The Express.
London, England, 1855-02-26 00:00:00

shift. He bad on a square-eat coat, dark waittooat, etic-
duroy trousers. and a dark coloured cap.
Bella Park—l live at Cinder Mow, and am aunt to vi-
ntner. On Saturday, the 4th of November, the prisoner
canoe to our botanist Of • o'clock in the day. He bad • dar
brown coat on, but I dou't know the cut ; he had a dark
cost cm. I did not notice him particularly. He asked if I
had got a shirt ready for hits. I said 1 had sot got it done;
but like would come is wt nld give !limit undu He then
oat doers. Before he west out he laid down half $ eouteign,
saying I was to take pay out of that.
Jane Munroe—l am wife of Amos Munroe, half-brother
to prisoner. Both worked the night shift. On Saturday
morning, the 4th of November, I recollect the prisoner
coming home at sin o'clock. He usually, upon
corning home washed himself and went to bed,
getting up about three o'clock in the afternoon. lie did
not go to bed that morning. He got his breakfast sad
went sot betwixt sight and nine o'clock. Prisoner bas two
outs, a dark one and a green one He bad also some red-
dish pocket handkerchiefs. He had also a scarf'. He re-
turned home again about 8 o'clock the same evening.
When be came is he eat down just behind the door. I
asked him to come in, bet ho said No, he was not cold. It
had been raining that afternoon. I told him to come to the
are, as it had been very wet. He said he was not wet, he
had bad an umbrella. He remai
ned: bout 20 minutes. He
then went into the bedroom, wer he stayed about 10
minutes, sad then went out. He returned at 12 o'clock
that evening. Nut morning I went into his bedroom and
oaw his dark-tailed coat banging. I took it down, and
noticed a good deal of blood on the right sleeve. I pointed
this out to my brother, John Hellon, who was in the house
at the time. On the Monday morning I saw my husband
pull • basket frost under the prisoner's bed. I saw him take
a pair of unworn out of it belonging to the prisoner. When
pulled out of the bed they were wet all over and dirty.
They ware rolled up. They were unrolled before me. They
were wet at at the bottom and all round at the back.
Mr. Landow came in at the time. (The witness then denied
that washing was going on when Mr. Lindow came. She
had put some things In the tub, bet had not been washing,
*either had she washed the shirt or tumors, nor seen them
washed.) Never saw any mar of prisoneer. Prisoner
got his hair cut on Sunday. Henry 'Ogg cut it. Never
anew prisoner get it cut before.
Cross-examined—The prisoner went away os the Satur-
day morning without his surf. I know that he had not it.
It was ism) room. pod he did not get it. He was never
out of my sight. When I asked him if be would have his
soar/ he was about to stout. Whoa the primer sat behind
the due be was not is the duk. There was no water in

his room.
Edmund Watson recalled—When I saw the prisoner pass
slug the told, he had on • similar scarf to that which he
has oa now.
The court adjourned at half-put six o'clock.
SATURDAY, Fan. 24.
John B. Wilson, surgeon, deposed to having chemically
examined some pities of cloth cut from a coat and waist-
coat, and found that certain stains were from blood of a re-
cast date. Examined, on 14th November, some corduroy
trousers, which appeared as if they had been stained and
afterwards washed. From one part obtained results which
satisfied him the stain was from blood. Believed the blood
had not been on a month. The witness then described the
appearance of the body of deceased. There were several
wounds, and one large wound which extended round the
throat to the spine, cutting the windpipe and arteries. The
wound appeared as if an instrument had been thrust in two
or three times. It appeared as if it had been done with a
bluntish instrument, such us clup-knife—not • razor. The
wound could not have been self-inflicted. It was probably
done from behind.
Jo'. n Fidler, surgeon, gave similar evidence.
Amos Munroe, prisoaet's half-brother, deposed to finding
the wet shirt and trousers tinter the bed on the 6th Novem-
ber. Prisoner knew that Turner paid the wages on Satur•
day. On Sunday night some people were talking at wit-
ness's house about the murder, in the presence of prisoner.
Some of the neighbours in the house said they were blaming
the prisoner for murdering Isaac Turner. He said he was
innocent ; that he knew nothing at all about it. He said he
was at Wath Brow top at 11 o'clock, at a public•houee
That is four or five miles from Lancelay Bottom I paid
prisoner his wages. I last paid him a fortnight before the
murder. I gave him 11. llt. ad., a sovereign of which he
returned to me for his meat.
