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London, England, 1851-12-19 00:00:00

to the stacks to lie down, as one of them was lame
from bis shoes hurting him, and that on so doing they
found the eggs.
His LORDSHIP having summed up, the jury re-
turned a verdict of Guilty.
Sentence—one year's imprisonment, with hard
labour.

York, Dec.l7.
NISI PRIUS COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron
PLATT.)
Thomas Linley, 27, was charged with having, at
Sheffield, in the West Riding, on the Ist of August
last killed and slain one William Raistrick.

Mr. Boothby and Mr. Philipps appeared for the
prosecution ; and Mr. Price defended the prisoner.
It appeared that on the night of the 28th July the
deceased, who was a labourer on the Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, had been drink-
ing at several public-houses, and being intoxicated, in
proceeding on his road home, he went into the Green
Dragon, in Fargate, between eight and nine o'clock,
and sat down in the tap-room. On the opposite side of
the room sat three persons, namely, William Lee
George Holland, and the prisoner. After the deceased
had been there a few minutes he commenced inter-
fering in the conversation with the other men in a
noisy manner, and something having passed between
the prisoner and the deceased, the former got up and
pulled the latter by the brim of his hat, and he sud-
denly jerking his lased back, hit his head against the
wall. Upon this he immediately got up and seized
the prisoner by the collar of his coat, and 8 scuffle
ensued, in the course of which they both fell down,
the prisoner being undermost. After a little time
the prisoner got on the top of the deceased, who was
on his back. The prisoner then got estride of the
deceased, whom he lifted up several feet from the
ground by the coat collar, and then struck him seven
or eight times on the head against the floor, which
was denominated " jowling," in doing which the de-
ceased got hold of the prisoner's neckerchief, which he
convulsively grasped, and caused the prisoner to cry
out that he was strangled. One of the men
then untied the prisoner's neckkercbief, and the land-
lord coming in, the prisoner was removed from the
deceased. At this time it was not discovered that the
deceased had sustained any injury, having only the
appearance of stupid unconsciousness, which was as-
cribed to drunkenness ; and the landlord, assisted by
the waiter, removed him to the passage, and then the
waiter took him to the doer to turn him out of the
house, and while the waiter was raising him up to put
him out, he got over-balanced and fell forward out of
the doorway upon the flags with great violence, and
as soon as he fell blood gushed out of his mouth and
ears. Several persons who were passing in the street
accused the waiter of throwing the deceased down,
and a policeman being sent for, the waiter was taken
into custody, but was subsequently released when
the police had made inquiries concerning all the
transaction. The unfortunate deceased was taken
back into the house, but never returned to conscious-
ness, and died the next morning at eight o'clock, of
concussion of the brain. The surgeon who made the
post mortem examination stated that, in his opinion,
death had not been occasioned by the falls which the
witnesses had described, but by " the jowling" of the
head against the floor. It, however, appeared that
there were no bruises at the back of the head, which
part came in contact with the fluor, but there was
an appearance of a violent blow on the left side of
the forehead, which must have been occasioned by
the defendant falling out of the waiter's arms on to the
flags.
At the conclusion of the medical evidence the jury,
without hearing Mr. Price on behalf of the prisoner,
returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
Thomas Sutcliffe, aged 24, was charged with the
manslaughter of Robert Lord, at Todmorden, in the
West Riding, on the 16th of August last.
Mr. Eastwood appeared for the prosecution; Mr.
Overend defended the prisoner.
It appeared that on the 16th of August last, as the
deceased was returning home from the Philharmonic
Society, about half-past eleven o'clock, he met with
a young woman and entered into conversation with
her. They proceeded a short distance in company,
and stood together for a moment on the footpath,
when the prisoner and some others came out of the
York Tavern, in Todmorden, and the prisoner pro-
ceeded down the footpath, near to where the deceased
and the woman were standing. When the prisoner
got up to them he pushed the deceased from the foot-
pith and threw him down upon the road. Imme-
diately after the deceased had risen up, same kicking
seems to have taken place between them over the
legs, in the midst of which the prisoner was seen
to kick the deceased with his foot at the bottom of
his belly. Some little further struggle took place,
and the prisoner then ran away, when the
deceased appeared quite exhausted, and lay down
on the footpath moaning and vomiting. He was
then assisted home, and continued to vomit through
the night, complaining of violent pain at the
bottom of his belly, caused, as he said, by a kick
from the foot of a man whom he did not know.
Early on the following morning a surgeon was sent
for, but, notwithstanding his assistance, the deceased
expired about five o'clock in the afternoon. A post-
mortem examination took place on the day after,
when it was found the colon, or large bowel, was
ruptured about a couple of inches, which was the
cause of death. It appeared that the deceased did
not know who the person was who struck him, nor
was he aware that any reason existed why the pri-
soner should have done so,
Witnesses were called on behalf of the prisoner to
speak to his general peaceable character.
At the close of the case for the prosecution the pri-
soner's counsel said he could not resist the case so as
to reduce the charge to anything less than man-
slaughter.
His LORDSHIP having summed up,
The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter, ac-
companied with a recommendation to mercy.—Sen-
tence deferred.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT;
THIRD COURT.
(Before the COMMON SERGEANT.)
Elizabeth Thomas, 24, married, was indicted fur
obtaining by false pretences, the sum of 51. from
Henry Philip Davies, with intent to defraud him.
Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Poland prosecuted, the pro-
ceedings being instigated by the Mendicity Society ;
Mr. Charnock defended.

