The Express. — 1851-07-24 (London, England)

NORFOLK CIRCUIT.-CAMBILIDOE, JOLT 23. la►oas Mt. Rims atainrau. Tun LITZILIXOTON Idtll.Dalt. - .  Sarah AM WO;r7•11/4S 18, was charged with having on the 13th of March last, wilfully murdered Mary Ann Dearlave, by the administration of poison. The prisoner was a servant in the household of deceased, who was the wife of a fanner at Leverington. On the 13th of March last deceased made what is termed an egg pudding and entrusted deceased with the task of tying it up and boiling it. The pudding was served up by the prisoner, and deceased ate a portion of it. She died soon afterwards, and upon an examination of the contents of her stomach, a Imp quantity of arsenic was discovered to be present, and to have caused death. Suspicion attached to the prisoner, because she had previously threatened V. be revenged on deceased, in consequence of some ill-treatment which she had experienced at her hands. It was also shown that there was a large quantity if arsenic in a granary attached to the •premtws to which prisoner might have had access. The evi epee, of which the foregoing is a summary, wet very voluminous, and the jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty. There was a loud buzz of approbation at the verdict, which the judge repressed. Expoint Camp Haws Po ice[. TWILL OP • GOWNAKAN FOR •N AOOILAVATED ASSArrt. Henry Wintering/sans, 25, charged with assaulting Elisabeth Mary Pan on the 13th March, with intent, te. The trial was traversed from the last assizes. The defendant was a ressakrz of Corpus Christi College in the Vnivenity. Elisabeth Mary Parr—l am in my sixteenth year. I live in else brans. I live there as one of the family. I assist in waiting an the lodgers. It is my occupadsm as has the shutters. I went out to fasten the shutters at a tersztorpast Ina.. I mat iato Bt. Andrew's set. Ddisimt our up aid smillaummthiii sham "kg est I aimed dr intim ant watts. I wet tato pessige, asi Ibis in Mr.  Headley's room, the door of which is a yard and a halt up I the passage. I said " Mr. Headley will be in directly." lie shut tho door and bolted it ; he caught hold of me and kissed me, and called me a little angel ; when he kissed me ' I shrieked out ; on the sofa he called me a little devil ; he hurt me very much ; the door bell rang, ho got up directly, and I came out; I did not say anything to my mother, I waa so excited; I told her alter she came home, atter she had sees the prisoner laid• I made the communication to her ea the Mims, ;her a (mamma bad been detaining ms ia W. Headley' room •; I did not say anything more till we got into the kitchen, I then told her the whole. Cmellse Miller, mother to the proaecutriz : I was in the kirelsem, just done dinner ; I heard the noise, and Miller traillebt It wu the children upstairs crying ; I sent the inrunot wistairs ; one of the lodgers' be rang again ; I all end rang the bell on the stairs violently, because the leresat did not answer the bell ; my daughter then same out of Mr. Headley's room. Osborn, porter of Corpus Christi College, entrained by Mr. l'reudergast—The prosecutrix came to the college about four o'clock the next day, and appeared very light in her conduct. She said she was not so much hurt as they thought she was. She came to recognise the defendant. The defendant is very steady and regular in his habits. Mr. Leoteurgeon, surgeon, sworn—l attended Elizabeth Mary Parr tire or six days regularly, and afterwards called to see her occasionally. She was not seriously ill. It was a temporary excitement. This closed the case for the prosecution. Mr. Prendergast hating addressed the jury for the defendant, The learned Judge summed up. The jury, after considering a short time, returned a verdict of Set guilty on the first count, but Guilty of a common assault. The learned Judge having stated his approval of the verdict, sentenced the defendant to be imprisoned in the borough gaol of Cambridge fur three calendar months. This concluded the business of assize.