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THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MAIVeII. l3, 1846.

ST AFFORD ELECTION.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

STAFF:)RD, THURSDAY, 6 P M.—The nomination for a
Me:nber of Parliament to supply the vacancy occasioned
by the appointment of the Hon. Captain Carnegie took
place this day. At the last hour tvo candidates ap-
peared to oppose the Hon. Captain, namely, W. Sleigh,
Esq., of Stamford-house, Chiswick, Middlesex, on the
Protectionist interest, and Mr. Watkins as a
member of the Anti-Corn law League, on the
free-trade interest. In the course of the morn-
ing Mr. Neale, a barrister on the Oxford Circuit,
offered to stand the contest, on condition that the whole
of his expenses were paid ; but that offer was not ac-
cepted. The various candidates having been proposed
and seconded, addressed the electors at great length, Cap-
tain Carnegie declaring his attachment to the Ministerial
measure, though he declared his desire to see a total
and immediate repeE I carried. He denied that he sup-
ported the present alteration in the corn duties, because
it emanated from Sir Robert Peel, as he would as soon
have supported them had they been brought in by Lord J.
Russell, and if Sir Robert Peel could not carry this
scheme, and Lord John could do so, he (Captain Car-
negie) would support Lord John, and endeavour to get
it passed into a law.

Mr. Sleigh and Mr. Watkins addressed the meeting.
A show of hands was taken, and the choice fell upon
Mr. Watkins, but that gentleman having declined the
contest, and a poll being demanded for the other two
candidates, it was determined by the Mayor to take the
poll tomorrow (Friday). There is little doubt but
Captain Carnegie will be returned by a large majority.

CASE OF CRIM. CON.
NORFOLK ClRCUlT.—Bedford, March 11.
NISI PRIUS CUORT.—(Befor:3 Mr. Baron PARKE and a
Special Jury.)
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JOhN COULTAS V. TIMOTHY' 719 ii-FORD BOWES, CLERK.
The trial of this cause was proceeded with at nine o'cloek
thi3 morning, and the following witnesses examined for the
plaintiff

Thomas llughes, examined by Mr. O'MALLEY—I am a
groom to the defendant, and have been for six years. I know
the study. I have seen something in that study. It was in
October last. It was through the window; in the evening,
between eight and nine o'clock. - Mrs. Barnes and Dr. Bowes
were there. He had hold of her hand. She was sitting on
the left hand of the fire, and he was standing at it. I heard
him say, " The more uncomfortable you make Coultas the
batter. Try all you can to make his life miserable, and
then perhaps he will go and leave you, and then I shall have
you to myself." I saw them again in November. He gave
her wine in the room, and put his arm round her, and kissed
her. He said, " I love you better than any one else in the
world, and would make you a lady if Coultas would go clean
off, and leave you."
Cross-examined by the ATTORNEY-G7NERAT.--I swear
that I ans in the service of Dr. Bowes. I said I never saw
Dr. Bowes have connexion with Barnes. It was a quiet
night, I believe, in October. I put my face cloSe to the
window and heard perfectly whet passed. These was a
strong light, so that I could see well.
Sarah Church—l live 'at Barton, and was at home on the
let of December last. I saw the plaintiff and defendant in
the road, and hea..d Coultas say "That's a lie, Sir," to Dr.
Bowes. Dr. Bowes said, "I don't knsw, Coultas, where she
is gone, and I call on God to witness." That was between

four and live o'clock. Coultas said:; That's a lie, Sir, you
do know where she is gone."
Sarah Anne am the daughter of a stationer at
Luton. Dr. Bowes deals and writes letters there sometimes.
On the 4th or sth of December he was there in the afternoon.

He bought a quire of note paper, and asked to write a letter
on it. I saw him take a sheet,of paper and write on it, but
I could not say whether it was in the form of a letter. He
bought a Pictorial Times and Punch.
The letter was then admitted to be the defendant's hand-
writing, as also the address of the Pictorial Times and Punch.

The address was, "Mrs. Barnes, -Mi. Jackson's, Stafford
Arms, Wakefield."

The letters given yesterday were then put in and read by
the officer of the Court.
This being the close of the plaintiff's case,
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL addressed the =jury for the de-
fendant in the following terms :—Every one present must have
observed how frightfully exposed all are to accusations which
may ruin us, and how dependent we are on the fears of the
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depraved for escape from accusation.. Advanced age, cha-
racter, benevolence, charity, and mildnesi have all been com-
bined in the person of the defendant, and yet he has not
escaped the attacks of the plaintiff. How should we meet
such a charge against ourselves? Only byexamining the cha-
racters of those who make it. The defendant has come into

