The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-20 00:00:00

Mr. JARDINE said the officers should do the best they
could to get up further evidence, and ordered the pri-
soneY to be remanded for a week.
LAMBETH.

Upon the Hon, Mr. Norton taking his seat this morn-
ing on the bench, the Magistrate was informed that about
half past six o'clock last night a most determined at-
tempt was made by five prisoners, confined in one of the
cells of the new Court, to make their escape, and which
was very nearly successful.
Last night the five prisoners were locked up in the
cell, waiting for the arrival of the van. Cook, the gaoler,
hearing an unusual noise, went to the cell in which the
prisoners were confined, and soon ascertained that they
had succeeded in removing the whole of the iron lattice-.
work attached to the windows, and in a very few minutes
more the whole of the prisoners must have got clear off.
Mr. NORTON gave directions that the clerk of the
works should be sent for, and acquainted with the cir-
cumstance.

MUIWEROUS ASSAULT BY
POACHERS.

Saturday information was received of an assault
of a most deadly nature committed upon Henry
Tebby, a gamekeeper in the service of Rousby,
Esq., of Collisford House, near Bicester, Oxfordshire.
The keeper, it appears, was proceeding to Hethe,
about seven o'clock in the evening, for the purpose of
engaging a man to work on the following morning,
and was passing a plantation, when he heard the cry
of a hare, as if caught in a snare, and, going to the
spot, he met three men, one of whom he knew, and
addressing him, he said, "Ah ! Jesse Willis, is that
you ?—I know you." The fellow instantly struck
him down with a heavy bludgeon, and as he lay on
the ground all the three men beat him most dread-
fully, and then made off. He was so much injured
as to be unable to move for some time, but at length
made his way to the house of the Rev. A. Maguire,
a Roman Catholic priest, and requested that some one
might be sent to Collisford to inform his brother and
his master of what had occurred.

The Rev. Gentleman himself immediately went
into the village to look for a messenger, and on the
way asked a man whom he met to go to Mr. Rousby's,
at Collisford, and inform him one of his keepers had
been dreadfully beaten by poachers. The man, how-
ever, who afterwards proved to be no other than Jesse
Willis himself, declined the mission, and some one
else was sought for. In the meantime a constable
named Harris had arrived, and from what Tebby
told him he went into the village and apprehended
Willis, and took him also to Mr. Msguire's; and the
keeper, being asked if he knew that man, said, " Yes,
that is Willis—that is the man that struck me." Mr.
Jones, a surgeon, was sent for to attend Tebby,
who he found ,to he in a dangerous state, frightfully
cut, and suffering from a concussion of the brain.
The poor man was afterwards removed to his own
house, and the next morning Willis was taken before
the magistrates at Bicester, and remanded for a week,
a medical certificate being produced, stating the
danger in which Tebby was.

THE SHAPWICK MURDERS.
Yesterday (Friday) the Coroner's jury assembled at
Shapwick, to ascertain the cause of the death of James
Dimond, an illegitimate child, aged seven years, of
Sarah Freeman, who died in November, 1843. The body
was exhumed on Saturday last, and a portion of the
contents of the stomach was subjected to analytical
tests by Mr. Herapath, who pronounced it as
his opinion that the child had been poisoned
by arsenic. Evidence was given which incul-
pated Sarah Freeman in administering the poison ;
and a verdict of Wilful Murder against her was re-
turned. Five other sudden deaths of children have, it
is said, lately taken place in one family in this parish,
which Sarah Freeman was in the habit of visiting ;
and it is expected that further exhumations and in-
quiries will in consequence take place.

BRISTOL, SATURDAY MORNING.—The inquest held
at Shapwick on the bodies of the husband, Henry
Freeman, and the illegitimate child of Sarah Free-
man, concluded late last night, the jury returned in
both cases verdicts of wilful murder against her.
The facts adduced in evidence in the case of the
illegitimate child (a boy about seven years of age)
showed that it died suddenly in the month of No-
vember, in the year before last (1843), and at the
inquest which was held on the body, the following
day, a verdict of natural death was recorded. On the
body being exhumed, on the 11th instant, the surgeon
took away from the coffin the whole of the intestinal
canal and the liver, and placed them in a jar. Since
then they have been carefully examined, and it was
distinctly discovered that the child's death had been
occasioned by arsenic, a portion of which had been ex-
tracted and produced to the satisfaction of the jury.
In the case of the death of the husband, which hap-
pened shortly after that of the child, and whose body
has also been exhumed, Mr. Ilerapath, the surgeon,
stated he had analysed the contents of the stomach,
and was of opinion that the death had resulted by the
same poison—arsenic. On the 27th of December the
prisoner gave notice to a burial club that her husband
had died, he having been a member of the club ; 201.
was paid to her, with which she expressed herself
much dissatisfied. The inquest concluded at nine
o'clock last night.
MORE SUPPOSED MURDERS.--At the conclusion of
the above inquests, the Coroner made the subjoined
remarks to the jury :--" Gentlemen, lam afraid I
shall have further 4ccasion for your services. I have
received a letter from highly respectable persons, the
statements made in which are very alarming—namely,
that five other deaths have occurred in the parish very
recently, and all of them in one family. It is also
stated to me in that letter, and I do not know how far
it may be true, that the woman (Sarah Freeman)
was in the constant habit of visiting that house.