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PEMBROKE. Pembroke PETTY SESSIONS. COUNTY PETTY SESSIONS. [1'lwn Hall, Saturday, August 3rd, before J. Adams, Mathias, VV. Hulm, N. A. Roch, T. Manse!, J. R. Bryam, and H. Leach, Esquires.] l\9*ar9e Badharn, of the Plough Inn, Jameston, was J;ar§ed by Superintendent Evans with selling beer at £ oaibited hours on Sunday morning, the 21st ult. The Paidf6 was Nearly proved. Fined 2s 6d and costs 17s 6d. Dawhins, of Lydstep, was charged by Hannah OamleS' the 8ame P'acp, with an assault on her child ^Used -Dav*esJ eight years of age.—Case dis- BOROUGH PETTY SESSIONS. CSatae day, before Wm Trewent, Esq, Mayor, J. Adams, T. Mansel, and W. Hulm, Esqrs.] j ^ehael Shea, a travelling tinker, was charged by j pj. Bryant, Esq, with stealing a quantity of hay, the Perty of the complainant, on the '2nd inst. jjaj^e°rge Evans: From information I received about JH "Past eleven o'clock last night. I went across Mr pr- arthy's field into complainant' sfield. I saw the r; °aer gathering up hay by the side of the complainant's *i8iH° inside the paling. Prisoner came out from gt0D the paling with the hay in his possession. I Hie t an^ t0°k him into custody. He begged of f0a 0 |et him off, and said he would give me three or W 'M'd88 10 lefrhim go. The hay weighed 91b. I 'Ho A CoinPared it with the hay in the rick, and I have e^-Hofits being the same as the hay produced. I :f0QR^ed the rick about three o'clock this morning, and T a hole where the prisoner gathered up the hay. '^aid^168 ^°^ertson Bryant deposed: I am a surgeon plnS at Pembroke. I own a field adjoining Coarthy,s field. In that ileld I have two ricks of bay. The h a wee^ I baTe missed hay from there before, iet » y produced corresponds with the hay in the new pi value it at 6d. Com!is-Oner e^ected t0 be tr'ed &y the Bench, aad was 'T'i ^or s'x wee^9' hard labour. ver f, ,.eP°h called in P.C. Evans, and said he acted 'hpj, u ous'y anc' wisely in this case, and that they ugnt very highly of his conduct. iChUr/ Beynon was charged by Catherine Mugford, of «asf» gt'' with stealing one pair of stocking's. This e had been remanded, and the particulars have aPPpfue^ 'n our columns. It was now dismissed. ,MV.0. Hulm appeared/or the prisoner. P:ece" f C^ar°ec! D-v s»™e Complainant with stealing a ,5fe "broidery work and sundry other articles, to ^Qrd ^~s' ^le Pr°Perty of her husband John Mug ^°r the Lodge. Mr VV. 0. iluim again appeared Cotsp £ OEi r- been '1,1'sworn sai(^: The prisoner Mary Beynon Vaat. j Glir service for nine weeks as a weekly ser- a^°Uta some embroidery work and other articles djffer l0ftnight ago from my work box. Sinew that at Prod,. times I have missed other articles. Ail those now lug at ig a^e my husband's property, arid 1 value them at Mathias deposed lama dressmaker, and live in ,street, Pembroke Dock. The prisoner carried to me about a month ago, and some about three «ai Keago for turning a dre.-s instead of payment, and *esR' articles were her own. I had them in cay pos- handed them to the Dolic'eman Herbert on .,jte«8day last. ^'S M erlien deposed: From information I received of to p J|igf°rd on Tuesday last, I went the following day ^8tfor £ e to the last witness's house. I asked «he s?rno e,llbroidery work and other articles which ^'taess'i h"0™ tiiS Pr'8oner» Mary Beynon: she (the last ^UffWri toe all the articles now produced. Mrs ^°lic'e-stat! a" ti:ie articlos that evening at the Posses ''°n 8S ^ler PTOP«'y. ^he articles have been in 'i'he nr"S10tl evcr si,1CB- •three mnJfu1161" P!esde<^ guilty) a^d was committed for 4Wn to the House oi Correction. was chargtd by John Breckenridge, with 'W«?ia Quantity of potatoes from his garden at Pem- Comn!OCk 00 the 2lld "1st. ajestv'air^ant deposed I am a police constable in Her abou;} 8 dockyard, Pembroke Dock, Yesterday morning, sEt tuarter to five o'clock when I got up from bed I t!!y hn Prisoner down on his knees in my garden behind' vr's aUS? pullinS UP the stalks of the potatoes in the Wk'd Pitting them in a b ig. I went out at the yards f°r: Pris0Rer started. Waen I was about four taiij,- her she shut the garden door in my face, "hdroi P°tatoes witl1 her. I followed her about a pQtHm .yards down the lane and brought her back. I Sato Irviog, and she was takeu labone,PClsoner was committed for two months with hard ]) 1. was charged by Superintendent Evans p'^st'13^ ^run^ an^ riotous at Pembroke Dock, on the bas Gtieflepllens Proved the charge, and the defendant *i(i. and Is costs, or seven days hard labour, Tt l}etl. a^» Monday, Aug. 5th, before W. Hulm, Esq.3 WeSt 1tnl11. Hitchings Was charged by George Thomas, of i?rvicea''rv- Castle martin, with misconduct whilst in his tOs cos" Di8charged from service, and ordered to pay CSatQ 's* Paid. e day, at the Magistrates' Clerk's Office, before W. ci .'•Trewent, and D. A. Reid. Esqs.] eta a tramp, a native of the Emerald Isle, ^ocj. r8ed by Supt. Evans with vagrancy at Pembroke Q • N^or seven days with hard labour.

