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OXFORD, Dec. 7. VICE CHANCELLOR'S COURT.—FRIDAY.
In a congregation held this day, the following degrees
were conferred : _ LYON V M'GILL.
Masters of Arts.—Charles Sumner, Balliol, Grand This suit arose from the circumstance of the abduction
Compounder. Richard George Walls, Brasenose. Edwin of a lady of the name of Crellin, who was carried from
Lumsdaine Sandys Lumsdaine, Oriel, Rev. Charles Liverpool a year or two ago to Scotland by a man named
Dunlop, Pembroke. Rev. Arthur Baynham, Pembroke. M'Gill and others, and a marriage effected, or at least
Rev. Alban Thomas Atwood, Worcester. Samuel John attempted to be effected, between her and M'Gill. The
Jerram, Worcester. Rev. Edmund Henry Haskins, particulars of the case were given at great length at the
Queen's. James Welch, Queen's. time it was before the magistrates of Liverpool, and after-
B ,chelor's of Arts.—Frederick Darling, New Inn wards on the trial of the parties for the offence at the
Hall. Robert Grandell, Michell Scholar of Queen's. summer assizes in 1842. M'Gill was then found guilty,
Henry Tickell, Queen's. Mark Warburton, Queen's. and sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment, which
Francis Henry Dunwell, Queen's. Seth William Ste- he is now undergoing in Lancaster Castle. Part of the
venson, St. Mary Hall. John Buckmaster, St. Mary property of Miss Crellin consisted of money due on mort-
Hall. Frederick Tuffnell, Scholar of Wadham. Fran- gage. The mortgagors, since the circumstances which
cis Henry Laing, Wadham. Edward West, Fellow of were the subject of the criminal proceedings took place,
St. John's. William Paul Wood St. John's. George and since those proceedings, have attempted to sell the
Theophilus Corke, Demy of Magdalen. Charles Offiey, mortgaged property in order to pay off Miss Crellin's
University, Brenckley Kingsford, Exeter. Arthur debt, and convert the surplus into money, and they ap-
Stanley Ormond. Exeter. Hugh Norris Lloyd, Scholar neared to have entered ir to a contract for that purpose,
of Jesus. John Lloyd, Worcester. William Meade, but the purchaser refused to take the estate, unless
Balliol. John Shadwell, Balliol. M'Gill, as the reputed husband of the lady, joined in the
conveyance. After finding this difficulty, the mortgagors
CAMBRIDGE, DEC., 1. refused any longer to pay the interest of the money to the
CAWS COLLEGE.—On Monday last, the 27th ult. lady, without the receipt or acknowledgment of M'Gill.
William John Johnson, M.A., was elected a Senior Fel- Miss Crellin was then advised to offer the property for
low on the ancient foundation. sale under her powers as mortgagee, and it was to restrain
CRAVEN SCHOLARSHIF.—The Vice-Chancellor has her from proceeding with the sale that the present motion
given notice, that there will be on Monday the 22nd of was made.
January, 1844, at ten o'clock, an examination of candi- Mr. Romilly applied for the injunction, and Mr. Bacon
dates for a scholarship on this foundation, lately holden opposed the motion.
by Mr. Philip Freeman, of St. Peter's College. The His Honour refused the motion, with costs, on the
candidates are required to signify their intention of offer- ground that the plaintiffs knew of the intended sale some
ing themselves by writing a Latin letter to each of the time previously, and delayed their application until the
electors' which is to be delivered personally, on Friday last moment.
the 15th, or Saturday the 30th of December. The elec-
tors are, the Vice-Chancellor, the Five Regius Professors, LIVERPOOL DISTRICT BANKRUPTCY COURT.
and the Public Orator. In order to facilitate this deliv-
ery, one or more of the electors will attend in the Law
Schools on the above days, from twelve o'clock till two RE JAMES BROWN CARSON.
o'clock ; and no candidates will be admitted who do not On Wednesday and Thursday this bankrupt was brought
signify their intention in the above manner. up before the court for further examination.
At a Congregation on Wednesday last the folllowing Mr. Yardley (the barrister) appeared for Messrs. Miller,
degrees were conferred :
Mackie, and Co., and other creditors.
Honorary Masters of Arts.-- on. Thomas Edwardes, Mr. Commissioner PHILLIPS suggested that it would
(son of Lord Keniington,) e Augustus Frederick be expedient, in future, to assimilate the length of their
Cavendish Bentinck, and R race Dundas, Trinity sittings to those of the old commissioners.
College. The bankrupt was examined at some length on the sub-
Masters of Arts.—Frederick Charles Cook, St. John's ; jest of his balance-sheet. It appeared that some of the
Richard Blanshard, Queen's; Gerard Neville, Catharine statements in the first balance-sheet did not agree with
Hall. those in the second, .which the bankrupt attributed to
Bachelor in the Civil Law.—Charles Henry Simpkin, omissions by his book-keepers.
Trinity Hall. In answer to Mr. Bardswell and the Commissioner, the
Bachelor of Arts.—Edmund Saml. Crooke, Pembroke. bankrupt said the balance-sheet was made out from the
books in the first instance, and, in the second, by Mr.
Badham, from the books and papers now in the possession
PREACHERSHIP TO LINCOLN'S INN.—There are no
fewer than eighteen candidates in the field for this appoint-
of the official assignee.
ment. His HONOUR remarked that it was very careless swear-
THE DEANERY OF LLANDAFF. —We understand ing to a balance-sheet on the part of the bankrupt. He
ought to have been more careful as to its accuracy.
that the Rev. William Knight Bruce, chancellor of the The further hearing was then adjourned. accuracy.
above diocese, has been appointed to the vacant deanery. On Monday, (yesterday) the bankrupt was again
The Rev. Sir Thomas Forster Bart., the most aged ba- brought up. He was subjected to a long examination,
ronet of the United Kingdom, died last week, at his seat, in the course of which he admitted that he had drawn ac-
Colderry, having completed his 92d year. commodation bills on Lis clerk, and vice versa, and ad-
NEW CHURCH IN HEATON Nortars.—We understand dressed those documents to the clerk at Bristol, although
that arrangements are being taken forthwith for the ( rec.. he was resident in Liverpool, in order to render them
tion of a new Church in Heaton Norris, towards which more negociable
___

