The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-03 00:00:00

me. I asked him what for. He said, he and two '
more bad been taken up on suspicion of a murder at
Haywood. I asked him how the deed was done. He
said with a cart leg. As we were sitting by the fire
on Christmas morning alone, the other prisoners being
gone to chapel, he said he felt very uneasy. I asked
him the reason. He said he was generally used to
have his children in his arms in bed at such a time.
He hoped the case would come to nothing, as they had
no evidence against him, and they could not hang him
on circumstantial evidence. He said there was a
witness against him who had given him more than
once ss. to get liquor with and give the old man, and
as soon as lie was drunk he was to kill him. He said
that man said he would not mind spending a week's
wages when he (Duckworth) was dead. It was Stott.
I asked him' did you ever make him drunk ? He said
yes. I asked him, when he had made him drunk why
he did not kill him ? He answered because he was
afraid the old man (Stott) would tell of him. I
asked him how far from the public-house was the
deed done ? He said about one hundred yards. I
asked him where the cart leg came from. He said
from a cart outside the door. I said, Tetlow, now
suppose they were to hang you, would they hang you
innocently ? He said no, and added, but he would
not tell his brother nor his wife, nor the dearest
relation he had. I said, why you have almost told
me. Ay, he said, but you are no witness. I said
no, nor I hope I never shall be. Before that conver-
sation, he (prisoner) said his shoes corresponded with
the shoe-marks found near where the deed was corn•
mitted, but that there were plenty of shoes in Hey-
wood with the same marks as his. He said shoes
could not speak. If he were to tell his old shirt he
would take it and burn it. He told the whole before
he left the gaol. He served out his whole time.
Cross-examined—He was twenty-eight years old.
He was imprisoned for taking a purse from a lady's
hand. That was a correct charge. He had never
been in prison before. He worked as a hatter for one
master in Manchester, from Christmas, 1846, and then
was about five weeks on tramp. He went in the name
of Brown at the New Bailey on account of his father
and mother.

Mr. Janus addressed the jury for the prisoner.
He contended that the conversation with Berry was
no admission of guilt on the part of the prisoner, but
simply a statement of the circumstances of the case,
as they had come to his knowledge. But he sub-
mitted that Berry was wholly unworthy of credit,
and neither the other evidence of facts or conver-
sations brought the case home to the prisoner. As
to the correspondence of the footmarks with the pri-
soner's, he submitted that a workman might have
made many such shoes.
Mr. Baron ALDERSON (to the Jury) —There were
two questions, one, whether the pri,oner's was the
hand that struck the blow, the other, if it was, whe-
ther the crime was murder or manslaughter. If a
man, intending to commit an assault, did an act
which, in the ordinary course of events, would put
life in danger, and the party was killed, such killing
was murder. If the case mainly depended on the
evidence of Wm. Berry, he should not advise them
to rely on it. He was a bad character, and the evi-
denco was not got in a very creditable manner, by
pumping a man who was in prison. If the prisoner
was the man who struck the blow, and only intended
to give a severe beating, but not to do grievous
bodily harm, then they would consiier the state in
which the prisoner was in respect to liquor, and
how far that might account for the use of an instru-
ment, anti blows disproportionate to the object he
had in view.

The jury retired at a quarter past seven o'c'mcic,
but were out only a short time, when they returned
a verdict of Manslaughter.
His LORDSHIP said he quite approved of the ver-
dict, for.he did not think the prisoner intended either
to kill or do grievous bodily harm, which would
make the killing murder. After some remarks, ad-
dressed to the prisoner on the enormity of the crime,
he sentenced him to be transported for ten years.

OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Gloucester, April 1.

CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice CRESS-
WELL.)
William Tuberfield, l7, was indicted for mall.
ciously stabbing, cutting, and wounding Wm. Hol-
der, of Bishop's Cleeve, on the 23d of January, with
intent to do him grievous bodily harm, and prevent
his lawful apprehension.
The prisoner was seen leaving the premises of Mr.
John Holder, a farmer, and the prosecutor, who is a
constable, had his suspicions aroused from hearing a
noise in the fowl-house and the fluttering of wings,
and also from seeing the prisoner coming from that
direction. He followed him and felt in his pocket, in
which he felt a fowl. He told Tuberfield he had been
robbing his brother's fowl-house, and must go with
him ; on which a struggle took place, and the pri-
soner cut Holder severely about the right hand, di-
viding the tendons, and according to the judgment of
Mr. Gregory, a surgeon, depriving him of their use
for the remainder of his life. After the commission
of the offence the prisoner absented himself from the
neighbourhood, and was not heard anything of for
eight or nine weeks.
He was found Guilty, and sentenced to be trans-
ported for ten years.
Frederick Dodge, 22, was brought up by writ of
habeas corpus from Bristol gaol, on an indictment
charging him with cutting and wounding Sarah
Turner, with intent to kill and murder her.
Mr. Skinner prosecuted the prisoner, who had no
counsel in this case, the facts of which are as follow :
On Sunday evening, the 13th of February, between
six and seven o'clock, two men rang the bell at the
house of the Rev. Mr. Strickland, in Great George-
street, Bristol, and the prosecutrix, one of his female
servants, went to the door, at which she found two
men who inquired if the Rev. Mr. Strickland was at
home ? She told t hem he was not, did they want
to see him particularly. They said they did, and
she then asked them to walk into the kitchen and
wait, preceding them to that part of the house,
but she had only gone a few steps when she re-
ceived a violent blow on the back of the head.
The poor girl screamed out, " Lord have mercy
on me. Don't murder me," and looked up, when she
saw one of the men (whom she believed to be the
prisoner), with something in his hands, which were
uplifted, and immediately she received a second blow
which would, in all probability, have been increased by a
third, had not Ellen Rice (a fellow servant) attracted
by the noise and cries, then run down stairs, and
called out " Sarah, what shall I do ?" The poor
bleeding creature exclaimed, " Call out for help."
Miss Rice ran into her own bed-room, threw up the
window, and cried " Murder." One of the men then
said, " Open the door quick," and both the men im
mediately escaped into the street. They ran off, and
were seen no more that night by Clark. William
Boulton, a policeman, saw the prisoner and a man
with him, in Great George-street, shortly before the
commission of the outrage. On hearing the screams
of the servants Mr. Lambert, who lived opposite, and
Mr. Green, a medical man, went to the house, and
dressed the wounds of the injured woman, the scalp
from whose skull had been torn down by
the violence of the blows inflicted on her, and
the poor creature's life was for some time in
immediate danger. On the landing of the
stairs a large woodon mallet was found, with
which the blows had evidently been given, and
the prosecutrix had observed it by the prisoner's side
just after she had admitted him into the house. Her
fellow-servant also noticed some knives in the hands
of the prisoner's companion, whose personal identity
was not proved, and who had not been apprehended.
The prisoner Dodge was taken into custody on the
Monday week afterwards, and then made an attempt to
get away, by trying to jump into his father's cellar,
calling out at the same time, " bring me a hatchet."
He was, however, secured and prevented from offering
any violence to his apprehenders.
The prisoner, in his defence, declared that he was
innocent, but too poor to call witnesses, as he could
not pay their expenses.
Thejury found him Guilty.
The JUDGE told him he had been convicted on the
clearest evidence of a most cold-blooded attempt at
murder, and he
hoped he sheuld not be violating his
duty to the public, in recommending the Crown to
spare his life. His Lordship then directed sentence
of death to be recorded against the prisoner, who
exclaimed, "The Lord will be with me wherever I
go, for I am innocent, and it will be found out

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
WESTMINSTER.
Mrs. Maria Butcher, of 73, Ponsonby-place, Vaux-
hall-bridge-road, appeared to a. summons, charging
her with assaulting Elizabeth Rouse, a genteel look-
ing girl, ten years of age.
the Magistrate, appeared
'The complainant who, in reply to the inquiries of
perfectly to understand the
obligation of an oath, stated that she resided with her
parents, who occupied apartments in defendant's
house. On last Thursday week she was going down
stairs, accompanied by her cousin, a girl twelve or
thirteen years of age, when defendant met her, and,
without any reason struck her a blow on the chest,
which hurt her so much that for two or three minutes
she could neither speak nor cry.
The defendant justified the assault by saying that
she heard the mother of the complainant tell her to
run up and down stairs and make a noise.
Mr. BURRELL find defendant 20s. and costs, which
was immediately paid.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
William Smith was charged with having attempted
to commit a robbery in the house of Benjamin
Caunt, landlord of the Coach and Horses public-
house, St. Martin's lane.
cairnd
Sarah Butler, servant to Mr. Caunt, said she was
i
Lucifer
hin bed about twelve o'clock on Thursday night,
when
tsbrreo room. one
Shestrikinglooked
ook
ed a lighto u t
and with
saw
wa
shematch
a man whom she immediately recognized to be the
prisoner. There was another bed in the room, which