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and was at the place where I found the money; he was poking at the hole. He walked up to me and began to talk to me; he had dark trousers and a blue coat buttoned up to his neck, and a high hat, and I did not know him then, but have since ascertained it was the prisoner. The man said, "It is cold here, and you need have a good fire. I said, "I would keep better if I could afford it." He said, "Your name is Dick?" I said, "Yes." He said, You found the money?" I said, "I did." He said, 66 All you have to do now is to find the murderer.' I said, "I wished to God I could; I would walk twenty miles to find it out, though I was lame." He then said (moving his foot), "I am the murderer." I said, "If you are the murderer you would not tell me; what is your name?" He said, "You know me.” I said, I do not." He says, Yes, you do." I said, If he would tell me I would tell the gentlemen." He said, You know me." He then walked away as far as the hole, then turned round and looked at me again, then proceeded towards the town. I told the Mayor what had passed, and the Mayor said it was only some person tampering with justice. I said, "I should like to see Yarham." He said, "It could not be him." I was afterwards examined before the magistrates, and when the other persons were examined I looked at the dock, when before the magistrates, and thought I knew him, but could not recollect who it was. There was a young man in the battery at the time the man spoke to me, and he told me the man's name was Yarham, and that was why I asked to see him. After the trial,

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I and my husband went home by the train, when we saw Yarham and his wife. He tried to shake hands with my husband, but he refused. I said, "Good God, if that be Yarham, that is the man that spoke to me." After I got in the carriage, Yarham's wife asked me if I thought the people in Yarmouth would think she was the guilty party if they stopped or left Yarmouth? I said, "God knows, you know your conscience best. When the prisoner first came up to the railway station, he said to my husband, "Don't you know me? I am Yarham, but call me Mr. C.," and offered to shake hands. When we were going along, Yarham said, "Mrs. Dick, say as little about the money as possible, for my solicitor told me that the prisoner's solicitor wanted to fetch me in the murder, and you as the person that helped me to hide it. I said, "Dick, do you hear what Yarham says?" and my husband came up, and the prisoner told him the same thing. On getting to Yarmouth, the prisoner said, Dick, if I see any thing in the paper that would affect you or your wife's character, I will let you know." My husband said, Don't come to me, I don't want you, I take in the paper. I saw him again on the top of the market on a Tuesday, either a fortnight or three weeks after, it was between nine and ten o'clock. He came up to me and said, "How do you do?" I said, "I don't know you" (I didn't for a moment). He said, "Do any

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of these three fellows interfere with you?" I said they did not interfere with me so much as they did with the girl. I said, "Do they interfere with you?" He said, "No, they know better, but

the people plague me so much that I cannot stay here; I have been to the workhouse to get money to go away with." I said, "I think you ought to have spoken the truth at first, and things would have gone better. I think you are either the murderer yourself, or know who did it." I thought I had no right to say so, and I turned to leave him. He said, Stop, and I will tell you all about it." I stopped, and he said he was not so much to blame as they were, for they never let him rest after they heard that Mrs. Candler had got the money. He said he heard Mr. Catchpole was going about amongst the Angels. I said, "Where is the house?" he said, the Angel Inn. He said, they came to him and asked him to let them in. He made a bargain with them. not to hurt the old woman, for they had time enough to get the money in the time she was getting the beer, as she was generally a quarter of an hour gone. He let them in at the back door, except Royal, who watched about the time she went for the beer. He told them to go into the bedroom, for that was where she kept the money. While they were there the woman came in sooner than usual. He was up stairs, and, on hearing Candler come in, he put out the candle and sat on the bed. Royal went in. She said, "What do you here? I know you." Royal asked for half an ounce of tobacco, and the time she was getting it, Royal and Hall knocked her down with the pincers. They thought she was dead. Mapes ran out to a woman on the other side of the street, and said, "All's right.' He asked if there was any noise at the Swan. She said, "I will

go and see who is there." She said there were several people there. They all then went up Black Swan-row, and saw several people there; one of them was a young man who they thought must know them. Mapes then ran home to the Feathers' tap. As he was going along the Market-gates he saw a person turn a light on him, who afterwards appeared to be Layton. He then ran home, telling the others to bury the money and, to give him the signal when it was done, as his house would be sure to be searched first. When he went home he saw the woman lying in the shop. She turned her eyes on him, and, seeing a lard knife lying by her, he took it and cut her throat. I said, "You are the murderer.' Prisoner said, "No, she could not live, she had been beaten so much by Royal and Hall." Royal did give the signal, and he opened the window and saw Royal go down the street, and the policeman Waller coming down the other. There was a man came up then and hit him on the shoulder, and said, "Are you going?" and they both went away together.

