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London, England, 1834-03-28 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

NORTHER N CIRCUIT.—YoaK, MARCII 26.
(Before Mr. Justice ALDERSON.)
William Hall was indicted for wilfully and mali-
ciously setting fire to three stacks of wheat on the
morninc, of the 27th of October last, the property
of Mr. Robert Fox, of Barnbv.
The Jury, after hearing evidence at some length,
gave a verdict acquitting the prisoner.
Samuel Athor was indicted for having, on the
night of the 20th of September last, at Horsforth,
in the West Riding, with divers other persons un-
known, entered certain enclosed lands belonging to
the Rev. James Armitage Rhodes, armed with a
bludgeon, for the purpose of taking and destroying
game.
The Jury returned a verdict of acquittal.

NORFOLK CIRCUIT.—NoRwIcs, lilacs 26.
(Before Mr. Baron VAUGHAN.)
WRECK OF THE WEMYSS.

Joseph Newmanßeeve was put to the bar
charged with feloniously stealing a bag, containing
four Exchequer bills of 1001. each, nine .5/. notes,
and 100 sovereigns, the property of Mr. Payne.
He stood also charged with stealing a box, the pro-
perty of some person unknown.
Another bill had been preferred against the pri-
soner for an alleged larceny upon the goods of a
Miss Roche, deceased, but the grand jury ignored
the bill.

From the evidence, it appeared that the morning
after the dreadful storm which raged along the
whole eastern coast, on the 31st of August, the
Earl- of Wemyss smack, on her way from Scotland
to London, was seen on shore at Brancaster, dis-
masted, and otherwise greatly distressed. On the.
ebbing of the tide the vessel was accessible, and
several persons went on board with the intention of
giving what succour was in their power. They soon
ascertained that eleven individuals, of whom seven
were females, as the public were aware, had been
drowned in the cabin. Their bodies were drawn
up by boat-hooks, and as they were taken up they
were laid upon the companion ; among them were
the bodies of Mrs. Pyne (the wife of the prosecutor)
and of her son and daughter, who had all perished
together. The prisoner is the son-in-law of Mr.
Mimms, the lord of the manor, who claims a right,
of course, to the waifs, estrays, &c., within his
manor ; he also claims some franchise with regard
to wreck, but of this there was no distinct ac-
count. Mr. Reeve, as the representative of the
lord of the manor, for whom he was in the habit of
acting, had gone on board the smack whilst search
was making for the bodies of the dead. On the
body of Mrs. Pyne being taken up, Mr. Reeve took
from the person of the deceased lady a black velvet
reticule, with steel clasp and chain. He looked
into it and took out two small parcels packed in
paper—one of them contained, as subsequently ap-
peared, four exchequer bills. The other was a hard
parcel made up in a rouleau form, about four inches
in length and two or three fingers in breadth. It
looked like a money parcel. The prisoner did not
open this last parcel, but replaced it in the reticule,
which he put into his pocket. He then took from
one of the ears of the deceased lady an ear-ring,
and that, with a ring which he took from one of her
fingers, he put into his pocket. Several persons on
deck at the time, and neighbours of Mr. Reeve,
saw all that took place, and neither was there any
injury done to property nor any indignity offered to

the bodies of the sufferers. A Mr. Mingay, a
merchant, residing at Brancaster, was appointed by
the captain as his agent to take charge of the vessel
and cargo, and he made application to the prisoner
to deliver up to him the articles which he had taken
from the person of Mrs. Pyne. The prisoner re-
fused to give up the articles, giving as his reason
that he was sent by the Lord of the Manor to pro-
tect the property from depredation ; but on the 3d
of September he delivered to the captain the reti-
cule and rings of Mrs. Pyne, containing nine five-
pound notes, four exchequer bills of 1001. each,
three sovereigns, three shillings, and some other
articles, as the whole of the contents of Mrs. Pyne's
reticule. A search-warrant was obtained, and his
house searched, when about 100 sovereigns were
found in drawers in two rooms, but it was not
proved whether they were the rooms of the prisoner
or of his father-in-law, or of any other inmates of
the house. The proof adduced with regard to the
box was, that the prisoner first came down to the
vessel on horseback, and that some person, who was
standing in the water near the vessel, handed to
him a box of a dark colour, about 12 or 14 inches
in length, with which he rode away to a booth or
tent, where the preventive guard were placed. In
a minute or two afterwards he returned to the
vessel ; and though there Was no positive evidence
as to what he had done with the box, there was
nothing to rebut the presumption that he had car-
ried it to the tent, for he had been absent just
time enough to have done so. From several of the
witnesses for the prosecution the prisoner received
an excellent character for propriety and honesty of
conduct.