Court utterly ignorant of the circumstances on which this
charge was to be founded—the times and dates bywhich false-
hood may be detected and exposed. We have been obliged
to deal with the witnesses as they came before us, and then
to expose to you openly and candidly the whole household of
Dr. Bowes, calling before you all who could know anything
of his mode of life. On the part of the plaintiff it has been

been represented that he had no proof of guilt until the 30th
of November ; and, from the shape of the case, it will be
necessary to introduce to the jury facts and circumstances
which have hitherto been concealed from view. In the first

place, it is to be observed, that the age of the Nupposed para-
mour is such as to make this case one of the most novel cha-

racter, while that of the woman is no less remarkable, Mrs.
Barnes being now no less than 54. Losses bowed the
spirits and health of the defendant to the ground. By the
advice of his medical man, Dr. Wilson, he was advised to
have some one who could be constantly at hand at all hours
of the day and night. It has been suggested that it
would have been far better that a male servant should
have been selected; but do the jury agree in that view?
If so, then the whole course of treatment at our hos-
pitals ought to be abandoned as a complete mistake.
The choice, however, having so naturally, and, as he insisted,
properly fallen on Barnes, it was notorious throughout the
whole house that she was in close attendance on her master,
taking tea to him in the morning and gruel at night, and
lacing a stocking which he was advised to wear. This was
known full well to the plaintiff, who had seen it hundreds of
times, and yet poison was to he extracted from these harmless
ingredients. Besides this, the defendant, who was wifeless
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for some time, but that it did not came upon the plaintiff
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with full force till November 29, 1815. Now, to understand
this case, it will be necessary to inquire into the personal his-
tory of the plaintiff, and it will be seen that he had for the
last six years become addicted to drink, and that in his fits
of drunkenness he had behaved with brutal violence to all
around him, and especially his wife. In 1843 he was bound
over by Dr. Bland to keep, the peace on a charge
by his wife. Oa that occasion Mary Hollett accused
him of an act of gross indecency, and the plaintiff
then, in the most foul terms, accused his wife
of infidelity with his master, and it is to be regretted that
Dr. Bowes did not at once discharge him. Ii is, however,
not to be wondered at that he could not bear to take steps
which would deprive him of the attendance and presence of
one who was necessary to his comfort. lie did not, there-
fore, discharge the plaintiff, and he passed over the matter
quietly, and so matters went on till January, 1844, when, on
the occasion of an epidemy prevailing at Barton, she was re-
moved, under medical advice, to London, for change of air.
Dr. Wilson has been challenged, and he will be produced to
prove that all that Dr. Bowes wrote to the plaintiff was
quite true. That letter was quite natural and correct, and it
will be shown that Coultas was in town and slept in the
room, though in a separate bed, with., his wife. On the oc-
casion of that visit to town Coultas himself wrote several
letters to the defendant, which fully showed that no ime
proper connexion existed between the plaintiff's wife and
the defendant, which were penned before that written by
the defendant to him. The Learned Gentleman then read
two letters, showing that no suspicion remained on his mind
at that time, which was six months after the charge made by
him when drunk in 1843, and proceeded to contend that no
foundation existed for the suspicion of the plaintiff, for he
would call the maid of the hotel in .London and Dr. Wilson,
who would prove the circumstances under which the parties
came to town. At one time he threatened to shoot her, and
resorted to his gun, when, in August, 1845, she was about to
go to see her mother at Wakefield. The case now ap-
proaches the critical period of November, 1845 ; and the
defendant will be able to show what took place on the 30th
of that month. On that day, at 9 at night, Coultas came
home quite mad with drink, and so.conducted himself that
his wife required Catherine Jewitt to sleep with her for her
protection, and it will be shown that at night he insisted on
being allowed to sleep with her. His conduct was so violent
that the two women slept in their clothes, it being three
o'clock in the morning before they crept to bed, and he was
in some sort pacified. The following day she of her own ac-
cord went away from Burton, in the absence of Dr. Bowes,
whom she and the gardener met on their way. Dr. Bowes
sent his man after her to warn her of her husband's violent
threats. These circumstances fully develop the innocence
of the defendant and Mrs. Barnes. Now, it could not have
escaped observation, that no one pretends to say that the
study door was ever locked. If, then, the defendant was
in the habit of carrying on any improper intimacy with
-Barnes he might at any moment have been discovered
and exposed in the very act, and the clearest possible
proof adduced of their guilt. Then, again, it had been
said by the witnesses Furness and Hinds that Mrs. Coultas
was in the habit of being druak, and to the knowledge
of Dr. Bowes; but though true that about two years
since she had certainly been observed by the servants at
times to be the worse for liquor, yet it does not appear that
the defendant was aware of it, and even if he were he might
well be inclined to pass it over in remembrance of her former
services. We now come to the direct evidence of this case,
and the first remark which it calls forth is, that it is impos-
sible to meet it by contradictory evidence. It is a sort of case
to which all men are exposed. The first person examined on
this part of the case was Catherine Furness, who spoke to
seeing her master and Mrs. Barnes come out of the bed-
room, after which she went in and observed that the bed
bore two impressions. Now, if the parties had been
guilty, there would have only been one impression; but
the next answer to her evidence is the fact that the
bed the doctor slept on was a mattress, and not a
feather bed, so that there could not have been the

