper by the lady herself, as a testimony to me.
" Mrs. WeeUey, of No. 3. Swan-Street, Beroligh, takes this oppor-
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and the whole other hair it much stronger and more luxuriant than
t ceet *at before the baldness appeared.
"Mrs. Weekley inserts this testimony to virtues of Mr. G.'s
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perience, not only lb the restoration and production of heir in aeund-
mee, bet as a cure of nervous headache; as a toilet perfume itt far
beYonci any to her taste. She will feel a plessare in answering any
lady of respectability to, the above fact .-3, Swan-street, Borough."
In eases of the hair becoming thin, weak, or turning grey, al3 W
drops
on the crown of the head occasionally, every week, will pre-
ventre the hair from coming away with the comb, mane it strong, and
hif)sirr.brotinitiantue, niyienagusginrcyi,t to curl.
the hair luxuriant and curly. A
Ps on your hairbrush before brushing the hair, will give the
mcuaryl .
The most delicate ladies
use this delightful product of the
most aromatic herbs and flowers with confidence ; its refreshing
odour removes h
to the headache and makes it a moat necessary companion
toilet. In cases of ems ‘,
on the crown of the head • , if very bad, repeat it every quarter of an
hour. In most cases relief is certain in ten minutes. It produces
pplicatlons. If
hair on children's heads in a fate ap •
used on intents'
ilea4e, it has such a peculiar c.)uling influence on the brain as to pre-
WI"; zonvulsions as wall as promoting the growth of hair.—See
pamphlet of testimonials.
Autattorti addrfssed to William Grimatone, Uorbary, Ulglagat46

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Visitors to the Theatres, Citizens, and Gentlemen connected with
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OODWOOD AND BRIGHTON RACES
k X 1849.
WILLIAM CARELESS, Brighton, begs to acquaint his Neigh-
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ments of the same quality as supplied by his father at the late Ascot
Races to the Royal party at the Queen's Stand, also at the Grand
Stand and Marquee adjoining, at Epsom and other Races.
Moet's best Iced Champagne Eight Shillings per bottle, to pre-
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SHARES

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ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
HOME ClRCUlT.—Coventry, July 28.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.)
Mary Ball, aged 31, was indicted for the wilful mur-
der, on the 18th of May last, at Nuneaton, in this county,
of Thomas Ball, her husband.

Hayes and Mr. Mellor appeared as counsel for
the Crown ; Mr. Miller and Mr. Denison defended the
prisoner.

The prisoner had purchased of a Mr. Rifle a penny-
worth of arsenic. The deceased person was her hus-
band. He went out a fishing at nine o'clock, and re-
turned at four, Joseph Petty, and a man of the name of
Watts, being with him. He drank only cold water. He
was well when he returned home. At six o'clock he
was very bad, and his wile went over to a neighbour
and said so. He died at two on the Sunday morning.
A post mortern cx smination proved the presence of ar-
senic, though only two or three grains were reproduced.
The Learned Counsel engaged for the prisoner defended
her as ably as man could. Her case was that sho
purchased, with a friend, arsenic to kill bugs. There
were bugs. She said that she used it. all for the pur-
pose for which she had procured it. It seemed that the
unfortunate woman hod formed an attachment to the
son of her husband's employer, then only. nineteen
years old. For her defence it was said that the ar-
senic was in the scullery in a paper, near to which, on
the shelf, was a paper containing salts. The defence,
admitting that the man was killed by arsenical poison,
was that it was accidentally left, so that he took it
by misadventure. To one witness she expressed a
hope that they would " not cut him open." A witness
said, " Really, I couldn't have thought that you would
have done such a thing." She answered, I " have had
enough to make me do that and much more." The sur-
geon stated that without a suggestion about poison hav-
ing been administered, the appearances would, have in-
duced that conclusion. There way inflarrintSionecauaed
by metallic poison, and it clearly was arsenic. To one
she said, "If they do open him, I shall be done. Can I
prevent it? if I could I would. I have had enough to
make me do twenty times as much." To the chemist
she said, laughingly, " Such a bit as this would not poi-
son any one—would it?" He answered, " Yes, half
that." Prisoner laughed and said, " Good God, such a
bit as this 1" One time she said, " I'll poison. you."
Another time she said " I wish the waggon train may
pass over you." The Learne I Judge allowed that the
arsenic was procured for a lawful purpose, but expressed
a fear that she had familiarised her mind with such
things and such subjects, until she was brought to
make deadly use of the arsenic in question. To the
person—a woman of the name of Nicholson—who went
with her to buy the arsenic (an article not sold to a
person applying singly for it), she said on being asked,
'• You don't want to poison yourself, do you ?" "No I
would rather poison Tom than myself." That he was by
arsenic poisoned being beyond all doubt, the only question
remaining was as to the guilty intent of the prisoner.
She had unhappily said that she had mixed it with his
gruel. The Learned Judie left the question to the jury.
Was the fact done, and if done, was it the criminal in-
tent of the prisoner? The motive that appeared was,
that she had acquired a dislike to him, and an attach-
ment to William Bacon. From the summing up of the
Learned Judge it seemed that she had said, when he
was going somewhere by the railway, " If he cores back
I'll poison him," "His sister Jane has been telling lies
about me. I'll murder my husband if he says anything
more about it." He called her a w—, and she said, " Well,
if lam one, I will be one." She had also said, " Before
he shall serve me that trick again, I'll poison him." De-
ceased had been asked, " Why did you beat her?" and
he said, "I saw enough through a chink in the wall
with William Bacon." The Judge enjoined the jury
not to imagine consequences, but answer the question—
did she use the thing with a settled purpose to destroy
her husband or not? It was quite clear that on the
husband's mind there was a suspicion with reference to
William Bacon. One Abel Vernon said to her,
" Mary, your husband's gone off very suddenly ;
it's very alarming. I have been informed you have
been buying some arsenic." She answered, "Yes, I
have; I bought it at Richarcleon's, used it to kill the
bugs, threw the cup away, and burnt the paper." Twice
over to the constables she said that she had used the
whole of the poison in the way designed, viz., about the
bedsteads. Then she said that she took some out of it,
and laid it on the pantry shelf, where there was some
salts, and by accident he took it. Then, again, she said
that " she had a bit of arsenic, and mixed it with some
salts, and put it into some gruel, and gave it to the
man, and if they examined the stomach it would be like
a piece of beef." She said that she was sorry that she
had not told Haddon (the constable) the truth. To one
witness, who said, "Mary, I understand they are going
to open your husband," she said, "If they do, I shall
be hanged." Witness said, "Good Lord, Mary, I hope
William 13acon has nothing to do with it," and she
answered. "He is as innocent as a lamb. Ho knows
nothing about it."
The defence was that she unhappily told one lie
through fear (thesJudgas admittingetJaig,even this stoutest
man mignt do so), ann nnding herself involved in diffi-
culty, fell into a labyrinth of falsehood that placed her
in her present predicament. She had left the poison so
carelessly that when she knew that her husband had
taken it, terror arising from her oa'n sense of misconduct
affected her with alarm, and made her unconscious.

