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CIVIL SIDE.-REX v. WILDE AND °TITERS.

This was an indictment against ten individuals, for a riot and
assault at Oldham, on the 7th of November last.
Mr. SCARLETT addressed the Jury for the prosecution. He
stated that the defendants were cotton-spinners, who had been in
the employ of Messrs. Lancashire and Collinge, at Oldham, and
had turned out in consequence of a reduction of wages. Undoubt-
edly they had a right to refuse to work for the reduced wages, if
they pleased ; but they had no right to proceed to acts of violence,
in order to deter others from taking them.
.Tohn Lancashire examined.—Witness stated that he anti his
partner, Mr. Collinge, kept a cotton manufactory at Oldham, near
Manchester; the cotton-spinners employed by witness turned out
in September last on account of a reduction of wages. When
the regular workpeople turned out, witness was obliged to employ
new hands ; the new hands were boarded at the factory, and they
slept at the warehouse; the turn-out workmen then commenced
a watch round the mill ; the number stationed about the mill
• amounted to thirty, and they were relieved every six hours ; they
were placed in all the avenues leading to the mill ; in Sep-
tember and October, the mill had military protection, and the
military sometimes drove the " turn-outs" from their watch,
but they always came again ; the watch was withdrawn on the
morning of the 7th of November, and all that day there was a
calm. A little before six o'clock in the evening, witness was
alarmed by a noise, and he went out to see what was the matter.
The factory is surrounded by a wall, and witness got upon the
wall. Ile then saw that the passages leading to the factory were
filled with men. Witness asked them what they wanted, and
they cried out that they wanted the " knob-sticks," meaning the
workmen who worked for reduced wages. Witness descended
the wall, and then perceived that four or five of the men had
got into the yard, and were going in a direction from the west gate
to the great gate. The door at the west gate hal been locked,
but it was now open. One of the men had a pick-axe in his hand.
They all ran to the great door, and struck it with the pick-axe
and forced it open. The whole crowd rushed in, and went into
the factory. The new hands were all forcibly brought out. Wit-
ness saw Eli Greenless, Joseph Garside, and George Andrews
brought out. All those men were very severely kicked and
beaten. Witness saw Eli Greenless afterwards. He was then in
a very bad state, and still continues so. The last time that wit-
ness saw hint was on Tuesday week last, and he was then in the
Infirmary.
Other witnesses were called, who detailed the circumstances of
the riot generally in the same terms used by the last witness.
Each of the defendants was identified as taking an active part in
the affair.
Mr. WILLIAMS addressed the Jury for the defence.
The Jury found all the prisoners Guilty.
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This ..Vas Nn indletr nt of the same nature against 19 Mak.
duals. They were dlfound Guilty.
CROWN COURT.—FRIDAY, MAucti 16.

Jeremiah Butterworth was charged with having wilfully and
maliciously shot at Peter Berry, in a certain wood near Worsley,
with intent to kill the said Peter Berry ; and William Leyland
was charged with !ounselling, aiding, and abetting the said Jere-
miah Butterworth to commit the said offence.
A great number of witnesses gave the prisoner an excellent cha-
racter for humanity and general good conduct.
The Jury found Butterworth guilty of shooting, but without
intent to kill.
Mr. Justice BAs LEY informed the Jury that that verdict would
amount to an acquittal.
The Jury then, after a few moments' consideration, found both
prisoners Not Guilty.
David Sefton was indicted for uttering a forged bill of exchange
for 151. 9s. to James Varley, at Blanchester, knovring the same
to be forged.
A clerk from the house of Messrs. Esdaile, of London, proved
the acceptance of the bill to be a forgery.
The prisoner was found guilty and recommended to mercy.
After the verdict prisoner asked whether the circumstance of
the bill being drawn on a Sunday did not deprive it of value, and
so vitiate the proceeding against him.
Mr. Justice BAYLEY-That circumstance makes no difference.
CIVIL SIDE.----soRTn v. HARRISON AND ANOTHER.
Mr. PArrEsos opened the pleadings. The declaration de-
clared, that the defendants assaulted and unlawfully imprisoned

