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me at the carriage , lie did so , sni wewent dc / w-i in the same carriage . I have no recollection cf seeing the bag after he took it from my office . 71 According to the statement of Perry , lie ( Perry ) lifted up tie bag , and remarked to 3 tfr . Russell that it felt " very heavy and lumpy . " . The guards , it appears , are placed upon certain trains for a month at a time , and then shifted , in order that they may have relief from night work . It was part of Tester ' s business to assist in drawing put the rota of the guards' duty ; and , in . making the arrangements for April , 1855 , Tester added the words , " and May , " so that Burgess might be guard of the train which brought the bullion during that month . Upon noticing this
addition , Mr . Knight , the out-door superintendent , said he thought it was irregular ; but Tester replied that it was of no consequence , and that it had been done before . The superintendent therefore took no further notice of it . In his cross-examination , lie said he was present when the addition was made , and that it was done with his sanction . The card in question , was produced and shown to Mr . Knight . A piece was cut off at the bottom , and Mr . Knight said he thought it was the signature of one of the superintendents that was removed . The only reason he could assign for this was that the rota might be made to fit into the frame in which such documents are generally placed .
It was then arranged that the prisoners should he remanded pro forma till Saturday ( this ( lay ) , and from that day till next Wednesday , when it is supposed the case will be completed .
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A MURDER FOR LOVE . A trial fox * murder , of a more than usually painful nature , has taken place at York , where John' Hannah was charged -with the wilful murder of Jane : Banham at Armley , near Leeds . The accused , a tail , fair-haired young man , who was neatly dressed , andby no means ill-lookingj on being placed at the bar and called on to plead , appeared to be greatly distressed . After a paroxysm of grief , he flung his hands wildly ahove his head and cried out , > 'Oh , God ! Not guilty . " He was accommodated with a seat , but throughout the trial kept sobbing and beating his'forehead with his hands , and seemed to be greatly diatressed .
d : r . Blanshard caught hold of his arm , saw an ins : ruinent in his hand ( which was , in fact , a razor ) , and exclaimed , " Oh , God ! murder ! here ' s a knife ! " The other , however , made two cuts at the woman's throat , " one up and one down , " and then walked out of the room . He was followed by Blanshard , to whom he said , " I have done what I intended . What are you going to < lo ? " At that moment , the murdered woman came staggering out of the room , with one hand on her throat , and looked wildly about for assistance . Blanshard ran off for a surgeon , and , when the latter arrived , Banham was unable to speak . She died in about two hours from the time the wounds were inflicted , and in her bosom was found the miniature of a man . That man was not Hannah . Immediately after the dej ^ arture of Blanshard for the surgeon , Hope and several other persons ran up to . the place , and raised an outcry of " Murder !" and " Police !" At this , Hannah exclaimed , " Bring the policeman ; I ' m ready for him ! " lie also said , " I have had my revenge : they may do what they will , and I don ' care how soon I am dead . " This he was muttering to himself as he ¦ walked down the street , followed by several persons , ' shouted " Stop him ! " Two men who were coming along cliased him , and he was secured , when his
shirtfront and one hand were found to be bloody . On his way back to the inn , he was very talkative , and seemed to be speaking more to himself than to his captors , observing , among other things , " What I have done I don ' t care for ; she should riot have vexed rue to do it . " He also rambled a good deal , and talked about having taken the Alma ; and he staggered in his gait , as if he was intoxicated . After he Avas in the custodv of a policeman , he said to Blanslard , " That ' s a clea ° n trick fur a madman—a lunatic just come out of -an asylum . " To the policeman he stated that he was drunk , or he should not have done as he lad ; and subsequently , when in gaol , he said that he only meant to frighten the woman , not to hurt her . He cried when he made this statement , and " was agitated all over his body , " according to the account given by the gaoler at the trial .
The defence only took the form of an endeavour to prove * tii at the crime was manslaughter , not murder , and that Hannah had received great provocation , However , he Was found Guilty of murder , and condemned to death . He was carried out apparently fainting , and the dense crowd in court dispersed in silence .
