21 MARCH 1868, Page 3

Charlotte Wingfield,—the widow who tortured her poor little nephew with

the malignant ingenuity on which we have com- mented in another column,—was found guilty, of course, without a moment's deliberation on the part of the jury, and the Lord Chief Justice sentenced her to penal servitude for fifteen years. Rela- tively to other penalties it was a mild sentence. No murder (with- out torture) ever deserved a heavier punishment.