impressions on it which she spoke of. Then comes
Henry Smith, whose testimony must have prepared the
jury for the observations and evidence which would
be presented to them in answer and explanation to it.
That man indeed says that lie believes in a Supreme Being,
but what Being ? Is it a Supreme Being who is the God of
truth and punisher of falsehood ? Why, the devils believe
and tremble, and so may he. This worthless man has the
audacity to say that the defendant and Barnes, when in a
room three or four feet from the kitchen•doer, talked so

loudly as that he could distinctly hear them through the
closed window. Is it credible ? Is It possible that it was
truth ? He says that he looked through the blind. Now,
since yesterday the window has been measured. The glass
is 2 feet 111 inches wide, while the blind is actually 3 feet 1
inch wide ; so that it is quite impossible for any one to see
through the window. Henry Smith must have therefore
come at a critical moment, quite unprecedented in its op-
portunities for such watching. If true, intercourse took place
in the study, though it would not appear to have been con-
templated by the Learned Counsel, who did not treat the
conduct in the study as anything more than the preparation
of an old man for the gratification of his lust at night.
But the fact was aecomplished in the study in the evening.
Was not that enough for the plaintiff ? Yet he
makes an appointment with the other brother, who
is made to look through the defendant's bed-room win-
dow, and again to see the parties under circumstances which,
if true, would admit of no doubt of guilt. As regards that
piece of evidence, an experiment has been made since yes-
terday, and with the blind its the same situation as it was
on the night in question; it has been discovered that it was
absolutely impossible for any one to see what was going on
in the room. One only other witness remains to be com-
mented on, the groom Hughes, a man, who was reluctantly
compelled to admit that he had decamped from his master's
service on Saturday, with his livery, in which he now ap-
peared; and yet he swore at first that he was still in the
defendant's service. He speaks, however, to conversations
which are from the very words put into the mouth of the
defendant, palpable inventions. In answer to this case the
defendant will show the whole history of the plaintiff's con-
duct; and adduce every member of his household to prove
the utter falsehood of the charge brought by him against his
master; and when he shall have done so, the defendant will
fearlessly rely on the judgment of the jury for his acquittal.
Never before has the breath of suspicion impugned his cha-
racter; and how could a man so situated and so beloved sink
so low as to practise the vice imputed to him? The duty
intrusted to him had now been discharged, and under cir-
cumstances as difficult as were ever experienced by any ad-
vocate. He trusted that the jury would, ere long, see their
way to a verdict in favour of his client, and restore him to
that peace of mind which was so essential to the happiness
of age. His all was at stake on this issue, and he fearlessly
relied on a triumphant acquittal at the hands of a jury so
competent as that which was now empanelled between him
and the plaintiff.
Dr. Wilson, examined by Mr. Sergeant BYLES—I am a
years,
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28th of July, 1839. She was living then at Barton. After her
death, the state of Dr. Bowes's health WAS most distressing
and alarming for a long time. He consulted me, and required
constant attendance, and I recommended that some one
should be constantly with him to amuse and watch him, and
remove his fears as to the suspicions which he entertained as
to his own symptoms. I frequently referred to Mrs. Barnes
as the fittest person to be about him. She is about 55 or 54,
and defendant's age is 69, I believe. I had opportunities of
seeing their conduct while the defendant was in town. It
was always proper and decorous. She was decent in her
attire and manner, and consistent with her situation. Dr.
Bowes used to wear an elastic stocking. He was suffering
from varicose veins in one leg, which WAS much swollen,

and he was recommended to wear it for some years past.
In my- opinion there was nothing improper in Mrs. Barnes
lacing it. When she left i gate her directions to rest
her feet as much as possible, and remain in a recumbent
position. _

