The Express.
London, England, 1864-12-10 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

HOME cutcriT.—HERTFORD, Thic. 9.
(Before Mr. Baron ChannalL)

DATING HIGHWAY DONNIRT AND ATMS?! TO mum=
George Savage, 26, • determined-looking young urn, was
oharged with feloomusly assaulting end wounding Joseph
Barker, with intent to murder him, and in other coasts the
intent of the • was laid to be to do the prosecutor
grievous • y harm.
There was • around indictment against the prisooer which
charged bun with felooiously assaulting the same prosecutor
and robbing him of 21. 12s. in money and a pocket handker-
chief.

The prisoner, when called upon for his defence, made a
rambling statement to the jury, the purport of which was
that he wee innocent, and that the witnesses had made •
mistake as to his being the roan they had seen at Hertford
on the evening of the robbery.
The learned judge having summed up, the jury, after a very
abort deliberation, found the prisoner Oralty upon the more
serious count in the indictment, charging an intent to
murder. . . . . . .

E;iiiiece was then given that the primmer was convicted
of robbery in 1859, and sentenced to Bre years' penal servi-
tude. It appeared that be was relessed upon a ticket-ot
leave in 18ti2.

11reptieotTer, when b• was wiled up fa judgment, de-
clared to God that he was ionoseat of the crime.

Boren aistl7;ll,epi;gesitear;,.Lithat the jury,
after a most patient Gormley, had found him guilty of wound-
ing the prosecutor with intent to murder him, and upon
the evidence that had been given, he entirely concurred in
that verdict. Only a few yearn ago, he should hare been
compelled to sentence him to death for this offence, and,
taking into consideration the aggravated nature of the
crime, he felt that it wee his duty to sentence him to
twenty years' penal servitude.
The prisoner as he was leaving the dock, said with •
grin, ' &b, it I live and have luck, I shall soon be back
HeHe was thee removed.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—MANcazazz, DEc. 9.
CROWN COUBT.—(Before Mr. Justice Blackburn.)
Ann Leslie, 31, who bad pleaded guilty to the charge of
having, at Manchester. on the 16th Nov. feloniously and
maliciously sent, delivered, uttered, and indirectly caused
to be received by John Whalley, a merchant in the Man-
chester trade. • certain letter, threatening to kill and
murder the said John Whalley, she well knowing the con-
testa thereof, was placed in the dock to receive sentence.
The primness was asked in the usual form if she bad
anything to say before sentence was passed upon her! She
replied that she was guilty of sending the letter, but she had
no intention of carrying out the threat it contained.
The Judge—Why did you send such • letter
The pri.oner replied that she was in the greatest destitu-
tion, and was starving. She had known Mr. Whalley
14 years, and sines she bad been acquitted of a previous
charge made by him she had not had • halfpenny with
which to malutain herself.
The Judge—You had been tried for and acquitted of
shooting at Mr. Whalley, with intent to murder him. After
the acquittal you undoubtedly sent to Dim a letter threats°.
tag to kill him. Why did you do that if you did not
mean it! _ _ _

The prisoner replied that after her acquittal she asked
him to do something for her ; be had refused to do anything,
rod there was, therefore, nothing for her but starvation.
Mr. Pope, who held the brief for the prosecution, said he
could not allow that statement to be made without contra-
diction. She bad written letters in which she had mentioned
other names. . _

The Judge asked the prisoner to explain why she sent the
letter if she did not intend to put the prosecutor in fear of
his life with the intent to extort mosey.
The prisoner said she had no ill feeling against Mr.
Whalley; she ouly wished him to enable her to get an
honest living.
The Jodge—ln other words, you threatened his life to
extort money from him.
The primmer—l have no ill feeling against him. lam In
the greatest destitution I have got a halfpenny or a friend
in the world. I have known him 14 years. He took me
from a good home; be brought me to Liverpool. He has
deserted me three times. I have lost the best of my days
with him. He has always promised to marry me, but be
would sot fulfil his promise. Iwu living in Thread-
needle-street, Loudon, and he brought me here.
The Judge—That may or may not be true ; it does not
' affect the guilt of sending a letter threatening his life.
Mr. Pope (in lamer to his lordship as to whether the
prosecutor really believed his life in danger) said be was
not instructed to press hardly against the prisoner, except
so far as was neeossary to secure the personal safety of Mr.
Whalley. It wee untrue that since her trial for shooting
at Mr. Whalley with a pistol loaded with ball he had re.
hued her relief. He had offered her the means of getting •
livelihood abroad, but she refused to go.
The Judge—l want rather to know the circumstances of
the acquitted, and under what circumstances Mr. Whalley
was fired at.