MILFORD. ..l StICID .è1.Yla B.-An inquest was held at Milford on Satur- 0"er ,3j ,efore Mr W. Vaughan James, coroner for the Er α- tO ^Qui lS1-°n ^>emhrokeshire, and a respectable jury, ?f .^harire death of James Childs, ironmonger, aff8 oe< Milford, who committed suicide, on }» ern°°n last, by cutting bis throat. It appeared M d. Aft C0D3P'a^ned for some time of pains in the ^•eaieu Soaring the evidence of the medical gen- {lct of 0 attended him, the jury returned a vei- the Insanity.' Deceased was a sergeant in Volunteers, and was generally re- neighbourhood. fe8vT Thursday evening, tbo 1st instant, a utlclig„ y' gained the Eleanor, was launched from the 5eeat^er w Mr Richard Lewis, at Hakin. The laeQ3s to lQaS 6.Xceedingly line, and as a launch never ta!?6 c°DcoSe 1^8 Merest with the public, there was a in»tS °f Miif38 8Peet'1tors, a number of the inhabi- W^test'0 £ r fi 'd-and Hakin included, to witness the been^eCtaQ^e" ceremony of christening Of Stacef f]€Itortnedj the vesael shortly afterwards Coaj e 8PeetatU ^nto amidst the loud cheers The Eleanor has been pronounced by **rtled 0ufea an exceedingly well built vessel, lailT, °^ hand as well as any vessel they had frwa & priyato yard,

N A R B E R T H. NABBKUTH FAIR was held on the 10th instant. There were 820 cattle brought to the fair by licence and there were 602 left by pass, sold. Cattle fetched good prices and there was a ready demand. The supply of horses was limited with no demand. There was a large supply of sheep which sold at reduced rates. The Pig fair was held on Monday. There was a large number of pigs in fair. Prices were low. NARBEKTH PETTY SESSIONS.—These sessions were held at the County Court House on Thursday the 8th inst, before J. L. G. P. Lewis, Esq, chairman; G. P. G. Rees, Esqrs, and Captain Child. P. S. Irving v. Oiven Lewis, for breaking into a. warehouse, at Narberth, and stealing therefrom four cheeses the property of Margaret George. Owen Howell, butcher, Narberth, being sworn deposed On the 25th inst, I was present when I beard a conversation between P. S. Irving and Mrs George. The Sergeant told her that he had suspicion that she was loosing some of her cheese from her ware- house and asked to have them marked and counted every morning and he (witness) was to take a key of Mrs George and count them every morning. On the 27th inst. I counted them, and again on the following Tuesday morning. There were then four cheeses mis- sing. Mrs George had a key and I had a key.—Mar- garet George deposed: From what I was told by P. S. Irving I had reason to believe that some of my cheeses had been stolen. I marked all the cheeses in the ware- house and gave Owen Howell my son-in-law a key to count them every morning. I was informed on the fol- lowing Tuesday that four cheeses were missing. On Saturday last I found a piece of cheese with Eliza Lloyd at Tenby on the market. It was a piece of one of the cheeses stolen from my warehouse. I handed the^ piece of cheese the same night to Police Sergeant Irving, at Templeton, and the piece now produced by Police Sergeant Irving is the same, and has the mark on it which I put on it at the request of the Ser- geant. I swear positively to the cheese and mark. Eliza Lloyd deposed: On the first day of August I bought the piece of cheese now produced by Police Sergeant Irving, of Owea Lewis at his house, being a part of two cheeses I bought cf him. 'The two cheeses I weig hed sixty pounds. I paid him ten shillings for them. He stated they were two of four which he had bought at a sale at John Phillips's, being cheeses from Blackalder, and the piece now produced is a part of the cheese I bought of the prisoner, and the piece which Mrs George took off my standing in Tenby and picked out by her mark. John Phillips deposed I produce the sale bock of cheese which was sold at my house from Blackalder. It was a ready money sale. I received the money. The prisoner did not buy any cheese at that sale.—Police Sergeant Irving deposed: The cheese I now produce is the same that I received of Mrs George, and ill. the same condition and has been in my custody ever since. The prisoner was committed for trial to the Quarter Sessions, but was admitted to bail. 9

