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The assizes for this county were held_ idaya S
THE MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT HOLY-
WELL.

Sarah Edwards, 77, was charged with the witi'ul
murder of her husband, Thomas Edwards, aged 80,
at Holywell, on the 224 of May last.
Mr. Swetenbam and Mr. Vaughan Williams pro-
secuted; Mr. Morgan Lloyd defended the prisoner.
The prisoner was accommodated with a seat in
the dock, and the cool and collected manner in which
she demeaned herself during the proceedings was.
most remarkable. When asked to plead she said in
a firm voice, " Not Guilty." The court throughout
the hearing of the case was inconveniently crowded.
The facts of the else were short and very plain.
.It appeared that the husband of the prisoner was
an old man, and had been ill about four months
previous to the 22i of May last. The prisoner end
tier husband had always been on good terms; they
,had had no quarrels, but, on the contrary, so far:as
was known, had lived comfortably together. Lat-
terly they became in indigent circumstances, and
received relief from the parish. On the 20th of
May they were seen by a person named Ann Mat-
thews, a rteighbour ; deceased was in bed ill, and
the prisoner conversed with Matthews about sonig
washing, which she
(Matthews) was in the habit. of
doing for prisoner and her heshsnd. On the fol-
lowing day Mrs. Matthews went to the house but
was not admitted, the prisoner saying her husband
and herself wished to be
,quiet, speaking to her
through the doorway. On the 22d of May Mrs.
Matthews went again to prisoner's house, and found
the door locked ; the window was open, and seeing
the door kev inside, Matthews took it, unlocked the
door, and went into the house. On going upstairs
she noticed the old man lying on the bed with his
throat cut; he, was not then dead; he pet up his,
hands and died immediately after; she also saw that
the prisoner's throat was cut. Mrs. Matthews ran
oat and gave the alarm, and a razor was found with
blood upon it.
A defence of insanity on the part of the prisoner
was eet up. .

His lordship summed up, and thejtify,'after five
minutes' deliberation, returned a verdict of guilty,
recommending the prisoner to mercy on account of
her great age, which 'was followed by murmurs from
several in court.

Sentence of death was passed in the'usual form.
The prisoner, who remained unmoved during the
whole trial, was removed from the dock.

GUILDHALL.--" Dr." David Griffiths 3ones,
described as a surgeon, of 43. Woburn-place, was
brought up in the custody of Detective Sergeant
Webb, according to the arrangement at. the last
hearing, to be formally committed to take his trig
on the charge of feloniously forging and uttering.%
certain document, purporting to be the last will and
testament of Mrs. Sophia Beals, deceased.
Mr. Sergeant Ballantine, instructed (uncler the
direction of the Attorney-General) by Mr. Hum-
nhreys, jun., of the firm of Humphreys, Son, and
Morgan, conducted the prosecution on behalf of the

Mr. Martin, the chief clerk, read over the depo-
sitions of the witnesses; after which
Mr. Mitch, the solicitor who made the will for
Mrs. Bellis, said, in explanation of his former evi-
dence—Since my deposition was taken I have had
stn opportunity of looking at my books and Con-
ferring with my clerk. In recalling the circum-
stances respec ir;g the paper writing (the first
will, which was unexecuted, leaving Dr. Jones
the whole of her (Mrs. Bellis's) property, to my
memory, I now state that on the afternoon of Tues-
day, the 12th of February, I find that Dr. Jones
claw to my office in a hurry and said an old lady,
a friend of his, was dying, and not having a relation
in the world, she wished to leave him all she had.
He showed me a paper writing in theform of a will
bequeathing the whole of the property to himself,
and asked me if that would be sufficient. He wished
me to put it into shape for him. I told him that it
would be better that a disinterested person should
make the will from instructions taken from the tes-
tatrix herself. He said Mrs. Bellis objected to see a
solicitor, but he would take me to her on the follow-
ing day. He asked me to get the paper writing
copied in the meantime. I made some alterations
in the form, and gave it to my clerk to copy, and
told him to deliver it to Dr. Jones, and I did not
a.-:e that copy until it was produced in this court. I
did not even know it was in existence. The copy-
ing of the will is entered in my clerk's work book.
Cross-examined—lt is not usual to draw out wills
without first seeing the party devising; but know-
ing Dr. Jones I did so in this instance. I did not.
see any harm in doin;J: so for a gentleman like Dr.
Jones, who had a house in Woburn-place and kept
his carriage. After I had drawn the second will 1
told Dr. Jones that Mrs. Bellis had not left him all
her property, and that she had contemplating leav-
ing other legacies. 1 never mentioned to Mrs.
Dellis. in the four hours' interview I had with her,
that Dr. Jones had lirought me a will' already pre-
pared. (The witness was here cross-examined
very strictly with regard to the necessity of
taking the instructions of Mrs. Bellis if he be-
lieved that the first will contained the genuine
wishes of the testatrix.) I did not doubt the first
will; but I thought it better to draw up another
from Mrs. Bellis's instructions. That was the pro-
per way. If I had read the first will and obtained
her acknowledgment of it, that would have been a
good will. Mrs. Bellis did not tell me she had
directed Jones to draw up her will for her, leaving
all her property to him, and it never occurred to me
to mention that such a will had been prepared. I
did. not see that will at Fitzroy-square. I first
heard of the second will being executed from Dr.
Jones on the morning after Mrs. Bellis died. The
first will was mere waste paper, as she had not exe-
cuted it, and it had therefore never been adopted.
Mr. Sergeant Baliantine then called Mr. Hunter,
an attorney and commissioner for taking oaths in
Chancery, to prove that the prisoner was regularly
sworn to an affidavit which had already been put
in evidence, in reference to the proving of the alleged
executed will ; after which Mr. Billing, the prin-
cipal clerk to Sir Cresswell Cresswell, and crier in
the Court of Probate, proved that he administered
the oath to the prisoner before giving his evidence
in the cause of Jones v. the Queen's Proctor, on the
4th of July last, the day on 'which the perjury
charg?d against the priscner is alleged to have been
committed. The short-hand writer's notes of the
trial were then verified in due form.
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Aldermanortri a
I Hale
bleostah chidhaergsheso.uld commit the pri-
soner Mr. Lewis, jun., for the defence, said he trusted
the court would accept bail for the prisoner.
Alderman Hale said certainly not.
Mr. Lewis said he made the application as a
matter of form, preliminary to applying to a judge
at chambers.

The prisoner was then removed from the Far.
Joseph Whithead was charged with stealing a
ham, weighing about 181 b., from the shop of Mr.
Richards, of Jewin-street, Aldersgate.
Mr. John Richards, a provision dealer and dal-1P
men, of 25, Jewin-street, said. he did not see 'the
ham taken, but a gentleman brought the prisaziej,
with the stolen property, into "his shop, and :the
prisoner said he had received it from a 11°Y, v"4 is°
had engaged him to carry it.
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The prosecutor said he was walking along Lud-
gti.te-hi
asllabout 11 o'clock at night, whrm the
prisoner accosted him, and they walked together
as far
Old Bailey,
when the p irs tear' -sEugdudaernely isnn thet
c h
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from his waistcoat pocket and ran away. He fol-
lowed and overtook her in Ludgate-street, iLnd found
her with his watch in her hand. An officer came
pp shortly after, and took her into custody.
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timesu phe r
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convicted.
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was evid art the pri-
soner was an old hand, and he then committed her
for trial.

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