The Sun.
London, England, 1829-08-31 00:00:00

SUMMER ASSIZES.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT—CARLISLE, Auc. 26.

PALLISER V. CROSSE ET UX.
Mr. POLLOCK stated the case. The action was
hrought upon a money bond executed by the wife
of the defendant before her marriage, for the sum of
4,8007., and conditioned for the payment of the sum
of 2,400/. The plaintiff, Captain Palliser, was an
officer now on half-pay, who had passed a great part
of his life in the army, and had there been. very in-
timate with Mr. Thomas Legh, who was one of the
parties to the bond. Mr. Legh had been in difficul-
ties, and had applied to the plaintiff to assist him.
The result of that application had been that Captain
Palliser had advanced Mr. Legh the sum of 2,4001.;
and, as a security for that sum, a bond had been en-
tered into by Mr. Legh and his sister, Miss Crosse,
one of the present defendants. The 'bond in
question had been prepared by respectable soli-
citors in London, and had been sent down
to be executed in Scotland, where at that
time Mr. Legh had taken his residence, in order to
protect himself from the pursuit of his creditors.
That pursuit had, in the end, driven Mr. Legh to
the Continent, where, in the course of last year he
lost his life by an accide►►t. Miss Crosse, the sister
of Mr. Lcgh, was (as he had already stated) tojoin
in the bond, and accordingly the solicitor in London,
who had prepared the bond, had inserted her name
in it; and after it had been sent to Scotland she had
joined in executing it, in the presence of a respee •
table witness. The bond had been sent down with-
out any seal being attached to it, because (as the
jury would probably be aware), it was not unusual
for persons of condition to put their own seals to
it:struments of that nature. They had only to look
at the bond to be convinced that its execution had
been regular.
Evidence was then entered into at length, after

which,
Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE summed up the case,
and the Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff.

WESTERN CIRCUIT—BRIDGEWATER, Aua. 28.

Abraham Reed, a working man, about 30 years of
age, was indicted for poisoning his wife (Mary
Reed) on the sth of July, by administering arsenic
to her.

The prisoner, who is a mild-looking person,
seemed rather abstracted in his manner ‘vhen placed
at the bar. On being called upon to plead to the
indictment, he made no answer for a few moments :
he then started and said " not guilty," in a nervous
and hurried way. He watched the jury with some
apparent anxiety, while the oath was being admi-
nistered to them : during the progress of the trial,
however, he did not display any particular feeling of

interest till the evidence of the medical men was
taken, when he appeared to rouse himself from the
apathy that possessed him at other periods of the
proceedings. The jury having pronounced their
verdict of " Guilty,' the prisoner was called
upon in the usual manner to say why judg-
ment of death should not be pronounced against
him : a slight convulsion passed over his fea-
tures for a single moment, and he muttered in
an indistinct tone, " The witnesses have sworn
falsely." Towards the close of the trial, which lasted
upwards of nine hours, the prisoner seemed rather
exhausted; he displayed no visible emotion at the
announcement of the verdict, and in the opinion of
many persons in court, heard the sentence, which
was pronounced by the learned Judge in a manner
the most feeling and impressive, perfectly unmoved.
It seemed, however, as if the senses of the unhappy
man were lost in reverie ; he appeared in a sort of
waking dream, and remained with fixed eyes, lean-
ing upon the bar, till the gaoler seizing him suddenly
by the arm, he again started as when first placed in
the dock, and hastily retired. He was conveyed to
the gaol along with several other prisoners in the
prison van, and on descending from the vehicle en-
deavoured to conceal his face from the gaze of the
spectators who surrounded him, by placing his hat
before it. There was mm expression of popular
. . .

Lord Chief Justice TINDAL sentenced the prisoner
to be hanged on Monday next, an! ordered his body
to be given up to the surgeons for dissection.
We understand that Mr. Justice Burrough is
better than he was yesterday.