The Sun.
London, England, 1829-04-13 00:00:00

SATURDAY, APRIL 11.

Joseph Warren alias Goldby, John Mud:lord,
Judith Catchall, alias Ireland, Thomas Darlistone,
James While, Penry White, John. White,' David
White, John Squelch, John Mellor, and Wm. Goldby
were indicted for feloniously shooting at RObert
Hood, gamekeeper to D. S. Dtigdale,,Esq., M.P.;
at Merivale, on the night of Friday, the 19th of De-
cember last, with intent to murder him, the said
Hood, or to do him some grievous bodily harm.—
There were other counts in the indictment, charging
Warren as principal, and the other ten prisoners as
accessories.

The Jury, after some deliberation, found all the
prisoners Guilty.
Mr. Justice BURROUGH ordered sentence of death
to be recorded, but intimated to the prisoners that
their lives would be spared. His Lordship took oc-
casion, however, to point out the serious and miser-
able consequencei to which illegal courses of this
description were calculated to lead all thot!i who
were addicted to them.

Thomas Carr, Thomas Murray, and Handy
Dillon, were indicted for the wilful murder of, John
Dwyor, at Birmingham, on the night of Sundav,the
23d of November last, or the morning of Monday,
the 24th.
The Jury returned a verdict of Manslaughter
against the three prisoners.
Mr. Justice BURROUGH sentenced them to be se-
verally transported for seven years.
Win. Armstrong, aged 33, David Lush ford, aged
17, and John Davis, aged 17, were arraigned on the
Coroner's inquisition,(the Grand Jury having ig-
nored the indictment),, for the wilful murder of
Thomas London alias Massa Malena Corry, at
Stourbridge, in September last. The deceased was a
native of 'Africa, and went about the country, occa-
sionally wearing a tin placard, soliciting alms, and
generally frequenting races and fairs with a gaming
table. On the day is question he had a squabble
with the two younger prisoners on the Stourbridge-
race course, about some money which they charged
him with having unfairly won of them, and which
they insisted on his refunding. He refused, and
they, having called the elder prisoner to their aid,
beat him severely about the head with their fists,
while Armstrong held him by the collar. Upon his
going to his lodgings that night he complained of
being unwell, but he afterwards seemed to recover,
and (this having occurred on Tuesday) he attended
the Warwick races on the following Monday. He
returned home early however, on that day, took to
his bed, and died in about three weeks, declaring
positively that his death was occasioned by the ill
usage he had received from .colliers at Stourbridge
races.
The Jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
W ith this case, which lasted until past seven
o'clock at night, terminated the present assizes.

GLOUCESTER, MAncif 10.
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Arthur Roberts was indicted, charged upon the
Coroner's inquisition, with the wilful murder of his
wife Margaret Roberts.
William Short said, I am a felt-maker, and reside
at Bitton, in this county. I know the prisoner at
the bar, and knew his late wife, Margaret Roberts.
I reside under the same roof with the prisoner, our
houses being separated by a thin lath and plaster
partition. The prisoner and his wife had resided
there about four years. She was about 22 or 23
years of age. I remember in the early part of Oc-
tober last, between one and two o'clock one morn-
ing, hearing a noise in Robert's room, as if there
was a strangling in his bed. I heard him swear
with very bitter oaths, that he would do for ber
and that he would make a madam of her before any
very great while. The deceased cried out very
much, as if he was beating her. The next morning
he said he would take her to see Bath,' which is
about eight miles from Bitton. I saw the deceased
in the evening, she had two black eyes, her face
was much bruised, and there was a good deal of
blood about it. She was beat in the most " ridicu-
lous" manner I ever sawin my life. I said to the
prisoner, he ought to be ashamed of himself, and
asked him, why he had beaten her so ? He replied,
" It was her own fault; she had been with two men."
She denied it, with tears in her eyes...) The next morn.
ing she came to my door, and brought her clothes ;
she wanted me to go with her to a Magistrate%„lhe

