The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-04-05 00:00:00

L HAT ASSIZES.

KINGSTON. Amt. 3.
Nary Wells, • married woman, was indicted for
the murder of her bastard child, on the 16th'
of Vebruaty. Tiler* vras no evidence tbst the a►Ud
Mae iso:n alive, and the Prisoner was foood—Not
Guilty or the Murder ; but was convicted of t►e ens.
resiment of the ba.lard child, upon her own erinfes
'jou, subj.•ct to 'ha tpuestinn of legitimacy. &owe
rat CCM 11 seviiiiml.

T. ittlswa was rspitslly indicted for alquoltieg
11r. Grow en the King's highway, and taking Gm
Jim one lialf.crown. The Prosecolor is tbe propel,.
for of the Globe Tavern, at Peckham, end on the
ti t Nosrmbor last, he was returning home at a
lair hoe• in the evening. It was very moonlight,
anti is ' P visa walking along the hank of the Surrey
Canal, he observed a man running towards him. In
(..w moments •tte Prisoner name up to hiss, and
wit► an horr;rl oath 11,m•tided his money bat net
iv—visit's env answer, he drew • largo riots from so-
rter his jacket, and with a tremendous blow felled
Geo,ge to the earth. He then search►d his
vet k►t., end Stink a half-crown, all the money he
had about him, and after doing this, the rattan struck
Mon several swarm blows an the head and body, and
left him on the ground weltering in his blond, and
quite avowing's. During' the time he was pert*.
staling this pottage, he swore with most bitier
impre-
cations that if Mr. George made the slightest noise
he *weld bent his brains net ! Soon after he left
two Gentlemen passing that way found the Prose-
(Nu., in a slabs of insensibility, and took him to an
adjacent hoes., where medical aid was procured.—
When Mr. George recovered his senses, he was en.
shied In give s.• accurate a description of the person
of t►t Prisoner, that Oddy, the Bow street
who resides in the neighbourhood, apprehended him
the (dinning day near Woolwich. On the part of
the Ptisnner all alibi was attempted to be *et op ;
bet the two viiinesses produced for that porpoise
bring examined separately, completely contradicted
each other..

The Jar?, offer ll chore from Mf. hilllke PARk,
atihnut hesitation, found tie Prisoaer Guilty—
Drath

.1. llovard wag indicted for saerilefinesly break.
In and rntrrina the parish Chores of Streatham., and
steeling two Bibles and two Prayer.boolts. tbis p►o.
perry of oho Cherebwilideos and Ovetseors of Ike
slid parish. Th. Prisoner, it appeared, was a poor
denier, •nd had vied the 'erred eoleoni he bad
stoles into waste osper.-1111 was contacted, and ro.
calved taw once tif Desik.

G. Packer, M. Carnal* and R. Griffith., were
apit.lly indicted for steeling three ►l.cks of tie,
igloo 151. each, the property of K. Wilson. ear-
mark sod Griffiths were acquitted; Fletcher yes
Nonni Guilty, and received sentence of Death.

CIVIL. SIDE.
PIATCIILIT O. coLunor•

This was an action against the Defendant for lg.
110I•11Ce and misconduct as • cow-leech, by which he
poitotiod fire cows of the Plaintiff.
Ihe Plaintiff was a dairy farmer, and the Defend.
cif had formerly hews a veterinary actg.** in • deo.
goon trdiment, and now practised a, a veterinary
surgeon 1111 d cattle-doctor. The Phi%lira cows hod
the mange, and the Defendant was amphoyod to core
tAPm, which be ondertook to do. Ile accordingly
warted their shins and tiro diwased parts with • cur.
flin medicated was; the erotism" was, that In
•botit • quarter of an hour the cows began to show
ampeonts of great ilium—they because tremolos.,
vacated, lay down, their linsgses swelled, and lolled
out of their months, their eyes wore hollowed, their
bodies swelled, and in a very short time they all
died. In the opinion of the witnesses this effect
was ocarsidanitty cwrosivo sublimate and in the
with. %.. •

Mr. Maaavac, for the Defendant-, celled the led
cf 14:Defendant, who stated, that the ingredients
of ibe week were rock slam, while •itriol, tobacco.
eater, end meadow.dork boiled tnieihor. The wit.
Ness said, thet he did not heow that his master put
sac corrosive sublimate Soto the wesb, bat he had
cot revive sublimate in his shop.

