The Express.
London, England, 1864-03-03 00:00:00

RUNNING DOWN CASE ON SOUTHAMPTON w•res. -CHAIM

OF IFANSLACONTrIL
Henry Se meters, a respectable leek* mariner, about I%
tra of age, the captaio of the Lady of the lake, owe( the
Meal Wight itteses racket Compaay's vase* sod (home
Weeks% 26, ow it She srew al the mum* mesa, were is-

After • few observations from the prosecutiog counsel, the
judge summed up with great minuteuers, sad left it to the
jury to my how far the captain was reapoesible for the soca-
dela ; if he weerespomible for the accident he was guilty of
manslaughter.
The jury, in • few minutes, returned • verdict of Not
Guilty.

NORFOLK CIRCUIT. —OA[HAM., MARCU 2.
(Before Yr. Judith's Crompeos.)
Thomas Walton was chased with shooting Ass Webster
with istest to kill her.

Mr. Perkins appeared for the prowl:Aloe ; Mr. Metcalfe
for the prisoner.
This was a very extraordinary case from the fact that the
injured woman was quite unacquainted with the prisoner,
sod there appeared to be an utter absence of motive for the
. .

oonitniasion'a such a serious crime as that with which the
prisoner wee charged.
It appeared from the statement of the learned counsel for
the prosecution that Mrs. Webster, the prosecutriz, was,
between five and half•peat on the evening of the llith of
December, sitting in her house at Great Geaterton. She
bad just lighted a candle, when she wag shot about the
head and face, and heard the report of the gun close to the
house. She immediately raa out and screamed. Two
labourers who were working Dear the house heard the
report of the gun and the screams, and shortly afterwards
saw the prisoner coming along the road towards them and
away from the house. Thinking something was wrong they
stopped him, and said he must come with them, and all
walked on together towards Mrs. Webster's booze. One of
the labourers having seas the prisoner throw something on
to a hedge, they searched and found a gun which bad been
recently discharged, and which the prisoner denied any
knowledge of. On his way to the home the prisoner asked
to go into the field for a certain purpose, which he was
allowed to do, and at the place where he went a powder
flask was afterwards found. It being discovered that the
woman was very much injured, the prisoner was given into
custody.

The proseentrix, in the °owes of her examination, Mated
that she knew wt►ing of the primmer, and had only seen
him once, whin she did not spook to him, and that she had
never bed any quarrel with him or soy of his friends.
Yr. Webster also Mated that he 'mew nothing of the
prisoner, but he had since ascertained that he resided at
Stamford.

The wittiness, having spoken to the above facto, shoat
which there seemed to be no dispute,
Mr. Metcalfe, in defence of the prisoner, contended that
the gun went off by accident. He admitted that the pri-
soner was the pence who fired the gun. but denied that he
did it with any felonious intent, and mid it was perfectly
probable that the prisoner might have goes round the
cottage in which the injured woman lived, and the gun
ought have gone off accidentally, as the pri-
soner was in the act of crossing the hedge in
front of the cottage window. A witness was
called who gave the prisoner en excelleot character, sod
the learned judge then stunnied up very carefully, first ex-
plaints( the law of the cue to the jury, and then going
throngb the detail rif the case.. . .

Th: jury retired for forty minutes, And returned with
verdict of Guth, with intent to do grievous bodily berm,
and the isornsd judge ssetsoced the prisoner to 12 years'
pond servitods.
This finished the helms

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

(Beare kr. Baron Charnel].)
Jana Denali 25, wail charged with the manslaughter
el Jobs Williams.

Mr. Hydd proweated. wed th• primmer wu deluded by
lb. Kibbe.

The rue as the part of the prosecutioo was that os
boxiag-night" the primmer wee driving a bone and cart
in the Globe-road, Mile-sad, and that he was racing with
soother vehicle. The deceased was an aged man, sod he
was curies the rood at the time awl wee knocked down,
and received iejnries which caused his death. There was
goad deal of 000dictieg evidence u to the (inundations
trader which the uoforttinate affair took place, asd it was
alleged ow behalf of the prisoner that the OCCCUTOIIOII was
purely
seccideataL . . _

