The Sun. — 1848-07-24 (London, England)

CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron Rom%) The Court was occupied a great part of the day in disposing of cases unfit for publication. No trial of importance came on.  for a highway robbery on that occasion, accompanied with violence. There were several counts is the indictment, to meet every conceivable suggestion as to the time of the robbery, whether before or after death. Mr. Willmore and Mr. Denison conducted the case on the part of the Crown; Mr. Macaulay and Mr. Adams appeared as counsel for the prisoner. Mr. WILLMORE opened the case for the prosecution, and narrated the circumstances at great length; but as they have been brought repeatedly before public notice a:ready, in connexion with the charge of murder founded upon the same case, and which was tried at the last assizes, it is unnecessary to repeat them again here. Numerous witnesses fully supported the Learned Counsel's statement. We subjoin the evidence of a new witness. William Fell.—l am a bricklayer. I came in the latter end of December to Kirton. It was several weeks before this occurred. I mean the latter end of the first shooting month (September). Was living there with a woman. On Saturday, the fore end of the day, I had been at the Greyhound Inn. Went home afterwards. Was at two or three public•houses in the course of the day. I went to bed at about seven or eight o'clock. I had some words with her. I left her some time about the middle of the night. I went down hill as far as the Gainsborough-road, turned to my left, and went down a,lane leading to the Gainsboroughsroad. I laid myself down by a haystack. It was a round one. I don't know whether I had any sleep or not. I heard a dog bark that appeared to be very savage. There was a hedge between use and the road. I gut over a hedge, and went into another field, and laid myself down and crept lull-length on the ground to the hedge by the road. I saw that man (the prisoner) and another scuffling. Travis hit the other with a stick on the head, and the man seemed to full back into the hedge. Travis fell down upon him, and after they had been down some time, I heard something like coin rattle. Travis then went back towards Kirton. The man said, " Travis, if you rob, don't murder me." Then Travis, after he bad got a few yards, turned round and downed him again, and after they had been down some time the man's throat seemed to rattle as if he was being choked, and there was a stamping or kicking of a foot and leg. Then Travis rubbed his band upon the grass or ground, I can't say which. He then rubbed his hand upon a gate or stone. He then went away off towards Kirton. I got over the hedge, and wont across two or three fields, and then came back into the lane through the same gap I got through before. I walked as far as the Gainsborough-road, didn't know where I was, and stopped to think a bit, and found myself right opposite to Travis's house, and I went across their stackyard, and into a sort of greenhouse or summerhouse. When I had been there five or six minutes Travis came up to the door. I don't know whether he knocked or not, but there was a rattling, and there soon came a woman down, and she let him in. I stopped there a good way on to an hour, to see if he'd come out again. I then went home, and went to bed, and when I'd been in the house the value of twenty minutes or half an hour, the clock struck five. I did not go before the coroner. I had known Travis pretty nearly from my first going there. Cross-examined by Mr.