The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-03-24 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STAISI)•ARD.

far the law held that any person who, in the execution of an un-
lawful act, occasioned the death of another, that person was
guilty of murder,—so 'that even if the prisoner had purposed
suicide, and in endeavouring to destroy himself, had destroyed
his wife, his crime was murder, though not of so -heinous a de-
gree as it' he had intended to kill her in the first instance.
The prisoner, who had duclin3.l sayiug!anything ‘vhen.called
upon for his defence, observing he would- leave it to his counsel,
here handed in a w itten paper which was read by the officer of
the court. It was to the effect that he (prisoner) had had an
illicit intercourse with the deceased before he married her at
WOolvrich, three yea s ago; that he was compelled to marry
her by the parish officers ; that she turned out to he a woman of
drunken habits and made away with his money and property;
that on the day when this unfortunate event happened he Caine
home, after having been on duty for twenty four hours,, found
his wife absent, nothing in. his house to eat or drink, his wife
having made away with every portable article;` and that in the
desperation of the moment he loaded his musket trr put an end
to his own life, and fired —how or in what direction he knevi not.

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Mr. Baran PARKE observed that the explanaticinyiVen -by
the prisoner put the case in the wont supposition;•iriz, that, he
intended to kill himself, not his wife ; but even on thatsuppnsi-
tints the offence was murder, and it should be observed that
when taken The prisoner himself did nut suggest either that the
gun had gone off
,by accident, or that he had intended to shoot
'himself.

The jury retired to consider of their verdict; and"sfter about.
an hour's absence returned with a verdict of Manslatighter.
Mr. Baron PARKE told the prisoner that he had had 'a naerci-
ful jury, and sentenced hint to Transportation for Lite.

SENTENCES.
. William Allen, convicted of manslaughter on Monday, was
sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment and hard labour.
Lucy Bury, convicted of manslaughter on Tuesday was sen-
tenced to transportation for life.

NISI PRIUS COURT, SATURDAY.
GRUNDY V. KAYE.— This was an action, brought by the
plaintiff, Mr. Edward Grundy, of Parkhills, near Bury,. to re-
cover damages for an alleged libel, contained in a bill Pub4shed
by the defendant, Mr. John Kaye, printer and bookseller. Bury.
Mr. Grundy was one of the unsuccessful candidates for the re-
presentation of the borough, at the election of 1832. About
that time the bill made its appearance. It purported to be the
maiden speech of Mr. Grundy, in the House of Coininons, and
was given. in the broad Lancashire dialect. The alleged libel
was charged to be contained in some of the paragraphs towards
the end, which, it was contended, were calculated to bring the
plaintiff into contempt.and ridicule, as tending to convey the
impression that be was destitute of common honesty and defi-
cient in the obsery.ince of the common decencitia of life. The
hill was first published in 1832, and, having been republished Lit
the late election, Mr. Grundy had brought this action. The
:publication was proved by witnesses.
On the part of the defendant, it was denied that the parts of
the bill referred to imputed any want of honesty otylecencyto
the plaioiff, but rather a joke on the Rev. Edwnrd Iqing
and the u iknown tongues ; and that the other parts were in-
tended merely to show, that the language which Mr. Grundy
used was the common tongue (tithe people of Lancashire.
The jury found fur the plaintiff.—llamages is.
Mr. Baron A LoititsoN said, he would consider whether or not
he would certify.

A QUESTION OF,TITLE.
DOE DEM. WILDE AND OTHERS V. ORMROD.—Thirwas an
action of ejectment, to try the title to sotne landed property,
called the New Earth estate, in the parish of Prestwich-cum-
Oldham, in this county. The question will ultimately turn on
the construction of the will of the testator, John Wilde, who
died in 1782; but the question fur the jury was, whether James
Wilde, the testator's father, was the son of Edmund Wilde and
and Grace Tetlow, his wife, or of any other persons. For the
plaintiffs a number of baptismal and burial registers were put
in to establish this point. For the defendants a great mass of
docu nentary evidence was given to prove that this James
Wine was the son of John Wilde and Deborah, his wife.
The learned Baron said, that it was requisite for the plain-
tiffs to satisfy the jury affirmatively, that James was the son of
Edmund and Grace; and that, if they tailed to do that, whe-
ther he was the son of John and Deborah, or of any other per-
son, the defendant would be entitled to their verdict.
"fhe jury found for the defendant, stating, that they consi-
dered that the plaintiff had not made out his case.
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pekoe, 30 chts 110 bxs ange pekoe,. Ibx pouehong.; • and Ibx patio
tea, Sir, J.Tobin-7 pkgs tea, T Bold—'26 do, 10 peculs china. root,
30000 whanahee. canes, 1q bamboo chairs, 1 bx books, 4 bxs coots
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