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London, England, 1859-12-10 00:00:00

JF.ATIE:ZSITN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVEIIIIIO,__DtaIVMER 10, 1559.

jury should be themselves satisfied before they could
convict the boy of the offence with which ho wa%
charged.
Mr. Justice Wightman having summed up,
The jury, after a deliberation of about half an
hour, found a verdict of Not Guilty.

DEC. 9. 1 -
OUTRAGE UPON A FEMALE NEAR HALIFAX.

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at first threatened violence towards police, but'aven-
tually accompanied:his wife and the policemen .on
his way homewards for a distance of 400 yards,.ob-
serving,.as the policemen left them,. that. it was a
good job they had met with them, for he did not
know what would have become of them. It was
shown that a person named Maughan, . living
some 200 yards further down this• road, while
in bed, heard noises, "as he imagined at first,
of persons in fun," and afterwards " as of a woman
in distress," but he was entirely unable to fix even
the time when he went to bed. Near to this cot-
tage next morning were found the shawl of the de-
ceased and marks as of persons having fallen in the
road. Nothing further was proVed with respect to
what had taken place in the course of the night,
but between five and six in the morning a man
named John Nixon heard cries of a man souting
`.! Murder" and " Oh, dear, help me." This con-
tinued for about 20 minutes, upon which he pro-
ceeded to the spot whence the cries proceeded. He
met on his way there a man named Heslop, who
accompanied him. They found the deceased lying
on the side of the road in the arms of the prisoner.
He called to them for assistance, and requested
them to get a cart and a doctor for his " poor dear
wife." It did not appear whether at this time the
wife was dead. A cart was procured, and life being
at this time extinct, the body was removed to an
adjoining farm. It appeared on cross-examination
that this road was in a state of very bad repair ;
the witness Nixon said, " You might bury yourself
in the ruts." It was also shown that close to where
the prisoner and the deceased were last found a
large stone lay upon the road. The only other ma-
terial evidence in the case was that of Mr.' Stain-
thorpe and Mr. Stokoe, two surgeons, who made a
post mortem examination'of the body. They agreed
that death had been caused by an effusion of blood
from a rupture of the spleen ; they also agreed that
such rupture must have been caused by violence.
Mr. Stainthorps thought it possible that the de-
ceased might have lived four or five hours after
such a rupture was caused. Mr. Stokoe gave it as
his decided opinion that if the rupture had been
caused by the violence deposed to antecedent to the
appearance of the police, it would have been physi-
cally impossible that deceased could have walked
to where she was found by Nixon and Heslop.
Mr. Davison, for the defence, contended that the
rupture of the spleen could not have been caused
by any violence of the prisoner deposed to, and sug-
gested that the state of the road was such that a
woman in the state of intoxication deceased
was shown to have been in might well have
received the injuries from a fall or other accident
subsequent to the time the policemen left them.
The learned Judge, in summing up, told the jury
that he thought the case did not amount to wilful
murder ; but if they believed the rupture of the
spleen had been caused by any act of violence of
the prisoner's, they must find him guilty of man-
: slaughter.
• The jury, after some consideration, returned a
verdict of guilty of manslaughter, and the prisoner
was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment.
This concluded the business of the assizes, and
I the learned Judge immediately proceeded to Dar-
ham, where, having opened the commission and
charged the Grand Jury, ho attended Divine ser-
f vice in the cathedral.

The calendar is very light, centaining only eleven
cases.

most-filthy illustrations; that this abominable book
had been carried home by her brother, and that she
herself carried it to the warehouse and showed it to
the women with whom she worked. There was no
-witness to the assault but this girl, and in the name
of justice it was to be hoped that the Court would
not upon such unlikely and unsupported testimony
commit for trial, and meanwhile deprive of his
liberty, a respectable young man who was married
and the father of a family. His employers, utterly'
disbelieving the charge, had come forward to sup-
port him, not more probably from the thorough
acquaintance with his complete respectability than
from a knowledge of the character and habits of
the women whom they were compelled to employ.
The learned gentleman then called attention to:some
discrepancies in the evidence, and more especially
to the statement of Mrs; Dawson, who worked in
the warehouse, that the girl's mother had told her
to apply to the prisoner for money to settle it, and
that it was not until after the prisoner had refused
to give a single shilling that the mother gave him
into custody—a statement which on the previous
examination the mother had denied.

The Lord Mayor expressed a desire to hear the
witnesses further upon this point ; and
Mrs. Dawson being again examined said that as

they were leaving the court on the last occasion Mrs.
Percival admitted that she had authorised her to
apply to the prisoner', for money, but that she had
forgotten it before, and meant to admit it next time
(yesterday).
Elizabeth Sewell, another witness, corroborated

this statement.
Mr. Robinson then said he should refrain from
all cross-examination, as it was impossible to make
the case in favour of the prisoner stronger than it
then stood. At the same time, he tendered to the
bench a copy of the book, which he said had just
arrived from Wych-street ; but by opening the
leaves of which no one would defile his fingers, the
Lord Mayor contenting himself with the inquiry
whether that was the identical book.

The Lord Mayor and Mr. Alderman Abbiss then
withdrew to a private room, and upon their re-ap-
pearance in court, after an absence of about half an

hour,
His Lordship said that he and his brother alder-
man, after full consideration of the evidence, had
arrived at the conclusion that it was amply suffi-
cient to justify them in committing the prisoner
for trial. The prisoner, however, might be admitted
to bail, himself in £lOO and two sureties in £5O
each.

Bail was given immediately.
Henry Shorey and Nathaniel Dettmar, journey-
men butchers, were brought up on remand charged
with stealing a horse and oart and eight quarters
of beef, of the value together of £lOO, the property
of Messrs. AVarmington and Morris, of Leadenhall-
market.
The prosecutors had a slaughterhouse and stables
in Gui-yard, Bishopsgate, where, on the evening of
the 30th ult., the horse and cart and beef were left