Matthew Benson, examinel by Mr. PRENDERGAST—Since
June,'lB4l, I have attended the defendant's household. I
have seen him and Barnes. I consider she conducted herself
with the strictest propriety in the relation in which she stood
to him. She gave him every attendance consistent with her
situation, and in a modest and proper manner. In conse-
quence of the return of her fever, I told her I thought Dr.
Bowes would have no objection to her going into the study
and resting on the sofa, when opportunity would permit. She
after that used to go there. I observed her manner towards
Dr. Bowes then. It was becoming her situation.
Cross-examined—l have seen her as cook, and I have at-
tended her in the defendant's bedroom. She cooked with
entire propriety and decorum. When I advised her to re-
cline on the sofa, I did not tell her to do so in his presence.
I never thought of whether he was absent or present. I
have Seen her on the sofa when I went to see her. It was
geneially early in the afternoon, and I frequently found her
master out then. I advised her to go to the study as a
warmer place than the kitchen, and not exposed to draughts.
I might have said that. he was a very troublesome man to
attend on by his servants, for he gave a great deal of
trouble. A subsequent knowledge of his character has con-
vinced me that it all arose from the kindness of his heart and
disposition.
Anne Thomas, examined by the ATTORNEY-GEDIERAL—In
1843 I was chambermaid at the St. James's Hotel. Mrs.
Barnes came there on the 28th of December. Dr. Bowes was
staying there then. When she came she had a room on the
second floor. Dr. Bowes's room was on the first. When her
husband came we put up a second bed in her room. He
came on the sth of January and left on the 7th, and again
on the 9th, and left on the 231. Dr. Bowes came on the
28th of December and left on the 30th. He came again on
the Bth of January, and went on the 12th.
Mrs. Worsup—l am sister of Dr. Bowes, and have visited-
him since 1812, when Barnes first lived with him. He then
required constant attention by night and by day, and was
not fit to be left alone. Barnes generally waited on him.
tier attentions to him were satisfactory to me as a member
of the family. I looked upon her as a superior person, and
always shook hands with her when I went and left. I might
do so to other servants, but not with the same cordiality. My
husband and all the members of the family treated her alike.
My brother had tea and gruel taken to him early and late,
both at home and in my house, when my own maid took it
to him.

By,the JUDGE—My brother will be 69 next May.
John Worsup—l married the sister of Dr. Bowes. This
witness corroborated the last witness in all the essential par-
ticulars.

Mr. Hill Wallis, who married a sister of Mrs. Bowes, de-
posed to the like effect.
Miss Ottley—l am the sister of Sir IL Ottley, the late
Chief Justice of Ceylon. I became acquainted with the de-
fendant's family more than twenty years ago. Barnes was
always with them.
The Rev. Dr. Bland—l ant a magistrate of this county, and
reside near Barton. I never saw anything of undue famili-
arity on either side. I know the two Smiths. I have had
one of them before me several times on game cases. From
what they said on those occasions I should say that they are
very ready to swear, but I can't say that I would not believe
them on their oaths. I have only seen Henry Smith, and I
should have the same feeling with respect to him.
Cross-examined—l never treated their oaths as a nullity,
but issued summonses. Dr. Bowes was in the room when
Coultas spoke of his being " over kind "to his wife. I very
likely might have remonstrated with Dr. Bowes.
Mary Hollett—l went to Dr. Bowes in June, 1842,
for fourteen months. Barnes was there. Mrs. Barnes and
I both made all the beds, including the doctor's bed.
The blinds in Dr. Bowes's bed-room were always down at
night.' I used to let them down. The curtains were always
drawn round the bed in winter. I have been to the room
when Barnes was there, and the study too. I knocked, but
never knew the doors to be locked. Her conduct was always
very respectful to him. He slept on a wool mattress. I never
ascertained whether it would retain an impression if a person
were to lie down. Mr.?. Barnes never to my knowledge
stayed longer up stairs than was necessary for the Doctor to
drink the tea. All the servants knew that they would
very soon ba wanted for prayers when Barnes went in to lace
the Doctor's boots. _ _

Cross. examined—l have taken tea up when Barnes was
away. Coultas came into my bedroom, and wanted to get
into bed with me. I screamed out, and Coultas went away.
John Hook—l am butler to Dr. Bowes, and have been in
his service as footman and butler for 22 years. Barnes has
been there all that time, and was very kind and attentive
t) Mrs. Bowes.. After her death I heard that she had
left Barnes 3001. On the 29th of November Coultas went to
bed at his usual time, between 9 and 10 o'clock. Barnes went
to bed within an hour. I don't know that Coultas got up
again. I slept nearly orer her bed-room. Whatever was
done in her room could be heard by the persons in his. On
Sunday I heard a disturbance shortly after I got into my
room. "I
did not come down as I did not hear any violence. I
heard high language for a time, but I did not get up. When
the blind is drawn down in the regular way it is impossible
for any one to see into the room. There are two birdcages
which always stand on the window-cill, and help to prevent
any one looking in. The blind is wide enough to cover the
whole glass. When the blinds up stairs are down and turned
in the usual way it is not possible to see into the room. A
ladder placed on the flag-stones would enable you to reach
the window. I never knew of the study-door being locked
or bolted. She never assumed that familiarity which ser-
vants might assume who had been improperly connected
with their masters.

