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ASSIZES . Ahrbew O'Bkiex , a publican , has been tried at liverpool for the murder of EllenMolyneux , at Woolton , on the 1 st of JNovemher . The case will be within the recollection of our readers . The man was an . habitual drunkard , and had got into a state of delirium tremens . One day he was in company with Mrs . Molyneux , who -was his . mother-in-law . Suddenly , he thought he saw the figures in the pictures on the -walls moving ; and , in a fit of uncontrollable fury , he beat the old woman ' s head against the floor , gripped her throat with great vehemence , and killed her . He was now Acquitted on the ground of insanity .
Much laughter was excited in the course of a trial for bigamy at York . The prisoner , Thomas Hitchin , aged forty , was undefended , except by himself . The case seemed to be clearly proved ; but Hitchin cross-examined the second wife with a good deal of keenness , though in thoroughly Doric language , with a view to showing that , though he had been to church with her , he had said , in answer to ' parson ' s' question as to whether he woidd have the woman a 3 his wife , "I sha ' n ' t ; " that he lad then been ordered to ' stand down ; ' that he nearly fell in doing so ; that there were nine couple being married at the time ; that one Billy Walsh was present , and said he would marry the girl ; and that on a subsequent occasion Billy put the r ing on herlinger . All these things the girl admitted ; but the Judge said it was evident that she had perjured herself in order to screen ' Hitchin , He was therefore found Guilty , but recommended to mercy 'on account of his ignorance . ' Sentence was deferred .
Thomas "Willis was tried at the same Assizes ona charge of catting and wounding a girl with whom , he had been living . She had hoped he would marry her , but , on finding herself disappointed , she left him , which so moved his jealousy and wrath , that , on meeting her in the street , he dashed her violently against a wall . At the same time he said he could not bear this , and exclaimed , "Oh , what shall I do ? * Following her , he cried , " Gome , Polly , let me kiss thee ; thou know ' st that I love thee . " She refused , and he then twice stabbed her and himself with a penknife , saying they should both die together . He was then taken into custody , and afterwards appeared deeply sorrowful . He was found Guilty , and sentenced to a year ' s imprisonment , with hard labour .
John Jordan was indicted for a burglary at Scothern on the 18 th of May . This was the affair in which the daughters of Mr . Pinder "Worth behaved with such noble courage and devotedness . The other burglars were tried and convicted at the last Assizes , but Jordan waa not then in custody . He was now found Guilty , and sentenced to twenty years ' penal servitude . Thomas Wright , wine and spirit-merchant , was indicted at Lincoln fox embezzling and stealing 30217 . 9 s . 9 d ., the moneys of the Stamford , Spalding , and Boston Banking Company , by \ rhich he was employed . He
had for twenty years conducted an agency bank at TVainfleet ; but ia the course of last September it was found that his cash was short to the amount of the sum specified . In what way he appropriated this sum , or how he applied it , was not clearly made out . This was the ground of defence ; but tbe jury found him Guilty of larceny , it being their opinion that he took the money i " rom the strong-box after it had been received from the customers . He was sentenced to six years' penal servitude ; but there is a possibility that the legal question T'ill be argued before the Court of Criminal Appeal .
Hannah Wright , aged nineteen , a servant , was indicted for attempting to murder her child by suffocation . The Judge having summed up the evidence , the jury immediately returned a -verdict of Guilty , and his Lordship sentenced her to twenty years' penal servitude . Sarah Cherrington was tried at Stafford for the manslaughter of Susannah Cartwright . The case was rather peculiar , and of a very painful nature . Mrs . Cartwright was a poor woman who , on the approach of her
confinement , hired Mrs . Cherrington to attend on her , as she could not afford to pay a medical man . An error , however , waa committed ; hemorrhage ensued ; and the poor woman died . It was clearly proved that Mrs . Cherrington . is a moat humane and excellent person - , and the Judge said the only direct of the prosecution was to teach others that they must not undertake such responsible duties without due qualification . The woman was then discharged on her entering into her own recognizances to appear and receive Judgment if colled upon ..
