The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-17 00:00:00

5, Bedford-street, Strand. There is no number 9, in
the street. There is no number beyond No. 5, in the
street. There ig a silk wireheuge trtween Nos. 5 and
10, occupying the whole of the houses.
Mr. Atkinson, a surgeon, stated that he had attended
the husband of deceased during his lifetime for more
than two years. Saw the deceased last alive about a
month before her death. She always appeared in uni-
form health and good spirits. Had known her
altogether about four years. Had never heard
of her having taken poison. On Monday,
the Ist of December, he was called to her
room. She was dead, and must have been dead
for some time. The face was swollen and livid, and the
eyes wide open and staring. Blood was issuing from
the mouth, nose, and ears. There was a cord upon the
ground. Witness examined the neck, and found two
deep lines on the front of the neck, and only one line at
the back. Her death was undoubtedly caused
by strangulation. The appearances presented would
correspond with such a cord as the one
produced. It was very improbable that the deceased
could have destroyed herself. Has drawn the inference
that the rope was drawn twice rvund the neck, and the
power was applied from behind. There wa't no mark of
a knot on the neck. Examined the hands of the deceased
but there was nothing peculiar to be remarked with re-
spect to them.
By the CounT—lf the decased had fastened the rope
to anything in the wall, and kaned forward, the same
marks would have been produced.
Examination continued—ln such a case as the one
put by the Learned Judge, he would expect to find the
body leaning forward, and not lying on the box. There
were some pegs in the wall, but they would not have
borne the weight of the body. His attention was not
drawn to the bed.

This closed the case for the prosecution.
Mr. CLARKSON then rose :amidst a profound silence,
and addressed the jury. He asked them if they
were prepared to believe that the prisoner at the
bar was capable of being so artful as his friend
had represented her to be. Could she, within a few
hours of the commission of so heartless a murder, have
prepared so consistent a statement for the coroner
has had been read to the Court a short time
since. But acting upon the supposition that she was so
artful, would she have left the room where the murder
was committed while Mrs. Mundell was in the agonies of
death, if death had not already seized her, to speak to
the watchful Mrs. Cheshire? Would she have left the
remainder of the cord with which sho effected the crime
in an open box in the room open to the examination of
every person who chose to come into that room. Did
she not call in every assistance that she could, and
manifest every anxiety to do all that she could
both for the deceased and her friends. The Learned
Counsel afterwards proceeded to comment generally on
the minor points of the evidence in a very able and
forcible manner. At the conclusion of his address,
which occupied nearly two hours.
Mr. Justice PATTESON proceeded to sum up the evi-
dence at some length. He lamented the manner in which
this prosecution had been got up. The prisoner
had been before the Coroner, and had stated the
facts which had been read to them, but he
could not help thinking that it would have been
better to have called Mr. Atkinson. Indeed
Mr. Atkinson ought, considering the appearances
he had observed immediately after the death,
to have gone before the coroner and to have
stated what he had seen. With regard to the witnesses
that had been before the magistrate, and had not been
examined, it was much to be regretted that the fact
was so.

[-The Learned Judge was summing up when our re•
port left, and was likely to occupy the Court some con-
siderable time ]

NEW COURT.
(Before the COMMON SERGEANT.)
G. R. Mason, late traveller for Stephen Green, Im-
perial Potteries, Lambeth, was indicted by his employer
for embezzlement of three several sums, making to-
gether 31L 9s. 3d.

Up to the 6th November last the prisoner had been
in the employ of Mr. Green for two years and a quarter,
during which time Mr. Green's business was consider-
ably improved by the efforts of Mr. Mason.
Mr. Green said he discharged the prisoner from his
employment on that day, the 6th November. After
making up the accounts Mr. Green asked whether he
had not received 141.25. 9d. from Mr. Robinson, Croydon.
The prisoner admitted he had, and said, on Mr. Green's
telling him it had not been accounted for, he was notcertain
of that, he thought he had accounted for it. Hb vas
told that it did not appear on the memorandum of re-
ceipts ; he said he was going to Manchester,. he would
look over the memorandums, and if he found it not paid,
the amount would be sent. Subsequently to this Mr.
Green discovered that he had received two other sums
not accounted for-131. 2s. 6d. paid by Mr. Diver, wine
and spirit merchant, Yarmeuth, on the 26th of April,
and 4/. 4s. by Mr. Neil, china manufacturer, Chelten-
ham on the 31st of August. The payment of
these sums was proved by the gentlemen ;
and a long correspondence between Mr. Green
and Mr. Mason, posterior to the 6th of November, was
put in and read. The tenor of the prisoner's letters
dwelt on the absence of any felonious intention on his
part, and his sorrow that his neglect had placed him in
so equivocal a position, but begging Mr. Green not to
ruin both himself and his family.
Mr. CLARKSON addressed the jury, and then called
witnesses to speak to character.
The jury, after consulting for some time, found the
prisoner Not Guilty.
Another indictment, for 151. borrowed by the pri-
soner from Mr. Green, was then brought before the
jury, but Mr. Bodkin, who with Mr. Huddlestone con-
ducted both cases for the prosecution, had instructions
not to tender evidence on the second charge, and the jury
were directed to find a verdict of Not Guilty.
Rosina Eliza Waite, called in the calendar a widow,
was indicted for stealing 30 yards of cloth and a quan-
tity of wearing apparel, value 251., the property of Baza-
leel Wall.