Mr. Baron VAUGHAN doubted that there was
any case to go to the Jury.
The Jury instantly pronounced a verdict of Not
Guilty.

WESTERN CIRCUIT.—EXETER, MAucit 26,

Sarah Loosenzore was indicted for the murder of
an infant child, named John, by neglecting to supply
it with food and nourishment, whereby it became
emaciated and died ; and Richard Land was charged
with inciting her to commit the aforesaid crime.
In December, 1832, Mr. Land was applied to by
the father of the child to lend him his assistance to
have the mother brought to bed with the utmost
secrecy, her pregnancy having arisen from an illicit
intercourse between persons in a respectable station
of life who resided about twenty miles distant from
Exeter. Mr. Land undertook to do so, and hired
lodgings for the mother, and assisted at the ac-
couchement. Immediately after the delivery, in
January, 1833, the child was transferred to a nurse,
previously procured by Mr. Land. That nurse
took care of the child for ten weeks. It was subse-
quently transferred to the female prisoner, to whom
Mr. Land promised to pay 4s. a week for attending
it. The father and the mother of the child died
shortly afterwards, and no means of supporting the
child were supplied to Mr. Land. Mr. Land ap-
peared before the magistrates and stated all the
circumstances of the case, saying that he should not
contribute to support it any longer, as no funds were
supplied to him for that purpose. The magistrates
said that as he was the cause of bringing the child
into the parish he should support it. The female
prisoner still had the child. In two days afterwards
the Rev. Mr. Atherley went to her house in order
to see the child to baptise it, when he found it very
much emaciated, lying in wet rubbish in a cradle.
He caused some food to be administered to it, but

its stomach would not retain it. The child had every
appearance of having been neglected both in food
and in clothing. Medical men were called in to see

it, and the greatest attention paid to it, but it died
in a few days afterwards.

The Jury found both prisoners Not Guilty, and
they were immediately discharged.
No case of public interest was tried in the Civil
Court to-day.

OXFORD CIRCUIT—HEREFORD, MARCH 26.
(Before Mr. Justice PARK.)
BOWYER V. BOWYER.
This was a writ of right brought by Mr. Francis
Bowyer to recover certain lands at Dilwyn, which
were in the possession of Mr. Thomas Kyrwood
Bowyer.
The Grand Assize, which consisted of twelve
Esquires and four Knights, girt with swords, found a
verdict for the defendant, thereby establishing the
legitimacy of his father, as the son of Mr. Francis
Bowyer.

(Before ➢ir. Justice ParrEsoN.)

Mrs. lifilborough Brown, a rather elderly woman,
of very respectable appearance, was charged with
setting fire to a wheat-rick, the property of a Mr.
Vale. Verdict—Not Guilty.
The prisoner during the trial did not appear at all
affected ; but during the absence of the Jury, who
were in consultation for near three hours, she was in
very great agitation, and on their return into court
she fainted. The Jury were therefore obliged to
wait till she recovered before they gave their verdict.
During this time the prisoner screamed dreadfully,
and when the verdict of not guilty was pronounced,
she was carried out of Court, screaming with in-
creased violence.

HOME CIRCUIT—KINGSTON, MARCH 28.
(Before Mr. Justice GASELEE.)
Robert Bennett, aged 25, labourer, was indicted
for burglariously breaking and entering the dwelling-
house of Sir William Woods, in the Coburg-road,
Waterloo-road, on the 22d February last.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty, and
sentence of Death was recorded. _ _

_
Francis Fayerman, aged 20, labourer, was in-
dicted for feloniously and maliciously stabbing
Charles Boshell with a carving-knife, on the 17th
instant.

The prisoner lived with his aunt in Francis-street,
Walworth, and, on the day in question, the prose-
cutor, a little boy, threw a stone at the door, upon
which the prisoner ran out of the house, having a
carving-knife in his hand, and endeavoured to catch
him. Boshell ran away, followed by the prisoner,
who, on Boshell's falling, plunged the knife into his
back, and inflicted a severe wound two inches and a
half deep and one and three-quarters wide, between
the bladebone and the spine, at the same time say-
ing, " Take that !" The wound the prosecutor
received was very severe, and he was unable to
attend to give his evidence.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty.—Death
recorded.