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

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 Er:gland and Wales
per Imperial Quarter.
WHEAT. I BARLEY. OATS. RYE. I BEANS. I PEAS.
RPICE • . 166 s 101 40s 7d 29s id 40s 2d I 54s 51 42s 10d
The Duties on Foreign Grain are now suspended.

SHERIFFS: COURT.-(THIS DAY

(Before Mr. Under-Sheriff 13uncHELL.)
DAVIS V. KENT.

The plaintiff in this action is a 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 403.
Mr. Lewis, of Moor-street, Soho, theatrical agent,
proved that be was 'present in November last when de-
fendant called, and asked if his teeth were finished.
Plaintiff said they were not, but would 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.
Solomon 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
14/. 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 1/ 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 the plaintiff, by
advertisement, and by hand-bills, professed to make a
complete set of teeth for 51., but on defendant applying,
plaintiff said as a whole set was not required, it would
be more trouble, and the expense would be 7L 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 he 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 bad 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.

Theothercases were struck out, in consequence 01
the parties not being in attendance.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY
OLD COURT.
THE MARYLEI3ONE 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 fur the prosecution. Mr. Clark-
son and Mr. Ballantine appeared for the prisoner.
The prisoner is a tall, well formed, good lookng
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. BobKIN ( 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, Mary lebone ; that the deceased was supported by
her friends, and had the credit of being penurious ; and
no doubt this instigated the prisoner to the commission
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 found on 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 Brighicn 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,
anti had 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 bad 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, te 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 beside 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 boat." 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 until 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 falsehood
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 dOtir ke the passage ; a female voice,

