The Sun. — 1859-09-22 (London, England)

OLD COURT.  William itae, a person of respectable appearance, surrendered to take his trial for the manslaughter of Betsy Pool. Mr. Horry conducted the prosecution. The prisoner had no counsel. It appeared that the deceased. was the of a:: '-ie-driver, and that being in the family way, eng,.. who it seems is not a regular Medical the prison-, —iho it appeared described himg_sl_t practitioner, but ~ our, P 41104 Lion to as a " surgeon accent,- 2 ---,Tient, and It was attend her during her COD alleged that, owing to the want of sm._ a' gence of the prisoner, the deceased lost her life. /In infant, it appeared, was brought into the world, and was still alive, but the mother died very soon after the delivery, the immediate cause of the death being excessive hemorrhage. A good many of the details wore, of course, of a nature that render them unfit for publication, but the case for the prosecution appeared to be a very slight one. The prisoner, who appeared to be a good deal affected, addressed the jury at considerable length, and he declared that he had done everything he could to save the life of the deceased, but the labour, ho said, was a very protracted and painful one, and became very difficult to bring to a termination, on aczount of the peculiar condition of the deceased. He declared that all the proceedings he adopted were in accordance with the opinions of the most eminent medical practitioners ; and concluded by asserting that he had done everything possible for tite deceased, and that he was in nowise responsible for the fatal result that had taken place. The learned Judge having summed up the case, the jury almost immediately returned a verdict of Not Guilty. There was an attempt at applause when the ver- diet was pronounced, but it was checked by the officers of the court.  Mr. Sleigh made an application to the court to postpone the trial of George Frederick Royal, who is charged with poisoning a woman with whom he cohabited at Poplar, to the next session. He  said that he had only very recently been instructed to defend the prisoner, and he had just been informed that additional evidence to that which had been given -before the magistrate would be prodiked at the trial, and he was most anxious to bavo an opportunity of considering the effect of this additional testimony, and if he should consider it advisable to produce evidence to rebut it, that he should have an opportunity of doing so. Mr. Justice Byles inquired if the application was opposed on behalf of the Crown ? Mr. Clerk said that he had been in consultation upon the case with the Solicitor-General, who would conduct the prosecution, and he had his authority for stating that he considered in such a grave and important case it was only reasonable that the application for a postponement of the trial should be acceded to. The learned Judge said he thought it would be very hard that a man should be tried for his life without being made acquainted with the whole of the evidence that was to be brought forward against him, and he should therefore, under the circumstances, direct the trial to be postponed to the next session. Henry Ford, 20, was charged with feloniously stabbing and wounding SardThompson, with intent to murder her. In a second count, the intent of the prisoner was laid to be to do grievous bodily harm. Mr. Orridge prosecuted. It appeared that the prisoner and the prosecutrix had lived together far 18 months, but see had left him and had sold some articles of furniture that belonged to the prisoner. On the night named in the indictment the prosecutrix had been to the Britannia Theatre with another young woman, and as they were returning home the prisoner, who was intoxicated, met them, andehe asked the prosecutrix to go and live with him again. She refused to do so, and made use of some aggravating language to the prisoner, and he suddenly attacked her and stabbed her in several places with a small penknife, but did not inflict very serious injury upon her. The jury found the prisoner guilty of wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm, and he was sentenced to four years' penal servitude. Just before the rising of the Court the lad Goodfellow was again placed at the bar, and the learned judge said he had been informed that it was necessary to pass a longer sentence of imprisonment to ensure his being placed in a proper reformatory, and ho should, therefore, order him to be imprisoned for six weeks in Newgate, and then be sent to a reformatory for five years.