Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1849-03-28 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

CAVE V. HAWKINS.—/Iction for Seduction.— This case was tried at Leicester on Wednesday. The plaintiff was a farmer arid grazier living at Frolesworth, in Leic, aershire, and defendant was also a farmer, formerly resAing in that parish. In the year 1640, defendant (who was about 30 years old) became acquainted with Catherine Cave, daughter of plaintiff, who was about 17. The intimacy was formed without the knowledge of her parents, kept up until 1147, when Catherine Cave was fund to be preniant. This was represented as having so serious an f ffict on the health of her mother, that she died a few months after. The yourg woman was confined in February, 181-8, and was no affected by her misfortune having camed her mother's death, that her health declined. and she never recovered. After the birth of the child, defendant was applied to to contribute to its maintenance, but he refused. An application was then made to the Lutterworth bench of magistrates, who made an order upon defendant. This order was appealed against, and quashed on ground of informality. Another application was made to the same magistrates, and they had to adjourn their court, on the 13'h of February last, to the bedroom of the young woman, for the purpose of taking her evidence, as she war, at that time, on her sick bed (and, indeed, died on the following day.) when another order for 2s. lid. per week was made upon defendant. No evidence was called for the defence. After a rather lengthened consultation, the jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff—damages £lOO. At the Stafford Assizes, on Friday week, four young men named T. Taylor, T. Brant, T. George, and E. Atkins, were sentenced to transportation for life for violating Sarah Road, at Willenhall. The case presented features of revolting brutality. The women and the men were intoxicated. One of them carried her on his back into a field, where the offence was committed, whilst a crowd of from fifty to a hundred persons of both sexes and all ages quietly looked on. At the Maidstone Assizes, on Saturday week, George Millen, aged 17, and Henry Sheepwash, aged 16, were sentenced to death for the murder of William Law, a deaf aged man, whose house they broke into and rcbbed, and afterwards murdered the man by beating him on the head with a piece of iron. At Exeter Assizes, Poole and Nightingale, the men suspected of the late robbery of the mail of the Great Western Railway, were on Friday put on their trial, but up to the hour of post the case for the prosecution wit still g, log on. There were at least seventy witnesses to he examined.  On the Home Circuit at T,mvi-eit, John Pearson, a groom, was indicted for the wilful murder of Mary Anne Newman, on the 12th Note i her last, at the paririi-of St. Leonard, Hastings, by beating her out the head with a spade. The murder was committed at the house of a Miss Moore, while the family were at church, end circumstances led to the apprehension of the prisoner; hut nothing appearing on the bial to identify him with the act, he was acquitted of the capital crime as well as 011 a second intlic.ment for robbery en the same occasion. _ . .  --------On the Northern Circuit on the 16th, in the ease of Southee v. Garrett, for breach of promise of marriage, a verdict was given against the defendant, a clergyman, with damages £3OO. The chief ground of security upon which the reverend defendant relied appeared to have been the fact, as stated by him, that he (the defendant) had just been married, and had settled all his" tin" upon his wife, so that Mr. Southee would never get a copper out of him. The jury have shown themselves disposed to try the question.—On the same circuit an action for slander nan tried, the parties being a Mr. Fryer, and the defendant, the Rev. Mr. Gathercole, Vicar of Chattens. The alleged slander was the circulation of a scurrilous pamphlet charging Mr. Fryer with various disreputable acts. After an absence of three hours and a half, the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff with 40s. damages.