amavered; and, on hearing the prisener's voice, 1:11 ea
she knew her, that her name was Mrs. Hunt, a de n
she lived with an olrl lady in the back kitchen. II 're,
asked the female if she should know her bather Ifs
and the prisoner said, "It la me, Mrs. wn. ,_,,
took her towards the back ki:ohen, and whilst on
trsl":
stairs the prisoner said, " I tell you again it's of e no
knocking, as she's as deaf as a po,t." There W3' C
key in the door : she said she had not
.g.._"
it. He asked her where the Window .7z
and she replied in the back ard. When she Sto.a7,,
had not got the key, he said, "This is very,stisPie!ftis
She replied again, "Do not say I did it: Airht.,ls,,ed
the yard he noticed that her right sleeve was ee e '
~•
for about six inches with blood, and that it had been aPP_!.
rently recently washed. He got down into, the are"i
whilst doing so, he heard ano and on turning of
be
he saw the prisoner raising herself up by means ° feet
high. He pulled her back, and said, " What areree•
water butt in order to get over a wall six or seven ea
doing—what is this?" She appeared in great„ei%iont
meet, and pointing, to the water-closet said, .1 1,
otltos
to go there.' Her tongue protruded from her mouth,
_
and she appeared in great agony. He allowed her
sog.ul
but watched her, fearing that she might do herself :05
injury. He opened the door in about two minutes, od
beheld the prisoner with her clothes about her nee ~,,_.
with her hands behind her back strangling
prisoner looked up and shook her head.) Se ;net
" What the devil are you doing? I must give you
the
the custody of another constable," and he:rnt to
ai
door, and called an officer named Jackson 10 and gee;
her into his custody. I had seen the legs of the 01
~ Take care 01
lady through the window, and I said,
her, and I will look after the body of the old lady, ,
herself. (talljr,
from what he had seen he thought her (lest ill);
got into the room by the window, and foun t
head of the deceased under the grate, and here:gs i;
wards the bed, and with a cord around her nk. to i
drew the body out six inches, and left it in the staoo
which it was seen by the doctor. There was a gal i
deal of blood under the body, and it run into a
aboutr 2
the middle cf the room. Dr. Moat came in ....0
minutes or half an hour. There was a table and se turn
up bedstead in the room; it was turned up; tb.driutvb
door was locked. He then came up and went It ba
prisoner and Jackson to the station. Told her e'' t)
Jackson!
~,.
found the body, but she made no remark.
her and the bundle to the station-house. Left the hod.
in the custody of a person named Keeling. C, to
the prisoner with the murder, and she rep lieu e las
charge, "I did not do it; I have not seen h shifts,e la
night." The bundles contained petticoats, ,_,4
marked " M. W. Margaret Wills," deceased's datif;l
The prisoner was searched; four letters were foul.
(one of which had been torn up,) and a glove iu heased,
cule; also, it. Is. 6d. in silver. Found in the deceased we
pocket two silver watches, 6d., and a watch key. There bse
a chest of drawers in the room; one of the faunaerili it.,
a key in it and was open. No money was anble'
The deceased's son-in-law and the deceased's ea`''
street,ja ck set): ,
t2h9e,
ms totederain
morning
that f heth we
identified the body. et Mole"
as2cl°ll
ofdlignie Saul;
allow
the prisoner first at half-past three walking
Upper Seymour-street very fast; it is about flyertismit
dred yards from the place. She was going t°ll,.„a after
She was not carrying anything. About two houte`-obre
he was passing the house, and was called in byl3sd her i
who gave the prisoner into his custody. Aske 1 eight
she lived in the house, and how long, and she
early,said bllt
weeks. Asked her where she was going so Zaeiterl'
she made no reply. She appeared very flinch
and trembled. Took her to the station. eolice.
Mary Anne Porter, wife of James Porter, assn
man, and searcher at Harcourt-street statiou'u°o o
Recollected her being brought there on the 0014 'he]
the 2d of June. There blood her sleeve-I
was ono You'
skirt
, and on the body of her gown. Said to here, wise
dress is in a mess." She attributed it to a eaturaloo4 01
her:under clothing was much stained. There was b elottl''
the strings of her bonnet, and a re at deal on herh pre-
Whilst in the cell she said her great del the
Whilst in the cell she said her nose had bled ti,(30119
ceding night. There was nothing to indicatear teasfrote
blood on the upper part of her clothing had iseed sh"
natural causes. When the bundles were open.oo.
said there were some things in the bundle for will
had paid the old lady ss. 0 the
(The gown and the strings of the loonnethil poi
cloak were here exhibited to the judge and the .1
The marks bad, in some deg e , been effaced 11 '3,, ea
Mrs. Susanah Nesbett, a rleod er in the heatsralliee
next called. She appeared quite overcome, b,ilhe Fri
sslightly. She said no one but her mother an u coy phi
orier resided on the ground floor of the house. befoe
prisoner about ten minutes to nine on the 11i.Ogolicl
the murder coming along the passage• Oatsun n srrela
night she heard the • - -* d e"11 Ow
prisoner and the arse „seri
ling. The prisoner repeatedly told -the decfr Di ecer
" she would do for her and that before long' went feic;
sequence of the disturbance thus created, she in 00
r. Hayward, the owner of the house, wit° rileoessl,
remonstrated with them. The prisoner on tba..L'hieh s„'
called the deceased "an old hypocrite ;'' to w—ad s"''
replied, " She was the first lodger she had had, 60er
b ourse' !Twat
should not have another;" ' adding, t a _
should not stop there that night. The pris PP
to behave like other people. ; Wrt('
Cross-examined—Had lived in the house 's.tl„.9bee '1 a•
but only occasionally spoke to the prisoner. 'ttiost'l
rel on the Monday arose about hanging a,,lt ten ..,/131'
the yard. Did not see the prisoner until tle°Thnacei,a-'
flutes. to nine on the Tuesday night. Heard r'n ' 'J.'
mg on the Tuesday, the night of the murder. s 001
prisoner passed her in the her visl °II
