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ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

second wife, Catherine O'Brien, as a
i witness against
him. It appeared he had, after being taketii nto cus-
tody, repeated his statement, and put it in writing, which
he signed. It was contended on the authority of a case,
" Regina v. Simmonite," decided before Mr. ustice
Wightman some assizes ago, that this proof of the first
marriage was sufficient without any extrinsic evidence.
His LORDSHIP, however, said that under the circum-
stances of the present case he thought the evidence in-
sufficient. The statement had been made for a particu-
lar object, which might, perhaps, have induced him to
state that against himself which really was not true; and
he thought it would not be safe to rely on such a decla-
chare
Catherine
tho Until,rioe O'Brientoo, the
was first
marriage decla-
ration alone as a proof of the prisoner's commission of the
cmriamme.
a7et with
awhichproperly hew was
proved,
the position of his lawful wife, and could not be exa-
mined against him.

so that she died at an earlier period than she would
have done had she not received the violence in question,
then the prisoner was guilty of having caused her death.
As to the second question—if they should be of opinion
that there had only been the provocation stated in the
examination of the deceased, a provocation of words,
then that was a provocation which in law was considered
a slight provocation, and then the rule of law was such
as had been stated by the Learned Counsel. They
must first be satisfied, beyond all reasonable doubt, that
the death was occasioned by the violence inflicted by the
prisoner. It must occur to every one that after all it
turned upon the evidence of the medical men; it wag in
the nature of a speculation on their parts, and they knew
that most eminent medical men not only differed in
opinion, but had found reason to doubt in old age the
propositions they had entertained when young. They
must recollect that nine months had elapsed from the
time of the injury to the time of the death—a long period
—and the law was so apprehensive of the possibility of mis.
take, that if the death had not occurred tefore the expira-
tion of a year the prisoner could not have been con-
victed. Was the consumption caused, or the. death has-
tened, by the violence of the prisoner ? He was bound
to say that, although the deposition of the unfortunate
young woman was admissible in evidence, it could not
be treated as such satisfactory evidence as the testimony
of a living witness, because they had had no opportu•
nify of observing her demeanour, nor had she been sub •
ject to cross-examination. If they felt that they could
act upon the opinion of the medical men, and that it ad-
mitted of no doubt that the prisoner caused the death of
the young woman, they must inquire whether, when he
caused it, he intended either to cause her death, or do
her some grievous bodily harm. If they should consci-
entiously think these two propositions made out, it
would be their duty to find the prisoner guilty; but if
they entertained any reasonable doubt as to murder,
they could either find him guilty of manslaughter or
acquit him.
The jury, after deliberating for some time, returned
a verdict of Guilty of manslaughter.
Mr. Justice WILLIAMS then sentenced the prisoner to
eighteen months' improvement.
This case was tried before Mr. Justice Williams in
consequence of the indisposition of Mr. Chief Justice
Wilde, who has not been in court for two days, but his
place has been supplied by Mr. Rogers.
The commission will be opened at Bristol on Monday,
but at the present time it is doubtful whether the Chief
Justice will be able to go, as yesterday he had entirely
lost his voice.

NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Liverpool, August 13.
Elizabeth Jackson, an elderly woman, about 50 years
of age, was indicted for having, at Manchester, cut and
wounded Thomas Royle, her son-in-law, with intent to
murder him. The intent was, in other counts, alleged
to be to do him some grievous bodily harm.
Mr. Warren conducted the case for the prosecution;
the prisoner was defended by Mr. Monde.
