Star.
London, England, 1818-08-13 00:00:00

it,X021111.014 BCC O. COMD-31WIDER.

Tjte next prisoner. put to the bar was Mary Pouher,
a Aleacate lookinggig, only thirteen yearn of age la.n
Agway, who sto6Margesi with the wilful murder
of a fentatebtistard child, to Which she gave birth on
:the Ath of last June. -.Several witnesses proved thei
birth of this child in a healthy state. bu the 214th of
June. The pristiner seemed food of it, but it wasl
found dead with hey two d tys afterwards,. and wiz!:
some livid marti about its. mouth, whit.h the womln
who principally :assisted .ja 4:liaising the .child•after its
birth, attributed to sornetlting _like a convulsion fit.
The chief witness.to prirve that the child died of a
violent 'deatb;..was Mr. Newman„ a surlieon, who
_was:decidedly- of opinion, from the examination of
the infattesheadtand throat, esternally and intermay,
that it Met its death by .strangulaLion and fractures
in the head, whi‘h
.catited a rapture of someof the
vessels,.end al extravasation. of blood.

.On twgr. of the former witnesses, who chick re.
rnain. edissith. the prisoner and child,. being rec.dled.,
they. repeated thew declarations, that her treatment
of the.child seemed maternally. kind and attentive.
Theittry, after an able charge from the JuJgc,
,returned
.3i verdict oC—Nat Guilty:

..WEDNESDAY, AUGUST if.
.11URDER:
?HS XING V. curzou. AND CDALCRAFT.

At a very early 1101/e this morning the Court, and
all the avenues leading to it were filled up, so great
was the public ant ieiy to hear the trial of these priso-
ners. At eight o'clock Mr. So:jeant LEN.i proceeded
to the Court, when the prisoners, George Chennel and
J. Cliekraft, were arraigned fort.lie wilful murder of
0. Chennel, at Godalming, on tle nith of Novem-
ber last ; and on a second indictment, fur the mut,
der of. Eliz. Wilson, by fracturing their skulls with
a htmtner, and cutting their throats. The following
Jury; were lava/wiled and sworn:
Veers, Trinanwr, Thomas Clarke, Cb. FauCkner,
John Taflor, John Mattlx.ws, Wm. Smith,
Simnel Savage, • James Street Thomas
am. Merryman, Richard Dare', John Fry.
The undermentioned Gentlemen were challenged
by the prisoners: •
Ed. Lewis,- • John Arnold, Win. Jackson,
John Simmons, Wm. Uh.mrller, Diehard Itobloson.
• Mr:.Gunvav, as leading Counsel• for the Crown,
stated the case to the Jury He observed, that even
the itOrrid crime . of murder had its gradations of
atroCity. It was aggravated when committed by the
strong upon the feeble aqd unresiting—when by the',
servant against his master—and above all. when by
• the son „agaiast his agedfather. Tne last was the
dreadful charge which was' imputed to the prisoners
—the, one was the son, -and the other the servant of
tire deceased. He mentioned thil not to mite their
passions ; on the contrary. they must not safer them-
.selves .to be transported, by their indignation and
abhorrence at the crime, to be caused, by a pre-
inatute judgment, to pronounce the isccused
They inn* discharge from their minds all they bad
heard else Where, and found their verdict only upon

the evideneewhich shank be adduced before them,
tise, that alone they, had se-ors to fruA their
mt. With respect to .11 it evidenCe, fr in is.l.l:h
they must forth the result :Of their I tiAi it
of necessity be colhicie ► ft,.tu a rat iely s.f ci
cunz-
tta:zces, all tending to the same end. he mut-
de:•er did not do his tOul deed in the prese,,ce yf wit.
nerst;s. He chase night and Solitudesfw the perpe.
tra.ion of •hia clime. The. deceased, Mr,. Cliei;nel,
was a respectable trade man at Godalming, near this
place, and wac also a man Of considerithle i.roperty..
The prisoner Chennel wat his son, and the other pri•
sonar his carman, and had been so for many sears,
he having a little farm in addi:ior. to his trade of a
currier. Elirnhedi Wilton, ti,e cfaer Ferson Mur-
dered, was a harmless old woman, who had bees
also for many years his housckzeper. The pcisoner
Chennel lodged in tjie ogiets of Godalrni4g, and
usually took his meals at his fiPier's, but d+l not
lodge there, and, it would bp proved, bad not t 112;
lid feeling which a son ought to have for a father.
On the morning of Tue Jay, the Ilth of November
last, about seven o'clock, the town of llodalming
was alarmed with the accnant that Mr. Chenal end.
his housekeeper were bolt fnuni inur&zred! in. ;heir
house, Which -was in the ruill:e of ale street at Go=
dalming. The old gentleman in his Ito& anil the
housekeeper in what was called the tront'kitthen..--
They were last seen alive at about ei:;ht o'clock on
the Monday 'evening, and flo,t circunivancer, the
murder must harkbeen committed 1,-..rn nine to ten.

