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The Sun. — 1842-02-03 (London, England)

CASE OF THE CREOLE. EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM JUDGE JAY TO JOSEI,4 STURGE, DATED NEW YORX", JAN. 6,1842...... t. You will hare heard before you receive this of thelnatf of the Creole, one of our coasting slavers. She. 'Y.', for New Orleans the last of October, with a cargo, l.'• 'ves ; while on the voyage the slaves, or a portionri • .em ose on the crew, and, after a slight struggle, bee) tors of the vessel. There were tWelVe white us grid wily one was killed. The. wounded, including tho Capttin, were humanely treated by the negroes, who dressed their wounds. The vessel was carried into Nassau, where all the slaves were liberated, except nineteen concerned in the " mutiny," .who were confined by the authorities to await the orders of the home Government  Our slaveholders are in great wrath, and mean, if possible, to terrify your Government into a surrender of the nineteen murderers, that they may be suspended from southern gibbets in terrarent. They will us doubt be demanded in peremptory terms by our Minister in London. In my opinion this surrender would be most disgraceful to Great Britain, most cruel, wicked, and pu,illanimous. Admitting them to be murderers, by what law is your Government auzborife.i to surrender to the United States nineteen human beings to be put to death? The law of nations does not require it. We made a treaty with you in 1794, by which each party agreed to surrender murderers, but that treaty expired, and since then we have refused to surrey.der murderers at the request of your Government, as, for in-stance, in the Case of the two Barnebees, who fled to this country from Ireland; and in the case of one Holmes, who committed a very atrocious murder in Canada. Also, in the case of the Amistad negroes we refused to surrender the alleged murderers to the Spanish Minister. If you cannot surrender them as murderers, can you as fugitive slaves? If you surrender these men, on what. plea, can you afford protection to the 12,000 fugitives in Canada? Have wee right to claim favours we do not reciprocate? There is no law authorising the surrender of a foreign fugitive, and so far have we been hitherto from claiming the surrender by you of fugitives as a right, that we once offered to agree to surrender all fugitives from your West India islands, provided and on condition that you would bind yourselves by treaty to surrender such slaves.as might flee to Canada. I mention these facts that you'may see that the claim we shall prefer for the surrender of the Creole negroes is as contrary to international law as it is to the law of Almighty God. There is not one of the slaveholders who ate now thirsting for the blood of these negroes, who would in similar circumstances have scrupled to take human life. Do let your Government and people understand the true state of the ease. Ido hope your Ministry will listen to the dietatt.s of justice, humanity, and national honour.
The Sun. — 1842-03-07 (London, England)

REPRESENTATION OF BRIGIITON.—The unfortunate failure of Messrs. Wigney's bank will cause a vacancy in the borough, and there is now a favourable opportunity for a gentleman of Liberal principles to offer himself for the representation of Brighton in the Imperial Parliament. As this will be a single election, it is most important that the Liberals should be united. The Tories are active and sanguine, but their defeat is certain if the Liberals are true to themselves, arid if they are fortunate enough to obtain a candidate worthy of their confidence and support. We hope and trust that we shall be able in our next to announce that such a candidate is in the field. Since the above was written we have received the following paragraph om an influential quarter:—" We are authorised to state that, as a vacancy must shortly arise in the representation of this borough, active measures are in progress for the maintenance of the Liberal interest. In the meantime the electors are cautioned against committing themselvesby any premature pledge." —Brighton Herald. [Mr. Laurence Peel, brother to the Right Hon. Baronet, and an old resident at Brighton, as also Lord William Harvey, and Sir Adolphus Dalrymple, the late Member, have been named on the part of the Conservatives; and It has been determined to send the 10th and 78th Lord Morpeth and Lord Edward Howard on behalf of the Regiments forthwith to India. The augmentation of two addiLiberals. Notices have been issued cautioning the electors tional companies to six regiments will take place immediately. against giving a pledge in the present state of affairs. Various The corps originally selected for the increase were, the 20th, accounts are circulated as to the liabilities of Messrs. Wigney, 23d, 42d, 71st,i 97th, and 2d battalion Rifle Brigade; but this some estimating them at. 400,000/.l—From a Correspondent. ;.I arrangement has been altered, and the augmentation will be SINGULAR DEATn.---A few days since a labourer, given to the six regiments last embarked for foreign service not named Styles, living at an ancient farmhouse called Hole, near to the eastward of the Cape of Good Hope. Six of the cornBcarshead, iotherfield, partook of some plaice. In attemp log panies will be filled up from the half-pay list.—Naval and to swallow a bone with a piece of flesh, the former stuck in his Military Gazette. throat. He immediately put in a crust of bread, with the in- I GLAMORGANSIIIRE SPRING . ASSlZES.—Catherine tention of driving the bone from its lodgment by swallowing the Thomas, the wife of David. Thomas, charged with the bread. He succeeded in doing this ; but in forcing away the wilful murder of her step-daughter, Mary Thomas, of bone from the place it had occupied, a hole was torn in the EgiwYsilan, was found guilty of manslaughter last week at these passage of sufficient size to admit a part of his food. The con- assizes, but has not yet 'men sentenced. The evidence showed sequence was, that he lingered till Monday last, when he ex- the child to have been visited with the most cruel treatment for 'red• .....,,Sussex Express. Aired.—Sussex a continued period of time.
