The Sun. — 1857-07-20 (London, England)

MARRIAGE. admitted that she herself administered the poison The only civil cause for trial at these assizes was to her mother-in law. The details of the statement the above, in which the damages were laid ht 2001. made by the unfortunate woman, have, of course, Mr. M'lntyre and Mr. Vaughan Williams were not been permitted to appear ; ind-ed, there is a counsel for the plaintiff, and Mr. Morgan Lloyd for good deal of reserve upon the subject, as it is hardly the defendant. known at present what course the authorities in- The defendant was a small farmer and horsetend to take in the matter. It will be recollected dealer living at Cwmyrannel, near Carne. He that the principal evidence against the husband courted the plaintiff for seven years, and even went upon the charge of murdering his mother con.isted so far as to procure a marriage license. She was the of proof of the purchase of arsenic, and that his ex- daughter of a small farmer, and her brother had planation of the circumstance was that the poison married one of the defendant's sist era. In Nov. 1855, was purchased with a view to destroy the rats with the defendant suggested that they should be married which his h„use was infested. The female prisoner in the ensuing December, and he went to a mercer's now states that this was the fact, and she says that shop in Newton to buy things for the wedding, she herself administered the arsenic to the old which, however, did not take place. Unfortuwoman, and that her husband knew nothing about nately the plaintiff had, in an unguarded moment, it. It is understood that she has stated other cir- yielded to the solicitation of the defendant, and in cumatances which tend very strongly to show that the February following she gave birth to a child. she is speaking the truth, and there appears to be After this he did not marry her. It was now convery little doubt that the state of heir tended by his counsel that only a condition ,I promind, at times, is such that she may have, miss was made, and that a reasonable time had not acted under a sort of uncontrollable impulse., elapsed. The promise was made upon the underand have been hardly aware of the consequences standing that they could agree as to the amount of of her acts. Besides the coroner's inquisition, dowry, but the plaintiff's mother would give noa bill for murder would, in the ordinary course, presented against the prisoner Thomas Bacon ; er shown that that batla e mthainrrgy, haenrddawugohutlder. have forced the defendant to the whole matter will be disposed of by one trial, and if the inquiries still pending should tend to The judge said the defendant himself bad fixed it is probable that no evidence will 1-Je offerecf substantiate thestatement of the wife of the prisoner. to name another day. It was not a sufficient ctohueiddl,taitandltt was his place, having broken it off, againetthhaevpinrigsotnoer,andthattheheeVdielabie dischargedvt a, no that the plaintat... rea4,z for breaking the promise to say that they --. as to the dowry, unless it could be 1 without —4 of the original agreement. trial.--Dispatch. undergo another was-I one was to blame It was alleged .1.1. -..