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ETROPOLITAN BUILDINGS ACT, 7th
and Bth Viet., c. 84.—NOTICE to BUILDERS, and
Others engaged in building operations, within the limits of the
above Act,

On and after the ]st of January next every builder, or other
person engaged in building, is required by the above-mentioned
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veyor to whom notice should have been given, and also to forfeit a
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either without such notice or contrary to the Act, pulled down or
abated as a nuisance.

ARTHUR SYMONDS, Registrar of Metropolitan Buildings.
Office of Metropolitan Buildings, 3, Trafalgar.square,

Charing-cross, Dec. 20, 1844.

TETROPOLITAN BUILDINGS ACT, 7th
171 and Bth Vict., cap. :84.—T0 all OWNERS and OCCU.
PIERS of PROPERTY within the Cities of London and West.
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Notice is hereby given, that on and after the Ist dayof Ja-
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ARTHUR SYMONDS, Registrar of Metropolitan Buildings,
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Dec. 20, 1844. t

METROPOLITAN BUILDINGS ACT, 7th
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Workmen, Labourers, Servants, and others, is hereby requested to
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such offence, a sum not exceeding fifty shillings.
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such forfeiture be not paid, then it shall be the duty of any two
Justices of the Peace to whom application shall be made, to commit
the offenders, by warrant, under the hand and seal of such Jus-
tices, to the common gael, for any term not exceeding one month,
at the discretion of such Justices."

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ARTHUR SYMONDS, Registrar of Metropolitan Buildings.
011 ice of Metropolitan Buildings, 3, Trafalgar.suare,
Charing-cross, Dec. 20, 1844.

lETROPOLITAN BUILDINGS ACT, 7th
and Sth Victoria, cap. 84.—RUINOUS AND DAN.
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part of any building, threatening danger to the public, or the in.
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is required by the provisions of the Metropolitan Buildings Act,
to take immediate steps for the removing, repairing, or securing
such building.

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:he overseers of the parish, or at this office.
ARTHUR SYMONDS, Registrar of Metropolitan Buildings.
Office of Metropolitan Buildings, 3, Trafalgar-square,
Charing cross, Dec. 20,1844.

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NORTHERN CIRCUIT.---Liverpool, Dec. 18

December 19.

James Kean, 35, was charged with uttering a forged
will of one James Baines, deceased. The indictment
was of immense length, the offence being set forth in
a variety of ways.
Messrs. Blair and Drink water appeared for the
prosecution. The prisoner conducted his own de-
fence, and manifested considerable dexterity both in
the cross-examination of the witnesses and the general
management of his case. lie is rather a good-looking
man, of genteel exterior.

The facts of the case, as appeared from the counsel's
statement, were the following :—That in the early
part of the present year Mr. James Baines, of
Everton, died, leaving a considerable amount of
property, under a will dated in 1840. Disaffection
boing excited amongst some of his relatives in
consequence of their expectations not being
realised, Mr. James Mawdesley, a brother-in-
law to the deceased, residing in Burlington-street,
employed the prisoner to make inquiries as to the va-
lidity of the said will. Accordingly, in September
last, the prisoner took some steps in the matter, and
several interviews took place between him and
Mawdesley, when the latter paid over several sums
of money as a compensation for the prisoner's trouble.
In October the prisoner called upon Mawdesley arid
produced a'will, which he stated to be the original and
legitimate will of Mr. Baines, and purporting to be
signed by him ; he then proposed to go with Mawdesley
to Chester to have the will executed (that was aboLt
the latter end of October); but, on their meeting
there, the prisoner made some excuses as to the non-
appearance of several witnesses who were to have
been in attendance, and afterwards tried to make his
escape. On the 25th of November he was discovered
at Manchester, and taken into custody. A number of
papers were found upon him connected with the trans-
action in which he was implicated, The will which
the prisoner had prepared, and which bore the signa-
ture of James 13aines, was alleged to be a forgery,
and in the handwriting of the prisoner.
James Mawdesley deposed to the various transac.
tions between himself and the prisoner up to the time
of their meeting in Chester, and additional witnesses
were culled to support other parts of the case.
The prisoner entered into a long defence, in which
he endeavoured to fix the charge of forgery on other
parties, and to show that he himself could have no
motive for the commission of an act such as that with
which he was charged. Ho called several witnesses,
whose evidence did not, however, change the features
of the case.

