The Sun.
London, England, 1833-01-05 00:00:00

THE ENFIELD MURDER.

John Cooper (the approver, who was examined for
the Crown on the trial for murder yesterday) and So
mud Fare (who was yesterday tried for the murder and
acquitted) were this morning arraigned upon the Co.
rener's inquisition for being parties to the murder of Ben.
jamin Couch Danby on the 19th of December.
Mr. CLARKSON, for the prosecution, stated that, after
the long and painful investigation in which the Court and
Jury had been engaged yesterday, he had been instructed to
offer no evidence upon the present charge.
By the directions of the Conn, the Jury acquitted the
prisoners.
The prisoner Fare, alias Sleigh, was then arraigne,'
upon an indictment for assaulting Benjamin Couch Denby
on the King's highway, on the 19th of December. put-
ting him in bodily fear, and taking from his person 1 I s.,
a segar case, and a pipe bowl.
Mi. CLARKSON, in stating the case to the Jury, re-
quested most earnestly that, in considering this case, they
would dismiss from their minds any prejudice that the)
might have naturally imbibed from the trial of yester-
day, when the present prisoner was acquitted. The
Learned Counsel then detailed the circumstances of the
lease chiefly at they appeared on the trial yesterday.
The witnesses were of course the same, Cooper being
the principal one. It will be recollected that while lead-
ing the deceased along the road a scuffle ensued, in which
the deceased, Johnson (who was convicted of the murder
yesterday), and the prisoner fell down ; after which the
prisoner ran away, and it was suspected the deceased wa-
robbed in that scuffle. When the prisoner was appre-
hended, a pipe bowl, sworn by Mr. Addington to have
been lent by him to the deceased to charge his gun with,
and some silver, were found on him—more silver than it
was imagined the prisoner could have honestly possessed
himself of, as he received relief from the parish. It
was also proved that the prisoner, in allusion to the
deceased's money, said be should like to have a touch at it
,n the dark, and if he could not get it he would cut hit,

wizen.
The prisoner put in a written defence, denying most
solemnly having robbed the deceased. As to the pipe-
bowl, he had had it for a month before the murder, and he
had witnesses in Court yesterday who could have proved
that they bad seen him use it in charging his gun,
but as there was no evidence affecting him, his Counsel
did not think it necessary to call them. Believing them-
selves to be discharged from further attendance, those wit
tresses were not in Court to-day.
Mr. John Esdaile, a brewer, said he had known the pri-
soner for three years, and he gave him an excellent cha•
ratter for honesty and humanity. He had been in wit-
ness's employ about two years.
Three other persons spoke to the prisoner's previous
good character.
Mr. Justice J. PARKE in summing up said the only
question for the Jury to consider was whether the prisoner
took from the person of Benjamin Couch Danby the sum
of I Is. by force, or whether he took the money at all ; if
he took it by force it was a capital offence, but if he took
it without force, it was an offence not capital, but tran-
sportable for such a period as the Court pleased.
The Jury found the prisoner guilty of stealing from tLe
person, unaccompanied with violence.