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, & DEATHS. Notices of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, should be sent to us in Manuscript, properly authenticated. We cannot under- take tc search other papers for these announcements, which are frequently found o be incorrectly printed, or turr out to be untrue. BIRTHS. On the 1st instant, at Hill Street, in this town, the wife of the Rev W. R. Rogers, Wesleyan Minister, of a daughter. On the 4th instant, at Market Street, in this town, the wife ot Mr John Brown, spirit merchant, of a son. On the 27th ult, at Hakin, the wife of Captain G. Treen, of a' son. On the 2nd of June, at Palamcoitah South India, the wife of the Rev. J. Davies Thomas, C.M.S., of a daughter. MARRIAGES. On the 25th ult, at Saint John's Church, Pembroke Dock, by the Rev. G. F. Kelly, LL.D., Mr James Scur- lock. of High S:reet, in this town, to Miss J. Whailey, of Urettle Line, near Stourbridge. On the 13th inst., at the Register Office, in this town, Mr Thomas Harries, of Pelcomb Hill, farmer, to Miss Eliza, Owen, of West Hook. DEATHS. On the 5th instant, at Cartiett, in this town, Eliza, eldest daughter of the late Mr John, aged 33 years. On the 2nd inst, at Dow Street, in this town, Mr. Stephen Davies, landlord of the Carpenter's Arms. On the 27th ult, at Hakin, deeply regretted, Captain William Evans, m^ny years master of the brig Victory, of Milford. 11' -r-

TEIUIIBI/E RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT BRAY HEAD, DUBLIN. On Friday morning a serious accident oc- curred on the Dublin and Wicklow Railway. The line winds round Bray Head, about tweive miles d^roir: Dublin, through a series of tunnels, and over several wooden bridges. The first telegrams somewhat exag- gerated the accident. It was rumoured at first that the train had run off into the sea, and that thirty persons had perished. It now appears that the train went off the line at a bridge crossing a chasm, but instead of running into the sea (which at that point is a hundred feet below) rushed down a rocky slope. One or two persons have been killed, and eighteen third-class pas- sengers, besides the driver and stoker, seriously in- jured,

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THE WOOLVERTON MURDER. On Saturday the trial of George Britten for the wilful murder of his wife at Woolverton, on the 18th of July last, took place at Wells, before Mr Justice Willes. The case excited the utmost interest in the town. At ten o'clock the prisoner was placed &t the bar. He appeared calm and collected, When asked to plead, he answered, I Guilty of the act, but not of malice aforethought.' The counsel for the prosecution were Mr T. W. Saunders and Mr Edlin; and for the defence, Mr Prideaux, Q.C, and Mr Folkard. Mr Saunders stated the case, observing that it had no doubt acquired great notoriety. The prisoner formerly occupied a farm, but had latterly lived retired in a cottage at Woolverton. He was married, and had one child. Their means were but limited; no servant was kept; and Mrs Britten did the domestic work, with the occa- sional assistance of a charwoman. Close to the cottage occupied by the prisoner was a building used by a Mr Moger exclusively as a malt-house, to which the prisoner had no occasion to have access. On Saturday morning, June 20, a young man proceeding to his work at S very early hour was attracted by seeing smoke issuing from this malthouse, and judging that the building was on fire, be raised an alarm, and proceeded to the eottage of the prisoner to awaken him. He knocked, but received no answer; but on throwing some pebbles at the window, the prisoner appeared. He was informed of the fire; and assistance having'been procured, the malt- house was entered. Something attracted the notice of the people who were endeavouring to extinguish the fire. At first it was thought to be the body of some farm