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London, England, 1851-02-27 00:00:00

LOCK DART V. DIINCOMBE.

This was an action against the defendant, as acceptor
of a bill of exchange f r 3,0004
The defendant pleaded that he did not accopt, that ho
was induced to accept by fraud, no consideration, and
that the bill was an accommodation one.

Mr. Edwf,rl James. Q. C., and Air. Dacent appeared
for the plaintiff; Sir F. Thesiger, and Mr. Bramwell for
the defendart.

The bill was drawn by a Mr. Beebey, the nephew of
the defendant; and Beebey indorsed it to the plaintiff,
who bad been in his service. Consideration to the
amount of 9501. was proved to have hem advanced by
the plaintiff to Beebey. The case was chiefly remark-
able for the manner in which the evidence was give,.
Atter the defendant's case was finished, the plaintiff
called witnesses in reply, upon which the defendant
called witnesses to contradict them; and, lastly, while
the jury were considering, an additional witness was
tendered, but his Lordship would not hear his evidence.

The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for 950/.,
without interest.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
ROME ClRCUlT.—fiereford, Feb. 26.
The commission of assize for the county of Hereford
was opened to-day by Mr. Baron Parke. Tie causo list
is not yet mode up, but the number is believed to be
about the usual average. The gaol calendar is light and
all the eases are of the ordinary description.
Mr. Boron PARKE, in his abanse to the grand jury,
congratulated them upon the tightness of the calendar,
observing that all the cases contained i❑ it appeared to
be of a very simple description, and not requiring any re-
marks from him respecting them, and he at the sametime
said it vvaa very satisfactory to see that there was not a
single charge involving the desctruetion of human life,
or in which the fife of any person accused was in jeopardy.
Tne grand jury havinz, retired, one or two trifling
cases were disposed of, but they did not furnish any
material for a report.

NORTHERN CI I? CUI T.— Carlisle, Fel+. 25.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice CRESSWELL.)
Jane Watson, aged 23, the wife of Matthew Watson,
was indicted for having at Braithwaite, on the 25th of
last July, feloniously cut the throat of her child, Sarah
Watson, with intent to murder it. There were other
counts in the indictment laying the intent to do the child
some grievous bodily harm,
Mr. James and Mr. Iliggin prosecuted, and Mr. Mat-
thews defended the prisoner. _ _

It appeared that the prisoner is the wife of a labourer
living at Braithwaite, a vilaee about three miles from
Keswick, and her father, Joan Kirlehritlge; lived in .the
same house with them. On the 25th of July Mary
Fearon, a little girl, the niece of the prisoner, went to
call upon her, but finding the front door fast, she went
round to the back door and estered the house, and on
going up stairs she saw the prisoner sitting by the fire
with her child, which was about fourteen months old,
on her knee. There was bood on the floor, and two
bloody razers lying on the dressing table, and bloody
cloths were wrapped round the necks of both the pri-
soner and her child. The littls girl, Mary Fearon, in
great alarm, ran back and infnrmed her mother of what
she had seen, and an immediate alarm being given, vari-
ous people ran to the prisoner's cottage to see what was
to do.. A witness named Jobsen first entered, and found
the prisoner still sitting as described by the little girl.
He spoke to her, and askec her what she had been
doing. She made no answer, but told him "to keep off
her." He took up the moors, and there was a little
blood on them, which he wiped off. Ile then wont out,
and Isaao Fearon, her brother in-law, went into the
room. She took no notice of him, and he sat down on
the bedside and began talking kindly to her, asking her
what was the matter, when the burst into tears. On
seeing the child lying on her knee with bloody cloths
about it, he said, " 01 dear we, Jane, what could make
then do such a thing as this?" She said her father had
said or done something to her, and she could not bear
it; but she cared nothing about herself. He went out to
send for a doctor, and on his return he found her standing
over the child, which she had laid on the bed, crying out
with her arms above her head, " My poor bairn, my poor
bairn." On the surgeon arriving he found the child appa-
rently lifeless. There were two incised wounds on the throat,
abolit three inches long each, but not very deep, and
no material blood.yeesels had been divided. On sewing
up this wound the child flinched, and he then resorted
to every means he could to revive it. The child re-
covered, and was now quite well. There were also two
gashes on the prisoner's throat, and both her own throat
and the child's had been bound up by her with cloths.
On the cross-examination of the various witnesses it was
attempted to be elicited that the prisoner lived an un-
happy life in consequence of having a drunken husband,
and she was showe to have exhibited a state of great
despondency before this event. It was also attempted to
be shown that there was hereditary insanity in the fa-
mily; that her mother died childish and insane, and her
grandmother cut her throat.
The Learned Comeau. for the prisoner then addressed
the jury, and in the course of his speech was consider-
ably affected by the painful details of the case. He
urged that temporary insanity alone, there being a pre-
disposition to that malady in the prisoner's family,
brought on by domestic trouble, would have induced her
to commit so shocking an act towards her own child, to
which, immediately afterwards, the returning affection
of a mother had exhibited itself; and ho appealed to the
jury to take a lenient view of so sad a case.
His LORDSHIP, in summing up, directed the jury that
it was fur them to consider the intent with which the act
was done. It they thought the prisoner had committed
this act -with any of the intents charged in the indict-
ment, they must find her guilty. If they acquitted her,
then they must say whether they acquitted her on the
ground of insanity and incapacity of knowing whether
she did right or wrong; but the law said that insanity
must be presumed, unless that presumption was rebutted
by the clearest evidence.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty of doing bodily
harm to the child, but no " grievous bodily harm,"
which his Lordship said was guilty only of an assault.
She was sentenced to be imprisoned, with hard labour,
for one year.
Mr. Bliss, Q.C., sat in the course of the day in the
Grand Jury-room and tried several prisoners.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