Elizabeth LIttlehalea was tried for manslaughter . This case waa very singular . The woman ' s husband iras much addicted to drinking ; and one day , while he if as chasing her out of a house where she had taken refuge from his violence , she threw at him a poker which she hard m her hand . The missile fell to the ground , rebound « d , and struck a child with such violence that he vu tilled . The woman was found Guilty , and sentenced to two months' hard labour . Ctaorgte Priest , an engineer , lias been Aetroltted of a charge of causing tho death of Aaron Daviea . Ho was Winding up tho deceased from a pit at Darloaton ; and , the upecd . being too groat , the vehicle waa dashed about from side to aide , and iXavieu was thrown out and
_ Wilson was a man of extraordinaril y intemperate habits , and one day , as he sat beneath the table at Owen ' s liouse , the innkeeper turned a stream of six successive liquors into Iris mouth—but only , as the witnesses said , for an instant . However , shortly afterwards he had an apoplectic fit , and died . A medical man said he was i-ipe for apoplexy before the circumstance in question ; and the j ury Acquitted the prisoner . Henry Buxton , a labourer , has been found Guilty at Derby- of assaulting a Miss Bagshuw on the high road , intimidating her with threats , and stealing valuable property from her . Ho pleaded Guilty to several other offences , and was sentenced to twentv years ' penal servitude . . ¦¦ ¦'¦ " ¦ , •¦
— ~ -. « . ^ « x vi . noin me uctwu IUI < J 1111163 VVllSOn . killed . It appeared that the employer had enjoined the particular rate of speed , and that a former engineman had left the place because the practice was dangerous . Mr . Baron Martin observed that they had got the wrong man ; and the jury , acting on the same view , exonerated Priest . William Owen , an innkeeper at Stone , lias been tried on a charge of causing the death » f Jame 3 Wilson .
Thomas John Ouseley , editor and proprietor of the Liverpool Herald , a furious Protestant paper , was indicted at Liverpool on Monday for a libel on Mr . Robertson Gladstone , the well-known Liverpool merchant , and brother of Mr . Gladstone , the member . Mr . Robertson Gladstone had made in the Town Council , on Saturday , the 3 rd of October , some observations condemnatory of the then approaching Fast . Day . ; attributing the revolt in India to the wrong-doings of the East India
Company ; and denying that we are bound to humiliate ourselves for their sins . He also remarked that , if the fast was to take place at all , it should be on a Sunday , as the Roman Catholics had arranged for themselves , and not on a Working-day . Hereupon , tho Liverpool Herald accused Mr . Gladstone of being a Sepoy , an infidel ( or , what was worse , a Papist ) , a blasphemer , a turncoat , and a ' brutal specimen of humanity . ' The case was now arranged by Mr . Ouseley consenting to sign an apology drawn up by the Judge .
^ Henry Smith Bright , the Hull merchant , has been tried at York on nine indictments charging him with having forged and uttered transfer deeds and other instruments . He w as found Guilty on t 3 ie first indictment , and the others were withdrawn . The Judge sentenced him to ten years' penal servitude . Ann Plant , a young unmarried woman , has been found Guilty at Stafford of the wilful murder of her male child ; and sentence of death was recorded . John Doherty surrendered at Liverpool on Friday
week to take his trial on a charge of having , on the 13 th of last May , by false pretences , obtained from the Borough Bank of Liverpool certain bills of lading , with intent to defraud the bank ; also with having , l > y false pretences , obtained from John Bingham and another , their acceptances to two bills of exchange , drawn by himself , of the value of 2950 k , with intent to defraud , The case , however , failed for want of an important witness whom it had been impossible to find . Doherty waa therefore discharged .
Philip Clare , a miner , was tried at Oxford for the murder of Elizabeth Hopley on the 29 th of last April . The facts of this case are already known to our readers . They are extraordinary from the circumstance of the chief witness against Clare being a watchman who saya he saw the murder committed , but for a long time said nothing about it , out of fear . The medical man inclined to the opinion that the woman waadrowned accidentally ; and other evidence waa adduced to siiow that Clare was not on the spot at the time of the alleged murder . The statements of the watchman were therefore unsupported , and . the jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty .
A convict at Dartmoor Prison has been tried at Exeter for an assault on one of the warders . It appears that the man had put on him a body belt , which is a covered chain , whereto are attached two handcuffs , ia wliich the prisoner ' s wrists are placed , giving him five inches' play for hia hands . This , and some alleged violence , seem to have been the provocations to the assault 9 and Mr . Justice Willes at first strongly condemned tlie application of such an instrument ( which is sometimes k « pt on for six weeks at a time ) , and appeared to consider
its use aa a great palliation of the outrage . It w as stated that the punishment ia authorized by the Governor and the Home Secretary ; but tho Judyo said lie was not aware of any Act of Parliament justifying auch authorization . He also condemned the infliction of corporal punishment by order of the Viaiting Justices . Sul > - ticqucntly , however , lie retracted his condemnation of the body belt ; and tho prisoner , having been fouud Guilty , was sentenced to fourteen years penal servitude . It appearod that he was an old and incorrigible offender .