Wilbraham Egerton, Esq. of Tatton Park, has given a
site of land, and, £lOOO.

The case was again adjourned to next Monday

We understand that the late Rev. E. Lake, who has for
many years officiated at the Countess of Huntingdon's
chapels, Bridport and Loweamoor, has left his valuable
library to the Church of England Missionary Society.—
Worcester Journal.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to
be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, appointing the Right Rev.
Father in God Edward Bishop of Salisbury to exercise all
the functions and powers, as well with regard to the tem-
poralities as the spiritualities, of the Right Rev. Father
in God George Henry Bishop of Bath and Wells.

RE JOHN DONNELLY

This bankrupt, who, upon alleged deficiencies in his
balance-sheet, in not accounting for several large sums,
had his examination adjourned sine die, again presented
himself befo're the court, with another balance-sheet of a
most voluminous character, extending over a period of
many years, during which he had been most extensively
engaged in business.

The balance-sheet was now declared to be satisfactory
The bankrupt was sworn, and passed.

RE MURRAY AND BROWN

The Rev. Robert Montgomery, late minister of St.
Jude, Glasgow, and now incumbent of Percy Chapel,
London, has just been offered to succeed the celebrated
Dr. Hawkes, of New York, at St. Thomas's Church, in
that city. The income is 4000 dollars, or about £B3O per
annum. We believe the rev. gentleman has very respect-
fully declined to accept this appointment.
THE VOLUNTARY SYSTEAL—The following extract
from the first report of the " Midland Mining Commis-
sion," affords a most striking instance of the failure of
the voluntary system of supplying Christian teaching:—
" A gentleman, of about £50,000 per annum in this parish
(Wolverhampton) when asked to contribute to Ettingshall
Church, excused himself by saying that the mines would
be worked out in about seventy years, and then the people
would move, and the chyrch would be of no use !"