The Sun. — 1842-04-25 (London, England)

HALL—During the time that Good was telling you about the shipwreck, did the female prisoner make any remark ? Witness—l believe not.  Cross-examined.—On Friday night Good came back to my house about eight o'clock, when we were at supper. My husband asked them to have supper, but he would not; he said he had been to Deptford, and bought the clothes he had on, because the clothes would not do for labouring work. He was dressed in a short jacket and trowsers of fustian. He slept at our place that night, and took breakfast next morning; he left at ten o'clock on Saturday morning. He wanted to know very much where Gamble lived, as he had not seen him for some years. I told him that I did not know. I did not see him since then till I saw him at Newgate. I have a son who lives with me.  (The examination was proceeding when we went to press.)  ATTEMPT TO CUT A CHILD'S TszaoAT.—During the in. quiry into the case of Molly Good and Gamble before Mr Hall, Mr. Jardine sat in a separate room to hear the othe charges, placed on the list since Saturday. Ellen Smith, a wretched and dejected looking woman, apparently about 40 years d age, was placed at the bar, en a charge of having attempted to cut a boy's throat with a razor, between four and five o'clock on Saturday evening last. Sophia- Wilks, of No. 10, Parker-street, Drury-lane, the mother of the boy, deposed that she was a married woman, living in the next room to the prisoner. On Saturday evening, between four and five o'clock, witness allowed a little boy ofher's to go and fetch some beer for the prisoner. When the boy returned, in the course of about twenty minutes, witness heard him scream loudly in the room of the prisoner. NI itness went to the door of the room, and having opened it, she found the prisoner, with one arm round the boy waist, and the other arm with a razor in her hand at his throat. 7he blood was flowing down his clothes. Witness interfered, and in ti ying to push away the razor got- a wound on her own hand. Witness having rescued the boy retired. The boy was cut across the throat and across the face. A medical gentleman came and staunched the wound, and the child was then taken to the hospital. The boy was about twelve years old. The prisoner was in liquor at the time. James Strip deposed that he bad also heard the screaming. Witness met the prisoner, and after remonstrating with her, she told him that she was determined to commit murder, and murder she should commit. Witness had taken a razor out of the prisoner's hand a short time since. She was a very quiet and inoffensive woman, unless after she had been drinking, when her conduct was generally outrageous. It having been stated to the Alagistrate that the wounds were not dangerous, and that the boy would probably be able to attend in the course of a week, the prisoner was remanded until Monday next.
