Shrewsbury, Thursday, Mar...
UtUI,IINA!b UOURT _r(efore Mr. JigticC PARK.) Elizabeth Roberts was indicted for the murder of her male basta rd chils', at the parish of Nortoe.in.Elales, in tbe county of Salop. bhe vas only 19 years of age, and was so much overpoweredl by her feel- ings, as to be scarcely abI to stand at the obar. JMtr. CaOsB ET was about to open the case for the prosecution, when Ur. Justice PAR1 desired that tbe surgeon wtho examined the body of'the child, alleged to have been born of the prisoner, should first be called to state whether, in his judgment, it was born alive. Air. Wlilliams, the surgeon, was accor gly examined, and stated that to the best of his judgmen the child was still-born. The learned JUDGE then directed an acquittal of the murder, but ordered the inquiry to proceed, ii order to ascertain whether the pri- soner concealed the birth. Evidence was adduced that the body of a child was found con. cealed in 4 dung.heAp; bUt there was no proof thAt the prisoner wag the mother. except her having been observed oil t'aat night very ill in a neighbounng hovel. The Jary, under the direction of the learned Judge, returned a general verdict of_Arot Gziduy,. Four lads named Joh"n Fox, WVilliam Fisher, Riclard Boon, and James Boon, were indicted fbr ahighway robbery committed on the person of William Smith, near Shrewsburv, on the 20th January last. The case, however, being supported only by the evidence of an accomplice namedDavies,the learned Judge directed an acquittal. The same prisoners then stood charged witlh burglariouslv break- ing open the house of a poor woman, named Ann Lawronce, on the following night, anid stealing a great number of small articles. The case was proved by the clearest evidence, and the jury foun them all guilty'. In the course of tbe trial, a woman named Bishopd who was callea to preve that she purchased some of the articles from, the prisoner Fisher, ao grossly contradicted the statement which she made before the maristrate, that she was committed tb prison. The prisoners, John Fox and Wi.lliarn Fisher, were then tried for stopping Jobn Griffiths on the highway on Christmas-day, and rob- bing him of a silver watch. The case was proved by Davies, theac complice, whose testimony, however, in this instance, was strongly corroborated by unexceptionable witnesses. Alr. Justice PARK ordered the four prisoners to be placed at the bar; and, strongly expressing his horror at the svstem of atrocity which they had parsued, said that he should postpone passing sen.- tence, in order that he might seriously consider whether iie was not compelled, by his duty, to leave them all for execution. SHREWSBURV% THURSDAY. 1AIARCH 18.