The old gentleman was a very rogalar man; 4:16.1
went to bed usually at nine Lis hothekeeperfar up
after him for some time, and ti.ually reired to rest
at ten. lie was found in his bed; and thereto:* it
was done.after he had retied; she at found in the
kitchen, where she had been at ssAit, not having
bean to bed, and the work which *a.: i.ear her lia.ti
a shirt of the prisoner's, %%hit+ the was ntersidtig.byr
It was therefore presumed, that it was before her
usual time of going to test. The person also, who
'lived in the next house and whese ted-room ad-
joined to Mr. Chennel's, went to bed at ten delticke
and could bear any thing that passed in his room—
did not hear any noise after that hour. ' In addidea
to this, A person was passing the house about half.
past nine, and heard a scream, and afterwards some-
thing fall, but did not bipect any thing of the ahead.
sinvd which was th. must probabl in perpetra.
tion. 'rne next morning when a fanning sei vant of
Mr. Chennel's came to the stables tor the hones at
about six, he found Chaleraft there. as usual. ana it
was the conduct ci Chals:raft that esci.e.i suspicion
a4ainst him. They dressed their horses and %seat to
the house, where usually the old gentleman a.al his
housekeeper ws,uld be sitting at that hour. The door
was open, but no one appeared ; at length Chaleraic
went into the front kitchen, and the other heats him
calling his master, but no aylper. Now it K mild be
proved, that the murdered &lily a the housekeeper

Lid in such a position, that whet he open.:d the drier,
he must have seen, and indeed have stet ped over it,
to tret 'to the' stair foot door, an.f ileiefore his ar •
fecting no:to welt was matter oft.eat 'suspicion. In
addition to this, when the alarm was given, hestated
that his master was nird,cred up stairs, before he ur
any one had been up stjin.. He w.l, known to he the
constant companion of the 4rAer inii oacr, che;alel,
and there.rotehe see: for, and cat
searching the boa kf two 1.1
were found, one of • them sligittiy tiaged with b'sorri,
whiehnoles'would. be traLe•tf•t• 11. e ps:s,es.ion of :Le
father a few days before. Taff pris.l.r:r a: once aC•
knowleJged the notes to be his ta:ne...s, Atli said that
.his father gave them•tO hi rt my the InecetiiagSon.
day ; he should, however, c4ll evidc:ice to la;:ve that
pris;:rier,intheearly part *of ccUld not

pay a stLA ca bid. but about tea k un Moaday
eveuiag► alter the murder wt, supews,d

mined: 41e went to the kichmoad ‘.;:rnts is that town
.4n,1 sciaaude.ed *money • very yrc.lttseiy. As they.:
were both .suspeetedi they were re.l..lre.i to say where
they hid been; and whether they- were to,Jec.ier on
the Monday: evening ? rs.t.t. they '
had net seen ea-ch'othew since the pretedidg Friday.
The falsity of this sditement wrac.i be al,4;idatitry
proved, fur both Chalct'aft and el:cr.:tat v. ewe s. en cn.
the seut ai half-pusr.niueon evening of tlie mnr-'
dens; und.Chetittel was seen standing at the'very
s.tp:which led to the decased's house, and a wittiest .
attervierds passing by raw a woman walking 4ack-:
.ward'ind fprward before tie door, apprrolt4 oa
the watch.. Ttis•wobtan, it seas tinw evident, • was
one Sarah Hitrst, an arcrurplice.-atid Chatcr.tfl u•ake
seen wa:king talk Ards his hpme,
.•
him, and Chemed at the same time went 'aas.k to- the
Richmond Arms, which he had Lit some nefose,'
he insisting that he went .otit to look after a woman,'
and was gone so short a ti...e, i...tt the pi. 4 he lett
behind him was burning wlien he W;:‘ •
also singular that Chat..tali had a shurt time beiwe
declared, "there N:crild he a bier Lon' belure
long than Ciodalming had e've'r
to Chennel, the prisoner, he ssa, seh7atat,...l Lon' t.is '
wile, and was in the constant halrit usio,
tives against his father end the old wo:-..aa. These
were the circumstances of supiciun, burr in addition
to this he should call Niaty.llurst, hue accoo.plice of-

the deed. The Jury knew- that an e-'as'
an infamous character, and otly,ln hot to be heliuved
unless chntitmed by tiller te,t.11...ny, and. ia
to the prisoner, he was bt.und to state t1:-.it itiii as
complice, Hurst, had accused . and %torrid.
not mention names, who, urcn eve
clearly innocent. -'They would hear t..e whole cast:,
and decide impartially. "
For the prosecution there were then called aboa
thirty witnesses. • •
George Woods and Charles C,osion rroved seeing
the old people alive about eight o'cloc. on Slonnav,
the 10th November.
John Currington, the farming.servant,"stated, that
. • .

•
on Tuesday morning, about hiaii•past sir, Ile went to
the stables behind the house; he foun, Chalcratt
there; the side door of the kitchen was (lieu' but his
master was not up, nor thuhousekeel.,:r. He cid

Cha'craft breakfas.te d in the back kitrhbs,• and as nu

one appeared, (-laid-aft Said h..
He heard him open the doer leadins•ln the kirchcn, •
and call master, but no reply leas even. 'll e wit:
nest aftlawards went, and on (elling IF.e door, he'
saw a puddle of blood and the nc,:iwkoei er head;
he put his finger down and t..ujit d tl.e !load:—
They then both ran away into the str,i.t, and alantaci
the oeighboursc
W. H. C,oston, the test door neizt_bcur, 'etitee