The Sun. — 1842-09-10 (London, England)

HURSDAY. of 5 sovs. each, with 40 added. Heats, two miles. The winner to be sold for 2001., the second to save his stake. (8 Subs.) Mr. Mare's Argos, A - 3'es, 9st 21b 4 1 -2 1 Mr. Skingsley's Hawk's-eye, 4 y lb rs, yrs, 7st i Bst 101 b 1 3 0 2 Mr. Shelley's Tole, 3 0 0 ' 1 3 Mr. Hornsby's Revoke, 6 yrs, 9st 21b 0 2 .3 dr Mr. Hodge's Dane John, 4 yrs, Bst 101 b 2 4 dr Mr. Baker's Montezuma, 6 yrs, 9st 21b The West for Kent Stakes of 2 sovs. each, and 25 added ; Mr. Scott's Ellen, 3 5 sovs. the second. heats one mile. (12. subs.) yrs 0 1 1 Mr. Bacon's Fairplay, 4 yes Mr. Tollett's Fairy Oak, 5 2 2 Mr. Dockeray's Pickwick, aged 0 2 -3 dr Several others started. `rho Hunters' Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 40 added ; the second to save his stake of 5 sovs. Twice round and a dis. (5 subs.) Mr. Armstrong's Bonnet Rouge, 5 v" Mr. Simmond's Obelisk, 5 yrs yrs 2 2 Mr. Langhant's Factotum, 5 yrs  a gardener, of Quadring, was then brought forward. He had been the last person seen in company with the prisoner. They separated, Dawson declared, between nine and ten o'clock, he going home, and the prisoner either going another way or staying near the public-house in which they had been drinking together, and which was near the place where the bloody deed was committed. It being known that the prisoner had certain signs or movements by which he could communicate with those he was intimately connected with, his father was desired to as an interpreter ; but the answers given by him to the questions proposed, led the Jury to suppose i toy were not in accordance with those of the son, n it was on this account that an adjournment of the inquiry before the Coroner took place, that an indifferent person might lA. -found who was capable of interpreting satisfactorily.— At this time also the shirt of the prisoner in which the foul murder was committed was missing. It was subsequently found under the bed on which he lay, and strong stains of blood are on it, notwithstanding great efforts seemed to have been made to wash them out. There is little doubt, from the state in which the night-dress of the poor murdered woman was found (over her head), and her body being quite exposed, that a lustful purpose had been entertained by the murderer, in resisting which she lost her life, the cruel tiger by whom she had been assailed cutting and mangling her neck and shoulders with various deep and dreadful gashes, in a way the most extraordinary. One wound extends from the upper part of the breastbone upwards, to an inch behind and above the right ear, being nine inches in length, and completely dividing the integuments and muscles ; the scalp is cut to the bone, the right carotid artery is severed, as well as the internal and external jugular veins, and there are two gashes across the windpipe ; the hands are also cut to the bones ; and such a sight as the poor creature presents has scarcely ever before met the eyes of humanity."—Stamford Mercury.
The Sun. — 1842-08-29 (London, England)

THE ....;:-Z-ra_ este., • , ..Meneese„o-4' station-house and charged her with the murder. • sum was large, there were five persons in it, and two of the state of business in our Cloth market, although . -sea,- a untpar q,,-,•_.- i, Howe, the Inspector-General. The frauds already 'UNITED liINGDOM. 0. Inverary ° - 1 1/41 , Caroline Edwards said the prisonerliyed with her of them were lawyers-a class of men who, notoriously, this is the season at which goods in ordinary times • • -_-_----e4 .:tr,.. discovered seem to have been of various kinds. In ee, restk a I revious to going to the workhouse. Upon witness had not much conscience. He said he had under- are purchased freely for the winter trade. There : hor kdirnyt _ _ 1 AL errieen _,,,' slits and butters they have been very extensive. The 13 1 C#3 accusing the prisoner of being in the family way, she -taken, on the faith of witness's concurrence, to sup- was very little business done both on Saturday and I toe eregre O,TY r,,,A,D,_„.3. , _ former have been .passed at low values, and a low rate eyere- -s., ~,11, .\.(:)%, of duty has been charged upon them accordingly. denied it, and said that she had the dropsy. Witness press the article, and had left the editor writing Tuesday ; prices, however, continue stationary, arid • I aree••• svre---ts,j., , kTenr a h sa„sh,/h„._ --- _ 1 • s see , _ trk.r otr . '-' - 4/F1 9 --S-- h I stated it was no use deceiving her, and the prisoner " The Queen's Spe,ech in Verse," to supply its place the stocl{ of goods in the hands of the manufacturers • This species of fraud has long kept affairs in an _--es - s,-._sse -,f; _-- ,•-=,•4,..ti: .4,--1-- - -,,, • mama a " dr9 ' • I then said it would be of no consequence to her (wit- in the Omnibits. 11' itness objected to the amount, and is by no means large. Although business continues I -I"Vrtk' itlt"L 7 TY-' -unsettled state, as several of the agents who charged .h.het et. 4,.. , \,,,_ &am-eery 4-:.