The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-24 00:00:00

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why they did so, and the peinaper, whams the ringleade4,
immediately thrust his bends under the young women's
I clothe', and most indemetly samalted her. She struggled
''with the rimier ne well Mahe weld is her ow* defense.
14 tried to take her park mad to parent her fro:tut:l
subjected to may further indignities, when wee
hy, the whole of the fellows. M mabrells, el the value of
10e. 6d.. wee eastelted from my headland pissed to one of
the fellows, and my friend's clank wee torn from her beck
by ono of the gang, who went of with it. A constable
then coming up some of the fellows ran (iff, dropping the
cloak, but my friend keeping al6t hold tot Aka prisoner,.
be was secured. The cloak wee afterwards picked up.
Mr. Tyrwhitli—l hope you give the prisoner iu charge. .
Witness--I
The Brat witness was then warlord, sod in a state of
greet neryormaess mid—The Wexner wee the find who se-
malted me. AU inyfriend has mid is tans. Primmer etole
j the cloak off my back. He then, mein the ocrastehle an.
preach threw the elm* away sad tried to escape, but I held
him till the constable came.
Luke Jeffrey, 2119 0-0 o carouse giving the prisoner
in sharp he denied stealing the cloak and rella. I saw
the priwaser's easopimiou ramie( away.
Later is the day 41fred .194awiek, Thomas Porker, and
.Edwin Mass were cred.with being concerned with the
pribooor in the above offence.
The oomplement identiaed two of the prisoners as having
bald her while the man Farrow indecently eiesalted her.
Tyrwhitt declined to deal with the owe summarily,
sod remanded all the prisoners with the ex of Ren-
wick, who, not being identified, was •

Jame Naive, a —7
looking fellow, was charged
with the following d conduct.
Mr. George Ro proprietor of the Two Brewers
Tavern, Stye tton-groeud, said tLat the prisoner aims foto hie
bowie oa Monday night drunk, and created a greet disturbing,
by geXing up a tight there. The uproar and confenioa wee
so greet by the defendant's misconduct that be was obliged 1
to get the police to clear the house, and the sewed wee
expelled with the others, but immediately eftermards, deer
kicking violently at the doer, forced his way in, mod aelshag
complainant by the throat, in the same way as the garotte
operation is performed, dragged hie to the grinukt.• Beene
tow surrounded by others end GI-treated.
Preach Fisher, 112 B, said that whom he first entered the
home to clear it, he found the defendant fighting with some
wanes. After the .hoese was cleared, and when he went
in a semi time, be found the defendant with his hands
round the proessnibr's throat. Witnee• seined the defen-
dant, sad, sotwlthstandieg his resisiesce, brought him into
the sheet, there excused's cempanions rescued him, and
ha
Poliee-camtable 267 B said be afterwards found the de-
fendant in a slate of nudity espied in another disturbance
in Dusk-lent.

Yr. Paynid;r asked what was keowa of the defendant.
Oaplia rirpird that hej bad only just been re-
Is=sularver long imprisonment.
Yr. Prysber—lls he • liekeimiLlesve man
Impeder Hap/M—He is, I believe, sir.
Yr. Payster—Tben, under OM circumstance, I shall
=Maly not dispose of the use vomit. I shall send it for
trial.
Asother fellow, named Dawn', was charged with being
ocamernet in the miscue of Nivea, which was clearly proved.
Yr. Paynter—b be kerma ?
The police —He is the common emaciate of thieves.
Yr. Capita—lf reminded with the other prisoner we
should be able to let the court know more about them.

They were manmade&
_LAMBETH.

AD inspector from Sc7otiTini:y;w7leralted on Mr. Elliott,
and said be was directed by Sir Richard Mayne to inform
his worship, In refereoce to a statement made to hire on the
day before, that it was not tree that the discharge of the
ticket-of•lesie IMO wan owing to any ioterfereooe on the
part of the police, and he therefore requested that the
statement which had gee forth might be contradicted.

EXECUTION AT. DURNAM.

The execution of John (lox for the murder of
Ann Halliday took place at Durham yesterday morning. The
prisoner and his wife, whom Irish people, lived in a cot-
tage at Hobbletrot, near Durham ; and Hrs. Halliday, who
was 83 yesre of age, occupied apartments separated from
theirs by • thin partition only. On the night of the
10th of August Mrs. Halliday was brutally murdered ; bat
the Oozed were the first to give the alarm. Suspicion at-
tached to them from the fact that any noise in Mrs. Halli-
day's room moat have been been by them ; and at the trial
at Durham assizes both man and wife were convicted and
senteoced death. Thelwoman,'heingsnorinte, was respited ;
the man has suffered the extreme penalty of the law.
Since their condemnation Cox has not (leased to declare his
inooeence, and his wife has beat equally as emphatic in her
deeial of the charge. On the night preceding the execution
the male prisoner, who has eonducted himself as a penitent
Christian, under the ministration of Canon Platt, the Roman
catholic clergyman who has attended biro, retired to rest
and slept until five o'clock In the morning, when he arose
and dressed himself. He was, however, so ill that he was
obliged to lie down again, and he then slept until seven
o'clock. Shortly after that hour Canon Platt, who bad pre-
viously read a mass in the catholic church, visited the pri-
soner and administered to bimtbe sacrament. At the request
of the rev. father, Cox then took • little breakfast, and at
9 o'clock he
the
the proceesion and proceeded to the
scaffold. In the area in front of the county gaol some three
or four thousand pectoris of the lowest claw of the popu-
lation of the district bad assembled. The doomed man
ascended the drop unassisted. His face was of comes-like
pallor, and he repeated io • quivering voice the word'
"Lord Jesus receive my soul." As Askern, the hangman,
drew the white cap over his bead he seemed to cling to these
words with extreme fervency, and at the last he gasped
them forth in • weeping tone that was extremely
affecting to bear. After the bolt was drawn the
body remained for a moment motionless, then fol-
lowed two convulsive starts, and the retribution of the
law was complete. Al the drop fell several Roman catho-
lio people to the crowd went down upon their knees and re-
peated prayers for the departing soul. Confined io the
gaol, the wife of the condemned culprit, herself under sen-
tence. became violeotly agitated on hearing the prison-bell
tell the death-knell of her husband ; and she exclaimed in.
cerantly, "Oh. Johnny, Johnny ; he's innocent. He
wouldn't hurt • fly." At 10 o'clock the body of the culprit
was taken from the scaffold and interred within the precincts
of the gaol. The behaviour of the crowd was decorous and
quiet.