The jury retired for nearly two hours, and then re-
turned a verdict of Guilty, with a recommendation to
mercy.
The JUDGE wished to know on what ground that re-
commendation was founded ?

The jury turned round and consulted, and the foreman
then said, " Guilty of murder."
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE put on the black cap, and
passed sentence of death. He said that there had been
a long and patient hearing, and the jury had found the
prisoner guilty of killing by poison the man whom she
was bound to tend. If he thought that there were cir-
cumstances that would avert what impended he should
not venture to say so. The kindest thing that he could
now do was to say that he could see no ground for ex-
tending mercy. It seemed that the poor man's life had
become an obstacle in the prisoner's way, and she
showed no mercy to him. He was willing to believe that
the poison was bought innocently, and that she had suf-
fered her mind to become familiarised with the idea of
using so deadly an instrument. He besought her to
cast away all hopes in this life; and she is left for
execution.

OXFORD ClRCUlT—Shrewsbury, July 28.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron RoLFE.)
CHARGE or MURDER. —Mercy Catherine Newton,
aged 30, was charged with having, on December 5,
1848, at the parish of St. Mary, Magdalene, in the bo-
rough of Bridgenorth, killed and murdered Anne New-
ton, her mother. The mode Of killing was laid in eight
or nine different ways—strangulaticn, smothering, &c.
Mr. Whitmore and Mr. Phillimore appeared for the
prosecution; and Mr. Huddlestone and Mr. li.. Kettle
for the prisoner.
On the prisoner being brought to the bar, and the
jury being about to be called,
Mr. ITUDDLESTONE proposed to plead that the pri-
soner had been put on her trial at the last assizes for this
offence, and that the jury had been discharged without
having come to a verdict. The Learned Gentleman har-
ing put in the plea, it was read, and then a long conver-
sation ensued as to what course should be pursued, but
as the record of the former trial and the discharge of
the jury and the reasons tor it had been made up and
was in court, the Learned Gentleman ultimately with-
drew the plea, as he said he bad all the same advantages
by the way in which the record was made up as he would
have by pleading this plea, and the trial then proceeded
in the ordinary course. At half-past six o'clock only
one witness had been examined. The Court then
adjourned and met again this morning at nine.
The prisoner, who, though only 30 years of age, looks
40 or more, was dressed in black suitably to her station
in life, and conducted herself throughout the trial with
singular firmness and composure, repeatedly making
suggestions to her attorney. She has been fur nine or
ten years housekeeper to an elderly gentleman, a Mr.
Dyer, who ' lived in a house in Bridgenorth, called
Severn House, and who was so paralysed that he could
not walk or speak, except to say, " Mary," " Aye," and
"No." By his will he left her a little house and 17
guineas. The deceased was 72 years of age, and was
very quick and acute ter that time of life, and was rather
flighty. She was not as a medical witness described her
—insane; but at times she was much excited, and would
say very unreasonable things. She had the interest of
5001. settled on her lite; after her death the prisoner was
to have 2001. absolutely at once, and the interest of the
remainder for life. For a long time before the death of
the old woman she and the prisoner had not been on
good terms, but for a fortnight before her death they
seemed more sociable than they had been. The old
women lived in lodgings in the town, and came occa-
sionally to Mr. Dyer's, sometimes with his knowledge,
sometimes without it, as in consequence of and the
prisoner's quarrelling he did not like her coining there.
She used to drink, and so used the prisoner. The
latter repeatedly expressed a wish for her mother's
death, so that she might get the 2001., and com-
plained that " the old was living on her property
and keeping her out of it till her (prisoner's) hair was
become gray. A twelvemonth before the night in ques-
tion she beat her mother with a whip so shockingly that
pieces of flesh were completely cut out of her arms, and
on the servant, Mary Corfield, who attended always on
Mrs. Dyer, remonstrating with her, she replied "
her, let her die ; " and even when the surgeon who came
to dress the wounds complained to her of the cruelty of
her conduct, she said she was sorry she had not finished
her. Five months before the death she again beat the
old woman with a whip, and when Mary Corfield inter-
fered she threatened to treat her in the same manner.
She had recently gone on her knees to her mother,
and begged of her to commit suicide, and she would
supply her with the things necessary for the purpose,
When Dr. Newel twice remonstrated with her on beat-
ing the poor woman, she on each occasion answered, " I
am sure I shall kill her some day or other, and I know
I shall come to be hanged for it." When he could
not persuade her on his second application to
treat her mother better, he said, "You re-
member, your relation at Severn-hall was hanged for
kil'ing his wife, and if you kill your mother you will
he the second hanged in the family." She was re-
peateuly heard to express regret that the old
woman had lived so long, and was keeping her out
I of the money ; and to threaten that she would Apron

