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and persisted in seating that the contents of the Wet'
%vete true. They called no witnesses.
,The Counsel for the prosecution said, they were pos-
sessed of evidence to chew that, in point of fact, the
prisoner Gardener was in bed at his lodgings, seven
miles from the spot, et ethe very time when he repre-
sented himself to have witnessed the supposed transac-
tion in question ; but the Learned Judge said that such
evidence was quite unnecessary, the utter falsehood of
the charge having been demonstrated by the witnesses
Arcady examined.
Mr. Baron GRAHAM then summed up the evidence.
His Lordship commended the firmness wiih which the
Reverend Prosecutor bad acted, in resisting the atro-
cious threat of the prisoners, and the discre:ion mani-
fested in bringing them to justice. It was impossible
for any man to doubt the falsehood and wickedness of
the charge which the prisoners had made.
The Jury immediately found the prisoners Guilty.
The verdict produced satisfaction in the Court.
Mr. Baron GRAHAM, in a most impressive manner,
commented upon the nefarious conduct of the primers.
He should not torture himself with endeavouring to find
out language sufficiently strong to express his indigna-
tion at the horrible atrocity of the prisoners. Their
offence demanded in a Court of Justice the severest
penalty which the law allowed, and he should be guilty
of a dereliction of his duty if be did notcarry the law to
its utmost extent. Never was a case so satisfactorily
made out ; and his Lordship must say, that the Rev.
Prosecutor deserved the thanks of the country for the
firmness and fortitude with which he had brought the
case before a Court of Justice. The Learned Judge
concluded by sentencing the prisoners to be transported
for the term of their natural lives.
The Assizes ended on Saturday afternoon, at one o'clock.

At the Sussex Assizes, on Friday, George Daw and
Edward Dow, brothers, one twenty-one, and the other
thirty, were indicted for the wilful murder of Thomas
Sawyer, a youth of nineteen, at Bexhill, on the 28th of
December last. 'fbe deceased was a shepherd belong-
ing to Messrs. Brook, farmers, at Bexhill. Not return-
ing home at his accustomed hour on the night (28:h),
diligent search was made for him, and on the following
morning his lifeless body was found in a muddy pons,
half choked with reeds, and not mote than three feet
deep; his head was driven into the mud, and one of his
hands was left sticking out of the water; there was a
bruiskon his neck, and his skull was fractured. One
of the deceased's dogs had remained a: the side of the
pond all night, and was found at noon next day, seated
there, and moaning, which led to the discovery of the
body. It appeared that the deceased, a few years since
have information against George Daw for poach-
ing, and he was confined in Battle gaol; since his li-
beration he had frequently said he would murder
both father and son, for having caused him to be con-
fined. Both the brothers were seen walking with the
deceased, towards Bexhill, on the day that the murder
was committed, and George DAW, on the day after,
offered the deceased's watch for sale in Bexhill. The
prisoners, in their defence, protested their innocence of
the murder, but George Daw admitted, that on the road
to Bexhill, he boxed the deceased's ears, which knocked
him down, and he ran away with his watch. Edward
Daw was acquitted, but the other was found guilty, and
ordered for execution this day.