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place from whence you came, and from thence to the place of execution, there to be hanged by the neck until you be dead; and may the Lord have mercy upon your Soul.
The Prisoner heard his sentence without betraying any symptoms of fear, and at the conclusion bowed respectfully to the Court.
He will be executed on Saturday the 15th of August inst.
THE TRIAL
OF
WILLIAM BEVAN,
WILLIAM BEVAN was charged with assaulting on the highway at Kingswinford, Elizabeth the wife of William Brown, and William Brown the younger, and robbing Mrs. Brown, of two one-pound notes. It was a very doubtful case, and the Jury, after due deliberation, gave (as was their duty) the benefit of that doubt to the prisoner. The first witness examined was Elizabeth Brown, who deposed that on Sunday the 17th of