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her mother's days, and to express fears that her mother
would-be the cause of her coming to an untimely end.
She frequently beat her mother, and when her passion
subsided she expressed regret sometimes for having done
so, sometimes for not having done more. She used to
apply the most horrible epithets to the old woman, and
was heard to wish her mother's legs cut off at the knees,
and to say she knew she should come to hang for her
mother. " She should never be happy so long as her
mother was above ground." " When her mother was
dead she would drive a stale through her heart."
" She will never die ; a cannon ball would not knock
her down." There was a thunder-storm on a
Sunday afternoon in the summer of last year, and
before it abated the other servant said to the prisoner,
"Kitty, there is a thunderbolt fallen somewhere," to
which she replied "Yes, and I hope it has fallen on that
old devil." She was often heard to say she would wish
to see her mother cut into quarters, and broiled on a
gridiron. These expressions were used at various times
within a year of the 4th of December. Her conduct
to the old woman was very cruel. The latter
came one day to Mr. Dyer's, and, seeming faint from
hunger, the other servant, Mary Corfield, went to the
prisoner, and ask' d her to give some food to her mother,
as she was very faint, and the prisoner answered,
"The -- old ----, let her clem ' (starve) to death."
She used to beat her so violently that the other
servant was frequently obliged to call in Mr. Dyer's
nephew to prevent her and restore quiet. On one occa-
sion when he was called in she continued abusing the
old woman, and gave her a push on the chest, which
would have thrown her back into the fire had he not run
forward and saved her. She once struck her across the
legs, at the knees, with a poker. She was once beating
her so cruelly in Mr. Dyer's parlour that the blood
flowed from the back of her head; and when the other
servant interposed and said, " Oh, Kitty, she will die," her
answer was, " her, let her die." She once threatened
to cut off the top of the poor woman's tongue with a razor,
and in order to prevent this the other servant was obliged
to throw the razor into the river Severn, which flowed
near the house. About five months before the 4th of
December she beat her severely, cut and blackened the
flesh about her knees, and caused her to sprain her ankle.
She once tore the Sash off the inside of her mother's
mouth, and when the other servant discovered it by
seeing blood on a plate, and went and remonstrated with
her, she replied " her, she has told you that," and
ran into the brewhouse where the old woman was, but
the other servant followed and prevented her from doing
anything more. She once attempted to choke her, and
the marks of her fingers outside the old woman's neck
were visible for a long time afterwards. When the old
woman was at Mr. Dyer's one evening, she threw a quan-
tity of water over her clothes, and when the other servant
wished to put some dry clothes on her, the prisoner would
not allow her, saying, "Let her be in her wet ; I hope
she will be dead before morning." Her conduct towards
her mother generally was so violent and cruel, that the
magistrates of the borough were frequently appealed to,
but they could only remonstrate with her, as the old
woman would not appear against her. About eight
months ago she pushed her mother into a chair in Mr.
Dyer's parlour, and was endeavouring to choke her with
a handkerchief, which she was forcing down her throat,
when Mary Corfield came and saved her, pulled the pri-
soner away, and took out the handkerchief. The poor
woman's mouth was torn and bleeding, and blood also
rushed from her ears. The handkerchief was covered
all over with spots of blood. The girl Corfield kept it
in her box in the same state in which she took it out of
the poor woman's mouth, and produced it on the inquiry
after her death, and on the last and present trial. It
appeared that the deceased was generally very cold and
chilly, and in the habit of going very near the fire; that
in consequence of going too near the fire she on one
occasion burned her dress, and on another her apron;
on the latter occasion she had removed the fender in
order to get near the grate. That she used to smoke in
bed, and to light her pipe with lucifer matches, and to
put these on her chair by her bedside, and to carry them
in a basket. Mary Corfield, who spoke to these circum-
stances, in cross examination, said she did not remember
ever having seen her carrying them in her bosom or
pocket; but she could not say that she did not sometimes
take the matches irom her bosom or pocket. There was
no other evidence on this pint. Oa the night in ques-
tion she brought her pipe with her, and it was found the
next morning in her basket. Three or four months
before that night she had slept there on the sofa
in the kitchen, and when Mary Corfield observed
the next day the corner of the sofa cushion burned, she
said she had done it. On the evening of Monday, the
4th day of December, she came to Mr. Dyer's house.
Her ankle was then still weak, and she had in her basket
a bottle of liniment for a sprained ankle. In the course
of the evening she handed the prisoner a card, saying,
" Kitty, here is a card with the Lord's Prayer on it,"
bat the prisoner flung it in the fire, saying, " that will
not feed you." The old womaiLhad a supper of bread
and cheese, with half a pint of beer. The prisoner after-
wards sent nut Mary Corfield for a quart of rum, and on
her bringing it treated her to a little of it in a cup, as she
mut a cola. The °la woman did not get any of it. Be-
fore they separated for tho night, L.ll n pint of Dr “,43
used. The deceased lay down to sleep on the sofa in
the kitchen, and the prisoner prepared to undress. She
used to sleep up stairs, but was in the habit of undress.
ing in the kitchen. Her clothes were found on a chair
in the kitchen the next morning. Mary Corfield
went up stairs at half-past nine. Half an hour before
she went up she met the prisoner coming from the pan-
try towards the kitchen with a butterboat full of dripping.
Corfield lay down in her master's bed-room to attend on
him. She did not fall asleep. She heard the prisoner
shut the door leading out of the kitchen to the foot of
the stairs, and which used net to be shut at night. She
soon heard a "screak"—a sort of shriek or scream,
and ran down stairs, and heard the mother and
daughter talking. After a while they became quiet, and
she went up again. After some time she heard the de-
ceased say, " Don't, Kitty; don't!" but hearing no more
she soon dropped off to sleep, and did not wake till
twelve o'clock, when she had occasion to get up to at •
tend her master. After doing all that wag necessary
for him she again lay down to sleep, and did not awake
till he roused her up about two o'clock, when she felt a
smell of fire and a sense of suffocation, and found the
room full of smoke. She then ran down stairs into the