Crois-examined—Sinee Barnes has left I tried the study
blinds and bed-room blind. No one told me; but I heard it
said it had been soon through. I told Mr. Turner. I put
my eye close to the glass and could not see distinctly. I
tried the bed-room at a different time. I tried the bed-room
in theidaytime and the study in the nighttime. I have
taken up my master's tea to him since Barnes went away,
and his gruel too.
Caroline Jewett—l have lived for a twelvemonth past with
Dr. Bowes. Coultas used to get drunk frequently, and used
low, disgusting language, when drunk. I never knew them
sleep together. When he was drunk and abusive she has
asked me to sleep with her. I remember her leaving on the
Ist of November, and the night of the Saturday before.
Barnes was making some cloaks for the Sunday-school chil-
dren when he came home, between nine and ten o'clock.
He took his candle and went to bed. 1 saw him on the
next night at a quarter-past nine. He attended prayers,
and went out for two minutes. He sat down with his ac-
count book. Barnes asked me to sleep with her that
night. When I was partly undressed Coultas knocked at
the door. I asked what he wanted. lie said he wanted to
come in, and I opened the door. He said he had come to
sleep with his wife, and ordered me to walk out of the room.
I told him I would not go. Mrs. Coultas had wished me to
sleep with her, and I would. He attempted to turn me out,
and I resisted. He began to undress, and said wherever she
slept, she was his wife, and he would sleep with her in what-
ever room of the house it was. Mrs. Coultas got with her
back against the door, and I pulled his collar. I then pulled
the bell for my fellow-servants, and Mr. Coultas got out.
I took some of the clothes to her which she had taken off.
Coultas followed me down to the kitchen and swore at his
wife, who was there, and called her a w—. I said if she
was what he called her he was no man to sleep with her.
He said, " What would my father think if another man went
to sleep with my mother ?" I said, "If my mother was
what he represented his wife to be, my father would not wish
to sleep with her, and that a man of his years, who had been
to church twice, ought to set us a better example." He said
he would take her away, and make her work for her bread
like any one else, and then he went up to her room, after
which he went to his own.

Martha Peirce—l was housemaid in November last, at
Barton, and made the beds with Barnes. Master sleeps on a
plaid mattress. It is not easily impressed, but it is hollow
in the middle. An impression could not easily be made on
the sides. On the Sunday I heard a noise at night, and
heard the bell go. (This witness then spoke to the same
facts which had been proved by the last one.) The bed-room
was put into the usual condition, the blind down as usual,
and the bed in the same place. I got into the bed, and was
outside too. The light was the same as usual, which is rush-
light. Besides that there was a candle on the table, and we
moved it about in the room. There was a ladder outside. I
looked through too. When I was outside, I could not see any-
thing in the room through the blind. I let it down on the
29th of November. It was my business. I stationed my •
self in the room, and placed the blind as it usually was.
Cross-examined—l put the bed-room blind down every day.
I can't say when I was first asked about the blinds. It might
be a week ago ; and I remembered the 29th, because that was
the day before Mrs. Barnes went away.
Mr. Foxon—l am deacon of the Baptist Chapel at Barton,
and deputy-oversieer of the poor. I used to go to the Doctor's.
Never had any difficulty in getting into the study but once.
I went over last night and measured the blind of the bed-
room window. We made experiments. Mr. Godfrey told
the girl Peirce to place the blinds as they generally were
when the Doctor was at home. I went up the ladder, and
looked through. By putting your head down you could just
see the top of the bedstead, I tried every lath to the top of
the ladder, and could only see the top of the bedstead. We
began at the bottom of the blind. I went to the study also,
and observed that the blind covered the window completely.
I put my face to the window, and could not see beyond the
glimmer of the lights. When the blind was down it covered
the,whole of the glass and the window-sill.
r. Godfrey, the clerk to the defendant's attorney, stated
to the same effect the result of the trials made last night at
the defendant's house.

Mr. Ganson, an attorney at Wakefield, proved that he was
consulted by Mr. Coultas in August and. December last.
William Blott, George Warren, and others were called to
prove that they knew the Smiths, and would not believe
them on their oaths ; but on cross-examination their testi-
mony fell short of any satisfactory reason for their opinions
on the subject, and indeed many of these parties had given
the Smiths certificates and testimonials of character.
Mr. Turner, one of the defendant's attorneys, was next
examined, and stated that he had seen William Smith and
Hughes at various tiros, in order that he might ascertain
what they knew of the matter. William Smith said that he
knew nothing wrong between the Doctor and Barnes; that
he knew nothing about it. Hughes said, " I know nothing
about it ; lam glad of it." He denied that he was a witness
for the plaintiff, or that he had been subpoenaed by him. I
did not hear him say that he would not say anything unless
he was compelled or forced to do so.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL then put in the letters of
Coultas, which he had read in his speech, and thus closed
his case.
Mr. O'MALLEY then replied at great length on the whole
case, and
Mr. Baron. PARSE having summed up the evidence on
both sidei to the jury, they ultimately found a verdict for
the plaintiff; damages 250/., at the hour of three o'clock in
the morning.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
WESTERN ClRCUlT.—Salisbury, March 11.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron Rm.}'N.)
StiOOTING A GAMEKEEPER.—Richard Cox, John Cox,
Henry Cox, William Crook, and William Hawkins, were in-
dicted for shooting at Joshua Bell with a gun loaded with
gunpowder and leaden shot, with intent to kill and murder
him. _ _ _