The prosecutor stated that he is a coal merchant,
keeping the Palace- w had, Lambeth, and first knew
the prisoner some time in July last, when she came
to him, being a perfect stranger, and introduced
herself to him, saying that she wanted to ask his ad-
vice relative to some property she had down at Bath,
which she wished to sell. Witness told her the best
thing she could do was to see some solicitor on the
matter. She then asked witness to write a letter for
her to Mr. Wood, a solicitor, :13, Royal-crescent,
Bath. She then produced what purported to be the
extract from a will, by which she was entitled to a
sum of between 8001. and 9001. He in consequence
wrote a letter, and an answer was returned signed
by a Mr. Wood, and posted from Bath, stating that
901. had been offered for the land. The prisoner
asked him what he thought she had better do with
the money, as she thought of putting it into
the bank. The prosecutor told her he thought she
would do better by letting it remain, and she said
she coincided with his views, and asked him
to write to her solicitor again and tell him the
determination she had come to. He did so, and again
received an answer purporting to come from the same
party, acknowledging his letter, and stating that her
wishes should be complied with. Some short time
after he saw the prisoner again, and she then showed
him a letter which alluded to her aunt, and stated that
she was then at Carlisle at the point of death. She
did not ask the witness for any money, but made a
statement about having to wait until she could get
the money, some Post-office orders having failed to
reach her, upon which the prosecutor kindly offered
to lend her 61. to take her down there, and he himself
went and saw her off by the railway. Subsequently
finding that he had been defrauded, he made commu-
nication to the Mendicity Society, which resulted in
her apprehension in November last.
The other evidence went to prove that no such a
person as Mr. Wood lived at Royal-crescent, Beth,
but that the letters so sant down had been got posses.
sion of by some of the gang down there, acting in
concert with the prisoner. When taken in custody
she was searched by the female searcher, who, whilst
she was performing the task, observed her try to
swallow something, upon which she called in the
officers, and they forced from her mouth a letter of a
similar character to that by which she had defrauded
the prosecutor in this instance.
Mr. CHARNOCK, at some length, contended that the
prosecutor had most foolishly given the money of his
own free will, and was not instigated by any false
pretence of the prisoner.
The jury found her Guilty.
There was another indictment for obtaining 141.
Os. Gd. from another person, on the ground of her pro-
perty in Bath.
Horsford, the Mendicity officer, said the prisoner
was an old offender, and had fur years been connected
with a gang of begging-letter impostors and swind-
lers. In November, 1849, she was taken up with a
gang at Bath. There were five in number charged
with obtaining money under false pretences. She
was an aesoeime ef the man Bew, transported in the
New Court yesterday.
Norris, another officer, said that she had lived with
a man now under committal at Hanley, in Stafford-
shire, and awaiting his trial for similar frauds.
Also on the prisoner was found a savings bank
book belonging to a woman named Farmer, another
of the reang now under conviction, a circumstance
which showed the system and extent to which the
gang carried on their operations.—The prisoner was
sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment and hard
labour.