The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-19 00:00:00

HAY lITAILIEETS.

SMITHFIELD.—OId Meadow 11,43, 3/ to 31155; New
ditto, 2/5s to 3155; Old Clover, 4/ to 41 15s; New ditto, 31
to 4145; and Straw, 11 8s to 1/ 12. per load. A short
supply, and a dull trade.
CUMBERLAND —Old Meadow Hay, 3/ to 3/ 16 ; New
ditto, 21 5s to 3/ ss; Old Clover, 41 to 41 14s; New
ditto, 31 to 41; and Straw, 11 8s to 1/ 12s per load.
A sluggish demand, at barely late rates.
WHZTECHAPEL.—OId Meadow Hay, 21 18s to 3/16s;
New, ditto, 215 s to 3/3s; Old Clover, 41 to 5/ • New ditto,
3/ to 41; and Straw, 1163 to 1/ 12s per load. Supply
but moderate, and trade dull. .

CORN AVERAGES.
GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN
For the Week ended Aug. 19, 1847, made up from the Returns of the
Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in EEgland and Walc s
per Imperial Quarter.
. BARLEY.'. . BEANS. PEAS.
RPICE •• I 66sWHEAT I
10d 40s 7d 293 OATS
I I RYE I
Id 40s 2d 54s 5d 42s 10d
The Duties on Foreign Grain are now suspended.

5%

9%

37%

SHERIFFS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BURCHELL.)
DAVIS V. RENT.

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The plaintiff in this action is c. dentist in Pall-mall,
and defendant a boot and shoe maker in Crown-court,
in the same neighbourhood. The claim was for 131.
balance of an account for a set of false teeth. The de-
fendant pleaded that he was not indebted; and secondly,
that the action should have been brought in the Court of
Request, the debt, if any, being under 40s.
Mr. Lewis, of Moor-street, Soho, theatrical agent,
proved, that he was present in November last when de-
fendant called, and asked if his teel.b were finished".
Plaintiff said they were not, but wouldf iu a day or two,
and that the price would be 14 or 15 guineas. Defendant
said he did not mind that, as long as he had them as
soon as possible.

Solonion Myers, dentist, of the Quadrant, considered
the teeth produced (which had not been delivered to the
defendant, as he did not pay the money) to be worth
141. or 151.

Mr. John Beard, plaintiff's attorney, proved that he
wrote to defendant, applying for the amount in Novem-
ber last. Defendant returned no answer, and on the
21st of that month he issued a writ, and served it on
him, telling him it was a pity to incur costs, as the teeth
had been ready for some time, and he had paid 11 de-
posit. Defendant said he knew he did, but it did not
suit him then to pay the balance.
Cross-examined—Defendant did not say he had coun-
termanded the order, or that the money was too much.
For the defence it was contended that tLe plaintiff, by
advertisement, and by hand-bills, professed to make a
complete set of teeth for 5/., but on defendant applying,
plaintiff said as a whole set was not required, it would
be more trouble, and the expense would be 71. After-
wards, however, it was arranged that additional teeth
should be put in, as plaintiff found the task difficult, and
could not make the first set serviceable. A new model of
the mouth was then taken, but the order was counter-
manded within an hour, and it was contended that 11.
was sufficient for the trouble of taking the model.
Mr. Seagood, clerk to the defendant's attorney, proved
that he called on plaintiff, who admitted that be had re-
ceived a countermand, but that he wrote to defendant
about it, refusing to accept the countermand, and as he
did not answer, he had gone on with the teeth.
The UNDER-SHERIFF, in summing up, said that if
there had been a countermand the plaintiff ought not to
have continued the work; but he was fairly entitled to
anything he had done up to that time. There was no
proof of the change of the agreement; but the letters
produced might bear the impression that there had been,
and that time was to be given for payment. It was
rather singular, if defendant considered his countermand
absolved him from liability, that he did not say so to
Mr. Beart. The case was anything but clear, as what-
ever the arrangement was, it had been made between the
parties themselves, unless that spoken to by Mr. Lewis
was the only one. If this case had occurred since the
new Act, it might have been tried in the County Court,
and then both parties might have been examined.
The jury gave a verdict for the defendant.
The other cases were struck out, in consequence of
the parties not being in attendance.

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CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.
THE MARYLEBONE MURDER.

