TECHNICALrTIES or THE LAW.—A man named Woolley, who was found
guilty of violating a little girl named Caroline Green, at the
late Staffbrdshire Assizes, has been reprieved ; and on what argument, can the reader imagine, was the reprieve granted? Were the facts which had been sworn to shaken ? Was any new evidence adduced ? No; but Caroline Green's name has been discovered to be Caroline Nutt ; and she is not the child of Sarah Green, though Sarah Green said so, but the child of some other Sarah. Think of so important a mistake as calling Sally Nutt Sally Green ! No wonder the compas- sion of the Magistrate was roused.
" Several witnesses," says the Staffordshire Advertiser, " bore deposed before the Rev. .T. Clare, magistrate of Wolverhampton, that they have the strongest reasons to believe that Caroline Green is not the (laughter of Sarah Green, who swore she was her child. A suspicion of this fact arose from a false account given by the mother of the baptism of her (laughter, at Reading, which was proved so by a letter front a clergyman of that place ; and the Greens, knowing that a letter of inquiry was sent, instantly left the place, and have not since been heard of. . A respectable witness swore she remembered seeing Caroline Green at Hereford two y2ars ago, where her brother, whose name was Nutt, was buried ; that she has lived since that time near them, and that she has frequently told her her name was Nutt, and that she believes her to be between eleven and twelve. This was also confirmed by another witness who lived neighbour to the Greens, to whom Caroline has frequently said her name was Nutt."
Of course there could be but one consequence of these important discoveries—" On the representation of these facts, Baron Gurney most humanely granted a reprieve." We wonder, if in the next indictment for poaching; a pheasant should be put by chance for a partridge, the Magistrates will be as anxious to take advantage of the mistake as of that of Nutt and Green ?
A man named Hazill was indicted at the Surry Sessions on Tuesday, for stealing 1001b. of wax candles from Mr. Field, his master ; and a female named Rowland was indicted for receiving the stolen goods. Both of them were found guilty. Hazell was in the regular receipt of W. per week of wages, and his entire labour was from five o'clock in the morning till two in the afternoon.
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