Hannah "was a tailor , living at Manchester , and Jane Banham was the principal dancer in a travelling ; corps of performers , with whom she and her parents went to the chief towns of the West Riding . She had been married to , one William Banham , who some time afterwards left her and proceeded to America . She then formed a connexion with Hannah . They lived together as man and wife , and had two children . The woman ' s father , John Hope , was at this time in India , whence he returned in May , 1855 . About a fortnight before last Christmas , Hannah separated from Banham , who with ite two children went to live with her father . In June , the company were performing at Halifax , to which place Hannah had walked over from Manchester , when ,
after a night exhibition , he followed them home and expressed a desire to speak to Jane . Her father said , "No , " and that if he did not go away he would get a policeman and have him taken up . Hannah declared he must see her , and eventually he was toltl he might see her at nine the next morning . They then had an interview , anil Hannah urged the woman to live with him again , adding that , if she did not mind , and would not do as he wished , he should he hung for it . In the course of September , he wrote a letter to Jane Banham , imploring her to return , speaking very affectionately of his children , and saying that he could not be withheld from seeing them . This letter was opened by the woman ' s father , Hope , and was
afterwards destroyed by the woman herself . Hannah frequently talked with Hope about his daughter ; and in these conversations he mingled expressions of affection ¦ w ith threats of violence . He induced several persons , on the 11 th of September , to take messages from him to the woman , requesting her to meet him ; and on that day lie persuaded her to come to him in the parlour of the White Horse Inn , Armloy , which was next door to where Banham and her father were lodging . A little previous to this , Hannah saw a child running past the house . He recognized it as his own , though he had not seen it for a long while ; and , catching it up , he fondled it , and cried a great deal . The child did not know him , and seemed afraid of him . Juno Banham then came in , and ho bugged her , for the child ' s sake , to come and live
With him ; but she refused , lie then entreated Hope to use his influence with his daughter ; but the father snid he would have nothing to do with the matter , and left the room . Hopu at this time observed that there was an unnatural glossiness about Hannah ' s eyes . After a time , Jane Banham was about to leave , saying she " did not want to have anything more to do" with her former associate ; but the man , speaking , ns one of the witnesses atatcd , in a kind tone , said , " Come in again for a minute , " and , seizing her by the arm , lie . pulled her in , ¦ and shut tho door very sharply . A rattling of chairs was thon heard , and a comedian , mimed Blanshard , wont into tho room , nnd saw Hannah on Jane Banham . Ho said , " What do you mean , you scoundrel ? " to which Hannah , turning round ,, uuswered , " 1 moan inur
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ley , and one of beans , the property of Mr . Baker of Colwiclv , near Nottingham . A suspicious circumstance against the man was that he had been turned out of a cottage-which he had rented of Mr . Baker ; but he appears to have been on very good terms with that gentleman after he had quitted , and some of the witnesses called for the prosecution actually proved an alibi ia favour of the accused . Some equivocating expressions on the part of Bunney were adduced as evidence against him . ; lmt only one witness , a little boy , testified to seeing him in tie neighbourhood of the stacks at the time of the fire , the others merely stating that they had seen a man similarly dressed . He was therefore Acquitted .
George Wilson , a private in the 1 st Dragoons , was charged at Exeter Avith killing John Shaw , also a private in the same regiment , at the Cavalry Barracks , Exeter . They had been excellent friends , and had volunteered together from another regiment into the 1 st Dragoons . One night , Shaw who had been drinking , quarrelled with . Wilson , and struck him . Wilson said that if he did that again he would strike him with a poker . Shaw advanced for the purpose , as it appeared , of striding him , when Wilson felled him to the ground with a poker , and the next day he died from the effects of the blow . The jury were locked up all day , when , there being no chance of their agreeing , the Judge discharged them , and the prisoner , having entered into his own recognizance to come up when called on , was also discharged .
A ticket-of-leave man pleaded Guilty at Derby to three charges of housebreaking . He had been convicted of the same offence in August , 1853 , and was sentenced to seven years' transportation . In the August of the present year , he was set at liberty on ticket-of-leave , and twelve days afterwards he committed one of the robberies to which he now pleaded Guilty . He was sentenced to twenty years'transportation . Some strangely disproportioned sentences are generally observable amoiig the Assize cases . An instance has recently occurred at Derby . Two men in a drunken , frolic fell upon a woodman who was carrying a loaded gun , and , asserting that he had no right to the weapon , succeeded , after a struggle , in wresting it from him and carrying it aivay . It does not appear that the woodman was ill-used in the course of the scuffle ; but tie two men who took the gun were sentenced to Jour years' penal
ASSIZE CASES . Four persons have been tried at the Exeter Assizes for uttering forged notes . Two of these were women , one of whom wad the mistress of a man named Gulliver , living at Bodmin , Cornwall , who appears to have been the manufacturer of the notes , while the two women and the two men now tried for uttering seem to have been the agents for putting them in circulation . ¦ CiilJiver was Convicted at the last Bodmin Assizes ; and his mistress , Elizabeth Clarke , who was , now put on her trial , gave
information to the police which led to the apprehension of Robert Reed and Sarah Davis , who were found in ttie possession of illicit notes . Clarke herself was shortly afterwards arrested for endeavouring , to pass bad not « s professing to be issued by the Bank of England . All three were found Guilty , and sentenced to two years ' hard labour . The fourth person charged with forgerya man named Joseph Watson , who seems to have been connected with the others—was also convicted , and condemned to four years' penal servitude .
