The Express. — 1848-08-04 (London, England)

MARY SPRY AND MART ANN DORI.— TN. •LLEOED POIBONING OP A CRILD.-111 this ma the defendants had brut committed to Negate charged upon an inquisition, taken before Mr. Bedford, the coroner, with the wilful murder of Mary Ann Theresa Dore, aged four months, the infant daughter of the defendant, Mary Ann Dore. The facts relating to this ease have already appeared. An application was made the previous day (Wednesday) to Mr. Baron Alderson by Mr. Futvoye, on the part of Mr. Dore and Mr. Spry, the husbands of the di Pendants, for a writ of certiorari to bring up the depositions token before the coroner with a view to an application to admit the de fendants to bail. The learned baron granted his fiat for the writ, which was immediately issued, and at a late period of the day the depositions were produced, and Mr. Potvoye again appeared in support of the application to admit the defendants to bail, and urged that there was nothing on the face of the depositions as taken by the coroner, which tended to show any guilty knowledge of arsenic having been administered to the deceased; on the contrary the evidence clearly showed that both the mother end the grandmother had always exhibited the greatest affection and fondness for the deceased, in addition to the improbabilities that sue rounded the case ; he, there'ore, submitted it was a case in which a judge at chambers was justified in admitting the defendants to bail.—The learned Baron said as the case was one of considerable importance he would look through the whole of the depositions, and give his decision the following morning (yesterday).—On the teamed Baron taking his stat at chambers yesterday, the parties again appeared, when his lordship stated that he bad gone through the deposition., and he was of opinion it w-s a case in which he ought not to refuse to accept bail, as it did not appear to him that there was sufficient evidence to warrant the conclusion to which the jury had come by their verdict ; he should, therefore, make an order that each of the defendants be separately admitted to bail and discharged, upon, in the case of Mary Ann Dore, the husband entering into his recognisances in the sum of 2001., and four sureties in 601. each, for her appearance at the neat. visions to be held at the Central Criminal Court, and the like recognition!, of '4OOl. on the part of Mr. Spry, the husband of the other defendant, and four sureties in 601. each for her appearance at the same time and place.--The lean ned Judge then granted his fist for a writ of habeas corpus, which was issued and lodged with Mr. Cope at Newgate during the morning; but the learned Baron having subsequently made an order allowing the bail, and the actual appearance of the defendants being unnecessary, the return to the writ was dispensed with. At 4 o'clock lour gentlemen appeared before the judge, and the bail haring been pertected, the learned judge signed the orders for the defendants' cischarge ; they were accordingly restored to their husbands and friends until the neat sessions.  taken a match out of his pocket to light hia pipe in passing through the stark. yard and threw it away, not thinking that any injury would ensue—it was a bad job. It was windy and rained at ths time, and the road was eight yards from the otaek-yard. Usisity-10 yews' transportation.