The Sun. — 1832-03-28 (London, England)

MARY ANN WILLIAMS. " Sworn in the presence of the prisoners, and before the Mayor, John Farmer, Esq. Cross-examined—l am 20 years of age. I live id Hereford. I was born in it. It is four or five years since I became an unfortunate girl. I was a witness on the trial of Connop. The reason I did not then tell what I now state, is because I was afraid, and lam still so. The reason I made the disclosure was, because I was very ill. I had beer. beaten by the prisoner Pugh and Williams's brother. It was not until after I had been beaten I made the statement to Mr. Howells. It was neither from a love of justice or revenge I iiid so. It was because I thought I was dying, and unfit to die, such was my miserable situation.  Susan Connop corroborated Anne Williams's testimony. Elizabeth Powell— I recollect the last Lent Assizes. I saw a farmer-looking man striving to get into Pugh's house. He wore top-hoots. I heard Pugh say, " your eyes, if you don't be Off send you." There was a light in Pugh's house. I heard his back door open. 1 sew Pugh come round to the man. I also saw John Matthews and William Williams come round the corner or the barn in the lane; it was about five minutes after Pugh joined the man. I then saw Pugh push him and bit against the corner of the barn ; the other prisoners did the same. After this I approached half-way towards the prisoners. I stopped and listened. I heard the farmer-looking man say. " You have robbed me, for gracious sake don't murder me." I then saw the farmer-looking man hit down. It was the prisoner Williams who hit him. lie fell upon his side. When he fell he fetched t‘s o heavy groans After I heard the groans I heard no more noise. The town constables proved meeting the prisoners Wil liams and Mathews several times on the night of the murder together. A boatman proved finding the body of the deceased in the river Wye, two miles from Hereford. The evidence of the medical witnesses who had examined the body, stated it as their opinion that they could not say positively whether the wounds on the head were such as would have caused death, but were of opinion that the deceased had been thrown into the water atter he had been dead, or in a sense of great insensibility. Mr. Justice TAUNTON summed up, and the Jury, after fifteen minutes' consultation, found the prisoners Guilty. The Learned Juno pronounced the awful sentence of the law, and ordered them to be hanged on Monday, and their bodies to be given for d,ssection. The prisoners heard their sentence with firmness, which appeared to be the result of surprise. The prisoner Pugh is an ill-looking fellow, and of very bad character. On being placed at the bar, be behaved with the most disgusting levity, laughed while surveying the Jury, and such was his conduct, that his own Counsel had to rebuke him for it. However, as the trial was drawing to a close, his impudence and confidence were succeeded by terror and dismay, and his countenance exhibited the most intense mental agony. The prisoner Williams is a fine-looking young man, but of desperate character. lie has had one brother hanged, another brother and sister transported, and a third brother at present in gaol for deserting from the Guards. His demeanour during the trial was firm, until Mary Anne Williams was called. His countenance then exhibited the greatest alarm. The blood rushed and receded to and from his cheeks ; his lips trembled the heaving of his cheat and his short re