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TTIV7 SUN, ONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 17, 1859.

was extensively fractured. Such a stick as the one
produced might have prodoced the injuries: They
could not have been caused by a fall. Any one of
them mighthavebeen so caused, but not all of them.
Death had been caused by those fractures.
Thomas Kitchen, a boy, 14 years of age, exa-
mined—l was on the footpath from Leeds to Round-
hay
on Saturday, between 5 and 6 o'clock. I passed
through the "ginnel." I saw two men. I went on
the path towards Roundhay. I saw an old man
further on, near a stile. He was getting up from
the ground. This was three fields from the ginnel,
in the ox pasture. He was covered with blood from
his head. He went towards Leeds. I and the boys
with me accompanied him. He turned back when
he got as far as Lupton 's-park, and we turned back
with him. John Holder came up: On our way back
we noticed blood on the ground and on the hedge
where the old man had got up. We afterwards met
-Wm. Barber. He. spoke to the old man who was

with us.
Cross-examined—lt was a fine warm afternoon-5
o'clock in August. There is a
arti cricket field
that
near
there. It is much frequented, pcularl yat
time in the afternoon. We were going to bathe.
Alfred Bell, examined—l joined the last witness
in Lupton's-park. I saw an old man in the middle
of the field, standing still and bleeding. I went with
him towards Roundhay. I saw a man in a blue smock
leaning over some rails about 50 yards off. I shouted
to him. He turned round and ran away towards
Mr. Smith's farm.
Cross-examined—lt was a blue striped smock.
The man could see Mr. Broughton, and when I
called to him to come to me he ran away. He was a
stoutish built man, with whiskers ; he appeared to
be a young man. He had dark trousers.
Rssexamined—He was at a junction of paths, at
a frequented place.
John Holder, milkman, examined—l met Barber
at Lupton's-park at half-past five. I met the boys
and Broughton, and helped him over the style. He
showed me 2s,
William Edward Barber, farmer at Roundhay,
examined—l knew Broughton. About 20 minutes
past five I met Broughton, Holder, and the boys.
Thomas D'afton, examined—l hall be 14 next
Houghton "feast." On one Saturday in August I
heard of a murder. I went that morning at six
o'clock to work at the colliery. I stayed till a
quarter to seven. Charles Normington and another
man came to the cabin at the colliery that day; they
came together ; I left them there. The other man
went away to where they had left their stuff, and
then came back. I noticed that the prisoner had a
stick. He said it would fell a chap on the way. I had
the stick in my hand two or three times. I should
know it v°nin. This is it (the stick produced by
English). He had it when he left the cabin.
Cross-examined—The other man had a stuff coat-
I knew the stick when I saw it at the Town-hall.
I was quite sure of it then. I was almost sure then.
I have now become quite sure of it., I don't know
what a hedgestake is. • Normington's stick was like
a piece of wood in a hedge.
William Joseph Topham, son of a pawnbroker
at Leeds,-and assistant in the shop, swore that Nor-
mington came to his father's about 6 o'clock and
asked for 10s. on a German silver watch. 'there
was a black riband and a key attached to it. It
was such a watch as that.
Charles Richard Ashland, assistant to Mr. Barras,
pawnbroker, proved having taken Broughton's
watch in pledge for 4s. on the night of the 6th. The
man who pledged the watch took away the ticket
produced by English. Smales came to redeem the
watch, and produced the ticket produced at the
trial by English.
James Barras confirmed his assistant's evidence,
and identified the watch and ticket, and also the
cheque-ticket or duplicate. When Smales pro-
d-aced the ticket which had been given to the
man who, pledged the watch, this witness
gave Smales into custody, and delivered the watch
and duplicate'to the chief constable of Leeds.
William Hoyland proved that on the 6th August
the prisoner, in company with another man, offered
him a pawn ticket for sale. On cross-examination
it was proved that his companion had on a blue-
striped 811-leek, trousers of fustian, light coloured
and apparently newly washed.
George Watkinson saw the prisoner with a pawn
ticket. He said it was fora watch he hadpledged.
Frank Magee, who was with the last witness
when the prisoner showed him the ticket, confirmed
his evidence; but on the duplicate being shown to
him he declared his belief that . that was not the
ticket which was that night in the possession of the
prisoner.
John Fawcett, a collier at Whitwood, proved that
he saw, the prieoner on " t'Monday after Vrainy
Sunday." The prisoner offered. a pawnticket for
sale. He afterwards engaged in the service of the
witness, who subsequently apprehended the pri-
soner in Sheffield.
Cross-examined—He had clogs on with wooden
soles, which laced up above the ankle. Bis own
stockings were up on the fender to dry, and I lent
him some of mine.
Betsy Fawcett, wife of last witness, said-7-Nor-
mington came to Dixon's, with whom I lived, on
Monday, the Bth, and from that time he lived there.