Mr. Pope—My learned friend Mr. Torr, whodefended her,
suggested that her object was not to murder him, bat to
frighten him, is order to extort money. There was at the
time a good deal of popular feeling.
The Judge, in passing sentence, said—The offence you
bare committed is one which may be punished with the
very severest sentence. It is that of threatening to take •
person's life, which is an offence that, committed under
other circumstances, . would be properly punished by • period
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of lecgthened puma servitudi.rThe probability G
Is that •
similar view may be taken of this case to that
taken by the jury of the List, that the threats were
for the purpose of terrifying Yr. Whalley without the
intention of their being carried out ; the came, however,
must be stopped, and soy such proceedinp as these pre-
vetted. I hesitate whether I ought not to pass a severer
sentence than I am about to do ; but I think when you find
these threats are to be followed by actual punishment you
will cease making. them. If, alter you have suffered this
sentence, you awn commit these crimes, you must expect
that you will be visited by severer punishment and be de-
tailed probably in penal servitude for a length of time. As
it is I think it will be sufficient to deter you in future if I
pus a sentence of six months with hard labour.

OXFORD CIRCUIT. --V.,— —.AFFORD, Dic. 9.
(Before Mr. Justice Byloo.)

The fire ironworks operatives who were convicted yester-
day. on the ►ighter count, for the atrocious outrage on the
married woman, at Lea Brook, were brought up this morn-
ing to he sentenced.
The learned Judge said that if they had been coovicted of
the capital offence he should have sentenced them to such a
term of penal servitude that, before it bad expired, the
youngest prisoner amongst them would have become an
old man. Owing, however, to the evidence of the
surgeon not having been quite complete on this point, sod
to the proeecutrix not having referred to the grosser usage
until a fortnight after the offence, when she was visited in
the hospital by her husband, the jury had found the pri-
soners guilty on the lesser count. Their goateed would
therefore be eighteen months' imptithement each, with hard
labour.

iiiies bare arranged to-day that the trial of the 19 men
charged with riot and conspiracy doriog the recent great
strike of colliers, ahall commence to-morrow.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

Roiatt and Henry Feist were again placed at the bar be.
fore the Lard Mayor, charged with having obtained an ad-
vance from Mr. Landoll, of Austinfriara, upon a consign-
ment of pickles, representing that each of the cases con-
tained three dozen, but on the arrival of the atop at Austin.
la the cases were found to contain one dozen only.
The Lord Mayor raid the consignment, by the invoice,
appeared to be oil, sauces, and pickles.
Mr. Humphries said that was so, but, in fact, the whole
shipment was solely of pickles. He did not intend to pro.
coed further with the use that day, but be hoped to be
able to proceed on Thursday nett. The illness of Sergeant
Hayden prevented him going forward.
The Lord Mayor remanded the prisoners until this day
week.
GUILDHALL.
_ . _

Josci.• Cron!, • short dark MS 0, carrying on the busi-
ness of a trimming maker, at 13, Sitter-merest, Bethnal.
green, was brought up on remand, charged on suspicion
of buiglariously breaking into the warehouse of Messrs.
Francis Bennet:li and Co., of 80, Wood-street, on the Bth
ult., and stealing therefrom 76 pieces of silk, containing
about 7,000 yards, value 51.101. He was also charged with
receiving the mame.

Mr. Iravis, from Mr. Howell's, of Cheapside, 'appeared to
prusscuto; Mr. Angell for the prisoner, and Mr. Ricketts,
to watch the ease on the part of ewitome named Bonner.
. .

The goods were traced by the prisoner otferlOg them to
draper in Clerkeowell. who communicated with the police,
and an secured the prisoner's apprehension.
Mr. Alderman Gabriel—l remanded skis cue upon the
last occasion to give Mr. Hamilton an opportunity of apps.
bending another of the men oonoerued m this burglary. le
Mr. Hamilton here?

