The Express.
London, England, 1863-02-23 00:00:00

LAMBETH.

William Denbigh. S1,;;,;;111;Whall, alias Harris, con-
victed in 1859 of marrying two women, and sentenced to
four years' penal servitude, applied to the magistrate,
under theticket-of-leave system, for a cirtificate of his
being in • respectable employment. Originally a washer-
woman's son, to the astonishment of every one the bad been
able to persuade two ladies of rank and fortune to marry
him, he being far inferior to them in every respect. The
magistrate sent one of the of of the court to make
inquiries about the applicant before he would sign the cer-
tificate. It is singular that both wives of the applicant,
in expectation of his discharge, applied to this court a few
days ago, and received orders of protection.

The two brothers, Joseph and Isaac Brooks, charged with
the murder of a policeman at Acton, end lane Lake, charged
as an accessory after the fact, were finally examined before
Mr. 1)a an.
An additional witness, in the person of a married woman,
named Winning, proved that on the night, and about the
time of the murder, she was crossing the fields towards
Cumberland Villa, Acton, when she saw the prisoners run-
ning in the direction of Turnham-green. As they came up
to her they walked • few yards, and, after passing her,
they ran away again, and she heard Joseph use a black-
ard expression to his brother and call upon hint to run.
The prisoners here looked at each other and laughed.)
Knees added that she knew the prisoners well, and that
Joseph had a fiat kind of bat on.
After some further evidence, the prisoners, who con-
ducted themselves throughout in a moskuidecorous manner,
were committed for trial—the men for the wilful murder of
the constable, and the female as an accessory after the fact ;
and the witnesses, thirty-three in number, having been
bound over, the prisoners were conveyed to Newgate.

SUSPECTED MURDER AT ALDERSHOTT. —OD Thurs-
day the body of • respectably-dressed man was found float-
ing in the Basioptoke Canal, Aldershott, bearing novena
suspicious marks of violence. The pockets of the unfortu-
nate man had been turned inside out. Over and surrounding
the left ear was a mirk as from a violent blow ; the back of
the bands, especially the right one, was dreadfully injured,
as if in trying to ward off blows from the head. On Friday
it was identified as the body of Mr. Henry Moulton, a saddle
and harness maker, of Bagshot, Surrey. On Saturday all
inquest was opened at the Queen's Hotel, Aldershott, before
Mr. Pain, coroner, when James Moulton, a saddler, at
Bagshot, identified the deceased as his father, Henry
Moulton. His age was 72 ;he lived at Bagehot, and was •
saddler and harness maker. He last saw him alive on or
about the 18th or 19th of last mouth, at Begshot. Ou the
22nd of January be left Bagshot for
on business, and he had never heard of him ant
the previous evening. He was the clerk to a
benefit society, some of the members of which
lived in that neighbourhood. He was not aware of anything
which would have induced the deceased to commit suicide.
He always wore • black hat, and carried an oak stick with •
crooked handle, neither of which had been found. Dr.
Webster, staff surgeon-major attached to the division at
Aldershott, said the body had probably been in the water
upwards of eight days. The face was much swollen, and
bore marks of bruises. On the upper part of the forehead
there was a contusion, and the upper and back part of the
scalp appeared unnaturally puffy and swollen, and there was
• depression • little to the back of the crown of the head,
the pupils were dilated, and month filled with blood
and mucus. He was of opinion that death bad been
caused by asphyxia from drowning, but that an assault
had been previously committed with a blunt inetniment,
which in all probability had occasioned insensibility. The
injury to the head and hoods had uodoubtedly taken
place before death, but he was not certain whether they,
were sufficient to cause death, although from the age of
the deceased they might have been. At this stage of the
proceedings the inquiry was adjourned for a fortnight to
enable the police to prosecute farther investigation.
Tug CROV DON MVEDER.—At the Hull Police-
court on Friday, Edward Schmidt, the foreigner, who was
apprehended in Hull on the previous Saturday. on MO'
don of being the murderer of Mrs. Martha Holiday, in the
Parsonage-house, at Kingiwood, near Reigate, Surrey, on
the 10th of June, 1861, was again brought up (or re-exami-
tion. The prisoner was remanded on Monday last for •
week for the purpose of communicating with the police
authorities in Surrey respecting the book and papers bearing
the name of Johann Earl Franz, which were found in the
chamber where the unfortunate woman was mur-
dered, and which a lodging-house keeper, in Hull,
named Johann Pfeiffer, bad sworn to as having been seen
in the possession of the prisoner. Mr. Mischfanus, tba
chief conttable, having received the book and paws, the
prisoner was brought up by order of the Mayor on Friday.
The book was produced, and was only imperfectly sworn to
by Pfeiffer. The other witnerres, Elizabeth Streicher and
Bernard Streicher, who also deposed to having seen Schmidt
in possession of H. Franz's book, could not identify it as
being the one they had seen in possession of the prisoner.
At the correlation of the examination, the Mayor said he
could not ill the face of the prisoner's admiemon, " I sun
the man who committed the murder, but you cannot prove
it," as sworn to by Pfeiffer, do otherwise than order the
prisoner to be removed along with the depositions to Rei-
gate, Surrey. The prisoner was thereupon removed in cus-
tody of Sergeant Trace, who apprehended the prisoner, to
Reigate.

---COUNTY COURT APPOINTMENTS. --Sir Walter Rid-
deli, Bert., has been appointed Count Court Judge of
Whitechapel (Circuit No. 37) vice Mr. Serjeaut Manning,
resigned. Mr. W. Spooner has been appointed Judge of
the County Court of Staffordshire (Circuit No. 26), in the
room of Sir Walter Riddell. Mr. E. J. Lloyd, Q.C., has
been appointed Judie of the County Court of Bristol (Cir-
cuit No. 54), vice %. N. Wilke, deceased. Mr. William
James Maxwell has been appointed collector of customs
for the settlement of Lagoa.

CHANGEM IN THE CONVICT PRISONS. —The larger
pordon of female convicts who are at present located in
hfillbank prison are shout to be transferred to Parkhurst
prison in the Isle of Wight. This change will vacate too
pentagons of this building which are urgently required for
the reception of the unusually large body of convicts lately
sentenced, the result of the eery great increase in the wont
clam of crimes. Between five and six hundred convicts ere
stated to be in the various county and borough gaols await-
ing treater to the ch►rge of the government authorities,
and for whom :ben exists at present no accommodation.—
Civil &roles Gazette.

CITY Or LONDON HOSPITAL TOR DISEASES OF
Talc CHEST, VICTORIA-PAM —The number of patients re-
lieved at this institution during LA week was 1,184, of
which 288 were new cues.

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