These bankrupts, the extensive engineers, presented
themselves to the court to pass the final examination, by
adjournment from the 45th November.
No opposition having been instituted, they were per-
mitted to pass.

EXTRAORDINARY FRACAS

On Thursday last a very unseemly fracas took place.
The following particulers of which we take from the
Journal.

A few days ago Mr. Skirrow related, from his place on
the bench, that he never saw an attorney enter the court
with an insolvent without being reminded of the story of
the fox and the goose. The Talleyrand of the mammalia
family had once entered into a compact with the least
discreet of the ornithological tribe, the fox guaranteeing
to prefer chickens to goslings, on condition that the

ELECTION OF A CANON OF MANCHESTER.—At a
Chapter holden on Wednesday, the 6th instant, by the
Dean and Canons of Manchester, the Rev. Robert Cox
Clifton, M.A., the Clerk in Orders, late Fellow of Wor-
cester College, Oxford, was elected a Canon, in the room
of the Rev. John Gatliff, M.A. The office of Clerk in
Orders remains to be filled up, as also the rectorship of
St. Mary's. Both appointments are in the gift of the
Dean and Canons.

goose undertook to supply him with food. One day,
however, the goose failed in her commissariat department,
upon which reynard dined sumptuously on the contractor
herself.

At the commencement of this story, Mr. Green, an at-
torney of the court, accompanied by a client, entered, and,
believing that the fable was intended for him, he quietly
observed. " I understand the allusion, sir."
" I did not allude to you, sir," said Mr. Commissioner
Skirrow, "it would be beneath my dignity, sir, to allude
to you."

OXFORD, DEC. 6.—The opinions of three eminent
counsel who have been consulted upon the legality of the
degrees conferred upon Mr. Everett, the American
minister, were submitted to the vice-chancellor this
morning. It is almost superfluous to say, that all con-
curred in pronouncing the whole proceeding null and
void. It is probable that matters will be allowed to rest
here, the opinion of counsel being considered a sufficient
vindication of the protest that was made against the vice-
chancellor's act.

" 1 understand you, sir," observed the solicitor.
" Silence, sir,' exclaimed the functionary, "or I'll
: Mr. Gaskill, are you ready?"
your honour," said Mr. Gaskill.
"There is no hurry," observed Mr. Green: " I'll wait
till the commitment is made out."
The matter dropped here, but it is necessary to state
these preliminaries, in order to a right understanding of

commit you
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what fol

OXFORD, DEC. 10.—DEATH OF THE MASTER OF
PEMBROKE COLLEGE.—The Rev. George William Hall,
D.D., master of Pembroke College, and a prebendary of
Gloucester Cathedral, died at his lodgings at the college
this morning at four o'clock. The deceased had been head
of his college thirty-four years, having been elected in the
year 1809. It is stated that the Rev. R. W. Jelf, D.D.,
canon of Christchurch, and Bampton lecturer for 1844,
has been appointed to the headship of King's College,
London, vacant by the elevation of the Rev. J. Lonsdale
to the bishopric of Lichfield.
DURHAM, DEC. B.—At a convocation holden on Wed-
nesday last, the Rev. George St. Quintin, M.A., Trinity
College, Cambridge, was presented and admitted ad
eundem. Francis Town Attree was admitted to the de-
gree of B.A. The Warden and the Professor of Mathe-
matics were nominated by the Warden and approved by
convocation to be Examiners in Theology in the present
year. The following graces were passed :—To grant
£2OOO from the University estate to the Castle Trust.
To advance a sum not exceeding £6OO for the purchase
of the lease of twenty-one years of the Grammar School,
and of the premises attached thereto. To apply the gift
of £4OO from the executors of the late Robert Thorp,
Esq. towards making up the above sum.

