The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-03 00:00:00

A statement made by the prisoner, when under ex-
amination before the magistrates, was then put in.
It was to the same effect as that made by him before
the coroner.
Mr. Charles Lane deposed that he was surgeon to
the Ewell district of the Epsom Union, and he was
called upon to examine the deceased child on the 17th
of August. It was a very fine male child, and the
body appeared to be in a healthy condition. On the
front of the neck he observed a small scratch, near
the lower part of the right side, and there was also a
small dark line on the back of the neck, and likewise
a slight bruise and discoloration. Upon removing
the skin of the neck he found that there was a wound
underneath, corresponding with the external mark.
This wound had penetrated into the substance of the
neck, and had passed upwards into the large vessels,
and it was about an inch and a half in depth. In
witness's opinion the wound must have. been made
with a curve-shaped instrument. (Some awls, found
in the loft, were here produced, and shown to the
witness.) He had no doubt that an awl of the de-
scription just shown to. him would have made the
wound he had described. One of the awls appeared
to have blood upon it, and another appeared to have a
stain of rust. He was decidedly of opinion that
either of these awls could have produced the wound,
and in the absence of all other perceivable cause, he
could only attribute the death of the child to that
wound. There were no other appearances upon the
bcdy of the child to account fur its death.
Cross-examined—He discovered the wound upon
the neck immediately be examined the body. There
was a very small quantity of blood upon the awl. He
had no doubt of its being blood. He had examined it
with a microscope, and had also tried experiments, the
result of which left no doubt that the matter upon the
awl was blood.
Re-examined—The mucous membrane would heal
sooner than the skin. The aperture was not percep-
tible externally, and he did not discover it until he
had raised the skin. The track of the wound ter-
minated abruptly beneath the mucous membrane.
The effect of such an injury would be to occasion
bleeding from the nose and mouth, and also a choking
sound in the throat from the blood settling there ; and
the sounds deposed to by the first witness would be
such as would be likely to be produced by an injury
of this kind.

By the_ JUDGE—There were no appearances of un
healthiness in the child.

This was the case for the prosecution.
Mr. CLERK then addressed the jury for the pri-
soner. The principal points he relied upon were that
the case rested entirely upon the evidence of the
woman Tarrant and the prisoner's son, and he con-
tended Oat, under the circumstances in which they
were placed, the jury ought not to give effect to such
testimony. With regard to the woman, he said she
had herself been charged with being concerned in the
murder, and it was not until after the grand jury had
ignored the bill against her that she was thought of
as a witness ; and with respect to the boy, he sub-
mitted that his evidence was of a most improbable
character ; and he asked the jury to bear in mind that
the woman Tarrant had declared that he was not in
the room at the time the •occurrence was represented
to have taken place.
One witness was called on behalf of the prisoner,
who gave him a very good character.
Mr. Justice MAULE then summed up the case to the
jury, who retired, and after being in deliberation
about half an hour, they returned into court with a
verdict of Guilty.
His LORDSHIP having put on the black cap, passed
sentence of death upon the prisoner in the usual form,
at the same time informing him that he could not
hold out the slightest hope of any commutation of the
sentence.
The trial occupied nearly ten hours.