The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-20 00:00:00

Mr. Williams said the sentence on the commitment
was hard labour.

Mr. BROBERIP-I did not include hard labour in
the sentence; I never mentioned the words.
Mr. Leadley assured the magistrate that he in-
cluded hard labour in his sentence of imprisonment.
Mr. BRODiRIP-It is no such thing; my sentence
was seven weeks' imprisonment, without hard labour.
Mr. 'Williams said he was present when sentence
was passed, and said nothing was said about hard
labour. He was never more surprised in his life than
when he saw the words " to be kept to hard labour"
on the commitment at the prison, and he understood
his client was set to work on the treadmill. The sen-
tence of the Court was simply imprisonment for seven
weeks in the House of Correction.
Mr. BaonEau-----Then the commitment is wrong.
Mr. Leadley said he inserted on the minutes the
sentence actually pronounced by the magistrate, and
the form of conviction was drawn up by himself and
Mr. Symons, the chief clerk, according to the decision.
Mr. BRODERIP—My sentence was without hard
labour.

Mr. Williams—lt was, Sir; I heard you pro
nounee it.

Mr. Leadley was positive the sentence included
hard labour, and after some conversation with Mr.
Broderip in an under tone, retired with him to the
magistrate's private room, and no more was said on
the subject except by Mr. Williams, who positively
asserted the form of conviction was wrong. In the
afternoon the prisoner was brought up before the
magistrate, and having perfected the requisite sureties
was set at liberty.

lIMONJIALL.
A respectable-looking elderly female, named Caro-
line Powell, was placed at the bar, charged with
attempting to cut her husband's throat with a table-
knife.

Complainant, a diminutive sort of a personage,
informed the magistrate he was living on a private
income, at 14, Bowling-green-lane, Kennington. The
prisoner had been married to him fourteen years, and
within these last four months had been in the habit
of coming home at various hours of the night in a
state of intoxicate n, and not only breaking everything
she could lay her Wnds on, but threatening his and
the children's lives. On the previous night she came
home in a state of intoxication, and began to abuse
him. She also said she was determined to have his
life that night ; at the same time she pulled a table-
knife from under her shawl, and made an attempt to
cut his throat. In warding off the knife he received
a cut across his right hand. He then succeeded in
reaching the door, when he called police; fortunately
a constable was passing at the time, or she would
have murdered him.

Police-constable 82 L stated that he found the pri-
soner very much excited. She was flourishing a knife,
and exclaimed that she would cut her husband's throat
and murder his children. He took the knife from
her and conveyed her to the station-house.
In answer to the charge the prisoner said that her
husband received upwards of 1,0001. from her when
they were married, which he said he intended to em-
bark in his own business, that of a watchmaker; in-
stead of which he had done nothing but spend her
money in keeping his children in affluence. His
family turned her out about two years ago, because she
would not give them any more money. She had
been so cruelly treated by them that she certainly did
threaten to murder them.
Mr. COTTINGIIAM asked the husband whether it
was true that he had received that money from her ?
—He replied that he had, but she might live comrort-
able at home if she pleased.
Mr. COTTINGHAM said that very likely some portion
of her story was true ; he should, therefore, order her
to find bail for her future good conduct for twelve
months.

Julia Murphy, a cook in the service of . a lady named
Bonner, in Canterbury-place, Lambeth, was charged
with robbing her mistress of a gold chain, satin dress,
and several other articles.

From the complainant's statement it appeared that
the prisoner had been in her service for some time, and
that on Monday she left without giving any notice of
her intention. The same afternoon it was discovered
that a chest of drawers had been forced open, out of
which a gold neck-chain, a satin dress, and other arti-
cles were stolen. Suspicion having been excited
against the prisoner, she was traced to a lodging house
in the New-cut, , and had just entered the house from
the theatre, dressed out in splendid style, and on being
questioned as to the cause of her leaving her situation
so abruptly, she gave an evasive answer. None of the
stolen property was found, which is supposed to be
pawned; and with a view of discovery, she was remanded