John Helton' brother of Jane Munroe, had some blood
pointed out to him by his sister on prisoner's coat, and gave
information to Mr. Dickenson, the magistrate.
Ann Thompson deposed that prisoner told her he got the
blood on his clothes while bleeding • cow the previous
winter.
Mr. Dickenson, a magistrate, went to prisoner', house en
the 4th, and found a blacksmith cutting his hair.
Mr. Monk, for ',dealer, objected to the conversation
which paned between prisoner and witness'.; and the objec-
tion was allowed by the court, as the interests were so
momentous.
Mr. Dickenson continued—Prisoner gave me the shoes
be wore the day before, and, after some hesitation, allowed
me to look in a box which he kept locked. He ;took out a
quantity of wearing apparel, amongst it a dark square.
tailed coat, which he gave to me. I observed it was much i
marked with blood. I 'eked him for an explanation of
that, and he gave me one. I also noticed blood on one of
his caps. I drew his attention to it, and he gave me an ex-
planatine. At that time I looked under the bed and saw a
basket. There were some old rage in it. There was no
miner's eoat. I had all the rags taken out of the basket,
and there appeared to be nothing else. If there had been a
pair of trousers and shirt I should have noticed them ;
there wee neither.
Superintendent Clark, of the Whitehann police—l took
prisoner into custody on Nov. 4th, at his house. I found a
knife (produced) in his least, and las. 4d. in silver in his
box. I saw Tisdale pull a basket out under the bed. A
miner's jacket was in it. lam certain there were neither
shirt nor trousers in the basket. I brought the Feiner
down to Whitehaven in a conveyance. I never spoke to
him from after we left Kitkland. He said, "I can dear
myself; I was at Wath Brow Top public-house yesterday
morning at eleven o'clock. There was two young women
in the house, one of them waited on us. I was is company
with a young man from Ravenglass Yale." I knew the
house be mentioned—Mrs. Fisher's. There is only one
publio-house there. I drove straight there at once. We
arrived there between 11 and 12 o'clock, and called Mrs.
Fisher sod her daughter up. I asked Mrs. Fisher if there
were two young men at her house at 11 o'clock yesterday
morainic. Mrs. Fisher said "no." The prisoner said
" yes." Mrs. Fisher said he had been there in his
life. He said something more. I then asked for the daugh-
ter, and she was called down. She alto said he was not
there, and he made no answer. (The witness then de-
tailed how, upon comparing prisoner's shoat with the ONO
in the field covered over by Mr. Watson, they esereepsadei
erectly._Ann Fisher, innkeeper, Wath Brow Top, proved that
the prisoner aid not come to her house on the 4th et
November.
Henry Steel and William Waite proved that the raw
found near doomed was very like one which prisoner had
about 12 months ago, and which he kept on a beam in a
room whore he slept.
After some further evidence Mr. Monk addressed the
jury for the defence. The Judge was summing up when
our repeat was sent off.

Mayor. I appear here to prosecute on behalf of the Corpo-
ration of Lmdon for perjury. in a case in which I hid m.
WSW epos the evidesceHarrison, a perso earths
name of Mellott, for an outrageous felony. He con-
victed and sentenced to death, and finally ordered for trans-
portation, but upon a repesendation made to the govern-
ment of transactions which are now about to be the 'abject
of this iavestigatiee, he has remind a free pardon from the
stows, and the with at the gewsmiageat is that an in
des ithenld tats Vises as to the 'sedan of the p:reatityc;
whim le was theened, sad spa whose 'eidetic, be wee eon-
/Wei Isbell abstain from (anise any observations tend-
ing to peeked's, the case of this perms, because it is the
desire of duos fee whom I appear that • calm and deliberate
iavesticatfes should take pleas unaccompanied by anythieg
like a "Widths leslieg. If the defendant has been the
Iridium of truth, although she may have been mistaken in
the identideattem of the person, it would be wrong that she
should be esavieted or suffer from any prejudice. Oa the
other hand, if she has been guilty of wilful and corrupt per-
ary, it themes the duty of the City, partionlarly of my-
self, ,having seed her evidence to convict an innocent man,
to see that she should receive the punishanat which she had
intended fee eases.
Mr. Cleetheas, the chief clerk, (having produced the in-
formatics Mat to by the defendant, the substance of which
is stated above) said—The original information was t ikon on
the 13th January, but mu not sworn by the defendant until
the 22nd of that msnth, upon which day I carefully read it
over to her, and she re-signed it in my presence. I then ad-
ministered to her the oath, in the presence of Sir Robert
Carden, the presiding magistrate. She swore that the con-
tents of the isiformeties were true. An application was then
made the eiser. is her presence for a warrant to &p-
-r/
a pee= nemmil Taylor on a'tharge of felony, who
mid had both demand to him by her.
