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silent. on such an occasion as the present, and then en- was induc give
up
the
bills
to
the
dt;i i•Tidanoie had
tered at great length upon the general subject. He had not since been able to recover the bills or their value.
written to the President of M,tynocth College, with a Mr. Lane, solicitor, who appeared for the mewed, enTii
view to draw from him some explanation or extenuation tended that it was a mere scheme to get possession.
of the class books and divinity taught in that institution, property which had been fraudulently obtained, and Ts
but had received no answer to his letter. He then en- therefore justifiable ; that Willis was but the agent °`
tered upon a long detail of Konai,h errors, and denounced Mr. Sutton who was employed by Mytten to recover tleid
in the strongest manner the great national crime of bills for which no value had been received. He call
countenancing and teaching such dangerous and soul- Mr. John Fox Fitzgifford Mytton, who stated that hof
destroying delusions. had received a letter from Messrs. Smith and Cole r
After ether similar displays of self-interest and bigotry Great Marlborough-street, offering to discount bills 1.
the Christian assembly broke up. him ; that he called by appointment and saw Mr. Sini.t,
who stated that he was to see the person that evenll3°
who was to cash the bills, and appointed the followlg
day to meet him. He called accordingly, and gave gt
to Smith to the amount of 1,700/, Mr. Smith saying
he should receive the money on the morrow, but )1'
never got one farthing value for them. He then ena,;
ployed Mr. Sutton to re.cover them. Had not employ!.
Mr. Willis, and never heard of Mr. Hearne's name in t"
transaction.
Mr. Lane called Sutton and Goldsmith, the other to!
parties engaged in the affair, but they not answering to
their names,
Mr. MALTBY held the defendant to bail in securitlei
to the amount of 1,000/. to appear that day week.
GLERICEIV WELL.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
NORFOLK CIRCUIT.—Bury St. Edmund's,

March 31.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron PARKE.)
ALLEGED MURDER.—William Tatenham, aged
was arraigned on an indictment which charged him with
the wilful murder of Mary Anne, his wife, on the 15,h
of February last, by shouting her through the head with
a pistol at WantiAlen, in this county.
Mr. Gordon and Lord A. Hervey appeared for the
prosecution ; Mr. Prendergast defended the prison« r.
In this ease it will be remembered that the grand jury
had expressed a desire that the prisoner should be in-
icted for muraer, and this day being fixt.d for his trial,
the Court was very much crowded. On d former day
we stat,d that he occupied the position of keeper to Lord
Stradbroke, but we were mistaken in that respect, the
Noble Member for East Suffolk, Lord Rendlesham, being

William Wranyleam was charged with shoplifting.. ‘„
Joseph Samton, shoiman, at the drapery establish
ment of William Penthenby, of 25, Hatton-garden, dr
posed that, at a quarter before eight o'clock on the
vious night, he heard a noise at the shop-window, !no
on running down, saw the prisoner, who had forced tn,.
cracked pane of glass, dragging three silk handkercho"
value 155., throuo it. The prisoner was soon aft°
*Tested.
Wrangham denied the offence, but was committed fer
trial.

his employer.
From the evidence of a man named Mace, his wife,
and two or three other witnesses, it appeared that the
prisoner had been married some few years, and that
with one exception he had been on good terms with
his wife, who had borne him four children, the fourth
having only been born about three weeks before her
death. About two years ago there was some dis-
pute between them, for which she absented herself
from his house, which was in a somewhat lone-
some locality, and left their children in a wood. After
much search she was ultimately found, and persuaded
to return to her home, where she lived in perfect har-
mony thenceforth with the prisoner. On the night of
Saturday, the 15th of February last, he was at the
Oyster public-house at Butley, which, after drinking to
excess, he left with Mace at ten o'clock. On arriving at
his house his wife was nearly in bed, but, being roused
up, she received him and his friend, who lived about half
a mile off, very cordially. The prisoner then expressed
a wish to have some beer, which she dissuaded him from
doing; but, seeing tnat he attempted to go down into the
cellar himself, sh bade him to sit down and went for
some beer, saying, "if he went he would tumble down
stairs and break his neck." Soon after this she retired
to her bed-room, and then Mace left the prisoner, who
said he was going to bed. As Mace went out, however,
the prisoner called after him to "come back and help
him kill his hog." To which Mace replied, " Pooh, your
hog was killed long ago." The prisoner again made the
same request to Mace, just as he got out of hearing ;
but nothing was seen or heard of him till about one
o'clook, when he came to Mace's house in great agitation,
and rousing them up b, geed of them to " come down
quick, for he had shot his poor dear Mary Anne."