His Loansnxr briefly summed up the evidence,'and
the jury, after a few minutes' consideration, found the
prisoner guilty of uttering the will, knowing it to be
forged.

The prisoner begged hard for mercy, when
His LORDSHIP said Have you never expe-
rienced mercy before ? Prisoner—Slightly, and I
have not abused it. For many years of my life I
have had great difficulties to contend with, and
have fought my way up to hold a respectable station
in society.
The JUDGE—You have been once before sentenced
to transportation. The case of to-day has proved you
are a most wicked, daring, bad man, in every sense of
the word ; and I should ill discharge my duty if I
gave you any opportunity of returning to this coun-
try. The sentence of the Court is, that you be trans=
ported for the term of your natural life.
Prisoner (with a look of concern)—We shall meet
again, my Lord.
The trial occupied the time of the Court for the
greater part of the day.
CHARGE OF ASSAULT.—Edward Davies was charged
with assaulting Matthew Mathews at Manchester. It
appeared from the statement of counsel that, on the
24th July last, Mathews and another gentleman were
walking along the street, when the defendant came
up and struck him, and was about to repeat his vio-
lence, when he was given in charge to the policeman.
Mr. SowLsa, on the part of the defendant, wished
to show that the proceeding arose from an old griev-
ance between the parties. The injury sustained was
very slight, according to the evidence given by the
surgeon.
fir LORDSHIP thought it improper that the time
of the Court should Ise taken up with such a frivolous
matter, in which the jury also concurred.
A verdict of Guilty was returned, and the de-
fendant fined 205., and ordered to enter into his ocsn
recognisances to keep the peace.
John Chamley, Edward Kynaston, and John Lomax,
were discharged by proclamation.
John Clarkson, convicted of forging a promissory
note, was sentenced to ten years' transportation.
John Thomas, convicted of bigamy, was sentenced
to three months' imprisonment.
The whole of the criminal business; being disposed
of, his Lordship thanked the jury for their attention
to the numerous cases which had been brought before
them, and adjourned the Court at a quarter to six.

WESTERN CIRCUIT.—Exeter, Dec. 19.
(Before Mr. Baron ALDERSON.)
Richard IVrigford Clompit, a tenant of Lord Clifford,
was indicted for maliciously wounding three colts, the
property of George Gill.
Mr. Rowe and Mr. Cox defended the prosecution; Mr.
Cockburn and Mr. Stone the defence.
Mr. Gill, the prosecutor in this case, had several colts
in the care of a farmer of the name of Elias Randall,
which were suffered to run upon the slopes of the bank
of the river 'reign. The case for the prosecution was,
that the prisoner, seeing that these colts trespassed upon
his land, had shot at and severely wounded some of them.
To prove this, two witnesses were called, who stated that
they saw the transaction and could swear to the person
of the prisoner; and two other men also swore that at a
greater distaac• they saw the transaction, as doscribed
by the first witness, but could net speak to the identity
of the prisoner, though one of them said he believed it
was him.

Several discrepancies appeared in the evidence by the
cross-examination, and the prisoner received an excel-
lent character from several respectable witnesses, and
among others from Lord Clifford, who said that he
could be justly proud of his tenants, but of none more
than his friend Mr. Clompit.
The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
Henry George Carpenter was indicted for ravishing
Elizabeth Hibbert.