It appeared from the statement of counsel, and the
evidence of the witnesses, that the prosecutor, Thomas
Boyle, was a shoemaker, and married some little time
ego the daughter of the prisoner. The husband and
Ivife were cousins, and the prisoner gave her son-in-law
end daughter, on the occasion of their marriage, some
houses and other property, and this property . had
been the cause of some wrangling and occasional
bad feeling since between the parties. The prisoner
was anxious to have the property back again ; and
the grievous act now complained of had its origin
in this ill feeling. On the 27th of May .the prisoner,
her daughter, and son- in-law, all slept i.sonnthero
in one
room in the house of the prosecutor—the prisoner
bed, and the daughter and son-in.-law in another. The
night passed over without anything particular occurring,
but about five o'clock in the morning the son-iu law was
from his sleep by finding that his
suddenly startled
er..in4a,,, the prisoner, had stretched over her
daughter, and had succeeded in inflicting a very serious
wound on his neck with a dinner knife. He rushed out
of the bed, seized the knife, and ran into the street,
streaming with blood, and holi.ing the bloody knife in
his hand. A policeman was immediately sent for, and
be, on entering the bedroom, found the prisoner sitting
there, with her head leaning upon her hand. She was
exceedingly depressed, and refused to give any statement
of the reasons which had induced her to commit the
dreadful act. She had been repeatedly heard to say,
long previous to the day named in the indictment, and
subsequent to the marriage, that she wished the prose-
cutor was stiff or dead. The knife had every appearance
of having been recently sharpened on the edge of a win-
dow. The wound was half an inch in depth, and three
inches in length ; and a great mercy it appeared to be
that the prisoner did not now stand before the Court
Upon the capital charge.
Mr. Moricx, for the defence, elicited from the wit-
nesses that the bargain made at the time of the marriage
was, that the prisoner should have 7s. a week from the
prosecutor, and that, not having received that stipulated
amount, and not having lived happily with her son-in-
law, quarrels ensued; but there was no immediate
quarreL For three weeks prior to the occurrence they
had lived in amity together; and the night before it the
prisoner appeared in good spirits, and wished her
daughter and son-in-law " good night,- and went to
bed before them. He (Mr. Monck) contended that the
prisoner committed the act from some impulse during
sleep, and that she was therefore irresponsible. The
Learned Counsel was proceeding to support his hypothesis
by reading extracts from Taylor's celebrated work on
medical jurisprudence when his Lordship interrupted
him by saying that the book could not be read. He ob-
served, that if any scientific statements respecting the
physiology of the human mind, or of human nature,
were to be submitted, they must be given in evidence by
men, and not by books, for books could not be cross-
examined, and men could. His mind on the subject was
fully made up, and his opinion was, moreover, the one
entertained by all the judges. Mr. Monck desisted from
the reading of the work in deference to the wishes of the
Court, and concluded by calling witnesses to character,
none of whom answered to their names.
The JUDGE, in summing up, said the jury had no
middle course to adopt, and that they must either find
the prisoner guilty or not. If they should think the
prisoner was insane at the time of the commission of the
act, that would be a defence, but an acquittal upon that
ground would enable the authorities to protect the pub-
lic from a repetition of similar acts on the part of the
prisoner, by placing her in confinement. Of her in-
sanity, however, there was no evidence, and her defence
was not put on that ground by the Learned Counsel. It
WAS rather urged that her mind had been powerfully
acted on by previous quarrels with her son-in-law, and
that the stimulus of these constant quarrels, had pro-
duced some hallucination during sleep 'which led to the
commission of the act. It would be a most dangerous
thing, however, to take such a defence for granted with-
out some evidence in the conduct of the party or the
circumstances of the case from which its existence could
fairly be inferred.
The jury alter some deliberation returned a verdict of
guilty of cutting and wounding with intent to murder.
Sentence was deferred.
John Gordon, who was yesterday convicted of the
manslaughter of Thomas Price, at Manchester, by forcing
him into a flue, was then placed at the bar for sentence.