T. Jet, hood for the Piiiiiiir—Dameges 601.

TiII',ITON, APRIL 1.
.11.1111111111 V. PALMER.

This was enemies broegb to re the sum of
3451. seder circumstances rather peculiar.
51r. lieljeent PELL opened the case.—The parties,
he sold, were respectable fornwrs residing at /tieing-
tow, in the army of Somerset, where the Plaintiff
was posomend of a certain close, among ether lands,
felled broad Lies; aid the Defendant, among ether
prenehloist a* field, called Fos Hole ; these pre-
mkt., bobs divided by the river Yeo. In the mouth
Priv MI. ISIS, • new, lie 'travesty of the Defend-
ant dietl..llmt Limed sedeeet believed of some
e..tstagissaa dietraimee l sod aft. by the desire of the
Defendant, thrown 11001111• viva sit • place called
liallsoireisay, the Vliiritire field lying a little
Inner down the stream. In the cootie of a fortnight
en three weeks, the decomposition of this carcass
produced effects so loathsome, that complaints were
midi. to the Defendant ; and in conseyeenee of these
c..mplaints, the cow was taken piece-nivel not of the
Titer, and buried. In the coarse of the time that
the row lay in that part of the river which was above
th• Plaintitrs field, the cattle of the Plaintiff, IsLich
were pestering there, drank of the water infected by
the putrefaction of the cow, and io coesseyeence of
an chinking, were seized with the same distemper of
which the cow had died, by which distemper a consi-
derable member of them were destroyed. It was to
r.cuver the valve of the cattle so poisoned that she
present action was brought. The Learned Si•rjeaet
would show that the Plaintiff lost on cattle hot these
which, feeding in Broad Lee., shook of the infected
water ; sod ho woold show that the Defendant him.
self t ad (net some of bit own tattle, which, feeding
In Fos Hair, olee drank of that water. If those
facts were proved, be should be entitled to a verdict.
John Fudge was servant to Yr. Palmer, the Dr.
fetidly', is June, lb lb. Remembered a cow of his
Wastes'. dying the beast was darned by witness
•Nll 1/0/416,111.t1 flung into Ow river at Bellmire.tiney ;
ene tow was fecund dead in the morning, 1191f1 II sown
tutu the dm abrt a'. trto•u ; ser.eSt yeti ;

end the side mere the ground looked blacker jilt had
morlibai.

John Rolland reaseroberwl Ike VW/ being thrown
into the river; the Plaintiff's cattle were all healthy
at that lime; the watering piney of the cattle was
below the sprit where the cow was thrown in.
inn Col was servant to the Plaintiff; remembered
the Wattlant's sow being in the river; the water
was iceman, and frothy round the carcass. Abort
emu or eight days after the enw was thrown in, his
aster's cattle 'teemed re be ill ; they were restless,
and ester ran from their eyes ; • number of them
dirtl. None were ill bet those which were kept in
Ithe Brood lees; the rest weregaile healthy. Knew
that three of the Defendant's oaen had died, which
had been fed in lea Hole. Same of hi. master's tat-
tle were killed, to save Mew frees dying. While he
was dressing one of the rattle so killed, a calf of his
master's came to him and licked his clothes and shoes
which were bloody ; the calf was taken sick, •nd
was near dying : it seemed to have the same coot.
plaint as the cattle that bed died.

Cheri*, Holland was a botcher by trade: uvr the
Plaintiff's stock before the cow was thrown into the
river ; they were in health ; moaned and opened
some of the beasts that died ; the spleen was swollen
to five or sic times the *seal dimensions, •nd tha
ie-
tesrioea were is a state of mortification. Normalise
cattle were ill bat these in Broad Lees :
those on the other parts of the fares were neither sick
nor sorry. A number of witnesses prayed that nune
Of the Plaintiff's cattle died bet those is the
Bread Levy ; and that all the cattle that died, those
of the Defenilent as well as Blesser the Plaintiff, cis-
br•ted the same symptoms daring tlo•ir which
lasted only from two to ten beers. When opened, the
spleen sod istestien of all were fused la the use
state.

