Star.
London, England, 1817-09-08 00:00:00

LANCASHIRE ASSIZES.

Wednesday ,Th.osna: Areutron: was found guilty of
wilfully setting fire to a cotton mill, in his possession,
at Manclicstvr, Men-ck Mill, with intent to
defraud the Norwich Unto,. and Poo ,ix Fire.c.,ffices.
At the end of this case, the Counsel for the prosecu-
tion requested that the iodize would allow the prose-
enr..es their expellees ? to wh:ch his Lot dship replied,
" No, indeed, your clients (the Insurance Companies)
ate much richer ti.an the County."
John Mind, 20, was charged a ith the mur.
der of Ann White at Nev:cherch. From the evi.
dence it appeared that the parties wcie in humble
cireomstances—the deceased was pregnant by the
pt isomer, who after having some words with the un-
fortunate woman on the night of the 22d of June last,
committed the Crime charged in the indictment, and
threw the 6°4 into a well.—Guilty.
Nary leke/fidd, aged 35, charged with the murder,
by poison. of Robert Schofield and Mary Ann Schol.
field, at Rochdale, pleaded not guilty. He was first
tried for the murder of the girl.
Mr. Woad AMS (Veiled the case. The prisoner was
a weaver in Rochdale. He lived with a woman who
had-been previously married to a soldier who had not
been 'maid of for aline or ten years. By her he had
the two children mentioned in the indictment. The
soldier returned, and his wite joined him She after-
wards came back to the prisoner, and lived with him
when the murder was committed. On Sunday, the
ealOth of April, Ito administered poison in porridge to
the mother and the two children. 'One of the children
died on Monday, the other on Thursday following.
Ann Buckley.—.l was married to John Buckley 15
years since. We lived tooether about six years, and
he went for a soldier. He stayed away 13 or 14
years. 1 thought he was dead. I was married to
the prisoner sevs.n year, since. I saw Buckley not 12
months ago. I lied with the prisoner, bad two
Children by him. I have two now by my first hus-
band. I lived with the prisoner in a cellar at Roch-
dale. On the Saturday night we were hearty ; we
got up as well as usual; Henry Scholfield got up
first, I think about s;x o'clock ; he stopped a few
minutes, and went out ; he came back before 8; we
had had no breakfast; I and the two children were
in bed ; the children had porridge and small beer for
breakfast; Henry made the porridge; be put the
eater on the fire. He did not use to make the poi-
ridge. When I was going out at the door he said—
" I'll make ills'. porridge, art thou for having any ?"
I said. " Aye, for I'm like to have nothing else." I
was out a quarter of an hour. When I came in the
children were having their porridge. The girl said.
" Dad has given me such naughty porridge, I Can't
eat it e. Henry said, If you don't cat it, I'll whip
you." I asked what ailed the porridge? I then tast-
ed the porridge; it was a very bad taste; I can't
tell what it was, I never tasted the like before ; nine
or ten minutes ;her they began to vomit. The boy
died on the Monday : my vomiting, after.tasting the
porridge, continued for a Week. I was not well for
three weeks. The girl kept vomiting all along; she
always cried for water; she never looked up; she
died on Thurday. I wanted to send for the Doctor.
Henry said I was a fool, and said a Doctor could do
them no good. The boy was buried on Wednesday.
Doctor Buckley came an hour and a half before the
girl died.
John I3uckley—l am a surgeon in Rochdale. The
prisoner came for me on thehursday, and wished
me to go and visit a child of his that was very poorly;
I got there between ten and eleven in the morning.
The child died. I opened it, and the child that had
been buried; the girl ih the house and the boy in the
church. I found the girl's stomach, the inner coat.
in a state of mortification. The mortification was
sufficient to produce death, and was the cause of the
child's death. It was that sort of inflammation that
is produced by corrosive poison, swallowed. By
experiments I found that arsenic. in a small quantity
had been swallowed : the violent retching is the ac-
tion of poison. It is accompanied with extreme thirst:
I believe an ounce of white arsenic is enough to poison
50 or 100 persons. Both children died by poison,
and that was arsenic.

John Holt.—l live at Little Clegg. I saw the
prisoner on the 20th, about half.past six. He asked
for some arsenic for rats and mice, for that they had
almost eaten their clothes out .of the house. I let
him have a half ounce of white arsenic for a penny.
The Judge here said to the witness, if the prisoner
is guilty of murder, you have much is answer for.
fhe prisoner told a long story about the two mar-
riages, and their quarrels lately as to the support of
the two children. He had paid 7s. 6d. to the first
husband for three'weeks he had had them. He took
:hem back, because they were ill used—Guilty.
All the trials being mew gone through, excepting
one fur an atrocious murder in Pendleton, reserved
for next day, the Learned Judge proceeded to pro-1
pounce sentence on the convicts. They were brought
up and sentenced as follows :
John Nuttall and henry Scholfield were addressed
in terms of great solemnity and feeling, and ordered
for execution. John Thompson Pilkington, John
Wi!d, John Ashworth, aid Jenny Clieetham, were
Also sentenced to be hanged fur forgery on the Bank
'of Eibi4l..nd, and assured that no mercy would be ex-
tended to them. Thames Armstrong, convicted of
naving set fire to the cotton mill, was also told lie could
expect no mercy.--There were altogether ilairty-4er
who received sentence of death.

Three of the deluded persons, who occasioned sr•
u►uch disturbance at the last Tynwald Court, in the
Isle of Mu►, were tried last week at Castletowa.
They seemed truly sensible of the great impropriety
of their conduct, and npressed the gceatest contrieier
for the offence. In consequence of which the Cour.i
reztriged their punishment to three months' impn•
Kowtow, and a fine of ten pouf l* each.