passage on
night. ea, 01°
deceased was not so e
to
By a juryman—The d °
hee • , t the prisoner's threats. °il
, ati
Charles
Hayward, the landlord of the hons:',sitae,-,
and celour man, was next called. The la and'
901,.,,'"
came to him on the Monday before the ranvderth'e hoio`o/
consequence of what she stated, he went t°l,- Ord
He found the old lady sittin hair at tee Asir
sitting .on a c .
.;de. bat
the back kitchen. The prisoner was 10°' lied a
Mrs. Stowell what was the matter? She reP eshe
she the
the • -
. prisoner had been h - her because dby •
a using
for money. He went into the kitchen, foliowe flaky
old lady. Asked the prisoner what she had beelpy b 0
a noise about, and she replied that the eld 't) is Oil
been making a noise ahout hanging a Perticily lb° a
yard. She said that she had told the old a old bad
was not hers (the prisoner's), and that it belpshe ~o
person in the first floor. The old lady said
she ''!l4,
toldh her to bring it in. The deceased salu
per slob
t reatened to do for her, to which the P. any slob
"You are a lying old wretch, I never saw - 00 The
.thing." The last witness, who wits, ~:sse
stairs, said she had heard' her SO' A-o°. Pi't-be
prisoner said she would go to ',7j ter the
where broken victuals was given to her, a- „totls„s,
people who gave her them that she was a eq.' o'7o
woman, and was dissatisfied with what she heihfi hey ; 0
that she should like to have her revenge out ,e,;ro ao °id
which he said, " Surely you would not jeJ-- 04
woman." The deceased said she wanted theln aner re;
the rent as she had none • to which the Prhsaveseaes
sponded—" It is a lie I know; have, for 1 "-Sid 5-,
; you over s eeas
it in the corner of the drawer." The pris iiie tv bat
had no money, and acknowledged owing her ,ias ;
erf
rent. She said she was too ill to take a situ
el ,
she would write for some _money to PSI sod 6'o
farthing before she left. She was exciten-1 sheno-
Told her she had better go to bed and t'sei Ibe drib
not discontinue her noisy conduct ;he sb,°,n7.,„telf ",sei
pelled to turn her out. She said she woutu,T4t. ',,,'" 0
his request, and he bid her good night alw left,
the deceased next morning. She paid tw° s eddie
week, and he allowed her
one shilling for that
for him. 14d bet
Cross . examined—Did
not recollect eor Oboe_ The
the • prisoner said, although th deceased lied abuse
Mild
shamefully that she would. n e a
_. boo 0
deposition
was shown to not do her
autlY, h, atu",..otte
that he had made such the witness, "had f0r60401,
a statement, but yeclae
doing so.) Saw the deceased's the 1
body 00 treeff
not on the Tuesd a 10- '
ay. A $ one
Ann Smallworth said sie lived at 40, -,,,„ pal-
all
and kept a shop there. On Monday night riis ..401
1 came into her parlour, and said the deceesen,,
abused her and insulted her. Saw her 00 "-filo 10,' IA
morningd at nine o'clock, when she begged Ilh'''t wrg. et
tru Jig the night before. She explained t-eatiPieillrliehetj
meant by doing for the deceased was by 0.-„,eci h- or
recei.- 0 - f
her to Mrs. Wyndham from
whom she A hetifee goo
victuals. Saw her also, at ten o'clock. and "I; a the.oacll
fe,urand five, in the back kitchen. She elleheaad, " ill°
an inch or two, and took a letter from he 1e to see eV
witnessth had taken in for her. Was not °wet° aiP sis
t room. Saw her again at twenty minutes, eye °: het
said she had to meet half-p.s.looked al se
a person at _,o 6
o'clock, and
asked her the time. Witness, the tie ' tof
clock at the prisoner's request, and foal", ee up -stairs
minutes to six. Thii conversation took P'aciaiert ot
and she asked witness to permit her to E°oo Ilia:foe,
through her parlour. Saw her again
_rood t"'d Os!
evening corning from the street. She lad P- in l'ana-00,
her parlour into the street. She Passepass te-,„te•
again, having obtained her permission to the test
her parlour. The witness corroborateuet te
04.
knockingofthe
at the door on the Wed°,,es ether PEthiog
versed with her daily. She was ",'° tad an) se.
truly collected, t 1
truly sensible. Never aetec ,hiog
be
09 001."
peculiar in her way of talking. There Tuesday
culiar in her conduct on the Monday an me ate
was much paler. . ,
_r be_ 0 hi
Cross-examined—Was not exarained eltrthe
statetita•
the
egistrate or coroner. Was questioned 111' o her er
superintendent of police, who took doWgraa Dot,oo
ment. Attended befor the magistrate, hill oWructll34
amined. Had told her that she had some im her tds
she W.-, sea -•
and that she had had a renewal
e • On l'e abaci a
shortl i'
y a.ter she came into the house. he 101- day
week before the murder she told her that 9- a the d
renewal, and she made a similar statenient.b°o shell:,
before the discovery of the murder, steYing.;o3B.-soleseo
a return of the periodical complaint each ''., her °
ing a discharge. Never knew an instance Lf. bad
family of illness arising from such acniplaw
letter she
By a juryman—When she gave r the
d in t"
her bonnet and cloak on. b-stan- SO
Samuel Watkins, waterman to the ea .
trigs day
A y
~,,gis. _ Tose:3..
street—Was not examined before the
the prisoner at twenty minutes to nine on the a re ;
night. The driver of the first
so lc 'ries r
me inclu
named Mapleson. She made so , oa_ who 1;!'„
respecting the trains to Brighton of MeVeL o.ould at
as tOo '4..e, tf
ferred the matter to witness ; and he said is' 1 t
quire. He did so, and told her that she w 5
then t" -Li 13.
the last train, as it left at eight. It wa as woe
thought the
minutes to nine. She replied that she . ~ to
1, De Ito
She asked Mapleson what he would take
e for. boo
coach office, White Hart-yard, Whited's') for 105 t,.
said, 3s. She replied, "You must take me
ot itiggatv.:
that." He answered, "I cannot, you have. g._ or thql
to carry." She said, " No, I have only two said
, and
bundles." She had nothing with hen
aro, be
she had friends in King's
as
aid ,
it we" Ueo
that she would sleep there, as iesen as
nearer the railway than Adam-street.' gt,.1?_,..„ her 111;;;
where she was going, and where he should teea lOW'
d Oat omv '
She said a little way down the etreet, an