--=--;o: Ar OPeebler / • 1 but it fair rate of commission were astonished that ness), as she the prisoner' was going to leave that Clementson went out again, and once more returned, very dull in the warehouses, there is nevertheless more 1 -11 - 4---- -.4e4.2.,. n.erefeens-- 'i 1./. Zwiduk in I. i . I X 2Azionck night. On the prisoner's leaving, witness followed saying 300/. would be taken, but nothing less ; doing than for some time past. '''-va °she% Xesee. ''' C ki!. 137t2' i 'ck 1 they could not find employment from the silk houses. ' a ila _ __ 0 ,° 1,1, :/,,s4. .130740 / lee;., (2,7._,__ 75.[CS \ l'. The fact is, that conducting their business honestly, her to the workhouse. The prisoner returned to wit- he then asked for the money (151.) for the Or'mnibus /
The Sun. — 1842-04-04 (London, England)

CASE OF MURDER.  The Court of Assize of the Haute-Loire was occupied on the 21st inst., and two succeeding days, with the following case of murder :—Francoise Servel, a woman aged 40, wife of a farmer named Claude Chamblas, residing near Isengeaux, on the Loire, was accused of having poisoned her husband and their two children. The father was taken suddenly ill, and died in great tortures on August 7, 1840. Francoise, his daughter, a child of five years old, expired in frightful pain on cov. 16 ; and Christophe, a boy of 14, followed on Dec. 2. These sudden deaths, all accompanied with strange symptoms, gave rise to much remark. Expressions used by the wife were remembered and repeated, in which she declared, " how happy she should be if she could get rid of her husband and children, and regain her liberty." It was known, too, that a young man, named Joseph Cheynel, professed great admiration for the woman, though she possessed/no beauty whatever, and had expressed his willingness to marry her, should she ever become a widow. The legal authorities were informed of these circumstances, and arsenic being found in the house, the woman was arrested on a charge of murder. At the trial, the principal witness against her was an intelligent little girl, eight years old, named Victoire Poncet. She deposed that she was in the prisoner's house during the last illness of the son, and that she saw her pour a white powder into a cup half full of water, which she immediately gave to the boy, saying that it was flour to cure his sickness. The prisoner gave her three sous, and desired her to purchase at a certain shop some poison for rats, as a huge one had prevented her son from sleeping all night. The child, suspecting something wrong, pretended to go and purchase it, but, on her return declared that none could be found. The mother then threw two green balls into a cup of water, and gave it to the boy. He complained of great pain, and said his mother was poisoning him. When the little girl was going away, the prisoner threatened to have her guillotined by the gendarmes, if she spoke a word of what she had seen. During the trial, this child was frequently examined, but nothing transpired to shake her testimony. The scientific part of the question was of great interest. The father's body, when taken up after four month's inhumation, was completely decomposed. The bodies of the other two showed such lesions, as ge rally appear from poisoning, and being submitted to Marsh's' apparatus gave out abundance of arsenical stains. Ihe chemical experiments were first made at Issengeaux by the local physicians, and were verified 17 MM. Orfila, Chevalier, and Olivier (d'Angers.) 'I he Jury deliberated for half an hour, and then gave in a verdict of guilty of the murder of the two children, but acquitting her with respect to the husband's death. The Court immediately passed sentence of death on the prisoner, which she heard without emotion. Her Counsel gave notice of appeal.  THE OFFICE or
The Sun. — 1842-11-24 (London, England)

DREADFUL ASSASSINATION AT BRUSSELS.—We find the following in the Independant of Brussels of Sunday :—" Last night at eleven o'clock, some say this morning at one, a tragical event occurred at the residence of Mdlle. Heinefetter, the prima donna of our. theatre. M. Caumartin, whose father was Member of the Chamber of Deputies in 'France, was at Mdlle. Heinefetter's with M. Alme Sirey, the author of a celebrated law work, and whose father was an avocat of the Court of iCassation. A violent dispute 111'11Ion athes wsoofrad. cwanee, aroser between them. M. Caumartin, who had with asrteahabsseudreAcil*thSairteiri aCndauhmeardtiiend, alter having committed this • M. crime, fled in M. Sirey's carriage. The police had taken place about a quarterwas apprised of what . of an hour afterwards. The most active search was made for the murderer, and this mor • rung all the gates of the city were closely watched." The Obse rvate ur says—" M. Sirey, who had come to Brussels for a week, had accompanied Mdlle. Heinefetter to a concert, and v returned