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LAW INTELLIGENCE.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Am. IS.
BEN TON V. BOURNE.
MI.HORNE said, this was a bill filed for an injunction
to restrain the defendant from proceeding in an action of
ejectment which he had commenced in the Court of
Great Sessions in Wales. His Honour was aware of the
summary proceedings -in that Court. The Jury sat at
Nisi Prius before lunch, between lunch and dinner they
sat in Banc , and before sunset execution was signed—
( Laughter). Now this case could not, in justice to his
client, be decided in a Court of Law : it must come under
the cagnizance of a Court of Equity. The Learned
Counsel then at very great length went into the particu-
lars of the case, which did not possess any public interest.
After hearing the So LIC ITOR-GEN ERA L in opposition,
his Honour ordered the injunction to be granted.
A Gentleman behind the Bar applied for an order di-
recting a sum of money to be paid over to his client, a
young lady, who was entitled to it under a will. The
executors refused to pay it, alleging that they fancied the
young lady was married, and in such case the money
would belong to her husband.
VICE-CHANCELLOR (smiling)—What makes the ex-
ecutors fancy the lady married ?
COUNSEL—I really do not know, your Honour, ex-
cept it is from the circumstance of a gentleman having
for a long time paid her very great attention ; but she
says she is not married, and she ought to know.
VICE-CHANCELLOR—Let the young lady make an
affidavit that she is not married, or ever has been, and I
twill make the order for her to receive the money.
, The VICE-CHANCELLOR aferwards heard several mo-
tions of no interest. The Court at its rising adjourns for
the long vacation.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

NORFOLK CIRCUIT.—NORWICH, Aga. IS.

CONVICTION OF MR. STRATFORD, FOR MURDER.

John Stratford, 41, was indicted for the wilful murder
of John Burgess, by giving one ounce of arsenic mixed
in flour to one Hannah Hook, to be delivered to John
Briggs, with intent to kill him, but which was afterwards,
by mistake, given to one John Burgess, who partook of
the said flour and arsenic, whereupon he lingered and
expired.
Mr. ALDERMAN, the City Recorder, stated the case,
and detailed the facts. It appeared that a criminal in-
timacy existed between the prisoner and the' wife of
Briggs, for whom the poisoned flour was delivered by
the prisoner for him, he being confined in the workhouse
from the effects of disease. The woman who received it
from the prisoner delivered it by mistake to Burgess, the
deceased, who partook of it, and soon after died. Hav-
ing given an outline of the case, he would leave all fur-
ther remark and comment to the upright and intelligent
Judge who presided at the serious and painful inquiry.
Jane Briggs, the wife of Thomas Briggs, deposed that
tier husband has been confined in the Poor-house since
last May twelvemonth. On March last she was pregnant
by the prisoner at the bar; she communicated the fact to
him long before that time ; she was brought to, bed on
the 2d of Tune last ; the prisoner told her when she made
it known to him, that he was sorry, and that he hoped
she would not go her time ; he said something about
giving her a medicine to prevent it ; he said she• should
not want any thing; she carried flour to her husband
every week ; she had talked of doing so to Stratford's
wife in his presence ; he is a married man ; this was re-
peated many times both before and after Christmas ; he
wished me to keep my situation to myself if I could ; the
prisoner and his wife were often at my house during our
intimacy ; do not know whether he was ever there when
I was sending flour to my husband. The nurse, witness
added, was the wife of the person deceased. The nurse
told the prisoner the state of her husband's health. She
said he could take plentifully, although confined to his
bed ; never, except that time, sent any flour by any per-
son-but her daughter ; employed the prisoner to do so ;
was at the Coroner's Inquest upon Burgess in March
last; saw the prisoner• the evening before that at her
house ; he requested me to go to his shop, as he wanted
to speak to me ; witness refused, but he pressed it ; he
went away ; had seen him the day before in presence of
his wife ; had seen her husband eight day's before this
conversation. Conversed with her husband about herself
on the Sunday week he said he heard I was in the fa-
mily way; but did not tell prisoner of this ; her husband's
diet was generally milk boiled with flour.
Cross-examined by Mr. KELLY.—Her husband and
Stratford have lived near each other seven years, and
never disagreed.
Charles Cross, a druggist, proved potion to have been
purchased by the prisoner.
Rhoda Burgess, widow of the deceased, examined by
Mr. PaEsiox.—Witness is nurse at the workhouse; re-
ceived a parcel from Susan Hook for Mr. Briggs ; she
delivered it to Briggs, who inquired from whence it
came ; witness could not tell ; she said it appeared to
be flour by the feel ; her husband, who was working at
the bed-foot, opened it, and did it up- again in her pre-
sence, and delivered it back to Brigg's bed ; it was
never meddled with again until her unfortunate husband
took it ; the day deceased died he took some of this
flour unknown to her ; when she came down stairs
she found the saucepan on the fire, and the deceased
was kneading some dough ; witness said, " In the name
of God what is the saucepan on the fire for ? I. have no-
thing to cook ;" had no flour in the house at the time of
her own. Witness suspected that there was something
in the flour. She took part down to her eon. When she
returned, she took some and gave it to Mary Moss and
Anne Pillar. Soon afterwards witness felt very sick.
Her husband feeling very faint, went out to get some air;
ha too complained of being sisk. He could not get back
by himself ; he was put to bed. He said, " I am a dying
man !" He was violently sick, but never alluded to the
cause. Mr. Robinson, the medical man, was east Orr.
Witness was very ill herself, and but for kind attention
she should not have been here.
The Learned JUDD& inquired whether the invalid
Briggs could be brought into Court? The House Sur-
geon said that it was almoet impossible, he was such a
dapictialge figure ; he could not articulate except with
great difficulty ; his life was not in danger by it. The
Judge ordered him to be brought in a coach or sedan im-
mediately.
Briggs was afterwards brought in, supported by two
men ; his face covered with i hirsdkercbisf ; it could not
be seen.