kitchen, and as she was going down saw a light in the
yard. She found the door between the kitchen and the

stairs still closed. The kitchen was very wet, particu-
larly near the fireplace. There was very little fire in the
grate, but the whole place was full of smoke. She ran
out at once by the front door to a Mr. I)oughty's, a
nephew of her master, and aroused him and his wife
with a cry that the houso was on fire. Mr. Doughty
immediately ran back, and as ho was coming near the
place saw the prisoner in the yard, near the brewhouse.
He tried to get in by the front, but found it fastened (it
fastened by a spring lock). He then ran to the back
door; that, too, was fastened. He ran back to the front

door; and, finding he could not get in there, ran again
to the back door, and had it opened to him by the pri-
soner. After attending to his uncle he came down
stairs and found the back door bolted and fas-
tened, and the girl Corfield waiting outside.
While she was waiting she thought she saw
a splashing of water in the brewhouse. He let her in.
He was sure that he had not fastened the door. They
both went into the kitchen, and found it very wet, and a
little fire smouldering on the sofa, which Mr. Doughty at
once put out. They found a great deal of water on the
sofa and pillows. Part of the sofa and the pillows, and
the entire back of the sofa cover, were burned. They
found a quantity of water, rags, :and tinder, and a piece
of rag covered with spots of blood in the kitchen. The
fire in the grate was nearly out. While they were there
the prisoner came in from the back premises in her night-
dress. Mr. Doughty said to her, " You and your mother
have been near burning Mr. Dyer." She replied, " What
have Ito do with my mother?" She was not sober then,
nor quite drunk. She went to the cupboard—the sofa
lay between it and the fire—and took out the bottle of
rum which had been bought over night, and asked him
"If he would drink!" He said "He would not drink
with such a wretch." She then drank out of the bottle,
and it was after that she appeared drunk. About half a
pint was then remaining in it. No rum was afterwards
found in the stomach of the deceased. He said to her,
" You wretch, you are so drunk you cannot stand." She
replied that she was not drunk, but it was he that was
drunk. She then lay down on the sofa. Mary Corfield
then said she would go and look for the old woman; and
the prisoner observed, " You will not find her."
While Corfield was away, and before the body was
found, she said, " Passion, passion ; but when the
passion is over I forgive." On which Mrs. Doughty,
who was in the kitchen with her husband, re-
marked, " Passion sometimes makes people do
things that are very wrong." Corfield, on going out of
the kitchen towards the brewhouse, found the deceased
lying on her face across the steps of the brewhouse. The
girl then went out, and looking into the brewhouse found
her lying on her face, apparently burnt to death, upon
which she returned to the kitchen, and cried out " Good
God, the old woman is dead ' • she is burnt to death !"
The prisoner made no remark. Mr. Doughty then said
" You wretch, you have murdered the old woman at last."
To this, too, she made no answer. Mrs. Doughty and a
Mr. and Mrs. Ridley had arrived by this time. Soon af-
terwards the prisoner said to Mr. Ridley, " Did he not
recollect a fire four or five years ago?" He replied,
" Perfectly well, but that was accidental, this was wil-
ful." She said nothing. She afterwards said, " Miss
Tomlins many times said the gentlemen would have a
consultation over me." All the witnesses agreed that
she was not sober then. On being asked how the fire
happened, she said she was in bed, and findir°, a smell
of fire, came down, and seeing the sofa burning.
took water out of the tub and " clouted" e, quenched)
it. On Mr. Doughty remarking to the girl Corfield,
it was lucky she went for him, the prisoner said,
poli
with a peculiar smile, "It was you, then, prisoner
cemanhed
Mr. Doughty; you have
done something." A
named Evans was sent for and soon arrived. She after-
wards made a signal to Mrs. Ridley tocome to her, and
on her going to her p h
kissed her, and said, s her e 21'1-o and
added,
" Go and get her
ley saying she was, prisoner
It h
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and said, " Do not let
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brought to the house by the uproar was standing by her,
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I never went or proposed to go to see the body from the
i time it was discovered. On being charged by the po-
liceman, Evans, with murdering her mother, she made
no answer. He then ordered her to take off her clothes,
and she went with the girl Corfield into another room
and took them off and put on others. Whilst she was
doing so she shook her hands and said, " Aft! Mary—
Ah! Mary." Her hands were examined and found to be
slightly scorched and blistered. In the left sleeve of
her shift there was a hole burned, and on her left
elbow there was found a corresponding burn, and her
arm from wrist to elbow was all burned. Her dress
was also singed and wet from the knees down, and
very dirty. On searching her bed-room it was as-
certained that she had not been in bed. There was the
mark. of some one having laid down on the
outside of the bed. She had lain down on
the Monday. The girl Corfield had not heard
her go upstairs that night, and her nightcap was where
the girl had placed it when making the bed on Monday,
but none of the witnesses had taken such particular no-
tice of the bed as to be able to say whether any one had
been in the bed. On examining the kitchen they found
that it was the end of the sofa furthest from the fire
that was burned. They found further a stocking put
up to cover a crevice in the window-shutters, which
would prevent any one passing in the street from seeing
what was going on in the kitchen; and to anticipate the
suggestion that the deceased might have put it there to
keep out the cold, it was proved that the glass was not
broken. The doorpost of the kitchen leading into the
yard was much burnt at the height of about three feet
from the ground, and even the ironwork was heated to
some extent. -There were also sorne marks of blood on
the door-posts, but these were declared by medical
witnesses to be of old standing. Some
thought that the burning of the door-post must have
been effected while the deceased was in an erect posi-
tion, and the theory for the defence was, that the old
woman, finding herself accidentally on fire, was p„_
ceeding to the brewhouse, where-she keiew there was a
barrel of water, and leaned in her way against the door-
post. The theory on the other side seemed to be, that the
prisoner, on dragging out the dead body, partially on
fire, might have, from fear, doubt, confusion. design, or
weakness, rested for a short time at the doisr,und the fresh
air, rushing on to the flames, might have suddenly raised
them to a blaze. On the doorpost of the brewhouse there
was also a mark of burning. The deceased was found
lying partly in the yard and partly in the brewhouse, her
lower limbs lying outside the steps of the brewhouse, and
the rest of her body inside. There were neither shoes
nor stockings on the body. On the following Sunday
marks of naked feet in oil were found leading from the
sofa towards the brewhouse, which had not been per-
ceived till the floor was washed, and were rendered dis-
tinct by the washing, and could not be erased by water.
Near the body was found a cotton bag, which seemed to
have been used indiscriminately as a bag or pillow. It
was besmeared with oil, and in the inside there were a
great many marks of blood. In the yard, near the feet
of the body, they found four pairs of sheets which had
been in the kitchen the night before. These were quite
wet and partially burnt. There had been a heavy fall
of rain ; that might have wetted them. It was sug-
gested that the deceased, being of a chilly nature, had
wrapped these around her, when she felt herself cold
during the night, and did not throw them off until she