• The Learned JUDGE delivered a very feeling address
On the enormity of the clime of which the prisoner had
been found guilty. His Lordship said the jury had
very properly, upon the evidence before them, found
him guilty, and he owned he could not trust himself
immediately after a crime containing such details of
suffering on the one part and cruelty on the other—he
could not permit himself to pass sentence without re-
flection, and without conferring with his learned col-
league, whose experience was greater than his own, and
having the benefit of that experience. Had every part
of this most unhappy and cruel offence the same dark
and malignant appearance which some parts of it pre-
sented, he (the Learned Judge) should have felt called
upon to inflict upon the prisoner the severest sentence
the law could attach to such a crime; but there were, in
appearance, some circumstances from which it might be
inferred that his whole conduct was not so bad as from
parts of it it would appear; and whether what there
was of apparent mitigation was the result of the con-
fiding, and hopeful, and affectionate spirit of the child,
which no unkindness could quench, and no severity en-
tirely destroy, he knew not; but it had some effect in
making the offence of which the prisoner had been con-
victed appear less dark and malignant. From the evi-
dence which the prisoner produced the deceased appeared
not only to have chosen his occupation and selected the
prisoner as his master, but on the very day when the
unlawful conduct of the prisoner deprived the poor child
of existence, he spoke of the prisoner with some degree
of kindness. The prisoner was responsible for the loss
of life which occurred through his unlawful act. It was
not lawful for him to use a child of such tender years for
such a purpose. It was contrary to a recent statute,
which had been proposed expressly for the purpose of
preventing cruelty from being inflicted on the free sub-
sects of this country worse than that which the Legisla-
ture had been desirous of suppressing in other parts of
the world. The prisoner had violated the law under
such circumstances as would have made his act criminal
even if there had been no such law in existence. It was
most unquestionable that the prisoner had forced the de-
ceased into a place which was unfit for a human being to
enter, and after death it was discovered that there had
been many stripes inflicted on the person of the poor
child, and which confirmed the testimony of the witnesses
as to the severity of the blows which the prisoner had
inflicted on the deceased, in order to force him into the
flue. After making all allowances, however, for the
conduct of the prisoner, it was still necessary that some
severe sentence should be passed. His Lord: hip then
sentenced him to be transported for the period of ten
years.
Elizabeth Parr, a young woman, 27 years of age,
was indicted for having, at Bury, stabbed and wounded
Robert Grundy, with intent to do him some grievous
bodily harm.
Mr. Cross prosecuted. The prisoner was undefended.
It appeared that the assault here was utterly unpro-
voked, and was wholly inexplicable. About the hour of
half-past one o'clock on the morning of the 25th of July,
the prosecutor, who was a collier, was proceeding down
Bolton- street, Bury, and when he had reached as far as
Mill brow, the prisoner, whom he had never seen before,
came up and struck him on the breast, and said, " I'll do
for thee." The prosecutor staggered, reeled round, and
fell, and it, wits then found that he had received a severe
punctured wound with w
some sharp instrument on the
breast, from which.blood w
freely. No weapon
was found upon the prisoner fluorinwhngaarsrested. A verdict
of " Guilty of a grievous assault,' returned.
The prisoner was sentenced to 12 calendar months'
imprisonment and hard labour.
A number of
were disposed of duri other
ng the y. uni
stamportant cases of robbery
On the civil side the Court was engaged the greater
fart of the day with two causes—one an action for an
illegal distress, and another of trover for a quantity of
stone, neither of which were of any public interest.
August 14.
Samuel Irish, a youth 17 years of age, was indicted
for nutting and wounding Thomas Willett, with intent to
do him previous bodily harm.
Mr. Cross conducted the prosecution ; the prisoner
was not defended by counsel.
The prisoner and the prosecutor had been, it appeared,
at a publie-house in Manchester on the evening in ques-
tion for many hmers,
ing dominoes. The the parties being engaged in play-
Olrothseechouse sister was also there,
' •
and was in and out
On sev .course of the evening.eral times in the
-occasions the prisoner tookher coming in on one of these
-which the prosecutor,d some liberties with her, of
Wispirioved, and angry words took
iplace between them
The bystanders interfered finally resulted in a fight.
separate them and Irish
-rwas turned out of the houset.o e endeavoured to force
a dmittance, and kicked violentilltirisat the door. He re-
m ained loitering about until prosecutor left the
house ;in the meantime using violent threats, and stat-
ing his' determination, if he couldneiat match Willett
Bathe prosecut or
with his fists, to do so with a knife.
pug " Willett,
coming o tit the prisoner called to him,
come here. and I'll cut your ---. headface oft" and
Willett approaching him struck him twice
with his knife', inflicting two severe cuts, one extending
from behind O ,e temple half way down the cheek, and
.
the other from the temple, crossing the first. The pro-
secutor bled much, and became so faint that he was un-
able to walk, and was carried to the dispensary. He
was for souse time in a precarious state from the loss of
blood, arising from she dividing of the temporal artery.
