The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-10 00:00:00

MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—Lincoln, March 7.

The calendar for this county contains the names of
fifty-five prisoners, of whom four are charged with mur-
der, two with manslaughter, three with stabbing, one
with abusing a girl under the age of twelve, five with
endeavouring to conceal the births of children, five with
arson, one with uttering c.tanterfeit coin, one with
f,rgery, one with endangering the hafety of a railway
passenger by throwing a stone of great weight upon the
carriage, seventeen with burglary, one with robbery with
violence, and the rest with larcenies.
CIVIL SIDE —(Before Mr. Baron ALDERSON.)
THOMPSON AND ANOTHER V. ACOCIES.
This was au action for money paid and for freight
earned iu carrying a cargo of timber from Boston to
London. A sum of money had been paid into court,
leaving a balance of about 201. in dispute.
The Learned JUDGE, in accordance with the previous
decision of the Court of Exchequer, held that the plain-
tiffs had brought their action' too soon, and directed_ a
nonsuit, but reserved leave to the plaintiffs to enter the
verdict for them if the Court upon a consideration of all
the facts now proved should think that they were en-
titled to do so.

LARIDGE v. DIXON.
This was an action on the cap, to recover compensa-
tion for the injury which the plaintiff had sustained by
the defendant driving his gig against her.
Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 1501.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.)
This morning the following prisoners, each of whom
had pleaded guilty to a charge of endeavouring to con-
ceal the birth of a child, were called up for judgment—
namely, Ann Jinks, aged 25; Mary Andrews, aged 40;
Sarah Leeson, aged 20; and Ann Winch, aged 24.
The Learned JUDGE, in an impressive address, warned
the prisoners of the wickedness and danger of any de-
parture from that modest propriety of conduct which
young women ought carefully to observe. He was very
glad to learn that ono of them, Ann Winch,
was now
married to the man who was the father of her child, and
he should pass upon her a sentence which, though ap-
parer: tly more severe, was in truth less severe than that
which, be intended to pronounce in the other cases. The
other prisoners had all been in prison for many months,
and the sentence upon them would therefore be a further
imprisonment of one month with hard labour. Ann
Wincl had been in prison for a very snort time, and the
upon her was, that she be imprisonedth
ree
months
months with hard labour.
'timer, a boy only twelveyears of
George
iodic cod for wilfully setting
le fire to a straw stack, the
property. of Ann Nobles.
Tee) jury almost immediately Acquitted the prisoner.
Robert Meggitt, aged 74,
wast i
Booby, indicted for the wilful
muremr of George Sinderson on the 7th of
daylYf October last, by stabbing 9 a
him with a knife in his
belly..
Mr.. Boden appeared for the prosecution, and the pri-
soner was defended by Mr. Flowers.
The first witness called was the prisoner's son, who
stated that his fa her was about 70 years old, that he
had limed with him many years. On the night in ques-
tion the prisoner went to bed between nine and ten
o'clock.. fie slept with his wife on the ground floor.
Soon teter he had gone to bed witness heard a great noise
lin the room down stairs, 513 d on getting up to see what
was tho matter he found his father with the tongs in his
bands. and nothing on but his shirt, exclaiming, that he
would beat some one's brains out. Ile appeared, as the
witne: a expressed it, " cpiiie crazed," and very violent.
Witness tried to quiet him, and when the tongs had been
'liken from hire the prisoner put on his trousers, still
being held by his son and grandson, whom the noise had
alarmed. Robert Morley, a neighbour, came in, and
litidieig the prisoner, his :wen, end grandson, all in their
•shirts, told teem to get their clothes on and he would
hold him d 'wn. Studerson, the deceased, who had also
come in. assisted in holding the prisoner. In so doing
he tweet a coed deal of viol, one, and told him that it he
were not quiet he should "shake him to &lath." The
prise ncr complained of choking and wished to get up
from e bet, wine on being let 10050 he stabbed the de-
ceased in the belly with a clasp-knife, such as he was in
the habit of cerrying in his pocket; after he had stabbed
,him, the prisoner said, "I dreamed a dream last night
that I should kill some one with that knife."

