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he had shot ar
that he had fi

and that

previous to his firing

times, and that h

in danger. I then took him into custody. The windows
were all smashed up stairs and the floor strewed wilh half-
bricks and large stones. The light over the front door was
completely smashed in, and the parapet in front of the house
was covered with bricks and.stones.

Jane Price, a young
said—On the night of

'oman who resides in Ansdell-street,
Le election I was standing at the cor-

when I saw a crowd, very riotous, at
and I heard some of the crowd say,
;nt's, the Three Legs of Man. Some
there." I saw them go to Casement's
re with them carrying stones in their
aprons. Some one in the crowd said, " Don't heave at any
other house but Casement's." They then began to throw
the stones. The door was burst open or broke open, and
some one came out and shouted that if they would not go
away they would fire. Immediately afterwards some one
fired twice, but I do not know who it was.
Elizabeth Casement, daughter of Mr. Casement, said—On
the night of the election I was at home. Between nine and
ten o'clock that night a little boy came and told me that there
was a ereat crowd coming to break into the house and kill all

ner of Ansdell-si
the bottom uf on

" Let us go to (

bloody ca
house.

the people who
served a crowd

of securinz it
the li
differin
fall, and I became insens
" For G

I looked out at the door and ob-
I shut the door, and was in the act

tones came through
,s. I received three
which caused me to

neaniqg the bolt for
a great noise from the crowd at the

I heard my father exclaim,

the do,

!re is the b

door open before I
through the light!

nd insensible for two hours. There
some of the mob to force the
e of lead come

s struck

was also struct

I can't
before 1

ny mother on the head

g and arm with bricks or stones,
very ravioli bruised. This %ens

attack, and there w

up to the

s offered on the part of Mr. Case-

coroner proceeded to remark upon the evidence. The
' first to consider what had caused the death of the
and from the evidence of the surgeon, there could
übt but that it was caused by a pistol or gun-shot
The deceased had died from tetanus (an affection
hole nervous system), and though the wounds were
rnmediate cause of death, the tetanus was an effect

lext had to inquire who fired the

A circumstances and the evidence
reapon was beyond a doubt fired
Then, if they thought so, there
s of law involved, upon which it
rers to decide. If a person
mmitted a great degree of

of lativy,

lireatening to take away

asoffered was not justi-1

he part

e not s

and that there

his was only a civi

law if de

final intention

it to commit

t as that hypothetical!
g it bu

of prey

mes difficult tokno

s life in immi,
as not justified
only way by which

gain, even if a man considered

vent danger, when I

in takin
he could effect his deliverance
Ent if

was differer

unless that were t

the law it

often were present with

curiosity or ign

rest, and for:

fled by the civ

part of t

eriminated, and in
assemblage. He t

extracts from t

lot bound to fly, for
t his house was his castle,
extreme means to repel the
in cases of riots, many parties
lv evil intent, but merely from

r, they stood amongst the

be dig-

t and parcel of the riotous

lied the attention of the jury to two
r upon that before them, and read
s of the judges upon them, explain-

ing their applicability as he went on, in a very lucid manner.
The first ease swts that of Meade and Belt, in " Lewin's Re-
ports," tried at York in 1823. In this case an assault was
made, threats were used, and at a subsequent attack on the
prisoner Mead's house, he fired a pistol, by which a man lost
his life. He was found guilty of Manslaughter, and Belt was
acquitted. The other case involved the Bristol riots, and
was peculiarly in point, but we have not room to quote it'
,rom Carrington and Payne's Reports, vol. 5, page 2,3, 4,
&c. The opinion of Lord Chief Justice Tindal, in his beau-
tiful charge to the grand Jury on the case, was very explicit ;
and was favourable to the accused in the present instance.
He concluded by expressing his assurance that the jury
would decide without being in the slightest degree swayed by
-I;tical feeling. ak he transaction before them.
accused entertained a bone
I the lives of his family were in
'•1 justify the act; if not, they

homicidl

rued ti

urned a verdict of " justifiabl
of all who heard the evidence

DEATH FR.024 MusFuEs.—An inquest was held bf
Mr. Hoyle, deputy coroner, in the absence of Mr. Stoker,ew.e
on
Saturday last, on the body of Mrs. Mary Angus, the wife of
Henry Angus, cabinet maker, Westgate-street. It appeared
from the evidence,. of Mrs. Willoughby, that the deceased
bad, on the evening of Tuesday the 6th instant, eaten some
muscles for supper, of which the deceased had partaken
freely ; she was shortly after seized with violent shivering
and vomiting, which continued until Thursday, at twelve
o'clock at noon, when she expired. Dr. Gregson saw her
towards the conclusion of her illness, and gave it as his
opinion that her death was occasioned by the pernicious
efects of the muscles, which he stated were well known to
be peculiarly hurtful to some constitutions, and either pro-
duced death in the present instance by their own poisonous
influence, or by eausing severe cholic, which proved fatal.
Vmeterdeicat,--sti:lDeuierdzi.fsickness, produced by eating muscles.