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.Santtel Carivilt vnis a arged with embetzling the
sum of forty Watch, which helmet received on behalf
of his master,. Mr. Andiew Peterson, Merchant Of
NVAkefield; The ptisonei pleaded Gtiilty.t ttet upon
the stiggPstion of the Judge, pleaded Not Wirt, and
put himself upon Ms trial I be was fotmd Guilty by
the hi*.
Wail -o.—Jamei Forties *as charged With the
wilful Murder of M. John Taylor, of Sutton, near
linilrbshooting him with a pistol loaded with ball,
'On Thursday the.24th cif February, And acquitted.
Rolert 1 urner was tried the same day for the wilful
Murder of Margaret Appleby.. The trial commen-
ced at two o'clock in the afternoon, and continued
until half past ten at night. thedecented bad filia-
ted A child to on the ?moiler, who was a small far-
ther at Low Worse% in the North Riding. The de-
ceased was a pauper in the work.house'at Yarmi and
came to Stokesley on the sth .of February, for the
purpose of attending a meeting of the Justices, to get
an order upon the prisoner for the/maintenance of the
child. At this conduct the prisoner dimmed much
displeasure, and endeavoured, without success, to
prevail upon her to go to the Magistrates, to unsay
all that she had sworn. Almost immediately after
this, he presented the deceased with a glass of rum
and warm water, which he himself brought from the
bar of the public house ; she drank the whole of it,
and wasinstantly seized with the most violent vomit.:
ings and purginks; attendedwith the most excruciating
pain. She lingtli,ed. until the 12th February, when
she died. These circumttances. together with the,
disappearance of the pristmer,•who absconded before
the death of the deceased, andwae at length &Lind
concealed in a cupboard at South Shields, formed the
principal part of the evidence :again* hid), No poison
was found in the stomach. The Jury retired about
twenty minutes, and on their return found the priso.
ner Guilty. Sentence ,of Death was immediately
passed upon him.
John James, of West Witton, in the Mirth Riding,
was charged with the Nv int Murder of William Rid;
Icy, of Middleham. Sheriff's officer, on the `24th of
November, by stabbing him in the neck with a knife.
William James, brother to the above, was charged With
aiding and abetting in the said murder. The evidence
against the latter, however, only proved the use of
expressions, which imported, that he had an ill.wili to
the deceased, and was not sorry for his death ; and his
Lordship observed that whatever unfavourable im-
,pression they might give the Jury as to the obduracy
'and hardness of his heart, they did not amount to a
participation in the murder, and directed the Jury to
acquit him.
Thomas Serjeantson, on the trial of John James,
was the .first witness examined ; he stated, that in
consequence of an application from the deceased, who
-VAS a Sheriff's officer and an auctioneer, he went with
him to seize some hay and corn belonging to the poi-
soner, for this purpose, they went to a field belonging
'to the prisoner, in which the stack of hay was, which
ira'a sold by the deceased; they then went out of the
prisoner's field to the barn of Mr. King, to which the
fen of the prisoner had been removed. 'Witness went
into King's 'field the tint, and was followed by the
deceased, who was removing a bar to give them a
abetter entrance, when the prisoner rushing from be-
hind him, struck him on the neck with his fist, he
placed his left hand on Ridley's shoule!er, and struck
him with the :right, he repeated the blow. Witnets
then saw that he had a knife in his hand, blood im-
mediately: gushed from the wound, the first stab was 'I
immediately underthe ear, the second about the col-
lar of the coat. Witness took hold of the deceased
with one hand, and seized the prisoner John James
with the other, but the deceased fell to the ground,
and alnitist instantly expired. The wounds were in-
flicted with a plicket knife, witness called it a jackaleg
knife. "hi:Cones said, he would not hurt any other
person that w:.s there, he was satisfied. " I have done
what 1. wished to do, it was my intention, and I am
satisfied." William James then cattle up and en-
quired it he was dead ? being assured that he was,
lie liughed ; on being reproved for his shacking. le-
y, it y, he replied he was glad of it, and he would rather
have helped than have hindered.
John Abbot stated, thacirt the morning of the day
the murder took place,-John James had declared to
him that if they took his hay he would be revenged.
'The prisoner, being called' upon for his defence,
said, " I told William Ridley that I would protect
my property with my life."
'Mr. RAISE, who. was Counsel for the prisoner,
caUed a number of witnesses, the object of which was
to prove, that no rent was due to the landlord, Mr.
Chayters, of Leyburn, and that of course the distress
was wrongfully made, and this point seemed to
be made out in evidence. It also appeared in the
course of the cross-examination of the different wit-
, aches, that a.quantity of hay, which was worth from
four to live pounds, was bold by the deceased to him-
,selt for the sum of fifteen shillings. These were no
doubt the causes which worked the mind of the pii-
soner to take so deadly a res'enge. But though Mr.
Justice Cismeatte permitted this evidence to be gone I
into, he stated, that if it was proved ever so clearly
that there was not even a colourable pretext for the
distress, that it would not in the least vary the nature
of the act the prisoner had committed, which was
most clearly a deliberate murder.
His Lordship said; the evidence against'William
James did not appear to him sufficient to implicate
him as a principal in the second degree—aiding and
abetting in the murder. The Jury, after conferring
together for about a minute, found John James
Guilty, and acquitted William James.
The prisoner, when he was asked what he had to
say why sentence of death should not be passed on.
him ? replied, " give myself up to the laws of my
King and country,. though I have had no-law *hewn
to me."
Mr. Justice CHAsrAtirt in an impressive addresk,
in which he dwelt on the deep-rooted malignity ma-
nifested by the prisoner against the deceased, passed
upon him the awful sentence of death, directing that'
it should be carried into execution on Thursday.-

The exteutiort of the above two. unhappy men,
convicted of wilful murder, took place at York, on
That-day morning.. Robert Turner, theperton con-
victed of phoning Marguret Appleby, persevered' in
denying hit guik, John Yarttew the ether pritonek,
though he mover seemed' properly affected with the

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