Mr. C. T. WILLIAMS, on the part of the Defend-
ant, addressed the Jury at considerable length. The
question, the Loomed Counsel said, was, whether
the cow of the Defendant bail actually died of a con-
t agines disease. The Jury had been told that the
water had been infected—infected to a degree which
rendered it sot only loathsome bet deadly. If it
had been so, would the latter have drank it ? Cows
were eery nice in drinking. There was • pond in
the very same field, front which they might have
drank if they disliked the water of the river. Bet
be had stronger grounds togs epos ; he should prove
beyond a doubt, that animal matter, In the highest
degree petrid, was not in the slightest degree poison.
cies, when received into the stomach. lle should
Ron, that such wee Use power of the gastric juices,
that meat petrid, whoa swallowed, became purified
offer remaining a short time is the stomach, lie
should show that, even supposing poisonous matter
to have vitiated, it meal have been so diffused in the
present etas as to render it impossible that the cattle
of the Plaintiff should have been is the slightest de-
greeeffected by it.

Mr. Edward Percy was a su►veyor. Had modes°
estimate of the average width of the ricer, and of
the velocity of the current. The ►iver was JO fret
wide, and the cpsantity of water passing any given
puint at Rellosire-quay was 1400 hogsheads a mi-
nute.

Mr. James Patin was a farmer: held land on the
basks of the Yes, lower down than that of the
Plsiutif ; his cattle drink the water without safer-
lug.
. Thos. Fero was a farmer at West Cornett! ; Ins(
rattle iu July last ►y themes distemper of which the
Plaintiff's cows died.

Mr. Hugh Stanton, sergeon, said that, in his jedg.
silent, a putrid carcass would not convey contagion.
The moment petrefaction began, ceetagion ceased.
Petrefaction hew es soon as life was completely
extinct. Arsinsal substances, in the last stare of pe-
trefactioo, wield not be injurious to life if taken
Into the stomach; they would create nausea, bat
would do no se►ious harm. If the putrescence which
'seded from the body of the cow had hese COftel/nI.
trawl in a pail of water, it would not have Imola
poisonous: &Mood, as it was, it must base been in-
noxious.

Mr. Sully, surgeon, Dr. Chichester, Mr. White,
sod Mr. Barrett, veterinary sergeuos, concurred iu
the above opinion.
Mr. Serjeant PILL replied. This was indeed, the
Learned Serjeast said, an ego of di Des. Putrid
matter was not prejedicial to health ! How did it
happen, then, tint persons were liable to criminal
indictment for gaming putrid substances in towns
and cities He meant no disrespect to the Medical
Gentlemen who bad been called, bet speculation was
not to be opposed to fact. There were people sq
speculative as to think that children of eight years of
age received no injury from working 16 hours a-day
in the cation-mills. He remembered that in France
(for France had its speculators as well as Trenton) a
Gentleman betted a large sum that he could ride a cer-
tain distance in t givers lime. The speculators went to
work, and dit ed that, from the resistance of the
air only, it was impossib!e such a body could pass
through the space in such a lime. The Gentleman,
however, was a bold man, for he rode his race and
won his welter. Philosophy was making its way et
all points. We might now, like mad Tom, "swallow
th► dead rat and the ditch dog," and yet receive no
injury. We should soon, probably, nisi without
either air or water. Some ingenious persons bad
contrived le doubt whether the plague was infec.
tious. A putrid body would, no doubt, be a very
facetious cearpanion. The punishmeot rf Mesporiss,
• living body cheiued to a dead one, would be
bagatelle. Let not him (the Learned Sorkin') be
chained to a livieg one (laugh from the Ladies in
Cuutt). He respected philosophy, and admired im.
prevemeat ; but was net yet convinced that a putrid
cereals wee wet onwhisleseme, and that be should
net solar by coming in contact with it.
The Jeep, without troubling Mr. Jamie. Best to
sum up, lased a verdict for the Defendant.

TRY v. ►YIDUY.

This WM SO Miss I • r►cover I. Bs. for goods
Bola sod alloossi. The first oitoess proved the
pm►.

Mr. Jostles DM oilmossecl Ms regret that loch a
cam should boo fossil its way into Court. Urge
was a man ao limbo as to bring an action for 21. 5s ;
and soother =III Nab as to defend it 1 FP*
lines hsd awe atindillboot them than two which he
would quote to tlieJory

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