He said he had been to pledge a watch at Topham's,
or he had pledged it—l am not sure which. It was
done on the Saturday for 4s. He left on Thursday
morning, and before he went he said he had sold it
to James Smales. On Tuesday, the night he came,
he washed an old ,faded handkerchief. It was
marked with red in more places than one. He said his
nose had been bleeding, and it required washing.
Cross-examined—This is the first time I have
mentioned about his nose bleeding. It has come
into my head since I was before the magistrates.
Jane Dixon' of Whitwood, with whom the two
last witnesses lodged, swore to the blood stains on
the handkerchief, and to similar stains on his shirt,
which she boiled with soda and soap and water.
There were stains of blood on the stockings between
the clogs' top and trousers'" bottom. It was along
the wrinkles of the stockings. • '
Cross-examined by Mr. Foster—The stains on the
handkerchief were of a dark 'COlciiir, with casts of
red. This is the first time I have ever said it was
stained with blood. The shirt was hung openly in
the room where the two Fawcetts slept. It was
en a nail in the kitchen. • Eight people had access
to that room. The spots on the shirt were reddish.
This is the first time I have ever said they were
spots of blood. I found his stockings in his clogs,
and I put them back there. *I don't know whether
the blood on his_ stockings came from the foot inside
or not.
James `Norseman saw the prisoner while living
at Dixon's on the 9th of August. The prisoner
showed him a pawn, ticket, and told him it was for
a watch which had been " popped" on the Gth of
August.
James Smales proved that he saw the prisoner
at Whitwood on the 9th of August. The pri-
soner sold him a pawntickot for a watch, which he
said had cost 265. The witness afterwards took
the same ticket to Barras, pawnbroker, at Leeds,
and then was taken into custody.
• Patrick Byrne proved the finding of the stick
marked with blood and hair not far from the scene
of the outraee•
Robert Heaton, a watchmaker, identified the
watch produced as being Mr. Broughton's.
Stephen English, chief constable at Leeds, exa-
mined the ground, and saw the deceased before his
death. He afterwards arrested the prisoner at
6heffielcl, who said at that time that he had not
been at Leeds for four, months.
The prisoner's statement, which has already ap-
peared in The Sun, was here read.
Mr. Campbell Foster then addressed the jury for
the prisoner.
The learned Judge, in summing up, directed the
jury that if they were of opinion that two persons
were present at the attack on the deceased—and
two persons had been spoken te—if both were con-
cerned in that attack, and the evidence led them tp
that conclusion, then it was immaterial which was
the hand that did .it, and both were equally, guilty.
His lordship then with great care summed up the
evidence.
The jury retired to consider their verdict, and
after an absence of nearly half-an-hour returned
with a verdict of Guilty.
The Clerk of Arraigns called on the prisoner for
judgment.
The Crier of the Court made the usual formal
proclamation for silence during sentence of death:
The Judge arranged the black cap over his wig,
and as he did so a loud hysterical scream was heard
from the gallery. His lordship, then, with great
solemnity, said—Charles Normington, the jury have
found you guilty of a cruel murder, and a murder
perpetrated for the 'basest of all possible motives, the
mere lustof gain. The law of God and the law of
man eqnally.require that your life should be the
forfeit of your crime. It is an awful thing to think
that one so young as you should have been so
guiltyscr should now be called on to suffer such a
penalty; but if your untimely fate should warn
others from courses which may end in the same
misery, one good result will at any rate follow
from your suffering. It is not my duty, still less
is it my inclination, to aggravate by any words of
mine the misery and humiliation which you must
now feel, especially as I fecl that I can hold out no
hopes of ivicrey to you after the perpetration of a
crime so dreadful. Let me, therefore, earnestly
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be in the calendar. He has no signs of heard,
moustache, or whiskers ; he has light hair, with a
tendency to curl behind, a full and almost womanly
countenance. During the trial he remained very
quiet, his hands were folded before him on the
dock, and his chin rested almost immoveably on the
upper rail in front of him. The- evidence seemed
•to have no effect upon him, and yet his conduct did
not seam to be caused by obstinacy or stupidity.
There is certainly nothing about his appearance or
behaviour to suggest the idea that he would be at
all likely to commit any offence, much less of a
crime of so deep a dye. Once only during the
appeal to the jury by the learned counsel did he
manifest any symptom of, emotion, but he very
soon recovered himself, and paid the same quiet
and apparently half-in-,erested kind of attention
which he had shown diming the whole proceedings.
He broke awn at last, however, when the judge
was pronouncing the sentence of death, and was
led off weeping bitterl•.
This case concluded the business of the assizes..

