Star. — 1817-09-13 (London, England)

RICE COURT OF /USTIC/ARY, SEPTEMBER S. R. Dingwall, servant to T. Dudgeon. a taeksman, at Festa, in the county of Ross, was put to the bar, accused of attempting to commit murder by means of poison. The indictment stated, that on the 18th of June, Dingwall applied to Mr..l. G. Robertson, a surgeon. in Tame, to furnish him with poison, in order to get rid of his wife, promising him a reward for the same ; that the said Surgeon having, with the intention of more effectually counteracting the prisoner's criminal intention, appeared to comply with his wishes—visited his wile—told her that medicines should be administered to her, which he would deliver to her husband ; desired the prisoner to call at his shop ; questioned him, if he was determined to poison his wife, and the prisoner having answered him in the affirmative, the Surgeon therefore made up four mull doses of arsenic, and said, 44 This is arsenic, rank poison, which will kill her in a short time ;" to which the prisoner did reply, " That will do, then ;" and the Surgeon having folded up the said doses of arsenic, did deliver them to the prisoner, Who did nickedly and ftleniously receive the same, with the criminal purpose of administering the same to his wife, and thereby putting her to death.—Mr. Hoye, Counsel for the prisoner, before allowing his ' client to plead to the indictment, stated certain otjeclions to the relevancy. The Counsel for the Crown stated, that they were aware that this was a new care, and wished the relevancy to he argued in inform itions, which were ordered, and the prisoner re-committed. The Court next procee.led to the trial of Janet Dougler, indicted and accused of taksimet, or manstealing. The indictment set f firth, that the prisoner did, upon Monday, tyre 12th day of May last, nickedly steal, and barbarously carry away, Margaret Reach, a child betwixt three and four years of age, the daughter of J. Reach, mason, at King's StaLles, in the parish of St. Cuthbert's, Edinburgh, from the house of her father, or from some place in the vicinity thereof; aid being pursued soon after the said inhuman theft was perpetrated, she was apprehended at the colliery of Halbeath, in die county of Fl;e, upon Wednesday, the 14th day of the said month ut May, having the child in her custody. The evidence being gone through, the Jury, %about leaving the box, returned a verdict of Guilty ; and the prisoner was sentenced to suffer the punishment of death. in Edinburgh, on Wednesday, the 15th day of October next. The prisoner is a young woman, apparently about SO yeast of age. The Court then proceeded to the trial of R. Reid, chimney-sweeper, accused of the murder of J. Fraser, olio* Thomson, who, having stuck last in a vent, en Albany-street Chapel, was, by him and J. Rae, ' pulled by the leis, by a rope fastened to them. until be died. The facts of this case were fully before our Readers in the trial of Rae, the principal culprit, who was sentenced to fourteen years transportation. The prisoner, Reid, pleaded guilty to the extent of culpable homicide, and to the facts stated in his de. ' claratioa before the Sheriff.—The Court was of opi-, nion, that there was a marked difference betwixt the case of the prisoner and that of kse ; the latter had been La more active ; and a charge also lay against him, and which had been proved, of malice againat the boy, and extreme cruelty and ill treatment on former occasions, amounting circa to atrocity, of making him eat his own excrement.—The Loan Juersee