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afternoon, aid joking. and I told the woman, that 1
would go home with her at night; I went to the stable
for my basket, to get away from the other men. and I
wai ed there till the woman was gone out; and I went
nut the other way, aad met her at the Bridle-gate
that leads to Chesterton Windmill-hill." I asked him
if .he objected to his going with her ? and he said.
No;" I asked him if be met any body on the road?
he said " tfo"—he said, " we went together to Has.
bury's Poor Pleck, and I wanted to become familiar
with her there, but she was very awkward, and would
not let me, on account of being so drunk r I said, had
you intimacy wit:r her, and he said, " That I had."—
I as‘ed him if he had intimacy more than once
th ? He replied, 6. Not that night, but a vest
many times previous." I said, " Miller, you never
could throw her into the pit after that—you must have
been so drunk, ihat a; you lay on the bank you rolled
in." He raid "No; I don't think we did—l think I
,brew her in." I asked him a second time if he bad
not laid on the bank? and he said, " I think I threw
her in ;I am almost sure I threw her in." 1 asked him
at he had taken her round the middle and carried her
backwards into the pit ? He said, " N.,, I don't think
I did; I ant almost certain I threw her in," I said.
.how deep were you in the pit? He said," Up to here."
pointing to his arm-pi•s. I said, I understand she was
robbed, do you know any thing about h., money? He
said, " Ido not." I asked him what time be got to
Harbury ? He said," it was nearly ten o'clock." I said,
Miller, you could not be so drunk as you say, else you
could not remember all these things ; he said, " 'You
must think I was drunk, or I should not have done so."
Richard Bullock—l am a prisoner in Warwick gaol
on a charge of felony ; I was in gaol when the prisoner
was brought in, and I had a conversation with him the
following day ; after all the men were taken out of the
hall I was let wilt James Butler to.clean it, and Miller
was also left in ; Miller was crying, and after we
had doge I said to him, " How critic you to do
it r He said, "My master had a christening ; and
he gave us some drink, and alter we broke up the
young woman went out of the house, and I followed her r
I use, took her in the lane, and as we were going across
the fields I wat.ted to be familiar with her; the said I
should not, and with that I caught hold of her and
threw her down, and she began to wake a noise; I put
my hand upon her neck to prevent her from hooting,
and scratched it, and she tainted away ; I was frighten-
ed, and I tock her up and carried her down to the pit,
and threw her into it; I tumbled down u,. on my knees
and went upon my side, and she came to herself and
came to the edge of the pit ; I caught hold of her and
threw her in again, and she took hold of me and held
me, and pulled me in ; I was up to my middle in the
water, and I held her head under the water till she was
dead; 1 came out of the pit and was very much fright-
ened." I asked him what they had sworn to him by
he said, " When I fell down I left the marks of the
'cords on my breeches on the d•rt, and there were four
or five hobnails knocked in the heels of my boots, which
had made marks near the pond."
William Beazley-1 am the father of Mary Ann Lane; I re•
member her going to Mr. Heath's feast ; I expected her home at
eight o'clock at night ; I ,at up with her husband till ten o'clock.
but ale did not come home.

Mr. Thomas Hiroo—l alit a surgeon residing at Warwick; I
examined the deceased en the Witth of May last ; front the appear.
once of the body, the cause of her death was drowning; the coon.
tension- was bleated, and a great deal of Mona), froth issued from
the nose and mouth ; I opened the body, and every part was in a
healthy ; there were two lacerations on the body, one about
half an inch, and the other an inch in length.
This was the case on the part of the prosecution.
Mr. Hill said that he had to submit an objection to the Cough
as to a variance between the indictment and the evidence by which
it was sustained. In both counts of the indictment, the death was
ascribed to ti.e " casting and throwing" of the dec, aced into the
pond. Now, if the evidence proved anything, it distinctly mega.
Used such an effect from such a cause; for it was stated by the
witness whe last spoke to the declaration of the prisoner, that the
death arose from his holding the woman wider water
Mr. Justice Houturn.-You are perfectly right, In a ease of this
serious importance, to take advantage of ally apparent abjection,
but the mode by which the death was Catritti, I ant of opinion, is
perfectly immaterial. Had, for instance, the death been caused by
a stick, and the indictment charged it to have arisen from a sharp
instrument, that would not be a %wiper available to ro. Nor,
had it been caused by a poison, and instead of the cue. e t pawn,
you attributed it to a different poison, would that br it smilaxes
that would serve you.
Mr. ant satisfied. One objection more. 11 e witness
has described the parish by two names. lam prepared to sheer,
from a book of very high authority-of mean Ilatidialis Merrick-

Alr. Justice HoLanna—A book of no authority in a Court of
Justice.

Air. Hill—Well, my Lgrd, I am prepared to sheer, by evidence,
that this parish is called differently tram the w.,y in whial it is de-
scribed in the indictment.

Mr. Justice Moseeseuew.The par!sh ckrk has told yea tb it it
bears in women periettoe the name given to it in the indictment.
I am of opinion, that unleaa it does not, it is well described.
Mr. Hill said, he certainly could out shew that in ordinary Una
guage it was not called as the witness had described it.
Mr. Justice lioctiovo—P, honer, now is tb- time for you to
wake your defence: have you any thing to say
Prisoner—Yes, my Lord t that wt tam who said that I told her
Ishould be glad to get off for ,ransponati, a, spoke falsely;
never said so to her; William Smith and Hupu k have stated that
which I never said to them ; I sever said to .11 the prisoners io the
gaol half so much as Smith as stated; he and Itutloak have made
sas a story between them, awl probab'y Smith thinks he shall get
something by it; and 13u1Inck, I dare say, believes he will save
himself by giving this evidence against use.
Mr. Ju•tice HOLROYD summed up the case wici great
minuteness and impartiality.
• And the 'Jury, with. art a minute's hesitation, returned
a verdict of Guilty—Deeik.
The prisoner, who during the eight hours which he
bad stood at the bar, but once oily raised h s eyes from
the ground, now became extremely agitateu, and the
tears tolled down his cheeks. He was di es•ed in a
shabby green frock coaffsickli gilt buttons. His fe antes
were small, and di I not indicate the postesion of strong
passions.
- Mr. Justice HOLROTD proceeded to pass sentence in au
awful and impres•ive manner, and addressing the pri-
soner, he said, Upon an occasion of fest. vit y and merri.
went, you and other servants were civet tained by your
master, and you met the deceased at his boo e. You then
contemplated the gratification of your wi k•d desires,
and you followed her, and because si e resisted your lust-
ful designs, you determined to destroy hr r. You first com-
mitted a rap:, and then you murdered your extent. Du-
ring the trial scime allusion has been made to a robbery,
but no proof has been adduced of yr ur having added rob-
bery to your other clime. ; plc however, know w! e.hee
you are justly chargeable with that offence. It is fortunate
that an all-wise Providence has directed that deeds of
this cruel and inhuman description, done in the dark,
shall be brought to light, and proved as clearly as if
there had been an eye-witness to the murder. It is im-
possible you can remain many hours longer in this
world, and I advise you seriously, as ore of the wit-
nesses advised you, to ask for mercy where it can only
be found—at the hands of the great Judge of all."—
fhe sentence was then passed in the usual form, and
the primer was ordered to be hanged on

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