The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-20 00:00:00

CHARGE OF SHOOTING.

Thomas Baylis, aged 20, labourer, was charged with
Rhootiog James Hall, with intent to murder him, at
Handborough, on the 10th December.
Mr. Cripps was fur the prosecution, and Mr. Williams
for the defence.

From the evidence it appeared that the prosecutor,
who is nearly 80 years of age, had been to Oxford on
the 10th December, and on his return home called at
the Bell Inn, at Handborougb, about four o'clock in the
afternoon, where he saw the prisoner in company of a
man named George Lay ; the prisoner asked the prose-
cutor to drink with him, but he declined, and said he
should have a pint to himself ; the prisoner said he had
been to Woodstock that day, and had beaten the Duke
of Marlborough and his gamekeeper. Lay said to the
prosecutor, " You ought to have your brains blown
out;" and t le prisoner also said, "That he (Hall) ought
to have his head blown off, because he had told the
keeper that he (the prisoner) had been shooting on the
conoroon." After this conversation Hall went home,
which took him about an hour to reach ; on reachir g
home, and while having tea with his hou,ekeeper, they
heard a report of a gun—the window of the room in
wnich they were was smashe'l, and glass and shot.
were scattered over the room. Superintendent Ed-
wards was sent for, and traced some footsteps to the
spot where it was supposed the gun was fired, and
afterwards apprehended the prisoner at a public-house,
and took his shoes, which corresponded with the
foot-marks ; in his house was also found a gun, which
was loaded. The prisoner was seen by a witness named
Wm. Walker, between four and five that afternoon,
going in the direction of the prosecutor's house, and had
a un in his hand, and was also seen by another witness
(Charlotte Breakepeare) at a public-house called Shep-
herd's Hall, which is but a short distance from the
prosecut, 01.114..

Mr. made an able defence for the prieontr,
and, after a careful i,utriming up by the judge,
The jury returned a verdict cd. Not Guilty.
With this case the al,eizes terminated.

AnDLAND CIRrUIT.—WAnwicK, DEc. 18.
(Before Mr. Justice WiLes.)
ha 4‘. 104 for*
for fordo
C_hater, aged 41, au engraver, was indicted
appega:ib'allk of En/41mA note.
It
last the Pollee' that on the morning of the 4-11 Sept.
e...if..upd in the prisoner's house in Binning.
bench, .., a;44i,'„ bAnk-notes ,laid out upon his working .
n,,a,,i,
uotiie
bo,,rCodver about a square yard, but under
corner of the ,anag• They also found a press in the
and
upoou
teh.room, which was the prisoner's
of which wero grav''t
bedroom,
and on the eizth a riateefipress six copperplates, on five
certain letters and numbers,
last. found that they all bore the
with the 104 note., it
,;aspon ccruparng ...hose plates
rstn:ntioned plate ; and that
date engraved on the
the letters and nunibe
ail:e series upon the same
plates also appeared inn succes,raved upon the other
, ando found which might
someb bottles of Flint-
andP t°hhilaapcita
_tiro
edt hKoinee prisoner had
bneotutssed inCtenratakiinngtsonocleh nwoeter:
parties who
ing ink likewise. It wasproed
inicieghwte;ntthiant.
lived and worked in the neighbourh
police
he left
been at work at a late hour on the
duringbrought the
he left home at 7 in the morning,
no person had entered his house until the
The defence made was that some men had
notes and plates into the prisoner's
Bence, and a witness was called to prove that fac his
all.
The jury, however, found the prisoner guilty, and
The learned judge sentenced kiln to be transported
for
life. . .