The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-02 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
HOME ClRCUlT.—Kingston, April 1.
CROWN SIDE.

Mr. Justice Mule was sufficiently recovered to-
day to be able to take his seat in this court.

Thomas say, 22 ; George Beden, 23; and William
Clark, 23, were indicted for the manslaughter of Eli
Wing.
Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Clerk prosecuted for the
Treasury ; Mr. Charnock defended Day and Clark ;
and Mr. Woollett was for the other prisoner.
This case occupied the court for several hours, but,
from the confused character of the evidence, it will
be much more intelligible to the public in the form of
a narrative than if the testimony of the witnesses
were to be given in detail.
It appeared that on the night of the 24th of Fe-
bruary the prisoners Beden and Clark had the charge
of a fcur-horse waggon belonging to a carrier at
Godalming named Holden, and that they were on
their way to London. A one-horse van under the
charge of Holden's son, was also in their company,
and it appeared that at Esher the prisoner Day, who
was driving a one-horse cart, joined them, and they
all proceeded on their way to London. As they were
on the road towards Kingston two men, named Car-
ter and Dyer, got into Day's cart, and another man,
named Bishop, got into the one driven by llol-
den, and after they had gone through Esher-gate
Holden gave Beden fourpence-halfpenny to pay the
Robin Hood-gate, which was the next towards Lon-
don. The whole of the vehicles stopped at the
Fighting Cocks public-house at Kingston, where the
prisoners and the other men had some beer and gin,
and they set off again on their way to London about
12 o'clock at night, and almost everything that oc-
curred after this was left to conjecture. The unfor-
tunate deceased, it appeared, was the toll-collector at
the Robin Hood-gate, and, according to the evidence
of a person who lived in a cottage close by, about the
time when the three vehicles would have arrived at
the gate, the noise of a violent altercation was heard
between the deceased and the parties upon the road,
who refused to pay the toll, and a good deal of bad
language was made use of, and shortly afterwards the
carts were heard to drive off. Very soon after this
had occurred a police-constable, who was on duty on
the Kingston-road, and going in a direction towards
the gate, met the waggon and the van coming along
towards him, and shortly after they had passed be
met a cart driven by the prisoner Day, going very
fast, and soon after it had gone on he observed,
upon going nearer to the toll-gate, the body
of the deceased lying in the road. He turned
him over, and he died al most immediately.
Upon an examination of the body it became quite
evident that death was occasioned by the deceased
having been run over, several ribs being broken, the
spinal column also severely injured, and the lungs la-
cerated, and almost instantaneous death must neces-
sarily have been the result of these injuries. Upon
seeing what occurred, the police promptly went in
pursuit of the prisoners, and succeeded in corning up
with them at Wandsworth, and they were taken into
custody. It appeared that some of the party were
asleep at the time, and they all professed entire igno-
rance of anything wrong having happened. When
the matter was subsequently inquired into before the
magistrate, however, it appeared that Day made a
statement to the effect that when he got to the turn-
pike•road at the Robin Howl, and pulled out his
money to pay, Beden, the driver of the waggon, called
out that he had paid for him, and he then said he
would not pay a second time. The toll-collector re.
fused to let him pass through, and a quarrel ensued,
and the deceased laid hold of the horse's head, and ho
plunged forward and threw him down, and the wheel
went over him. These were the principal points
produced in evidence against the prisoners, but there
was no direct testimony to show in what manner the
occurrence actually took place.
Mr. CHARNOCR, at the close of the case for the
prosecution, submitted that there was nothing to go
to the jury against Day ; but his Lordship having
ruled that the whole matter met be placed before
them, the Learned Counsel proceeded to address them
for both prisoners ; and he submitted that the case
was so confused, and there had been such a mass of
evidence produced, as rendered it utterly impossible
for the jury or any one else to unravel it or to see
how it effected the prisoners, and, under such cir-
cumstances, he called upon them not to jump at a
conclusion in so serious a case, but if they were not
satisfied that the charge had been duly brought home
to the prisoners, they would returnt a verdict of not
guilty.
Mr. WOOLLETT also addressed the jury for the
other prisoners, and he called their attention to the
fact that the only parties who could have thrown any
light upon the transaction had been, included in the
charge, and as they had been left in. this doubt and
difficulty, he submitted that they had no alternative
but to declare by their verdict that the offence had not
been proved against either of the a3cused persons.
Mr. Justice Mamas summed up, and
The jury, after a very short deliberation, returned
a verdict of Not Guilty.

MIDLAND ClRCUlT.—Witrwick, April 1.

