The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-15 00:00:00

occasion were Joshua Fletcher, the same person, w,
ars
told; who stands charged with Mr. Barber and her, telf,
as confederate in the alleged frauds upon the Gore rn;
ment, and Mr. and Mrs. Sanders, her brother-in-law t
Wd
sister, who have absented themselves.

EXECUTION OF SARAH
WESTWOOD. ,
STAFFORD, SATURDAY.—The unhappy ctliPr
Sarah Westwood, convicted at the last Spacial. Ls
-
sizes for the county, before Mr. Baron Rolfe, for 510
murder of her husband, ..has been executed. .:kt 11)-
pears that the culprit was the daughter of a labou
man, living at Churley, hamlet near Burntw Wui
'
where the murder occurred. At an early age lir
acquired a loose reputation and was discarded by b
pareilts, and eighteen months prior to her marriag
with her unfortunate victim,, she gave birth to an
illegitimate child. Twenty years since her union
took place, the fruits of which are several children.
At the same house in' which they resided at Burnt-
wood also Jived a man
.named Phillips, who, no doubt,
was the priveipal cause of this diabolical occurrence
taking place, from .the fact thatit was supposed that
he had had a er;minal intercourse with her, and which
' excited the Uniwepy- differences that constantly hap-
pened bet Ween her and• her husband. •
.0n the 9th of :Uove tuber, when the family were'
s:l'i
seated at the dinne;-table, the 'father entered_ and,
complained of a pain .his head, and requested bii
him °
wife to -make gruel,
Shethinki digtd ahat the
dinner would not agreel elvth
him.
sired,, and he partook of it, t.'ut inquired what Was thel
white stuff" that was • flotek;:ng about on.the top of
it..
To this question she gave an evasive answer, and im-
mediately afterwards the ludo ttunate man was taken'.
with a severe fit of. vomiting, and pains in the -
stomach, and was instantly -sent to bed, and expired
the - same night. The. wife appared 'bat very in-
differently concerned, and ex pressed a wish to
have the. body as quickly • interre d as possible. An
inquiry, -however, took place, and on a post martens
examination being Made, it was clearly ascertained
that the deceased bad died frote the effects of arsenic.
The above was the substance • .of the children's evi-
dence, and by the exertions of the constabulary force,
abundant proof was adduced that she had purchased
the arsenic but a few days before, together with, other
poisonous matter, at a chemist's shop, at a village
called Worsall. These facts, with other circutmslanceS,
so clearly brought the case honie to the wife, Chat the
jury, on the trite', without hesitation, returned 'a
diet of guilty. k. entente of death .was accordingly
passed upon her, ae:..d she wits. 'remciVed. Eince her
condemnation she has been daily attended by the
Rev. G. Norman, chaplain of the gaol, who has used
every spiritual means to bring her to a just sense of
her condition, and. in answierito7the entreaties made
by the worthy pastor to. induce hetAkacknowledge
her guilt, she has on all oocasions firmly declared her
innocence. Her two youngt st children visited her on
Thursday for the last lime. The interview is stated
to have lasted about an- hour, h ad on their parting
scene presented itself "of a most affecting character,
such a one. as not to :be Wished 'for..again to occur
swithin the walls of.this prison..
On the same day •she expressed a wish to see her
'sister and her husband, who were instantly sent for.
.On their arrival, hoWever, from circutnstua aces which
had been made known to the 'Governor, it was found
that, instead of the man. being the husbi ad of the
'wretched woman's sister, it was Philipps, bvr
;paramour; consequently the meeting was relrused in
the most, positive terms. At this disappointement she
manifested deep regret. •
This morning the condemned sermon was p reacheN
in the 'chapel, the worthy minister taking for h i►s
the 2d Peter, chap. 1, verso 14, " Knowing' Ites.laut
shortly I must 'put off my tabernacle." Afte r the:
service the unhappy creature partook of the s.
ment, and she -eifidently.felt the -deepest anguis.'r. at
the awful position in which as placed ; in f acts
she fainted twice or . thrice. during .its performs sce•
Notwithstanding all this, she still t;vowed her c,
plete innocence of the murder of her husband
Her conviction appears to have given satisfac don
throughout this part of the country; as t:o petition :hat!
• been forwarded to the Secretary of State for a ,jete'
mutation of her. sentence. Her age is stated to :IR 4.
She appeared deeply distressed as she approach ea the,
scaffold, and when' placed under the fatal beam troy.
bled -violently. preliminatiea,having been quickly
arranged, and the xepe'placed row nd her neck, the WI
was drawn, and-the sufferings of. 'the murderess ceased
.n this world.

