AND EAST CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORLAND NEWS. NO. 440 - Eighth Week in Quarter Registered for Transmission ABroad. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1874. PRICE 1D. __________________________________________________ CUMBERLAND ASSIZES / CROWN COURT - Thursday (Before MR. JUSTICE DENMAN.) CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER AT CASTLESOWERBY. WILSON TOWERS surrendered to his bail to answer a charge of manslaughter of JOHN HETHERINGTON, at Castlesowerby, on the 6th September, 1873. MR. THURLOW and the HON. A. D. ELLIOT prosecuted; and at the request of the judge, MR. HENRY undertook the defence of the prisoner, who had not engaged counsel. The particulars of this case will be in the recollection of our readers, being reported in our columns when the case was before the Penrith Bench of magistrates. It will be remembered that the prisoner on the above day entered the New Yeat inn, and seized hold of a little girl named GLAISTER by the hair of the head, the girl screamed out, and a little child, aged 5-1/2 months, which GLAISTER was nursing, was noticed suddenly to turn black in the face, and was then taken by the mother, being so frightened that ever after this occurrence it seemed to be ailing, and eventually died on the 6th Sept., about a month from the time when the prisoner committed the assault on the nurse. The case was argued at great length, and after his Lordship had summed up the case, the jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty, and the prisoner was discharged.