The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-19 00:00:00

OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Stafford, March 18.

There are only about 60 prisoners for trial, but many of
the offences charged are of a very grave description, as the
following analysis will show:—

Murdgr 2, manslaughter 6, rape S. unnatural 3, highway
robbery 18, cutting and wounding 5, burglary 3, bigamy,
horse-stealing 1, maliciously killing a horse 1, larceny 3,
malicious shooting 1, uttering 1, embezzlement 1, forgery 1,
assault with intent to ravish 1, concealment of birth 1, ab-
duction 1.

(Before Mr. Baron PrArr.)
George Dorrell, aged 33, was indicted for the manslaughter
of George Lowe, on the 16th of June, 1844, at Upper Arley.
The prisoner, who was stated to be in the last stage of con-
sumption, having been seated in the dock,
Mr. BEADON, as counsel for the Crown, stated the facts of
the case to the jury, which ware briefly these :—The prisoner,
with several others, amongst whom was the deceased, were
drinking together at a public-house, when, as it seemed, in a
frolic (for all the witnesses agreed that there was no quarrel
or ill-will subsisting between the parties) Dorrell caught the
deceased by the collar, and threw him over his shoulder, ap-
parently intending that he should alight on his feet. his
at ran gth,however,was unfortunately insufficient for the purpose,
for the poor man fell upon the back of his neck, and sustained
an injury of the spinal vertebraa, inducing paralysis, and ulti-
mately causing his death. Dorrell assisted in placing him
in a chair, and brought a doctor, but afterwards absconded
into Scotland.

The jury having feund the prisoner Guilty, with a recom-
mendation to mercy, his Lordship sentenced him to be im-
prisoned for one week.
Mr. Huddleston appeared for the defence.

WESTERN ClRCUlT.—Dorchester, March 17.
George Bowditch was indicted for killing and slaying John
Gale, at Bradpool, on the Lath of October.
Mr. C. Saunders was connsel fon the prolitectltitin, andldr.
Slade defended the prisoner. . .1 • • T.-

It appeared that there had been a fair' neighT6Our
hood. The deceased and hie wife were returning Writ from
the fair, and were standing talking opposite a beer-shop, at
Bradpool. The wife heard some horses coming-along,the
road at a furious pace. The deceased pushed his wife close to:
the door, and turned off the pavement into the .road, when
he was instantly struck down by a horse, which in conse-
quence fell and threw its rider. It. was about half-past eight in
the evening, and it was moonlight. •The deceased had had
some drink, but ho was not in liquor; ho was quarrelling
with his wife at the time, and was in .such a dreadful state
of passion that he hardly knew what he was about. The
road was only 15'feet wide. The deceased never spoke af-
terwards, and died in a few minutes. The prisoner was the
man who was riding the Irorse that knocked the deceased
down. The deceased went towards the horse, as if he in-
tended to catch the bridle.

Mr. SLADE, on behalf of the prisoner, urged upon the
jury that the horse had ran away, and that the matter alto-
gether was an accident; and he called a witness who was
riding with the prisoner 'at the time, and who stated that
they were riding very slowly, 'out the prisoner's horse bolted,
and the horse of the vritiar,sB ran away also. They were
neither of them in liquor.
The jury returned a„ve
Pierre benard Mau' it was indicted for the wilful murder
of John Mekew, at :,totherbury, on the Gth of December.
Mr. Hodges was counsel for the prosecution, and Mr. Slade
for the prisoner. idict of Not Guilty.

The "prisoneZ although he had been for many years in
England, is, a Frenchman ; he was therefore asked whe-
ther IA would be tried by a jury of Englishmen, or a jury
cons:lsting of half Englishmen and half foreigners. He at
or.ce said, "By Englishmen."
It appeared that the prisoner was a kind of tramp, and
was always accompanied by a woman who passed as his wife,
but went by the name of Kitty. They travelled through
and about Dorsetsbire, and were well known. The woman
had lived with him for fourteen years. On the evening of the
6th of December they were at Palmer's public-house at West
Clifton, the woman became very much intoxicated, and the
prisoner was anxious to get her away, and took up almost
every person's cup of beer and drank out of it. The man and
the woman cursed each ether, and he held up a stick at her
and threatened to beat her. The deceased was also in the
housefivailnid
aeheeysoani. The woman said she had lived with thed to the woman, I am going to 13ridport,
and
prisoner fourteen years, but she was not his vae ; that he
was jealous of every one, and she would not live with him
any longer. Some time was consumed ie, this jarring, and
at last the prisoner left. Soon after teas woman went out,
ndoect solle:c bad gone to see some
et direct road to Bridport;
but he afterwards overtook a ny,n (Roper), and asked if he
eparsoecdo.edeld'heinprtih
bad seen a man and woman on the
Mad. Roper said he had
not seen them, but he could 4,
—eel. their voices at that mo-
ment, one, d tahnedn
had h e
and directed the a ,cention of the prisoner to that
circumstance. The prison.er then said, " I've got a stick in
my hand, and if I catch, them at something (you know
what), I'll give thev^A to good beatin"
g. He had a sized walking-stick walking-stick with him. Roper and the prisoner gthan
separated; but in, a few minutes Roper heard two persons
crying " Murdr.r." They appeared to proceed from a man
and woman lie instantly started to the spot whence the
sounds pre'zeeded. He got into a field adjoining the turn-
pike-reafl.,, and looked over the hedge, saying, "Stop, they've
had erough." The prisoner wwas beating a man, who
wee, ea the ground. The man was holding up his arm
VI prevent the blows striking his head. The man so strikin
was the prisoner, who said, " D—n your eyes, you're not 12..... a
a man for me," and then he gave him a blow with his fist.
The woman at this time was staggering about th; road, curs-
ing and swearing, and was as drunk as ..
ould be. Roper
asked him if the woman was his wife, . .
~ yo, . and prisoner
said she
was, but the woman
I'll not
,
....-re a liar l've been whit. you many years, blut told ' 4c, with you again," Thep .:-
Boner had previous y
Aoper that he had tattght them in
the fact. The woman
upright. Roper.
t. ..was so arunk that she could not stall(
told him tooner got - '
~,en went to the man on the gfranuai an
P.,at up, and he would protect Win. The pri,
down
ap, went into an adjoining field, and then lay
•
80, .a a ditch. The woman went away, and the ini-
...er followed her. Roper went back to the deceased,
and talked to him for ten minutes, and told him he would
catch cold. Deceased said his arm was broken, the man
had beaten him so, and he would have him before his betters
the next day. No one was then in liquor but the woman,
In about an hour and a half after this, a woman, who lived
near Chileott's public-house, which was nearly two miles
from the place where the man was lying in the ditch, heard
a noise outside her door. She went out and heard a groan,
and tleen she saw it proceeded from a man who was lying in
the mud in the road. A man of the name of Biddlecomb
came and took the man, who turned out to be the deceased,
by the arm, and begged him to get up, but he did cot speak.
the woman procured a candle, and then saw there was a
Mind OA the dottand'a ftw9 ad hvid. Tiro bliosi had