The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-02 00:00:00

The case was not concluded till la'e at Light, and the
sentences were de►errm d.

NORTHERN CIRCUI .—Newcastle, July 30.
The assizes tor the county of Nnrttiuwberlan,•t com-
menced here to-day. Their Lordships satat ten o'clock;
the L._ird Chief 13,r0n presid ng in the l'own-hall, anti
Mr. Justice Wightman sitting in the County Court. In
the county there are nine prisoners for trial. Ot these
one steads charged with murder, and Mit! with Irian
slaughter. In the town are fourteen prisoners. Seven
thee, however, are charged with participating in a
riot end puling down a 13.,0th. Two are charged with
man laughter, and the others with offences of the more
.rifling kind. Of the causes for trial, two are for the
town and nine for the county.

(Before Mr. Justiee WIGHTMAN.)
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Joseph Simm, a tall and very powerful young mar,
tsa4 init,cti-(1 tor the manslaughter of John `Suitor).

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Mr. Atherton and Mr. Bigg conducted the prosecution.
Mr. Ingham appeated for the defence.
It appeared that on the lath of May last the prisoner
and the dece,se't met at a public-house in Newcastle.
The deceased was very quarresome, and wished to in-
duce the prisoner to figtit, standing up before him at d
using threatening lauguage for the purpose of taunting
him into a qua- rel. '1 he prisoner, howev..r, declined ti
fight, and shortly after both parties left the house. They
went Li the barn,. train as fir as Cramlington, and on
getting out of the carriage the deceast d sought to faster
a quarrel on a pe-son of the name of l)dd. Dodd de-
villed fiaiting; said he was nut a fighting man; ant
Walton he might match himself with some of rho-.
present %Flo were accust dried to such things. Walton
sai I. " Tnen I will fight with Simms," and turnirg
wards him challenged him to a contest. It was at first
uroposed that they sh.utd fi..,,ht for money, but the)
filially agreed to try their striac4th without any stak•
bet, g deposited. They stripped, and during the first
round they cloEed, when aicon getting ni hind Simms
seized him by the hair and thrust him down into the
ditch, labia :I heavily beside him. They commenced a
second round, when the dee. ased received a severe blow
on the side of the neck, and fell to the ground. He wit,
unable t, rise, and was raised up by his friends. He was
quits: insensible, and very soon after expired. A doctor
was sent for, but life was extinct.

This was the evidence for the prosecution. There
had been no post-mortem examination, so that there was
no conclusive evidence that the death had been caued
by the blew reeeived from the hand of the prisoner.
His LORDSHIP, under' thew circumstances, intimated
that he thought the case c .uld not be carried further. It
WAS impossible the jury could say whether or no the vin-
knee of the prisoner had twen the cure of the death of
the deceased. Ills Lordship c trnmented in &Allem:hat:
severe teems on the ill-judged ecomimy, which had Itsf
he case incornislete to save the exp•aise of a post-morteth
4'xuroina ion, s filch, it wa., alleged, w. s not allowed in the
costs or the coroner's itiqust by th. county authorities.
Verdict—Not. guilty.
(Before the LORD CHIEF BARON.)
.Tihn Hardy was charged with having on the 221 of
May utdawfully stabbed Edward Ga:,by with intent
kid and murder hint. Tice prisoner is a shoemaker in
the Clos-, where he resides with his wife, and the prose-
cutor the son of the wife by a former husband. On the
day in question the prosecutor, nil going into his housd,
found the prisoner alai his wife (prim-ling. The pri-
soner shuck his wile, and On the prosecutor attempting
to quell the distu.-lAnce was struck by the prisoner, first
with the cutting-board, afterwards with a knife, with
which he stabbed him-in the taigh. Tne jury acquitted
him 14 the felonious intention, but found him guilty of a
grievous assault, fix whi.th he was sentenced to 12
months' imprisonment with hard labour.
The other cases in the caendar for the town. which
were of .11. uninteresting kind were dospoied of during
the day.

