money was found was one of those I had seen in Richard's room on the Monday. I am quite sure of it. John Prinley.—I am landlord of the Rainbow public house, Liverpool-road. I remember seeing the prisoner in the skittle-ground on Monday the 16th of March. He afterwards came into the taproom and remained there until a quarter before twelve o'clock, when he left, in company with four or five other persons. On the follow ing day (Tuesday) I saw him again at my house during the day. The last time I noticed him was at seven in the evening.

Robert King. I am a sweep. I saw the prisoner playing at skittles at the Rainbow on the Monday. He said he had but three halfpence, but he afterwards played for a pot of beer which he won.

Robert Pizey corroborated the last witness, and said, that the prisoner gave him two halfpence to buy a rushlight, which he accordingly procured for him.

Mary Elizabeth King also proved that the prisoner was in the skittleground until nearly twelve o'clock on the night of Monday. He wore a shooting jacket similar to the one he now has on. I saw something sticking out of his pocket. It appeared to be the length of the pocket, but it was covered, and could not be seen. The prisoner went away alone in the direction of Mr. Templeman's cottage, after we left the house.

rant?" I said I did not require a warrant. He replied, "Then what do you want me for?" I said, "I suppose you have heard of the murder; I want you for that." He smiled, and said, "if I was as innocent of everything as I am of that I should not have much to fear. While he was picking up his clothes, I asked him what money he had. He replied, "Nine shillings," and upon searching his pockets, I found that sum to be correct. I found nine lucifer matches in his waistcoat pocket, and two pawnbroker's duplicates for a waistcoat and pair of trousers. At the station-house I took a new pair of boots from his feet, which he said he bought in Kent-street in the Borough. Upon asking him what he had done with his old shoes, he replied, that he threw them away. Upon examining his waistcoat, I found that it was stained with blood, and that part of it was burnt, and upon observing this circumstance to him, he said his clothes were often stained with blood. Upon examining the room in which he slept on the following day, I found the odd stocking now produced. It was dirty. The prisoner had on a pair of stockings, which appeared to be fellows, but I did not notice them very closely.

Cross-examined.-I knew that there was an assault warrant against the prisoner. The assault, I believe, arose out of a fight.

The witness here produced the rope and the smaller cord with which the hands of the deceased were tied. It was quite possible that one person might have done it.

Richard Bradshaw, a constable of the M. division. I went to Allen's cottage along with another

constable, and on a partition which divided the privy from the washhouse, he put his hand up and found a stocking with money in it. Sergeant King, of the same division, produced the stocking, and described where he found it. He examined it, and found that it contained nineteen half-crowns, forty-eight shillings, and seven sixpences.

Cross-examined.-There was no marked shillings amongst the

money.

Mrs. Allen was recalled, and shown the stocking in which the money was found. She said. This is the stocking which was outside the other when I saw them folded up in the prisoner's room on the Monday. I footed stockings like them, but I cannot swear that these stockings were footed by me. They are similar to the pair I had mismatched.

Cross-examined. I believe Mrs. Jarvis used latterly to wash for the prisoner.

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John Ellis, a painter, residing Madrass-street, Holloway. At nine o'clock on Tuesday, the 17th of March, I saw Mrs. Jarvis in the Holloway-road, and at two o'clock I saw her again in company with the prisoner. They were going towards the cottages. I told them of the murder of Mr. Templeman, upon which Mrs. Jarvis said to the prisoner, "Richard, you had better not go home with me now." He said, "Yes, I shall; I shall go and see what has happened." They then went to gether towards the cottages. Mrs. Jarvis had a child in her arms, both in the morning and after

noon.

Ralph Wilcox. I am a shoe maker, residing in Tottenhamcourt-road. The half-boots or

shoes produced bear my private marks "8" and "92," and I should think that they were bought in one of my shops. On the 7th of March, to the best of my recollection, between twelve and one o'clock, my daughter brought me half-a-sovereign in payment for a pair of shoes, and I gave her the change. The shoes came to 7s. 6d. It was between twelve and one o'clock, as far as I can judge. Gray's-inn-lane is about a mile from my house. I keep seven shops, and one of my workmen named Wright, who lives at the Marsh-gate, Lambeth, having set up in business for himself, uses my marks.

This was the case for the prosecution.

Mr. Chambers then addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoner.

After which Mr. Baron Alderson summed up the evidence, and left the case to the jury, observing, that if they believed the whole of the testimony given by the witnesses, they would find the prisoner guilty; but if the facts which appeared against him were in their opinion such as fairly to lead them to the conclusion that the prisoner was innocent, although surrounded by circumstances of suspicion-if the facts sworn to could in their judgment be accounted for on any other ground than that of his being a murderer they would say so by a verdict of acquittal. They had an awful responsibility on their hands, in deciding upon the fate of a fellowcreature, and most earnestly did he implore of God to direct them to a just and righteous verdict.

The jury, after a few minutes' consideration, found the prisoner Not Guilty.

