The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-14 00:00:00

Mr. Child was sure that his client, who had never
had a complaint against him, would not now do so
for the sake of having a minute to spare, and he
would appeal to the good sense of the worthy magis-
trate, whether it was not absurd to think that he
would so offend.

Mr. TYRWIIITT intimated that it was unlikely in-
dad, and di:ilnimsr the information.

MARLI3OIWIIGH-STI?EL T.

Samuel Spratley, chemist and druggist, a very
genteelly •lressed young man, was charged with
having indecently assaulted Mary Williams, a little
nagged beggar gir!, Hyde-park.
_ _

'The gitrsiaidshe was nearly eight years old. She
was on the Serpentine about dusk on Friday even-
ing, when the prisoner told her to follow him and
be would give her some bread. She followed him
until she came to some trees, where there was a
seat. The prisoner took her on his knee
and said he would give her a penny. He searched his
pockets; not having a penny, he gave her a pair of
kid gloves, and thin attempted to take liberties. She
struggled and screamed, and some persons Who had
been apparently watching them came up, and she
attempted to run away, but was brought back again,
and then she related what had taken place.
A police-constable produced a pair of kid gloves,
which the girl gave into his hands, stating she had
received them from the prisoner.
The prisoner said the whole charge was a mistake•
The girl came up to him and begged for some relief•
He told her to go away, but she would not, and she
followed him into Hyde-park, when finding she per-
sisted on being troublesome, he pushed her away, and
this had b-en construed into an attempt to take in-
decent liberties.

Mr. llAanwicK was satisfied that the charge was
proved. It was impossible to overlook such scandalous
conduct in a place of public resort, and he should,
therefore, inflict a penalty of 51., or two months' im-
prisonment.
LAMBETH.

Two members c f the " swell mob" were brought
into court, on a charge of receiving vast quantities of
property, the produce of various robl- Ties at Leeds.
The prisoners, whose names are Thomas Key and
William Green, were defended by Mr. Games.
Mr. John Child, an inspt ctor of the detective police
in the borough of Leeds, deposed that in consequence
of several extensive robberies committed in the
Borough, and :rom private information which had
reached him, he applied to Joseph Bales, Esq., the
Mayor of Leede, and obtained from that gentleman a
warrant for the apprehension of the prisoners, and a
third person, on a charge of receiving the stolen pro-
perty. Armed with the warrant, he came to town
about a week ago, and placed himself in communica-
tion with Sergeant Goff, of the L division, and hav-
ing communicated to that officer the whole of the
circumstances, he returned to Leeds. On Friday
morning last he was shown a parcel which had been
delivered at the railway station, directed to "Mr.
Thomas Wright, No. 10, Pleasant-place, West-
square, Lambeth, London ;" and finding that the
address was that of the house where one of the men
against whom he held the warrant resided, he took
the parcel before the mayor. On opening it, he
found it consisted of several articles of plate which
had been the produce of a burglary committed at the
house of a Mr. Woods, on the Sunday night before.
By the directions of the mayor, he made up the
parcel into its orig:nal shape, and left it at the railway
station, to be for warded as directed, and started for
town himself, so as to reach London before it. On
arriving in town he saw Sergeant Goff, and told him
the discovery he had made, and it was arranged that
they should be close to the house of the prisoner Key
when the parcel was brought there. A railway porter
from Euston-square station delivered the parcel to
Key, who signed his receipt-book, and wrote, not his
own name, but that of Thomas Wright. The railway
porter returned to the house in a minute or two, and
the door haying opened, witness and Goff went in.
Goff found the parcel brought from the railway
station, and which remained in the same state as he
had made it up at Leeds.
Mr. NORTON—Do you know either of the pri-
soners ? Witness—Yes; I have seen the prisoner
Key at Leeds, about three weeks or a month ago.
He stopped then two days. The witness here opened
the parcel, which consisted of a number of table and
tea-spoons, sugar-tongs, and a butter-knife, all of
which were marked with the initials W. A. \V., and
said they were those stolen from the residence of Mr.
Woods, at Leeds, on the night of Sunday last.
Sergeant Goff, 8 L, corroborated the greater part
of the testimony of Child, and added that en searching
the house of the prisoner Key, he found tied up in a
woman's pocket, in a cupboard, 19 notes of 51. each,
and two of 201. each, and 501. in gold. He also
found a gold and a silver watch, a valuable diamond
ring, and various other property. On searching the
house of Key, he, accompanied by Child, proceeded
to the residence of Green, in Hanover-street, Wal-
worth, and told him he had a warrant signed by the
Mayor of Leeds, and backed by Mr. Elliott, for his
apprehension, on a charge of receiving stolen pro-
perty. On searching the house he found, in a port-
manteau, two pieces of cloth, about three yards each,
which corresponded with the description given of a
portion of an extensive robbery at Leeds. He (GO)
also found a letter addressed by a person at Leede,
and in that letter was mentioned the name of a per-
son whose name was also written on the brown pryer
in which the plate was made up.
Child, the officer, said he should be able on a future
day to produce a witness who would identify both
the cloth and the plate.
_ _ _ _

