The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-15 00:00:00

A HIGH SHERIFF IN DIFFICULTY.

It will no doubt be in the recollection of many per-
sons that the High Sheriff of Suffolk, in March last, was
placed in no very pleasant position in consequence of
the services of a hangman not being obtainable to carry
into execution the last sentence of the law upon Maria
Clarke for the murder of her illegitimate child, by
burying it alive in the parish of Wingfield. The high
sheriff, however, on that occasion was spared an unplea-
sant duty by a reprieve cuming down for the condemned
woman two days beore that on which her execution
was to have taken place. At the assix-s held at Ips-
wich, on the 24 init., Maria Emily Cage was found
guilty of the murder of her husband, James Cage, at
Stonham Aspel, by administering to him a certain
quantity of arsenic. Her execution was ordered to
take place on Saturday next in front of the Ipswich
County Gaol, but the same difficulty was again
presented as in March. Calcraft, the hangman,
on being applied to, could not attend as he
had promised to perform a similar office the
same morning at Norwich. An application was
next made to the hangman at Warwick gaol, but that
functionary could not attend, as he would be similarly
engaged at Shrewsbury on the Saturday. A messenger
was then dispatched to the Secretary of State's office,
who explained the unpleasant position in which the High
Sheriff of Suffolk was placed, and requested that the
execution of Mary Emily Cage might be postponed.
The answer from the Secretary of State was to the effect
that no alteration as to the day named could be made;
thus leaving the high sheriff to get out of the difficulty
in the best way he could. To have had the law carried
into effect on Saturday would, beyond all probability,
have been repugnant to the feelings of the high sheriff,
for, as no person could be found to supply the place of
Calcraft, the high sheriff must have performed the horrid
duty himself. To avoid duing that, the high sheriff has,
on his own responsibility, ordered the execution to be
delayed until an early day in the ensuing week, The
condemned woman's demeanour is becoming her awful
position. She appears to be resigned to her fate, but
protests that she is innocent. The unpleasant position
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EXCISE PROSECUTIONS.—From a return yesterday
issued an account is given of seizures and prosecutions by
the Excise of adulterated tea, tobacco, pepper, and coffee.
In the year ending the sth of January last there were 1 sei-
zure of tea and one prosecution, of tobacco there were 17
seizures and 13 prosecutions, of pepper 7 seizures and 23
prosecutions. No seizure or prosecution for adulterated
cage by the Excise in the same period.