animal; but it subsequently proved to be that of a human being; and ultimatuly it was discovered to be the body of Mrs Britten. Later in the day further investigation was made, and the body, although greatly burnt, was identified, and the nature of the wounds which had caused death was asceAained by Mr Parsons, a surgeon. It.then appeared clear that the unfortunate woman had no doubt been foully murdered, and that an effort had been made to destroy all identity by burning. The question then arose, Who did it?' An officer of police interrogated the prisoner, who stated that his wife had left home. Shortly after this, Mr Deggan, the superin- tendent of police at Frome, came upon the scene, and having viewed the body, went to the prisoner and said, Where is your wife;" The answer was I She is not here; she has gone to Frome, and from there to West Pennard to see her friends.' Mr Deggan then asked if she had taken anything with her, and was told that she had taken a bundle of clothes. He then took the prisoner to the malthouse, and pointing to the body which had been found, inquired if it was not that of his wife; and upon receiving an answer in the affirmative, he considered he was justified in taking him in custody to Frome. The next day, the prisoner's brother-in-'aw called to see him. Mr Deggan did not interfo-n with the conversation but noticing a piece of paper pass, be took possession of it, as in duty bound, and found that it was a confession. (This has already appeared in our columns.) Later in the day the priaouer asked for writing materials, which were supplied, and the narrative was thea con- tinued. This confession was a voluntary act of the prisoner; no inducement or threat was used to make him do it; and later on in the day ho made a further Ma!e- ment, verbally, to Mr Deggan, in consequence of which a search was made, and a large piece of lead was found. It was a formidable weapon, weighing six or seven pounds. A coroner's inquest was held on the Monday, and, after adjournment till Tuesday, a verdict of Witfut Murdfr' was returned. Later on. the prisoner made a further statement, accounting for the position of the body between the time of the murder and its discovery. He did not know what defence would be made by his learned friends. It might be alleged that the deed was com- mitted under great excitement, but that could not be held as any palliation of the crime, although the law does not usually exact the full penalty if the anger has been justly excited. The prisoner says it was done in a fit of jealousy. If the jury cou'd, under these circumstances, come to the conclusion that a verdict of manslaughter would meet the justice of the case he should rejoice as much as any one; but if they thought otherwise they must not shrink from their duty. In support of the foregoing statement several-witnesses were called and examined, after which Mr Saunders briefly summed up. Mr Prideaux then addressed the Court for the prisoner, submitting that he had in the heat of the moment, under some sudden impulse, com- mitted an act which, unhappily for his wife and himself, it was impossible to deny, led to her death. Counsel concluded an able speech by begging the jury to believo the statement made by the prisoner that dqy that be was guilty, but not of malice aforethought, and to give credit so the statement which he had previously made. The prisoner had already received the highest character from the witnesses for the prosecution, but, to leave no room for doubt that he had always borne an irre- proachable character, he would call before the jury several witnesses. Four gentlemen then severally stated that during a long number of years they had known the prisoner as a highly respectable and very humane person. His Lorship summed up, aud the jury, after consulting a few minutes in their box, returned a verdict of wslful murder against the prisoner. The clerk of assize then asked him why the sentence of death should not be passed upon him, to ^hich he replied I have nothing to say.' Silence having been proclaimed, the judge, who was deeply affected, assumed the black cap, and passed sen- tence of death in the usual form, and observed that he could hold out no hope that the extreme sentence of the law would not be carried out. The prisoner, who seemed to have fully anticipated his doom, then walked steadily out of the dock and at six o'clock was conveyed in the prison van to the railway station, and thence to Taunton Gaol. SAD CASE OF SHOOTING A SISTER,-At the Bodmin Assizes, on Tuesday week, a boy named Wallis, 16 years of age, was indicted for the manslaughter of his sister, 14 years of age The prisoner was playing with his sister, and happening to End a gun in a corner he sportively pre- sented it at her. The too common result followed—the sister was shot dead. The affair being clearly the result of accident the judge, on a plea of guilty being entered, tined the prisoner Is, and he was discharged. THE RECKLESSNESS OF A COKNISH MISER.