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senses, Mr. Shipman put his hand 

 upon Iier person. 



Martha Hey, the nurse, who 

 attended Miss Dalton on Wednes- 

 day night, deposed, that she was 

 quite dehrious, and that Shipman 

 liad acted while she was so in the 

 manner described. Again he 

 came, and asked whether Miss 

 Dakon had asked for him? to 

 which witness rephed, " that she 

 had in her delirium." " Ah, poor 

 girl," said he, " she always asks 

 for me.'* 



Mr. Power, surgeon, of Hinck- 

 ley, said he visited Miss Dalton 

 on Tuesday the 23rd of Decem- 

 ber, when he found her very 

 faint. She had a small and fre- 

 quent pulse, and complained of a 

 pain in the head, and coldness in 

 the feet, and looked excessively 

 ill. She made the communica- 

 tion to him which she had stated 

 to the Court. On Wednesday 

 morning she was much worse : 

 she had spent a delirious night, 

 her pulse had increased in ac- 

 tion, and the witness recommend- 

 ed another opinion to be taken. 

 She was very delirious, but her 

 complaint was attended with lucid 

 intervals. Witness was not pre- 

 pared to say that laudanum would 

 jjroduce libidinousness — a small' 

 dose would produce excitement — 

 a large one stupor. 



Mr. Denman for the defence, 

 attempted to show that Miss 

 Dalton must have construed the 

 wish to render medical assistance 

 into nothing else than love, and 

 the application of the necessary 

 medicines for the correction of a 

 natural disorder into the adminis- 

 tering of philters and the force of 

 mighty 'magic. He showed how 

 dangerous it was to allow the 



cliild to be separated at so peril- 

 ous an age from her natural pro- 

 tectors, and attributed the mad- 

 ness of the girl to the impetuous 

 current of her passions. 



The Judge sunnned up the 

 evidence, and quickly laid before 

 the jury the several iniquities of 

 which there had been such 

 abundant proof. He particularly 

 dwelt upon the example to a wife 

 and children in the complicated 

 baseness of Shipman's conduct to 

 an helpless and unprotected 

 female. 



The Jury returned a verdict of 

 — Guilty. 



The Judge immediately passed 

 sentence. Mr. Shipman was 

 ajudged to pay a fine of 100/., and 

 to be imprisoned for 12 calendar 

 months. 



CARLISLE, SATURDAY, AUG. 8. 



Civil Side. 



Mr. Justice Bayley came into 

 Court precisely at 9. The lirst 

 cause on the list was the most 

 interesting of the day. 



Docheray v. Turner. — The 

 plaintiff, James Dockeray the 

 elder, had in ISl-i apprenticed 

 his son, James Dockeray the 

 younger, for 7 years, to the 

 defendant, an ironmonger in 

 Whitehaven. Last January the 

 son returned to his father's house 

 in Carlisle, carrying with him his 

 indenture, and a letter from the 

 defendant to this effect : — 



" Dear Sir ; — This will be de- 

 livered to you by your son, 

 James, whom I have been induced 

 to part with on account of the 

 societj^ he has fallen into. You 

 know that some things \7eve 

 lately stolen from my shop- 

 * window ; 



