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The prisoner was then removed from the dock.

responding one on the front. The wounds were such
as woald be produced by a bullet passing ►hrough the
head, and was sufficient to cause death.
Ann Lane, examined by Mr. BODKIN—She had
known the prisoner tor about a month before Christmas.
She met the prisoner about nine o'clock at night on the
3d of February in the Birdcage-walk. Upon that oc-
casion she said to her, " Henry and me have parted."
She then drew a pistol from under her cloak, and said,
" I have bought this for Henry." Witness thought it
had been purchased as a present, and asked whether he
would not have it. Prisoner replied, "No, but he shall
have it." Upon this she said, " Was she aware of the
consequences?" Prisoner replied, "She was aware of
it, and her fate would be a warning to others." She
then read a letter, which she said she had sent to Henry,
but which he had returned again, and she had 2d. to pay
for the postage ; that the deceased had had two
pounds from her since Christmas, and that she had
then only nine shillings left out of her last quarter's
wages. Prisoner then said that on Sunday she would
give the pistol to Henry. Witness replied, that she
thought her heart would fail her before then, and she
answered that it would not, as she had well considered
the matter.

Cross-examined by Mr. CLIRKSON—She resided at
20, Northumberland-street, in the Strand. She was not
examined before the magistrate. She was in the habit
of going to the barracks. She believed that the pri-
soner and the deceased were keeping coospany together.
She never heard that the deceased wished the prisoner
to pawn her clothes and go upon the streets to obtain
money for him.

James Beattie, gun-maker, of Regent street, proved
that the prisoner came to his shop and purchased the
pistol produced, upon a representation that she wanted
to shoot a large Newfoundland dog.
Alice Vernon stated that the letter produced was
found in the desk of the deceased.
The letter which was addressed to her mistress was
then put in and read. It was to the effect that the act
she was about to commit was the consequence of her
love, stating " that revenge was sweet when it could
be obtained, and that she hoped her case would
be a warning to other young men nut to deceive young
women."

This closed the case on behalf of the prosecution.
Mr. CLARKSON then proceeded to address the jury
on behalf of the prisoner. He said that it would be idle
in him to attempt to deny the effect of the evidence
given against the prisoner. He quite agreed with some
of the opening remarks of the Learned Counsel, and that
unbridled licentiousness invariably led to disastrous re-
sults. But he denied that these observations were in the
least degree applicable to the case of the infatuated
prisoner at the bar. It was clear that she had been
betrayed and deceived by the deceased. No per-
son could doubt, from the manner in which
the soldiers who had been examined had given
their evidence, that the deceased was a bad
character. He had obtained possession of her person,
he had robbed her of her property, even to her last
quarter's wages, with the exception of a petty nine
shillings. She was driven to desperation and distraction
by the cruel and heartless conduct of her seducer. She
was seduced, deceived, betrayed, and abandoned, and
under the influence of these feelings she had forgotten
her position and the duty which she owed to herself and
to society. That she loved the deceased there could be
no doubt, that she had no long settled determination of
causing his death was equally clear, for she had written
to him but on the Monday before the fatal transaction,
requesting to have a last meeting in order that they
might part friends. She saw him on the Thursday pre-
vious to the murder, and he could well conceive that his
heartless conduct upon that occasion might
have finally determined her to commit the act for
which she was then upon her trial. Suffering under the
effects of a loathsome disease communicated to her by
the deceased, requested by him to submit herself to
general prostitution, and to pawn her clothes for the
purpose of obtaining money for him, this was surely
enough to drive the unfortunate prisoner to desperation.
(The Learned Counsel then proceeded to read several
letters addressed by the prisoner to the deceased,
breathing the fondest attachment to him, calling upon
him honourably to fulfil his engagements towards
her, and anticipating with delight the arrival of the
time when, in a home of their own, she would
be able to nurse and cheer him in his illness, he
being at that time confined to the hospital by ill-
ness.) He made these remarks not with a view of
persuading the jury to do other than their full duty
in this unfortunate case, but with a view of letting the
whole of the case be fully known, and perhaps in-
ducing them to accompany their ♦erdict of strict justice
with a strong recommendation to mercy.
The LORD CXIEF BARoN,having summed up,
The jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict
of Guilty, accompanying their verdict with a strong
recommendatioa to mercy on the ground of the extra-
ordinary provocation she had received from the
deceased.

The Learned Judges haying put on their black cape,
the Lord CHIEF BARON, iv ho appeared much affected,
proceeded to pass sentence upon the prisoner in the
usual form.

NEW COURT.
(Before the RECORDER.)
James Garratt, a carman, was indicted with stealing
a chest containing cocoa, of the value of 21. 25., from
the New-cross station of the Brighton and South Coast
Railway.
Mr. Robertson appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
Parry for the prisoner._

It appeared that, on the evening of the 27th of January,
the prisoner brought a cart loaded with firkins of butter
to the station, for the purpose of having them conveyed
by railway. While waiting his turn to unload, he was
observed to go upon a part of the platform where he had
no right to be, and examine the chest in question, which
was directed to Messrs. Stow and Son, of Newhaven,
and had been sent from the warehouse of Messrs. Cham-
berlai❑ and Liroley, of Watling-street. Shortly after
the prisoner left the station the chest was missed, and
suspicion having fallen on him, he was followed down
the Kent-road, and eventually taken into custody at the
Lord Wellington public-house, where he had drawn up.
The chest was found in a smaller cart standing alongside
the prisoner's; and the ostler proved that when the pri-
soner drove up he removed a bulky article, something
like the chest, to the smaller cart, with the assistance
of the driver of it, who was a mate of his. This wit-
ness, however, could not swear positively that the article
which was removed was the chest produced in court.
The driver of the smaller cart was not taken into cus-
tody, he having managed to escape.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty ; and it being
proved that he was convicted of stealing in 1838, and
transported for seven years,
The COURT now sentenced him to ten years' trans-
portation.

THAMES.—(THISDAY.)
Three miserable-looking boys, named James Rockwell,
John Willmot, and John :Laxant, were charged before
Mr. Ballantine, with feloniously stealing a quantity of
iron from the premises of Messrs. Blackman and Son,
coopers, Gower's-walk, Whitechapel.
The case was fully proved against the prisoners by
the foreman, who detected them stealing the iron.
The foreman said the marine-store dealers were ia the
habit of purchasing such iron for a very small sum,.
Mr. BALLANTINE had no doubt that the &Alien in
marine stores were the trainers of young th;,eves. He
should committed the three prisoners to Ode House of
Correction for three days, and to be well whipped.