—The 300 men employed in Condurrow mine, Camborne, were informed a few days ago that some amongst their number had been I spaled' (fined) to the amount of jES or £ 9 for riding in a skip; that the dangerous practice was strictly prohibited; and that any man injured in the forbidden and hazardous enterprise would receive no benefit from the mine club. Yet, on Thursday, four or five men got into the skip 220 fathoms from the surface, and, as it actually moved off, John Cock attempted to jump in. As the skip ascended be fell back, his head was caught by the par- tition of the shaft, and the poor fellow was killed on the spot.— Cornish Telegraph. THE AMERICAN CLAnr TO THE TOWN OF LEEDS.—A New York paper says:—'A meeting was held at the Astor House on the 21th, by the heirs of the Ingraham estate, located at Leeds, England, to adopt measures to secure possession of the property. The estate covers an area six miles in extent, and is said to be worth 100.000,000 dols, or perhaps a little more, the calculation not purporting to be exact. It includes the town of Leeds, and a few adjacent villages and hamlets. All that is wanting to nable the heirs to take possession, so the lawyers say, is a certain will, which the present possessors refuse to give up until they have been paid 20.000 dols. It was resolved at the meeting to raise this sum, get the will, and to take possession of the town of Leeds at once.' A GALLANT CTFAKTHFA BANDSMAN.—One of those feats which not unfrequently lack a chronicler by reason of the actors being modest men, occurred lately and we now give it the prominence it deserves. Mr Richardson, one of the Cyfarthfa band, and Mr Rees, both painters employed at Cyfarthta, were doing the front of a house lately, percjed upon a platform, when Rees noticed that the scaffolding was beginuing to give way, and that in another moment they would be hurled to the ground. In an instant be sprang to the window-sill, which was level with his head, and the next moment, with a great crash, the scaffolding fell with his companion to the ground almost covering him from view. Rees glanced down as he hung with his hands, and seeing only Richard- son's head screamed so terribly that his unfortunate friend, though grievously hurt, struggled from the load that overwhelmed him, injuring himself still more by the effort, managed to get through, reared the ladder up to Rees just in time to save him, and then fell prostrate and insensible. Rescue soon came, and now Richardson is recovering. It transpired afterwards that Rees seeing only his friend's head, concluded that he had been utterly smashed, and so screamed in agony of mind; but Richard- son inferred from this scream that Rees was falling, and so, at peril of his own life (for he was badly hurt; struggled to his rescue. A braver act is rarely exhibited in a battle field* j MEMORIAL TO MR DAVID HERBERT LLEWELLYlq, There must be many who remember the self-saerificinjf courage of Mr David Herbert Llewellyn, the 81 r;eon of the new famous Alabama. When the Alabama was sinking after her action with the Kearsage, its surgeon .refused to enter the crowded boat, and thus peril the safety of the wounded, and remaining on board the vessel went down with her. To commemorate his hero- ism a tablet has just been placed in the lecture theatre of the Charing-cross Hospital, in which he was once a student. Though simple and unpretending, the monu- ment is very neat and suitable, and reflects credit upon Mr W. T. Hale, of Baker-street, its designer and. sculptor. DESPERATE ENCOUNTER WITH BRIGANDS.