Thi jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
llienael Jenkins, 41, tailor, was charged with feloniously
stabbing sod woonding Joseph ilsrper, with intent to do
him grievous bodily harm.
Mr. Thompson prosecuted.
The prosecutor in this cue was a person In • humble
moditioe of life, sad it appeared that some time age he was
committed to prima for three =oaths for some °dome, and
dun=g his comiosesent the primmest seemed to have formed
me acquaintance with his wife, sod they cohabited together.
When the prosecutor seas out of prison be discovered this
to be the state of things, and be took hie wife away from
the prisoner to the hoses of • person maimed Edwards, re-
siding in the neighbourhood of Look's4lekts, Walworth.
The prisoner seamed to have gone to this house, and •
quarrel took place holmium him and the prosecutor whisk
led to blows, and in the mune of the "trunk the primate
appeared to have stabbed the promoter in several places.
Om of the stabs nal ever the reties at the hoot, seethes
in the abdomen, sod • Wad ea tlie rite ; Red assoedin Io

charging him with thermialsomanour of attempting to °Dm.
pound a felony. The indictment, which was very volutni.
DOW, contabied six counts, which averred that the defen-
dant had attempted to compound a felonious 'smolt com-
mitted on the person of one Sarah Ford by a man named
Anooni ; that the defeadant had further solicited and ea-
Mood the mid Sarah Ford, by the promise and tender to her
of mosey not to appear and give evidence agaiest the said
Anooni ; and lastly, that he had solicited her, if she did ap-
pear, I. commit wilful and corrupt perjury. The defen-
dant, when placed at the her. pleaded not guilty.
Mr. F. If. Lewis (iretructed by Messrs. Sheen and Ramos,
the solicitors to the Associate Institution for improving
and enforcing the Laws fur the Protection of Women) sp.
for the prosecution ; and the defence wee conductedy
ar
Mr. flerjeant Tindal Atkinson (with whom was Mr.
Beaky), instructed by Mr. Thomas Baud, of Basingitall-
street.

—Tie jury, after a brief cooftrence returned a verdict of
Not Guilty, observing that the evicesoce was so ocinflicting
that they had come to the coriclusion that there was a
doubt, of which the defeodant was entitled to the benefit.
The verdict was recorded, and the defendant was at coos
discharged•

(Move Phillip, described as being • labourer, 34 years
of km was convected of stealing two gas burners and •
quantity of postage stamps from the chambers of Mr.
Thomas Lawrence Forbes, an insurance broker, in Rood-
lane, City.
The defence attempted was an alibi, which wholly failed,
and the jury, without hesitation, returned a verdict of
Guilty, and the prisoner, who was not known to the polio'
for any former coovictioo, was sentenced to nine months'
imprisonment, with bard labour.
James Henry Worthy. traveller, was indicted for
embouling the sum of 91.105., the moneyief Alfred LJoaes,
his master and employer.
Mr. F. H. Lewis conducted the proescutica, and Mr.
Nicholson defended the prisoner.
This was oat of the usual cases of embezzlemeet. The
prisoner having been shopman to the prosecutor, who is a
tobacconist, carrying on business on Holborn-bill, was per-
mitted to go out at his own request as traveller, and in his
rounds visited Aldenhott, where he received moneys to the
amount charged from • onstoster named Masters, for which
he never socounted._ _ _

Tb jury retTirO;l a verdict of Guilty, and it was proved
that the prisoner bed not only been previously convicted of
similar frauds, but had obtained his situation with the pro-
secutor by means of • files character. The amount of his
defMattioe to the tor was upwards of MIO/.
Mr. Lewis said that now the verdict had been pronounced
be might be permitted to band in a letter which bed been
received by the prosecutor from the celebrated Mr. George
Crnikahsak,
and
artist, stating that the primmer had sp-
pliedi for and obtained from the Lord-Lieutenant at the
county of Middlesex a commission as an officer in the Have-
lock ltile Volunteers, the primmer then rep:emoting him-
self to be a method student. On subsequent immure it
was simertained that be was a convicted felon, and on the
proper represeatatioo being made by the Lord-Lieutenant,
the Secretary for War dismissed the prisoner from the
volunteer service with disgrace.
The Common fieriesurt observed that the prisoesr ap-
peared to be 'We, and sentenced him to be kept in
penal servitude far t term of six jean.
Mary AMI 'yawn, a good-looking young female, who
appeared to be painfully depressed, was coevicted of rearm-
ing the body a/ a male child of which she bad been de-
livered, with a view to emcee; its birth.

Th•—csie preseated the usual painful disclosures of Woe-
tics ud desertios, but the medical evidence proved that
the child had bees .till-born.

Inspector Bell, of the R division, who had apprehended
the prisoner and had charge of the case stated that from
inquiries he bad instituted, he found that the primmer had
hitherto borne as irreproachable character is various
families in which she bee lived es • domestic servant, and
her muter with whom elm lived at the time of the mew-
moos in trunnion bagged to recommend her to the merciful
coolderation of the court.

The Oommon Serjeant sentenced the prisoner to six
weeks' imprisonment., and she .0 removed ro an almost
helpless Mete from the deck.

Tiko soon was then adjoarnod to Monday, Aped 11.