—Verdict, Guilty.
His LORDSHIP, commenting in strong terms on the
brutal mode .of conducting their quarrels for which this
county is so remarkable, stated his determination to
suppress,
*lons if possible, the use of the knife on these occa-
yews.b y severe punishment.—To be transported for 10

I Verdict, Not Guilty.
Adolphe Schutz, a German, who pleaded "guilty "
yesterday to a charge of forgery, was placed at the bar
to receive sentence. The forgery had, it would appear,
been committed by altering the figures of a letter of credit,
obtained at Vienna from Theodore Merche and Co.,
bankers there, and which was payable by their corre-
spondents at Manchester.

Mr. J. Poixocx, who was retained for the prosecu•
tion, stated that the persons instructing him wished
to recommend the prisoner to mercy. The sum for
which the forgery was committed (2,0001.) was, no
doubt, large ; but it had all, with the exception of a few
pounds, been recovered, and considering his youth, he
being but 19 years of age, it was hoped his Lordship
would pass as lenient a sentence as justice to the public
would permit.
Mr. LowLEn, for the prisoner, further stated that the
prisoner had been made the tool of other persons older
than himself, at whose instigation the offence had been
committed.

To be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for eighteen
calendar months.

Mr. Justice WIOHTMAN to-day finished the Salford
list of causes, and none of the parties being ready in
that for West Derby, the first fifteen in the list were
struck out. As it then became apparent, however, that
if his Lordship remained inflexible in his determination
of proceeding, the whole list must be disposed of, and
the assizes close in a few minutes, his Lordship finally
consented to let the remainder stand over till Monday,
and assist the Chief Baron by disposing of a few of the
less important cases in the calendar.

WESTERN ClRCUlT.—Devizes, Aug. 14.
(Before Mr. Justice WILLIAats.)
Francis Valus was indicted for the wilful murder of
Jane Miller, at Warminster, on the 25th of September,
1846, by striking and beating her divers times with both
of his hands upon the left side of the body, giving her
divers mortal bruises, and causing three fractures of her
ribs, of which she languished till the 6th of June and
then died.
Mr. Hodges conducted the case for the prosecution,
and Mr. Slade appeared for the prisener.
From the evidence it appeared that the prisoner,
twenty-seven years of age, and the deceased, twenty-
two years of age, were affianced lovers, and were so with
the consent of their parents. He had paid his addresses
to her for some time, and they were very fond of each
other. Unfortunately these addresses led to too great
an intimacy, and she became pregnant. On a particular
day in September, 1846, she went to spend the day at
the house of the prisoner's mother, and she did not re-
turn till ten o'clock at night. She then complained to
her mother that she had a violent pain in the side. She
vomited much. She was very ill at night, alai was never
able again properly to attend to her work, that of shoe-
binding. Up to that time she had always been a healthy,
well grown girl, but from that day her health was gone,
and the pain in her side continued until she was deli
vered of a child on the 22d of December. She got well
through her confinement, but in about four days the
pain in her side returned with redoubled violence. A
surgeon then was called in, and he pronounced her to
be in a consumption, and continued to do so till
the 22d of May. During the whole of this time did
this poor girl suffer, and, although the prisoner
had deserted her from the fatal day in September,
not one word did she utter against him, nor did
any one suspect the true reason of her agony.
