PRISONERS SENTENCED TO DEATH.

(By Telegbaph.) OHRIBTCHUBCH, Fub. 25. At the Supreme Court Sarah Juno tmother) and Anna ITlftnagiin (daughter) worn charged with tho wilful murder of tha malo child of tho latter. Sir E. Stout and Mr Stringer appeared for tho accused. Intense interest was manifested m the case, the court and its approaches being crowded. Mr Martin appeared for the Crown. In opening the case ho detailed the circumstances briefly as follows : — The daughter waa delivered of a child, which was put out to nuree. Mrs Flanagan said sho folt inclined to murder it. On the 6th January the prisoners went to the nurfle's house and took the baby away. Next day the head of a child was found, terribly multilated, near an unoccupied houso. T he body was not found. A quantity of clothing found near the head was proved to have been taken away with the baby. A day or two later Mrs Flanagan called on tho nurso and told her some men bad assaultod her daughter nnd taken away the child and cut off its head, nnd the police were making enquiries. Sho aleo said tho face of the child was battered out of recognition, and tho body never would be found. After this the daughter loft for Wellington, whore sho was arrested. The evidence so far (2 p.m.) U precisely Bimilar to that given m the R.M. Court, with roforonco to Mie3 Flanagan's confinement, her statements to tho police, the finding of the head, clothes, eto., nothing further baa been elicited. Mrs Freeman, tho nuroo, swears positively that tho clothes found wore those taken &way with the baby, but not what it wore. I/ATBE. Anna and Sarah June Flanagan were found guilty. Anna was recommended to mercy on account of her age. Both prisoners were Bentenoed to death. No now facts woro adduced m the evidonco for the prosecution, which closed about 3 p.m. The defence of Mrs Flanagan was that she had loft her daughter on tho night the child was billed, and know nothing of fehe occurrence till aftorwards. Two witnesses dopoaed to mooting a woman reaombling hor on the South Belt nlone, who asked tho way to Addington, where tho Flanagans lived, about 10 30 that night. Sir Bobert Stout mado an excellent epceeh m tho defence of Sarah Flanagan, contending that eho had quitted her mother and killed the child m sudden impulse duo to an attack of mania. He asserted that all the circumstances showed that there could not have been premeditation. Mr Martin for tho prosecution made a capital spoech, during which Sarah Flanagan bursts into hysterical shrioking. She sobbod hysterically during His Honour's summing up. After an hour's rotiromont tho jury found both prisonors guilty, rocommonding Mre Flanagan to mercy on account of her advanced age. When they woro sontouced thero was a temblo eceno. Mrs Flanagan appeared not to realise her position, and aakod tho femalo warder standing by i£ it waß true. Her daughter uttered piercing shrieks, and loudly protested her innoconce.