The Learned JUDGE then carefully summed up
.! . .- • t,
'.''ce ... 40 th- , pri6....Z..,tafe of cui,!i, and okede
their opinion upt_.n thar, question before he went into th
oth?r part of tie case.
Tl:e jury almost immediately returned a verdict o
Not Guilty, on the ground of insanity. to the
The prisoner was thereupon ordered to reraain in
custody until her Majesty's pleasure be known.
In the case of two women of then ame of Bel
the
la,*
charged with child murder, the grand jury ignored
bill.
Mr. Whitehurat, Q C., sat this afternoon in the grand
jury-room to try prisoners.
Charles Lee, aged 26, and William Palmer, aged 181
were couvic,ed before him of two separate charges 0'
arson. Both offences were committed on the lst of Fe'
bruary, when the prisoners had been out of gaol only
eats,
ewe
days. One consisted in setting fire to a stack of
d
toe property of James Osgarty, at Anwick, the other is
setting fire to a stack a barley and a steck of wile°
straw, the property of Edward BISCOIFD, at Ler
singham.
Both prisoners were transported for life.
March 8.
CROW N COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice CoLva 17,
inog)
CDARGE OF POISONING.--Eliza Smoak,' aged
was indicted for the wilful murder of Frances Page. a
Mr. W. H. Adams conducted the prosecution, 1111
Mr. illmore dfended the ri.
TheW deceased,e Frances Pagpe, wassoner the wife of a farmer
residing at Stow, in this county, and at the time of her
death was between 50 and 60
well
old. The prisoner
was in their service. It is well known that fanners prisoner
in the habit of using a solution of arsenic for the Par;
pose of dressing wheat, and some time before t
November last a large quantity of this preparation had
been boiled in an iron pot at Mr. Page's for that Pc!:
pose. The stuff had been emptied out of the iron POl I:
a large tub for use, and the iron /pot was then ta
back to the kitchen in order that more might be bolls;
but no more was required, and then the iron pot We:
placed in the yard outside the kitchen door. It bad I:
lid on It, but it was not cleaned out; for out of ir
he 7th 0:
iron pot beyond all question came the poison which e,:'
stroyed the life of Mrs. Page. According to tic Pr!,
sonar's own statement, on the morning of the 7th e.,!,
November she took a gill full, or half a pint,
out of the iron pot, and boiled it in the coffee for
thatbar
out
master or mistress's breakfast. Mr. Page went
morning before breakfast, and Mrs. Page bad breaksbet
fasted when he returned. He took a cup of CO
before he had finished his breakfast Mrs. Page was tell°
ill. She was in died at about -
soon great :agony, and
that ,„,- is
minutes to ten o'clock the same morning-717a,
rather less than two hours from the time at whicu -0,
had taken the poisoned coffee. The medical man Wor
of the stntt_
was sent for came immediately, but she was in a state of
collapse when he arrived, and quite beyond the aloe
medical skill. The surgeons stated that her death
__a
unqu. stionably occasioned by arsenic, but that there 1:15
no other case on record in which so rapid an
effect
takes
been produced by that poison. Mr. Page wee Iliseuc,lol
ill almost immediately after his breakfast, but he goer
soon recovered. The prisoner had stated to the_a;
stable, and afterwards to the coroner, that
think it would have killed her mistress; ehe only thler
it would make her badly." She also said that she 0..e.i if
had any complaint66she did not
against her master or mistress; and
appeared, in fact, that they had always treated her pith
great kindness. When asked the reason tor who_,beettee
done, she had said to one witness that her mistress het,
down like a bull-dog that morning; and to another, iti„
on the Saturday before her mistress had charged her With
killing a fowl, and she had told her mistress that em
did not.
port These wereatrheematerial circumstances proved 10 stir
f the
Mr. WILLMORE addressed the jury on behalf 0
prisoner.
_ The jury having remained in deliberation a short toe.
found the prisoner Guilty of Manslaughter onlY• tO
Prisoner Li.
The Learned JUDGE, in sentencing the e a nig..
transportation for 15 years, implored her day an- is, of
to reflect with penitence upon the fatal ons"l°°„%,..
2 the 4
testedThnight i
the rash and wicked act of which sbe had bee° gri_ igea
Thomas Brown, aged 22, and George Plognir" 0! 00
committed of
pleadedin carrying af guilty
in the houseon,
chargeile:gBtotaa November of
bl
last, 1 r Y
which they .6
Thomas Lidster, at Craislound, from
propertYjosiog
- same prisoners were also indicted tor bre,„ 00
and entering, on the 7th of November last, the 064,01
of William Hopkin at Grayingham, and will
aAPered, 'no
great quantity of
violence therein. To this indictment they Pl-
guilty. •ao 04
The Learned JUDGE having summed up the preys etts
the jury found the prisoner Guilty, and the P-0 on''