—A letter from Guardiagrele, in a Naples journal, contains att account of an encounter with brigands. M. Auritti, of the Casino of that place, having been informed. that two men were concealed in a cottage in the direc- tion of St Biase, went with seven National Guards to surround the building and capture them. The bandits, however, proved to he fifteen in number, and after some desultory firing between the two parties, M. Auritti and his friends had to fall back to the Casino. They barri- caded themselves in, and then shot at the brigands from the windows. The noise of the firing, however, attracted rissistanog from all sides, and M. Auritti at length had a sufficient force to start in pursuit of the enemy, who had in the meantime been beaten off. At Tratturo the brigands were overtaken and two of them shot; the resc then threw away their arms and shoes and took to flight; three more were, however, shot, and the sixth being found naked and concealed beneath a heap of straw, was killed. The rest succeeded in escaping. Two of the National Guards received slight wounds in the hand, and a countryman was shot in the leg, which had to be amputated. The brigands, in flying, also killed two peasants whom they had found at work in the fields. The carrying straps of the guns abandoned by the bandits bore the Papal arms and the words Pontifical gendar- merie: One of the men, before dying, also admitted that they had come from Rome. Two SHARPS AND A FLAT.-Yorksbiremen are pro- verbially a 'cute race, and are supposed to know pre- cisely how many beans make five.' There are, how- ever, exceptions to every rule, as will be seen. On Mon- day morning a verdant specimen of the agricultural class*, named Joseph Firth of Royston, booked himself at Barnsley lor Doncaster. He had with him an old putsa containing ten sovereigns, which he intended to invest in the purchase of a nag for the farm. At the station, he was joined by 'a respectable looking man;' and on the way they fell into conversation about horses. The stranger became very communicative, and informed Farmer Firth that he also was going to the borse fair, and intended to lay out JE20 in the purchase of a good anima!. The farmer confidentially admitted that his finances amounted to £10, for which sum he thought he should get an animal to suit him. Arrived at Doncaster the two were joined by another 'weH. dressed man,' who with a burst of candour immediately communicated to his new acquaintances the gratifying fact that he had just come into possession of £ 6,500, and. was 'making a bit of a tour.' With open-hearted generosity he at once invited his friends to accompany him to the Lord Nelson Inn, where the trio would be enabled to refresh the iuner man at his expense. They accordingly went with him; and being probably em- barrassed by his newly-acquired wealth, he munificently presented two half-sovereigns to his companions. Hia good nature did not end here. Somehow or other it happened that the unsuspecting agriculturist produced his well-worn purse. Perhaps he intended to 'stand. glasses round but, however that may be, no sooner did Croesus catch sight of the dingy bag than he ridiculed the notion of a well-to-do tiller of the soil carrying about so disreputable looking a purse; and forthwith presented. him with a bran new wash-leather bag, into which ha advised the farmer to transfer his shining corn for greater safety. The transfer was made, and he was compli- mented upon the greater security of his cash. Just at this moment Firth's travelling companion attracted hirt attention by some remarks for a moment. The parsa and its contents were then returned to the farmer's pocket, and by way of putting the finishing touch to his liberality, the mysterious stranger gave each of the other two some silver to buy some tea to take home. It was proposed that Firth should go into the shop and purchasa the Bohea, whilst his lriends walked on to the wool mar- ket, where he was to rejoin them. Nothing doubting, the farmer assented, and having fulfilled his mission. started forth from the grocery store in quest of his lata companions. Alas! for the depravity of human nature. Crocus and his confederate had disappeared, and so had the ten golden sovereigns, as the credulous farmer speedily discovered on examining his purse, which con- tained ten spurious coins instead of the legitimate portraits in miniature of his beloved Sovereign, which, there is no doubt had been cleverly abstracted by sharper No. 2 whilst the farmer's attention was engaged by sharper Xo. 1 at the inn. His discomfiture may be easily imagined on discovering how he bad been 'done,' and he will probably be a little more cautious aa>ther tima. before placing himself in the unenviable position of 'a, fiat between two sharps.Dondast({T Gazette. THE SUSPECTED MURDER AT LnnrnorsE.