She alone knew the real cause, but in the fondly
cherished hope that the man she loved, and who had
ruined her, would yet fulfil his promise and make her
his wife, she preserved a strict silence as to what had
passed on that eventful night. In May, however, she
found death fast approaching ; her earthly hopes and
prospects had vanished and were at an end ; and then,
when life was ebbing fast, she opened her breast to her
mother, who made a communication to the surgeon.
That gentleman examined her, and he found that three
of her ribs had been fractured and had not united. A
matistrate was then informed, the prisoner was appre-
hended, and the poor girl was examined, and she then
stated that on the day she visited the prisoner's mother
in September, he appeared to be out of humour and did
not stay in the house. At night he came with her to
take her home. He told her she had informed her
mother that she was in the family way, and he should
not be able to come into the town without something
being said about it. She begged him to marry her.
He said he would not, and he would not do anything for
her or her child. She then called him a blackguard.
He said, if she called him so again he would kick her
guts out. She again told him he was a blackguard, and
he then kicked at her, but she avoided it. He then hit
her three violent blows on the left side, all in the
same place. She said, " Lord, have mercy upon me,
you have broken my ribs." She would have fallen had
he not. caught her. He supported her some way home
till she stopped, and said she must rest, Ile told
her to come on, for he should not wait there to be seen.
She could not then move, but was leaning against a rail-
ing, and he went away. It took her a long time to reach
home, as she was obliged to rest several times, and she
was very ill. She added that she would not live long,
and should die of the injury she had received from the
prisoner. Her statement then went on to reiterate that
which has already been given, saying she had not told
before, because he said he would marry her. The poor
girl lingered in great pain till the 6th of June, when '
death put an end -0 her sufferings. Two medical men
then made a post mortem examination of her body, and
one of them stated that the lungs were very much dis-
eased, the whole of the surface of the lung was glued to
the lining of the chest. Three ribs had been fractured
on the lett side, one had united, but the other two had not
united. They presented the appearance of having been
broken and not attended to. She died of consumption. If
the ribs had been fractured in September, and not at-
tended to, he thought that would have been likely to pro-
duce consumption in a person predisposed to it. The frac-
ture not being attended to, inflammation of the covering
of the lungs would be produced in the first instance, which
would be followed by the substance of the lungs becoming
inflamed, and he considered that to have been the case
in the present instance. In his cross-examination this
gentleman stated that he had never known an instance
of consumption being produced by a blow of this de-
scription. There was nothing to show that the lungs
had received injury from the fractured ribs. It was im-
possible to say how long pregnancy had been going on.
Pregnancy would retard it. All the symptoms would
recur with double violence after childbirth. The ave-
rage term for the progress of consumption, from its com-
mencement to death, was nine or ten months, or less.
The disease might have been larking in the system be-
fore it displayed itself. The non-union of the ribs indi-
cated a scrotulous subject. The other surgeon stated
that:he had been in practice in Warminster -for nearly
twenty j ears. He was present at the post mortem exa-
mination. Consumption was the cause of death. The
fracture of the ribs unattended to would be likely to
lead to consumption in a person predisposed to that dis
ease. In April, 1845, he had examined this girl on the
occasion of her becoming a member of a Friendly So
ciety ; and he granted her the usual certificate, which
he should not have done had she not been a healthy
person. The injury to the ribs very probably originated
the disease. Consumption might be lurking in the
system for years before it developed itself ; but it would
almost certainly be brought on by such an injury as
three fractured ribs unattended to. Considerable pain
would attend such an injury. A sister of Jane Miller
had died of consumption. Jane Miller was strong and
well grown, but bad the complexion and countenance of a
person not unlikely to become the subject of consump-
tion.
On his cross-examination the witness stated that
he knew an instance of a youth who had met with a
injury, and rapid
she consumption followed, and he
dsiimedil.arlnhis opinion would have been alive now
but for that injury ; that blow was the cause of her
death ; it must have brought on inflammation of the
chest, which would almost to a certainty
affect the lungs,
and, in a constitution prone to consumption, that disease
would most likely be originated.
This was the case for the prosecution.