Mr. Cockburn (who attended specially) and Mr. Stone
conducted the case for the prosecution, and Mr. Rowe
and Mr. Merivale appeared for the prisoner. The prosecution was instituted by Lord Clifford.
The prisoner was a respectable druggist, residing at
Chudleigh. Elizabeth Hibbert was a poor girl living
with her mother, near that town. She had for some
time been unwell, and her mother having lived long in
the neighbourhood of Lord Clifford, that nobleman
allowed them, as was his habit with regard to the in-
valided poor, to reside in one of his Lordship's cottages.
The girl having been recommended to take medicine had
several times gone to the shop of the prisoner to have her
prescriptions made up. The prisoner always conducted
himself in the most proper manner until the time in
question, and then he behaved to her in the way described
by the girl in her evidence.
Elizabeth Hibbert was examined and said—l am
twenty-one years of age, and lire with my mother in a
cottage belonging to Lord Clifford. On the 22d of October
I went to Chudleigh, and about one o'clock in the day I
called at the prisoner's shop, and asked him to let me
have a box of pills, and I would call again for them. I
went away on some business, and called again at his
shop in about an hour. He said he had not begun to
make the pills, and he asked me to sit eown, which I did.
In answer to a question which he asked me, I told him I
had a pain in my stomach. He then asked me different
questions, and TN hat I was going to treat him with on my
birthday. I said, " Nothing at all." He said, " You
may as well give me a glass of shrub." I told him I
should not give him anything. He then asked me if I
would have a drop of peppermint ? I said I did not care
if.l did, if he would please to give me some. He had pre-
viously asked me to have some gin or some shrub, which
I refused. Ile then took a glass, and emptied something
white into it from a bottle in the shop. He took the
glass out of the shop. He stopped a minute or two, and
then came to the door between the shop and the room
behind. He said, " Come in here." I went. He told
me to sit down, which I did. He then shut the door of
die room, and took the glass from off the table, put his
arm round my neck, and said, " Before you drink I must
have a kiss." I said, " You shan't, and it I had known
this I' would not have come in." He then kissed me, and
I sipped out of the glass. He said, " Drink, drink ;" and
I said " I don't like it." But he pressed me, and I said,
a Here's your health," and then I drank about a third of
it. I rose from my chair to get out at the door, but he

' caught me and threw me back on the chair. He behaved
rudely to me. I called out as loud as I cou:d. Some
one came to the shop. The prisoner left me, and
went into the shop. I heard some one speak in the
shop. I called out, " For God's sake, some one come to
me." The person who was in the shop went away, and
the prisoner returned to me. He fastened the door. I
tried to get to the window, but he caught me and threw
toe down, and again took liberties with me. I cried out.
At length he let me go. I said I would tell (reit as soon
as I got out. He said, " No, no ; you won't." I said,
" I'm d—d if I don't." Ho again said, " Oh, no ; you
won't." I said, " hel )me God, I will." He then
went out into the shop, and I went out of the house as
fast as I could to Mrs.Strowbridge's, at the King's Arms,
and saw Betsy Trurman, and told her of the prisoner's
conduct. When I got home, I told my mother.
Cross-examined—The prisoner's house is in the main
street of Chudleigh. It is a corner house, with another
street running by it, into which the window in the back
room looked. Two people looked in at the window
while I was screaming. There was a blind to the window.
It appeared that the depositions of several persons had
been taken who were not taken by the prosecutors be-
fore the grand jury, and their names were not on the
hack of the indictment.
Mr. Baron ALDERSON said this was extremely im-
proper, and not fair towards a prisoner. It was reason-
able for a prisoner to suppose that the witnesses exa-
mined before the magistrates would be produced on the
trial, and he could not know the contrary until the in-
dictment came down from the grand jury ; and then at
the last moment, when it was too late for him to setid
for such witnesses, he found they would not be called for
the prosecution, and ha consequently lest the benefit of
their testimony, which might be of the greatest import-
ance to him. It was an improper practice, and ought
not to be adopted or allowed.
The witness was a particularly rnodest-1001.(ing girl,
and gave her evidence in a manner which entitled her
to credit.

