The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-11-13 00:00:00

MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE

A most serious and extraordinary miscarriage of justice
came to light on Friday :and Saturday at the Manchester
Assizes. The r iirt during these two days were occupied
In the trial ,d a criminal charge against three men named
Sutcliffe, rro-sley, and Mallinson, all of respectable
positions in To Imordem They were charged with hiving
Committed an outrage on the person of Bridget Blackburn
the wife of • fish hawker, at Burnley, on the lit of July.
Three men were indicted for the same offence at the
Liverpool Summer Assizes before Mr. Justice Hawkins ; a
fourth, who had been taken up, bring discharge I for
want of evidence- The three men who are named Green-
wood, Jackson, and Wild, colliers, living at Overton, and
who admitted they had been in the neighbourhosl of the
please where the alleged outrage was committed at the
time, were found guilty. and Mr. Justice Hawkins in sen-
tencing them to le years' penal servitod, expressed both a
thorough approval of the verdict, and a doubt whether he
ought not to make the sentence 20 years. The solicitor for
defence. Mr. Sutcliffe, of Burnley, was, however, so
thoroughly convinced of the men's innocence that at his
own expense he undertook the reinvestigation of the cane,
—Some slight circumstantial evidence came to light
which seemed to implicate the three men brought up on
Friday at Manchestevand inc fliis.,pience of Mr. Sutcliffe's
representatunu, the Treasury ordered them to he prose-
cuted, and the s hole affair to be re-examined. As it was
only alleged that four men had committed the outrage
either two of the three convicts who came from Penton-
title to give evidence were innwent, or two of the men
then in the dock were. In the course of the trial some
evidence of the highest importance which had not been
given before the Liverpool jury, owing to the forgetfulness
or want of jiidgment of a policeman engaged in the rase,
waa brought ti light. The chief witnesses for the prose-
cution were the prosecutor and his wife, whom the
council for the defence accused of deliberate perjury.
The evidence, moreover, showed that the woman was
evolialily so drunk at the time as to he incapthle of stand.
Gt. in ~.sasi-qieneesem h Sitteliffst, M dliiison, and
Crossley tried is help her up Mr. Allis in, the defeu-
dant's r asserted that the rn set choking pre•Cce
had bwm rrsort,t ti in Burnley in order bigot up evidence,
aud Mr. Justice Lush, in his oinhioino sip, expressed his
strong disapproval of the wty in which the affair had
been mutazol, rho jury, attir a few initiates' deliliera-
thin. arguitt ~1 the prisoners, and fossil that no such
outrage as char.:A load been c.nutnitted At all. The Judge
said that hi would take INV u, hats steps to go. three
convicts —Greenwood, Will, awl 'mama—set at liberty,
awl thanked Mr. Sutra& for his meritorious services.

A novel an I somewhat amusing na vie of electing a
Mayor woo resorted to at Retforill in Friday. It was
found thit the two parties were pretty equally divided,
awl as there seemed no way of settling the mutter, the
two candidates, Aldermen Jenkinson and Councillor
Curtis. were asked to arrange it between themselves.
They did so by tossing—" beet two out of three --and
Mr. Curtis being the winner was sworn in with the u.ual
eerecoony.
fibeirlor morninca shocking affair %VAS witnessed ier •
large number of people going to the city by one of the
Metropolitan trains, near Farringdon station. A man
&bout 50 years of age. who was in one of the carriages,
suddenly became very excited, ant, opening the door,
sprang out on the hue. Ai the train was moving only
slowly he was not then injured, but he ran along till he
get in the four foot way, where he waited till the buffers
'mocked him down, mid the carriages pate id over hits,
severing the held from the body.
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