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naa oeen guilty, ror a mime(' sum, the party whose name
he employed being at present on service in India. He
was traced to Hull, and having been apprehended there,

a telegraphic message transmitted thither by
superintendent of police here, he has been conveyed
to the gaol in Edinburgh.--Edinburgh Courant.

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London, on Friday

MANY WIVES.—At the New Court,
Henry Brammell, surgeon, pleaded

The second wife, who was in court, and in such a dread-
ful state of mental and bodily suffering that she was corn-
oelled to be brought in a chair, said that the prisoner
lived with her three months after his marriage, and had
nearly ever since been at sea. She had seen him when at
home, and he had sent her money when away. Since
their marriage he had sold her furniture, plate, linen, and
all she possessed. Two other indictments--one for mar-
rying Emma Georgina Rose at Calcutta, on the 13th of
October, 1847, and another for marryinc, Hannah Amelia
Bland, in September last, at Liverpool, he pleaded guilty
to. The Recorder than said, upon the first indictment
he should sentence him to seven years' transportation,
and. commenting upon the second indictment added that

was called upon to pass sentence upon a second indict-
ment. He should avail himself of the discretion the act

allowed, and sentence the prisoner to seven years' trans-
portation upon the second indictment; the second sen-
tence to commence at the termination of the first.

MANSLAUGHTER BY A MOTHER.—On Tuesday an in-
quest was held in Tottenham-court-road, London, on
view of the body of Ann Pullen, aged 144 years, who, it
was alleged, had been murdered by her mother, a widow.
Jane Pullen, the accused, on being examined, said she
saw deceased last alive at half-,past seven on Friday

return till half-past ten same night

She admitted that

she had fastened her with a cord to the bedpost. When
she returned home she found the door still locked. On
opening it all was dark and quiet. She called to her
daughter, but received no answer. She then went to the
place where she had fastened her, and finding her dead,
Mr. Joseph Layman, landlord of the

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cut her down

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a servant out of place, with them ; but she went out on
Thursday, and did not return till Saturday night. About
eleven on Friday night the accused knocl
saying, " Ann is dead—what shall I do

him up

lying on the bed. He advised alioctortOb;Wnl"
,nd accused said, "What is the use, as she is dead ?"
%id, " This is a very serious case, and there must be
iquest." Accused rejoined, " Something must be
, for 1 did it." She said she had left her to mend

even o'c

some of her things. She returned at
finding she had done nothing, she put the rope round her
neck, and fastened it to the bedpost, so as to prevent her
from sitting down, tying the ends round the foot of the
bed to prevent her from untying it. She had put the

rope round and rouna ner necti.—ine surgeon who had
examined the body stated that there could be no doubt
that death was caused by suffocation from hanging; he
found no food in the stomach of the deceased.—Thejury
returned a verdict of manslaughter against the mother
who was committed for trial.
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