Mr. ROBERTSON, the counsel for the prosecution, said
that Mons. 13. Wall, abouth hisiiontsohteen ieri
naturalrmtiddle of Sept. last, was
going along London-bridge, when the prisoner accosted
him with a tale of distress. She seems to have won the
foreigner's heart, for a conversation ensued there and
then, and the result was that Mr. Wall agreed to take
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and who, in the present instance, cut short any collateral
disclosures of M. Wall's system of housekeeping, except
so far as it bore upon the facts of the charge.
M. Wall said he was a builder, living in Globe-fields.
He took the prisoner home to keep his house, where she
remained for about two months. It was on the 20th
of November that he went to one of his chests, and
missed a pair of trousers and some other articles. He
questioned the prisoner about them, who admitted
having pawned them, in order to get money to redeem
her box and clothes, lying at:the terminus of the South-
ampton Railway. She had been to France, but on re-
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casion exhibited unwillingness to go. The missing of
something more led him to a stricter scrutiny of the
house. He found that he had been robbed of bed-
clothes, woollen-cloths, and wearing-apparel to the value
of 25/. He found, also, thirty pawnbrokers' duplicates
in the keeping of the prisoner, the dates of which began
with the 7th of October.
Jacob Turner, a pawnbroker, identified two of the
duplicates found on the prisoner, given for silk hand-
kerchiefs,tifieh i.wshich he produced, and which M. Wall iden-
tified as
Jane Annesley said she lived next door to the pri-
soner, who had been in the habit of calling herself Mrs.
Wall; had been employed to pledge several of the articles
mentioned in the indictments, and which were pledged
in the name of Waite, given by the prisoner as that of
her former husband.
John Freshwater said he had taken the prisoner into
custody, when she admitted that she had pledged the
things, but in the hope of redeeming them again.
Jane Scott, the searcher, found 3s. 9id. in money
on her, which prisoner said was the remainder of
money got for articles pawned ; the rest had been spent
for drink.
The prisoner, in exculpation, for she had no counsel,
said she had pawned with intention to redeem the gee:As
again; that the first time she had been at a pawnbroker's
was at the request of Mr. Wall himself, to pledge his
watch for 20s.
Itiwas submitted to the Court by Mr. BALLANTINE, that
the prisoner was, to all intents and purposes, the wife of
the accuser; that she did not hold the position of a ser-
vant, and therefore it could not be brought into Court
as a case of larceny. Several of the bar joined Mr.
Ballantine in this defence.
The COMMON SERGEANT differed from the Learned
Counsel, and proceeded to charge the jury, prefaainglit
with expressing his pleasure that the age of chivalry had
not yet gone by.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty, but strongly re-
commended her to mercy.
The COMMON SERGEANT said, that if individuals chose
to go and live with gentlemen as their mistresses, they
were not to suppose they could cohwait robbery on them
with impunity. He took a distinction between house-
hold property and jewellery,
which might be given for
personal ornament. At the same time, he had to
remark, that there were circumstances in the prisoner's
case which justified the jury's recommendation. The
Court had to take care to evince to prosecutors that
they ought to come into Court with clean hands. The
sentence he had to pronounce would on that account be
light, which was, that she should be imprisoned one
month, and kept to hard lahour.

STATE OF TRADE.
The decided improvement which sprung up in the
market on .the announcement of an intention to repeal
the corn-laws, has been entirely lost,since the resigna-
tion of Sir Robert Peel's administration became known;
and, yesterday, the gloom was somewhat increased by
two failures, one at Liverpool and one in London, which
will fall rather heavily on parties in this town. It is under-
stood that the Liverpool failure will prove of consider-
able magnitude. Notwithstanding these untoward cir-
cumstances there is no change in prices; and, as consi-
derable purchases both of goods and yarn were made
last week, the spinners and manufacturers have been so
far relieved from stocks as to be generally disinclined .to
Press sales, or even to accept contracts at the existing
low prices.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MOVDAY, DEC. 15Tri.
—'We have had a better demand for flannels to-day, but
no change in
prices. The wool market has undergone a
little variation for the last week. The transactions are
limited, and prices the same as on the preceding Monday.
—Manchester Guardian.