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established, he shoiild have to re- 

 gret, that the law had not pro- 

 vided an adequate ])unislunent, 

 and that it was impossiblcj in the 

 present circumstances, to indict 

 for a higher offence than the 

 charge against the prisoners con- 

 tained. 



The examination of a niunber 

 of witnesses then followed, which 

 it is unnecessary here to copj. 

 After the case was closed on the 

 part of the crown, 



Mr. Arabin addressed the jury 

 on the part of the defendant 

 Vaughan, and observed, at so 

 late a period of the day, he should 

 not attempt to follow his learned 

 friend through his opening ; he 

 would only allude to one or two 

 points which had fallen from 

 him ; one of which was to join 

 with his learned friend in request- 

 ing tliat the jury would now di- 

 vest their minds of all prejudice, 

 and decide only on the evidence 

 before them. The ne-\t point was 

 this — his learned friend had said 

 he would not ask the jury to find 

 the defendants guilty, imless the 

 evidence of the five men, and that 

 of Drake, was corroborateil by 

 the pure testimony of unconnect- 

 ed witnesses. Had the evidence 

 of that wretched and infamous 

 man been corroborated i He wpji 

 ready to contend it had not ; and, 

 except his testimony, there was 

 not a tittle of evidence to affect 

 Vaughan. It was far from his 

 intention to deny that a conspiracy 

 did exist somewhere, and that 

 Drake was deeply implicated in 

 it : but, in his opinion, "\"aughan 

 had had no concern ^^■hatevc^ in 

 it ; on the contraiy, he was per- 

 suaded that Vaughan, as well as 

 ildwaidij had been made the dupe 



of Drake's arts, and that a desire 

 to do his duty towards the public 

 had led Vaugh:m into the error 

 into which he had fallen. With 

 respect to the" confession of Mac- 

 kav, the juiy would be told by 

 the Chairman, that nothing con- 

 tained in that confession could be 

 taken as evidence against Vaug- 

 han. He should be able to call 

 the most respectable testimony as 

 to Vaughan's character, and he 

 was convinced the jury would 

 hesitate before they would, on the 

 unsujjported testimony of such a 

 witness as Drake, pronounce a 

 verdict of guilty against a young 

 man, wliich verdict must have the 

 effect of blasting all liis future 

 prospects in life, and rendering 

 him infamous for ever. 



Mr. Arabin then called Edw 

 Christian, Esq. Chief Justice of 

 Ely, who stated, that the pri- 

 sonei-, Vaughan, had been in his 

 service as a clerk, and, up to the 

 time of this imfortunate trans- 

 action, he had always had the 

 highest opinion of him. 



Mr. (lurney shortly replied, 

 and the Chairman recapitulated 

 the evidence. The Jury, after a 

 minute's deliberation, found all 

 the defendants gt)ilty. 



The Court immediately pro- 

 ceeded to pass sentence. The 

 Chairman commented, in impres- 

 sive terms, on the cnorm.ity of 

 the crime of which the defendants 

 had been found guilty, and sen- 

 tenced them to be imprisoned for 

 tive yearb in the House of Cor- 

 rection, and at the expiration of 

 that tim.e to find security fur three 

 years, themselves in 801. and two 

 sureties in 40l. each. The case 

 occupied the whole of the day, 

 fiooi ten iu the morning till seven 



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