The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1871-11-25 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

POSTPONEMENT OF THE TRIAL.  At the sitting of the Central Criminal Court. in London, on Tuesday, the Rev. John Selby Watson, who is charged with the wilful murder of his wife, Anne Watson, and against whom the grand Jury returned a true bill for that offence, was placed at the bar. The prisoner appeared very dejected and careworn, and he appeared to pay no attention to the proceedings. _  The Hon. Alfred Thesiger said he had to apply to the Court that the trial of the prisoner should be postponed to the next session. The ground for the application was that inquiries were now being made which were not complete, and at present the prisoner was not prepared to take his trial. He hauled in an aithlavit to that effect. .  The Deputy-Recorder said that the case would in the usual course come before the judges, and he would rather that they should disp,se of the application, . .  Mr. Poland, who, with Mr. Piesley. appeared for the Crown, said he thought it right to inform the court that he did not intend to oppose the application, and if his lin dship did not intend to deal with it he should ask that the witnesses for the prosecution might not be required to attend on the following day. The Deputy-Recorder said that as both sides were agreed as to the propriety of the trial being postponed, it was very probable that the learned judge would accede to the application that had been made by the counsel for the prisoner. For reasons of his own, however, he would not take upon himself the responsibility of postponing the case, but it would certainly not be necessary for the witnesses to attend the court on Wednesday. The prisoner was then removed from the bar.  In the Central Criminal Court, on Wednesday morning, the prisoner was again placed at the bar. The Use. Mr. Thesiger renewed his application for a postponement of the tiial to the next session, on the ground that the attorney for the prisoner was instituting inquiries which were not yet complete. Mr. Poland, on behalf of the Crown, mid he thought the application was a reasonable one, and he was not instructed to offer any opposition to it. Baron Bramwell mid he was aware of the application that had been made on the previous day, and he was sorry the Common Serjeant had not dealt with it, as be was sure that the decision would have been satisfactory. The case must, of course, be postponed. The trial was then formally adjourned to the December session.  A Dublin paper states that it has received a cheque for £5O from the klarquia of Queensbury, accompanying a IStter which states that the cheque is for the nest of kin of Talbot, as a mark of his Lordship's sympathy for the family of the man who was assassinated in the most cruel and cowardly manner simply because be discharged his duty faithfully, and whose fearless conduct contributed in no small degree to save Ireland from the horrors of rebellion and civil war. The letter further states thatthe letters which haveappeared In some newspapers in reference to the recent trial of Kelly are the production of the Dowager Marchiness of Queens. berry, and not of the present Marchioness of Queensbery.