prisoner came -afterwards to me and said he was
afraid she was going, and he should not see her any
more. The deceasedafterward returned to her own
house, and from that time to the time of her death I
had frequent opportunities of seeing her. Before that
night in October she had been the picture of health;
but from that time her spirits seemed broken, and
she gradually declined till the period of her death.l
On the 17th of November, the prisoner himself
ame to my house just after daylight in the morn-
ing; he asked where my wife was. I said she was
not yet down. He said he wanted her to go into
his house, to have her opinion of his wife. I
asked him how she was—was she worse?—
! He said she was just alive, and that was all.—
'He said that with a most malicious smile.
When my wife came down, 1 went with her into
the prisoner's house, and there saw his wife. She
was ill in bed, and looked very black all round the
face; she could not speak. The prisoner asked me
what I thought of her. I said I thought she would
be alive but a very short time. My wife said the
same, and was quite astonished to see her in that
state from the Saturday. The 17th was on a Mon-
day, and we had seen the deceased on the Satur-
day. The prisoner said he would go for a doctor, as
it should not be said " that she died without a re-
medy." I saw the prisoner again in the evening, and
said it was a very serious thing his wife being in that
way, and I told him his conscience must testify to
him that he was the cause of it—that he would be
brought before the Judge of the world, who knew all
things, and had seen what he had done to her. The
prisoner cried at those observations. The following
kday (Tuesday) I saw him again ; he was sitting on
the side of the bed, near his wife, and had hold of
her hand. I told him it was enough to melt the
heart of iron to see the state she was in. I told him
to seek her forgiveness. He said she wished to hold
his hand, and that " it would be a good job if she
was dead out of her misery." She seemed very
composed in her mind and sensible, and looked at
me as if she knew me, and knew what I Was talking
about, but she could not speak. On the next day,
the 19th, she died. I saw her body after it was laid
out; on her throat there were marks where the pri-
soner had taken hold of her with his right hand.
The prisoner is a felt-maker. His wife was a very
meek, serene woman. She used to go to a Sunday
school to learn to read, and I don't think the pri-
soner liked her so well for that. She was very
quiet, and never troubled herself with any one's
business, and told but little of her own, except when
her husband ill used her.

Cross-examined—l should think the prisoner is
nearly 70 years of age.
The Jury returned a verdict of " Guilty of man-
slaughter by pressure on the throat."
Mr. Justice J. PARKE—That is, Gentlemen, on
the second count ?

Foreman—Yes, my Lord.
Mr. Justice J. PARKE then said, that he should
not pass sentence, but would reserve the point for
the opinion of the Judges.
The prisoner's countenance is peculiarly unfavour-
able. Grey. hair,- dark bushy eye-brows, and dark
'eyes, deeply seated in his head, with a look .of low
cunning, watching closely every turn of his case,
rendered his appearance,•under such circumstances,
very unprepossessing.

RESTORATION OF THE MISSING

CHILD.

An account of the mysterious disappearance of a
little boy, four years of age, the son of a Mr. Sid-
dons, of the Hackney-road, appeared in the News-
papers on Thursday last, detailing several particulars.
Inquiries were since made as to what had become of
the lost child; and to this end the dissecting-rooms
of the different hospitals, as well as private places of
the same description, were visited, apprehensions
being entertaiued that it might have fallen into the
}muds of monsters, who after having what is termed
" Burked" it, then disposed of its body for dissec-
tion. In this dreadful state of suspense, apprehend-
ing the worst, the parents remained for a whole
week, no tidings having reached them as to the fate
of their child, notwithstanding the usual steps were
taken to lead to a discovery. The day, however,
following that on which the investigation took place
on the subject before the Magistrates, the Master of
West Ham Workhouse, seeing an account of the
disappearance of the child in a newspaper, and a
little boy answering the description of Mrs. Sid-
dons's having been brought there, he communicated
the fact to the Chief Clerk of Union Hall, and on
Saturday attended at that office with the child ; the
parents having been also apprised of the circum-
stance, were in attendance. Upon the Magistrates
taking their seats, the child was brought into the
office, and the moment the mother beheld it, she
rushed forward to the infant, and clasping it in her
arms, claimed it as her own, and shed tears of grati-
tude for its restoration. The poor woman's feelings
were so overpowered with joy on again beholding
her child, for whose safety fears were entertained,
that she swooned away, and was insensible to what
was passing around her for some time. The master
of the above workhouse related, that the child was
picked up late at night on last Saturday week in
Whitechapel, and delivered over by a boy to one of
the beadles of West Ham, who conveyed it to the
workhouse, where it remained until the account of
its disappearance had appeared in the papers. The
child itself is of so tender an age, that it was unable
to relate any particulars as to the manner in which
it had strayed so far from the dwelling of its parents.
The two women in custody on suspicion or hav-
ing been concerned in stealing the child, were dis-
charged on the relation of the above circumstances,
but Simmonds was again taken into custody and
held to bail, for threatening the life of the mother of
the child.