On Wednesday Mr. Green tendered the petition and
schedule of the insolvent, Sarah Jones, to the registrar of

the court, who ref

ised to receive them, acting, as he said,
ender the direction of the Commissioner, (Skirrow,) un-
less there was a general balance annexed. As the prac-
tice in the other court and the London courts is not to
require this balance-sheet, it was considered that the pe-
tition and schedule were in the form directed by the rules,
and sanctioned by general practice. It appears, however,
that, in consequence of Mr. Skirrow's refusal to receive
the schedules of the insolvents without the general balance-
sheet, the business of this department has been suspended,
and no less than seven petitions been delayed, and the
suitors left in painful suspense, not being able to get their
protection from arrest.

On Thursday Mr. Green attended again, and required
the registrar to make out a certificate of allotment, pur-
suant to the first of the rules and orders.

The registrar consulted for some time with the corn-
missioner, and the latter inquired whether the balance-
sheet was annexed?

Mr. Green said the case was not properly before his
honour until the allotment was made, on which, after
another consultation with his registrar, (M. Thomson,)
he directed him to make out the certificate, but not to
sign it.

-Mr. Green said the registrar was bound to sign it, and
he required him to do so.
The commissioner asked if the registrar was bound to
sign on any nonsensical document being brought to him ?
Mr. Green said he put it to the good sense and practi-
cal knowledge of the registrar, whether his papers were
nonsensical? He said there was a petition and a sche-
dule, gazettes, and newspapers, and an affidavit of the ser-
vice of the notice, and the signature of the petitioner and
schedule, which were in the required form.
During this time the registrar was preparing the certifi-
cate, and completed it with his signature.
Mr. Green then said, " Now, I am regularly before
your honour," and he tendered the interim order for the
commissioner's signature.
The commissioner appeared annoyed at the registrar
having completed the allotment paper, and, said his Ho-
nour, " Give me the paper ; I'll tear it to pieces."
" Surely not, Sir," said Mr. Green ; " it is a legal do-
cument of the court."
" Silence, Sir, or I'll commit"-

" Good God!" ejacul;ted Mr. Green, "surely we do
not live in the reign of James the Second, when judges
made lax."

" Mr. Gaskill, do your duty," cried his Honour
move him."

Mr. Gaskill, the messenger, and his officers obeyed.
Mr. Green remonstrated : the officers pulled away : the
Court looked astonished : and, as Mr. Green's enuncia-
tion, when excited, is not very distinct, the noise and the
commotion were rather ludicrous for a court of justice in
the presence of a judge.

On Wednesday executions were served upon Mr. Bird
and his relations, for the payment of the costs incurred in
the trial, as to the right of property in the Brougham-hall
estates, recently heard at Appleby. -
The Court of Queen's Bench has decided unanimously,
in the cause of " The Queen v. the inhabitants of Bir-
mingham," that the magistrates have no right to separate
children under seven years of age from the mother, even
with her, donsent.

THE UNITED SERVICE GAZETTE.—On Tuesday:this
newspaper, which has occasioned so much litigation in
the Court of Chancery, was sold by auction at the
Gray's•inn Coffee-house, with the approbation of Mr.
William Brougham, one of the masters of the Court.
Mr. Andrew Spottiswoode, the Queen's printer, was
the highest bidder, having offered £1,500 for the pro-
perty.

TOLL QUESTION.—A case of importance to toll gate
keepers and others, was decided by the magistrates. at
their petty sessions, at Nantwich, on Tuesday last. The
keeper of the turnpike gate at Henhull having been sum-
moned for demanding and receiving toll from Mr. Wm.
Walley Downes, whilst on his way to his usual place of
worship; and it appearing that Mr. Downes resides, in
Nantwich, but attends worship at the parish church of
Acton, in which parish the turnpike gate is situate, the
magistrates construing the word " parochial" in sec. 32
of Geo. 4, c. 126. as denoting the situation of Mr. D.'s
place of worship, with reference to his residence, held
that he was liable to pay the toll and dismissed the sum-
mons.