Elizabeth Trueman stated that Elizabeth Ilibbert
came to her on the day in question, and appeared dread-
fully frightened ; she was crying.
Elizabeth Strowbridge said she kept a grocer's shop
at Chudleigh. The Is t witness called her to see Eliza-
beth Ilibbert. She appeared pale and trembling, and
made a complaint of Carpenter's conduct.
Charity Ilibbert deposed that she was the mother of
the prosecutrix. When she came home that afternoon
she complained that Carpenter had ill-treated her.
Elizabeth Williams, the housekeeper of Lord Clifford,
had that morning sent the prosecutrix to Carpenter's for
some pills.
Louisa Trowbridge, a witness whose deposition had
been tiken, but who was not examined before the grand
jury, was now put into the box by Mr. Cockburn, for
cross-examination by the prisoner,
➢ir. Baron ALDERSON saying that it would be com-
petent for Mr. Cockburn to contradict her.

Mr. ROBE cross-examined her, but nothing was
elicited.

John Trueman, a constable of Chudleigh, bad a war-
rant against the prisoner on the 23d of October.
Searched for him for a week, but could not find him.
His shop was shut the day after this happened.
Cross-examined—The prisoner:afterwards gate him-
self up.

Mr: ROWE then addressed the jury at great length for
the prisoner, urging upon them the improbability of such
an offence being committed in so public a situation.
Mr. Baron ALDERSON, having summed up with great
care,

The jury found the prisoner Guilty of an assault.
Sentence deferred.

MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—Lincoln, Dec. 19.
(Before Mr. Justice PATTEsoN.)
The Learned Judge, who was occupied yesterday
until about fire o'clock in the evening in trying unim-
portant cases of larceny, this morning, at half-past nine
o'clock, attended Divine service at the Cathedral. Thence
he proceeded to the Castle, and opined the county com-
mission shortly after eleven o'clock.
Mr. Justice PATTESON shortly charged the grand jury
(of which Viscount Alford, the eldest son of Earl
Brownlow, was foreman), and then proceeded with the
trial of prisoners.
Wiliam Hamilton, Edward Howes, and James Jordan
were charged with feloniously assaulting the person of
William Wetherill, on the night of the 12th of October
last, and stealing one 5/. note of the Wisbeach and
Lincoln Banking Company, ten sovereigns, one half-
sovereign, and other moneys, the property of the said
William Wetherill.
It appeared that the day upon the night of which the
robbery was said to have been committed was Holbeach
fair, and that the prisoners, who had, with the prose-
cutor, on their way home been at a public•house kept by
a man named Carpenter, left in the direction of Wisbeach
together. While on their way the prosecutor was
knocked down, and robbed, not only of his money, but
of various articles of wearing apparel. The next day
the prisoners were found together at Wisbeach, one of
them wearing a cap belonging to the prosecutor, and all
of them wearing clothes purchased by the money which
they had stolen the previous evening. 'I ho 5/. note
(which had been cut and rejoined) was clearly identi-
fied as the note stolen from the Prosecutor.—Guilty.
The Learned JUDGE sentenced each of the prisoners
to 15 years' transportation.
William Haynes stood indicted for having stolen a
horse and gelcing from Horncastle, in this county, on
the 20th day of August last.
Mr. Wildman appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
Boden for the defence.
The circumstances, although somewhat singular, are
very shortly stated. On the evening of Tuesday, the
19th of August last, Mr. Brown, a farmer residing i❑
the neighbourhood of Ilorneastle, saw his horses safe in
the field in which they at that time grazed. The follow •
ing morning they were missing, and strange as the fact
may appear to be, the prosecutor and others traced his
horses from Horncastle to the neighbourhood of
Reading. in Berkshire, a distance of upwards of 200
wiles. The conduct of a Mr. Price, a young farmer
living near Reading, is deserving of particular notice.
It appeared that on the Thursday (the robbery of the
horses having been committed in Lincolnshire on the
Tuesday) Mr. Price saw two men conveying four horses
by side roads and across grounds in the neighbourhood
of his farm in Berkshire. He immediately suspected
the horses were stolen, and pursued the men by
whom they were conducted. At first he endea-
voured to banter and " deal" with them; but
at last exclaiming, " One of those horses looks
very like a horse belonging to Mr. Brown, of Horn-
castle," the man now missing raid, " If you have got
any better title to the horses than we have, take them."
Mr. Price, in a most determined tone, replied, " I'll not
be content with the horses, but I'll have men too," The
prisoner and his companion immediately made off in
different directions, one taking to the right and the other
to the left. Mr. Price followed the prisoner, who, find-
ing himself closely pursued, threw himself from his
horse and took to the fields. Mr. Price, like a good
sportsman, followed his game, and, to use the expression
he this day used in his evidence, "ran the prisoner to
corer," but afterwards " broke ground " and secured
him. It turned out, upon consulting that unerring
chronicle the Hue and Cry, that Mr. Price's suspicions
were perfectly correct, and on the following Monday
Mr. Brown arrived in Reading to identify the stolen
horses. The master-man, as he was called, sans horses
of course, got away.
It was stated yesterday and this morning that a great
defence was to be made for Haynes.
An attorney, or an attorney's clerk, from Essex-street,
Strand, represented that they should prove that the pri-
soner (who is a London man, but who represented him-
self to come from Glastonbury) was at Sleaford the night
the robbery was committed.
The case for the defence, so far from benefiting the
prisoner, after Mr. Wildman's very able reply, tended to
convict him, and he was sentenced to fifteen years'
transportation.
Mr. Justice PATTESON' ordered Mr. Price to receive
from the county 101., in addition to the ordinary allow-
ance.

