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throat ; but neither his inquiries nor those of the
Coirrt elicted such an opinion from him.
Mr. O'Brien addressed the jury for the prisoner,
and the learned Judge having summed up,
The jury retired to consider of their verdict, and
on returning into court found the prisoner guilty,
with a recommendation to the mercy of the Court.
Tile learned Judge inquired the ground for their
recommendation, and being, with some hesitation,
informed that it was founded on the belief that the

act was not done with malice or forethought, were
informed that if they thought the death of the
child was not by the wilful act of the prisoner they
should find that he was not guilty.
The foreman replied that they thought the act
of the prisoner was wilful, but that he was drunk,
and could not make up his mind to it until he was
drunk.

Retiring, by his lordship's advice, to reconsider
their verdict, they were recalled, and the learned
judge instructed them that if they were convinced
the death of the child resulted from the negligent

or reckless acts of the prisoner, without wilful in-
tent, it was open to them to find a verdict of man-
slaughter. Having again retired and returned,
after further deliberation, they delivered again the
verdict of guilty of murder ; and the learned judge
at once placed the black cap upon his head and pro-
nounced sentence of death in the usual form.

The prisoner, astonished at the verdict and sen-
tence, moved restlessly during the address of his
lordship, and protested that he was innocent until

he was-removed from the dock.

George Mobbs, gentleman, surrendered to take
his trial upon a charge of bribery at the last elec-
tion of members to serve for the borough of North-
ampton, by giving to one John Barron, a voter at
the said election, the sum of 205., and promising
him a further sum of 20s. to induce him to vote for
Mr. Thomas M'Kenzie, one of the candidates, on
the 29th April, 1859.
Mr. Mellor, Q.C., and Mr. O'Brien conducted the
prosecution ; Mr. Macaulay, Q.C., Mr. Field, and
Mr, Markham were counsel for the defendant.
Mr. Mellor, in opening the case to the jury, ex-
pressed his regret that the serious offence with
which defendant was charged should'be so lightly
regarded as it had lately been, and dwelt upon the
importance of checking a practice so prejudi-
cial to the interests of the public. He then pro-
ceeded to state the facts upon which he proposed to
rest the case against the defendant, whom he de-
scribed as a zealous political partisan.
From his statement and the evidence of the wit-
nesses called in support of it the case against the
defendant appeared to be as follows :
At the election of members for the borough of
Northampton, the Right Hon: Robert Vernon Smith
(now Lord Lyveden) and Mr. Charles Gilpin were
candidates upon the Liberal, and Mr. James T.
M'Kenzie upon the Conservative interest. The
nomination-day was the 28th of April, and the
polling-day upon the 29th. On the 27th the de-
fendant, in company with Mr. M'Kenzie, canvassed
Barron at his own house, but he would make no
promise, and again, when alone, canvassed him with
like result on the 28th, Barron saying " that he
would consider of it." Barron at this interview in-
troduced a friend, George Avery, whom the de-
fendant also solicited to vote for M'Kenzie, and who
replied as Barron bad done. After some little talk
of the liberality of Mr. M'Kenzie, it was arranged
that Barron and Avery should meet the defendant
early on the following morning at Johnson's com-
mittee-room in Scarletwell-street. At parting
Barron observed, " It's a dry election ;" and he said
that upon that remark the defendant put his hand
into his pocket and gave him a two. shilling piece.
Barron, Avery, and a third voter, Brickwood, all
swore that at half-past 7 o'clock on the following
morning they met the defendant in a place called
the Mayor-hold, and that on Barron saying to the
defendant " You were not at your time, but we were
at ours," the defendant pulled out his watch and
said, " lam late ; it's half-past seven o'clock," that
Barron then said, " I've brought another friend,"and
upon Brickwood mentioning his name as George
Brickwood, defendant referred to a book which he
carried, and said " It's all right ; follow me ;" that
they then went to the house of one Johnson, a
builder in Scarletwell-street, which was used as
Mr. M'Kdnzie's committee-room, entered a yard,
and went thence through the back door into a
kitchen, and from it into a parlour, where Barron
swore he saw his Next door neighbour, John Foster,
one William Tomkins, one William Furniss, the
clerk of St. Sepulchre's, and one James Tomkins,
who acted as doorkeeper ; that defendant then
went into the front parlour, and coming back said,
" One at once; I don't want you all three toge-
ther;" that Avery and Brickwood then left the
kitchen, the defendant came out of the parlour, shut
the door of it very carefully, and then said, " What
do you want ?" Barron replied, " I don't know."
Defendant said, " I'll give you 30s. when you've
polled far Mackenzie." Barron answered, " I will
not do anything that way, and if I_do anything at
all I'll have it before I poll." The defendant then
said, " I'll give you one sovereign down, and one
sovereign when polled ; I'll give it you if you
work well." Defendant then gave Barron a sove-
reign, and asked whether the other men would do
the same as he had. Barron said that he would
guarantee that they would do the same, and went
out with the sovereign to Avery and Brickwood, to
whom he showed it. Avery and Brickwood then
in succession went into the kitchen and returned
with a sovereign each, which they showed to Bar-
ron, who then went directly to Smith and Gilpin's'
committee-room, and showed the sovereign to
Messrs. Briggs, Dennis, and Pierce, and on the
same day he voted for Smith and Gilpin.
It was elicited by Mr. Macaulay, in cross-exa-
mination of Barron (who was one of the old-right
voters claiming as an inhabitant householder, bat
having had for 30 years a house of £lO annual
rent), that he had not, until he was before the
magistrates, and had heard the defendant's wit-
nesses depose to the fact of his not having been out
until much later than half-past 7, stated anything
respecting the defendant's pulling out a watch and
remarking on the time ; that when first canvassed
he had said that himself and his friends all consi-
dered the franchise a responsibility, and were
anxious to vote for the right man. He had
always been a Liberal, and doubted whether Mr.
Mackenzie was as liberal as he pretended to be.
When asked what he had generally had at elec-
tions, he affected not to understand the question,
and could not be brought to comprehend it. He
had, eighteen years since, been discharged from the
police force for having charged Mrs. Porter, a pub-
lican, with selling out of hours on a Sunday, Mrs.
Porter having, before the magistrates, accused him
of paying the person who wet into the house and
got the liquor, that he might lay an information.
He remembered selling some pots of carnation to
Mr. Butcher, which were afterwards found to be-
long to a Mr. Allan ; and had found some tops of
boots under a heap of stones, which afterwards
turned out to be some other person's property.
Avery and Brickwood also admitted that they had
found some tops of boots under a heap of stones,
which afterwards turned.out to be some other per-
son's property. Avery and Brickwood also admitted
that they had made no statement as to the defen-
dant's pulling out his watch until they heard
Mobb's defence before the magistrates. Avery
owned that he and Barron had a mutual respect for
each other. A aaitness, Drag, deposed to seeing
Barron, Avery, and Brickwood go into Johnson's,
and one Watson to having seen them meet Mobbs
on the Mayor-hold, and afterwards seen the latter
standing at the window of Johnson's house.
The case for the prosecution-having-closed,
The learned Judge summed up the evidence, an d
the jury, after a very short pause, returned a ver-
dict of not guilty, which was received with loud
acclamations by the bystanders, and, being re-
strained within the court, rose soon afterwards with-
out its precincts.