Mary Ann Hunt, aged thirty, was indicted for the
wilful murder of Mary Stowell, on the 2nd of June
last. The prisoner pleaded Not Guilty.
'Mr. Bodkin appeared for the prosecution. Mr. Clark-
son and Mr. Ballantine appeared tor the prisoner.
The prisoner is a tall, well formed, good look;ng
woman. She appeared perfectly calm and collected, and
was accommodated with a chair. She kept her eyes
upon the ground during the reading of the indictment.
She afterwards watched the progress of the trial with
interest.

Mr. BODKIN (with whom was Mr. Clarke) briefly stated
the facts of the case against the prisoner, as it was sub-
sequently proved by the evidence adduced. He said
the deceased was a feeble person ; that the prisoner
lodged with her in a kitchen at No. 40, Adam-street
West, Marylebone ; that the deceased was supported by
her friends, and had the credit of being penurious ; and
no doubt this instigated the prisoner to the commissi m
of the offence imputed to her, on the night of the Ist.
or on the morning of the 2d of June last. She had been
a domestic servant, but being in ill health, she took
up her abode with the deceased, who had also been
a domestic servant; and they had lived together for a
short time before the date of the offence. Early
on the morning of the 2d she was detected by
the policeman on the beat leaving the house with
some bundles, and owing to her suspicious conduct,
he took her into custody, and took her with him to
search the house. Whilst with her in the back yard,
she asked to go into the water-closet,' and he permitted
her to do so. He felt it, however, his duty not to lose
sight of her. She here 'made an attempt to strangle
herself ; but he prevented her, and having obtained the
aid of a brother constable, he found the old woman lying
in a pool of blood on her side in the back kitchen, with
a rope round her neck. From the medical testimony it
appeared that she had been dead for seven or eight
hours, and that several ribs on either side were broken. A
poker covered with blood was lying by her side. It
seemed that she had died from severe pressure on the
chest and strangulation. Spots of blood, partially washed
out, were foumfon her dress. Twenty-one shillings and
sixpence were found on her, and he should prove by the
testimony of the daughter of the deceased, that some of
the articles in the bundle belonged to the unfortunate
woman who had been murdered. It appeared that the
prisoner was anxious to get to Brighton by the begin
ning of June, for the purpose of getting a situa-
tion, and had expressed her anxiety to obtain
the necessary money to do so. It appeared, further,
that she had had angry words with the deceased respect-
ing not paying her (the prisoner's) share of the tenement,
and that she had called her a covetous old woman, who
would not give a farthing to save the life of any one,
and bad threatened to do for her, She intended to go to
Brighton on the morning of the 2d, and had made ar-
rangements over night. He should show that she was
deficient of money up to the time in question, and it
would be for them to say whether she was guilty or not
of the horrible crime charged against her. She had
been remanded from the last session, in order to enable
her friends to produce evidence to show that she had been
insane during periods of her life, and that was the defence,
he believed, that would be set up to-day; but the wit-
nesses obtained by the Crown would state that they al-
ways believed her to be sane.
Police-constable Battersbee, 174 D, stated that he was
on duty at a quarter past four in Adam-street, and that he
saw the prisoner put her head out of No. 40, and imme-
diately withdraw it on seeing him. Thinking her con-
duct suspicious, he determined to watch her, and
watched the house till a quarter past five, when
she emerged from the house with a bundle
under either arm. She saw him watching her
at the corner, and she threw the bundles in and closed
the door. He was fifteen or twenty yards from the door.
About a quarter past five o'clock he tried the door, and
found it an inch or two open; he pushed it, and found
that some one behind resisted. He then put his shoulder
to the door and thrust it open. He found the prisoner
behind the door with the bundles be-ide her, and asked
her if she owned them? She said she did. He replied,
" If you had been an honest woman you would have
taken a cab from the stand hard by, instead of watching
until the policeman was off the beat." He asked her if
she lived in the house? and she replied that she lived
with an old lady on the first floor. He said, " I must
trouble you to show me her." She replied, " You can
go, and I will wait here." He said, " Certainly not ;
you must go with me." She then went up about four
steps with him, when she suddenly turned round and
said, " I suppose it is of no use telling you a lie." To
which he replied, " No, nor a thousand ; for I shall
not be satisfied mail I see the old woman." " Well,
then," she said, "I live with the old woman in the front
kitchen." He went down; the prisoner was unwilling to
go. She said, "Itisof no use knocking, as she is as
deaf as a stone." He knocked repeatedly, but received
no answer. He took her into the area and looked
through the window of the kitchen, but as he saw no
furniture there, he said, " This is the second falsehoo 1
you have told me." She made no reply. He then took
her into the back yard, and she then offered him half-a-
crown, saying, "Or a crown, or twenty shillings," for
him to get something to drink. He said he should not
part with her until he saw the lady in the front shop.
She pressed him to let her go, saying that she wanted to
get away without paying her rent. He tried the back
kitchen door, when she exclaimed, "Do not say I did
it ; I have not seen her since last night." He said
" This looks very suspicious," and took her up stairs
and knocked at a door in the passage ; a female voice,