Jonathan Rooso was tri « d at Exeter , on Thursday , for a felonious assault on Jan « Stone , At Torquay , with , intent to murder . The cose presented features of a most frightful character . Hooue ia a man of good education , and has lived m a respectable sphere of life . He seduced the girl Jane Stone ; then toW her to put off tho conaoquencea on hia nwcle or any other man , gave her medicine with a view to procuring abortion , and finally nsarderoaely attacked her , ia the garden of a cottage -where she was living . It w » s on the night of the 11 th of November , and they wftlkod aboat tike gamier lor turn
tune , talking rather angrily . At length , Koos e threw tie gnl down , knelt on her left side with | reat forecast bi * hand as far as he could down her throat , and pinched her nose so as to prevent her breathing . She cave a sun pressed scream whichappears to havebeen hearcl by a litl " pet dog m the house ; for itbarked furiously . The people .. in the dwelling becoming alarmed , issued forth , procS assistance , and discovered the girl in a dark part of tlie garden niak . ng a low moaning . The ruffiaii had fled , but not before lie had consummated his atrocities bv reducing the poor girl ' s face to amass of bloody and uurecog . mable flesh by beating it with a heavy stone , nine pounds in weight and a foot in length . It lay beside the victim broken into two pieces . The only defence was that the act was committed in a sudden and ungovernable fit of passion . Roose was found Guiltvvaiid sentenced to penal servitude for life . ¦¦ A young-woman , named Fanny Speed , was tried on Inursday , at York , on acharge of having poisoned , her husband . She was Acquitted .
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CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT . The December Sessions commenced on Monday , but no case of great importance was heard on that day . The Recorder , in charging the grand jury , said there were fewer cases than usual , and that those which had been sent up for trial were , with a few exceptions , of a comparatively trivial nature . William Attwell , Edward Jackson , and his wife , were tried on Tuesday for the extraordinary robbery of tae Countess of Elle 3 inere ' s jewels , with , the circumstances of . which our readers are familiar . Attwell , the informer , of course pleaded Guilty ; Jackson was convicted , aad his wife acquitted . Jackson , being known as an old offender , was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude ; while Attwell , in consideration of tlie assistance which his confession has given to the police , was only condemned to six months' additional imprisonment to the sentence he is now undergoing for a separate offence .
The Recorder , on the same day , made an order that a warrant should issue for the apprehension of Edward Auchmuty Glover , the ousted member for Be verier , against whom the grand jury had returned a true bill for misdemeanour in having rnade a false declaration to tno Mouse of Commons as to his qualification to ait a . s a member . Thomas Fawn has been fo « nd guilty of a murderous attack on his wife with a life-preserver . At the time the occurrence took place the man was cohabiting with another woman ; and , as this greatly aggravated the offence , Fawn was sentenced to tea years' penal servitude .
Robert Scott was charged with stealing a chequu for 5 / ., the property of Mr . Spicer , a solicitor , by whom Scott had been occasionally employed in copying . A question was raided as to identity ; and it turned on a curious point . Had the prisoner ever worn a beard or whiskers , and shaved them off since tho alleged commission of the offence ; or was he devoid of those hirsute adornments ? The prosecutor and liis clerk swore that he did wear hair on his face ; while the person who shaved him in prison gave it as his opinion , that lie never had any hair to wear . A medical gentleman in court examined Scott ' s face , and spoke in favour of the existence of hair ; but the jury gave the accused tlie benefit of the doubt , and returned a verdict of Not
Guilty-Two miserable-looking youths , uaintid Williams and Green , pleaded Guilty to an . indictment charging them with , a singular misdemeanour . They had bceu committed from the Guildhall police-court , Williams for twenty-one days ' , and Green to three months ' , imprisonment in the Holloway Gaol . While iu tbe cell at the court , Williams , who appeared to bo a poor houseless boy , agreed with Green to personate him , and remain in three months , as he should be better off in prison than out . They were overheard , and the Governor was informed of their intention . Tlie Common Serjeant sentenced them to three months' imprisonment .
Joseph Bingham , attorney , was 011 Thursday indicted for perjury . This -was the case ia which Stowell , tho informer , was the prosecutor . There was some legal flaw in the management of tho case , and the accused was discharged .
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IIOLYWELn-STHKBT IN DlTHJLIX . —TllO Dll blill pollCO have made an extensive seizure of books , prints , casts , &c , of a most atrocious nature . The proprietors of the houses where tho filth was found have been summoned before the magistrates , Mtmuiiuouu Assault . —Frank Smith , a marine , belonging to tho Peruvian war frigate Amazonian , lynig in tho East India Docks , was , on Tuesday , broug ht up on remand , at the Thames police-office , charged with with
attempting to murder a police constable , and , assaulting acveral other persons . An affray arose between some American and l ' eruviiui sailom in liutchiiohighway , last Saturday night . The neig hbourhood was disturbed for severul hours , and nine or ten persons were injured . There w « re about twoiity i ' cruviuns belonging to theAnaaxontaii in a pablio-houau , all armed . with knives , dicks , and-daggers , and they mat a number of America *! seamen wbome uundu were covered with weapatw called kauckle-dustersL made of brass , with
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1206 T H _ g __ IjjSA P E B . [ No . 404 , December 19 , 1857 ' ¦ " '¦""* " T ' ¦ - —— - — ^ - _ - . . „ _ . ¦ ¦ ™ ¦* - *•—»** 1 * .-
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 19, 1857, page 1206, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2222/page/6/
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