Star.
London, England, 1807-03-07 00:00:00

SEARS V. PRENTICS.

Mr. Gustily Rated to the Jury that the Plaintiff
in this cafe flied inprmapauperir, to recover damages
for a very ferieros injury which he had fullained.—
The Defendant was a Surgeon at Hemel Hemßed :
and the declaration Rated, that the plaintiff had
broken his arm and cliflocated his elbow, and had
*twirled the defendant as his furgeon. It went on
ar Oak, that the defendant had tit negligently and
aunkilltilly concluded hinifelf, that the plaintiff for a
long time was pot to great bodily pain, and was pre-
vented from attending his bulinefs, by which he
fcred great Ws. The Learned Conine!, Rated that
every man was-bonnd to bring a comp tent degree of
drill into his profetErin ; and that if he either untied.
folly or negligently concluded Mink% he was bound
to make recoMpence to the party.
The Learned Judge here interpofed, and Paid he
would not fair the Skill of a pinfefliodal man to be
tried t in this adion the plaintiff might thew negli-
gence, if hr cotild ; but he Would not go into the hill
of the defendant.
Two witnedis were called on the part of the plain.
tiff t but they proved, that as far as attendances
went, the defendant was not negligent.
The Learned Jndge told the juty, the only grief.
tine war, wherber the defendant • had been negligent
or not ?—The Jai y found for the defendant.
The other mites were all tried, and the Civil Side
finilbed.

CROWN sinL

seAIICH 6.—sionann.

yam Harris was irdifted for the wilful murder ofl',
Benjamin Siapps, on the 24th of September, by
ving him fent al violent Marrs on the head, of which
healed.
Mr. Combine Ss aim r. Rated; that the deceafed
and the ptifitner were brothers in law ; the latter was
an old man,, but the deceifed %VAS a much Oldereer.
They lived together in a frnalf cottage, near Heincl
Herafted, the property of the. deceafed ; and the
probable Motive of the pannier to commit the Crime
(if he•did sehmmit it) was .avarice, as the deeteafed
thortly bet .re made a will, and left him all his pre-
petty, anierh:nting to about tgol. 'The lin time the
deceafed was 'teen, was un Tueßay evening, the 24th
of September, and it was on the night of that day
he tune have met his-death. On the Wednefday
morning the prifoner went nut to work as usual ; and
when he returned in the evening, he went to a neigh-.
!louring cottage, the refidence of one Elizabeth
Giovei, and then !kid he had 101 l Old Ben, meaning
the Jeceafeti, and could not find him any where. By
nine o'clock feveral neighbours were at the cottage;
and a matilif the name of Penn, having defended
the well, there found the hody. The Coroaces.ln-
t,uelt wit.: held the mit day, and no fufpicinn falling
f n any one, it was thought that he had fallen' into
the well, and the body .was buried on the Saturday
mi.twing. • Several cit cumaances, however, begat
fulpicion, and the body was again taken up, and es-
amined by two furgcons, and they discovered that
the death had been occafioned by a violent blow on
the head, by tome blunt inttrument. The evidence
hick feented to weigh againa.the prifoner was, that
lie hasl.an ititerellia the death of the defeated that
• no one. elfe could have • and certainly it was not done
for the "Opole of robbery, loran atticle was taken
away of the property et the•dedeafed ; and as to the
IWO alinglit an impolSbility ins any perfon
accidesgally to fall. down it. Grover would alfo
pr4)ll St • iltatilte walhed.fot the old man and the pri-
soner; and that he wore bat one shirt a week ; but
%sheathe body was drawn from the well, it had a
clean thin ,no ; and on the :Monday following, time
riumer, when he fent his own linen to wash, fent a
piece of 4.lloirt, which the knew the dtcealed had put
on the Sunday previous to his death. The fore part
was thin away, probably, beeanfe it had been
I.loodiechwhen the murder was committed; but it fo
Lappe,,ddt that them was one spot of blood oa the
pieta which remained. Grover would Hatt that the
knew old Stapps had but three fhirts : one was found
cleats in his room, one on his body, and the piece
producad would make up the third. She thnn)d alfo
give in evidence several expreflions of the defendant,
which (hewed his great fatistadion at becoming pof-
leiTed ut the old man's property.
The charges being corroborated by a number of
witn.;lfes, the Learned Judge left the Jury to fay,
whether they thought the circumllances weighty
enough for them to pionounce a verdiet of guilty
againa the prifoner 3
In his defence be only Paid he w;•.:. innocent. The
Jut y found the prifoner Guilty; and tie wo immed;.
attly Cemented to' be hanged un Monday.