The Sun.
London, England, 1848-03-18 00:00:00

MARCH.

placed within a yard with several other prisoners and
some police officers, and were then shown to the de-
ceased, who picked out the three prisoners as the persons
who had attacked him. On the 30th of January the
medical man went to see him, and the deceased was
then so much worse that Mr. Pollard, one of the magis-
trates at Bradford, was sent for, to whom he made a
d) ing declaration concerning the robbery, which was
put into writing, and which, however, merely corrobo-
rated that which ho had deposed to before the magis-
trates. He was, however, positive in his (1) ing declara-
tion, as in the depositions, that the prisoners, whom he
had known, and seen only a fortnight before, were tho
perpetrators of the deed. As far as the evidence of the
deceased went, it was equally positive and strong as
against all the prisoners at the bar; but the other evi-
dence in the case varied as against*them
With regard to the prisoner, Thomas Hodgson, there
was hardly any more evidence against him than that of
the deceased. As against George Calvert it was per-
fectly clear that he was one at the commission of the
robbery, for on Saturday, the 26th of December,
Calvert (who had been taken into custody on the 20th,
together with another man, named Waller), accosted
the officer in whose custody he was, and said, " I've
wanted to see you. I can't bide to see this man
(meaning Waller) in the lock-up for me. He's as clear
as you are. It was me and Mellor, Hodgson, and
Newell that did it." After the night of the robbery the
police went to the house of the deceased, where they
found four bludgeons which had,been used in the attack.
O❑ the 26th of December Calvert asked if they had
found the sticks. and desired to look at them; and on
their being shown to him, be picked out one and said,
"This is the one I used that night." On the 25th of
February, when in York Castle, he desired to see the
gevernor, and having been cautioned in the usual way,
he gave a detailed account of the whole of the robbery,
which left no doubt as to his being one of the parties
implicated. As regarded James Mellor, in addition to
the evidence of the deceased, the police, on reaching the
field where the struggle took place, found a cap which
was shown to him. At first he denied that it was his,
but on a subsequent occasion, when an uncle
of his came to see him, he said that the cap
was his, but that he was never in the house—that he
was outside. On a subsequent day, when the prisoners
were in the area of,the Court-house, at Bradford, seeing
their friends, a police-officer was tying up the sticks
which had been found, Calvert, who was standing within
a yard of Mellor looked at the sticks, and pointing to one,
said, loud enough to be heard by Mellor,," That's Mellor's
stick;" to which Mellor made no remark. A fire-rake
was found in the house of the unfortunate deceased with
spots of blood upon it, and the smocks which the pri-
soners Mellor and Culvert wore had likewise blood upon
them.
Mr. MATTHEWS addressed the jury for the prisoners.
His LORDSHIP then summed up the evidence, point-
ing out how it affected the prisoners individually.
The jury then retired to consider their verdict, but
returned in about half an hour with a verdict of Wilful
Murder against George Calvert and James Mellor, and
Acquitted Thomas Hodgson.
His LORDSHIP put on the black cap, and in a most im-
pressive manner pronounced the last sentence of the law,
urging the wretched men to make the most of the short
time that yet remained to them, assuring them that he
could not hold out the slightest hope of mercy in this
world.