OXFORD CIRCUIT.—GLOCESTER, DEC. 16.
(Before Mr. Baron Channell.)
Ann Fowler, 33, silk weaver, was charged with

the manslaughter of her child, Mary Ann Fowler,
on the 30th of January, 1854, at Thornbury.
It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner
was a married woman, who, in the beginning of the
year 1854, was living with her husband in a cottage
at the Cross Ways, is the parish of Thornbury.
She was now charged with causing the death of her
little girl, wbo was about two Years of age, by
omitting to give it necessary food, in consequence
of which the child died on the 30th of January,
1854, in the workhorse of the Thornbury Union.
The prisoner' and her husband absconded immedi-
ately on the death or the child, and she was not
taken into custody until Monday last, when she
was apprehended near Newport, in the county of
Monmouth. The evidence now given showed that
the prisoner's husband was an able-bodied man,
but it did not appear whether he was in work, or
that he had supplied the prisoner with necessaries
for the use of herself and child. From the evidence
of a next door neighbour, a Mrs. Thorne,' it appeared
that in the early par; of January, 1854, she saw
I the child, who was about two years old, in a very
poorly and weak stave. The prisoner nursed the
child, and continued doing so until its death, but it
continued wasting away. Mrs. Thorne, finding
that the prisoner had no broth to give the child, on
one occasion gave her a pound of " lazarus,"
which was explained to mean a bit of pork bone,
but the prisoner neglected to make any broth,
and excused herself by saying she had no sauce-
pan. krs. Thorne also from time to time gave the
child milk and arrowroot,of which it would take a
little. A Mrs. Ball also gave the prisoner some
milk, but she said the child would nqt take it. The
prisoner and her husband used to quarrel, and on
one occasion the child was seen with a black eye,
and some of the skin scarred off the head, but this
was caused by the husband. The prisoner, however,
used to leave the childalone in the cottage for several
hours, and on those occasions it was sometimes left
in bed, or tied on a chair b?.fore the fire. At length,
on the 21st of January, the relieving officer of the
union and the medical officer went to the cottage,
and finding the child in a wretched state, lying on
some rags placed for a bed upon two chairs, the
child and mother were taken to the union. The
child was there nursed twice in the day by another
pauper, and also twice at night, but though it
seemed to improve for a short time, it died in a few
days. On a post mortent examination it appeared
that the various vital organs were small, and nearly
empty and colourless, and as there was no appear-
ance of disease, the medical men attributed the
death to want ("food. The child after death weighed
only between 91b. and 1011%, instead of from 201 b.
to 251 b, the ordinary weight of a healthy child of

the sane age.
Mr. Baron Channell summed up the evidence,
and told the jury that if they believed the child
died of starvation they must then consider whether
the prisoner had the means of providing it with the
necessary food. If she had the means, and the child
died from her neglect, she would be guilty ; but if
she had not the means she ought to be acquitted.