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answered, and, on hearing the prisoner's voice, - d to,
apt knew her, to t name was -Airs. Hunt, 81,1:,
had
she liv, d with en aid lady in tine hack ki-cher,
raroice,
asked the female if she should know her by be „
awl the praoner sai, a It is me, Mrs. May"'n' it the
took her towards the back ki eben, end whilosti, °OO toe
stairs the prisoner said; " I tell you again ita's awss n°
heoekieg, as s'e's as deaf as a p 04." t gO/
DO
key -
it. He asked her where the window,,,o;
in the dear : she said she teal
and she replied in the back yard. When she s.:1005"
had not got the key, he said, " This is vela, setiist
She replied again, "Do not say I did it. I' `,overeti
the yard he noticed that her right sleeve was enisr
for about six inches with blood, and that it had been
fro
randy 'recently washed. He got down into theraounj
whilst doing so, he heard a noise, and on turning of the
he saw the prisoner raising herself up by mean_oo feet
water butt in order to get over a wall six or Su iott
high. He pulled her back, and said, What aelseite.
doing-what is this?" She appeared in great., 0111
eats and pointing to the Water-closet said,M
_ ;cob,
to go there." Her tongue protruded from he,rer toe
and she appeared in great agony. He allowed
elf
5000
but watched her, fearing that she might do her' to, god
injury. He opened the door in about two reiriaecioad
beheld the prisoner with her clothes about her no:
with her hands behind her back straggling berseiie ova
prisoner looked up and shook her head.) l'ouiste
" What the devil are you doing? I must give you
to the
the custody of another constable," and he:sven gsfe
door, and called an officer named Jackson in
of the olilf
her into his custody. I had seen the legs ° ore °
lady through the window, and I said, "Takeo • far
her, and I will look after the body of the old
_l' Se
from what he bad seen he thought her den the
got into the room by the window, and fennel' a'
head of the deceased under the grate, and bet •P°
wards the bed, and with a cord around her escesteit;
drew the body 'out six inches, and left it in thee
which it was seen by the doctor. There 'r
$ roll'
deal of blood under the body, and it run sbottir
the middle cf the room. Dr. Moat calne a
minutes or half an hour. There was a table entee roZ,
up bedstead in the room; it was turned uPI with led
door was locked. He then came up and went he Pk
prisoner and Jackson to the station, Told bet .00 toe'
Jac
elttsbe bod,l
found the body, but she made no remark.
her and the bundle to the station-house. Left Charge,
in the custody of a person named Keelinga. d
a° tbl
the prisoner with the murder, and she rerie,vce 149:
charge, "I did not do it; I have not seen hr4o,
night." The bundles contained petticoats, shift,
marked "M. W. Margaret ieceased's " atis
The prisoner was searched; four letters wereberreg;
(one of which had been torn up,) and a glqe inserssaeua
cule; also, 11. ls. 6d. in silver. Found in tne leers -j
pocket two silver watches, 6d., and a watch keY., ors 11'!t
a chest of drawers in the room; one of the °tread
a key in it and was open. No money Was "dsellille
The deceased's son-ic-law and the deceased's
idenified the body. • P cat Jackson,
Jackson, 29, stated that he was on JOY in•
g
street, on the morning of the 2d of Janeooo4. 11,ra
the prisoner first at half past three walkil file it,
Upper Seymour-street very fast; it is abew't
dred yards from the place. She was going ,Youri I'k-tee
She was not carrying anything. About two L,,,stterP
he was passing the h use, and was called in V Pima aril
he
who gave the prisoner into his custody Ai,so"s-sid etel
she lived in the house, and how long. and Su- ril,
weeks. Asked her where she was going 5°,41159010-ej'
she made no reply. She appeared very ll3ll—
and trembled. Took her to the station• a r
Mary Anne Porter, wife of James forte!! a bear of
