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London, England, 1841-08-06 00:00:00

ing his money upon drink ; and she said he should
either he poisoned or have his brains knocked out,
and she then, suggested that some poison be got. , I ac-
cordingly procured the arsenic, but her's was the .hand
that put it in the broth. I took the lid off the pot and
put my hand in, but that was only to feel whether or not
the water was hot. I did not have anything to do with
putting;the poison in the broth." It can be proved that
this woman did not breakfast at home that morning, and
that she instructed her little girl in the story she was to
tell, and promised her a new frock if she told it well.
Since the condemnation of the old man, the daughter has
been walking about perfectly unmoved, while all the rest
of the family have been to the gaol to see him, and I am
informed the separation has been most heartrending.
Such is the feeling here, that the clergyman-of the parish
has gone down to Bodmin to see the Learned Judge upon
the matter.

OXFORD CIRCUIT-7Monmouth, August 3.

CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.)
Joseph Jones was indicted for stabbing William Snail-
ham, on the 12th of July last, with intent to maim him.
There were other counts in the indictment, charging
the intent to be to disable or disfigure the prosecutor, or
to do him some grievous bodily harm.
Mr. Greaves conducted the case for the prosecution,
and the prisoner was defended by Mr. Selfe.
It appeared that the prosecutor went out about
nine o'clock from his house to a tramroad near Newport,
for the purpose, apparently, of picking up bits of
coal which fell from the coal-waggons as they passed
along. While looking about him, he saw the prisoner, with
whom he was previously totally unacquainted, standing
on the ground, and waning for him. Upon the prose-
cutor's approach the prisoner said to him, " You are
one of those persons who nearly beat me to death some
time ago," and rushing upon him with a knife, which he
held open in his hand, he inflicted a wound on the left
side of the prosecutor, between the fifth and sixth ribs,
which, if it had gone straight as directed, instead of
having been turned aside by the bone, would, in the
opinion of the surgeon who was. examined, most pro-
bably have occasioned instant death. As it was, it in-
flicted a severe wound of about two inches in breadth
and an inch and a quarter in depth. As soon as the
prisoner had inflicted the stab he put up his knife and
ran away as fast as he could. Upon his apprehension
the prisoner said that 'he had charged the prosecutor
with stealing some coal, and that he had struck him with
the bag in which he carried it.
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE summed up the evidence, and
The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty, with intent to
do some grievous bodily harm.
The prisoner was then removed from the dock.

William Lewis was then placed at the bar, where he
stood indicted for maliciously stabbing, on the 12th of
June last, Daniel Williams, with intent to murder him.
There were four other counts in the indictment, varying
the intent, as in the former case.

Mr. Millman appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
Greaves defended the prisoner. _ _

The prosecutor was, with several others, in the tap-
room of the Queen Victoria beer-shop, in the borough
of Newport, when a quarrel arose between two of the
company, named Redman and Morgan, in which the pri-
soner, who was at the time sitting on a settle about eight
or ten feet from the prosecutor, interfered, and said he
would strike Redman, who is an old man. The prosecutor
desired him to sit down, and let the old man alone, and
some coarse and irritating language passed between them,
which induced both parties to advance towards one an-
other with apparently hostile intentions. The prisoner bad
a knife open in his hand as he stepped forward, and the
combatants • closed and fell to the ground, the prose-
cutor undermost, exclaiming " You have stabbed me."
Upon examination it was found that the prosecutor
had received a dangerous wound on. the left side of the
stomach, through which about two handfuls of his intes-
tines had protruded, and the intestines themselves were
wounded. Most providentially medical assistance was
immediately obtained, and from the skilful treatment
adopted the prosecutor recovered, but it was stated that
he would never entirely surmount the effects of the. in-
jury. It should be observed that at the time of the oc-
currence the prisoner was the worse for liquor.
The prisoner received a good character for humanity.
The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty, with intent to
do the prosecutor some grievous bodily harm.
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE ordered Joseph Jones to be
placed at the bar, and then addressing both prisoners
said—‘.‘ Joseph Jones and William Lewis, you have both
been found guilty by, the Jury, and it was impossible
upon the evidence that. they should do otherwise, upon a
charge of maliciously stabbing your respective prosecu-
tors, with intent to do. them some grievous bodily harm.
I am sorry to say that in the circumstances of both your
cases there is something which very much aggravates
the character of the offence, of which you have been
found guilty. From all that appeared on your trial, you,
Joseph Jones, remained on the spot where the prosecu-
tor came up with you, for the.purpose of avenging your-
self on him, and you inflicted on him a wound which,
but for God's mercy, would have taken away that man's
life. You, William Lewis, are also to answer for a
similar offence. There is less before the Jury, in your
case, of anything like malice or private grudge, but I
have read the depositions, and from them it appeals that
on two former occasions you have had quarrels with the
prosecutor, and that on both these former occasions you
threatened the use of the knife, as if the use of the knife
were a thing to which your mind familiarly had re-
course. It is because the use of the knife has become
so frequent, that it is absolutely necessary to visit this
offence with severe punishment. Now-a-days, the in-
stant a man finds that he has a little the worst of an en-
counter, out conies the knife, and he plunges it into the
body of his antagonist. I must make a severe example
of both of you, in order to prevent other persons having
recourse to the same deadly instrument. The sentence
of the Court is, that you, and each of you, be transported
beyond the seas for the term of 21 years."