The Sun. — 1831-04-07 (London, England)

LENT ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.  GLOUCESTER, APRIL 4.  George Hemming, a very respectable-looking man, was charged with assaulting Margaret Daley, with intent to commit a capital felony. Margaret Daley, a very good-looking girl, said— lam eleven years and a half old. I had worked for the prisoner, who is a basket-maker. On the 2d and 3d of February, at about one o'clock, I was in the kitchen at the prisoner's house. He took his handkerchief off his neck-, and tied it over my mouth. He then locked the kitchen door, and, having done so, he led me into the pantry, and committed the assault in question ; after that he took the handkerchief from my mouth, and told me to hold my tongue. He then unlocked the door, and I went up stairs. This happened on a Wednesday or Thursday, and I told my sister of it on the Tuesday following. Cross-examined—l am eleven yeas and six months old. I bad been three weeks in the prisoner's employ. I never said to Agnes Hyat that my master had threatened to turn me off, and that I would do him an injury for it. I did not say so much to her; my friends forbade me speaking to her, because she had bad discourse. I was in the pantry near an hour. The prisoner gave me 6d., and said he would kill me if I told. Mr. James Prowse said—l am a surgeon at Bristol. I was sent for to examine Magaret Daley, and found her suffering from disease ; and there were also appearances which might have have been caused by violence, but which might have arisen from other causes. The girl was well in about a week. Mr. WATSON addressed the Jury for the defendant.  Agnes Hyatt said-1 work for the prisoner, who is a basket-maker; he is a married man. I know the proF,ecutrix, who was also in his service. I have heaid Mr. Hemming threaten to turn her away. She said, before that, that Mr. Hemming had better not turn her away, for she would do him some mischief. After she went away I had a conversation with her : she said Mr. Hemming had assaulted her twice, and given her sixpence on each occasion : at another time she said it was all in fun. I did not tell this to any body. I did not like to make mischief. George Lloyd said—l lived in Bristol in February last, in the same house as Mr. Hemming. The number of persons who lived in the house was 32. I occupied the room over the pantry ; and on the Wednesday or Thursday on which this-matter . said to have occurred I was at work in that room. I did not hear any screaming. The Jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict of Guilty.—Eighteen months' imprisonment.  CHESTER, APRIL •t. Thomas Goulden, a medical practitioner at Stock• port, was pin to the bar, charged with the wilful murder of one Margaret Sykes, at Stockport, on the 29th of October last.  The case is, in substance, as follows :—The prisoner is a medical practitioner at Stockport, hav►ng been so previous to 1815, and ti►e deceased was a married woman, in humble circumstances, living in a cellar at Stockport. In November, 1829, she suffered greatly in her confinement, insomuch that the midwife who attended her thought it necessary to have professional assistance. The prisoner was accordingly called in, and he, with the assistance of instruments, succeeded in delivering the woman of a dead child. When it was all over, she excla►mod " Thank God." Prisoner said, " Don't thank God for anything about it; thank me—God had nothing