man, and searcher at Harcourt-street stat4n7;raisgher
Recollected her being brought there on the 133,ares, 'at
the 2d of June. There was blood on her s'es Pl-,
vet, set
skirt, and on the body of her gown. Said to 0101;4
dress is in a mess." She attributed it to st netil9ble°s
her:under clothieg was much stained. There Ober elore,
the strings of her bonnet, and a great deal ,11,a tbe rthe
Whilst in the cell she said her -nose had
ceding night. There was nothing to indinewasea ,h 0
blood on the upper part of her clothing had tied ,b 0
natural causes. When the bundles were °r!hisly
said there were some things in the bundle for .
ha (The the old lady 58. et sa sof'
gown and the stria s of the 11°11,111 the J,)
cloak were here exhibited tog the judge an:ha
The marks bad, in some degree, been efface" a-alte'e
Mrs. Susanah Neshett, si lodger in the aitt
next called. She appearedquite overcome, bd
the
slightly. She said no one but her mother $0 Ss,`',fora
stoner resided on the ground floor of the Ous hi scald
prisoner about ten minutes to nine on the night atodstg,
the murder coming along the passage. 0° t (1°- 11°
night she heard the prisoner- -and the deeeeseasea .(fetr
ling. The prisoner repeatedly told the deq,-
" she would do for her, and that before to She aestid
sequence of the disturbance thus created, she cstoe,iO4
Mr. Hayward, the owner of the house, wilh°o
remonstrated with them. The prisoner 00 t" ribievAslie
called the deceased an old hypocrite ;'' B°, d, 1417,0er
replied, " She was the first lodger she had uhse pri6",ssi
should not have another ;" adding, tha gel
should not stop there that night. The' prix oee- 001.0,
to behave like oth peo le.
Cross-examined- Hadplived in the heuse aillrfebeogli;C
but only occasionally spoke to the prisoner. „ettit°oi.
rel on the Monday arose abaus hanging
aboutpets teti,reP
the yard. Did not see the prisoner until cep.
ao
flutes to nine on the Tuesday night. geer-arder', tbk
ling on the Tuesday, the night of the eisay ea'
prisoner passed her in the passage on bet w
,
Gott
night.
By a juryman—The deceased was not SO deaf 011
Itie° hear the prisoner's threats. e
Charles Hayward, the landlord of the h';-,tsst'ed,i°
and lour man,- was next called. The er, hood
came to him on the Monday before the MO -the
ned-r
consequence of what she stated, he wentYthe
He found the (.ld lady sitting on a chair at .d 50_11
the back kitchen. The risoner was i'ir PliePoll,;
Mrs. Stowell what airs thep matter? was
511,e the
the prisoner tied been abusing her bees",iewea
for money. He went into the kitchen, f",",,°,e0 01°
old lady. Asked the prisoner what she he' lid 010 0!
a noise about, :sad she replied that the„totices,t 01)1
been making a noise about hanging a old 10,1a11°,1
yard. She said that she had told the ,°, 6.10
was not hers (the prisoner's), and that " said ,-e Pa
person in the first floor. The sad lady ij P-0';
, told her to bring it in. The dec. a-ed yard saki
I threatened to do far her, to which the pfd °AI //)ht
" You are a lying old wretch,' I ne.er sn, Ty.,l
thing." The last witness, who O. hoar
stairs, said she had heard her esf 01: t voi
prisoner said she would go au ,0"ctr5,:,30
where broken victuals was givento bet", jove' to
people who gave her them that she Was - he (1;
woman, and was dissatisfied with what she -''of hert;oal
that she should like to have her revenge 011;tejeres°1
which he said, " Surely you -mild en; ti:teeetrd'
woman." The deceased said she wantet•
the rent as she had none , to which th,efra,'.,j:"4,
sponded—" It is a lie ; I know: you have*.l°,,,
it in the corner of the drawer." The Pr's"r-teiitie P's
,;
had no money, and acknowledged owing heatiscljes,a
rent. She said she was too ill to take a v berA
she would write for some money to :in, ast,:bea
farthing before she left. She was ent:h t el;
Told her she had better go to bed ; that if