Mr. SLADB, in addressing the jury for the prisoner,
said he could commiserate the wrongs of this un-
fortunate young woman, and he would go along with
them as a man, sinking the character of an advo-
cate, in the deepest feelings of indignation
against his own client for having allowed him-
self, in a temporary fit of passion and madness,
to lift his hand against a woman ; but they must not
allow their feelings of indignation to warp their judg-
ment, or transport them beyond that which in justice
was due to the prisoner. It was not the mere blow that
amounted to a crime of murder. It had been laid down
that in all cases of slight provocation, if it might be col-
lected from the weapon used, or from any other circum-
stances, that the party intended to kill or to do some
grievous bodily harm, it would amount to the crime of
murder. Now, here there was not any weapon., nor
even any circumstances, to show an intention on tae part
of the prisoner to do any grievous bodily harro , Every-
thing tended to show that he was acting under the in-
fluence of sudden and momentary passion. The Learned
Counsel then said, that at all events there was no evi-
did not think
dence noon
con-
vict the which they could convict of murder, and he
Mr. Justice Witvtela of manslaughter.
prisoner
reree was sufficient to induce them to con-
case to the jury. s then proceeded to sum up the
discharge of a more itaporo mtaenn could be engaged in the
were then performing. On
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doing it honestly and firmly, whatevenrotnaa'hein)&. from
consequences. There were two questions fo.`rgh tbe tbe
tion---first, did the prisoner cause the death of •etiTsidera-
woman ? If they were of opinion That th at il?d-onnog
been proved, then, of course, there was an end of then
case, and the prisoner must, be acquitt, ed ; but if
on the other hand, they thought it was proved that the
prisoner did cause the death of the deceas,d, then arose
another question, whether he did so under eincums•ances
which constituted the crime of murder, or the crime of
manslaughter? It was his duty to tell them that if the
prisoner inflicted violence on this persson, which brought
04 consumption, or, if in the proross of consuraiption,
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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
Henry Brent, who was on Thursday charged on sus-
picion of having smuggled 1,0431 b. of tobacco, was
brought up for final examination on Saturday. The
information, upon which he was placed at the bar,
charged him with having unshipped, and assisted, and
being concerned in the unshipping of the smuggled pro-
perty. The tobacco had been entered as arsenic, and
was concealed with considerable ingenuity.
Mr. Potbury attended for the Customs, and Mr.
Nobler for the defence.
The tobacco was shipped on board the Princess Royal,
at Hamburgh, and the tobacco was stuffed in tin cases
and deposited in the best way calculated to escape de-
tection. The following is the additional evidence:—
John Brett, clerk to Mr. Norman, of No. 1, Water-
lane, Tower-street, broker, said—The defendant called
upon me to pay the freight for six casks of arsenic, and
ladingget
a releasean dp
a i
dfotrh
ethe e
freight and
g
He producedCross-examined—He did not produce a letter with
the bill of lading.
the hisreblielal s co.f
Charles Thomas, lighterman to Mr. Joyce, said he
went to the Princess Royal with an order tor six casks
of arsenic. The casks were marked with a deeth's head
and cross-bones. The tide waiter accompanied him to
the place.
Martin J. Gedge, tide waiter, said—On the 11th of
August I wa. on duty in the Princess Royal, from
Hamburgh. I received an order to deliver six casks of
arsenic marked with a skull and cross-bones, and num-
bered from one to six. I sent them in the charge of a
person named Rudock to the Custom House quay.
R. S. Itudock, tide waiter, said--I took in six casks
of arsenic, and delivered them to Mr. Le Feuvre.
Mr. E. P. Le Feuvre said—l received the six casks
from the last witness, and I delivered them to Mr. Con
nell, the Queen's appraiser. Last night I went to the
lodgings of the prisoner, No. 18, Drummond-street,
Euston-square, where the prisoner said he lodged, and
we found in a portmanteau about ten ounces of Caven-
dish tobacco, of the same di scription as that in the
casks, thirteen prohibited prints, and various bills and
documents referring to the purchase of arsenic and lead,
and empty casks.
