The Sun.
London, England, 1827-09-05 00:00:00

LONDON,

custody; CaSties, and the deceased took hold of the
prisoner, who went with them for about one hundred
and fifty yards tolerably 'quiet, when he made a
sudden spring, and said he would be cursed if he
went any further. The deceased still retained his
hold, and the prisoner seized him by the neckcloth,
and pressed his knuckles against his windpipe,: and
so held him for nearly a minute and a half. On the
prisoner being disengaged by another constable, the
deceased staggered to a paling, and there stood with
his head leaning over the palings. He afterwards
'recovered a little, and by supporting himself against
the back of the prisoner, contrived to keep up ivith
them about one hundred yards, and then fell down
on his back, and a noise, as of the rattles, instantly
issued from his throat. His comrades took him rip,
and conveyed him to an adjoining house, where., in
four minutes afterwards, he breathed his last.
A medical Gentleman, who had examine& the
body of the deceased, shortly after his - death, have
it as his opinion that, death was produced by apopexy.
Mr. Baron VAUGHAN expressed great astonish-
ment at this opinion, but the witness persistdd in
maintaining it. He admitted, however, that he, had
not opened the body.
T4e Learned BARON summed up, and left it for
the. Jury to say•whether, as men of common sense,
they could believe that the death was produced
otherWrid thin by the violence of the prisoner.
ThTe".:Tury instantly found him " Guilty."
The Learned BARON said, no one could doubt the
propriety of their verdict ; and had the prisoner been
indicted fur murder, be should not have hesitated to
have left bim for execution.—His case was a most
aggravated one, and the sentence of the Court, tipon
him was, that he be transported for life.,
Thonzas Gyde stood charged with assaulting
Hannah West, with intent to commit a rape. ,
The prosecutrix, a woman of diminutive stature,
and evidently in a very weakly state, deposed that
she was a single woman, and was .53 years old. On
the 2d of August last she was at work along With
the prisoner, in a field belonging to his fatheri, at
Painswick. About 5 o'clock in the evening, While

the other labourers were gone to another part of the
field, the prisoner pushed her down, and attempted
violently to accomplish his purpose. She screamed
and called for assistance as loudly as she could, and
is sure sonic of the labourers must have heard her.
He continued his violence upwards of half an hour,
and during the whole of that time she kept scream-
ing. At last Sarah Protst came up the ladder to
her assistance, and the prisoner then left her, and
swore he would kick the ladder down on which
Sarah Prout was standing. Sarah Prout jumped
off the ladder, and the witness ran to it, and got
down it as fast as possible. The prisoner had hurt.
her greatly by his violence.
Sarah Prout stated that she was coming from her
work, and heard the screams full twenty minutes
before she reached the rick; they sounded like those
of a person in great distress ; when she first got up
the ladder, the prisoner was in such a situation as
left no doubt as to his intention; the prosecutriX ap-
peared dreadfully agitated, and the tears ran down
her cheeks, in quite a stream.
The prisoner said, he only intended to have taken
a kiss.—The Jury instantly found him " Guilty.,"
The Learned BARON . told him he had been Owl-
victed on satisfactory evidence, of a most aggravisted
misdemeanour. His face was perfectly familiar to him,
for be remembered well the circumstances and man-
ner in which he escaped at the last Assizes. He
could hardly have believed a man could have been
guilty of such brutality ; and as to the Persosis' in
the field, if they did hear the screams of
the unfortunate woman, he knew of no language
sufficiently strong to express his disgust at their dis-
gust at their conduct. They were a disgrace to
their nature, and were unworthy of the name of men.
Had he (the prisoner) effected his wicked intent, he
should certainly have left him for execution. The
sentence of the Court was, that he should be impri-
soned two years, and kept to hard labour.
Wm. autterbuek, a man upwards of 70 years of
age, was convicted, on the clearest evidence, of an
assault, with a crimal intent, on a child only ten
years old, and was sentenced to two years' imprison-
ment.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—LANCASTER, SErr: 3.
James Thompson was indicted for stealing, at
Ormskirk, a gelding, the property of Robert Brad-
shaw, on the 20th of January last.
Bradshaw, a livery-stable-keeper at Ormskirk,
deposed, that the prisoner came to him and hired a
horse on the morning in question. The prisoner
said he came from Wigan, but did not give his
name, neither did he, the witness, ask for it. The
prisoner left an umbrella, saying he should not want
it. He did not bring back the horse, and which the
Witness never saw again, nor did he see the pri-
soner until the June following, when he was in
custody.
The prisoner, in his defence, handed up a written
paper, stating, that he was a native of Scotland,
without friends or money ; he was 56 years old, and
had served his King and country 18 years. He was
under General Whitelock at Buenos Ayres, and
wounded there. He was then under Sir Thomas
Picton in the Peninsular war for six years, and
wounded many times : once at the storming at Ba-
dajoz, and onee at Vittoria. He was also at Ciudad
Rodrigo and Toulouse.
Mr. Justice BAYLEY said, if a man hired a horse
with the intention of taking it off, that was a theft.
If at the time of hiring he intended to return it,
bnt after circumstances made him change his mind,
although liable in a different way, he was not guilty
of the felony, But in that case it was the duty of
the person charged to satisfy the Jury that he did
intend to return the horse at the time he hired it.
Verdict—Guilty—Death recorded.
Mr. Justice BAYLEY said to the prisoner, as to
that offence his life would be spared, and he would
make inquiry about the truth of a written character
the prisoner had handed up.
We understand there is another charge against the
prisoner for a murder, for which he will be tried at
Chester. _

James Hurst and George Clough were indicted
for burglariously.entering the house of John Buckley,
at Oldham.
Mr. Justice BAYLEy summed up, and the Jury,
after five minutes' deliberation, found Hurst Guilty,
and acquitted Clough.
Hurst was then, with four other men, put to the
bar for the burglary in Shaw's house. This trial
was pending when our despatch was sent off.

ACCIDENT BY A STEAM-GUN.—Last eve-
nin CY at seven o'clock an Inquest was held before
Thbomas Shelton, Esq., at St. Thomas's Hospi-
tal, on view of the body of Alaxander Bracken-
ridge. By the evidence of Mr. John Penn, en-
gineer, at Greenwich, who saw the accident
which caused the man's death, it appeared'that
the deceased was employed on Mr. Perkins's new
invented steam-engine for the purpose of dis-
charging bullets ; about three o'clock on Friday
last, he was working the pump to fill the gene-
rators—that by some means the two pistons be-
came disjointed, which was the cause of steam
getting into the machine ; this made the valve
rebound, and part of the engine flew with im-
mense force against the eye of the deceased.—
He was immediately conveyed to the Hospital,
where he lived but a short time. Verdict—
(' Accidental deati