Thejury found the prisoner not guilty.
James Frebroy, 27, labourer, was charged with
cutting and wounding Emma Mabbett, with intent
to murder her, and in smother count with intent to
do her grievous bodily harm, on the 29th October,
1856, at Almondsbury.
Mr. Cripps appeared for the prosecution. The
prisoner was undefended.
_ It appeared that the prisoner had lived for about
18 months in the houseof a Mrs. Mabbett, a widow
living at Almondsbury. In the same house the
prosecutrix, Emma Mabbett, also lived, she being
the widow of Mrs. Mabeett's son,- William Mab-
bett, who had died several years ago. It would
seem that the prisoner hid formed an improper con-
nection with her, but at Michaelmas last the
mother obliged him to leave the house. The pri--
Sdner became jealous in cmsequence of the prose-.
cutrix having formed an acquaintance with a man
named Mitchell, and threatened that her court-
ship should not last a fortnight. On the 29th of
October last he went to her house, in the absence
of her mother, and rushed in by forcing off the bolt
of the door. He immediately took hold of the pro-
secutrix, and asked her to go upstairs. She asked,
" What for ?" and 'he then took off his boots and
forced her upstairs into her room. He pulled her
about for a,ininute or two,und then said, " Turn
round, there is a flea on your neck." She then saw
that he had a razer in his hand, and struggled with
him to save herself; hilt received several cuts on her
neck and face. Tie-prisoner then left her, and the
prosecutrix crawled, to the window and gave an
alarm, which brought some persons to her assistance,
and she was taken to the infirmary. The surgeon
stated that he fourd four severe cuts on her throat,
near the windpipe, and one on the forehead. The
wounds were of a dangerous character, but not so
dangerous as those found on the prisoner, who was
discovered in an upper room at the house of the pro-
secutrix with his throat cut and apparently in a
dying state. He Elso was taken to the infirmary
at Bristol, and had recovered, but still appeared in
a languid state. 'When before the magistrates the
prisoner made a statement to the effect that he had
lived with the prisecutrix for several years till
about two months previously, when she picked up
another man, " which," the prisoner said, " drove
me beyond myself."
Mr. Baron Channell summed up the evidence..to
the jury, and left it to them to say with which of
the iutents charged in the indictment the prisoner
inflicted the wounds.
The jury found the prisoner " Guilty ". of wound- '
ing with intent to murder. .
Mr. Baron Channell ordered sentence of death to
be recorded, at the same time intimating that the
sentence would not be carried into execution, but
it would remain with her Majesty's advisers to
decide as to the prisoner's fate.
Peter Burston, 41; labourer, was charged with
the manslaughter of Jane Jones, on the 13th of
September, 1859, at Bristol.
It appeared that on the evening of the 23d of
July last the prisoner went to a public-house at
Bristol named_ the Black Horse, where his wife
was drinking, and had become intoxicated. The
prisoner wanted his wife to go home, but the de-
ceased interposed to prevent it, and said she would
show him how she would serve him if he was her
husband. The deceased was ironing at the time,
and held up the iron to his face, which so irritated
the prisoner that he snatched up an iron from
before the fire, and with it struck her a blow, on
the left side. Another witness rather varied the
story by saying that the prisoner was pulling Mrs.
Jones's things about, and that she told him to leave
off, end held up the fiat-iron towards the prisoner's
face, but without touching him, and that he then
took up the iron and struck her. The woman when
struck,, cried out, " Oh! Peter, you've killed me,"
and fell down on a chair. The blow caused a bruise
on the side, and the deceased was afterwards taken
to the infirmary, where she remained some time.
She was then brought home, and appeared to be
getting better ; but in a few days she lost her
speech and died. The evidence of the surgeon
showed that when the deceased was first taken to
the infirmary she had no bruise on her side, but she
was suffering from pleurisy and inflammation of
the lungs. At the end of August she left the in-
firmary, at her own request, but against the wishes
of the surgeons, who thought it not safe. On a
post-mortem examination the Bth and 9th ribs
.were found to be broken, and at the fracture there
was a small abscess. There was also a large deposit
of pus on the surface of the brain and at its base,
which the surgeon thought had been absorbed from
the abscess at the fracture.
The prisoner, in his defence, said the deceased
struck him with the iron.
The jury found the prisoner guilty, with a strong
recommendation to mercy.
• Mr. Baron Channell said that, independently of
disposedthercc recommendation epnldssata lenientioriof t the e
sentence,ju ry, heshould
eh e have
prisoner
had received considerable provocation, and neNe
intended to do any serious injury.
then sentenced him to one week's
imprisonment.
t felt
l
.
His Lordship

•
COLLISION IN HARWICH HARBOUR.—On Wed-
nesday a collision took place in Harwich harbour between
the schooner Rover of Goole, and the smack Dili
rom the
gence of
Harwich, the latter sinking in a few minutes f
effects of the injuries she ha I sustained. A man named
Bowen, one of the smack's crew, was drowned.
• [AnvEnTisnmr.] --WT. Benson, Ludgate-hill, has just
yr
publfshed a new illustrated pamphlet on watches (free by
post for two stamps). It should be read by all who are
about buying a watch, as it contains prices andbuyi
information as to—What watch to buy it !
and how to we it • - •
•

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Dec. 16.