—On Friday Mr Richards, the Deputy Coroner, concluded the inquiry, at the Salisbury Arms, Eastfield-street, Limehouse. re- specting the alleged murder of Agnes Oakes, aged 22 years. John Wiggins, lighterman, axed 35 years, who has been charged with the murder of the deceased, was brought up before the Court by Mr Superintendent; Worrels, who acted under the authority of a warrant granted by the Secretary of State. Mr Young, solicitor, conducted the defence, and Inspector Brady appeared for the prosecution. Mr Youas: said the prisoner wished to make a statement after the whole of the depositions had been read over to him. Having been sworn, he said that on the Wednesday morning he went home at a quarter to I to the deceased, taking some beer for the deceased, but as she would not drink it he did. He then told her that he would not go to bed as he intended to be up at a quarter to iour in the morning. He lay on the rug in. front of the fire-place and went to sleep. At a little after three o'clock his mother came into the room and called him, and he went downstairs to see what o'clock it was,. and upon his return he went to lie down. The deceased then came to his side and said 'Oh, do forgive me,' and he replied 'I can't.' He then lay down and went to sleep, and was awoke by a tickling in his throat. He put up his hand and caught the deceased. In chat way his left thumb was cut. He then went into his mother's room, and said, 'Agnes has cut my throat.' Redid not then know that she had cut her own throat. He was called by his mother into the deceased's room, and he saw the deceased in a corner of it. She was sitting up against the wall. He saw the knife lying on the fioor^. and lie picked it up. He took up a pair of drawers ancj put them to his throat. He had not seduced the deceased. under a promise ot marriage. She had lived with a young girl, whose brother had ruined her. The Coroner, in summing up. said that the deceased and her sister hadt left liiverpool for some good cause-they wanted to better their condition. For 18 months they kept their situations, and witnesses had stated that they were moral and well conducted. He believed that W-iggins had seduced the poor girl under promise of marriage. He did not believe that he had merely taken her from the care of another man. for if he had it was not likely he would have allowed the* banns of marriage to be put up. The girl had, it was stated, taken to drink, but he did not think it was for Wiggins to state that, for she was a sober, well-conducted girl until he had ruined her. There were several things against the prisoner. The first was that the chemise was torn as if in a deadly struggle; and, secondly, the pri- soner's trousers was spotted with blood as if blood had spurted over them in all directions in a struggle. Mr Dove said that if a person was lying down on his side. and he had his throat cut, and jumped up, that would throw' the blood in various directions. He would not expect the blood in a different direction from the wound. The spots of blood on the bottom of the legs of the trousers could not have been caused by the blood being dashed up against it.' It had been sworn that the prisoner wore the Guernsey shirt on the morning of the dreadful occurrence. If be had it on when the affair took place how could the arms of the white shirt under- neath it become sprinkled with blood ? The fourth point against the prisoner was that cries of Murder!' had been heard proceeding from the direction of the house, at two o'clock on the. Wednesday morning. Two witnesses had heard those cries. There might have been a strungia between the prisoner and the deceased, and one might have attempted to cut the other's throat first. If tha jury could not, upon the evidence, sustain a verdict against the prisoner then they must return an open one. The jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict, That Agnes Oakes was found dead with an incision in her throat, and the said jurors do further say that how the said inoision was caused there is not sufficient eyi- tf aw I fprovg.,