The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-22 00:00:00

July 18.

The first cause terminated this morning, and the other
two engaged the attention of the Court for a short time
only, the one terminating in a nonsuit and the other
being referred to arbitration. Soon after eleven o'clock
Mr. Justice Patteson began t., try prisoners.
James Welsh, who, though described in the calendar
as a labourer, in point of fact was a chemist and seedsman
at Stourbridge, was indicted for the manslaughter of
Jane Genevan
Mr. Whitmore appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
Yardley for the prisoner.
It appeared that the deceased, who was only about
five years old, had been suffering from ringworm, and
that in consequence of this her mother took her, on the
11th of April last, to the prisoner's shop. The prisoner
gave a box of ointment of a dark colour, to be rubbed
into the child's bead every morning and evening, and
some powders to be taken every night. The treatment
he recommended was adopted, and with apparent suc-
cess. On the 18th the child was again taken to the pri-
soner's shop, when he said the disease was killed, bat to
make all safe a little more medicine was requisite, and
he put into a phial, which he had directed the child's
mother to take with her, two colourless liquids, and
added to them a substance resembling saltpetre, which
he had ground to powder in a mortar. lie said it was
a poison, but that if his directions were followed, there
was no danger. The directions were to rub a third part
of the contents of the phial into the scurf, until it was
quite absorbed, and then ta comb it out. The mother
that afternoon, about half-past three, rubbed a small
portion of the fluid on the child's head, but it produced
anything but a sanative effect, for great pain and un-
easiness seemed to be the result. Jane, the deceased,
became very sick, and all night was very ill, and con-
tinued to complain of her head and bowels until the
Monday following. On the Monday small blisters ap-
peared on her forehead, and after great anguish the poor
child died on the Saturday following.
Mr. Cooper, surgeon to the Stourbridge Dispensary,
stated that he was called in to see the deceased, and that
her head was inflamed and blistered all over the fore-
head ; that there was fever, and that all the symptoms
of salivation were present. He also performed the post
modem examination, and in his opinion, which was cor-
roborated by Dr. Fox and another medical gentleman,
Mr. Giles, who were present at it, death was attributable
to sloughing in the mouth, produced by an excessive
dose of a powerful mercurial preparation, called corro-
sive sublimate, which had been externally applied and
een taken into the system by absorption. The medical
witnesses declared that no application of strength suffi-
cient to produce such results as were apparent here
ought to have been made in the case of the deceased.
They also, however, admitted that occasionally very
minute portions of mercury would,- under peculiar cir-
cumstances, produce the most violent and unexpected
effects.

Mr. YARDLEY addressed the jury for the prisnner.
After a complete summing up by Lord DENMAN, the
jury Acquitted the prisoner.

July 19.
'-Thomas Nutley, carpenter, was charged with having,
on the 2d of May last, violated the person of Elizabeth
Welch, a girl of between 14 and 15 years of age.
Mr. Lutwyche appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
lluddlestone for the defence.

It seemed that about nine o'clock on the evening in
question the prisoner, who worked for Mr. Wilkes, a
carpenter, living at Bredon, called at his master's house,
and asked Mrs. Wilkes to give him some cider. Although
he had apparently drunk too much already, Mrs. Wilkes
gave him two pints of cider, which he drank off. Soon
after he had left the house, the prosecutrix was desired
by Mrs. Wilkes to go with a message to a neighbour
named Mason, and upon her way to execute her com-
mission, the girl was seized by the prisoner, a powerful
young man, and carried into a hovel, where, as she
swore, he perpetrated the offence described in the indict-
ment. It appeared that, although this occurrence took
place on the Friday night, she made no complaint of ill-
usage from the prisoner until the afternoon of the Tues-
day following, and that in the interim she had repeatedly
denied that anything improper had taken place between
them. She said that she had not told the truth about the
matter before, because she was afraid of her father, who
was a very passionate man, and she certainly seemed to
be not quite so quick-witted as children of her age
usually are. The prisoner, upon being taken into cus-
tody, and acquainted with the nature of the charge made
against him, observed that he supposed he should get