DREADFUL EXPLOSION IN A
. COAL-PIT

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ELEVEN. LIVES . LOST.-40 .stop the press to OZ.
nounce a dreadful explosion. of .fire-tiamp, which tow!
place in Duke. Pit, Whitehaven, on Thursday atizernooe
between three and .four o'clock. The tvhole of the moll
in the pit at the time, eleven -in number, were killed,
There were also eleven horses killed.—Carlisle JoialW
of Saturday.
(ANOTHER ACCOUNT.) •
Intelligence has been received in town from White':
haven announcing a terrible coal-pit- explosion, accore"
panied by fearful loss of human life, which occurred td
the vicinity a that town. between the hours or Ewe s 1
six on 'Thursday evening last. The dreadful event took
place st a colliery called Duke's Pit, at the time if; wa1,11!
full operation, and arose, it was supposed. from the urf:
damp becoming ignited and exploding in the low er.os"
gallery in the pit, where_ no fewer- than sixteen Miner.
were at work, and eleven horses, all of whom w. .r
stantly.hurled into eternity. Most of the unfor ttioal!
sufferers, we regret to say, are married men,
and: h¢oß
left large families, totally unprovided for, to lament thew
dreadful fate. Up to ten o'clock on Friday morning Q'
eight out of the sixteen bodies had been recovered. I.

THE KE-Ko-KA-KI, A NEW DOMESTIC ANIMIt11;.
—M. Audubon, in a letter of the 20th .of June let
written 110 miles above Port Union, in latitude 4'
degrees ten minutes N., communicates the " disc
very of an animal which bids fair to become nr4'
only a valuable but a domestic one." He had taken re?
fuge in a wood during a storm, and saw two enortnen°
beasts at play, somewhat resembling kangikroos. A enrer,.
panion shot one of them; the other fled. " buffalo
mountain elk," says M. Audubon, " is nothing in cowl'
parlson to this animal in the scale of worth. It sit 3 Ont
Its hind legs, its front legs or arms. are short,
armed with sharp claws, and it bounds or jurups wfito
its hind legs. It has a tail, somewhat like that 0 6
sheep, about 10 inches long ; and round the iniddle of tho
body it has acing of flesh, about 12 inches wide and eig
thick in the middle or centre, which produces a lard
of oil. On their heads they have kll
horns very similar to the horns of the deer, but 0,1
more than eighteen inches long; the head is also shall I
very like that of the deer, and has the same kind
teeth ; but what is most remarkable, their coat is of ti).
most beautiful fur I ever beheld, of a dark brown colour'
The one we killed weighed, to the best of our calnOly.
tions, upwards of 600 lbs., and it measured from the top'
of the head to the end of the tail, nine feet four inelleip
We had no sooner killed this one, than some Indie,
joined us ; they said that in these woodlands sirnij
animals were in great abundance. They called itoo
their tongue the ke-ko-ka-ki, or juniper ; they feed off
grass, herbs, and foliage. Upon observing us take of
the skin, the Indians expressed a desire to have sorec a
the flesh, which we gave them. We cooked some, itild
found it delicious ; it was white and tender, and tees 7,
very similar to veal ; but the ring on the body Iv 0
nearly all oil, and the whole upper part will produce
great quantity. The Indians took us to their huts' ito
village, which consisted of six families ; there we rig
less than six of these animals domesticated. Two
ones, male and female, I bought for some beads.

Mirror.
ST. ANDRE-WIS.—SIR DAVID BR.EWSTER." the
Wednesday week, the Committee appointed by yid
Presbytery for arranging the case of Sir
Brewster, met in the session-house of the --1,%41
Church, to order the serving of the libel ngl`ri,
to, against Sir David, at last meeting of PresbYt•etbe
On the officers arriving at the mansion of, or
Principal, it appeared that the gentleman ha'pog
dered his domestics not to receive any papers e° aid
from the quarter from which the officers allege d9'
had proceeded. The officers accordingly threw theld
currents into the mansion of the Hanoverian Knights eif•
took witnesses that they had duly served it at his dW •
ing• house.—Fife Journal. A 0-1
T- ROSS•SIIIRE RIOTS. thr High Court

11E .ie
Justiciary, held at . Edinburgh on Wednesdalaose
'Thursday, scvcral of the parties implicated in the Sere
shire Church riots were tried. Some of them 'll,O
convicted on evidence, and Others pleaded guilty
Dype
principal offender, Urquhart, was sentenced to
months' imprisonment, and the others to six nont

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BIRTHS. mot
On the 7th inst., at the Rectory, Meppershall, BedforasP
the lady of the Rev. Henry Howarth, of a still-born soy
On the 12th inst., at Harwich, the lady of Lieutenant ti")
R.N., of a son. A
On the 12th inst., at Clapton-squire, Hackney, Oil'
fret! William Smith, of a daughter. stirge°,°'
On the 13th inst., the lady of George Franks, Esq.,
Blaekfriars-road, of a daughter

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