The Sun. — 1833-01-05 (London, England)

THE ENFIELD MURDER.  John Cooper (the approver, who was examined for the Crown on the trial for murder yesterday) and So mud Fare (who was yesterday tried for the murder and acquitted) were this morning arraigned upon the Co. rener's inquisition for being parties to the murder of Ben. jamin Couch Danby on the 19th of December. Mr. CLARKSON, for the prosecution, stated that, after the long and painful investigation in which the Court and Jury had been engaged yesterday, he had been instructed to offer no evidence upon the present charge. By the directions of the Conn, the Jury acquitted the prisoners. The prisoner Fare, alias Sleigh, was then arraigne,' upon an indictment for assaulting Benjamin Couch Denby on the King's highway, on the 19th of December. putting him in bodily fear, and taking from his person 1 I s., a segar case, and a pipe bowl. Mi. CLARKSON, in stating the case to the Jury, requested most earnestly that, in considering this case, they would dismiss from their minds any prejudice that the) might have naturally imbibed from the trial of yesterday, when the present prisoner was acquitted. The Learned Counsel then detailed the circumstances of the lease chiefly at they appeared on the trial yesterday. The witnesses were of course the same, Cooper being the principal one. It will be recollected that while leading the deceased along the road a scuffle ensued, in which the deceased, Johnson (who was convicted of the murder yesterday), and the prisoner fell down ; after which the prisoner ran away, and it was suspected the deceased warobbed in that scuffle. When the prisoner was apprehended, a pipe bowl, sworn by Mr. Addington to have been lent by him to the deceased to charge his gun with, and some silver, were found on him—more silver than it was imagined the prisoner could have honestly possessed himself of, as he received relief from the parish. It was also proved that the prisoner, in allusion to the deceased's money, said be should like to have a touch at it ,n the dark, and if he could not get it he would cut hit,  wizen. The prisoner put in a written defence, denying most solemnly having robbed the deceased. As to the pipebowl, he had had it for a month before the murder, and he had witnesses in Court yesterday who could have proved that they bad seen him use it in charging his gun, but as there was no evidence affecting him, his Counsel did not think it necessary to call them. Believing themselves to be discharged from further attendance, those wit tresses were not in Court to-day. Mr. John Esdaile, a brewer, said he had known the prisoner for three years, and he gave him an excellent cha• ratter for honesty and humanity. He had been in witness's employ about two years. Three other persons spoke to the prisoner's previous good character. Mr. Justice J. PARKE in summing up said the only question for the Jury to consider was whether the prisoner took from the person of Benjamin Couch Danby the sum of I Is. by force, or whether he took the money at all ; if he took it by force it was a capital offence, but if he took it without force, it was an offence not capital, but transportable for such a period as the Court pleased. The Jury found the prisoner guilty of stealing from tLe person, unaccompanied with violence.