The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-12 00:00:00

POSTPONEMENT.

(Before Mr. Justice COLTINIAN and Mr. Baron PLATT.)
Although it was generally expected that Joseph Connor
would be put upon his trial this morning for the barbarous
murder committed upon Mary Brothers, in the brothel in
George-street, St. Giles's, the Court was not in the slightest
degree crowded, even a smaller number than usual of the
curious being in attendance. It looked in fact as if the public
appetite for horrors had been completely sated with
yesterday's banquet. There was Rot one stranger in the
bench beside the Judges, and the only person who seemed in-
terested in Court was an artist engaged to take the mur-
derer's likeness for some of the weekly illustrated journals.
Precisely at five minutes after ten the Learned Judges
Coltman and Platt entered the Court, and took their seats
on the bench.
On the name of Joseph Connor being called,
Mr. BALLANTL:Z, the prisoner's counsel, then rose and
said—My Lords, in the case of the prisoner, Joseph Connor,
whose name has just been called, and who, as your Lordships
are aware, stands charged for the crime of murder, I have
to make an application that the trial be postponed until the
next sessions. I have communicated with my learned
friends who fare to conduct the case for the prosecution, and
they are fully prepared to accede to my application. The
ground on which that application is made has not been re-
duced to an affidavit, as it is only founded on a recent
conversation I have had with the prisoner. It is
stated by him that a person who knew where he
was at the time this transaction was alleged to
have taken place, is well known, and may be found;
and under such circumstances, I am sure your Lord-
ships will feel that in a case of such importance it is essen-
tial to the interests of justice, as well as to the prisoner, that
your Lordships should allow the case to be adjourned. Your
Lordships are aware that sufficient time has not been allowed
to bring the witnesses in the case forward, and in my bum-
ble opinion, supposing there is such a person as that men-
tioned by the prisonef, it would be highly improper to go to
trial without the presence of that witness.
Mr. BODKIN said —I should be sorry to try the prisoner
under the circumstances stated by my Learned Friend, but
he has certainly not made his application to the Court in the
proper and formal manner. My Learned Friend ought to
have supported his allegation by the affidavit of the prisoner,
in the absence of which I should have thought that if Iliad
consented to postpone the trial to some other day in the present
session it would have sufficiently satisfied the justice of the
case ; but, still, if my Learned }fiend wishes the trial post-
poned till the next session, I am extremely happy to accede
to the application. The case is left entirely in your Lord-
ships hands.
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE, after conferring with Mr. Baron
Platt, said that lie did not think the application could well
be objected to, and the application was consequently acceded
to. The trial will not, therefore, take place until the next
sessions.
The prisoner seemed relieved at the successful result of the
application, and walked from the bar with a lightened step.
He was dressed in the same manner as at Bow-street, but
the serious position in which he finds himself has apparently
had its effect upon him, for his face does not now by any
means exhibit the almost brutal indifference that it did when
before the magistrate.