The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-03 00:00:00

The pr"e-er was accommodated with a seat in
the dock, ii.ad 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 ease, were short and very plain.
It•appeareci that the husband of the prisoner was
an old man, and had been ill about four months
previous to the 22d of May last. The prisoner and
her 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 20iii of
May they were seen by a person named Ann Mat-
thews, a neighbour; deceased was in bed ill, and
the prisoner conversed with Matthews about some
washing, which she (Matthews) was in the habit of
doing for prisoner and her husband. 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
n
through the doorway. On the 22d of
aMndayseNelinrsg.
Matthews went again to prisoner's house, and found
thethe doordoor lkoecykeidos;idteh,mewaitntdhoewws‘tvoaok
s open,
it,
unlocked the
door, and went into the house. On going up stairs
she noticed the old man lying on the bed with his
throat cut ; he was not then dead ; he put up his
hands and died immediately after; she also saw that
the prisoner's throat was cut. Mrs. Matthews ran
out and gave the alarm, anda razor was found with
blood upon it.
A defence of insanity on the part of the prisoner
was set up.
His lordship summed up, and the jury, after flee
minutes' deliberation, returned a verdict of guilty,
Tecommendingllie-prieoner to mercy on account of
her great age, which was followed by murmurs from
several in court.
Sentence of death was passed iu the usual form.
The prisoner, who remained unmoved during the
whole trial, was removed from the dock.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-Aug. 2.

GUILDHALL.—" Dr." David Griffiths Jonep,
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 trial
on the charge of feloniously forging anti uttering a
certain document, purporting to be the last will and
testament of Mrs. Sophia Beilis, deceased.
Mr. Sergeant Ballantine, instructed (under the
direction of the Attorney-General) by Mr. Hum-
phreys, jun., of the firm of Humphreys, Son, and
Morgan, conducted the prosecution on behalf of the
Crown.

Mr. Martin, the chief elerk, read over the depo-
sitions of the witnesses ; after which
Mr. Fitch, 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
an opportunity of looking at my books and con-
ferring with my clerk. In recalling the circum-
stances respec'ing the paper writing (the first
will, which wos 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
came 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 the form 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
see 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
sue any harm in doin!: 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 I
told Dr. Jones that Mrs. Bellis had not left him all
her property, end that she had contemplating leav-
ing other legacies. 1 never mentioned to Mrs..
Bellis, in the four hours' interview I had with her,
that Dr. Jones had brought me a will already pre-
pared. (The witness was here cross-examinf:d
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-
euted it, and it had therefore never been adopted.
Mr. Sergeant Ballantine then called Mr. Hunter,
i
an attorney and commissioner for taking oaths n
Chancery, to prove that the prisoner was regularly
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c,ctor, on the
l'ecnwix;:aevrllillidcteletednork to Sir Cresswell Cresswell, and. c!.rier
the Court of Probate, proved that he andilrnsuciviisdteeirieetel
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which the perjury
c4itnihtlheatrholgoeaeftdchajagainst the prisoner is alleged. to have been
committed. The short-hand writer's note-3 of the
trial were then verified in due form.
Alderman Hale said he should corrtnait the pri-
soner for trial on both charges.
Mr. Lewis, jun., for the defence, said be 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 bar.

Joseph Whithead was charged with stealing a
ham, weighing about 181 b., from the sh op of Mr.
Richards, of Jewin-street, Aldersgate.
Mr. John Richards, a provision eitaler and dairy-
man, of 25, Jewin-street, said he did not see the
ham taken, but a gentleman brought the prisoner,
with the stolen property, into his shop, and the
prisoner said he had received it from a boy, who
had engaged him to carry it.
Sir John Musgrove said that story would not
impose upon him.
Mr. Riohards said he could swear to the' lam, for
it was safe in his shop three minutes befove it..
was
the
brought back, but the gentleman who deti!n_46
prisoner had been obliged to go to Gertmheal
:risoner
Sir J. Musgrove said it appeared
his last place,
had received a good character
from
benefit of the
the
and he therefore gave him
doubt.
The prisoner was then discharged.
bl -attired female, 'who
described w lo
Mary Frances, a fashiona
dYs was 1 '
described herself ass laun res , p ace,(l at the
Humphery, charged with
bar before Alderman
stealing a watch t alus £4 from the person of Wm.
Evans, a grocer, of Shoemaker-row, Doctors'-
commons.
prosecutor said he was
The prosec walking alang Lud-
gate-hill about 11 o'clock at night, 'when the
prisoner accosted him, and they walked. together
as far as Prujean-square, in the Old. Bailey,
when the prisoner suddenly snatched his watch
from his. waistcoat pocket and ran away ' Ho fol-
lowed and overtook her in Ludgate-street. and found
her. with his watch in her hand. An officer came
up shortly after, and took her into custoky.
Foulger, the detective officer, said th.e prisoner
had been three times convicted.
Alderman Humphery said it was evident the pri-
f.oner was an old hand, and he then committed her
for trial.

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