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to the station, promising bread and flour for so 
doing. They consented to go, but were then 
escorted as prisoners , the two men of Mr. Hughes’ 
guarding the male native, and Mr. Jacobs’ servant 
(a person named Gregory) the female. Naturally 
alarmed at the predicament they were in, the man 
ran off, pursued by his two guards, but escaped. 
The woman took another direction, pursued by 
Gregory, who recaptured her, and she was said to 
have then seized Gregory’s gun, and to have struck 
at him several blows with a heavy stick, upon which, 
being afraid that he would be overcome, he shot her . 
Mr. Hughes, the owner of the lost sheep, came up a 
few moments after the woman was shot, and heard 
Gregory’s story concerning it, but no marks of his 
receiving any blows were shewn. On the 23rd of 
March, he was tried for the offence of manslaughter ; 
there did not appear the slightest extenuating cir- 
cumstances beyond his own story, and his master 
giving him a good character, and yet the jury, 
without retiring, returned a verdict of Not Guilty ! 
At the very next sittings of the Supreme Court 
Criminal Sessions, another and somewhat analogous 
case appeared. The following remarks were made 
by His Honour Judge Cooper, to the Grand 
J ury respecting it : “ There was also a case of man- 
slaughter to be tried, and he called their attention to 
this, because it did not appear in the Calendar. The 
person charged was named Skelton, and as appeared 
from the depositions, was in custody of some sheep, 