Mace on this got up as quickly as he could,
and while dressing himself could hear the wretched man
stamping the ground and wringing his bands as he
walked to and fro, exclaiming, " Dear me, what shall I
do ?" When Mace was up he said to him, " Why, Tet
tenham, you don't mean to say you have really shot your
poor wife ?" to which he replied, " As true as God, I
have shot her ; I have blown her head off." As they
walked hastily to his miserable home, Mace iniade a
similar remark to him, and he then said, " Oh, don't
hurt me ; it was all accident ;" and to Mrs. Mace at
another time he said, " It was done by a pistol, which
went off accidentally." On arriving at the lodge, the
party found the poor woman lying on her back on the
floor, not far from a chest of drawers, in which the pri-
soner used to keep his eistols, her forehead and right
cheek being all blown off, while the walls on two sides
of the room behind her were spattered with blood and
brains, and the ceiling bore the mark of a shot. When
the surgeon was sent for it appeared that the discharee
must have taken place, in his opinion, close to the left
temple of the poor wom an, for there was there a h le
about two inches large, while the skin near it was jagged
and blackened with powder. Assist ince was obtained as
soon as possible. both by Mace and the prisoner ; who.
when asked to give an account ef the dreadful event, said
that "he was thinking of going out again, as wits his
duty at time, and hat hi, wife him ; 6;d
he went to th• drawer to get his pinto's, which wre
loaded. and while he was doing so his wire e eup to
him with a candle aid put her arm on his shoulder. Ti.,
baby then began to cry, and she called out to it,
Pia a coining'' and just then, whether she touched
the pistol or be pulled the trigger he could not
tell, hut it went off, and its contents lodged in her
temple." Such is the outline of this most lamentable
event. At the close of the case fbr the prosecution,
Mr. PRENDEHGAST addres,d the jury in a most im-
pressive speech, and, going through the whole of the
evidence, contended that his client ought nor even to be
found guilty of manslaughter, as his whole conduct and
demeanour throughout the transaction p!ainly indicated
that the death of his wife was entirely attributable to
accident.
Lord Rendleeham having given the prisoner a good
character,
Mr. Baron PARKE proceeded to sum up the case to the
jury, leaving it to them to say whether the wound by
which the deceased came to her death had been inflicted
by the prisoner at the bar by design, negligence, or acci-
dent. If by the first, he was then guilty of the capital
charge in this indictment ; but if by the second, then it
would he their duty to find him guilty of manslaughter
only ; while if the death ensued from a mere accident
without any neglect on his part, he was entitled to a
full acquittal.
Guilty of Manslaughter.—Sentence deferred.
IttioN.—Samuel Stow, aced 22, was indicted for felo
piously setting fire to a barn, the: property of
Tabor, at l'olstead, in this county.
Mr. O'Malley appeared for the prosecution.
This case was only remarkable for two facts, the first
being that the offence was charged to have taken place
so far back as December 26, 184..2, while the subject-
matter of the inquiry was no less a barn than the cele-
brated " Red Barn," at Polstead, the scene of the mur-
der of Maria Martin by a man teemed Corder, who was
long after that event tried, convicted, and executed in
this town fur that diabolical offence.
The charge in the present case was almost entirely
supported by declarations of the prisoner made to others
in custody with himself, and the jury, after a short de-
liberation, found him Not Guilty.