MANSION-HOUSE—Edwin Boucher, described
as a clerk, of 35, Brewer-street, Pimlico, was
brought up on remand, charged with stealing two
casks of carpenters' tools, value £5l, belonoing.tO
Messrs. Heiniaarsh and Co.,- merchants, 17, Law-
rence

There had teen two previous exam:nations, in
which it was deposed that the prisoner went to the
pre! vises of the prosecutor during his absence, pre-
tending to have an appointment with him, and
that ; immediately afterwards it was discovered that
the two casks of tools had been removed. Subse-
que qtly it was-ascertained that tho goods bad been
paw lied by the prisoner for £22, in the name of
Hai n.mond, and the prosecutor, meeting him in
Che apside, gave hitn into custody.
The pawnbroker now produced a sample of the
tools pledged with him, and also handed in a notice
whicl had been served upon him by the solicitors of
Mess: es. Sorby and Son, of Sheffield, manufacturers,
that the goods were their. property, and requiring
him :to deliver thorn. only to them or their order.
Mr. Atkinson, the prosecutor, was examined and
said.— -I bought the goods of Messrs. Sorby on credit
for six months, according to the invoice produced,
or 21 discount for cash. After the delivery of the
gooc's they wrote me, and in consequence of that I
sent them a bill for £5O at four months. In the
letter enclosing the bill I told them that the goods
had been stolen, and that one of the thieves was in,
custody. ThQ bill was au accommodation bill. It
was drawn by a Mr. De Witt. of 14, Roll's-build-
ings,lFetter-lane, and was payable at Messrs. Sharpe
and aiding's, bankers, Clement's-lane. The prisoner
was present when Mr. De Witt gave me his accep-
tance. He had introduced me to Mr. De Witt, whom
I had. seen only once before the time when he gave
me his acceptance. The prisoner never had any
business transactions with me, and I only knew him
through meeting him at a luncheon house. I paid
him no commission for getting me Mr. de Witt's ac-
ceptance, and he had no interest at all in the £5O
bill. I bought the stamp myself. I gave Mr. De
Witt no consideration for the acceptance. I had no
intention of using it at the time, and should not have
used it at all if Messrs. Sorby had not written to
me as they did, I suppose - because some one had
sent them a letter saying there was something
wrong in the affair. I had the acceptance in my pocket
three weeks before I used it. I had it, I believe, be-

fore the, goods were delivered. Mr. De Witt gave me
the bill in blank. I filled it up for £5O, because the
stamp carried that amount. The bill is dated 6th
December, and the goods were stolen on the 17th
November. As I have said, the prisoner introduced
me to Mr. De Witt.
The Lord Mayor—Who is Mr. De Witt ?

Prosecutor—He is a man who gets hiv living by
accepting bills. I believe the bankers allow him
to make use of their banks for that purpose.
The Lord Mayor—Do you mean to say that
Messrs. Sharpe and Olding allow any man to use
their names in this way ?
Mr. Goodman, chief clerk—Oh, it is quite impos-
sible.

Prosecutor—However that may be, I know a
gentleman who had one of his acceptances, and who
went to the bank on purpose to inquire about it.
The LoiZd Mayor—Then is he a man of such copious
means that he gives his acceptance in blank to gen-
tlemen he has seen only once before, and allows them
to fill up at discretion ?
Prosecutor—lt was so in my case.
The Lord Mayor—And you gave him no conside-
ration—paid him nothing ? •
Prosecutor—Nothing at all.
The Lord Mayor—Well, really, it was very gene-
rous of him.
Mr. Hope (the prisoner's solicitor)—Your name is
Atkinson, you say, and your firm is that of Hein-
marsh and Co ?
Prosecutor—Yes.
Mr. Hope—Well, who is the Co. ?
Prosecutor—Why, you see me here.
Mr. Hope—Then you are Heinmarsh and the

" Co." too
Prosecutor—Yes, I am both.
Mr. Hope—Then there is no Mr. Heinmarsh ?
Prosecutor—Yes there is, but he is in Germany.
Mr. Hope—How long is it since you saw him ?
Prosecutor—About four months.
Some witnesses were then called, who proved that
a man named Gleed had been connected with the

prisoner in removing and pawing the goods ;' and
Mr. Hope contended that there was no ground at
all for. detaining the prisoner longer in custody,
after the prosecutor's admissions about the bill.
An officer handed in a certificate of the prisoner's
previons conviction and imprisonment for 12 months,
for obtaining money by false pretences.
The Lord Mayor said it was his impression that
there had been collusion to obtain the goods among
the three, the prisoner, Gleed, and the prosecutor,
and that upon such eyidence no jury would convict,
but as it was possible that something more might
be proved, he should r gain remand the prisoner.
Remanded accordingly.