LONDON CRIMINAL COURTS.—In the Bail Court, on
Tuesday, before a special jury, Patrick Leith Strachan, a
gentleman in a very respectable station of life, was found
assaulted, with an inrlai.o...F .•

guilty of having

young gentleman n
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Dawson

Dec. 12, 1843.

JOURNEYMAN TAILORS IN LONDON•

Every now and then exposures are being made in tr
Police Courts of the metropolis which painfully verify t the
quaint remark that one half of the world is ignorant °,
how the other half lives. The afflicting details connectea
with the sempstresses have just been followed by revela-
tions scarcely less disgusting regarding sempsters, or, 0
they are commonly called, journeymen tailors. MI
Peter the City
aoffteLrodnidspoonsiGnguioldfhsao
of the exquisites who patronize the fashionable Load
houses will be startled by the following :
Ata
journeyman tailor named Richard Morgan, who had
written a long letter to him on the grievances of his trade,
was in the room. Morgan presented himself. The letter
complained of the low prices aid by the clothiers of lhe
Jewish faith ; but there wasp another evil equally ~„
iniheachfeawrgedsar
per-
nicious, into which nearly all the city tailors haindqufaielecibala-y,
and which the writer thought the Alderm:.n
exposure, assist in destroying. This was the en:IP-Jo
ment of chamber masters or as the trade termed theag
" Sweaters," from their habit of working by night ell
well as by day, auct on saints' day and Sundays, as -
other days. A master who could keep twenty Jour;
as
19
hey men going now usually employed but four. Each .1
these took out as much as five or six men could do,
usually worked for two masters at the. same time.
get through this mass of work the man set up ""°
willing to
machine. He hired two experienced hands
work at reduced wages (perhaps from loss of character);
To these he added a couple of improvers, who work 3
half-price for the sake of imovement, two or three
sempstresses, and his wife ands hildren. These are ge-
nerally huddled together in one dirty room,
eat, drink, and sleep together. This forms a sweatil.
machine, to which the master tailor sends a gentleina!:
coat at night to be manufactured by nine o'clock the
next morning, instead of giving it to a journeyman to _
completed solely by himself, which would require two
days' work. Gentlemen would sicken with disgt.ls!
they could see and smell the dens of filth in
great part of their clothing is now made up. The s'reco.,
usually made heavy charges for sitting room, cools, 0,
dles, and meals, and these journeymen's journeYrile,ay
after a most laborious week's work, seldom carried
rs
more than a few shillings. Much work which mastteed
ogle°
and foremen could give out in the morning was
till the evening, because they knew it could be coal'
with
pleted by night-work, at a sweating machine,
any additional charge.
On a subsequent day Mr. Morgan ❑attended to subst.ll:
tiate his charges by the evidence of parties employed ut
the manner described, and subjoined is a report of wha
a sweating
occurred :
Henry Leader said he had worked a few daY"sbsicial'ilitcete.r
for a sweater employed by Mr.o Coleman-streng
ie
He was employed to make the third-part of a
breasted beaver coat. The sweater was to have 126' the
was to be made during the night. The sweater kept
lightest third-part for himself. Complainant, with ter
help of a short pipe, kept himself awake, but the otli
two, who had been working in the day, dropped an e
sleep. The garment was got in, however, hi good
n.
but the master cut the price down to 10s., and come t
ant received 3s. 4d. for his share. A good fire was AeP3,
up, and they burnt seven pennyworth of candles, an