reached the yard. On the floor of the brewhouse
they found a great quantity of water, and everything
on the body was quite wet, as if a large quantity,
of water had been splashed upon it. They did not dis-
turb the body, but at once took measures for summon-
ing a coroner's inquest, and sending the prisoner to gaol.
On her way to the gaol, as she was passing a house
called Severn Hall, where some of her family formerly
lived, she said to the policeman, "This Rill be a second
Severn-hall job. Passion, passion! When the passion
is over I forgive directly." Oa being told she was im-
prisoned on suspicion of murdering her mother, she
said, " Oh, Lord!" and afterwards asked one of the
police if it was true that her mother was dead; and, on
being told it was, desired him to go and make her mother
comfortable, and to come again to her. Whea the
coroner's jury met, the deceased was found in the
situation already mentioned, lying on her face and belly,
with her hands joined across the upper part of her
breast, according to one witness, and across her mouth
according to another. Her nose, which had been a very
prominent organ in life, was flattened down so as not to
raise above the eighth of an inch over the level of the
face, and, as it never resumed its original appearance,
the medical man said it must have been so flattened for
some time before she died. The body was fearfully
burnt; so burnt that the surface was completely charred.
The front of the thighs and body, from a little
above the knees to near the throat, and the tip of the
tongue and the lips were also burnt. The outside of
the mouth was quite livid. Her tongue was quite livid
and congested or swollen. One of her toes was bruised
as if some one had trodden on it, but there was no red-
ness or blood on it. The burning of the body was so
great that a medical man, on first seeing the body, and
before he made any internal examination, said that it
would account For ti.. d..tl._ A mintator ..arninaliooof
the place was then instituted, and it was found that the
sofa was burnt to the width of the shoulders, just as if
she had beets burnt upon it while reclining
upon it, with her shoulders resting high on the
end ; and further, that the butterboat, which
had been full of dripping over night, and a pint bottle,
which had been also nearly full of lamp oil over night,
were both empty, and that marks of grease and
oil were on the pillowcase, the sheets, and the sofa.
The butterboat was found on the hob of the grate
slightly burned. Three medical men attended the post
mortem examination and before the coroner. These
were Mr. Coley, a general practitioner, and Mr. Thurs-
field, and Mr. Newel, surgeons. In addition to these,
two physicians, Dr. Strange, and Dr. Baker, saw the
body, and gave evidence before the coroner. The
inquiry before the coroner extended to ten
sittings, and, finally, the coroner's jury refused to find
an inquisition for even putting the prisoner on her trial.
The case was afterwards sent for trial by the magistrates.
Dr. Strange was not examined before the magistrates,
or on the last or the present trial, and from this the
prisoner's counsel contended it was obvious that Dr.
Strange differed from the other practitioners. Since the
last trial Mr. Coley died.
A question arose to-day as to how proof might be
given of his evidence, and as his answers to questions
on cross-examination on the last trial had been more
favourable to the prisoner than those of the other me-
dical men, and her counsel wished those answers to be
read, his Lordship said he would take it on himself to
read the note of the late Mr. Justice Coltman, who pre -
sided at the last trial, the counsel having first ascer•
tained that the note contained a sufficient report of the
answers. The note was read accordingly. In addition
to the Bridgenorth medical witnesses, there were on the
former and the present trial two gentlemen called for the
prosecution, who merely attended in court, heard the
evidence, and then expressed their opinions, as scientific
men, as to the cause of death. These were Dr. Samuel
Wright, Professor of Clinical Medicine, at Queen's
College, Birmingham, and author of a prize essay on
asphyxia by submersion; and Mr. David Bolton, Lecturer
on Clinical Anatomy at the same college. All these
medical men were of opinion that the body could
not have been burnt as it was merely by the
clothes and 'sheets which were on it, but that it could
have been so burnt if the flames had been rendered
more intense by such a quantity of grease and oil
as those vessels contained being thrown upon it. AAt
first the impression was that the deceased had thusbeennit
burnt to death, but on minuter external examination
was observed that, with the exception of one small
blister, which contained btraw-coloured serum, on
the
inner side of the right leg, four inches below the knee
and far below the place where the great burning com•
menced, there was no blister on any other part of the
body, and no mark of redness at the parts where the in-
jured and uninjured tissues joined, or around that one
blister. Mr. Coley admitted, in conformity with a quo-
tation from " Taylor on Medical Jurisprudence," that in
the absence of these signs there was no certain data
whereon to decide whether the burning took place before
or after death; but the other three Bridgenorth practi-
tioners and Dr. Wright agreed that there were certain
signs that the body had been burned after death. They
were further confirmed in this view .by the colour of the
blood in the lungs. They were all' four of opinion that
the burning took place after death; and with the excep•
tion of Mr. Bolton, all said they had never seen or heard
of a case where a person had been burnt to death in
1 which the burnt parts, unless they were altogether
charred, were not blistered and did not exhibit a line of
redness where they adjoined the uninjured parts. Mr.
Bolton said he hal himself seen a body destroyed in a
colliery explosion which was charred all over, except in
a few spots, and that in those few spots there were
marks of redness. He admitted that the only excep
tion he had known to the general rule was, where
persons were burnt to death in colliery explosions. In
that case there were generally no signs of blisters or red-
ness. On the night in question no witness had heard
the deceased scream or moan. Further, on an internal
examination of the body, it was found that there was
such a congestion of the lungs, heart, and brain,
no doubt that death was caused by. suffueationn."
0 the throat
point there was no difference of opinion.h. telt this
there was no sign of strangulation. The theory for
T question then
was, how was the suffocation effected?
prisoner smothered her by
the prosecution was, the
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aitooutbhreaain, danndotrartitlesn, :hued
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putting something over her
pressing it so forcibly down as
nose in the manner abonee-ra„dennturortniieidlg, ahnedr.whTenheshttele
dead immediately comet'' la;
was that her clothes having accidentally
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for the defenschee
was
stupefiedtaken fire,
into the brewhouse and was suffocated either by the
smoke or by the flames as she lay on the floor, playing
in front of tier mouth and nostrils, and preventing the
ingress of air, and so immediately occasioning suffocation
by what is termed a spasm of the glottis. A noxious
vapour or any irritant would cause spasm of the glottis.
Mr. Coley had said that it was just possible that suffoca-
tion might be produced by flames so preventing the in-
gress of air to the lungs, but the others said they could
not conceive it possible that the deceased could in this
case have been suffocated by the flames. One said such
an effect could not be produced except the body was sur-
rounded by flames, whereas only one side of the body
was on fire. Another said it could not be produced
except the flames were restrained by mechanical means,
and the_ person were previously rendered insensible. In
abort all the wituosaeo Wore of opinion that slie dogsled