Mr. Games cross-examined the witness at some
length, but elicited nothing favourable to his clients
and they (the prisoners) were remanded to Thursday
next.

GLASGOW JUSTICIARY COURT.

WINTER CIRCUIT.-WEDNESDAY, JAN. 9.

Margaret Lennox, or Hamilton, was placed at the
bar, charged with theft, forgery, and murder, in so
far a., in the month of June las*, in the house in
Kirk-street, Strathaven, occupied by Jean Black, or
Hamilton, a widow, the prisoner did wickedly and
feloniously steal a bank deposit receipt for 20/., in
favour of the now deceased Jean Hamilton, daughter
of and residing with the said Jean Black or Hamil-
ton. She was further charged with having, on the
21st of Jane last, indorsed the document with the
name of Jean Hamilton, and procured the same to be
cashed in the office of the Bank of Scotland. The
third charge in the indictment was, that on the night
of the 7th, or morning of the Bth of July, the pri-
soner administered to the aforesaid Jean Hamilton a
quantity of arsenic or other poison in some articles of
food, or in some calomel, magnesia, or other medi-
cine, in consequence of which the said Jean Hamilton
expirc d on the Bth of July. Panel, on being interro-
gated, pleaded Not Guilty, and a jury having been
empannelled, the case went to trial. The following
evidence details the chief points in the case :
Jean Black, or Hamilton—l live in Kirk-street,
Strathaven. Jean Hamilton was my daughter. She
died on Sunday, the 18th of July last. She had been
ill some time before this. She took ill about Thurs-
day, the 25th of June. She could not take her meat
for two or three weeks before her serious illness took
place. She had charge of two children. One of them
was her own, more than a year old, and the other was
one she had taken in to nurse. It would not be long
after 7 o'clock in the morning when I first heard of
her illness. She knocked through the wall to me,
as she slept in a room by herself. When she had cried
through for me on the Thursday morning I went in
to her, and she immediately " fell a throwing." She
was throwing very violently. We thought she was
throwing bile. She said she had been unwell all night,
and had not slept any. She complained of " being very
done," and " heavy throwing." She complained ofpain
in her breast and stomach, and said she thought it bile
and inflammation together. She said it was a burning
pain. She continued ill during the Thursday, and
vomited a great deal. Margaret Lennox, the pri-
soner, sometimes helped her to take the medicine. I
think she gave her some powders on Tuesday, as she
generally gave her the medicine she got during her
illness. I remember on the Saturday night before
her death she got a powder. I think it was given to
the prisoner's husband (Andrew, my son) to give it
to her when it was ready. The prisoner made it
ready. I saw her have the powder, and then I
saw it in the spoon. The prisoner mixed it with
some liquid when in the spoon. It was a large
powder, and was white. The spoons I now
see are those in which it was mixed. It was put
into the big spoon first. I could not tell how much
there was of the powder, but there was a good lot.
I think there would be an ordinary teaspoonful of
it. The prisoner brought the powder, on Satur-
day, about the gloaming. She said she got it from
Dr. Brown. She told my daughter there was sweet
nitre in it. Andrew and I said it was a big powder,
and we looked to see if there was anything else in it,
It was when we said this that the prisoner said there
was sweet nitre in it. She said Dr. Brown put it
into it. Je.an wanted calomel, and it was a calomel
powder she was to get. The powder was first put
into the large spoor, and Andrew said it was too hie.'
for her mouth. The prisoner then put it into the
small spoon, and " drool:et " it, but I cannot tell
what with I think it was mixed in the kitchen. It
was then given to my daughter Jean by Andrew.
The prisoner then gave it to me or Andrew, I 11111
not sure which. I eaw Andrew give the powder.
The prisoner, myself, and Andrew were at the bed•
side. It was dark. The prisoner and her husband
left shortly after, and went home to their own house.
They lived in Green-street. Before the prisoner
went away she desired me to give Jean a package
of magnesia which was lying on the kitchen
window, if she was not back in the morning. The
prisoner brought the magnesia with her along with
the calomel powder. I understood the magnseia was
from Dr. Brown's. The prisoner said it was by the
doctor's order that Jean was to get the powder in the
evening, and then the inagnola in the worning.

