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ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD ClRCUlT—Gloucester, April 7.
CLOWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Sergeant GAZELEE
David Johns, 47, a sweep, was charged with bur
gloriously breaking open the dwelling-house of James
Trotman on the night of the 20th of February last, and
stealing therein a silver watch and other articles, the
property of James and William Trotwan ; also with
having, at Haile!, on the
21st, maliciously cut and
stabbed John Banning, with intent to murder him.
The prisoner pleaded guilty to the first charge, and
not guilty to the second charge.
John Banning examined—l saw the prisoner about
half past five in the morning. I was dressed in police-
man's clothes. When the prisoner saw me he turned
out of the path. When I was about to speak I received
a blow from some weapon on the side of my head. I
had a stick in my hand, and immediately retaliated, by
giving the prisoner several blows. He then succeeded
in getting my walking-stick. I wrested the stick from
the prisoner, and we wrestled together, and fail over one
of the bundles. We were
.both down. After we had
been on the ground some time we both got up, and I
said, will you give yourself up? He soicl no. I then
saw him put his hand by his side. I collared him, we
were both standing up at this time. He made
a great many stabs: I struck him with my staff. I
thought he was stabbing me with a knife. Ile stabbed
me twice on the chin. He afterwards took ho;d of my
stuff. Prisoner then cut my hand. We then fell, out
I made two blows at the prisoner. I threw him on the
ground on the right side, and I tried to get the kuhe. I
afterwards struck the prisoner's hand with my staff, and
got possession of the knife.—(The knife was here pro-
duced and presented a very formidable appearance.)—
We were both of us quite exhausted. I said to the pri
saner, " How are you?" He said, " Give we some
water." I said some one will be here directly. After-
wards two persons come up, and the prisoner was re-
moved.—(The stick with which the prisoner struck the
prosecutor was here produced. The stick was about
two feet and a half in length. To the handle were sus-
pended eight or ten large bullets, by some thick twisted
cord.)
Other evidence was produced, leaving no doubt as to
the guilt of the prisoner, and
The jury, without a moment's hesitation, returned a
verdict of Guilty.
IE9 LORDSHIP, on sentencing the prisoner, said—l
have some doubt whether you are not a person who
should have been hanged. I have no hesitation in be-
lieving that you would have murdered the prosecutor.
Sentence—Transportation for life.
The COURT, in addressing Banning, said,—" Your
conduct has been commended by the grand jury, and
must be by everybody who has heard it. You have
shown yourself a very gallant officer ; and I hope the
reward I give you will not be all you will receive, and
that you will get on in your profession. Under all the
circumstances, the sum I feel warranted in awarding you
is 201."

Louisa Ferris, 29, was indicted for the wilful murder
of Patrick White, at St. Philip and Jacob, in the city and
county of Bristol, on the Ist of November last.
Mr. Skinner and Mr. Huddleston prosecuted, and Mr.
Keating defended the prisoner.
It appeared from the evidence that the deceased
(White) was a
soner, who is a married woman, but was separated from
policeman, and cohabited with the pri-
her husband. They resided at a house in Lyon-street,
Bristol, in which also lived a young woman named Eliza-
beth Jones, of whom it would seem the prisoner was
jealous, and under the influence of that passion she com-
mitted the awful crime which placed her at the dock to-
day. It seemed that on Sunday, Nov. 1, in the afternoon,
a Mr. Edwards, Mrs. Ferris's brother, with a friend
named
went out, and followed her up
the back parlour, where they had some beer and rum,
recoinmenced smoking his pipe'
which they sent White-•there in his trou-
sers, for. was
shirt, pipe. Jones wen
and slippers, smoking a
Sainsbury, called at the house, and went into
up
stairs and lay down on the bed. Soon after White
Mrs. Ferris also left the room, and in a few minutes
ing in the direetiou they
re-
turned in a very excited state. White then came in,
the witness thought she was whi,and
stairs, as it would seem.
on. The prisoner went into the kitchen and then came
He had no neckerchief
towards deceased, she put her arm round his neck, and
Imme-
diately afterwards they heard a groaning, and on look-
pering to him.
from the neck, and the prisoner holding her hand &ea n
by her side. She went up stairs and wet Jones. She
saw White bleeding profusely
caught hofl of her and blooded her dress with her
hand,
-4s) i
-ng, "I have a great mind to serve you the
same." She tht n said to her brother Edwards, "Joni,
drive me to the station." Ile put her in his fly, which
was at the door, and did so. The unfortunate deceased
crawled into the street on his hands and knees, and said
the prisoner hid cut his throat. The people sent for a
doctor. White said, "Itis no use, lam dying, pray for
tae." In a fi:w mihutes he wzs a corpse, and on going
into the room they found a pool of blood, with a broken
pipe in it, and a razor on the table. These were the
facts of the case.
The jury
and found the prisoner Guilty of manslaughter,

The Judge sentenced her to be transported for life.
On hearing the sentence her ferling of maternal
snxiety seemed to overcome all other considerations, as
with clasped hands she convulsively exclaimed, " Oh, n 7
Lord,. mercy, for the sake of my poor children—don t
in
bash me from them."