In the Central Criminal Court, on Tuesday, Angelina Pow and
Henry Myers were tried on a charge of giving gin to Thomas Pow, husband of the first.named prisoner, in such quantities as to cause his death. It was proved that the deceased had taken spirituous liquors to such excess as to produce delirium tremens and it was not proved that the prisoners had given him his usual stimulants in any extraerth•-•• quantity. They were therefore acquitted.
Sentences were passed on the prisoners convicted at the Sessiok on Wednesday. Two were ordel ed to be transported for life, five fifteen years, years, twenty-one for ten years, and thirty.eight for seven yessk Many were sentenced to imprisonment, with hard labour, for various terms.
At the Marlborough Street Office, on Monday, John Alpl,5 prj, vate in the third battalion of Grenadier Guards, was sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment, for an indecent assault on the wife of a trades. man in Coventry Street.
At the same Office, on Thursday, a Policeman was fined 3/, for taking to the Stationhouse a Mr. Robinson, who had interfered to prevent the Policeman from carrying a girl through the streets in an improper manner. The girl had been previously ordered rs prison for a week, on the evidence of the same Policeman, for re. slating his attempts to take her into custody, and for using indecent language, she being intoxicated according to his account ; but Sit Magistrate directed her to he immediately released, being satisfied, after hearing Mr. Robinson's statement, that the Policeman's evidence was not trustworthy.
It appears that the parties engaged in the Wimbledon duel, mes, tioned in last week's Spectator, were Mr. Eliott, son of Genera Eliott, and Mr. Charles Flower Mir fin. The latter was formerly partner of a linendraper in Tottenham Court Road, hut had bees turned out of the business in consequence of his profligate habits. The penny-a-liners gave a flaming account of this person : he hada house in town, and an establishment, with a stud of hunter, in the country. In fact, he contrived to keep one hack after his partner lad dismissed him, and was commonly seen at the lowest haunts about town. At the last Epsom races, he had quarrelled with and had been struck by Mr. Eliott, who had driven against his gig ; and whom he afterwards met at the Saloon, a place where scamps and prostitutes congregate, we believe, in Piccadilly. A fresh quarrel ensued, which ended in the duel. Mr. Eliott appears to have acted like a bravo: be whistled and walked ab nit while the seconds loaded the pistols, telling the spectators that he was used to " that sort of thing," and cared nothing about it. A Coroner's inquest hum; been held on the corpse of the deceased ; but no interesting particulars, except those mentioned, have been given in evidence : the inquest stands adjourned to Tuesday next.
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