The Sun.
London, England, 1833-05-17 00:00:00

was a carman and contractor; the deceased was in Mr.
Davis'■ employ. On Thursday, the 2d May, she heard
the report of a pistol, and went to her window. It was
half-past sin the morning when she saw Thomas Cooper
go in, and the report took place a quarter of an hour
afterwards. She saw the prisoner with a pistol in his
hand, and the deceased was in a stooping position, and
holding by the skirts of
_the prisoner's coat. The pri-
soner was trying to get out of the stable, the door of
which was open. The prisoner succeeded in getting away,
'caving the tails of his coat in the deceased's hands, and
the deceased fell down on his right side. Witness SAW a
little blond on the deceased's smock-frock. Witness's
husband then went down stairs; while witness was at the
window, and before the prisoner left the deceased, looking
up to witness, exclaimed,—" Oh God ! George has shot
me." She afterwards went down to the deceased, who
was taken to the Middlesex Hospital. She had since seen
the body of the deceased.

Cross-examined—Previous to hearing the report of the
pistol she had not heard any noise or quarrel. Did not
see the deceased have any stick in his hand. Did not ob-
serve the prisoner's face when he left ti:e stable. She
knew the prisoner well by sight.

Re-examined She saw the prisoner's face when he
went into the stible.

John Ward, husband of the preceding witness, deposed
to his hearing the report of the pistol, and, on looking out
of the window, he saw the deceased and the prisoner, as
described, and beard the deceased exclaim " George has
shot me." The prisoner left the stable to escape, and
witness went out and saw the prisoner running away with
a pistol in his hand, Witness went for a doctor, and on
returning he saw two policemen, having the prisoner in
custody, in Hart-street, Bloomsbury. The skirts of the
prisoner's coat were torn off.

- John Burrough stated that he was in the service of the
prisoner's father, and slept in the stable. He was cleaning
the horses about half-past five, when the deceased arrived
at the stable ; that was his usual hour of coming. The
prisoner came in about five or ten minutes afterwards, and
stood against the corn bin. The prisoner said to witness,
" How long have you been tip ? ' Witness replied he had
just got up. The prisoner said it only wanted a quarter
to six o'clock. The deceased made answer, "It wants
half an hour to it yet, Sir." That was all the conversa-
tion. The deceased stooped down to lice up his boot,
when the prisoner fired at him as he was stooping. When
the deceased came in he had no stick with him, nor
did he use any stick or attempt to strike the prisoner.
On hearing the report of the pistol witness turned round,
and saw the prisoner running away from the stable-door,
and the deceased had hold of the tails of his coat ; he
dragged the deceased to the stable-d ior, a distance of about
twenty y irds from the place where the deceased was shot ;
at the stable-door the skirts of the prisoner's coat were
left in the deceased's hands, and the prisoner ran off; wit-
ness did not hear the deceased make any exclamation,
except" Oh ! Lord !" could not then see that the deceased
was wounded ; Ward and his wife (the preceding wit•
nesses) wire the first to come to the stable door where the
deceased laid ; the prisoner was brought back by two
policemen a few minutes afterwards ; the deceased was
taken to the ho•pital.
_ _

Mary Cooper, the widow of the deceased, deposed, that
her late husband was alive on the 2d of May,
and was then in the employ of the prisoner's father ;
that morning he went to his work in good health ;
she saw him next, at 4 or 5 o'clock, that afternoon at the
Middlesex Hospital wounded ; the surgeons told witness
he was likely to recover, and would be well in a fort.
night. On the following Tuesday, the 7th of May, wits
ness was all slay with him, when be was very light-
headed, insensible, and knew no one ; on the Sunday pre-
cechag (the sth) he was sensible, but much worse than the
Friday previously. On that Sunday the deco &FLA said h.
was sure he should not recover, that the prisoner had
said to him that he would do for him, and th it he had
done for him. He said Ceorge Davis had shot him.
John Kayford, police constable No. 97, Division E.
stated that be had known the prisoner before the 2 1 of
May. On that morning, between 5 and 6 o'clock, wit-
ness was in Holborn, between Lyon-street and Blooms-
bury-court. The latter place was about 200 yards from
the prisoner's father's statute. He heard the report of fire-
arms as if from Silver-street, where that stable was. He
proceeded to the corner of Lyon-street, saw the prisoner
running as if from the stable, and took him into custody.
On taking him back to the stable, he saw the deceased
lying on his side within the stable door. Witness at first
said, " George, what have you done ? ' He replied, " I
have done nothing." He then searched him on the spot,
and fitted a discharged pistol within his coat, under his
left arm (now produced). When they got to the stable
he saw Cooper lying, and something black and burnt upon
his left arm. Witness asked the deceased what was
the matter ? He replied, " George has shot me ; I give
him in charge." Witness took the prisoner to the
station-house, and on searching him further, found two
bullets in his trousers' pocket. Another constable found
a powder-flask on the prisoner.
Cross-examined—From the bad condition of the pistol,
it could not be kept back at lull cock ; had known prisoner
for eight months; that morning he looked very wild ; on
many occasions witness had observed very extraordinary
circumstances in the prisoner, and on two occasions wit-
ness gave an intimation respecting him to his father ;
the prisoner bad had a pistol before, which was out of
repair, but which be carried about the streets ; about two
or three mouths before the Qd May, witness had seen the
prisoner in the streets dressed with a cocked hat on ;
witness considered he acted very often like a madman
when he had got intoxicated ; could not say but in his
sober momenta he always conducted himself well ; when
he was sober he always avoided the witness.
Re-examined—On the morning of the 2d of May the
prisoner (lid not appear to be drunk or sober ; he ap-
peared as though he had been drinking—a sort of " stale
drunk," as though he was recovering from an overnight's
drunkenness.