CORONERS' INQUESTS.
MATRIMONIAL DISAPPOINTMENT.—On Tuesday
evening, Mr. W. Payne held an inquest at St. Bar-
tholomew's Hospital on the body of Diana Hunt,
aged 21, a domestic servant. Mrs. Harriet Holiday,
of 28, King-street, Cheapside, boarding-housekeeper,
said deceased hal been her servant for about a fort-
night. About half-past five o'clock on Saturday even-
ing, deceased brought in the tea-things, and in five
minutes after she took away the tea-pot to fill it.
Not bringing it back, witness rang for her, but she
did not answer the summons. After some delay,
witness went in search of her, and at length found
her up stairs lying on her bed apparently asleep. A
mug, containing a white sediment, excited witness's
suspicions, and Mr. Edwards, a surgeon, was called in,
who used the stomach-pump, after which deceased
was removed to that hospital. Three sealed letters
were found, announcing her determination to destroy
herself. The following is the most important of them,
addressed to Charles Morse, 24, Park-street, Baker-
street, New-road :—" Dear Charles,—l send these
few lines to you, hoping they will find you in good
health, as this leaves me very unhappy. You know
you have deceived me ; and I have borne it as long as
I could, but I cannot bear it any longer. I wish you
all the joy this wicked world can afford you. I have
not thought thee false ; indeed, I have no doubt of
thee. My only hope of future joy ! where is thy
constancy ? Farewell, dear Charles, for ever !
I pray to God to forgive my guilty soul. One
last farewell before I depart from this wicked
world.—Your's, truly, Diana Hunt." A sister of the
deceased said the bans of marriage had been published
about Christmas last, between her and Morse, a cab-
man, but the marriage did not take place, chiefly on
account of his poverty. It was deferred from
time to time from the same reason, and, in conse-
quence, the deceased's mind was very much affected.
She did not think that Morse had taken any advan-
tage of the deceased. Mr. Hurlock, resident medical
officer of the hospital, said the deceased was brought
in in a dying state on Saturday evening, and died
in• four hours after admission. Had examined. the
stomach, and found appearances to warrant him saving
that life was destroyed by arsenic. Verdict—" Tem-
porary insanity," the jury saying that the evidence
did not justify any censure of the conduct of the
young man Morse.
SINGULAR CASE.—On Wednesday afternoon, Mr.
T. Wakley, M.P.,- Coroner, held an inquest at the
sign of the Duke of Wellington, South-street, Sloane-
square, Chelsea, on the body of George Bailey, aged
thirty-four years, whose death, it was alleged, had
been caused by his having eaten a biscuit supposed to
be poisoned, which he had picked up in the street.
It appeared from the evidence that the deceased re-
sided at No. 17, Seymour-street, Sloane-square, and
was employed at a gas-work. On Monday last de-
' ceased came home about the mi Idle of the day, and
complained of being very poorly, and said he had
been taken so immediately after eating a biscuit he
had picked up in the street. He was shortly after-
wards seized with great pain in the chest, which
he described like a dart running through him, and
afterwards like tearing the flesh away from his
chest, and notwithstanding medical assistance was pro-
cured, he continued in great agony until about five
o'clock on Tuesday morning, s hen he died. Mr.
Ward deposed that he was surgeon to the Chelsea,
Brompton, and Belgrave .Dispensary. On Monday
afternoon he attended the deceased, whom he had pre-
viously known, and was told that the cause of his ill-
ness was his having eaten a biscuit he had found in
the street. Saw him a second time about ten o'clock
that night, when he complained of suffering agony in
his chest, and he died about five o'clock the next
morning. Witness had since made a post mortem exa-
mination of the body, and found a quantity of serus
fluid in the cavity of the pericardium. Found other
appearances sufficient to account for death. had
examined the stomach, and could find no trace what-
ever of poison. Verdict—" Died from natural causes."
Deceased has left a widow very near her confinement,
with five small children, and one has just been buried.
On Wednesday' Mr. Higgs held an inquest at the
Hog-in7.the-Pound, Oxford-street, on the body of
Maria Levey, aged twenty-three, and on that of her
newly-born female infant. Mr. P. Clarke, surgeon,
of No. 9, Marylebone-lane, said that at eight o'clock
on Monday morning last, he was suddenly called to
Mr. Manicom's residence, No. 46, South Molton-
street. On the half-landing between the first and
second floors lie found the dead body of the deceased
woman lying, and she had evidently just delivered
herself of the child that lay dead close by her. The
woman, no doubt, had been making an effort to get
higher up stairs, when she fell and died instantly. She
had been dead about a quarter of an hour before he
saw her. There was a large quantity of blood on the
stairs, but not sufficient to account for death. On

removing the body, and examining the infant, he
found the string of an apron twisted twice tightly
around its neck, and which was evidently the cause of
death. The apron was attached, and the string was
entangled or held in the woman's hand. He had
opened both bodies since death, and found all the

viscera of the mother healthy, no traces of poison in
the stomach, but found the vessels on the surface of
the brain distended with black, venous blood, and the
ventricles filled with .% ater, which had caused serous
apoplexy, to which he believed deceased had a ten-
dency. The child was unquestionably born alive, for
the lungs were filled with atmospheric air, and
floated buoyantly 41 water. The child died from ,