The Sun.
London, England, 1833-03-11 00:00:00

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LENT ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—Yonr, AtescH 6,
TRIALS ON CHARGE OF swarms.
George Ward was indicted, and also charged on the
Coroner's Inquest with the wilful murder of John Morley,
at the parish of Norton, in the North Riding, on the 19th
of October last.
A witness, named Williamson, on the afternoon of the
19th of October, was in company with Robert Ward,
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a fight, but witness did not know how it began. The
pris over had also been at Malton, and came up. It was
dark ; there were several of Scott's jockeys and stable-
ItaB;ll'ndadswthßra:7'bning staliles, th y started
stable-
boys in the road. He heard the prisoner ask I.is brother
Robert
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k
him. He broke the gunstock by his hints, and the de-
ceased was knocked down. Witness admitted himself to
have
of Mr. Scott ant lived at Willittheawtall Whitewall-corner. e. Ti
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sitting by the fire on th. evening iii question. The children
were out in the street, and hearing the noise, the de
ceased said, " Betty, pray go and get the children in."
She went to do so, and believes he followed her. She
heard him say in the street, "Is Betty here ?" He wa..,
knocked down with tf e hut-end of the gun by tt e pri-
soner. He got upon his knee's, and was knocked down
again, and a neighbour against whose door they were,
opened it, and he was dragged in by the legs. It also
appeared that the w ife of the deceased was struck down,
and rendered senseless. The nest day he went to the
doctor at Malton, and on the third day I e died.
The Jury returned a verdict of Manslaughter against
the prisoner, who was immediately sentenced to be Iran-
spited for ll'e.
George Sundys was put to the bar charged with having,
on the 506 day of December last, wilfully murdered his
wife, Mary Sandy'.
The circumstances of this case have been recently fle•
tailed in all the papers.
The Jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
SATURDAY, MAKCH 9.
LONG V DICKENSON AND OTHERS.
There had been a sort of joint stock manufacturing so-
ciety formed at Bramley, called tf e Union Society of
Bramley Cloth Manufacturers. It was a kind of benefit
society, and one of their rules was, that if any of the
members did not deliver up the cloth which he had, the
trustees of the society rniaht go to his house and take it,
notwithstanding all doors, locks, bop, t,olra, Sze., and
that there should not he any ppicis ding at law whatsoeVet
on that account. The plaintiff Long was a poor mans
who enjoyed but a bad state of health, but his wi!st had
been a very active and industrious ao,uan, earning fstrots
149. to 20s. a week. The plaintiff was employed as a
kind of salesman to the society, and in th t capacity lie
had some of their goods in his possession. On the 7th of
June last the defendant, Mr. T. R. ackenson, Abram
Dickenson, and John Young, with two constables, n imed
Thomas Child and William Dixon, proceeded to the hou-e
and demanded the goods. Long came to the door, and
asked for their authority. Child puled out his staff, shook
it in Long's face, and said that was it. Long said it th it
was all the authority he had, they had better go about
their business. They then proceeded to force an entrance,
and to effect it knocked Mrs. Long down by some severe
blows on the head with the staff, by which she was so
greatly injured that she had scarcely been able to earn any
thing since.
The case for the plaintiff being closed, Mr. PoLLocx
proposed terms, and it was finally asreed that a verdict
should be taken for the plaintiff for 501.

WESTERN CIRCUIT.— SALISBURY, MARCH 8.
Henry Harren was indicted for knowingly, wilfully,
and ieloniously sending to Junes Davis Horne a certain
letter, and writing therein threatening to kill or murder
him, and to kill his cattle, and burn and destroy his house.
The prisoner did not say anything in bis defence.
The Learned JUDGE eummed up, and the Jury found
the prisoner Guilty. Sentenced to transportation for life.

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and the
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The assizes for this peaceful county commenced this
Judges both proceeded to the trial of the prisoners, and the
only rase of any in.erest was the following:—
William Davis, 'William Douse and Thomas Evitt
were indicted for a burglary in the dwelling-house of Mr.
Bather, on the 3d of August.
The prosecutor is the rector of Little Stukeley, memo-
rable from the circumstance of having been the scene of the
murder of the last incumbent, the Rev. Mr. Waterhouse,
by Slade. On the afternoon of Friday, August 3, Mr.
Barber left home to go to a dinner-party, and did not re-
turn till the following morning, when be discovered that
his house had been entered at the larder window, where a
peach-tree had been cut away and the lattice-work pulled
down. From that room were stolen a gravy spoon, table-
spoons, and a considerable quantity of other plate, and a
small piece of undressed beef had been taken from a pan in
which it had been put to salt. In the library the burglars
had thrown the books about, but they did not encumber
themselves with such articles as books from the divinity-
shelves of a clergyman's library : they took, however,
a watch and its appendages, and other articles of
value. From the kitchen were missing several suits of
clothes, shirts, and other property belonging to the
servants of the house. Matches and tinder were found
on the table, and a candle stuck in a roll of butter
had been used, and, bring left burning, had continued
a light till it reached the edge of its unusual candlestick.
Soon after midnight, it appeared, one of the maids in the
house heard a noise below stairs, sufficient, as she ex-
pressed it, to keep her awake, but not to alarm her. On
the evening before the robbery the three prisoners were at
a beer-house in the village of Stukeley, syhich they left
ahout S in the evening, and suspicion falling on them they
were immediately on the discovery of the robbery followed
to Thrapstone, a distance of twenty miles. There the con-
stables found Dtvis and Evitt under the hands of a barber,
and took them into custody. The prisoners made no defence.
The Jury found them all guilty, and sentence of death
was recorded against them, after an impressive address
from his Lordship, intruded as well for any of the gang of
which the prisoners formtd only a part, who might be in
court, as for the convicts themselves.
SATURDAY, MARCH 9.
Thomas Moles was indicted, under Lord Lansdownele
Act, for cutting Witliam Hopkins and Thomas Hopkins,
vith intent to murder or maim them.
T e Jury acquitted the primmer.
This case is one of a class which is constantly occurring,
where persons escape the cons quences of an aggravated
tssault rom the defect in the Act of Parliament on which
the prisoner was indicted. By a proviso in the Act, a
person, in order to justify a verdict of guilty, must have
committed the offence under such circum•t .nc,s as would
have made it amount to murder if death had ensued. If
the, ffHostbeencew acquittedo would
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OXFORD CIRCUIT.— WORCESTER, MARCH 7.
The two men named carter, whose sentence we de-
Clred, were left for execution by Mr. Justice J. PARKE.

STAFFORD, MARCH 9.

The commission was oi,ened here un Thursday last, and
business wa. commenced here ye.terd.y. There are thirty
causes in the list, and a very heavy calendar of 120 pri-
soner., charged with the mo.,t serious offence'.

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