The Express.
London, England, 1862-03-13 00:00:00

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Joseph Would" libo old .barged with the murder of
William White, ea tie OW of the Ist Met., at Apse
Heath, was lireissin +w Bearday for final examiustion
before the comity meglelmess at Newport. William Les,
keeper of the toll-banes at lake, said he had charge of the
prisoner on the night el the merrier for a short time at the
toll-house, and prisoner sue, o I suppose I shall be hues.
I own I did it, and I swot to do it. I used to give her
(meaning Jane Smith, the pristripel witness) my money, and
she used to draw my ponder" The other evidence was a
mere repetition of that Mho' at the inquest, and which we
have fully reported. The prisoner, on being &eked if he bud
anything to say to the charge, said, in a low hurried voice,
" I will confess my On e and then in a firm tope said, " I
committed the deed, but did it in self-defence." The pri-
mmer wise committed for trial at Winchester. On Hendee,
William Lea, the toll-gate keeper, attempted to commit
suicide by gutting his throat. Medical aid was quickly
obtaieed, and he is likely to recover. He was a man of very
amillahia temperament, and it is believed his being com-
piled ise slue evidence in the cam brought one fit of tem -
peseryinennity.
TUE CONDEMNED MURDERERS, GOULD AND
MARLTON. —The Home Secretary has had under considers-
lism the cirretrodeoces of the case of Jobs Gould, convicted
at the last Berkshire Saguia of the wilful murder of his
daughter at Windsor on the 30th of December last ; and
also that of John Gheirltoo, found guilty at the Carlisle
assizes of the murder of Jane Emenenou, an old woman,
who kept the rate at the Durran-hill naming of the rail-
way, and who was recommended to mercy by the jury on
account of hie porkies peel character; and Sir George
Grey having received reports from the learned judges
who tried the respective came. date not see any reason for
Mierferiug with the due execution of the sentence, and the
wretched men will accordingly pay the last penalty of the
law—Gould at Reuling Gaol, on Friday, at twelve o'clock ;
and Charlton, on Saturday, at twelve o'clock, at Carlisle
GaoL
FORGERY FT THE ELDDIT Sox or THE REV. H. S.
Terrentm—Yesterday Horatio UMW. Fletcher, the eldest
@so of the Rev. Horatio Samuel Fletcher, the incumbent of
St. Leoilard's, Wilke, whose proocedings in connexion with
the Billiton Savings Bank are so uotorioua, was brought up
in costal,, and went through his preliminary examination
before Mr. W. Partridge, the stipendiary magistrate at
Wolyerhamptoe, charged with forging an acceptance to a
bill ..f exchange for eke. The poisoner was, up to the Ist of
August last, • partuer in the hone of Pitt and Fletcher, iron
merehants. of Willeohall. On the application of the solicitor
for the prosecution, the prisoner was remanded for a week,
but the stipendiary refused to accept bail for his appearance
en that occasion ; and Its was therefore removed in custody
to the poi of Stafford, in which town his father is now
waiting to gummier to his Lail at hie trial at the current
assizes for Staffordshire.
!Suellen IN THE Huusz or Denurrios.—On Tues-
day Mr Brent, deputy coroner for West kliddlenex, held a
leogthentei inquiry at the House of Detention, Clerkenwell,
as to the death of a Prussian named Frederick Hartman or
Hartoman, who destroyed his life by banging Limed(' on
Friday lest. It appeered that the deceased was committed
en a charge of housebreaking, and Me &Ire, the magistrate
who beard theism, made an endorsement on the commit-
ment that it was • special ease, as the deceased was sup-
posed to he disposed to commit *elf-destruction. The &t-
-ressed, within half an hour of his admission to the prison,
hanged himself with • ueckerchief, which he attached to a
gaimipe. Severnl of the officers were examined, and the
Gov•inor said the rose had not been left five minutes be-
fore he was found hanging. The jury having considered in
private found that the deceased died by his own act while
in an unsound state of inks& but strongly recommended
that in future, when a magistrate rent a commitment en-
dorsed that it was a special ease, the prisoner should be
incessantly watched until the medical officer had reported
on the case. The deceased hail not been long in England.
sod was Imitated with the idea that he was pursued by par
sous who wanted to murder him. The verdict was recorded
as one of suicide while the deceased was of unsound mind.
REMOVAL OF THE SIGNAL STATIONS IN MILIOID
He% to.—The electric telegraph having been eseehlibed
between Ht. Aso 's Head cud the dockyard. the hawse
method of communication by signals has been abolished.
and the stations are being abolished. There is also au
Admiralty wire between that department and the dock-
yard, so as to ensure direct oonimueicatium
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