convictions. for felony, under which they bad We°
The Learned JUDGE sentenced them
fined at Kirton, were then given in evidence•
for the terms of their natural lives. eal:ted
to be tons.
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CENTRAL CRIMINAL COUII-
OLD COURT.
(Before the RECORDER.) „Tor.
THE TRIAL OF MARY ANN PARSES FOR rE"" a
(Continued from The Sun of SaturdaP) r t ~te
The Rev. Mr. Jesson was then called, aud be tis d 0
appeared
ienvitdheenpcoe
that he had never been out with the Earl of SOW - ,
whati" remainingehas
alleged. dip 0 0/
lyguadrepeed tot
wsiinfceeolfeaavminagnhnearmfaedthserh'serhidoauns.e she had traYePlir:ds* the
It was further proved that she did not eLlvieretn,htebP:l rag:
livci:'repinoerrtea
of the Earl, and had asked her brother w-- rtja ilelt
like, having once pointed out a person as
had intimatealso mwiatdhehaimfa,ihis L°ori In
who was not at all like him. She had ets°,,,' Is 1 te,,
to the statement of a young man living ewesJ-L, .-' SP`
t° the date et
child's birth. false statement the
ols child big' Os
s'it sr
Mr. COOPER contended that some one might ba i 01
sumed the name of the Noble Earl, and so deceive,' the
seduced the defendant, and that she, thinking it ivalP
Earl, had persisted in the charge. ,d
.. 00 Or
The RECORDER, in gumming up, said the main q t
lion for the consideration of the jury was, whether L 7,01
the defendant had been deceived in supposing the R
to
to be the father of her child. a he) rOO
The jury found her Guilty, but recommende the t
mercy, thinking she had been the dupe of
Sheridan. b r tr 4 'l'
Jane Lewis, 31, spinster, was then put upon e ,8.04:),
The evidence against her was that, in Februsr%;o 60
she was living at Ell.mere, in Shropshire-- a k 0 t
ers
miles from Hyde; that no one had ever seen ber
tow to I
all, and that not any of Parkes' family ever Itpe well
she was acquainted with Mary Parkes until their kalei
seen together at Birmingham, and that she we
_,,d wild
Parkes and Sheridan hadAlived together as man
i"
The jury found her Guilty. ; a 00'1'
The RECORDER said he should respite therg §berids ,:
both the women in order that, if poisible, 4.4100 Co'
might be taken and tried before he passed sell'
them.
The trial lasted all day.' v S.
RAILWAY SHAKE MARli— 'r
BRISTOL, MARCH 8. r ttl I
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market continues dc,r,,e/ai, 64 ,!1,
transactions to-day were as follow :—Midland 't
-wester -.
ex div.—South-Eastern and Dover, 11736--Gtee* .
gith -Ditto, New 171. Shares, 1% die.
LI V Mit, le t. P
'JUL MARCH 8
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market. was ste,""J la II 3
day, and a good business has be a_ _ ices.
„_ev A ,
been done t hirp•
transactions were as follow • irkeltD_o a ,
Lancashire, and Cheshire, .--
Aberdeen, .
.....caledere,
221. Shares, 4 dis• and yort
13 3-16—Great northern
shire, 601 • (B), 12 A —Lancashire dTOW i
A— itto, Fifths, • Lds en sno
171% - Liverpool, Cr 6 13-16 dis.-- ee Landon,
North- Western _ osby, and Southport, % Pr,„. „-. D.
,itito
Fifths 53/ , 131 - Ditto, New Quarters, u 74. r. 1001'
Line° 'P
Quarters,4 i P..- Manchester Sheffield, and D 1
61. NewP7rel till 1853, 14LA, ' Ditto, Preference, 1114,a..--•
%a/ 11
Midland, 6 Preference, L„ p..... Matlock and Midland ~,,•i
Diu • North 113filwm! ...
- Ditto, Prefer o, Halves. 133 y dis.— .
.., 6,, __
Preference 5 h t 6—North Staffordshsiraery sEld fi;r'
North- Western,minham(B I'l Preference, 123/4—Shrew b-r, 114'.
Ditto, Third Shares,
5 13-16- Shrewsbury and Chest
,eni. sleek
11.16 . ird Shares, 85/ _
is Oswestry, and Chester, tu savior
tie, dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, 27U--Y°l27...fte-'
fast
and Berwick, 22-ork and North Midland,
and Ballymena, 4—Dutch Rhenish, 47i dis. , t
S MANCHESTER, MAncg *P. business d°
Toorr eototearna been a large bus mie
to. day • B.—There has loses firret i.;;.
at improved prices, and the market
ac .
A Cilther°e' •
tran • sections were as foe —Blackburn a,. „_„4.0.0a.
- Caledonian Pref ow
• East Lancsuihire, Knyaien.
, erence, 61A-- Riding
Quart -
ers, a 34 Leeds Stock, 034-... West -000ek,
5 1-16 d' is.—Sheffield, New Preference, 19 P; ~,asbire,ll.o
dis.—Soutb- Eastern Counties, 27%—East Newl' Qissr." '
—London and North-Western, 131—Ditto, Sorth'Wstern'
p.—Ditto (C), Quarters, 3 1-16 ate, 3 5.16 die,
% dis.-Sheffield Stock,—Ambergate,
BIRMINGHAiI, Alaital; 8n". to.do l'rere7'
STOCK EXCHANGX.—The only snt'e— !Viand (
e trans . 1 Dirt'
li„,
Shrewsbury 34 1,9%
and Birmingham (A), 4,e d d Dover, 277.
mingham and De bv) 373 S E ste,llln
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131RTHS
OF A SON.
Cosulliiin
On the 6th inst., at Clifton, Lady Isabella Grant. dar
On the 4th inst., at Southampton, the wife of
H. W. Bill, R.N. tit•
On the sth inst , at Ousby, Cumberland, the wife cd
Rev. James Bush.