tl. , plaintiff. The defendants pleaded the general issue and z
j!' Aification.
Mr. BitounHAM addressed the Jury-..-The plaintiff was a corn-
asion-agent, residing in Manchester, and the defendants were
witallen-manufacturers, residing at. Saddleworth, in Yorkshire.
le August last, the plaintiff had had a quantity of indigo to die-
p •se of, and some of the defendants seeing it in the warehouse of
t' plaintiff, expressed a desire to become purchasers. He, how-
'l., said, that it would suit him better if the plaintiff would
c. usent to barter the indigo for a quantity of shawls, instead of
rta•eiving its value in money;. and to that arrangement the plain-
ti!f acceded. The indigo had been accordingly removed, and foe
a short time nothing had been said about it ; but in a fortnight
after, in the broad day-light, when the plaintiff was crossing one
of the most public streets in Manchester, the defendant had ap-
proached him, and said, " That indigo is bad, and if you don't
give back the shawls, I will take you to a police-office." Some
altercation had ensued, and the result had been that the plaintiff
had been laid hold of, dragged to the police-office, and there
charged with obtaining goods under false pretences. The Magi-
strate before whom the charge had been heard had immediately
dismissed it, but t :,cfore the plaintiff had been some time under
restraint. These were the circumstances under which the plain
tiff came into Court.
.1. Livingstone cross-examined by Mr. Scasurr—NobAy
laid hold of the plaintiff. I did not touch him.
Thomas Holme examined.—l am a Commission agent. I
know the plaintiff. 1 saw him at the New Bailey on the 14th cf
August last. I saw the persons who charged the plaintiff. I
don't know them, but they answered to the name of Harrison_
I have seen them since. I have seen them, I think, in Court this
moraine.. They charged the plaintiff with—
Mr. °Sc R Err (interrupting .wi loess. ),...-Was not the *etg
taken down in writing ?
Witness----I don't recollect. _ .

Mr. Baron HuLLocx—lt was the duty of the Magistrate to
take it down, and if there he no evidence that he did not, I must
presume that he did his duty The witness, therefore, cannot be
examined as to that.
Examination resumed.—After the charge had been made, the
Magistrate ,sked something about indigo. He said that the de.
fendanta were as bad as the plaintiff. The plaintiff was discharged.
Mr. SCARLETr—Then you saw somebody who was called Harri.
an ycu have seen the same person today ?—Yes, I think sc.
Mr. SCARLETT (to the Judge.)—Neither of the defendants are
at Lancaster.
Mr. Baron Ilt=ocx.—This will not do. There must be bet-
,er evidence of identity.—The plAintiff was nonsuited.

SALISBURY, Mtßcxl 16.
MTJIMER.

Richard Thomas was indicted for the murder of Mary Ann
Matilda Taylor, near Marlborough.
Mary Irons.—l am the wife of James Irons, a day-labouring
man: we were selling fish ; on the 9th of October last, we were
travelling from Hungerford to Marlborough ; my husband and my.
self, Win. Lewis and his wife, and John Bowman were in vim.
pang ; we overtook the prisoner, the deceased and two men
hesidea; it was about two miles from Hungerford. that we fell in
a talking with theta ; we came to Froxfield, but not altoget:-.er ;
we went into a public house. leaving the others behind ; they PC^,l
came into the same house : we remained there hour; we
all came out together; we proceeded towards Marlhoroneh ; frros
thence to the turnpike gate may be two miles ; before we ram, to
the Lodge G its, we walked about three-quarters of a mile ; Lewis
;bv,eleinddidu:sa,bout five or six yards; deceased
pulled his boot off; Mary Lewis arid I walked on ; the prisoner
aenallier toeaseusdtocsatmope and she came up to us ; the pri.
sone: was with her; she said, " Here is a pretty fellow I've got
he has just drawn his knife to me;" the prisoner said, ‘4 How can
you say that? If you would say that, you'd say anything, you
would swear my life away." I did not see any knife ; nothing
more was said by them. Miry Lewis said, " Came OAP
good people, and do not have any words ;" all four went on to-
gether ; nothing particular occurred between them until we
got on to the Wheat Sheaf public-house ; that might be a mile
and a half, or two miles, from the Lodge-gate; that is near the
public-house ; we all went into the public-house ; all our corn.
pang overtook us in the Forest ; we went into the 1A:11;e-house
to have some refreshment ; we bad five or six pots of beer, and
something to eat ; the prisoner did not eat with us. John Bow-
man asked him if he would eat ; he declined, and said he was
much obliged to him, he would rather not, he could not eat,
and was going to smoke a pipe of tobacco : he sat opposite to
us, at the same table; the deceased and me sat opposite to
him; one man was standing up, and the other sitting down at
the same table ; one was out of doors, I believe ; the prisoner
was smoking; I do riot know how many drank beer; two or
three songs were sung ; I do not know who sung; we aat there
it might be an hour and a hal; or a couple of hours ; I was
sitting on the right side of the deceased ; there was a bench
all round the table; after the songs were sung, the prisoner
got up from where he was sitting, and went and sat by the left
side of the deceased ; before that, there was another man sitting
on that side of her ; it was one of the men who were strangers to
the ; I happened to turn my head ; I saw the prisoner strike the
deceased a back-handed blow on the breast; I did not hear any
quarrel between them before that blow was shuck ; I had
heard no angry words from the time that she spoke of the knife
in the forest, until the blow was struck ; I looked round
and saw so much blood ou my own apron and on the floor,
that I called out murder ; the prisoner went out, but whether he
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the table and the seat ; Mary Lewis was by her ; she, I believe,
caught her up first; I came back in two or three minutes; the
deceased was sitting tip in a chair, and the gate-keeper with her;
be came in soon after the blows ; the gate was near the house ;
she died soon after, it might be a quarter of an hour ; observed $
wound on the left breast.