About an hour after Jean got the powder a severe lax
and vomiting came on. It was very violent vomiting.
The purging was also very violent. This continued
till about six or seven in the morning. It returned
again in about an hour afterwards, and continued till
she died, at twelve o'clock on Sunday. The mag-
nesia was never given. It lay on the window till
some of the doctor, took it down on the Wednesday.
Thinks it was taken by one of the doctors from Ha-
milton. I sent for the pri.,oner and her husband on
Sunday morning between six and seven. They came
and remained till they went for breakfast. They
came back again before ten, and remained till Jean
died. She was very ill after they came hack, when it
was proposed to send fur a doctor. Both Andrew and
I proposed it, and as nv, son James was in
bed, the prisoner said she would go. I offered to go,
but the prisoner said she was abler to go than I. She
left the house to bring Dr. Brown. She returned
soon after, and said he would be up after the ‘• kirk
went in." She said the doctor told her to give Jean
a spoonful out of the bottle which I had got on Mon-
day. Tae doctor did not come. I knew that Jean
had got some money from Mr. B o-rie. I knew that
201. or it were in the bank, and that she had several
pounds in nn Jean kept her money in the
bottom of a chest, as it was not locked. Her clothes
were above it. After Jean's death the prisoner and
her husband were in the house, and also my daughter
Marion, who is at service at Berryhill, in the neigh-
bourhood. I think my son James was in. I did not
make any proposal to search the chest, but some of us
agreed to search the purse which was in the chest.
The chest'was searched by the prisoner and Marion,
but w e were all about it. No money t xcept 6cl. was
found. I was surprised at this. I spoke about the bank
receipt, and they looked for it particularly, but it was not
found. We all expressed surprise at the receipt being
gone. The prisoner was also surprised. They were
more than, ten minutes in searching the chest. It
was on Monday, the next day, whan I first discovered
where the receipt was. I went to the bank on Mon-
day to inquire about it. I went to " speer" at Mr.
Barrie if he had lifted it, and he advised me to go to
the bank. When I was at the bank I ascertained
that thelprisoner had lifted it for Jean. I did not know
this before. Jean was coffined on Monday night,
but prisoner was not there. I know that prisoner
left the village; she did not tell me she was going away.
I think she left on Tuesday morning. I went to Dr.
Brown on Monday afternoon to inquire about the dose
that had been given Jean on Saturday night. We
all of us took suspicions that she had got more calomel
than was required. The doctor told me the dose he
had sent. I also spoke to the doctor why he had not
come on Tuesday morning, and he explained that.
The powder was in a whitish paper.—(Witness was
here shown a paper, such as was wrapped round the
calomel, but she said the paper in which the powder
was wrapped was not like this in the least.) The
magnesia parcel was much larger, and was blue.
Have only had arsenic once in the use since I was
married ; that is about 40 years ago.
Dr. Brown—l am a physician in Strathaven. Was
called in to see Jean Hamilton. I furnished calomel
powders occasionally during her illness. About mid-
day, on the Saturday before Jean's death, the prisoner
called on me and got a calomel powder. I made up
a calomel powder for the sheriff, which I now see.
They are always made up with blue paper and white
thread. It-is quite impossible to mistake a magnesia
powder for a calomel powder. Magnesia was also
put up in blue paper. There was no sweet nitre in
the powders. Sweet nitre is a liquid, and could not
be put in a powder. Never saw the prisoner again
after she got the powder on Saturday. The next day,
Sunday, was the Sacrament Sunday in Strathaven.
AM an elder in the Relief Church, and if any one
had come to me in the morning to ask me to
visit, I would have remembered it. I am certain
I never promised to visit her when the ehurch
went in. Was much surprised when I heard of
Jean's death. On the morning after her death
Mrs. Hamilton, and James, her son, came to see
about the dose I had given on Sunday, and also the
reason why I had not come on Sunday. I told them
what I have stated here—that it was a two-grain
calomel powder I had given, and that I had never
been sent for. On Wednesday, I found the package
of magnesia lying on the window in the house which
I had given to prisoner to be taken.