Mr. Slade and Mr. Hodges conducted the prosecution.
Mr. Stone defended Crook and Hawkins. The other pri-
soners were undefended.
Mr. SLADE having stated the case to the jury, called
Joshua Bell—l am gamekeeper to Mr. Bruges. his name
is Wiliam Heald Ludlow Bruges. I have been keeper to
him sixteen years. In November last I had an assistant
named Ponting. On tha 17th I went out with him to watch
at half-past eleven. I had a stick with me to protect
myself. I never carried fire-arms at night. We came to a
cover called the Morass cover, where pheasants were. This
was between twelve and one. I heard a gun fired, and
walked towards the cover. Before I got there I heard a
second gun. That was in the cover. I saw the man who
fired the shot by the flash of the gun. I heard a bird fall.
Ponting and I went along the side of the cover, and went in.
I then heard a third gun. We went towards the spot where
' the sound came from. I saw a man in about a minute. His
back was towards me. He was walking and looking up. I
walked towards him as fast as I could. He jumped round,
and up with a gun and shot at me. My'hand then touched
the muzzle of the gun. The charge blew the cuff of my

coat to pieces,- and went into my coat and through it. The
powder went into my hand, and also set fire to my shirt.
[The clothes were here produced.] I looked round and saw
another man, and he fired. I dropped as the gun went off. I
couldjust see the gun up in the direction tewards me. I heard
it go off. I attended a few days after—more than a week
after—and pointed out the spot to Hill. After the second shot
was fired I went to the man who first shot and took him by
the collar. He hollowed in a shrill voice like a boy—" Look
out, the are here." I called out for Porting, who
came up. Ponting struck the man that at first fired upon
the side of the head with a short swinge'. He had a "Jim
Crow" hat. Then 1 struck him with this stick on the head,
and the " Jim Crow" hat fell off. I did not hear him say any-
thing. It was the same man who shot the second gun. He
came and struck me with the butt-end of the gun on the
arm twice. I was holding the man. I know that Harry
Cox was also one of them. Four of them came back, and
three of them asked if 1 knew them. I said, " No." I could
not see ; the blood was running into my eyes and my, mouth,
and I wiped it away. One of them said, " Kill him." Then
I received a blow on the back part of my head, which
knocked me down and made me insensible. When I came to
myself I heard Pouting :peaking. I crawled on to some
sticks, and laid hold of them and raised myself up. Guns
were fired after and during the affray, close round us. I
then blew my whistle-pipe. Then I heard the wood crack
as if they were getting out; and voices crying out, " Come
on," and the like of that. I and Porting went to Farmer
Webb's house. He washed the blood off me, and one of his
men helped me home. I could not walk home by myself.
When I got home the surgeon attended me, Mr. Plimmer.
Was confined to my bed a fortnight.
Henry Bell—l am the son of Joshua Bell. On the morn-
ing of the 18th I went to the " Morass" cover. My father
directed me where to go. I found a swingel and a gun• bar-
rel close to au oak-tree, a ramroad, also a black "Jim Crow,"
hat and a brown cap, a piece of lead attached to a piece of
leather, and a powder horn. The policeman Hill was with
me. The piece of lead with the leather fits to the handle
now shown me.

George Hill, the policeman, corroborated the last witness
as to the finding the articles, and then stated that he found
marks of shots on an oak-tree and on another tree. He took
shots out of the trees. The marks appeared to be recent.
In one tree the marks were two feet nine inches high from
the ground, and in the other one foot. He also heard reports
of guns on the night in question in the direction of the
" Morass" cover.

James Wright—l am a superintendent of police. I went
to Stephen Cox's house on the 19th of November. Harry
Cox was in. He was sitting by the fire bathing his eye. It
was cut and much swollen. It the left eye. Jelin Cox
then came in, and afterwards Richard. I took them into
custody. The hands and faces of them were much scratched.
I searched the house and found the stock of a gun brass
mounted, also two jackets bloods., one very wet, a good many
pheasants' feathers in the pockets; also a smock frock with
spots of blood on it. This was also wet, but not so wet as
the jacket. When I took the gun stock John Cox said,
" What are you going to do with that? It is mine, I bought
it and paid for it.",
W. King—l am a policeman stationed at Steeple Ashton.
I went with the other officers to take the Coxes. I saw spots
of blood on the breast of John Cox. I searched Harry Cox.
I found on him a handkerchief stained with blood, and some
percussion caps. Before this 1 had seen Richard Cox wear-
ing a sealskin cap and a smock frock It is similar to this
(pointing to one shown him). This was on the 19th. I
also saw Harry Cox wearing a round hat like this. On the
20th I searched at Maddox's shop, and found a gun barrel
and a stock of a gun. They did not match. It was lying
under the window. The next day I found a gnu barrel in
Maddox's workshop.
Alfred King was recalled, and identified the caps found in
the cover as having been worn by Harry and Richard Cox.
Barnett also spoke to the same fact, and also to one of the
guns being Harry Cox's.
Mr. Phelps was then called—He stated he was agent to
Mr. Bruges, and proved his occupation of the cover in
question.