It appeared from the papers produced by Mr. Le Feuvre
that the writer of them must have had a complete
knowledge of the fact of the deception, for they con
taiued an exact statement of the quantity of arsenic, and
lead, and tobacco, for all of which bills of lading were
exhibited.
Mr. Connell stated that the tobacco found at the pri-
soner's lodgings was of the same description as that in
the casks.
Mr. Hobler submitted that, there being no proof that
the papers were in the handwriting of the prisoner, it
would be unfair to presume that he had a guilty know-
ledge of the smuggling transaction.
The LORD MAYOR said, in his opinion the papers
found upon the prisoner constituted the most undeniable
evidence of guilty knowledge; besides, it appeared from
the prisoner's passports that he had himself been person-
ally engaged in the smuggling business. The adoption
of anon a mode of deo.ption that the practitioner
was able and experienced, for the very symbols of de-
struction, the skull and cro.sbones, upon the outsides of
the packages, were calculated to deter people from the
examination of the contents, so that the Custom-house
officers would be likely to be satisfied with a very super-
ficial investigation.
So strong did the evidence appear to the Lord Mayor
and Alderman Farncomb, who sat in adjudication with
his Lordship, that an immediate sentence of the 1001.
penalty was recorded against the prisoner.
The prisoner was then ordered to be detained in the
Compter until the amount should be paid.
Mr. W. Maxfield was brought before Alderman Mus-
grove, upon a warrant charging him with having intended
to fight a duel.
Inspector Shackell, of the detective force, produced a
warrant signed by Baron Rolfe against the defendant
fur inciting another to fight a duel, and stated that the
defendant had acknowledged that he was the person re-
ferred to in the authority.
Mr. Maxfield was bailed by Mr. Candy, of No. 5 and
6, Watling-street, and Mr. Michael Little, of Dalston.
BO W- STREET.
A man named John Tierney, a coachman in the em-
ploy of Mr. Bryant, livery-stable keeper, of Caroline-
street, Pimlico, was placed at the bar before Mr. Henry,
on Saturday, on a charge of furiously driving, and run-
ning over a child named Rebecca Grey, four years old,
daughter of a corporal in the 69th Regiment.
It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner was
driving from Caroline-street, and at the corner of Ara-
bella-rove he ran against a cart belonging to a person
named Leggett, a shoemaker, breaking the driving box,
and grazing the knees of the pony. Mr. Leggett came
out of a shop where he happened to be, and ordered him.
to stop; but the prisoner drove at a furious rate into
Birdcage-walk. He had a woman (stated to be his wife)
on the box with him. When he arrived at Queen-
square (the horses being in full gallop, and the prisoner
flogging them violently) the child stepped into the road
and was knocked down, one of the wheels passing over
its head. Several persons called out to the prisoner to
stop, but he took no notice, and drove on to Charing-
cross, where he was pulled up by a cabman, who took
him back to Birdcage-walk, and he was there appre-
hended by constable A 44. The child was conveyed to
Westminster Hospital, where it was found that it had re-
ceived very serious injuries and was in great danger.
The prisoner, in his defence, denied that he was driving
his horses at a faster pace than a moderate trot. He did
not see the child until he was close to him, and even
then he did not know he had run over it. He also de-
nied hearing any one call to him to stop. He accountied
for running against Leggett's cart by saying that he was
in a hurry to go to the Bank, as he was employed to take
up a gentleman to drive to Reston-cross, near Bromley,
at two o'clock, and added that Leggett's cart was placed
across the road in such a way that he could not avoid
running against it.
The father of the child was present, who said that the
poor infant was in great danger.
Mr. HENRY said that the charge of furious driving
was fully made out, and if the occurrence should prove
fatal to the child, the prisoner would be liable to be trhea
for manslaughter. He remanded him for a week, mad
declined bail.

MARY L E B ON E.
