The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-08 00:00:00

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hands, see how clean they are." One of the neighbours
e coming in, met the mother carrying the child and took
it from her, laying it down .on the kitchen table, when it
gave two sighs and died. The child being found to be
wounded in the neck, search was made for the weapon,
and on the dresser, within a yard and a half of the
head of the cradle, a carving-knife lay ; so that it
could have been reached, the blow struck, and the knife
returned to its place, without the party striking the blow
removing from the cradle. When the prisoner's hands
were examined they were fonnd to be clean, but the front
of her pinafore was stained with blood. The account
given by the prisoner herself, after being duly cautioned,
was, that her mistress having gone upstairs, she (Jarvis)
had gone down the yard to the petty, and while there
heard a scream from the baby. As she was coming up
the yard to ascertain what was the matter, she met a tall
man without either shoes or stockings, but did not think
she should know the man again if she saw him.
Mr. Overton, the surgeon, said he was called in, and
found a child lying in the lap of a female in the kitchen.
Examined it, and found it dead. There was a wound on
the left side of the neck, and in his judgment that wound
had caused death. It was a stab, and had passed
obliquely. Examined the cradle, and found blood in it.
Also saw a knife with its point covered with blood in a
fluid state. The wound in question was one that might
have been produced by the knife. Iqueh blobd would
not have escaped ; it would, from the nature of the
wound, lose itself in the cavity of the chest.
The prisoner was not known to have been unkind to
the child. •

The defence was that the prisoner had not committed
the deed, but that it might be inferred the man without
shoes and stockings (lid. Such a man was seen about
the premises, and was traced some distance of the turn-
pike-road.
The JUDGE having summed up,
The jury retired to consider their verdict. Being un-
able to agree, they remained in deliberation until ten
the following morning, when they were discharged, and
the prisoner sent back to prison, where she wilt remain
until the next assizes.

George Skelsey was charged on the Coroner's inquisi-
tion with the wilful murder of Henry Chuley, on Satur-
day, April 27, at Lowe, in the county of Warwick.
Mr. Mellor and Mr. Macauley were for the prose-
cution; and Mr. Humfrey and Mr. Hayes for the defence.
It appeared in evidence that the deceased owed the
prisoner a sovereign, and that the parties having met on
the above day, prisoner asked deceased for the payment
of the money, and at the same moment knocked the de-
ceased down, and with the most brutal violence kicked
him; that upon prisoner being expostulated with for his
brutality, he swore he would serve any man who inter-
fered with him the same; that upon deceased getting up,
and, as well as he could making his way towards his
home, Skelsey said he would go after him and do for
him. Upon which he ran after deceased and again
knocked him down, and again kicked him with increased
violence and left him in a most deplorable condition ;
that after a lapse of some considerable time deceased got
up, and with the utmost difficulty reached his house,
where, in the space of a few moments, he expired. Be-
fore deceased reached his home prisoner got there and in-
quired for him, and upon finding he had not got home
told his sister that he had done for him, or something to
that effect, and that he would do for her. Prisoner did
not, however, carry his threat into effect, and went away,
and was shortly after apprehended.
Verdict—Guilty of Manslaughter.
Sentence—Transportation for fourteen years.

NORTH WALES ClRCUlT.—Chester Aug. 6.
(Before Mr. Baron ROLFE.)
Joseph Woods, aged 43, was charged with having as-
saulted and robbed Samuel Cortishley, on the highway,.
at Werneth.
The Attorney-General and Mr. Beaver were for the
prosecution, and Mr. Egerton for the prisoner.
The prosecutor is a coal-dealer, residing in Werneth,
and was in the habit of going round the village every
Saturday, for the purpose of collecting sums of money
from parties to whom he had given credit during the
week. On Saturday evening, the 18th of May, he was
returning home from his usual round, when he sat down
by the road-side, about half-a-mile from his own house,
to rest, being troubled with an asthma. While at this
spot the prisoner came up, knocked him down, and beat
him severely, and robbed him of Ils. He then bade him
to make the best of his way home, or he would kill kite.
The prisoner being known to the prosecutor, he was ap-
prehended the same night at his own house. When told
the charge, he admitted having beat the prosecutor, but
denied the robbery.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty, but recommended
him to mercy on account of the good character he had
received.
The Learned .Judge sentenced him to be imprisoned
and kept to hard labour for the space of fifteen months.
Peter Damn, aged 24, was charged with an assault on
Samuel Wiltshaw, at Stockport, and with stealing 7s. 6d.
from his person.
It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner per-
suaded the prosecutor, an aged man, to accompany hint
to a house, which, on his reaching, he discovered to be
a house of ill fame, and was about to leave it imme-
diately ; but the prisoner knocked him down, and with
'he assistance of another person succeeded in robbing him.
The prisoner was found Guilty, and sentenced to two
years' imprisonment and hard labour. • •
John Jackson, twenty-six, was charged with 'stealing
from the person of John Swindalls, at Stockport, a watch,
his property.
It appeared from the evidence, that on the 9th of
April last the prosecutor and the prisoner were together
at several public-houies in Stockport until a late hour.
At length, about four o'clock in the morning, both sat
down on the door-steps of the Swan's Head Inn, where
the prosecutor fell asleep. Shortly afterwards, on being
awoke by a police-officer, he found the prisoner had
gone, and his watch was missing. A few days after-
wards, the prisoner gave the watch to a friend of his
to pledge.
Ile was convicted; and two previous convictions being
proved against him, the Learned Judge sentenced him to
be transported for ten years.
The Grand Jury have this day ignored the'bill pre-
ferred against the Rev. Mr. Creswell, of Stockport, who
was charged with an unnatural crime.

OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Shrewsbury, Aug 6.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Chief Justice TINDAL.)
REMARKABLE CASE.

On Monday, Susannah Wynne, aged thirty-four, de-
scribed in the calendar as a person who could read, or
read and write imperfectly, wjis indicted for having, on
the 12th of July last, feloniously stolen, at the parish of
St. Chad, in the borough of Shrewsbury, one brass can-
dlestick, the property of John Bryan.
Mr. Corbet conducted the cased for the prosecution.
The prisoner had not the assistance of counsel.
The facts of the case had nothing in them which would
have called for particular notice, had it not been for the
remarkable astuteness exhibited by the prisoner—a
woman with a swarthy and rather repulsive countenance,
to which, however, a keen and bright dark eye occa-
sionally imparted much animation. It appeared that on
Friday, the 12th of Jul}, the prisoner came to the Mer-
maid public-house, in this town, and asked for a glass of
rum. This particular " vanity" having been supplied
the lady tossed off the liquor with the air of a person
who was used to such things, and then requested per-
mission to take a seat in the kitchen until her little boy
came, as she expected him to bring her some money,
with which she should be enabled to discharge the debt
which she had just contracted. The permission was
granted, and the money was afterwards paid, but the
prisoner still lingered in the kitchen of the Mermaid,
and the maid servant of the establishment, who had
served her with the rum, retired up stairs. At the time
when she went up stairs, about a quarter to five in the after-
soon, there were two brass candlesticks in the kitchen
and at five in the afternoon tho prisoner offered for sale
to a Mrs. Lee, who keeps a broker's shop in Princes-
street, a very short distance from the Mermaid, a single
brass candlestick, which Mrs. Lee bought for a shilling.
With the shilling thus obtained, the prisoner 'went to the
Golden Cross, and ordered and paid for a quart of ale,
and eventually finished the day by getting so drunk that
she was taken into the custody of the police, and locked
up. While she was in durance, the prosecutor discovered
that one of the two candlesticks which had been in the
kitchen of the Mermaid, while the prisoner was there,
had disappeared, and inquiries having been set on foot,
the prisoner was charged with the theft. The candle-
stick in question was one of a very common shape, and
the prosecutor's only reason for believing it to be his
property was, that it matched the one that was left be-
hind.
The prisoner cross-examined most of the witnesses at
great length, but at tke same time with a tact and per-
tinence which evinced an intimate acquaintance, how-
ever gained, with the mode in which a defence is usually
conducted. Some'of the witnesses she bullied, desiring
them not to "keep the gentlemen waiting,but to answer
her questions at once, as she was tired of the case," and
insisting on their repeating the ninth commandment ;
others, whose testimony she hoped would be more favour-
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timony was immaterial, she dismissed' with ; triumphant
toss of the head, toll them she had "no question,
and
informed them that they might " stand down." When
the case for the prosecution was closed, she was told
that she might say anything which she pleased in her
defence, and, accordingly, advancing to that part of the
dock nearest to the jury, she addressed them as nearly
as possible in the following terms:—
" Gentlemen of the Jury—There is no individual wbo
can be in a more awkward position than a prisoner at
the bar—without friends to assist her, without counsel
to plead for her, miles from, home, and left to the mercy
of witnessess whose consciences are as elastic as a pair
of spring guns. Observe, Gentlemen, how contradic-
tory are the statements made by the servant girl and the
owner of the candlestick. She says she did not miss it
till the Saturday afternoon. The owner comes forward
and swears that he missed it two hours after I had left
the place—a wide difference here, Gentlemen. Might
not some one else have come in and taken it away ?
We have many instances of men being obliged to leare
their wives and children, and being sent to foreign
islands, upon evidence like that given by these witnesses,
when years afterwards the real perpetrator of the crime
has been brought to suffer the last punishment of the
law. What is that done by but by false swearing and
false evidence that such persons were there, and such
property was afterwards gone ? No one, Gentlemen,
can describe the feelings of one who stands at the bar
arraigned, tearing open afresh the wounds which have
already bled for their misfortunes. It is not before •
respectable community like this that I 'doubt justice)
being given to me, but if the examination (before the
magistrates, when she was committed) had been eon,
ducted properly, I should not hare been. brought here.
The expert hand of a ready writer, the clerk of the
Court, took care that there should be no flaw in the in-
dictment against me. I am miles away from home;

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