OMNIBUS RCEBERY.-----Frederick &urge, a pickpocket,
of extremely respectable appearance, was brought before
Mr. Hardwick, charged by a City police-constable named
Headington with hiring robbed a lady in an omnibus of
her watch.

The constable said he knew the prisoner to be a thief.
Seeing him is company with another man, ho watched
them until trey got into an omnibus at Charing-cross.
Witness immediately followed in a cab, and when the
omnibus stowed is Regent-street, and the two men got
out, he went up to the prisoner and took him into cus-
tody. Witmss made the prisoner go back to the omni-
bus, and on %king if any of the passengers had lost any-
thing, an slterly lady immediately discovered that she
had been roibed of her watch. The prisoner took the
prisoner, and told
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watch out of his pocket, and threw it on the seat of the
p
him he must go back to the omnibus, the prisoner said,
" For God's sake don't take me, or I shall be lagged;
consider mywife and family."
Muss Jere heirle, a maiden lady, residing et 16,
Queen's-I'o% Camberwell, said about eleven that morn-
ing she got into an omnibus at Newington, having a
watch in he pocket, fastened to it with a piece of tape.
Looked at be watch at the florae Guards, and then re-
placed it it her pocket. The prisoner got into the
omnibus a Charing-cross, and placed himself by her
side, where her pocket was. The prisoner got out in
Regent-stret, and in a few minutes was brought back
in custody. Witness then felt for her watch, and found
it had beerstolen. The prisoner afterwards threw it on
the seat of he omnibus.
The prianer declined to make any defence, and was
fully oomrotted.
DARING MID-DAY RoBEERY.—CAUTION TO LADIES.
—John Mims, a man dressed as a bricklayer's la-
bourer, wa charged with the following daring robbery:
Mrs. Ovrman, of No. 4, Queen's-row, Regent's-park,
who appeaed to be still labouring under considerable
agitation fere what had occurred, stated that about an
hour befor, as she was walking in Park-eresent, with
her purse i her band and her watch by her side, she
was sudde4 knccked down by the prisoner, who made
a snatch ether purse and watch, but only succeeded in
tearing offthe ends of the purse. The prison instantly
ran off, thewie-
g the steel ends of the purse into the
road. A ;entleman who saw the occurrence stopped
the prisons., who was afterwards given into the custody
of a policelonstable.
Mr. Wytt, a young gentleman living in Chester-ter-
race, Reget'e_park, said he was walking with his mo-
ther when ,e saw the lady fall on her back in the road,
and the prioner run away. Ile stopped the prisoner,
and the prioner ran back; witness pursued, turned the