NORFOLK ClRCUlT.—Norwich, Dec. 19.
(Before Mr. Justice WILLIAMS.)
George Dye, aged 17, was indicted for wilfully and
maliciously setting fire to a wheat stack, the property
of Daniel Watson, of Lurling.

Mr. Evans appeared on behalf of the prosecution.
The prisoner was not defended.
The prosecutor is an innkeeper at Lurling, and also
farms a small quantity of land. On Sunday night, the 25th
of August, the prisoner and five other men had been
spending the evening at the prosecutor's house ; they
lett about half•past nine o'clock, and went up the road
together until they came to the turn of the road leading
to Hockliani. The prisoner then left the other men,
saying that he was going to Norwich. They had passed
the stack a minute before, and must have seen a blaze
if it had then been on fire. Soon after they had parted
company with the prisoner, they perceived the reflection
of a fire in the direction of the prosecutor's house ; but,
thinking it was far off, they did not turn back. About
half an hour after the six men had left the prosecutor's
house, he was called up by the prisoner, by whom he
was informed that there was a fire up the road. He
looked out of his window, and saw his own stack in a
blaze. 'rho prisoner made several statements of a con-
tradictory character, in consequence of which he was
detained in custody, and was afterwards examined as a
witness against two of the men who had been in his
company at the prosecutor's house. The prisoner and
the two men were kept in custody for eleven days, but
the evidence being insufficient to connect them with the
actual perpetration of the offence, they were discharged.
However, on Oct. 8, Stephen English, a Suffolk consta-
ble, was going from Bury to Ludeury in a gig, and about
a mile from Bury he overtook the prisoner and two boys,
and being requested by the former to take up one of the
boys, who he stated was his brother, the constable took
the lad up, an I drove him five miles. During the ride,
the boy told English all about the fire at Lurling, and
when the prisoner came up, the constable observed to
him how fortunate he had; been in getting off the fire
job so easily. The prisoner replied that he was very

