Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1847-08-25 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE MARYLECONE MURDEZ—Betwren twelve and one im Friday morning, the jury returned a verdict in this case. Mary Anne Hunt OM was indicted for the murde; of Mary Stowe!. The circumstances, as detailed by Mr. Budkim and pro: ed in evidence, lace been frequently lefore the pstinic. The learned counsel stated that the deccated toils f. Ode person; that the prisoner lodged with her in a kitchen et No. 40, .Adana-stieet West, Marylebone: that the deceased was supported by her friends, and hod the credit of being penurious; and no doubt this instigated the prisoner to the commission of the offence imputed to her, on the night of ;lie Ist, or the mottling of the 2nd of June. She had been a domestic servant, but being in ill health she took up her abode with the &ceased, and they had lived together for a short time. Early on the morning of the 2n,1, she was detected by the policeman on the beat leaving the house with some bundles, and owing to her suspicious conduct he took her into custody, and returned with her to search the house. Whilst in the back-yard she asked to leave for a moment. He watched her, and she Instle an attempt to strangle herself. He found the old woman lying in a pool of blood on her side in the back kiielien, witti a rope round her sleek. From the medical testimony it appeared that she had been dead for seven or eight hours, and that seseral ribs on either side were broken. A poker covered with blood etas lying by her side. It seemed that she had died from severe pressure on the chest and strangulation. Spots of blood, partially washed out, were on her (Less. Tnetdy-one shillings and sixpent e were found on the r,:isciier, and it %vas pt eyed that semi' of the at titles in the buodle belonged to the murdered woman.—The jury found her Guilty, but recommended her to rummy on account of her previous good character.—Mr. Justice Erie put on the black cap, and, after suiting that the crime of the prisoner was so dreadful that hecoidd not bold out the slightest hope of a commidation of the sentence, passed the sentence of death in the visual forra.—The prisoner was then asked whether she Iliad anything to say in arrest of judgment.--'.- he replied, ‘' Nothing."—Tite p isoner, who appeated perfectly umnoved ups n heating the verdict aid sentence, toils then removed from the Inds—Tile nial lasted more than fourteen hours. ROBBERY AT MOSER AND Sort's.—!. tarrymore and his sitter were charged wiih fe ony. 'flue male prisoner was a watchman on the premist s ttf Messrs: Moses & Cu., tailors, of Aldgate. The managers had detected him reittociog a waistcoat from a spot in which it had been eoncealed. This led to an investigation, and at the watchman's lodgings were found as many as 131 doplirates of articies which the msnager swore to as the property of the firm. Subsequintly, the young woman who resided with her brother, was emit ehended as being concerned in the robbery, upon the evidence cf the assistMILS of pawnbrokers that she had pledged some of the pods. The female prisoner solemnly declared that she never supposed the articles, which she admitted 'lie had pledged for her brother, had been obtained dishonestly.— J afTleS Barrymore made no defence, and d,d not they the accuracy of any one of the charges of robbery. Manizen for the female prisoner, submitted that a jury woult r ever give a verd.ct against a person in her situation without much more conclusive evidence of a guilty knowledge than the pawMng of a few of the articles proved.— The Lord Mayor said it was unreasonable to suppose that the youitg woman could hive known that her brother was a wit baton at the prosecutor's establishment, be possess .d of stone of the stock, without hay.ng usel sole utisanctioned contrivance for the purpose. The pi oilers were committed.