WESTERN CIRCUIT.—wiNcIusTER, July 14.
CROWN COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Keating.)
Martin Conway and John Farrell were indicted
fur the wilful murder of Mary Ann Rowe, at Al-
dershott, on the 13th_ of May. •

Mr. H. T. Cole. and Mr. kussell prosecuted, and
Mr. Edwards, at the request of the judge, watched
the case on behalf' of the prisoners.
From the statement of the learned council it
appeared that the deceased was a single woman,
about 18 years of age. She was one of that class of
persons who are always to be found in the neigh-
bourhood of a cs,rnp. She lived at a publichouse
called the Hero of Lucknow. The two prisoners
belonged the Military Train, a part of which
o_eMpsy
was stationed at the camp. On the 12th I
Ann
the deceased went with a girl named "thare3; met
Rogers to the Alma publiehouse, wheree,bre.
At
the prisoners, whom they had knowlnefbt 1
the Alma
about 12 o'clock on that night they
-went to a place
in company with a third girl, and went
towards the
called the Line, which lay in the way
were stationed.
North Camp, at which the prisoners
several persons,
On their way they were seell
e.„,„ order in the camp.
provost, an officer who
and among those was tb
had the charge of maintalut rZ
1.2 o'clock-.' At the time He saw the prisoners about
of Lucknow she wore
the decried left the linedr a white jacket, and arounda light-coloured froelcd
adnresakserehief. Tier hair was
was sound, though dressednot new
her neck a blue handkerchief.
with pins.
Tlhvlaelasd not any hole in it. She hadiltew,
and the prisoners had advancedto
1 h. erds deceased
the rtoiec- of leather, with a metal clasp.wo
p, andui s thee ; jacket
one
bridge.k That' was the last time the pri-
soners which was on the way to
deceased were seen together, and it
thewa north
s:ansertsiiaelalast time the unfortunate girl was seen
Alive, The other girl, Rogers, had gone home pre-
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