POLICE. INTELLIGENCE.
WANDS WORTH.
Saturday being appointed for toe final e xamination
of Joseph Raymorul and Charles Fidler, who stand
charged with plundering the South Western Railway
Company of property of every description, the court
was crowded almost to suffocation. -
Mr. Bircham, of the firm of Birehans,.Dalrymple, and
Drake, solicitors to the company, stated that he :heuld
only proceed with two other cases, in addition to the
one on which the prisoners were already committed.
The first case taken to-day was that of two carpets—
one fifty yard , and the other thirty-six yards in length,
which had been ordered of Mr. Bartholomew, a carpet
inanufaeturer, in Ftlisbury pavement, by a Mr. Sh irp, of
Ramsey. It was was proved that the truck containing
the carp is was taken to the South Western terminus at
Nine Elms, and deposited in a truck, but it never reached
ee destination.
Witliam Bucher then proved the purchase of the
carpets from the lonelier. Die witness said he lived at
A itley; he got ha living by buying all sorts of things.
Die piece of carpet produced is like that witness pur-
chased of the priso,ner. He gave 41. 16s for the two
pieces, and got 61. 17s. for them.
The prisoner Fuller made a statement to the eff-ct,
:hat on a certain Saturday he saw the witness Butcher,
who said tie was going down the line to get sonic peas,
tor whu.:ll he had an eider, and that he had them in a
rush basket with him. That tei the following Sutiday
morning he was seen at Wright's Coffee-house, in Nine
Elms, wdh a carpet in the same basket: and it.a man
named Fairbrothnr was cafled it would be proved that
the carpet had, according o the witness': own account,
been brought trim his uncle's at Whitby, and that he
had not rtceivatt it of ih m.
Butcher said it was true that he did have on the
morning in question a piece of carpet with him that he
brougilt from Whitby, but that was a ditfurent thing
front what he bought of the prisoners.
Fid er, notwithstanding a caution from the magis-
trate, said that on Friday fortnight Butcher came to him
at the St-i 4. 111 iii. Watlifsworth-rind, and said, •• Hay,
) oil u wind to go al ,tag with we to-night ? I Late got
•,ozoieg chid we, k. and I Cant two of )ou to go down
the line and make snout 31 .1 hall go down by the mail
train 7736 tar as Woking, and then come up with the
04,(15 train and snuck soinetrong off, which 3 ou ...ill take
away." lie and the othe r prisoner accordingly nt on
the line bete een New-street and Stewart's-lane Battnr-
sea-fields, and as the goods train approactied thane one
Oid tt,r,w something off, and they bel evrd it was
Butcher, who was acting by dirt atoll of the peliee.
Ihe prisoners were then fully committed upon this
charge.
The next ease preferred against the prisoners was that
of stealing a truss belonging to Mr. Tnowas Walton, of
High-street, Gosport, naval outfitter.
It was proved that the truss was sent to the railway,
but never reached Gosport.
The floor of the Court was strewn with dresses and
goods of every description, anti of most expensive quality.
Butcher was called again, and id.,utitied all the articles
produced as having been b.pught by big of the prisuners,
to whom lie had paid 51. ss. for the lot.
Mr. BEVEKLAC said the witness was by his own show-
ing a wholesale receiver, and it was a pity he was not in
.he dock with the prisone.s. lie never knew a man who
stood so great a chalice of transportation.
The t risoners were then committed on din third
charge, and the witnesses, about thirty in number, bound
over to appear at the assizes to be holden at Croydon.
Mr Birchain said he had bten ttet•ired on the part of
this company he bad the honour to represent, to state
;heir very great satisfaciion at the conduct if the police,
who beta, ite,pite of almost inturtnountabie difficulties,
succeeded in breaking the neck of a deeply-laid scheme
tit villany, and in apprehending two at least of the prin
cipal offenders.