deduction of Is. was made for coals and candles.
Thomas Eames said he was employed by a sswea"-/:
who worked for Mr. —, of Hanover-square.
men worked in one room, two of whom slep s.t in it at mg,
Mr. pays 17s. for a coat. The sweater deducts :4
for his time in going backwards and forwards to his shop'
and marking the job off into thirds • keeps the lightest:.
himself. The two men who sleep there each paY 2s. Da
per week for Iralging, sd. for breakfast, Bd. for dinner/ 34..
sd. for tea. Had worked for other sweaters at the ire.
end. They employ the men whom no master tailor caeklu,
suffer to enter his house—men without shoes and, st°e,
ings, who wore their shirts three weeks without changi:orV
whomwh o wtehree
vermin
continuallyfilthy o
diseases,ree p
og. adnl e ot
the hands of these men he had seen put a share of :1
fora minister
pitalirskteerr,ofththeeseCorro:t-anr,y
protee
ea
Society, produced a specimen of trousering manufaetur„s
at Huddersfield, by grinding together old woollen ra:d;
antod
tpheoersToafiltohrse,realm• ton
collected from all parts of Europe. !t had been too
up into cheap clothing in America, and returned '° or
bad for any use. It was called in Yorkshire shodir,e,
devil's dust. The specimen produced waa a sort of ocher
green twilled trousering, and had slits two or three 11'.„in
long opened in all directions where there was a e%-
ttehoeswiv-eealyr. ctral
useHd
ebsyaitdheacbbeetatpertasoilrotr,ofwhthoisse article sv:":was
to have the worst materials made up in the besi.
a scandalous rate of wages. r; le at

„ceived'

John Holland deposed to the prices he hal. - ,hoot,
viz., for taglionis and pilots, best make, 3s. ' ' and holes,
ing jacket, full of pockets, and with nineteen button-

- . •
requiring three days' work, 3s, 3d.
The evidence was then directed to show that„;:pok6
who professed to keep men on the premises for
work, sent it out into the most filthy neighbourlwt° beiog
Morgan said he saw this week a lady's hnb,', in
made up for Moses, by a man named Paddy T;ecis'coall-1,
very filthy place. It was a bespoke garment, ail oda,
take a whole week to make, and Paddy, a be„nlY
workman, was to have 15s. for it. There werelv the
dozen tailors in the city who bona file employed 00sdigha
men on their premises. There were 100 sweatsterreeelleg
had 400 good hands under them The livery u tto
of one of the present sheriff's footmen were given they
a sweater at ss. He could not do them, but woe fellon,
over to another sweater at 4s. 6d., and the pol:".

who actually made the received 4s. '•-e.
Such ire the mystemries of the craft as practi'to,so
London, and, it is to he feared •in many other large intro-
of the kingdom, where metropolitan manners area that
duced. It was observed, during the diseussri'stiot;
m
nothing could put down the sweating system,
i"bilv the'.
g the work to men working in rooms rented •