The same prisoner was afterwards arraigned on a
charge of sending a threatening letter to one William
Bowtell, at PoLtead.
Mr. O'Malley and Mr. Last were counsel for. the pro-
secution, and the case being very clearly established, the
prisoner was found Guilty, and forthwith sentenced to
15 years' transportation.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
ASSAULT ON AN OFFICER OF THE GUARDS.—Tues-
day Elias Benfidil. foreman in a mercantile house in
Tower-street, was charged with having assaulted Captain
Lewis, of the 2d Regiment of Guards, and une of the
privates of the same regiment.
Captain Lewis stated that as he was marching with
the Bank piquet in Mincing-lane, the defendant stood on
the pavement, and refused, upon being requested to melei
aside in order to allow the guard to pass, but upon being
touched by une of the men, return, d tile complitneur by
striking and pushing the so!dier into the middle of the
street. Witness • xpostulated with the defendant, who,
instead of apelogisiug, struck him and pushed him, after
ha virirral rag, e
Tee soldier confirmed the acceuni given by hi, cent-
mewling officer.
The defeeden , in a love and wi•h a manner not at all
calculated to make a lavoura,lete impre sien. said that th,
considered that he ought to heve heivei the ceperin
ant the private in the etatiou-housie fir ha,iee as-
,auitel tem.
The Loh]) Mavoa—Your conduct here to-day proves
to me what your conduct must have been when the com-
plainants met me.
Defendent—l was assaulted first by these two men,
and I m soy, I was ju.-tifit.d.
Ti,e I,unD MAYOR—I shall held Lou to hail for the
two , one upon the eentlemen lied the 01,!,,T
Upoil thfi privuee soldier, youreeif in the sum of 1.00/.,
and two sureties in 504 each.
LAMBETH;
SERIOUS CHARGE OF CUTTING AND WOUNDING
On 'i'uesduv Jut is Herbert, a journeyman shoemaker,
Was brought before Mr. Henry for final examination, on
a charge of cutting and wounding Win. Uurling with a
shoemaker's hanemer in so serious a manlier that his life
is still in dancer.
Fren the siatement of the prosecutor, whose head
was bound up, and who appeared iu a very weak, ickly
state, it appeared that the prisoner, who was related to
him by marriage, has latterly become inuce addicted to
drink. On Thursday midday lest he returned home
much the worse for liquor, when some words arose on
his being backward in his rent, when witness told him
he should at once pay the arrears due, or leave the house.
The prisoner became much excited, and in his rage
snatched up his large hammer, with which he gave wit-
ness two violent blows on the left side of the head and
temple, and one on the right arm, and then made his
escape from the house.
Mr. W. H. Day, surgeon, deposed that on Thursday
last, about two o'clock, he visited the prosecutor] at his
house in Lock's-fields, and, on examining him, found
two incised wounds on the left side of the head, one three
and the other one inch and a half long, and also a con-
tused wound on the right arm, The wounds were such
as would be produced by the hammer, which, on exami-
nation, was found to have some of the prosecutor's hair
adhering to it. The prosecutor had been since under
his care, and had been so severely injured, that he could
not as yet pronounce him out of danger.
The prisoner, who said he had scarcely any recollec-
tion of what he did, was committed for trial on the charge
of cutting and wounding.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Basil Cochrane Willis, 'a
fashionably-dressed young
man, about 25 years of age, was brought before Mr.
Maltby, in custody, charged with obtaining fraudulent
possession of a bill of exchange from Mr. Edmund Lyons
Hearne, of 9, Pall-mall East, under the following cir-
cumstances :
The prosecutor stated that lie was in possession of
two promissory notes of Mr. J. Mytton, one for 6001,
and one for 500 L, both dated March 10, 1845, payable
in four months, on which he had advanced the sum of
8001. in money and cheques. A gentleman of the name
of Anderson called upon him on the evening of the 25th
of. March, and in consequence of informatien received
from him, complainant was induced to call upOn the de-
fendant, who stated that Mr. Mytton was about to take
up the bills, and upon that representation complainant