coulcUiiot have been smothered by the flames prevanting
the ingress of air to the lungs.
The case. for the prosecution closed at a quarter to
five o'clock. I
Mr. HUDDLESTONE, having addressed the juki, ou ' 1 41."/
half of the prisoner, contended that the death was oects-
sioned in the manner above stated ; that the pilaener------ -
who was drunk overnight, being aroused by the elitist al SAW
the other servant, ran down stairs, and finding her
mother in flames in the brewhouse, threw water upon
her ; and that, setting aside the prejudice created by
her former language and conduct, there was not a single
fact in the case inconsistent with this view ; and that it
was impossible for them, after a coroner's jury,
andre refused seca
to put the prisoner even to answer the charge,
jury at the last assizes, after having heard the charge,
and the evidence bearing upon it explained to them by
one of the ablest of the judges, now no more, could not,
after nearly 20 hours' confinement, agree upon it, to dis-
regard the doubts which appeared on so many minds,
and say she was guilty.
Mr. Baron ROLFE, in summing up the case, told the
jury that they must arluit the prisoner unless they were
satisfied that the woman died by suffocation ; for all the
medical witnesses on whose evidence they were acting
proved that suffocation only was the cause of death.
They had heard observations made on the dif-
ferent modes in which the death was stated in the
indictment to have been occasioned. It was true that
the indictment laid the death in nine or ten different
modes. It might be difficult for them to fix on the par-
ticular mode of suffocation ; whether by putting the
fingers down the throat or on the throat, or covering the
mouth with a cushion ; but there was one all-sufficient
mode of accounting for the death to satisfy them—that
stated in the eighth count—namely, that the suffocation
was effected by certain means, to the jurors unknown
After going through the facts of the case, his Lordship
concluded by saying that if they saw no reasonable solu-
tion of the case before them except that the suffocation
was caused by the prisoner, they should find her guilt 3 ;
but if they saw any other reasonable solution of it, they
should say she was not guilty.
The jury retired at half past seven o'clock, and the
Court was soon afterwards adjourned to the Judge's
lodgings.
At half-past ten o'clock his Lordship returned, toge-
ther with Mr. Justice Erle, in consequence of a commu-
nication that one of the jurors had been taken ill. Mr.
Clements, a fellow of the College of Surgeons in this
town, was immediately sent to attend on the juror, and
to report his opinion on the state of his health. On his •
return he was sworn, and stated that the juror was I ibour-
ing under an attack of cholic, and that his life would be
endangered by his being locked up for the night without
emeepdaibelt
itidag given-to bins. lie was now at intervals
at others incapable, of attending to IstYSV4.4rtsse4
ness. He declared he had no wish to shrink from the ,*
performance of his duty, and would perform it unflinch-
ingly if he got the proper medicines. Thomas Harris
Massey was the name of the juryman. He had known
him before. The attacks lasted sometimes two days,
and sometimes went off very soon. Unless he had medi-
cine administered to him he would become much worse,
and then he would not answer for the consequences,
especially as the cholera was now a prevailing epidemic
in the town. If he had medicine there would be a chance
of his being relieved and being able to go on till six o'clock
to-morrow without food.
His LORDSHIP—If he is in such a state that he cannot
go on without food, I have no power to order it, but I can
allow him to have medicine.