BOW-STREET.—Anne Smith, a woman of the
town, was charged with robbing Mr. Edmund Wal-
lack of gold, in a house of ill-fame in George-
street, St.Giles's.

Mr. Wallack, who described himself as a " ren-
tier," and fornierly a dramatic artist, staying tem-
porarily at an hotel in London, but permanently
residing in Paris, deposed that at about 7 o'clock
that morning he went to a brothel with the prisoner,
whom he had met at a public-house. They remained
there in bed for several hours. At 1 o'clock he
counted his money in her presence. He had then
18 sovereigns, two half-sovereigns, and some silver.
At half-past 2, having been asleep in the interval,
he missed his money, and also a pair of red flannel
drawers. The landlady and her daughter being
called in, searched the room, and also searched the
prisoner, on whom-they found his cigar-case and
uotc-book, but no money.
Mary Toole, the landlady's daughter, proved that
the prisoner could not have left the room as the
door was locked on the outside, and the key was
in possession of the servant. There was.a folding-
door communicating with another room, but that
door was also locked, and the key was down stairs.
- The prosecutor observed that the prisoner, deny-
ing all knowledge of the money, said that she had
taken the case and note-book to pay herself, as his
money wits gone. It had been suggested that she
might have swallowed the money.
Mr. Hall said that was absurd. Could she have
swallowed the drawers ? (A laugh.) It was im-
possible that she could have committed the robbery
by herself. More probably some person had entered
the room while she and the prosecutor were both
fast asleep. However, he would send the case be-
fore a jury if Mr. Wallack wishe4l. it.
Mr. Wallack thought it was -too much open to
doubt.
The prisoner was discharged.

SOUTHWARK.—GROSS OUTRAGE ON A YOUNG
WOMAN BY A CABMAN IN HIS CAL—John Pettitt,
cab-driver, badge No. 13,737, 'of 5, South-mews,
Manchester-square, and Charles William Taylor,
coachman, of 18, Guildford-street, Berkeley•square,
were brought before Mr. Combo, for final examina-
tion. charged, the former with criminally assaulting
Louisa Davies in his cab, and the latter with aiding
and abetting him in the commission of the offence.
The - prisoners were first brought before Mr.
Combo on Saturday, the 3d instant, but being un-
able to attend through the injuries the prosecutrix
had received from Pettitts violence, they were
remanded. Yesterday, however, she was able to
attend, when- ,
Mr. Sheen, the solicitor and secretary of the
Associate Institute for the Protection of Young
Women, was present to prosecute ; and Mr. Her-
ring defended the prisoners.
It appeared from the evidence of Broderick, 43 M,
that about a quarter past three on the morning of
Saturday, the 3d inst., he was on duty in Amelia-
street, Bermondsey, when he saw a cab drive past
him, and the prisoner, Taylor, who was on the box,
asked him if that was Amelia-street. Witness told
him that it was, when the other man put his head
out of the window and called to drive further. They
then left the- street and -turned down Maze-pond.
A few minutes afterwards he saw them drive into
Thomas•street, from which there was no outlet,
when the cab stopped and Pettitt got out. Witness
went up to him and then he began looking on the
ground. He asked him what he was looking for,
when he replied, " Per a shilling I have dropped."
Witness opened his lamp and examined the ground
all abbot, but no shilling could be found, and he
told him so. Pettitt then jumped into the cab
again, and they drove off towards Guy's Hospital.
Witness, suspecting that something was wrong,
followed the vehicle seine distance off his beat,
and then he perceived the head of a female pro-
truding from one of the -windows. He 'imme-
diately ran up to the cab and looked at Taylor
and told him he had no badge on, and asked
him where it was. Ile made no observation, but
pointed inside, when he saw Pettitt and the
prosecutrix, the latter lying down insensible.
He also perceived that Pettitt had a •badge on. He
ordered the latter out, and then he saw that the fe-
male's dress was much disordered. He 'questioned
Pettitt about her, when he told witness that she had
attempted to drown herself, and he was taking her
home to Amelia-street, Bermondsey. Witness told
him that could not be true, as he had seen him a
few minuted before in that street, and that he had
followed the cab. Witness then took them all to
the station-house, and as soon as the female re-
covered she made the following Statement :—She
said that she lived in the service of an Indian gen-
tleman at Hammersmith, and had the previous
evening been a visit to her tnother's, in Amelia-

