At the Taunton Assizes, a few days ago, a countryman
was put into the witness-box to give a prisoner the benefit of his evidence as to cha- racter. On being asked by the counsel, whether he ever knew any harm of the prisoner at the bar, he replied, that " he never knew much harm of him, only that he was given to thieving a little." The counsel indignantly inquired whether the prisoner had ever stolen from him; when the witness to character answered, "never more than once or twice, believe ! "—Bristol Journal.
Sarah Edney was convicted at Taunton Assizes of the murder of her husband, and executed on Thursday week. She made a full con- fession of her guilt immediately after the trial, and stated the times and manner of administering the poison to him, thus fully corroborating the evidence of the witnesses. A remarkable fact was stated on the trial by Mr. Allen, the druggist of Axbridge, viz. that while purchas- ing arsenic of him a second time, she talked unconcernedly of the murder of Mrs. Smith at Bristol, for which Mrs. Burdock was exe- cuted.—Bristol Journal.
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