OF A DAUGHTER. ...... ,T;foilrl4'
On the sth inst., at the Parsonage, Thorpe bies,
shire, the wife of the Rev. Duncan 'Travers• ropt or,
On the 7th inst., at Lansdowne-villas, West )3
the wife of John Milton, Esq ---

ItABBLED. artliaw
On the 6th inst.. at St. Luke's, Chelsea, Benjamin to
Jones, Es,q., eldest son of B. Jones, Esq.,_ of lir,efTo gea•
.
Fra sees Bellina, only daughter of T. Hoilaby, Esq., of
On the 6th inst., at St. Giles's-in-the-Fields, A. P. to
derson, eldest son of A. Henderson, Esq., of Park-lanet
Emily Mary, only child of the late Robert P. More'
South-crescent, edford-square.

DIED-
On the 4th inst., at Pickhurst, Hayes, Kent,
Lady 01117'
tine Eustatia Morland, aged 76.
On the 6th inst., at Notting-hill-square, Elizabeth, relict
of the late J. P. Carpenter, Esq., aged 69.
On the 6th inst., at Tainfiald-house, near Tanntoo,
7c,. Lieutenant-General Sir Stephen R. Chapman, C' e
rs:
K.C.11 ,Colonel Commandant in the corps of Royal Eg°ee
On the 6th inst., at Hamilton-place, New-road, St•
cras, Mrs. Isaac Moore, aged 63.

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