The sentence of death upon Mary Furley, the woman who
killed her child in attempting to drown herself with it, has been commuted to imprisonment in Milbank Penitentiary.
Augustus Dalmas surrendered himself to the Police, at the D Station in Mary lebone, at one o'clock this morning ; and today he was ex- amined at Wandsworth Police-office, on the charge of having murdered Sarah M'Farlane. He is rather a stout, good-looking man. On the whole, be was tolerably composed ; but his face looked swollen and his eyes bloodshot, as if with weeping. His daughters were brought into court, and he seemed uneasy at their presence. When Charlotte saw him, she fell back fainting ; after she had recovered, on again turning her eyes towards him, she went into an hysterical fit, and she was removed from the court. On seeing her suffering, Dalmas wiped his eyes ; but he was composed again when she had gone. The evidence was the same as that given at the inquest. The prisoner only asked one question of the wit- nesses—whether a woman could walk so far after her throat was cut, as Mrs. M'Farlane was said to have done ? He said nothing in his defence. He was remanded till Friday next.
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