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we were sitting there, Ann Hurley came in. I drank beer; We
had also a quartern of gin between us three ; Ann Thule and I
were talking together at the little table, when the cry of Hurley
was heard ; I saw the prisoner run out ; my husband ran out ;
in short, we all ran out ; I heard my husband say to the prisoner.
" You have done murder ;" the prisoner said, " I know I have ;"
when I came back I saw the woman sunk down, and leaning on
the table on her elbows ; I went out and cried " Murder ;" the
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turnpike man came in with me ; James Irons, my husband, and
lieudie
another, lifted her up in the chair ; I had tried to lift her up, but
alnved twraevreellteodgetir i-'Blli7reanshtdal 'tee stayed
e:
I could not; Mr. Con-'.and brought me hartshorn; I pat it tc,
land asked me to come and hold her ; I did so; I felt something
under my foot ; I kicked it up' it was a knife ; I called Mr.
Coupland, who came and picked it up ; it was a clasped knife,
open, and all over blood ; very little blood had issued from the
wound • she was dead and laid out before the doctor came ; she
was dead in less than half an hour; I heard no provoking words
from her during the whole
lived
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with us the whole time after he threatened to murder her in the
forest.
William Hammond. —I keep the forest gate, nearhtellioeliNNtlhaeatt
a.
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sheaf ; I saw the deceased, she was in a leaning position, support_
in
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man of the .acne of Miles was paying attention to
used
treated ed
violenth e r
a withn
into company with a party of men and women
to Deviz, fair, of whom Miles was One ; and
who were going
Wheatsheaf together, they had jeered at him, that being in the
coknintedinuepstsuoaunsd
treated him with scorn, and used the t and that she had
and scoundrel," and other provoking terms of " d—d hound
thrown beer in his face ; that, in ones, towards him, and
struck at a man of the name of Tor 1 moment of irritation, he had
hand, hut was not at all aware ofs and the deceased with his
he had been using to peel chestnuts,his having a knife in it, which
fingers he was so frightened and that seeing blood on his
The Jury found the • as to run out of doors.
Mr. Justice P prisoner Guilty.
ARK, in passisentence the prisoner,
reminded him that ng of death on „
humanel • he had had the benefit of counsel, who hta
} attempted to elicit any facts, by the cross-examination
of the witnesses, which might serve to show the absence of deli-
berate malice, hut the whole train of evidence was so complete,
and the facts were so clear, that it was found impossible to ex-
tenuate his guilt. Although living in prostitution with
ions the uand
n-
happy woman who had fallen a victim to his violent pass
brutal cruelty, she had a right to expect protetion from him,
instead of affording which he had become her murderer. It was
now too late to hope for mercy or pardon in this life from any
human authority. The law of the land and the Divine law made
it imperative on a Christian
h Judge award the sentence of death
ad beeto n stained with blood, and no-
to a murderer. The earth
thing but blood could satisfy the demands of the Almighty, ac-
t cording to that law which was—" He that sheddeth mat's blood,

by man shall his blood be shed." The learned Judge then recom-
mended the prisoner to apply for mercy to Heaven, and expressed
his fervent desire that the God of mercy might grant him for-
giveness through Jesus Christ. The ordina►y sentence wa.s then
passed, and Monday fixed for the execution.