George Woodcock was found Guilty of escaping from Dartmoor in August , 1855 . He was in custody for a simple larceny , but since his escape he h as committed a burglary in Yorkshire . He was sentenced to six months ' imprisonment . Thomas Burrow , a boy of fifteen , pleaded Guilty to a charge of setting fire to the reformatory school at Bampton Speke , of which he vas an inmate , lie was sentenced to fourteen years' transportation . John Godson , a youth of nineteen , has been tried at
York for a rape on Elizabeth Sissons , a girl of thirteen , but looking older . Tho offence was committed with great violence ; and the screams of tho poor child , coming from a gravel pit into which she had been draggod , and being gradually stifled , apparently by a hand placed across her mouth , attracted the attention of some labourers , who , however , only arrived too late . Tho case wus so clear against Godson that his counsel felt compelled to retire ; and tho accused , having been fund Guilty , amis sentenced to fourteen years' transportation ,
llcmy Golloml and George Gollond wore tried at N " ottingluun for night poaching . The offence having been proved , they were found guilty , nnd sentenced , Henry to lour years' penal servitude , and George to eighteen months' imprisonment . —Four other men were then indicted for tho same ofl'ence . They had formed part of a gang of thirteen or fourteen who , on the 5 th of lust September , encountered some of Lord Chesterfield ' s watchmen , whom they handled very roughly , not , however , until one of thoir number hud been severely used by tlio gamekeepers . Two of the mon were now coiir victed , and sentenced to livo year's penal servitude ; the other two were acquitted . Joseph Bunnoy , a labourer , has been tried on a charge of sotting lire to five stacks of wheat , one of
tiarservitude . This case was followed by a charge against four young rnen of cutting and wounding one Matthew Hardy . One night , Hardy was passing by theaccused , and , hearing ; them use some very disgusting language , he reproved them . . They then attacked him , threw him down , and stabbed him in tie side so seriously that he was confined to the bouse for several weelts , and ^ ras now obliged to sit down while he gave his evidence . The Judge stopped the case , as there was no evidence as to which of the young-men gave the wound , nor any evidence of a common intent that the wound should . , be inflicted ; and a verdict of Not Guilty was taken . The prisoners were then arraigned upon an indictment charging a common assault only , and pleaded Guilty . Evidence having been given of their good character up to the present time , they were sentenced to one weeVs imprisonnienL
f he Derby grand jury , lefore they were discharged , made a presentment , alluding to the great increase of crime , and reprobating the ticket-of-leave system . The Judge promised to forward this to the proper quarter . William . Reaney and James Reddish were tried at Derby for tie manslaughter of a man bearing the same names as the fust-mentioned prisoner , but who was no relation . The three were going through a wood at night , when , as it would seem , the deceased was attacked by his two companions , and terribly injured . He got home as well as lie could , and next day , when in a public-house , he met the prisoner Reaney , who was much scratched and bruised , and who said he hud "been , attacked in the wood by some men , and that they had bitten his thumb . The deceased said he . had bitten a
man s thumb in the woo < l . The prisoner Keaney then accused his namesake of robbing him ; but the latter was not given into custody , and some days afterwards lie died- ' - There is nothing- to show that Jie really liad made an nttempt at robbery . Both the accused were found Guilty ; but sentcneo was postponed . Thomas Mansell , a soldier of the 49 th Regiment , has been found Guilty at Maidstone of the murder of Alexander M'Uurnie , lance-corporal in the same TOgimont , whom he sliot one morning at Dover , the only motive appearing to be that he suspected ( though it would seem without cause ) that M'Burnie had stolon a pair of boots belonging to him , and wished to male it appear that Mansell liad stolen some belonging to M'Hurnie . The defence was that the accused was insane . He was sentence *! to death .
1 ' revious to the trial of this case , a singular scene took place , arising out of tho objection entertained by many jurymen to capitul punishment . When the jury was about to bo empannelk'd , the counsel for the prisoner challenged every juryman who was summoned out ot ' Mnidstone , to tho extent allowed by law , the avowed object being to obtain a majority of jurymen from tho town of Maidatone . whore it ia understood that an opinion ad verso
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December 20 , 1856 . ] THE LEADEB , 3207
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 20, 1856, page 1207, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2172/page/7/
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