The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-22 00:00:00

" HAMILTON.
" HASTINGS.
" STAmronn and WARRINGTON.
" O. HIGGINs.

" November 21, 1866."

The stewards, however, reserve to themselves the right
of altering this decision should they subsequently findthat
any new rule bearing upon the case has been framed.

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1867.
FEBRUARY.

Lincoln l9 Nottingham 2
Harrow
MARCH.

Liverpool 5
Chelmsford
Bromley
AP.

Northampton
Windsor
Newmarket Craven 8
T hirsk

West Drayt0n.,.,,....... 19
Epsom
2t;
•
Lewes
,IL.

York 7
Doncaster Spring
Salisbury 9

(Newmarket Ist Spring.. 22
Durham.. .. . ... 22
Catterick
Chester 3O
AY.

Bath
Harpenden
Epsom

JUNE.
Ascot 4 Stockbridge l9
I Windsor
Manchester
Bibury
Newton l9

JULY.
Carlisle 2 I Drown Royal Corporatn. 17
Newmarket 2 Huntingdon '23
Reading .. .. 9 Southampton . 25
I Nottingham l6 Goodwood ............ .... 30
AUGUST.
- • • •

___ ._ _......
Brighton •• 6 Dover
Brighton Club 8 West Drayton ............ 22
Lewes
Egham ..... l3 Canterbury
Stockton
Oxford .... 15 Derby
Hastings
York 2l Tunbridge ...
SEPTEMBER.
Leicester
Doncaster
10 Manchester Autumn.... 20
Richmond 9
17 I I
Newmarket Ist October 21
1
Hendon

OCTOBER.
Northampton Autumn. 1 I Cheltenham l5
Newmarket 2d October. 7 Newmarket Boughton 2l

NOVEMBER.
Liverpool 5

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1866, including a record of all matches, and such other
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THE FATAL SPARRING MATCH.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

The following appeared in our Third Edition of y.ater.
day evening :

John Young, William Shaw, Daniel Morris, George
Flynn, Edward Donelly, Thomas Dawes, James Goode,
and James Evans, surrendered to an indictment charging
them with being concerned in causing the death of a lad
named Willmott.

It will be recollected that a sparring match, with gloves,
took place at the public-house kept by the defendant
Shaw, in which Young and the deceased were the parties
in the contest. Some of the defendants acted as seconds
to the young men, and Flynn officiated as time-keeper.
After the match had been going on some time,
and, according to the evidence of ono of the
witnesses known by the namo of Nutts, Willmott was
winning easily, when he (Willmott) received a push from
Young, which caused him to stagger and eventually to fall
to the ground. In doing so it was alleged he struck his
head against the partition of the room with such violence
as to ' make it necessary to remove him to the
hospital, where, in a short time afterwards, ho
died. The medical evidence wont to show that the de-
ceased's body was extensively bruised, and that the boxing
gloves were quite sufficient to cause those injuries on the
body, but that death was not caused by any of those
bruises, but by an extravasation of blood on the brain,
which might have been produced by a fall.
At the close of the evidence for the prosecution,
Mr. Montague Williams said there was not sufficient
evidence to establish the charge against the defendants.
Mr. Baron Bramwell, after a consultation with Mr. Jus-
tice Byles, decided that the case mnst go to the jury.
The jury took some time to deliberate, after which the
foreman said they were of opinion that the evidence was
too weak to establish a charge of manslaughter, and there-
fore they found a verdict of not guilty against all the
defendants.

They were then again arraigne I on tho coroner's inqui-
sition, but no evidence being offered, a verdict of not
guilty was returned.

Mr. Baron Bramwell—lt would be just as well if some
steps were taken to bring these encounters to a termina-
tion before the parties were knocked about to the extent
that had been proved that day. If they did not do so
they might depend upon it they would be caught some
day.