Bilker. ~►
Lay detective, sai.l be represented 111 r.
H►milton, and although he (Baker) bad made every endea-
vour to apprehend the other man be bad not been successful.
He bad in hi hands evidence sufficient to ensure a
conviction in case of the capture of the man. There was
silk which bad been recovered from quite another quarter,
which bad formed a portion of that plundered on the same
occasion, _

Idr.ilelermea Gabriel committed the prisoner for trial,
sod ref used bad.

The oiliest stated that the prisooer Lad been in trouble
previously far receiving.

BO M-STBE ET.
Jana Edwards, aged IG, clerk to • solicitor, appeared to
• summate abergiog him with wilful and corrupt perjury.
Mr. Bury Hutibieen said be appeared for the prosecutor,
the Bev. Thomas Hooper, • clergyman of the established
clutch, raiding at Oaklandebouee, Kiel:paean, Kent Mr.
Hooper had sigised • bill for tbs aceommodatian of • friend,
who it appeared lied omitted to take it up when due, and
en the '2nd October proceedings were taboo. The plaintiff
is that ram was • Mr. Eve, and his solicitors were Meagre.
Wilkieson and Blythe. The defendant, though not in their
service, being clerk to Mr. Droop was, however, employed
to serve the writ, mid on the 10th of October he went down
to Oaklarids for that purpose. It so Dappled that Mr.
Hoopes was out for the day, bevies gees over to Dartford

' with a friend. The defendant delivered the writ Maimed a
a sealed envelope to Miss Godfrey, Mr. Hoopar's home.
keeper, who
He
it to Mr. Hooper on his return home that
evening. lie forwarded it to his brother, a solicitor, with
isstructions to settle the natter. The defendant, however,
upon !tiltrotor% to town declared that he had served the
writ on Mr. Hooper personally, and made an affidavit to
that effect. Upon that affidavit the plaintiff obtained,
judgment end execution, and the first intimation Mr.
Hooper had of any such proceedings was that he found the
sheriff in his house. He paid the money, but immediately
obtained at judges' chambers a summons ageless plaintiff to
show cause why the judgment should not be am aside. That
summons was returnable on Monday, the 28th of November,
but on that day the plaintiff's attermy did not produce the
person who had served the writ, but excused himself on the
ground that the boy was sot his clerk, but in the employ
of anothersolicitor. The mamma adjourned to the follow-
ing Wednesday, the 30th of November, when defendant
was produced as being the person who had served the writ
and made the affidavit. He still adhered to the statemtut
that he had served the writ on Mr. Hooper personally.
Mr. Baron Bramwell then said he had no coarse but to die.
miss the summons, adding that if Edwards had given fate
evidence he could be iedieted for perjury.
This statement having been supported by the evidence of
Mime Godfrey, the Rev. Mr. Hooper, and the hissed with
whom he had spent the day on the 10th of October,
The defendant was remanded for further examination.
Mr. Vaughan mid he would take bail in two sureties of
1501. each, and his own reirognimances of 3001.

LAMBETH.
Yesterday an aged woman, named Till, applied to Mr.
Elliott for his adrift, and ated that on the 4th of April
last she pledged fie. with a pawnbroker for 64., and having
since lost the ticket she called there on that clay to take
the pledge oat or secure an affidavit on it.
Mr. Elliott—l cannot understand you. Do you mean to
say that you pledged eight shillings in silver for 6d. ?
Applicant—Yes, your worship.
Mr. Elliott—What was your object in doing so extraor-
dinary an act?
Applicant—The fact, your worship, was that I was going
into the workhouse, acd knowing that the money world be
taken from me I adopted that means of securing it.
Dixon, the usher, said that this was oommonly dons by
persona going permanently into the workhouse. It was
the practice at the workhouse on persons going in there to
stop to take off their clothes and wash them, and all the
mousy found on them was appropriated to their support,
and the sixpence which the applicant received she could
keep in her mouth during the operation of washing, and pre.
serve it from her searchers.

ili.Elfioit:iotieipPlicant—What reason dose the
pawnbroker amigo for not giving you a farm of affidavit, or
giving up your money
Applitmet—The reason was because I could not state the
exact pieces of money of which the eight shillings were
oomposed.
Dixon here informed the magistrate that the pawnbroker
was a highly respectable man, and if his worship would
allow him (Dixon) to call with her, he had no doubt he would
at once give up the pledge.
Mr. Elliott thought this would be the shiniest course., and
left the applicant in his (Dixon's) bands.