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street,`Bermondsey, which place she left at half-_
past ten to proceed home; that she went to Lon-
don-hridge, and finding the Hammersmith omnibus
gone, got into a Paddington 1) ne, thinking of find-
ing the former at the Bank, but when she got there
and alighted, the last Hammersmith omnibus had
left, and that seeing the prisoner Pettitt there with
his cab, she hailed him, and told him to drive to
Hammersmith, as she was anxious to get home.
She got inside the vehicle, and Pettitt drove her
some distance and stopped,:when he got inside and
engaged another man to drive them. They drove
about in all directions, and Pettitt indecently as-
saulted her until she became insensibleAThe pro-
secutrix was perfectly sober at the time, and ap-
peared in great distress. Witness took her home
to her mother's, where she has since remained, and
the prisoners were locked up.
Mr. Herring said that he had no wish to put any
question to witness, as he had no doubt related the
story told by the prosecutrix in her confusion, but
he should be able to show that nearly the whole of
it.was false. The prosecutrix was no stranger to
men, and on the very night in question she ac-
comppnied a gentleman down Chancery-lane long
beforb she got into the prisoner Pettitt's cab.
He understood that her mother saw her into
one of the Citizen omnibuses on Friday night, a
little after ten o'clock, and told the conductor
to put her 'down at the Bank, as she wanted
to go to Hammersmith, recommending her to
return to Amelia-street . if the Hammersmith
omnibus was gone. What did the prosecutrix do ?
Not act like a virtuous girl, as he should show. The
omnibus she went in went to Paddington, and when
it got to the Bank the conductor told her so, and
that she had better get out, according to her
mother's directions. She would not get out, but
went as far as Holborn, where she alighted with a
gentleman and walked arm in arm with him down
Chancery-lane. He (Mr. Herring) had the con-
ductor here to prove these facts, and other witnesses,
which would show that very little reliance could be
placed on the prosecutrix's statement.
Mr. Combe—You can't deny the fact of her being
in the prisoner Pettitt's cab and the other man
driving them.
Mr. Herring said he could not, but that was a
considerable time after she had been walking
about Holborn and Chancery-lane with gentlemen.
When she got into Pettitt's cab she told him to
drive to Amelia-street, Bermondsey, which he had
considerable trouble in finding, and then he did not
know the number.

Mr.' Combo—What have you to say about his
employing another man to drive and then getting
inside an indecently assaulting her. Pettitt
pleaded guilty to that on the first examination.
Mr. Herring could not deny that,'but no injury
had been done. He called

The conductor of the Paddington omnibus, who
proved that she got into the omnibus, and instead
of getting out at the Bank, she alighted with a
gentleman at Holborn.
The girl also admitted that.
A consultation then took place between Mr. Sheen
and Mr. Herring, when the former informed his
worship that since the last examination he had
fully inquired- into the case, and ascertained that
some of the facts related by Mr. Herring were true.
No actual rape had been committed, and the medical
gentleman who examined her was in attendance if
his worship wished him to be called.
Mr. Combe said that after what he had heard and
carefully inquired into, there was no reason to call
him.

Mr. Herring observed that before his worship
gave judgment he wished to say a few words in
Pettitt's behalf. Hitherto he had borne an irre-
prcachable character, and he hoped that would be
taken into consideration, He had no right to get
inside the cab with that unfortunate female, but he
says he did not assault her.

Mr. Combc—.He pleaded guilty to indecently as
saulting her.

Mr. Herring said that Pettitt says that he was
desired by a gentleman to take care of her, and to
convey her either to Hammersmith or to her
mother's. In her state he preferred the latter, and
got into the cab with her.

- Mr. Combe—You must not persuade me to that.
I have inquired into the case and will, if you like,
hear all the witnesses ; but I don't think such a
course very edifying to the public morals.
Mr. Herring did not wish such a course to take
place. He would leave the matter in his worship's
hands.

