The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-04-12 00:00:00

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nesses himself, he having concluded his
case on Thursday, in behalf of Miss Crellin. He suggested
that M r. Doling should examine the witnesseshe had brought
from Gretna, and he, Mr. S., would then examine them.
He did not call them himself, and being solely employed in
behalf of Miss Crellin, he might object to the evidence of
s I some of them, as h

Mr. Snowball
call anv more

did not know what they had to sal
.ose of them he had seen, he should wish to examine.

Mr. Rushton said, that as attorney for the prosecution in
behalf of Miss Crellin, Mr. Snowball could not cross-ex-
amine the witness in that stage of the case, and he must de-
cide whether he would call any witnesses himself.
Mr. Snowball said that he would:
Mr. Rushton then ordered a female prisoner who had a
few hours before been ordered to be committed for trial, on

a charge of stealing a watch and some money. On her being
brought up, Mr. Rushton, addressing Miss Crellin, said,
" You have said, madam, that when you first saw Martin,
he was with a female whom be said be wis to be mar-
ried to ?"

Miss Crellin said yes; but on being asked if she recog-
nised the female at the bar to be the same, she replied that
she could hot. The female was then put down.
John Rodgers, gate-keeper, at Roby, on the Railway, said,
I remember a party coining on the 18th March, to go by
railway, at the station. The prisoners Quick, Mrs. Clayton,
Jones, and M`Gill were amongst them. The party consisted
of five persons. The other was Miss Crellin, now behind
me. Miss C. appeared to me to be intoxicated. It was
about five minutes before ten in the morning. I asked
Quick what was the matter with her. He replied, it was

merely a little funny wa.

had. He asked witness to book
them in a carriage by themselves. Miss Crellin was assisted
into the carriage by Jones and M`Gill. He saw Quick the
Sunday but one following. He called me out of the office,
and said, " It odgers, I shall want you this week." I inquired
what for? He

it was concerning the party that went
Flom here the other day. He said that parties that knew
Miss Crellin seemed to say that she .was carried off in the

night, and he wanted me to contradict that. I said that I
could not leave my post without employing a substitute,
whom I should 'have to pay. lie said he would send me a
note, and give me £2 for my trouble.
Mr. Grocott here expressed his astonishment at the man-
ner in which the case was conducted in -
witnesses being brought up after the case hat

lat court, other
cl been closed by
A great deal of

the legitimate advisers of the

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idustry and zeal had been shown by Mr. Dowling in getting
which he (Mr. G.) did not consider necessary
inary stage of the. proceedings. He had also
agistrate in a manner extremely un-.
iing questions to the witnesses.

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Mr. Snowball Claimed to say a word before Mr. Rushton
plied. He said he appeared solely for Miss Crellin, and
at he saw witnesses in court whom he was desirous of ex-

amining, as he believed they would be enabled to fix the
guilt on the parties implicated ; but there were others pre-
sent, whom he should not examine, though he trusted he
t be permitted to cross-question them.
r. Rushton said he would give Mr. Snowball every fa-
cility consistently with the justice of the case. With respect
to what had been stated by Mr. Grocott, he did not
wish to enter into a controversy respecting the manner in
lad been conducted by him. He thought
ght have been spared. The course ha had
s adopted from the fact that when the case was
him, he had no proof that a felony had been com-
mitted by the parties carrying off Miss Crellin, to marry or
defile her; and he had thought fit to talCe the mode pursued,
n order to arrive at the truth on that point. The only way

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by which the ends of justice could be attained was by getting
all the evidence possible of the whole transaction. Whether
the attorneys for the prosecution or the defensive chose to
question or cross-question the witness or otherwise, would
not alter his determination. He should take care that all the
evidence which it "as possible to collect should be adduced,
Lnd laid before the public ; and it was the duty of the corn-
nissioner of police—who was appointed by the proper au-
hority for that purpose—to make dilligent inquiry, and to
-d obtain bearing on the

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