Mr. Clement—Suppose I should order him a strong
dpeocion of beef tea? He has been fasting all day, and
wants it much.

His Lonpsnip—l do not want to interfere with your
discretion as a medical man, but he cannot be allowed
nutriment—which all may equally want—merely because
is weaker and less able to do without it. When I
allow you to give him medicine. I do not want to restrict
you as to the sort of medicine, but you must give him
nothing but what is bone fide medicine.
Mr. Clement—The man is of such habit that I think
the best medicine I can give him is a glass of brandy.
His LORDSHIP—I will not control your discretion
as to whether you give him stimulants or sedatives.
You may give anything which in your discretion as a
medical man you call medicine; but you must not give
him food.

Mr. CLEMENT —I will then undertake to keep him
Free from harm for seven hourP, that is, till six o'clock
to-morrow.

The Court then adjourned again, at ten minutes past
11, to six o'clock this morning.
JULY 29, HALF-PAST 6 A.M.
The Court met at six this morning (Sunday), and
the jury appeared and stated that they had not agreed,
and it was impossible for them to agree.
The juror who was ill last night said the medicines
he had r(ccived had restored him, and he was now well.
None of the others compl2ining of illness, all wero
locked up again, and the Court adjourned to the judge's
lodgings.

20 MiNtTTEs PAST 9.

The Court met again at the above time. When the
jury had rvsembled and answered to their names, and
in answer to the officer, said they had not agreed to
their verdict.

