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Felix Jarrett was charged before the Magistrates at Hastings, on Monday, with having given a bribe to Stephen Davies, a broker, at the late election in that town, for the purpose of inducing him to vote for Messrs. Briscoe and Robertson. In- stead, however, of voting as asked, Davies gave information of the alleged bribery, and Jarrett was arrested on a warrant. The case has been sent for trial to the Assizes.
At Bodmin Assizes, on Saturday, sixteen men were tried for rioting at St. Austle, on the 11th of June. The tumult was one of those unhappy ebullitions of popular violence which arose in the West of England from the high price of bread. The prisoners, who were miners, with many more of their class, entered the town armed with bludgeons, carried off bread from shops, threatened bakers, and pro- posed to burn down a mill. Fortunately, the civil force and a party of soldiers were under the command of a cool, good-tempered, but resolute man—Mr. Ni- cholas Kendall, the High Sheriff of Cornwall; who harangued the mob, and seized two or three of the most violent; and when the multitude would not disperse with- out these prisoners being released, he effectually vindicated the law by directing the soldiers to load their guns, capturing more rioters with his own hand and giving them in charge to the constables, and then clearing the streets by charging with tile military with fixed bayonets. The disturbance was thus quelled, without much damage having been done. In summing up, Chief Justice Wilde passed a high encomium on the admirable conduct of Mr. Kendall and the Magistrates, by which bloodshed had been prevented and the peace of the county preserved. Ten of the accused were found guilty, and six acquitted. Sentence was deferred.
At Newcastle Assizes, yesterday week, Daniel MAllum was tried for the man- slaughter of a little boy, by causing him to drink a quantity of ardent spirit. As
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.appeared, however, that no evil intent could be proved against the man—he had given the boy a bottle of spirits, and told him to drink as much as he liked—the Judge stopped the case, and a verdict of acquittal was given. On Saturday, Margaret Lennox, an aged woman, was tried for the murder of bee husband, a boatman of North Shields. The man had been suddenly taken ill after eating a pudding made by the prisoner; he exhibited all the symptoms of poisoning and died in a few hours; and a post mortem examination detected arsenic in the body. On the morning of the day that this happened, the woman bad bought a quantity of the poison, to kill rats, she said: she told falsehoods when questioned as to her movements on that day. There was no direct proof that the prisoner was the poisoner. It was deposed that other persons ate of the pudding without suffering from it; Lennox was an invalid; he had a chest in which he kept medicines, that he seems to have prescribed to himself; the wife behaved well to him when he was seized by the fatal sickness. On examination, the organs of the body proved to be diseased quite irrespectively of any disorder produced by koison. After deliberating for an hour, the Jury returned a verdict of " Not guilty.
Mary Anne Milner, the young woman who was convicted, at Lincoln Assizes, of poisoning a sister-in-law, hanged herself in her cell, on Saturday, a few hours before the time appointed for her execution. She had confessed that her sentence was just, and that she hadpoisoned the three persons with whose murder she was charged—her mother-in-law, and two sisters-in-law. It is said that the motive was to obtain money from burial societies to which the deceased belonged.
A frightful crime was committed at Hulme, near Manchester, on Saturday last. Joseph Speed, a stripper in a cotton-mill, had been out of work for some time, and his family had been reduced to a miserable state of destitution: the man is de- scribed as sober, industrious, and a good husband and father. On Saturday morning, while his wife was absent to fetch water, Speed cut the throats of his two children—a boy of five years and an infant; on the mother's return, he struck her on the head with a heavy iron hammer; then went to the Police-station and surrendered himself as the murderer of his wife and children. Mrs. Speed was found lying senseless, but still alive. It is said that the unfortunate family had been without food for two days.
Aa the wife of Captain Fuleher, of Montpelier Terrace, Brighton, was about to retire to bed yesterday sennight, she discovered a man under the bedstead: she Screamed, the man sprang out, and violently seized her by the throat: she suc- ceeded, however, in pulling the bell; on which the man ran into the next room, a dressing-room, took up a razor, and cut his throat. It turned out that the man was John Goldspink, the footman of the family; and it is surmised that the object of his concealment was to rob the plate-chest, which was kept in the dres-
sing-room. It is expected that he will recover. When asked by a servant how he came to cut his throat, he managed to answer, " I did not do it myself."
While two men were descending a coal-pit near Causeway Green, in Worcester- shire, a part of the machinery gave way, and they were drawn up the shaft with a frightful velocity; on reaching the surface, they were thrown from the basket a great way, and were so badly hurt in falling that they died soon afterwards.
A fatal carriage accident happened at Woodham Street, in Essex, on Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Wilson, of Langford Grove, his wife, and their son, a young mall of twenty-four, were returning in their carriage from the palace of the Bishop of Rochester, when the horses took fright; at a sharp turn the carriage was upset, and shattered to pieces. Young Mr. Wilson was killed on the spot; his mother was taken up insensible, having suffered a dangerous concussion of the brain; and the elder Mr. Wilson was severely bruised on the head and face. Both the coach- man and footman were hurt.
A labourer on the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, who had been drinking, lay down on the rails and went to sleep: a train passed over him, nearly crushing off one of his feet, and his life is in danger.
A drunken man went to sleep in the road near Greenhithe, on Saturday even- inn; Dawes, a railway contractor, was passing, and his horse was frightened: a squabble rose between the two men, and Dawes hit the other several times with the handle of his whip, killing him in a few moments. The murderer made off, but was pursued and taken.
Three houses have been burnt down at Chatham, in consequence of children playing with lucifer-matches in an out-house.
On Monday evening, some men in the employ of Mr. gailiampton, of Little Totham, after lighting their pipes it is believed dropped some inciters, which, being trodden upon, ignited the corn, and ten sheaves were burnt to ashes.— Essex herald.
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