employers,

70.
A cruel
ipl
venr
suspicion
H has
POISONINGj ds t taken
tend, i riA
i._lal 5.
neighbourhood of Bath. The house of tw0.„,1
firm persons
broken open in the night of' Sraetsuidrdinagv aste'v"erisagti7Z,ElLhae
rmoebnbeadreof
vtSharanst.rt.tEhrtein.sp"ring ' 0
Frost,
death
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following
attack
kieininergugOspnf fion
upon
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solicitor and
Gwaeaschtl
about
two
Teties,, -ci in ..-e
transportedi g2o m ent
hfoaru2poe
upon
yearst
her fored forgery,
andhisA daughters,
rhbAteeeLrnlsahs.,h
desiringi red a s a t
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tlohwatedmhrism.
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AND • ATTEMPTING
SISTERS.—On
culprito naFvor
iavows
sa Tys Do
socialist
last,.l POISON
bts
hoe
enf 0 or fault
i al
s respectablenafpph ries h education
de n farmer,inenet inholnafe
ptjf'oet adia.
srlontgoloneowensr. hire
elotdylgu'aatrY‘ebßB.lsgtilr' i iir'railifil2ehol 'Er: se
Bh°. 11:°''
age t pot-
chargewick,
stated,b rourgelni td ue
rendered
atd
still the Police
more court,•-
horrible
that he considers it no crime to commit murder, 'e &Is
Prestwich, robbed her given iri ciearlf
tody on that charge ; but the facts were "t disel°'
brought home to him, and the following horribleisoner'S
sure was made by members of his family. The Prstances•
father died in April 1840 under suspicious circuina_ti et
Very early one morning in that month the decet:e7. oso
li.cwse3 nlott principles,taaonp
hpdei savvrmse:tinhid; basrs "I
is°t
ou sei etu
isitt-
up, and went to work in the garden. The al hini,'
got up at the same hour, which was unusuai %choose tu
About seven o'clock the father went into t'l°thef be
breakfast, no one else of the family but the ie 13!0
up. The prisoner looked through the wirill°w• ten rl3l-
- was getting his breakfast and the latter litlich eon'
w 1 niornil3.,s
flutes after was seized wish violent vomiting. '
tinued almost incessantly until the followingaorrliniq
less that the son had caused his death."' extarned_o,
when he died. Though the symptoms were
recollected that he had had a quarrel witiht
no suspicion was entertained that he 1::). isafterwardS
~.; a bTrelling wit,
had beaten him, in consequence of "'s "na the father 0
0
his sister Margaret. About six weeks after
made
sots
death, the prisoner's sister Sarah
coffee put it in the oven to keep but fnillit.
sister Ann. Sarah got up early
doctor and found to contain next morntrigout
' the cp r
the prisoner was up before her, and on Oki"' a peeell9
fee she found it incurdledstate, and having , oto 0
a
taste. She showed it to Margaret, and it • natara g
The family f. tber
the c' et,
became uneas
death were reverted to. Shortly after Ward iYia_,,,jie
when about to thicken soine broth with meal, ii.l,'.ie cilf
to taste a little of the meal, and found it tasted ii" wit"
d went ty
coffee. She took it to another brother, an . to r° a
him to soveral medical men, who pronounced it
.._OO4
tain acetate of lead. On another occa.ion theYelfwbtes!!
white powder in a teaspoon placed in a basin ou.t
oilier b rt
some of the girls were to take milk. The P.,r1,,. aria 4
Y, and the circurnwsatarrtliniceaosvvi:or.fri:llfiltrbe(ri,
been first up that morning. Margaret tasted l'i,.ootht,
precisely resembled the coffee and meal. OiL,'„esi..
occasion, he got up before them, and Margaretinr:Zt au,.
picious, watched his movements, as she then il °L'b eoff67l
observed. He went into a room where there welid an
in a pot prepared for breakfast, and lifted ibbe valid 00'5
closed it again. On his leaving, she found on i otitY ea'
father, whin,
white powder similar to the other, and
a not the niea,
mixed with the coffee. This as well as some 0 cetate c''.•
was taken to Dr. Barrow, and found to contain Z
~0 food
lead. During these attempts the prisoner
in the house. He had been heard to say, ofri-7f,,,,,i1y
to, :i-: sister
Margaret that he would " serve her out. ,icri, bind;
afterwards entered into a sort of contract with ni„ hind if
ing themselves by their signatures not to proseecin:rdiagbri
he would never come near them again• He l' c ear an
Don, a 1
a leftthemhalf
ag 0 for aboutmr.
J. a
By e.ar,an Smithd returnedthe rn agi
sat=t, yeihdere_csaoseci
01_—A I the elder, brother of the prisoner who pi --- t --1-
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mm, to the effect that tu. . Alty „"o;ced
g with it arose from the dela—it having been n"after
to lie over for two years and a half; and the family :Tot
binding themselves by a document, now appearing figngr,
him. He should remand him, in order to consult Pri'et.
- - said the prislA it

against

had star

dile had consic

„a 5 big
The prisoner was the” te'

no crime to commit murder, for it
education that led him to it. '''"
manded.