' fortunate ; he kept his tongue quiet, and they could get
no hold of him. He then said that there were two others
in the Mt2SS as well as him ; they had been apprehended,
but were discharged. English thee asked the prisoner
if they were the persons who did the fire. He replied
that he did it, that he went over the gate, and set the
stack on fire with lucifer matches, and not a ball, and
that he then gave the alarm that no suspicion might fol-
low him. The prisoner then gave the details of a fire
he did at Ipswich. English then asked him if he had
done many fires, to which the prisoner replied, that if
he had not there was no reason why he should not, that
there would be plenty of more fires this winter ; he did
not care about being transported ; if he was there were
plenty more to take his place. The prisoner had not the
slightest idea that his interrogator was a constable,
English having previous!y stated that he was a liquor
merchant, and the prisoner was npt a little surprised
when informed of the real calling of his companion, who,
as soon as the prisoner had furnished him with with a
detailed account of his exploits, took him into custody,
and the prisoner then thought he hall been bamboozled
by the disguised liquor merchant.
The prisoner when called upon for his defence, told
the jary that English had spoken falsely, but the jury
thought otherwise, and found the prisoner Guilty.—
Sentence deferred.

William Medlar, aged 37, was indicted for wilfully
and maliciously setting fire to a stack of wheat, the pro.
perty of Robert Samuel Thorne, Burgh, next Aylsham.
Mr. Palmer appeared for the prosecution ; Mr. Pren-
dergast defended the prisoner.
The prosecutor is a farmer, residing at the parish of
Burgh, and the prisoner is a cordwainer, living in the
same parish. About one o'clock of the morning of
Tuesday, the 26th of November last, a stack of wheat
belonging to the prosecutor, standing in the midst of
several other stacks, was discovered to be on fire by Mrs.
Goodson, the wife of the constable of Burgh, who lives
near the premises of Thorne. Goodson was awoke by
his wife, and immediately got up and called the prose-
cutor, who arrived at the stockyard before the fire had
extended as far as the eaves of the stack. Persons in
the neighbourhood arrived soon afterwards at the fire,
but only in time to save the surrounding stacks. The
stack fired; (the produce of twelve acres) was totally
consumed. Two policemen arrived at the fire shortly
after it had broken out. Soon after they came up they
perceived a smell gap in the fence leading from the stack-
yard into a field of wheat, where some one had got over,
and one of them watched by the gap till daylight,
to prevent any person proceeding in that direction,
and destroying any trace of footsteps that might
exist in the field ; and on examining the wheat
field the policeman discovered thirteen footsteps leading
towards the prisoner's houSe. From circumstances
which came to the knowledge of the policemen, the pri-
soner was apprehended between eight and nine on the
morning of the fire. The prisoner's shoes were taken
off and compared with the impressions in the field, and
they corresponded in every respect. The cottage of the
prisoner was searched, and part of a box of lucifer
matches corresponded in colour and dip with one that
was found in the ditch of the wheat field, near the gap
leading from the stack yard. The prisoner, when ap-
prehended, stated that he had been in bed hours and
hours when the fire broke out ; but on inquiry being set
set on foot, it was ascertained that, about twelve o'clock
on the night of the fire, the prisoner called at the public-
house in Aylsham, which is the adjoining parish to
Burgh. In order to prove malice on the part of the pri-
soner towards the prosecutor, it was proved that the
prisoner had repeatedly expressed the greatest animosity
towards Mr. Thorne. On one occasion he was heard to
say that " Mr. Thorne starved him and his wife and
children, and would not give him work, nor suffer others
to do it, and that he would mark him for it some day or
other."

Mr. PRENDERGAST addressed the jury on behalf of the
prisoner with great ability.
The Learned JUDGE summed up the case, and the jury
found a verdict of Guilty.—Sentence deferred.

