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London, England, 1828-03-21 00:00:00

LENT ASSIZES;

NORFOLK CIRCUIT.—THETFORD, MARCH 19.
.John Mortimer Algar and Join Palmer were in-
dicted for having, on the Ist of November, felo-
niously uttered to one William Dodd, at Fou'den, in
this county, a counterfeit 5/. Bank of England note,
they knowing it to have been counterfeit, with intent,
in the first part, to defraud the Governor and Com-
pany of the Bank of England, in the' second, to de-
fraud the said Wm. Dodd.

The Jury found both the prisoners Guilty.
The Learned Judge immediately pronounced the
sentence of death on both, with an assurance that
they must not entertain the least hope of their lives
being spared.
Great interest prevails here as to the fate of
Kennie, against whom an indictment for murder has
been found. He is the son of a respectable farmer
in the county.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.-STAFFORD, MARCH 19.

Ralph Eldershaw, an ill-looking diminutive
boy, 12 years of age, was indicted for assaulting
Mary Finney, an infant only-14 months' old, with
intent to commit a rape. There was a second count,
charging him with a common assault.
The prisoner was apprenticed to the father of the
child, and while her mother was washing, was in-
trusted with the care of the infant. Under pretence
of taking her out to play, he got her away from
home, and availed himself of that opportunity to ill-
treat her. She was brought into court in the arms
of her father,. and from the evidence of the mother,
the surgeon, and another apprentice, to whom the
prisoner had confessed, it appeared that the child had
been very much injured.
The Jury returned a verdict of " Guilty" of a
common assault.

Mr. Baron VAUGTIAN—I very much regret that
his master did not give him a hearty flogging; it
would have been a most wholesome punishment,
without endangering his life, and much better than
bringing him here. I wish I had the authority to
order him a good flogging.

The Governor of-the gaol was fearful a long im-
prisonment would not be beneficial to him: there
were a great many bad boys already in the prison.
After some further discussion as to the best mode
of disposing of the prisoner, he was finally sentenced
to three months' imprisonment.
Isaiah Curran was indicted for assaulting Robert
Sutton, with intent to murder him or do him some
bodily harm.
The Jury acquitted the prisoner.

IRELAND.-LENT ASSIZES.

COUNTY LOUTH. .-.---ARCH 14.

John Seeds and Owen Ferguson were indicted
for the murder of Patrick Tuite, by giving him a
mortal wound with a hammer.

Michael Maguire examined by Mr. STAPLES—,On
the day Tuite was murdered witness was digging
potatoes in a field near • Conon, about GO or 70
perches from the spot where the murdered man was
found. Sal, two men driving pigs. Witness was
stooping at his work, when he heard a screech ; he
looked up and observed that the pigs were standing,
and he thought it was one of them that gave the
screech. He resumed his work, and upon looking
up again, he saw the pigs going on, and one man
only with them ; they could not have stood longer
than four minutes ; the man who was then driving
them wore a white coat, the other had on a black or
brown one. Witness returned home, when he heard
that a man was killed on the road ; he went to see
the man, who he found in a dying state. It was
about four o'clock. Witness had not been more than
nine minutes in the field.

David Lithgow, Esq. M.D., examined by Coun-
sellor MURR IY--I was called upon by Capt. Saun-
, derson about half-past five o'clock in the evening, to
see a man who was beaten about a mile and a quar-
ter from Colton. I found the man alive, moaning,
and making a slight motion with his right hand; I
examined the body and found a contused wound on
the front of his head, from which a large portion of
the brains protruded.
Captain Saunders, of the Police, examined by Mr.
MURRAY—I saw the prisoner Ferguson, on the 17th
of October, in Slane ; he was driving three pigs.
Capt. M'Clintock was with me. Arrested him, and
found on hisperson a purse; the purse now produced
is the same.

Captain M'Clintock, examined—l was with Cap-
tain Saunders when he arrested Ferguson. I took
from him a purse, a whip, and three pigs. The whip
now produced is that which I took from Seeds.
Catherine Tuite, examined—l am the widow of the
late Patrick Tuite. He came to Ireland to purchase
pigs. The purse, the whip, the knife, and the scis-
sors now produced were his property.
H. M. Blackwell, Esq. M.D., sworn—The pri-,
soner, Ferguson, told me that 'he himself committed
the murder, and that no other person was concerned
in it. He said he killed Tuite with a stroke of a
hammer.

Thomas Hughes, sworn.—l found a hammer
near the place where the murder was committed the
day after.
The case closed here. The Jury retired for a
short time, and returned a verdict of Guilty against
Ferguson—Seeds, not Guilty.
The Judge immediately proceeded to pass the aw-
ful sentence of the law on the unfortunate culprit.

LIMERICK, MARCH 17.

Edmund Carroll was indicted for a felonious as-
sault upon the person of Anne Knockton. , •
Anne Knockton, an extremely interesting girl,
about twenty years of age, was examined--She
knew the prisoner at the bar. He was her first
cousin. In August last there was a funeral of a
neighbour, to which she went. She walked. Saw
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marry a man on account of his riches only. She
did not like him, and would not have him. Never
allowed any body to be, intimate with her. Don't
know if any body passed or not, for she lost her
senses, she was so overpowered. He caught her
round the waist, and threw her down before she
knew where she was.
The father and mother of the prosecutriz wee
called to prove her having told them her misfortune
when she came home, and their having gone to lodge
informations against the prisoner. They denied
having ever entered into a treaty of marriage with
the prisoner.—Verdict, Guilty.
Baron PENNEFATITER immediately passed sen-
tence of death on him.
While the trial was going on, the father and
mother of the girl with the Priest, were urging her
to consent to a marriage with the prisoner ; but she
resolutely resisted every attempt, and said, if she
married him she would never live with him. When
the Jury returned their verdict it affected her very
much, and she then consented to marry him, rather,
as she said, than have his blood upon her; but this
the Judge refused to permit.