This concluded the case for the prosecution.
Mr. STONE addressed the jury for the prisoners Crook and
Hawkins, and contended, first, that there was no evidence
that the guns were tired off intentionally, and even if they
were, there was no evidence to show that the prisoners whom
he defended had any common intention with the persons
firing off the guns to injure the gamekeeper.
Mr. Baron ROLFE then summed up the case to the jury.
The jury, after taking some time to deliberate, returned a
verdict of Guilty against John Cox, Harry Cox, and Richard
Cox ; but AcquitteA Hawkins and Crook.
The Learned JUDGE then sentenced them to be transported
beyond the seas for the term of twenty years.
Hawkins and Crook were then indicted for night poach-
ing, to which charge (under the advice of their counsel, Mr.
Stone) they pleaded Guilty.
Hawkins was recommended to mercy on the part of the
prosecution.

The Learned JUDGE then sentenced Crook to be impri-
soned for eighteen calendar months, with hard labour, and
Hawkins to twelve months.

(Before Mr. Justice ERLE, presiding in the Nisi Prius
Court.)
John Sharp was indicted for having feloniously incited
one William Sturgis, to steal two Bank of England notes, a
promissory not for 50!., a quantity of sovereigns and half-
sovereigns, and a watch, the property of one Elizabeth
Sturgis, from her dwelling-house, in the parish of Codford
St. Peter's, in this county,
The prisoner pleaded Not Guilty..
The jary, after a few minutes' deliberation, returned a ver-
dict of—Not Guilty.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—York, March 11.
CROWN COURT.--(Before Mr. Justice COLT RIDGE.)
Joseph. Hodkin, aged 18, and Joshua Eastwood, of the same
age, were indicted jointly, the former for having, on the 27th
of 'February last, at Ecclesdeld, in the Wrest Riding, feloni-
ously shot at, with intent to murder, one Thomas Greaves,
and the latter for being feloniously present, aiding, abetting,
and assisting Hodkin in the commission of the said felony.
The offence was variously stated in the indictment, the
several intents, to murder, to maim, to do some grievous
bodily harm, &c., being laid in several counts.
Mr. Overend (with whom was Mr. Smith) appeared for the
prosecution, and Mr. Bliss defended the prisoners.
The prosecutor himself, in consequence of the injuries he
has sustained, was too unwell to be a witness; but from the
evidence of Mary Ann Walker, 011ershaw, and Jno.
Booker, the servants, it appeared that on the 26th February
the two prisoners came to the prosecutor's house, where they
sat down for some time and had some beer, and behaved them-
selves quite quietly. On the next day, the 27th, they came
again, and were in the house in the same room with the
family, during the time when the latter were at their dinner.
They were not intoxicated ; they had two pints of beer
between them, and some bread and cheese. The prosecutor
and his wife, together with the two men-servants, sat at one
table, the maid-servant and the two children at a separate
table, and the prisoners were together at a third. The pri-
soners carried sticks with them, but of no extraordinary size
or shape. They were rough sticks; the larger apparently on
oaken hedge stake, about an inch and a half in diameter.
Before the family had finished their dinner one of the pri-
nacre was heard to say, "Let's sup up and go." Upon that they
buth arose, and at that moment Booker, who sat with his back
to the prisoner's table, received a blow as with a stick, by
which he was knocked down. This witness heard no shooting,
being, as he said, " maddled"—stupitied, or made dizzy by the
blow. He got up quickly, but was alarmed from the attack
made upon him, and im tnediately ran out of the house and into
a plantation. The female servant, whose position was such
enable
It
thweras tnootoebasse3r, observe
amrriovree,stsatats,ed that she saw
the prisoners as they got up. She saw Hodkin pull a
pistol out of his pocket, hold it towards the prose-
cutor's left cheek, as if to take aim at him, and fire
it, when the prosecutor became wounded in that cheek.
Having done so, Hodkin made his escape, and he was not
captured till some time afterwards. The prisoner Eastwood
did not get away. He was instantly seized by the other man
servant, who, being much stronger than the prisoner, brought
him down upon the floor, and there " jowled" him a good
deal, after which he was pinioned and kept in custody. East-
wood, while in the hands of 011ershaw and on the floor,
called out, saying, "Let me alone, master, I'll tell you the
truth • we meant killing you, and robbing the house. ' A
pistol loaded with powder and bail, was found in this pri-
soner's pocket. Hodkin carried off with him the one which
he had fired, and the latter pistol resembled the one found
upon Eastwood in point of size.
Mr. Jonathan Barber, assistant to Mr. Overend, surgeon,
of Sheffield, stated that he had attended the prosecutor upon
the occasion of the wound he had received. It was a pene-
trating wound, about the middle of the left cheek. It per-
forated through the cheek, and there was a wound in the
pallet. One tooth had been knocked out, the second tooth