against her. In all cases cited by Judges Gurney:- ::'`7l'.'
teson, Gazelee, and Littledale, it was held that the 61"
dence was inadmissible.
The JCDGE-I shall receive the evidence, subject t& a
proper case.
Examination continued—l arrested Miss Railton, ftnd

delivered her to Casey, at his private residence. The
lock-up at Wolverhampton is a wretched and miserable
place, and I did not take her there on that account, fur
I am sorry to see an unfortunate woman in that miserable
place. She said, " I am sorry I did not tell you all
ah-nit it, but what will become of my sister, her seven
children, and the poor young man ? At noon, on Sun-
day three weeks, a person came to me and performed an
operation on me, which caused me excruciating pain until
a lute hour of the night. At night, my sister delivered me
of a child, which she killed." I a‘lted, " How do you
know it was killed?" She said, "It was born alive, I
heard it cry." I asked her what became of it ? She
said, " A person came three or four nights after and
took it away." She said it was Mr. Sherriff, and addod
that he had performed a similar operation three or four
times in two months, but never with effect until that

Sunday. She said she was not ill until the operaktion
had been performed. She was quite well previously.
On the 16th I saw her again, in consequence of a note
from Casey. This is the note produced.
Casey recalled—This note is in my handwritin. I
sent it to Colonel 1f0,4.-• in consequence of Miss Railton
telling me she would like to see him. I said it was late,
but she desired to see him, and I wrote the note.

Colonel Hogg continued—When I got there I saw her
in the same room. She said, " I have been most un-
happy since I saw you yesterday, lest, from the state of
mind I was in. I might have told you anything that is
untrue." I then, at her request, repeated what she told
me the previous day from my note-book, which I ht. re
with me. When I came to the part where she said 'ner
sister had killed the child, she said, " Oh, did I say sac, ?
,Then I must be mad, and at the time did not know what
I was ;saying. My poor sister ; she took the ci
rolled it up, took it to the tire, gave it some nout•ish-
ment, and it died. My poor mister ! lam sure she felt
very much for it."
Cross-examined by Mr. ALLEN—I did apply to the
Coroner for a warrant, but ht; refused. I only made
application. Miss Railton was arrested immediati Jy
after the Coroner declined to intcrferC
Henry Wm. Omberlow, chemist,.•
of Tolverhamp-,ton
—I remember Mr. Sherriff coming to tot-,
about five
months ago. He said he wanted to ask a favour, .for
me to attend a female who was respectable, and whcre
seuresy was required. I said, "Do you want me to pro-
cure a miscarriage ?" He said, yes. I replied, no in-
ducement would cause me to do it. Lie said the ,nailY
would "eome down."

Wm. Quinton, surgeon, of Queen-street, Wolverhamp-
ton—The back part of my premises are in Curtle-street.
Sherriff was my assistant. I have seen Hildreth at my
surgery frequently, from August to September. I asked
Sherriff the object of Hildreth's visits. He told me
dreth wished him to procure the abortion of a highly
respectable female, who would be confined in a room of
Hildreth's house, the greatest secresy to be observed, and
money no object. I think this was on the 25th of Au-
gust. He asked me if I would take the case. I replied,
" I will have nothing to do with it." Mr. Sherriff came
to me on the 28th of October, and said, " There is a

child found in the privy in the yard." I went out and
saw the body, which I should think had been there three
or four days.
Cross-examined by Mr. ALLEN—I saw Mr. Hildreth
at my surgery twenty times or more. The first time was
on the 18th of August. On the 25th I spoke to Sher-
riff about it for the first time. When I saw Hildreth on
the 13th of November, he said he had called upon Sher-
riff about selling him some books.
After some further evidence,
Mr. IIunDLEsToNE submitted that there was no case
to go to the jury against Miss Railton, as her own state-
ment was the only thing which affected her, and it was
questionable whether that was legal advice.
The JUDGE—I think there is evidence to go to the
jury. _ _

Messrs. Yardley, Allen, and Huddlestone severally
addressed the jury for the prisoners, who received exem-
plary characters from persons of the highest grade of
Wolverhampton.
Mr. Justice COLTMAN summed up the voluminous
evidence in a most minute manner, pointing out to the
jury the law as it regarded each and all of the prisoners.
The jury retired at nine o'clock, and on their return in
half an hour Acquitted all the prisoners, which, the re-
porter adds, was received with applause in Court.
There is another indictment against Sherriff.