The circumstances as detailed by the witnesses are already familiar to the readers of newspapers; but from the insecutive manner in which the evidence was produced, it is difficult to frame a coherent narrative. It all tended to prove that the husband had for several years exercised great harshness towards his wife. That boxing her ears and kicking her were among his ‘habits.’ On the Friday previous to her decease, the journeyman had been, as usual, ‘bolted down’ in the bake-house for the night, (such, he said, being the custom in the trade) and from eleven o’clock till three in the morning he heard a great noise overhead as of two persons quarrelling, and of one person dragging the other across the room. There were cries of distress from the deceased woman. Another witness—a second cousin of the wife—called on Saturday afternoon. She found the wife in a pitiable state from ill-usage and want of rest. Her left ear and all that part of the head was much bruised. There were cuts, and the hair was matted with congealed blood. The husband was told how much she was injured, but he did not appear to take any notice of it. A trait of the dread in which the woman lived of the man was here mentioned; she asked the witness to ask her husband to allow her to lie down. She dared not prefer so reasonable a request herself; although she had been up all the previous night being beaten. He refused. The cousin sat down to dinner with the wretched pair; only for the purpose of being between them to prevent further violence, for she had dined. She remained until half-past three o’clock, and during that interval the husband frequently boxed his wife’s ears as hard as he could; and once kicked her with great force. Her usual remonstrance was, ‘Man alive, don’t touch me.’ The visitor returned in the evening, and she, with the journeyman, saw another brutal attack, some minutes after which the victim fell as if in a fit. She was assisted into an inner room, sank down and never rose again. She lay till the following Sunday morning in a state of insensibility, and no attempt had been made to procure surgical assistance. A practitioner at last was summoned, gave no hope, and the poor creature died on Monday morning. The post mortem examination, described by the surgeon, revealed the cause of death in the blows at the side of the head, which he said was like ‘beefsteaks when beaten by cooks.’ No trace of habitual drunkenness appeared. The deceased had been, in the course of the inquiry, charged with that.