The Sun.
London, England, 1847-09-24 00:00:00

Hr. DOD said he had already stated what the
answer of the noble defendant was to the action, which
he defended solely on principle, and he would show
from the plaintiff himself that the Noble Lord had
given him orders not to dress the wigs without a
written authority.
The plaintiff admitted that such orders had been
given, but that Mr. Stretch had neglected to send
them.

After a lengthened argument,
The Learned JUDGE decided that although the
steward had acted wrong in not giving the order in
writing, the defendant could not be made to suffer
by it, having given the plaintiff positive orders not to
do it without either an authority from himself or the
steward.

An order was then made for Si. Bs. for the two new
wigs, the borrowed one, and the one which had the
top taken oat, the dressings being disallowed.
The Court did not rise until near nine o'clock at
night.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.

(Before Mr. Baron PLATT and Mr. Justice WILLIAMS.)
MURDER OF A WIFE BY THE ADMINISTRATION OF
POISON.—John Hutchings, aged 43, described in the
calendar as a cooper, was indicted for the wilful
murder of his wife, Mary Hutchings, by the admi-
nistration of poison.

(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
Mr. BALLANTINE, in his address to the jury, urged
that the evidence was not by any means sufficiently
conclusive to warrant them in convicting the prisoner
of having committed the cold-blooded and deliberate
murder imputed to him ; and he argued that it was
just as possible that the deceased might have obtained
possession of the arsenic and taken it herself as that
the prisoner had administered it to her.

Mr. Baron PLATT summed up the evidence to the
jury with great minuteness, and very favourably to
the prisoner.
The jury retired at half past four o'clock, and were
absent an hour and forty minutes, when they returned
into court and gave their verdict, Guilty.
When the verdict was delivered the prisoner burst
into tears, and on his being asked whether he had
anything to urge why sentence of death should not
be passed upon him, he exclaimed with great earnest-
ness, "I am innocent. lam not guilty, my Lord
and gentlemen ; I declare lam innocent. I have not
had any arsenic in my hands for two months."
Mr. Harker, the chief usher, then made the usual
proclamation for silence.

Baron PLATT, having put on the black cap, ad-
dressed the prisoner, and said that the jury, after a
most patient inquiry and great deliberation, had
found him guilty of the crime of wilful murder, and,
taking into consideration the circumstances of that
crime, he could not hold out to him any hope of
mercy on this side of the grave. The offence of
which he had been found guilty was of a most ag-
gravated character; he had destroyed the wife of his
bosom, whom he had sworn to cherish and protect,
in a most cruel manner, and while pretending to give
her the cup of kindness he had exhibited to her deli-
berately the cup of death. The Learned Judge then
passed sentence of death in the usual form.

- The prisoner, who seemed dreadfully affected
during the address of the Learned Judge, exclaimed,
as he was leaving the bar, "I am innocent ; you have
murdered an innocent man."

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.

Henry Frederick White, a young man of respect-
able appearance, was brought before Sir Peter Laurie,
charged with committing an impudent robbery in
New Bridge-street, on the preceding afternoon.
The Rev. Mr. Penny, of Phillimore-place, Ken-
nington, stated that as he was walking in Bridge-
street, between three and four o'clock the previous
afternoon, the prisoner accosted him, and asked if he
knew a Mr. Taylor. Witness told him he did not;
but the prisoner followed him, and repeated the ques-
tion. Opposite Radley's Hotel the prisoner suddenly
knocked his hat and gold spectacles off, picked up the
spectacles, which were worth 41., and dashed oft
through the cab rank. He fortunately ran up Cres-
cent-place, which is not a thoroughfare, and was easily
secured. The prisoner entered a wine-merchant's
cooperage there, but the spectacles had not been found
there or elsewhere. He was quite positive the pri-
soner was the man who robbed him.

Cross-examined by the prisoner's solicitor—The
prisoner was drunk, or counterfeited being so ex-
tremely well.

Daniel Cook, a cab driver, and Edward Fruen,
another driver, who were waiting on the rank, con-
firmed the rev. gentleman's statement. The prisoner
had a companion, who tried to pick the clergyman's
pocket while the prisoner amused him. The prisoner
appeared to be drunk.
The solicitor represented that it was the frolic of a
drunken man, and not a serious attempt to rob the
gentleman ; but he did not call witnesses to the pri-
soner's character.