The Right Hon. Lord Campbell, at ten o'clock
this morning, took his seat on the Civil Side, and the
Right Hon. Mr. Baron Parke at eleven, in the
Crown Court.

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The cause list comprised 14 entries, of which three
are marked for special juries.
The Crown business will be heavier than usual, the
calendar presenting the names of 135 prisoners, and
125 eases for trial, including 1 of manslaughter, 1 of
infanticide, 9 of stabbing, cutting, and wounding, and
2 of shooting at with intent, &c., 7 of burglary and
4 of housebreaking, 1 of robbery with violence and 1
of stealing from the person, 4 of felonious assaults
upon females, 2 of bestiality, 2 of conspiracy, 2 of
coining, &c., 2 of armed night poaching, l of bigamy,
1 of cruelty to a child, 1 of embezzlement, 1 of ob-
taining goods by false pretences, and several of felo-
niously receiving stolen property.

OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Monmouth, March 29.
The Judges sat to-day, after divine service, and
continued sitting till past eight o'clock. Mr. Keating,
Q.C., also assisted in trying prisoners. No case of
any particular interest arose before either Mr. Baron
Platt or Mr. Keating. The following case engaged the
attention of Mr. Justice Patteson from half-past one
o'clock till half-past six.
CROWN CO URT.—(Before Mr. Justice PATTESON.)

FORGERY BY WHOLESALE.
Henry New, aged 32, and marked in the calendar
as able to road and write imperfectly, a respectable-
looking sort of man, was indicted for uttering, on the
31st of March last, at Winchcombe, in Gloucester-
shire, to one Thomas Higgins Brydges, a forged
note for 101., purporting to be a note of the Bank of
England.
Mr. Whateley, Q C., and Mr. Rickards conducted
the prosecution, and Mr. Huddieston the defence.
It was proved that the prisoner went up to Mr.
Brydges at the Winchcombe fair on the aboremen-
tioned day, and was anxious to buy a horse which
that gentleman had to sell ; but he having known the
prisoner for a long time, and thinking him a very
unlikely person to buy a horse, was disinclined to
show off the merit-, of his animal. There was
another man with the prisoner, and the latter pre-
teaded it was for this person he wanted him.
Brydges would not sell at their offer, and rode back
to his inn, and was followed by the prisoner to the
stable door. The prisoner offered 6/. los. ; the prose •
cutor wanted 101., but at last said if the prisoner
would fetch the money, he would sell the horse
at 71. The prisoner affected not to have
the money, and said he would go to his
principal for it, and went away about 100
yards towards the fair for the pretended purpose of
getting it. The prosecutor watched him, and ob-
served that he went into the fair, stood for five mi-
nutes, spoke to no one, and then returned and pro-
duced a 101. note, out of which the prosecutor took
his change, and gave the prisoner his balance. The
latter then said that he had made nothing by the
transaction, as he bought for a friend, and asked the
prosecutor to treat him, and the latter did so to the
extent of a shilling for ale. They parted, and the
prisoner afterwards rode the horse in the fair. In a
few days the prosecutor discovered that the note was
a forgery, and obtained a warrant against the prisoner,
but he was not arrested till last January. In order to
show that he knew the note was a forgery, it was proved
that on the 23d of that same month of March he
passed off another note, for 51., to a Miss Bagshawe, a
draper and hosier, rat Stockport in Cheshire ; and
another 51. note on the 2fith of that month to a Mr.
Woolley, a chemist, in the same town. When the
officers went from Worcestershire to arrest him at
Birmingham they were dogged by a brother of his,
and as they came near the inn where they had learnt
he was staying, he came out dressed in a smock frock,
looked round, and began to run ; but they soon over-
took him, and under the smock frock they found a
complete suit of new black.
He was found Guilty, and a previous conviction for
felony at the Glucester sessions was proved against
him.

Mr. COOKE then said that be was instructed to
prosecute him for four distinct acts of uttering,
within a period of two hours, in the town of Mon-
mouth, four 51. notes, purporting to be notes of the
Old Abergavenny and Monmouth Bank.
His LORDSHIP said, under the circumstances, it
would be unnecessary to go on with these cases, and
therefore sentenced him to be transported for life.
It appeared that he had met with extraordinary
success in passing off the forgeries of the Old Bank
is this county. lie began in Abr•rgavenny, and cir-
culated several there. While the coach stopped to
• exchange horses at the little village of Ragland, he
contrived to exchange t‘.vo of them. He reached
Monmouth by that coach ,t two in the afternoon, and
before eight o'clock when he went off by the mail,
1 he had passed off upwards of sixteen of them at vari-
ous shops under pretence of buying some articlee,