Mr. Shaen also thought that, under the circum-
stances, such would be the better course.
Mr. Combe said that as far as Pettitt was con-
cerned, his was a very bad case, and had it been
otherwise, on the part of the girl's conduct, he
should most certainly have sent him for trial. His
conduct as a cab driver was very bad. He had a
young woman for a fare, and instead of driving her
as he ought, he engages another man, called a
" Buck," to drive, and ;hen he got inside and drove
about with her, according to his own account, more
than two hours. When brought before him in the
first instance he pleaded guilty of indecently as-
saulting her. It was not desirable that any fur-
ther evidence should be gone into, as it would not
improve the morals of the public. He, however,
could not pass this case over as an ordinary assault,
but would deal with it under the Aggravated As-
saults Act, by sentencing him to three' months'
hard labour in the House of Correction. With re-
gard to the other prisoner Taylor, he is what they
call a " Buck," and must have known what the
other man got into the cab for with the female. 11 F
Mr. Herring assured his worsnip that Taylor was
not a " Buck,' but a respectable coachman. Unfor-
tunately he knew-the other, and they met, when he
was asked to drive.
Mr. Combe said that made him a " Buck" in
every sense of cab phraseology. He had neither
licence nor badge, and was liable to be summoned by
the police for that. Under all the circumstances in
his case he should order him to enter into his recog-
nisonces for his good behaviour for six months,
and he hoped it would be a warning to him for the
future.

WOOLWICH.—WiIIiam Thompson, a seaman,
was placed at the bar before Mr. Traill on a charge
of refusing to serve on board the sloop Forest Fairy.
after duly signing articles, and receiving an ad-
vance note.

John Ould, captain of the vessel, stated on Sa-
turday last he went to the Sailors' Home, in Wells-
street, St. George's East, and agreed with the pri-
soner, who signed articles for the voyage to St.
Michael's. On arriving at Erith the prisoner had
some dispute with the mate, and he refused to per-
form his duty, or proceed with the ship. The voy-
age was consequently delayed, and witness was
compelled to return to London, and obtain a substi-
tute for the prisoner.
Traill—Will you ship the prisoner again if
he consents to perform his duties ?
The Captain—No ; as he endeavoured to persuade
the other hands to be as obstinate as himself..

The prisoner now stated that he was afraid to
proceed with the vessel, as the mate had threatened
to take his life, but this statement was denied by
other witnesses.
Mr; Traill committed him for 21 days' imprison-
ment.

GREEN WIC 11.--EXTRAORDINARY APPLICA-
TION TO A AIAGISTRATE.—Mr. Rogers, one of the
officers for the parish of Shadwell, applied to Mr.
Traill for assistance under the following circum-
stances :
Mr. Rogers stated that three weeks ago a man
named Welsh was taken suddenly ill at Rother-
hithe, and was removed to Shadwell, where he im-
mediately afterwards died. Having no relatives, a
body of the deceased's fellow-workmen, excavators,
sub,3cribed a sum of 30s. among themselves for his
funeral, which sum was paid over to Mr. Albion,
an undertaker residing at Neptune-street, Rother-
hithe, who was engaged to superintend the in-
terment. The coffin was supplied by Mr.
Albion, and the register of the death ob-
tained by him, but after this he had refused to
proceed and carry out his duties as undertaker.
The remains of the deceased were then kept in a
house inhabited by a large number of persons, for a
fortnight, when it became so offensive that, for the
health of the inmates, it was removed to the dead-
house of Shadwell Church, where it was then lying,
awaiting interment. He (Mr. Rogers) had since
called upon Mr. Albion repeatedly, either to bury
the deceased, or allow the parish to do so, by deli-
vering the registrar's certificate of death, but had
been put off from time to time, and as the death had
taken place now three weeks, it was necessary the
body should be removed from the deadhouse and
immediately buried.

Mr. Train, on referring to the act of Parliament,
said the law only empowered a magistrate to inter-
fere in cases where the registrar refused to give the
requisite certificate as to death. Here the registrar,
it appeared, had given the certificate, but, under
the circumstances, he (nr. Rogers) had better ap-
ply to the registrar to give a second certificate.
Mr. Rogers said he had applied to the registrar,
who had declined to give a second certificate.
Mr. Traill remarked that it was an act of great
obstinacy, both on the part of The undertaker and
the registrar; and the applicant could inform the
registrar that he was bound to give the parish the
certificate. 7 '.•

Mr. Rogers thanked his worship for the, advice
gives, and left the court.

ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN
.RAILWAY.—An accident occurred on the above line lent
:night, about half-past nine, near the Wolverton station. It
,appears that a passenger train ran into a goods train, but
whether any lives have been lost has not yet been ascer-
tained.