from the back on the upper jaw. There were remains of gun-
powder upon the face which had penetrated the skin. The
wound was such as would be caused by a bullet. Witness
discovered no ball, however. It was a matter of knowledge
that bullets may get behind muscle and remain undisco-
vered. The prosecutor was doing well, and iu all probability
he might recover.
His Loassifir, in summing up, observed to the jury, that
they would first have to determine whether the prisoners had
committed the acts alleged, and next, whether with any of
the intents specified. His Lordship then went through the
whole of the evidence, suggesting to the jury that they would
have to decide whether the act of shooting were done with
intent to murder, or with some other of the intents laid in the
indictment.
The jury deliberated for a minute or two, and found both
the prisoners guilty of wounding with intent to do grievous
bodily harm.
The Learned JUDGE, in passing sentence, told the prisoners
that one Of the charges upon which they had been titsetdhwemas
a charge which, if it had been established
h conclusion
would have caused them to be capitally, andconvicted, to lose
aS
theirto lives.
theywere wouldgai ty
sufferol:t!' e capital
other conclusion
the
a severe punishment for
that they be
their
fili
eatnr
lives,
thatves, tbhuetytaken
whole, however, his Lordship thought.tlniat
•by the jury was the right one. The prisoners would. not lose
Itheir offence ; and that punishment was,
severally transported for fourteen years.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MARYLEBOIVE.
COMMITTAL OF DR. DE PRATL FOR BIGAMY.—On Thurs-
day Dr. De Prati, residing iu Mortimer-street, Cavendish-
square, was placed at the bar for examination, before the
sitting magistrate, Mr. Long, on a charge of bigamy.
Mr. Humphrey's clerk intimated to the magistrate that
the parties were now desirous of withdrawing the charge.
Mr. LONG, in reply, observed that if the witnesses on the
former occasion, of the 12th ult., had spoken the truth, and
Of which he could see no reason to doubt, he felt that it
would be bis duty to send the matter before a jury.
The depositions taken on the 13th of February were or-
dered to be read over by the chief clerk, Mr. Fell.
This was done, and it appeared that on the 23d of April,
1841, the prisoner was married at St. James's, Clerkenwell,
to Mary Anne Caroline Pocock, and that on the 3d of Ja-
nuary last he was married at All Souls' Church, Marylebone,
to a female named Mary Anne Melville.
The required proof as to both marriages was given, but the
second wife was not in Court. The Charge was originally
preferred by Charlotte Pocock, a sister of the first site, who
it was proved was living at the period of the last marriage.
The prisoner was committed for trial, and the magistrate
refused to accede to the application of-Mr. Clarkson that he
(prisoner) might be allowed to give bail for his appearance
at the Central Criminal Court.
WESTiIfINSTER.
INHUMAN CONDUCT of A MOTHEO.—Roseau Thomas, a
dissipated, wretched-looking creature, who has been in cus-
tody upwards of ten days, charged with horrible cruelty to
her infant, was brought np before the magistrate.
It may be necessary to state, that the child having died
since the prisoner's apprehension, the coroner has held an
inquest upan the body, and that a verdict of " Died from
natural causes," has been returned.
The facts of the case are briefly these :—The Priglelse.rnr.nas.
at Watson's, the Angel, in Great Chapel.stree.t,tnilxinattioin
ster, on Monday evening week, in a state o
down, with violence, upon t
and going to light with another woman, threw
ittlsiirebilnevinlgieti)iechkieljd
thiperb mothertilbit seized ziend
theit from
yanannso,thaenrdfelmtftainleg,
the wound bled very much, and prisoner's mouth and her
tlthetoinhhieffierflmoamouro.o ,
shawl were covered with the poor infant's blood. The
child was taken to the workhouse, where, although every

care and attention was 'paid to it, it etpired on Sati
morning.
The Magistrate dealt with the wretched woman fo)
assault, and inflicted the highest penalty, he was all,
to impose—a fine of 5/., and, in default, she woald be 1
mitted for two months to hard labour.
She was sent to prison.
GREENWICH. tic.
a). I,
Louisa Maier, a young woman of very genteel appear- 44;ir
ance, was brought before Mr. Jeremy, charged with break-
ing open a cash box, and stealinr, therefrom a ten-poutd
Bauk of England note. -and about four pounds in' silver, the
property of John Baker, the landlord of the Castle Inn,
Brockley, Lewisham.
Mr. Baker deposed that the prisoner had been stopping at-
his house until a suitable situation could be procured for her.
This he had permitted, at the particular request of the_pri-
soner's father, whom he had known for many years. Wit-
ness missed the contents of the cash-box on the 25th of
February. Had seen it safe the preceding day in his bed-
chamber. It was fastened with a padlock. The prisoner
left the house suddenly on the day the property was missing,
without notice, or expressing the least intention of so doing.
Upon the evidence adduced the prisoner was then folly
committed for trial.

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