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man, who were speaking quietly to them, when the
watchman again interposed, and insisted upon the
women going about their business, or he should take
them to the watch-boost. A contest immediately
arose b-tween the d. f:nd inc and the watchman, who
tprinpi: g his rattle, collected some of his companions
to his aasistance, who acre proceeding violently to
drag the Col met to the watch.house. The latter re-
sisted, and dealt about him a great many heavy
blows, and at length being overpoisered, he web'
taken to the watch-house. where he eihibited the sane
hostility, and evicted the prowess of his arm by
knockintr down every body who came in his waj: In,
the scuffle his own hat and head were broken. Thel
plaintiff. who happened to be in bed at the time, wail
alarmed by the disturbance, and descended to the
scene olviolence, and finding the defendant dealing
eiiit blows to every man who came within his reach,
ordered h!m into the black hole, where he remained
fer .bout ten minutes, and the plaintiff having then
learnt the rank of his prisoner, he ordered him to be
liberated, under a promise to appear before the Magis-
trates at Marlb,.rough street. Before the Magistrates
the defendant became the accuser. instead of the'ae-
cused, and the plaintiff, together with one of the
watchman, were committed to answer at the Sessions
the deiendant's charge of assault and false imprison-
tnent. Tie plaintiff was accordingly indicted. but
the defendant never appeared to sustain his prosecu-
tion, and the plaintiff being acquitted, brought the
present action. Before the case on the part of the,
plaintiff was concluded, ,'
Lord Enr.annonouon interposed and said, that the
action was certainly maintainable; but be thought it
was only a case for the smallest damages, and then-,
fore recommended an amicable arrangement. •
Mr. Guinn said, that as the object of the wide
was usly to impress the defendant with a seise of hii
error, and to defend the plaintiff's chancier. the pur:
poses of justice might be satisfied by nominal da-
snages..The Jury, therefore, found a verdict for the
plaint Damages—One Shilling.

OLD BAILEY SESSIONS:
piAlOll Of flUldiff.

Yesterday_Mery Cue& was indicted for the wilful
murder of Thomas Caps's, on the 26th of October,
by striking him on the bead with a hammer.
Joseph Downes, a bricklayer, stated that he knew
Thomas Caries, who lodged with him in Clerken
well. The prisoner lived with the deceased, and
th:y used often to quarrel. On the 26th of October,
hearing a n.ise in the roum of the deceased, witness
went use and broke open the der. saw Caynes lean-
ing 01 the table, with his hand upon bis left side,
and seemii:giy very ill. The prisoner bad a barnmn
in her h ; Caynes said she had struck him on the
best with V', tongs; to which she replied, that he
had struck her violently first, and she had anted
him vivo. Witness believed they were both in li.
quor t the prisoner said he had bruised her in the
arm, but witness saw tits sign of this. He sent for a
constable, who took her into curody.
John Cane, a ccnstable of Cleikenwell parish, do.
toeibed the appearance of the deceased when he taw
him in the room, much in the same manner as the
last witness. the prisoner, who stood by him, looked
mach roiled, and her elethes were quite out of or-
der. The shirt of the deceased was torn to pi. as,
and every article in the room broken. Witness asked
what was the matter, and Carols said his wife had
m used him ? end had ;vatic him on the head w tb a
hammer until its head fell of, and then bad beat him
with the tong.. The prisoner went to a corner of the
room, and deceased said she need not go there to hide
the tongs, she ought to give them to the consuble,
which she immediately did. The deceased said they
were beat by her in beating him. which she diroied.
and said they were bent in her struggle to wrest them
from him. She said be bad bruised bee army but
witness saw no such mark; and deceased declared he.
bad used no violence towards her, but in aelt-defence.
Wise i.. on examining Cayuga, thought Eve of bis
ribs wete broken. On bis there was also a swot-
ting. about half the rise of an egg. Deceased de-
sired witness to take the prisoner away, to which she
said, in a soothing tone, Tom, you will not have
me locked'op." Then tenting to witness, she said,
16 YOU need not take nse,as he will not appeirsgaiust
me." After some conversation, deceased said, " I'll
forgive you, if you promise never to ill use me again."
When witness was about to go away, deceased said,
" For God's sake don't leave me. or she will murder
me." Witness said, "If you are so much afraid of
her, why sot give her in charger' bat he still refw
sed so do so. Eight days after, when witness took
her into custody, the part of her aim which she first
strewed hint in the room was quite black I it was not
so on the day be lest saw her. The prisoner, on her
first examination, ten days after the affair happened,
said, that the deceased had hurt his side by tailing
against a table. Witness then said.that the di ceased
denied this, and said she had struck him with the
hamster and she tongs.
Thomas &main was a silversmith, with whom the
decesied worked. When be came to work on the day
after the quarrel, be appeared very much elided for
the worse, and had a great difficulty in raw er
walking, and held both his bands to his le Age: He
save the prisoner on the morning that Caplet died. her
arm was then snitch londsod ; she said the deceased
had struck her with the bellows. Thadeceaseduaid
they had been fighting 'something about the landlady.
Mr. E. Hardy, Clerk of the Papers in Newgate,
said he re:ollected the prisoner being brought to New-
gate on the 6th of November, her arm was black.
Thomas Spencer, a surgeon, gave the same evi-
aleoce that he bad given before the Coroner. He said
that the lett lobe ut the deceased's lungs appeared
vary much injured, and his general state and habits
of drinking were such, that the inflammation on his
left side; though it might be produced by the bruise,
was more likely to be occasioned by cold or by drink-
ing. Atter hearing all the circumstances of theme
and closely examining the bOdy of the deceased, ha
decanted that be should feel the utmost dificulty in
deciding whether the death of the deceased was owns
.to the disease in his lungs, or to the violence
upon the prisoner.
Here Mr. Justice BATLZY interposed and observed,
thetas the Surgeon bad a doubt whether the death
of the deceased was attributable to the am of the
prisoner or to a emutkutional disease, the Jury must,
be apprehended, entertain a similar doubt if the y re-
lied upon the judgment of a medical pan. if So,