Tb . City Solicitor—Did the defendant appear to you to
be thaeurriog in that application ?
Mr. Ooodnian—Doubtless. She observed that she could
identify him well.
The City Solicitor—ln consequence of that application,
Wes a wettest granted upon that information?
Mr. Goodman—lt was.
The information wee then read.
A great neither of witnesses were then examined, con-
sisting of neighbours of the defendant who were attracted to
the spot immediately on hearing her 'cream, who proved
that no men came either out of the door of the house or
dropped from the front window, which could not be raised
sufficiently high to admit of a man's body passing through it.
Inspector Stott, and Jarvis, Finnis, and other experienced
officers of the detective force, stated that they had made a
most minute and careful examination of the premises, and
had arrived at the conclusion that it was an absolute im-
possibility for anybody to have got out of the bark window,
which the defendant pointed out to the as the one through
which the men escaped, for that it was screwed down, and
could not be opened without the aid of • screwdriver—la
fine, that there was not the slightest trace of the escape of
any human being out of either of the windows.
A pawnbroker's assistant produced the articles described
by the defendant to the officers, which she stated the bur-
glars had carried off; but one of which, he said, he had •
distinct recollection of being pledged by the defendant.
Nene of this evidence we. in the least degree shaken by
ereas-szentinatioa.
Mr. J. H. Cooke said—l am a surgeon, residing at 140,
Minorite. On the Bth of January last 1 wee called in to
see the defendant. I found her on the floor partially faint,
but not insensible to anything that was said to her. There
we. blood on the upper lip, as well as on the left she&
I ordered her • little brandy and water, and bathed her
tan. I then washed her face, and washed away the blood ;
the wound appeared to be in the right nostril, from which
blood had flowed. There we. no appearance of an incised
wound on the nose, but the nose was bleeding at the time;
the nose did not present a contused appearance. There
was no bruise at all. I have seen cases of side blows on
the cartilage of the nose sufficient to produce bleeding, but
net sufficient to produce a contusion. There was blood ma
the defendant's cheek, but on removing it I found no thew
sion or injury of any kind.
The Lord Mayor—Did you examine up the nostril, te
see whether any wound had been inflicted which predated
the blood ?
Witness—l could see no wound, but several times I
washed away the recent blood, and more continued to flow,
showing that it was then flowing from • wound in the
nostril. She complained that she bad been cut in the right
arm, and pointed to the spot. I there found three scratches,
but in incised wound. These had been very recently doss.
I examined her gown, but could find no tram of • cut in it.
Her dress was shown to me on a subsequent theasiont sad
on examining it I found that • cut had been made in it,
corresponding with the scratch.
The Lord Mayor—lf any instrument had cut them*
the dress as you then saw it, it must have made • greats'
incision in her flesh than the mere matches.
Witness—Yes, certainly. I take upon myself to say that
there was no cut in the dress when I first saw it.
Cross-examined by Mr. Levy—The scratches might have
been made with a pin or with a penknife. A pin, I think, I
would be as likely to make them as anything. They were
about the size of pin scratches. The defendant, no doubt,
had received a blow on the nose, but that was not in a place
where she could not do it herself.
The Lord Mayor having stated that it was his intention
to send the matter to a superior tribunal,
Mr. Levy said that under these eircumstane..
not trouble the court with any observations.
The defendant, who communicated freely with her solicitor
during the investigation and who maintained remarkable
self-possession to the laic, when asked by the Lord Mayor,
what she had to say in answer to the charge, replied, " I
have to say that every word I have said is correct."
She was then fully committed for trial on this charge, but
will be brought up again to-day for the formal completion'
of the depositions, when it is expected that the other
charge of perjury committed in Mallett's case will be pro-1
edd
see with.
The Lord Mayor said he would take bail for the defen-
dant's appearance, two sureties in 401. each, and her husband
in 801. The court was adjourned for two hours to enable
her to get the necessary bail, but she failed in doing so, and
was eventually conveyed to Newgate in a cab. The inquiry
lasted till eight o'clock at night.
Sir It W. Carden, who was present during a considerable
part of the investigation, but took no part in the proosed-
tugs, immediately on the receipt of the above communise.
tion from the Secretary of State for the Home Department,
proceeded to Newgate and read it to ?dallett, who in • becom-
ing meaner expressed himself deeply indebted to the ma-
gistrate for the trouble he had taken on his behalf.
