The Sun.
London, England, 1823-09-13 00:00:00

14ANSLAUGIITER.

JAILE1:11, William Balgrave, and William Intworth, Were
indictNi for the murder of Samuel Dance, in the }latish of
Ee.Png.
_ _

%rub Jones depost.-d, that he was present at the Lion public.
house on the day named in the indictment. A dispute arose
between the prisoners and the deceased. Hill laid hold of the
deceased by the collar, and threw him against the settle. The
other prisoners diJ nor touch inn:. The decayed appeared to

be considerably injuied, and was taken out of tile-roar. The
parties were playing and larking together.
Richard Buggins, who was also present at the affray, con-
firmed this statement. The face of the deceased was crushed
against the settle. The deceased was much in liquor at the
time.

James Shields, a private in the Guards, saw the deceased
pushed against the settle. When he fell he cried out, " Oh,
my loins !' and said no more. The deceased All down front
his own intoxication. _ _

Matthews, the landlord of the public-house, proved that,thq
deceased was taken home two hours after the fall. He heard
the deceased was sent home in a wheel-barrow, but did not
see it.

Mr. Dickenson, a surgeon, gave his opinion that the deceased
died from a quantity of coagulated blood in the head. The
habits of the man and the state of intoxication were a sufficient,
cause to produce the rupture of vessels.
One witness was called to the character of one of the pri.
goners. Mrs. Blagrave, mother of the prisoner, spoke to the
state of the deceased when taken home. _

Mr. Justice BEST, in charging the Jury, observed, that
there was no pretence for charging the prisoners with the crime:
of muzder. The death of the derp.sed had probably been ac-
celerated by the acts of the prisoners, and the extent of the
crime chargeable against them was manslaughter only.. He
lamented that the landlord of the house had not been in-
cluded in the indictment., as he had been most culpable in
,al-.
lowing such irregular conduct in his house. '
The Jury. found a verdict—Manslaughter: -
Mr. Jusuce BEST observed, that as the prisoners had al-
ready undergone a protracted imprisonment, he should take care
that the further punishment should be of a light nature.

MELANCHOLY ACClDENT.—Wednesday after-s
noon a little girl, about six years old, who had
been playing about the yard of Mr. WHITELOCKf
timber-merchant, PaddingtonWharf, being missed
by her father, a sawyer in the yard, he went ia►
search of the child, and was shocked to discover
one of her feet visible near the Surface of the
water in the Canal. 'On falling into the Canal,
it would appear, the poor infant tumbled head-,
long, and her head stuck fast in the mud at the
bottom. She had been missed for three quarters
of an hour before the body was found, and half:
an hour elapsed afterwards before surgical assist-
ance arrived; so that all the efforts that were
then employed to revive the spark of life proved,
unavailing.

DEATH BY BUYING.--Another result of drunken
men fighting, which ended in the death of a la-.
bourer of the name OrYonathan Higgins, occurred
on Thursday. The affray originated in a quarrel
between Gilbert, a navigator, and, the deceased, ,
at a public-house at Chiswick, and they agreed ,
to end the dispute by a boxhig match in an empty
barge. After a pulley-hauley affray of an hour,
the deceased ruptured a vessel, and died on his
way home down the River.

Price.
35s 91 to 44&
378 3d to 4ds 6d.