Catherine lldston, the wife of an apothecary at
Strathaven, proved that the prisoner purchased arsenic
from her about three weeks before Jean Hamilton's
death.

Dr. Crawford, who examined the contents of the
deceased's stomach, deposed that he discovered four or
five grains of arsenic therein.

Janet Lennox, or Park, examined—l am a second
cousin of the prisoner's. I live at Riccarton, Ayr-
shire. I remember the prisoner coming to my house
one Thursday morning, about eleven o'clock, last
summer. She had never been at my house t -2f)re.
knew she was married to Andrew Hamilton. She
told, after stie came in, that Jean Hamilton was dead.
She did not say when she died. She told me that
she had given her a powder of arsenic instead of mag-
nesia, by mistake. She said that she went to the press
and got it. Grannie made it up, and Andrew gave it.
She said that she had got the arsenic to kill bugs.
She told me that the arsenic was ling in the press
beside the magnesia. She also said that she had gone
for a doctor after Jean had talc( n the arsenic.
She stayed with me all day. She told me she had
left Strathaven in consequence of what she had done.
She said she was going to her brother betwixt Kil-
marnock and Glasgow, but she remained with me all
night. She did not repeat the story about the ar-
senic. She recurred a little to the story of Jean
Hamilton's death. She said what had occurred was
a pity. Did not tell me anything about the body
being opened, or that her husband had been appre-
hended and was in gaol. Next morning she was
anxious to get home to Strathaven. I observed that
she was with child. The postmaster of Riccarton
and the police passed by my door that morning. The
policeman was in plain clothes. The prisoner asked
me who he was, and I told her. She then seemed
agitated, but did not say anything. It was imme-
diately after this she wished to be back to Strathaven,
and out of Riccarton. Previous to this she had spo-
ken about going to her brother. She went away, and
I accompanied her a part of the road in the direction
of Strathaven. Riccarton is 21 miles from Strath-
aven. I saw no more of her.
The jury gave in a verdict, finding the prisoner
Guilty, as libelled, with the exception of the theft;
but, by a majority, recommended her to mercy.
Lord COCKBURN then sentenced her to be hanged
at Glasgow, on Thursday, the 31st of January, be-
tween the hours of 8 and 10 o'clock, A.M.

THE COUN'fitV MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, JAN. 12.—Prices to-day SI tnd unchanged,
and the general state of the trade is languid.
S. d. S. S. d. s. e.