Stephen Ford, a person of respectable appeararoe.,
was placed at the, bar before Mr. Long, on Saturd air,
on a charge of having forged a will. The prisoner,
who is eighty years of age, was remanded from Thutrs-
day last, hiving been apprehended on the morning
of that day by Policeman Compton, 87 D, in Gro ve-
end-road, St. John's•wood, on a charge of having form('
a will in the city of Bath, from which place he had :aib-
sconded-
On Saturday Mr. Hall, high constable of Bath, :at-
tended, with a warrant which had been issued age hist
the prisoner, for whose apprehension a reward, wit b a
d-escription of his person], appeared in the Government
Police Gazette of the 11th instant. Evidence as to -the
prisoner's identity having been given, he was delir ered
over into the custody of Mr. Hall, and was placed in ,one
of the cells in the yard for a short period, prepare tc,ry
to his being removed to Bath. He seemed much mit ed,
and on being asked by Hooker, the goaler, if he rtcp sired
he
ew said i d
determinedh e sh ould
uponneitheravoidingea t nor t
r i
hernk
hanging or transportation, thereby leading to no other
aagnayin re, fr
ande refreshment, th,
inference than that he meditated suicide.

Tho history of the affair is understood to be as; fol-
lows:—The prisoner was formerly the proprietor of the
Barleymow public-house, in the parish of Walcot, B ath,
for 25 years. He had previously been gamekeei r in
the service of Mr. Hurlock, and was subsequeutly
sheriff's officer. While in Mr. Hurlock's service lie had
an opportunity of making himself acquainted wi th the
affairs of Mr. Slack, a wealthy gentleman, who di ed in
1845. His will was deposited with his solicitor; :Ind, as
it was imagined that nothing of the sort was in -exist-
ence, another will was fabricated, purporting -to be
signed by the deceased, and regularly attested b,y wit-
nesses, as required by law. The signature to thott will
was in the handwriting of the prisoner, who had tried to
Secure to himself a large portion of the testator's fortune,
and had also in the fictitious will bequeathed m orsey to
a large amount to various charities at Bath. T Imo sons
of the prisoner, named Daniel Davies Ford and John
Ford, with Mrs. Garland (late housekeeper to Mr.
Slack), and John Lewis, a farmer, have alreaify been
charge of having been concerned in the to:ging
committed for trial at the Wilts Ass.z s, Salisbury,
thewillof; and the prisoner, who is the.principsi in the

Daniel Flaherty was indicted for bigamy. t
The prisoner, it appeared, in the month of May last
"
came to a police-office and stated that he had two wives,
but the motive to this confession, it appeared, was that
be was claimed by both, and the uproar consequent upon
this state of matters compelled him at last to take refu.ge,
in the police-office. Ile made a very circumstantial
statement of his marriage in Ireland to his first unie
about 32 ,veare ago. He was married, he said, according
40 the rites of the Roman Catholic Church, at Leitri
m,
and about PO years ago left his wife at and lie A kali
married to i his second wife at Ashton-under-Lyne in .the
yeas 1832.
I',Ne prisoner's own statement was the only evident Sei
of the 1 fiat marriage, and it WAS proposed toe xaraitteith 01

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 16, 1847.

case, will no doubt take his trial with them. The in-
quiry is exciting a cmsiderable degree of interest in the
city and neighbourhood of Bath.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
On Saturday, Thomas French, whose real name is
stated to be Edward C. Cairne, formerly of the 18th
Foot, was put to the bar charged with having by means
of a forged order obtaitei a gold watch and key from
Messrs. Gerrard and Co., of 31, Manton-street.
John Denham stated he was in the employ of Messrs.
Gerrard and Co. Oa Tuesday, the 3d iost., a letter i.vas
received by the firm, purporting to come from Sir J.hn
Gerrard, of New Hall, near Warrington, ordering n
watch and key to be sent to the White Hart Hotel,
Eckington, a-rbyshire. Witness, acting oh the in-
instructions of hi, employers, packed a gold watch and
key, and sent them according to the direction in the
letter.

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