Cross-examined. I went about my business, and made my purchases, and went home. I did not mention it to a policeman till it was mentioned to the magistrates; it was some time after. I cannot tell how long it was after. It might be three months before I mentioned it. I was at Yarmouth all that time; Yarham was not there to the best of my knowledge. I did not see him. He told me he was going to get some money to go. I don't know how long the conversation lasted, but think about ten minutes. He

stood with his back to the shops. Several persons passed backwards and forwards. The pavement is five or six feet wide. I did not take notice of the number of people that passed. I thought it was very strange that he should tell me. I did not write it down, because I cannot write. I am not much accustomed to tell long conversations. I paid attention to it because he told me, that's all. I thought it was a thing that ought to be mentioned, but my husband told me not to say any thing about it: he would not even allow me to tell him. It was my duty to mention it; I ought to have done it. I never saw the man before or since who took Yarham away. I may have spoken to my husband about it. He read over the report of the trial, but I was busy and did not mind him. I heard a word here and there. I had to work for my family. I saw Yarham at the old gaol hall. I asked the mayor to see Yarham, that I might see him, because I wanted to see if it was him. I thought it was not right to give the man in charge after what the mayor had said. I saw him when he was before the magistrates. When I saw him there I thought I knew him, but could not recollect for the moment who it was.

Re-examined by Mr. Palmer.I did not expect to meet Yarham. My husband told me not to say any thing about it, for he said they should get into trouble, as no one could put an ounce of weight upon his (Yarham's) evidence. I first told a married daughter of mine about it, and she told me to tell the gentlemen; and it was she that told the gentlemen about it, and they came down to her about it.

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Sarah Dick. I am daughter of the last witness. I lived, in 1844, at the Battery. On Tuesday, the 19th of November, I remember a man coming and speaking to my mother; there was a boy in the Battery, who told me that the man's name was Yarham-the prisoner at the bar is the man. I remember going to Norwich after the trial; Yarham and his wife were there. I know him to be the same man that spoke to my mother. My mother told me the conversation she had had with Yarham, and I told Mr. W. Yates, the magistrate, about it. There was some disagreeableness between my father and my mother, and I asked her the reason. She then told me all about it. I told the magistrates, because I thought it was not a proper thing to be kept

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Cross-examined. I heard the conversation that passed between my mother and Yarham the first time, and was with my mother when she told the magistrates. I was only fourteen years of age, and I thought it was not proper to charge a man so much older than myself with murder. I saw the prisoner when before the magistrates. I

cannot say how many people there were in the railway carriage. There were the witnesses that were engaged.

Re-examined. I had heard my mother mention, speaking to Mr. H. Palmer, who was then mayor, and I did not think it was necessary to mention it again.

Some further evidence was then adduced to sustain the credibility of the statement now made by Mrs. Dick; and also as to the extraordinary proceedings of the magistrates in reference to the prisoner, when a prisoner in Nor2 B

wich goal, pending the trial of Mapes, Royal, and Hall.