It is entirely owing to the exertions of Sir R. W. Carden
and the vigilant inquiries he caused to be made that Mellott
has received a free pardon, and been rescued from 15 years'
transportation. A strong feeling of sympathy has been excited
in his favour, and his release from prisoa would have 1
taken place at an earlier period had it not been for delay
occasioned by the recent ministerial changes When Sir R.
W. Carden visited him in prison he ordered him to be sup-
plied with everything is the shape of clothes suitable to
his condition, the unfortunate man having parted with his
own apparel previously to assuming the attire of the con-
vict, and he has consented to remain where he now is
until some little fund may be raised to enable him to go
abroad. •
The Lord Mayer mentioned that he bad received a note
from Miss Coons inching a cheque for 501, for the imme•
diate relief of the distress now prevailing, which that bene-
volent lady wished to be applied to eases coming under the
notice of his lordship. Miss Coutta added that she had
sent 601. to the Coalwhippen' Association, sad a similar
min to the magistrate at the Thames Police Office.

he would

ANTI-WAR MEETING AT WAKEFIELD.—On Wed-
nesday evening last, a meeting under the auspices of the
anti-wu party was held in the large room of the Corn Ex-
change, Wakefield; and it having been announced by pla-
card that George Thempees, Fig., would deliver an eAdress
as the objects of the war, the rem was densely crowded.
At the esugueles of Mr. Thempos's address, Councillor
Serb peepeeed the following teseintion :—" That this meet-
ing is of that the war with Russia ought to be carried
on with vigour until an honourable peace an be obtained ;
and that no terms ought to be agreed to which do not recog-
nise the destruction of Sebastopol, and the free navigation
of the Danube and the Black See." Mr. C. Morton pro-
posed as an iunendeneat the adjournment of the meeting.
After • few remarks from Mr. Berle, the resolution was
put sad carried, three parts of the useably voting for the
resolaties.—Lteds lisrewy.
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DARING ATTEMPT To MIIRDER.—A correspondent s
in Drumehair informs us that on the night of Saturday last !
awn daring attempt was made to shoot a poor man named
Tammy, war that village. It appears Taheny was return-
ing beer the market of Sligo, and on ooming to a part of
the real the side of which afforded shelter to the anassus,
he wen And at from behind the ditch, but fortunately with-
addles& Ile very properly and with praiseworthy courage,
Wised the ruffian, until be recognised him to be a man
named M'Cioldrick, whose father had some time since been
egged from a holding of land which is now in the posses
site of Taheny. M.Goldrick has since been made amenable, ,
sad will stand his trial at the coming assizes for the cold-
ish/sled end cowardly act.—Leffrins JOUPIO4I.
Tax BILL TO REPEAL THE NEWSPAPER STAMPS,
be.—On Saturday the bill to alter and amend the laws re-
lating to the stamp duties on newsmen, ,the printing and
pablishiag gammen, and the registration and giving
Neuritis, to sawassisa therewith, and the regulation of the
dein of palsy as printed papers, was issued. There are
eyht 111.11111111 in the bill, and a minden annexed of the acts
tole repealed. The Amt motion repels the stamp duty on
amespopsta sod woils Moan to the priming and pub-
Shim of dm ions. The sassed bee reference to the
'stems el daisy. The other mega@ gale that of printed
Cott papaw the duty is to be sae penny for four ounces.
is gessgsl to =Wag ameopapon b the post ex-
waft tsar semen Raft and dodo are to In ineoted by
trOwls. Nowqmpas sad other plated papers seat
plaie. ast modenaity with the ad as to bo shatwod the
lege, Isles of pselegs. The day whoa the sew kw will
else into giseaticsa is to be Ailed up In committee.
Time POONA= AND PAPER Dtrry.—A London
main Masai Impose to maks the Chancellor of the
Enebequar pepeig by a Weiss for increasing the rates of
, riair 'WIWI! the p_spor duty ! " Let himdo
• ama
Igo ofogingssfa. aid he will indeed merit
tisiggeWsmi gralltede if the osstamaity." The Chan-
saw, " wiimer he may be," that takes this advice,
wield be kited out of office is a second, never more to
refers. He woald ever after be a " dead letter."—Outs-
had Olfsereer..
NORTH STAPTORDIIIIIIR RAILWAY.—Mr. J. L.
Ricardo has resigned the ehairmanship of this line together
with his seat Is the direstiog