Wheat, per 701 b Barley, English, pr
English, old• • :• 6 4 to 6 6 imperial quarter 29 oto 31 0
Do. new .. 6 0— 6 3 Irish, Scotch, and
Irish, new •• 5 3 5 9 Marx,per 601 b.. 3 0— 3 2
Do., old •• .• B— 5 :0 Barley, Feeding•• 3 0 3 4
Manx, red and wh. 5 9 6 2 Rye, par 4801 b 22 0— 24 0
Dantsic, high mixed 7 2 7 6 Beans, English, pr
Do., mixed .. 6 8— 7 2 imperial quartr 31 0— 33 0
Rostock 6 8 6 10 Irish and Scotch,

Hamburgh and per 4801 b.. .• 28 0— 29 0
Lower Baltic .. 6 6 6 8 Foreign, duty pd. 25 3 25 6
American, white 6 8 6 10 European, per im-
Spanish and Ha' pedal quarter .. 30 0 —3l 0
red and white.. 6 0 6 5 Peas, English, per
Hungarian and imperial quartr 32 0— 33 0
Mariaropoll • . 5 6 5 9,Foreign 29 0— 39 0
Odessa, Polish .. 5 8 6 0 Malt, English, per

Do., common .. 5 2 5 6 imperial quartr 50 0— 51
Do., hard.. .• 4 6 4 9 Do., Irish •• 40 0— 46 0
Egyptian .. 4 0— 4 6 Do., brown .. 50 0— 52 0
Oats, per 451 b Flour, English, pr
English, Scotch, 28015 .. •• 31 0— 33 0
and Welsh .. 3 0— 3 2 Irish, extra flne .. 34 0-- 35 0
Irish, new, best United States, per
mating •. 2 5—2 6y barrel .. 23 6 26 0
Do., mid and inf. 2 4 2 s,Canadian .. 23 0 24 0
Old . • .. • . 2 7 --2 B:oatineal, English,

Indian corn, per I & Scotcli,pr24olb 23 0 24 0
4801 b 29 0 —3O oilrish, new .. 21 22
Do. Meal, perl96lb 14 0— 14 61 Do., old .. .20 0— 21 0

MANCHESTER, JAN. 12.—During the present week
a feeling of apathy bas pervaded the flour trade, occa-
sioned by the reaction observable in most of the influen-
tial wheat markets of the kingdom; arid in the limit-d
business passim, buyers have had the turn of prices in
their favour. For catmeal a fair consumptive demand
has been experienced, on fully previous terms. At
Liverpool and Runcorn liberal supplies of oatmeal con-
tinue to be received from Ireland, with moderate quanti-
ties of other produce thence; and from abroad there are
again upwards of 10,000 barrels of flour reported, but
only trivial arrivals of other art'eles. Our market this
morning was exceedingly lifeless and uninteresting.
Wheat receded in value 2d per 701 b; and flour, meeting
very little inquiry, was purchaseable at a reduction of 6d
to is per sack. In oat; no change was apparent; and
oatmeal, with a moderato sa'e, firmly maintained the
quotations of this day se'nnight.
COLCHESTER, JAN. 12.—Wbeat has pretty well main-
tained its value in the markets of this district during the
week, but other articles have been cheaper. In this
market to-day the best samples of whits wheat ft tched
52s per quarter, and the finest parcels of red 48s.
On Friday, at Chelmsford, the supply was large, but
the trade was pct very brisk; late erices were sustained
for wheat, toe qui t ,t,ons being 42s to 48s for what
and 37s to 42s for red; but barley was Is to 2s rer
quintal- lower, except for the finest malting, which rea-
lized 30s per quarter.
At Sudbury, on Thursday wheat was lowered is per
quarter.
In t'..3 markets of Suffolk meet articles have been
lower. _ _

At Stewmarkef, an Thomlsy, wheat, barley, and peas
were is to 23 cheaper, save fur euperior sampler, and
the trade was far from brisk.

At Woodbridge there was tho same reduction, and
beans also Were Is cheaper.

At Bury the market was firm for wheat, though other
articles gave way.

At Ipswich beans and peas were 2e lower.
WORCESTER, JAN. 12.—The weather is int-nsely
cold, with fallirg snow, the attendance at market li-
mited. Wheat was hardly so much in request as GI
late, and prices not so favourable to the seller. Good
white English worth 163 to 16s 6d, for best samples;
red, 15s ti 16s per bag; fors-ign, fr.( m 43 6u t) 5s 6,1 per
bushel. Barley, for grinding, may be quLted at 3s per
bushel; lusltiDg quslitioa slow of sale, at 3s 6d top