His LORDSHIP said—Gentlemen, by a letter which
you have addressed to me, you desire to know whether
there is sufficient evidence of the guilt of the prisoner
by suffocating the deceased. That is the point which
you must decide. You must make up your own minds
ofi4thlt, and see that it is made out to your satisfaction.
The indictment charges the suffocation in varions ways
by tying a handkerchief over the mouth, by putting
a cushie2 over the mouth and nostrils, and by other
ways. There is no sufficient eviat:nee of suffoca-
tion by an exclusion of the air by a current of
slime, as suggested tO auo efeere
any evidence of death by burning. Indeed, en the evi-
dence, if you think she died by burning you ought to
acquit her ,es that might bo nothing' but accident. The
only question is whether there is sufficient evidence to
justify you in coming to the conclusion that she died by
suffocation; and if you think she died by suffocation, the
particular mode of suffocation is unimportant. There is
no evidence of the mode in which she died, except the
medical testimony, and the statement of two of the wit-
nesses that she once attempted to throttle her mother.
This last is the only direct evidence pointing to auffoca-
ion, except the state of the body after death. With regard
to the evidence of the medical men it must be remarked
that not one of them had seen a body that was burned to
death, and all they say is from theory and the statements
contained in learned medical books. These gentlemen
say, from their view of the human body, this is so and
so; but a learned book, quoted on the other hand, says
it is not so. His Lordship then went over a great deal
of the medical evidence, especially that of Mr. Coley,
who had admitted that it did not follow from the marks
of burning in this case that the burning was after death,
and that the current of flame might have prevented the
ingress of air to the lungs, and commented upon the
different opinions of the medical witnesses as to the ap-
pearances of congestion in the brain, lungs, and heart
after death by burning, and referred to an opinion of
Dupuytren's relied on for the prisoner, but observed, that
in English writer, who had been quoted on the same
subject, differed from Dupuytren.
Mr. H. KETTLE begged to say that the reliance for
the prisoner was upon the fact stated by Dupuytren,
that in cases of immediate death by burning, the lungs
and brain were congested; and that that fact was not
controverted by the commentator, but only certain in-
ferences to be drawn from it, which did not affect this
inquiry.
His LORDSHIP acquiesced in this suggestion, and then,
again proceeded with the evidence, and thus concluded:
—I can only tell you, that if I were a juryman, unless
I was satisfied that the party died by strangulation, in
the ordinary sense of the word—namely, by putting the
fingers on the throat, or a cushion or handkerchief over
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If she died by burning, or any sort of suffo-
cation arising from burning, not guilty. it might be an accident. It
has been suggested that she might have wrapped herself
round with sheets to save herself from the flame and
smoke, and so smothered herself. But that is so foreign
from the real appearances, that it is not worth while to
consider it. The question of suffocation depends on the
evidence of medical men, none of whom ever saw a body
that had been burned to death, and who are speaking
from theoretical reasoning, not actual observation, and
as to whom, therefore, you may be naturally distrustful,
and if you do not feel confidence in them, you are anti-
tied to say, "We do not feel disposed to act on this
evidence." I can say no more. I say you are bound to
return a verdict of not guilty, unless you are satisfied on
that point.
A Juror—How are we to look at the expressions of
the prisoner?
1.11,, LORDSHIP—If it is quite clear that she did the
act, then it would be utterly unimportant whether she
used the expressions; but where the question is in doubt,
and there is a question as to whether there is any ade-
quate motive for the crime, then those expressiousaanto
the state of the will and the property
ferns a judgment as to whether there is any
adequateshown that she
motive; and if it is on the other handn,ts
in her favour.
had no motive, it would be a
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But you must not press that
if you
are not satisfied that
it is extremely unimportant,
must not let those vague
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Your minds to find her guilty of
expressions operate on
because she has been a very wicked
desired his Lordship should read the
woman.his crim a m.erely
to them.
eighth count
fins then stated the substance of
counts: Charged the death to have been OCCa"
the
Another juror
sioned by putting a cord round the mouth. 2. By
I oreing a certain cushion down on the throat and nostrils
of the deceased. 3. By the prisoner's putting her
hands round the neck and throat of the deceased.
4. By burning her. 5. By setting fire to her clothes
and smothering her with theta. 6. By suffoca-
tiun arising from the smoke of the burning. 7. By
burning and smothering. 8. By suffocating by certain
means to the jurors unknown. 9. 6utfocation by press-
ing a handkerchief on the mouth. 10. By throwing her
in the ground and pressing her throat with the fingers,
mid covering her mouth and nose with a cushion and
handkerchief. His Lordship then added—lt is nut ne-
cessary, in my opinion, to distinguish by what particular
instrument or means suffocation took place. Unless you
are satisfied that she died of suffocation, you ought to
acquit the prisoner; but if you aro satisfied, it is quite
sufficient if you find the suffocation was effected by the
fiegers, or a cushion, or certain means unknown to you.
Mr. HUDDLESTON suggested that the word " satisfied "
was scarcely sufficient.
His LORDSHlP—Gentlemen, the Learned Counsel has
observed that the word
sazisfi_ed " does not adequately
represent to you your duty. f you have any doubt
about it you ought not to be satisfied; but, if you ask me
what is the quantum of conviction with which you
ought to be satisfied, I cannot tell you. But, unless you
can say, ,e We have come to the conclusion that there is
no other reasonable solution of the difficulty," you ought
not to be estiefied. At the gime time, I do not know