Mr. John Gill, house-surgeon of Middlesex Hospital,
deposed that he attended the deceased when be was brought
to the hospital ; witness examined him, and found a gun-
shot wound in the left thigh, and the upper part of the left
arm slightly grazed, apparently from the same cause. The
wound on the arm was quite superficial. The wound in
the thigh penetrated the skin and the muscle about the
lower and outer part of the thigh; the ball struck against
the bone and pursued its course upwards; the ball re-
mained in the thigh. If a man was s'ooping to lace his
shoe or hoot that was the direction the ball would take.
The wound was attended with a certain degree of danger,
and be expected a recovery, but in gun-shot wounds
erysipelas was always much to be dreaded. The deceased
went on tolerably well for two days, and on the Saturday
he had an attack of erysipelas. That attack was occa-
sioned by the wound. He died on the morning of the
Bth of May; erysipelas was the cause of his death, and
that was occasioned by the wound. The ball was extracted.
Cross examined—Had been five years in the profession,
and was at present house-surgeon ; that office was fre-
quently held by students ; had not seen many cases of
gun-shot wounds; the deceased certainly died of erysi-
pelas ; on a post mortem examination, he discovered ap-
pearances which would be likely to produce erysipelas.
Witness had seen many cases of erysipelas; the external
appearances of erysipelas frequently were suddenly visible ;
in cases where a person received no wound, erysipelas
might come on, and carry him off in as few days as the
deceased was carried off. From the post mortem ex-
amination, lie was of opinion the erysipelas and consequent
death might have ensued even without a wound.

Re-examined—ln the present case he believed the de-
ceased to be predisposed to erysipelas, from the discovery
after death of a chronic disease, but a person so constitu-
ted was more likely to be attacked with erysipelas from
receiving a gun-shot wound than in a person who had
received no wound.

By Mr. LEE—Witness had never been able to discover
any distinction in the appearances after death to those,
whether erysipelas had been produced solely by a gun-shot
wound.

The witness then detailed at length the various un-
healthy appearances that presented themselves upon a
post mortem examination of the body.
Edward Pring, a police-constable, was with Kayfurd
when the prisoner was taken into custody, and corrobo-
rated his testimony.
Lawrence Fell, of No. 21, Little Russell-street, Blooms-
bury, stated that on the morning of the 2d May, at half-
past five o'clock, he was at a public-house in Broad-street,
Sr. Giles's ; the prisoner was there drinking gin, and bad
a half pint measure and a glass. Witness partook of one
glass with him. He showed witness a powder horn and
two bullets, and said he was going to make away with
himself. Witness laughed at him, because he had said so
before. He was partly intoxicated, but not drunk; he
was pretty well in the habit of getting tipsy.
Cross-examined—Had heard him threaten to destroy
hinasei at times, when he was sober, as well as when in
liquor.

Tne prisoner, who seemed to have paid but very little
attention to the evidence, was called on for his defence,
and said he had no recollection at all about the matter.
Witnesses were called for the prisoner, who gave evi-
dence tending to show that his conduct had of late given
him the appearance of not being quite right in his head.
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE then summed up the evi-
dence, prefacing it with a statement as to the operation
of the law in such cases as the present. The object of
the defence, he said, way to show that the prisoner was in