home with her to supper when the oncert was ' over. M. Caumartin, his fellow-countryman, supped with them. Whilst they were taking • their wine a violent dispute arose, and M. Caumartin, rising suddenly, plunged the sword of his cane into the body of 111. Sirey, who had contradicted something that he had said. M. Sirey was only able to exclaim "Je suis frappe," and died instantly, the instrument having traversed the region of the heart. M. Caumartin proceeded immediately to Dr. Allard, and entreated him to attond the unfortunate Sirey, but it was too late. He was cold when the doctor arrived. On learning this fact, M. Caumartin fled, and it is not known what is become of him. It is said that a third guest, who received M. Sirey in his arms when he was stabbed, was so affected that this morning he was unable to utter a word." In another account it is stated that M. Sirey, who was 29 years of age, was married, and the father of a family. He resided in Paris, in the rue Llfitte. Intelligence has been received of the wreck of the barque Argyll, of Waterford, Robert Power, master bound for Quebec. She went ashore on the 15th ult. at Louisburg, Cap Breton, and the captain perished, there is too much reason to fear, with all the crew about 16 in number. Several of the bodies were recovered immediately afterwards. There were no passengers on board.—Dublin Paper. The Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel is expected in town this afternoon, from Drayton Manor, Staffordshire, the return of the Right Hon. Baronet being hastened by the receipt of the gratifying news received overland from India and China. There will be a Cabinet •Council either to-morrow or Saturday, when the other • members of the Cabinet will most likely be in town. The Earl of Ripon, Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Stanley, Lord Fitzgerald, and Sir James Graham, are the only Cabinet Ministers at present in town,
The Sun. — 1842-11-21 (London, England)

WHOLESALE INFANTICIDE.  The inquiry into this extraordinary case terminated on Thursday. The adjourned inquest having been held at Ruardean on Wednesday, before Mr. John Cooke, the Coroner of the district, several Magistrates and other gentlemen of the county attended the proceedings, and the room in which the inquest was held was densely crowded. Several additional witnesses were examined, who gave similar testimony to that which has been already published, and the only difficulty experienced was the connecting the man Thomas Yapp with a knowledge of the crinie, it being a rule of law that in no case can the confession of a criminal be made available against an accomplire, unless corroborated by other evidence. This, however, has been supplied by the evidence of a man of the name of *Watkins, which shows Yapp, in addition to the circumstances of his having cohabited with the female prisoner during the last ten or twelve years, during which period the murders have been committed, and the finding the bodies of five out of the six infants buried under the kitchen floor, the spot where the female prisoner says she buried them with Yapp's assistance, to have had a knowledge of the si tuation of the female prisoner at the time she gave birth to her ;last child. Watkins states that about last Christmas, he being acquainted with Yapp, was in the neighbourhood of Ruardean, and having met Yapp, was invited by him to stay and sleep that night at the house occupied by him and the female prisoner ; he accepted the invitation, and slept in the same bed with Yapp in one room while the prisoner Frances Bennett slept in a bed in the adjoining room ; that at about 12 o'clock at night, and from that time until between two and three in the morning, he .heard a suppressed moaning as of a person in great pain in ' the room where the female prisoner was sleeping ; that the noise kept him awake till between two and three o'clock in the morning, after which lie dropped ' off to sleep, and did not wake again until about five o'clock, when the male prisoner, Thomas Yapp, got up and went down stairs to get a light, where he appeared to be searching for matches, but said he could not find any. Yapp then returned up stairs, and went into Frances Bennett'a room, but how long he remained there witness could not tell, as he again fell asleep and heard no more. Witness never thought anything more of the circumstance, but happening to be in the neighbourhood on Saturday last, he saw the female prisoner, Frances Bennett, who, in conversation, asked him if he remembered sleeping there last Christmas ? He replied that he did, upon which she added, " I deceived you nicely that night, for that was the very time when my last child was born." This closed the inquiry, and the Coroner having summed up the evidence in a most luminous manner, The Jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder" against both the prisoners, who were fully committed for trial at the next assizes.