The trial lasted from ten in the

Gould's examination was resumed on Wednesday. The chief additional circumstance against him was the production of a dark lantern used on the night of the murder, which had been found in a pond near Templeman's house. Gould, who had conducted himself with much coolness and cleverly cross-examined the witnesses, betrayed some emotion when the lantern was produced. He was remanded till Tuesday next, and taken out of court; but brought back again by his own desire, to tell the magistrate that his " fession" was a mere fabrication, to obtain the reward and his own release.

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He was eventually committed for trial on the charge of burglary in the house of Mr. Templeman.

TRIAL AND CONVICTION OF RICHARD GOULD FOR BURGLARY. -Richard Gould, alias Arthur Nicholson, was then indicted for the burglary in the house of Mr. Templeman, for whose murder the prisoner had formerly been tried, and acquitted. The evidence against the prisoner was substantially the same as that adduced before the magistrates and at the trial for the murder. Gould preserved his steadiness of demeanour; cross-examined the witnesses with perfect self-possession; and when called upon for the defence, arranged his papers before him like a barrister, and spoke with much fluency; pointing out some discrepancies in the evidence, and trying to throw discredit on the witnesses. He dwelt for some time on the circumstances of his recapture, and complained of having been deluded by the false representations of sergeant Otway.

Sergeant Otway never came to

him at the Compter; but when he had left that prison-when he was amongst strangers and did not wish to be known-the first day he was out of prison, and when the sergeant might suppose he had been drinking, at eleven o'clock at night, sergeant Otway came to him and took him entirely by surprise. He represented himself not as an officer, but as a gentleman from the secretary of state, and offered him 2007. if he would give any information that would lead to the conviction of the parties. What did he tell him? He told him honestly that he knew nothing about it, and that he had nothing to do with it. He told him so more than once; but sergeant Otway began to reason with him— that as he was a young man, about to quit the country, how serviceable 2001. would be to him, aud that as he had gone through so much trouble about the matter, how foolish it would be of him not to make something by it, now that he could do so. And as sergeant Otway told him, that he could not be tried again, he acknowledged that he was influenced by what he said, and he did make up his mind to tell a lie for the sake of the reward.

This "lie" was the false accusation of murder against Jarvis.

The jury brought in a verdict of " Guilty," and baron Parke passed sentence.

TRIAL AND CONVICTION OF CORVOISIER FOR THE MURDER OF LORD W. RUSSELL.

JUNE 18. Long before the doors were opened, persons holding sheriffs' tickets of admission were in waiting to take their seats. Only a few of the privileged, however, were allowed to enter before nine

o'clock.

By half-past nine the court was filled. Many persons of distinction appeared in places set apart for people of rank: among them were the duke of Sussex, the earl of Mansfield, lord Sheffield, the earl of Cavan, lord and lady Arthur Lennox, lady Granville Somerset, and the hon. Mr. Villiers. The judges were chief justice Tindal and baron Parke. The counsel for the crown, Mr. Adolphus, Mr. Bodkin, Mr. Chamhers; for the prisoner, Mr. Charles Phillips and Mr. Clarkson.

François Benjamin Courvoisier being called upon, pleaded" Not Guilty," in a feeble tone; and preferred an English jury to one composed half of Englishmen and half of foreigners, to which he was entitled being an alien. He was dressed in black, very pale, but perfectly composed.

Mr. Adolphus opened the case for the prosecution. The report of his speech occupies four or five columns of the Morning Chronicle's broad sheet. He went into a minute, elaborate, and very able statement of all the circumstances connected with the murder: presenting a mass of circumstantial evidence against the prisoner, pausing frequently to remove any impression favourable to him, and suggesting a guilty motive for all that he said and did. There was no novelty in the learned gentleman's speech to those who have paid at tention to the evidence on which Courvoisier was committed for trial. One part of that evidence, on which much stress had been laid, Mr. Adolphus made slight account of the discovery of bloodstained gloves and linen in the prisoner's portmanteau. He said he was aware that an attempt would be made to show that Sarah

Mansell was not a trustworthy witness; but he defied the prisoner's counsel to damage her character. He admitted, that the evidence for the prosecution was entirely circumstantial, but he contended that for that very reason it might be most safely relied upon; and he strongly urged upon the jury, that the circumstances demonstrated the impossibility that the murderer could be any other than Courvoisier.

The witnesses called on the first day were Sarah Mansell, the house-maid; Mary Hannell, the cook; William York, Lord William Russell's coachman; Emanuel Young, Mr. Latham's butler; Mr. Elsgood and Mr. Nursey, surgeons; Thomas Selway, servant at the house next door to Lord William's; and John Baldwin, a policeman. Sarah Mansell was severely cross-examined by Mr. Charles Phillips; but her testimony was not shaken. It was, however, distinctly elicited from her, that a ladder belonging to the house was placed in the yard; that it was the height of the wall of the back area, and would enable anybody to get over the wall into the yard of the next house; and that the prisoner had taken it out of the house into the yard by her desire on the night of the murder, She also said that a great many persons had tried chisels, screwdrivers, and pokers, at different places in the house since the murder.

Baldwin, the policeman, was not a very good witness for the prose cution; as his cross-examination by Mr. Phillips shows. This man had first said, that the area-door was forced open from without ; afterwards he thought that was not the case.