Mr. Dasent then addressed the jury for the prisoner, founding his defence on the extraordinary conduct of Mrs. Dick, in keeping back her interview with the prisoner at a time when three men were on trial for their lives, this very man being the principal evidence against them; and urging the improbability of her present statement being true. With respect to the alleged statements of Yarham, which had been rejected by the learned Judge, he had only to observe, that he had not the slightest idea of their nature, for though they were, doubtless, in his brief, he had not read them. He only knew that they were thought to be available for the prosecution, and that, as every one present must now know, they had been extorted and wrung from the wretched man when first taken up on this charge, and when influenced and goaded by the unparalleled course pursued towards him by the magistrates. He (Mr. Dasent) knew that men of stout nerve and perfect innocence had sunk under the pressure of corporeal torture. Such men had confessed imaginary crimes as the price of exemption from the screw and the rack; but what were those sufferings compared to those of the mind of a man placed in the awful situation occupied by the prisoner at that time? It was not to be wondered at that, driven to despair, Yarham might have professed to have some knowledge of the affair, which might justify the magistrates in making use of him against the other prisoners, and pacify their cravings after what had been styled the truth." In such a spirit it was very possible that

Yarham had said something, and he might have sworn to it on the former trial, but that he could have conducted himself as Mrs. Dick represented, no reasonable and sound-judging man could believe; and he therefore demanded the acquittal of his client at the hands of the jury.

Mr. Justice Maule then summed up the whole case to the jury, and in so doing drew their attention to the various points of corroboration which were to be found throughout the evidence, and which were said to tend materially to throw an air of truth over the important testimony deposed to by Mrs. Dick. If she was believed, it was admitted that the case was proved, and it was for the jury to look at the whole circumstances, and to judge whether she could have come into Court with a deliberate design of swearing away the life of Yarham, who had certainly done her no injury. If he were guilty of this murder, his offence was very great; but, if she were guilty of such conduct as had been imputed to her, her crime was far deeper than his, though the punishment might be less. Very strong comments had been made on her having omitted to state the first interview on the first trial; but that evidence was not material to that issue, and she might well agree with the mayor in thinking lightly of it. Those observations, however, only applied to that interview, and did not affect in any way the second at the station and the third in Yarmouth, which might well revive the recollection of the first, and give it an importance which it really deserved, and an explanation which it required to make it available. The whole case, however, was one peculiarly for the jury,

THE BERWICK BANK ROBBERY.

Berwick-upon-Tweed. - Jane Thompson, charged with the robbery of the Berwick Bank, of which particulars are given in the Chronicle for August, 21, was arraigned before the Recorder. The case excited great interest, and the Court was densely crowded. The prisoner pleaded "Not Guilty.

John Short, a clerk in the North of England Joint-Stock Bank, at Berwick, of which, in August last, John Thomson, the husband of the prisoner, was the agent. Mr. Thomson occupied a dwellinghouse connected with the banking premises. On the 9th of August Mr. Thomson left Berwick, and the business of the Bank was managed during his absence by Mr. Burdis, who, however, left Berwick on the 20th of August, before Mr. Thomson's return, leaving witness in charge of the cash. On the night of the 20th witness slept at the bank. Between

3 and 4 o'clock in the afternoon, he placed in the safe and cash-box money in notes, gold, and silver, to the amount of 3,1097. 11s., and gave the keys of the safe, &c., to Mrs. Thomson. He then went away, leaving Mr. Watson, a junior clerk, in the bank. Witness went to the bank again at 6 o'clock, when Mr. Watson was still there, and at 9 o'clock, when Mr. Watson had gone. Witness then went out again, and returned to the bank at a quarter before 11 o'clock, when he let himself in from the street with a latch-key, and after examining the fastenings of the doors went to bed. The window of witness's bedroom looked into the yard of the Cock and Lion Inn; he heard no noise during the night. About 5 o'clock he was awoke by one of the servants, who wanted the key of the outer door. He told her where it was, and five minutes afterwards he was asked to go down stairs. He did so, when he found the three doors of the safe standing open. The cash-box and five parcels of silver, containing 501. each, had been taken out of the safe. He found the cash-box lying open in the yard, and a parcel of silver near it. There were no marks of violence about the safe-door, or lobby-door. There was a ladder placed against the wall of the yard, but on examining it with Mr. Robertson (for whom he sent on the discovery of the robbery) he found it had made no perceptible impression on the soil on which it rested.

In his cross-examination by Mr. Grainger, the witness stated that the cash-safe opened with a secret spring, besides the lock, and that he could not find the spring till it was pointed out to him by Mr,