Star. — 1828-07-21 (London, England)

NORFOLK CIRCUIT—BUCKINGHAM, JuLir 18. Josepi•Hook aged 21, Henry Wise. aged 21. and John Careen, aged 21, stood indicted for having, on the 14th of May, at the gaol of Aylesbury, stolen a part of a flitch of bacon, the property of Mr. James Sheriff.— The prisoners in this case were undergoing sentence ut imprisonment in Aylesbury Gaol for different peri,.ds, on previous conviction* for ielony. They were each sentenced to be transported for the term of. 14 years. His Lordship observed to Green, that it was probable he might have his sentence mitigated, if he made application to the proper quarter. Alter the prisoners had heard their dcom, Wyse said, with apparent hardihood, ," Thank ye, my Lord, I did not know I had so long ,to live." loaeph Walker, late parish clerk of Owing, was indicted for the murder of his wile by poison. It appeared that the:prisoner had lived upon very bad terms with his.eritri_ slice he became acquainted with a girl named Begot. and bad on several occasions beat his wile and threatened her lite. During her absencifrom home, at a religions meeting which she was in the habit of attencling,,the prisoner returned home, and, it is supposed, placed some arsenic in the tea,por. The deceased on returning home made some tea is this tea-pot, and shwa, after abe had taken it became sick, and ethibited symptoms of having taken poison. lier son, who came in shortly afterwardst drank some of the tea, and he also became very. ill, 614 **misted. The body of the deceased, when opened, presented the appearance' of having contained poison. The primmer was found Guilty, and ordered for meet:ion on Monday. 41Fa4lam Baidtiand, f fohng Man only .20 years of age., ries indicted for basing cut his wife's throats with intent to murder her. The primmer was &labours:Nand resided at Vraysltry. On the night of..the 4th of April The prisottet and bis wife bad a slight quarrel,  when the prisoner, in the heat of passion, cot his wife's throat with a knife, and then cut his own. He was instantly afterwards taken into custody, when be admitted having committed the offence. The wound in his own throat was very slight, bat that in his wife's was extremely dangerous. After the occurrence took Place and when the prisoner's wife had recovered a little frAm the injury,she said that she and her husband had had a quarrel, and he struck her head against the fire-place several times. She ran to a corner of a chest of drawers, and her husband then cut her throat with el clasp knife, which was found in a place where she said it had been thrown by the prisoner. The wife of the prisoner, who has been in custody ever since her recovery, in consequence of her refusing t r become a witness against her husband, was brought into the witness' dock. She is 23 years of age. She at first refused to be sworn, and after she was sworn, she said she would not speak against her husband. On bring pressed, she said that she cut her own throat, and that the prisoner cut his afterwards. The LORD CHIEF BARON, in summing up the case, said the Jury must entirely reject the evidence of the wife.—The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, and he was ordered for execution.