not discontinue her noisy conduct he 'idtle raet.Cl
pelled to turn her out. She said she wen'no'le;aiebob
his request, and he bid -her; good eights:- Slntoicielt
the deceased next morning She paid hsl
week, and he allowed her ()ire shilling for -c)
for him.
Cross-examined—Did not recollect evera sh°:ei
the prisoner said, although the deceased had
shansefully that she would not do her Old be fors f
deposition was shown to the witness,
i_a_nt-b;vdedefirbe"
that he had made such a statement, 14"
doing so.)at
not on the TSuaevirsdtahye. aat,
„ Ad0w„,450,0
Ann Smallworth said she lived at 4u' the
deceased's body on taa
and kept a shop there. OnMoncleYanigehts
came into her parlour, and said the eee-ensetbe frieroo
abused her and insulted her. Saw heed°-paril°: sq°l
morning at nine o'clock, when she beggea,at itheiPi
truding the night before. She explaincompelfl-brel'aler
meant by doing for the deceased s ive
her to Mrs. Wyndham from wa
rece- „fee- Jt-,.
whom d bet the sas
victuals. Saw her also' at ten o'clock• an neaeatei IsPn'to
four and five, in the back kitchen. She,,°„r-,, bee ;ee,be
an inch or two, and took a letter from ovt;ie te.s,
witness had taken in for her. Was not
aces-ta otfer
wiet tea; efe
the room. Saw her again at twenty
said she had to meet a person at alfll:sl,olteptios Sire
o'clock, and asked her the time. Witeeba'd the 0 g°i(l
clock at the prisoner's request, and I),_n-ahiceeli 01104
minutes to six. This conversation took r„ clO .0e stl
and she asked witness to permit her to gi,-,ot
through her parlour. Sai-, her again aw' "
art' egg
evening coming from the street. She hu.aed In„
tb
her parlour into the street. She Pilo 004 satee
again, having obtained her pernsissi° sa 0' to lag
her parlous-. The witness corroborat",at
,aorS'"e,
went of the policeman with re?day `"pecco
knocking at the door on the Wreeit'e" othertblvi.
Conversed with her daily She was liPeected 09
truly collected, truly sensible. Never elel 5 oot
peculiar in her way of talking. There quosde
g• the
culiar in her conduct on the Monday anti asfore
nv e
was much paler. d either Palate'
Cross-examined—Was not exalt:line d at titer s'eS'
magistrate or coroner. Was questions down 00,00
the superintendent of police who took tacttlia
wa shortlymeei nke before
e.
went. Attended before the' istrate, butebst r t
meg Some be Of
and that she had had a renewal. "-00 t"- f
afofrtHeeratd told her that she had.sh. toitt, 5001 0
shhe-emeuarmd murder the boo' bat be "he de}'
toren- se *o'
renewal, and she made a similar sta Oa oe 4
before the di r svll4' coes--
ins's"; told her that 5t
013 the bed
discover of the murder,
e;teh her
a return of the periodical corop'al" ece h4ll
ing a discharge. Never knew an inst.", sbe
family of illness arising from such a cohneeletter
her t 1 i 0 1
the
By a juryman—When she gave ad es
her bonnet and cloak on. the cab-std tesa jol
Samuel Watkins, waterma,n to Baitra, rO,
street—Was not examined before the w_l7 the rot'„
the prisoner at twenty minutes to nine re
night. The driver of the first can ,naitie,'„
of
el'a
named Mapleson. She made s itt„lesoi aottle for
respecting the trains to Brighton Ist 110 1,88 ,4
ferred the matter to witness ; and he I'o' wtt, too 10811,
quire. He did so, and told her that b,la
Was oleo aocl3P
the last train, as it left at eight. It
e thought a! Pi,t tAoe
minutes to nine. She replied that 513. take herr, Poo
She asked Mapleson what he wont° gape!' 11;05 th
coach-office, White Harayard, Virhi (e.e, for
said, 3s. She replied, "You must talsai;- `-'0 got inateti
that." He answered, "I cannot, you • tagat),_ ssici
r. ye 0131:7 OP
to carry." She said. " No, I . bor. d be
bundles." She had nothing /tat" ..yar
aarMs ea be
she had friends in Kings it 09
that she would sleep there, as popleseemal
nearer the railway than Adam street. Id too.
where she was going, and where het:oh:de lose „es- eh]
She said a little way down the atree