The prisoner was committed for trial.
WORSHIP-STREET.
A young woman, Ann Smith alias Cannon, was
placed at the bar for final examination, charged with
stealing a cashbox, containing bank notes and gold to
the amount of 1001., and a quantity of jewellery,
copper moneys, and other articles, the property of Mr.
Thomas Furley, a grocer at Upper Clapton.
The prosecutor's house was broken into in the
middle of the night, by forcing an iron grating in
the front of the shop, whence admission was obtained
to the back parlour, in which a closet, containing a
large quantity of pence and halfpence, was broken
open and the money stolen. The whole of the lower
part of the house was next ransacked, but so expertly
as to occasion no noise, and a large quantity of plate
and linen having been packed into a clothes-basket,
and placed in the yard ready for removal over the
back wall, a woman, who it is believed was the pri-
soner, entered the bedroom of the prosecutor while
he was awake, and, having answered him as though
she were the servant, took the cashbox off a dressing
table, and disappeared with it. This cashbox, and
nearly all the other property, were afterwards reco-
vered, the prisoner having been pursued and captured
after she had secreted them in an outhouse in her
flight; but about the same time that the cashbox was
stolen from Mr. Furley's bedroom, that of his daugh-
ter was entered also, her drawers broken open without
disturbin> her, and her watch taken from a watch
pocket at the head of her bed. This watch could not
afterwards be discovered, although the prisoner was
known not to have thrown it away, and her person
underwent a minute examination by the female
searcher directly after she was taken ; but

Mrs. Elizabeth Bewick, matron of the Refuge for
the Destitute in the
_Hackney-road, now attended,
and stated that, having read the former examination
of the case in the papers, she was satisfied she had a
previous knowledge of the prisoner, and that after
coming to this court and being admitted to the cells,
she found that her suspicions were correct. About
seven years ago the prisoner was an inmate of that
institution, and, having apparently thoroughly re-
formed her previous conduct, was recommended by
sonreemoned to
etothheavwe nifeoorfectholelepertn of theoiosecutor, circumstance, who,though
be
took her into his service, in which she remained for
some time, and quitted it without any imputation of
fault. The prisoner now informed her that she had
been living honestly for some months past with her
sister, and that, being destitute and out of a situa-
tion, she went late on the evening previous to the
burglary to the prosecutor's house, in the hope that
his wife would recommend her somewhere, but that,
finding the house closed, she wandered about Clapton
all night till an early hour next morning, when,
finding the street-door open, she entered the passage,
and was met by the female servant, who, after some
friendly conversation, and ascertaining the particu-
lars of her position from her, asked her to wait
there and she would give her something; that after
the lapse of a few m;nntes the aorvemb rcburnetl, and
hurriedly gave her the cashbox and a bag containing
the daughter's jewellery, together, with the young
lady's watch, and directed her to convey them to a
secluded passage near Hackney Church, where she
would speedily meet her and share the contents, but
that she was overtaken on the way, and the property
recoveredosi,th the, exception of the watch, which
notwithstanding the search she had undergone, she
had contrived to secrete about her, and would be
found, if looked for, in the cell at the police-station.
A police-constable was accordingly dispatched to
the station-house, and shortly after returned with the
watch, which he had discovered in the spot the pri-
soner had described.
When called upon for her defence, the prisoner now
repeated the same statement she had made to the
matron; upon which the prosecutor's servant was•re-
called and closely questioned by the magistrate, but
she declared in the most impressive manner that there
was not the slightest foundation for what the prisoner
had stated, and that they were entire strangers to each
other until she encountered her in the passage on the
morning of the burglary, as she was about to open the
parlour shutters.
The depositions of the witnesses were thereupon
ordered to be taken, and the prisoner, who is a quiet,
demure-looking girl, of about 25, was fully committed
to Newgate for trial.

WANDS WORTH.
Matilda Bates was charged, before Mr. Paynter,
with the following robbery
Thomasina Spencer, the wife of a surgeon,
living on Larkhall-rise, Clapham, stated that the
prisoner had only been in her service a fortnight, and
she was to have left her on that day, as she did not
suit her in any'respect. Yesterday afternoon she
wept into the sleeping apartment occupied by the
prisoner, and a friend drew her attention to a comb-
-I.),elonging to
.the prisoner, which, upon being
shook, .rattled as if there, was plate in it. Upon
ei<amination, however, several tooth and nail-brushes,
*high had been taken out of the surgery, were found