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the night in question. Found deceased on the floor with.. his
head in his wife's lap. Applied various remediv In die hope
of restoring him, but without effect. He lived- about an
hour. Saw the prisoner that night; his face was covered
with blood.

Mrs. Plowright, on being recalled, said while her husband
was on the floor her father said, " Get out of the way and
let me kick his brains out."

Mr. Simpson, a surgeon, of Stamford, attended the de-
ceased a fortnight before his death, when he was said to be
in a fit. Witness considered it arose from drinking. He was
kicking and biting. Witness slapped him sharply in the
face, and he soon recovered. On the night of the 25th he
was called in, when he found Plowright dead. Made a poat
mart= examination. Considered-his death arose from a rup-
ture of the lungs.
Several persons, members of the county police and other-
wise, gave the prisoner a good character for being an honest,
sober, and industrious man.

He was found Guilty, and sentenced to twelve months' im-
prisonment.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—York, July 17.
CROWN SlDE.—(Before Mr. Justice CnEsswEr.t.)
Young Ward was put to the bar, to take his trial upon an
indictment found at the summer assizes for 1843 against
him, a woman named Greenough, and three other men, for a
burglary in the house of one John Atkinson, at Hunslett, in
the parish of Hunslett, on the night of the llth of April,
1843, and stealing therein sundry articles of apparel, two
silver table-spoons, six silver tea-spoons, one silver caddy-
spoon, a pair of silver sugar-tongs, and other articles, the pro-
perty of the prosecutor.

Mr. Hall, Mr. J. H. Hill, and Mr. Monteith, conducted the
prosecution. The prisoner was not defended by counsel.
It appeared from the evidence of the prosecutor and his
wde, that on the evening of the 1 ith of April they made up
the house quite safe, and retired to rest about ten o'clock.
About midnight they were awoke by some noise, and on
rising to discover the cause, they found that the house had
been entered, and the articles named in the indictment,
stolen. Butterfield, Lindley, and the womten Greenough,
were shortly after taken. The two former were tried and
convicted at the summer assizes for 1843, Greenough being
emitted to give testimony against them. The present pri-
soner escaped for the time. The woman Greenough was not
now forthcoming, and some difficulty, was experienced on.
the part of the prosecution in connecting the prisoner with
the other three. It was proved, however, that the prisoner
was with Greenough and the other men, at Wakefield. on the
12th of April, the day after the burglary—that the woman
stated in his presence that ha was her second husband,
and that they passed • the night together as rn
and wife. The witnesses did not know her peraen,,
ally, but having been at the trial of the other
men at York last summer, they swore that the woman who
then gave testimony under the name of Greenough was the
same woman, and that the prisoner was tlie same man. It
was further shown that on the 18th of April, only six days
after the burglary, the prisoner sold the six tea-spoons and the
caddy-spoon to a working man for 15s. The man borrowed
of him (witness) half-a-crown, which he paid down, and he
was to come for the remaining 12s. Gd. the next week. In
the meantime they were challenged.
The prisoner, in his defence, said that he Gould wall his
mother and sister to show that he was at home at ten o'cloek
on the night of the robbery. At his desire she was put into
the witness-box, but said she knew nothing about its and
could not tell when he came home. The sister was not walled:
The prosecutor, it appeared, was his uncle. .
The Learned JUDGE summed up the case, and the jury,
after a short consultation, returned a verdict of Guilty.
A previous conviction for felony was then proved against
him.—Sentence deferred.

NORFOLK CIRCUIT.—Huntingdon, July 17.
The business of this county began to-day at one o'clock)
being two causes in the Nisi Prius Court, and five ptisoners
in the Crown Court.

CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Mr. Justice WILLIAms.)
GOODLEY V. JACKSON.
Mr. Prendergast and Mr. O'Malley were counsel for the
plaintiff; Mr. Sergeant Byles and Mr. Gunning appeared for
the defendant.
This was an action in which the plaintiff, who is a poor
labouring man, living in Ramsey Fen, sought to recover
damages from the defendant, a large farmer, residjng in
Middlemore Fen, in the same parish, such sum as the jury
might think he was entitled to for his conduct towards the
plaintiff's daughter, per quod servitium accusit.'
As might be expected, the details of this case were not of a
character to be made public. It may suffice, therefore, to say,
that the chief witness for the plaintiff gave a plain and
straightforward account of herself, her conduct, and her sc.
quaintance with the defendant, and entirely denied all othdr
imputations on her character, which was assailed in various
quarters.

On the part of the defendant, it was contended that she
was not to be believed on her oath, and several men, both
married and unmarried, were put into the box to swear to
their own disgrace and that of the plaintiff's daughter.
Mr. PRENDERGAST having replied with great force on this
evidence, which he characterised as base and unmanly,
The jury, after a quarter of an hour's deliberation, returned
a verdict for the plaintiff with 201. damages.
The other cause was referred.

CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron AmEnsox.)
ARSON.—Samuel Baxter, a respectable little boy, aged ten
years, and not unlike the celebrated General Torn Thumb,
having pleaded guilty to a charge of firing four straw
stacks, the property of Robert Daintree, of Hemiagford Ab-
bots, on the 11th of May,
Mr. WELLS, on the part of the prosecutor, begged to re-
commend the youthful incendiary to mercy. His father was
hill farming bailiff, and had filled that position for eight
years with the greatest credit. The prisoner himself was
always considered a very deserving boy, and every one was
surprised at his having confessed to the perpetration of this
crime.
His LORDSHIP then called before him the prosecutor and
the father of the prisoner, neither of whom could in any way
account for the transaction.
The boy himself when asked to assign any reason fer hip
conduct, professed his inability to do so, denying that he had
ever been incited to the deed by any one, or that he had any
motive. The prosecutor, however, said that he had told hint
that his reason for doing so was a wish to live in the village,
and that he thought the house would be burned as well as
the stacks, in which case he and his family must all have
gone into the village. To accomplish this wish it would
appear that he had thrust a lighted stick into min of the.
stacks.

Mr. Damtree earnestly begged for mercy on the box whom
he said he had known from his extrema youth as well us his
father.

Mr. Baron ALDERsos—Weil, I do not know what to de
with him, but I shall not pass sentence on him just now.
The boy was then removed, crying bitterly, as won as lois.
poor father, but having been shortly replaced on a chair he
the dock,
His LORDSHIP thus addressed him—Samuel Baxter, vow
case has given me great pain and difficulty indeed, .but I
cannot exercise any discretion as ajudge. It is for the Ctrowii
to do that. We must make the same example for boys as
we would for men who commit such an offence as that to.
which you have pleaded guilty. What circumstances there
may be in your favour which her most gracious Majesty the
Queen may see, I know uot, but her advisers may see some
such which may induce them to recommend the display of
mercy towards you. I can only say that you shall have the
benefit of my most favourable recommendation to mercy. At
present I cart exercise none, but must pronounce the -sentence
of the law, whit* is, that you be transported for fifteen years,
and I hope that other boys will take notice of it.