The Express.
London, England, 1852-03-02 00:00:00

Crows Sum—Barsis 31.. Ronne Czneweu.

John Smith, 21, was charged with shooting Barnard Dog.
betty, at Elingham, on the 27th September, with intent to
murder him. _ .

The circumstances of the cue were as follows :—On Sun-
day the 27th of
_September, the deceased and other three
Irishmen, who had come to this country to seek employ-
ment during the harvest, were on their way to a farm-
house where they expected to get employment. In the
course of their journey they went into a publie-house at
Elingbam, where some Englishmen were sitting drinking.
Unfortunately, a quarrel soon ensued, and in the end the
reapers were driven out of the house; but as the deceased
was turning round the corner of the house, ho dashed his
shearing-book through a window, and thereby smashed
several squares of glass. The English party being irritated,
they pursued the reopen, end on coming up, the deceased
and his companions raised their hooks, and threatened
to cot their opponents' heads off. At this juncture
the English party got a gun ; and on a seems en-
suing, the prisoner fired the gun, and severely
wounded the deceased in the arm. Surgical assistance was
procured and every attention paid to the deceased, but after
lingenng a few days he expired.
Mr. Overeud, fur the prisonet, contended that he was in-
nos. nt of the charge laid in the indictment, because the
gun went off by accident while defending hinted( agaiost
one of the reapers, who had his hook up threatening to
stick him.

Hit lordship having summed up, the jury Acquitted the
prisoner.
Jolt Persia, charged with assaulting and robbing Mr.
Hamilton, of North Shields, was bound guilty, and was
sentenced to ten years' transportation. The prosecutor was
Maneend by two men in a lane while going home; one
seined and throttled him until the blood gushed out of his
smssdfs. nose, and ears, while the other man robbed him.
ITM r was tho only one the prosecutor could
This ow isemaimated the business before his lordship at
those amines.

Mtr Pam Omar —Ben*, Me. tisane A LIURION.
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the the maintain' ; the ilea. Adolphus
delbseled peessede.
It doe the primer, whe is a master sweep et
IGrpiM. ipso ohm the country in a berm sad cart for the
er weep* chimneys, sad es doe etershig of the
peeperg rebury was at Starshadltais with his t we ep-
preetiele—elle caused Carr, shout 20 years forage, the other
the deemed, of sheet 10. The day was esorsaiway said,
sad alter meediag sense shimmy, at Ilteasfordhere the twe
Ws led Idellieri et • putblie•leyese kept by a sea creed
ilatabas. At hei Vele* they were sheet de Out
Mee Steerkedhazaer the here end cart were at the
deer, Ohs Neese held by Carr, the little hey (the
diesslibLeelecks obe Bert esderesatis the &Mei seat.
Daft Needed IN primer had sem ably AM like.
The fade Sue ben sire de added with spieled /shed

intim they same to a read whist* tarns off the main road up
tei a Tillers sailed Wholphmsea, when the prisms, ordered
the boys to alight, and to walk straight Onward wail they
mocked OMlsso. TM prima dm tweed up M Whelp-
lops. ?be two bore walked maiden the mad to Otter-
Mee, whisk Ike *nog% • Week and mew sashed the die-
tante being alma sine miles. TM wind wee Mewing mid
from the seetberard, and the danced bed on • this Imam
jasket, a wadies satin, a reeled
_pair of tremens, and
a plcsi Assn Owing to the whims of the day Can
no Mame& and forwent. to keep Women warm, and
is a little tines Idt the deceased, sal to a
turnpike, when Its warmed himself wbltiar the deceased
afterwards came. They thusleft the meg& and pro-
waded as the read M a plass sailed Well. Clieg when
they parted with a abspino4, whe bad met lam GM walked
a little way with tbem. MenUy after the eider boy, being
cold, and the Any palm dirk again left the little boy,
who, me the sides geleg s(, stied out " likwiter !" upon
which Carr west Wok to me what was the matter, and
found the little beg ifteit_ipere es the greead with his
feet out, apes with& Carr Med him op. bat ea dein KO
found that M seal mat stend. Can then test Ms is his
back, and Owed Mee for sham behind •
dark
two
walls met. When be hid Ma down, it dark he
spoke to him, bet be sash sot week, and thew pat his
arms round Ida to hi end warm Ws. la a short tone the
prisoner,lib* had lees refreshing himself at Whelp-
logien came up, and they lifted the doomed into the
cart, ;ad seek him to a public-house at &ay Lees, where '
the Mesmer behaved very kindly. taking the poor little
fellow es kis knees, sad potting him to the fire to warm
him--appeathi to be smelt alitmoi—saying, Poor Billy,"
and wishing he night recover. He thin tent for a surgems,
but before the surgeon could arrive life wag extinct. The
death, in the stn's opinion, was occasioned by exposure
to the cold, with Imerallomt clothing, accompanied by an
insufficiency of grew And. It did not, however, appear
that the primaer ems la the habit of ill-treating his ap-
prentices, or that he had been otherwise than kind to the
deceased.

Mr. Liddell. In addressing. the jury for the prisoner,
urged that there was nothin in the ewe which established
that the prisoner had been guilty of gross and wanton csre-
lesseess and neglect towards Use deceased. The distance
which he hail directed the lads to walk was not a greater
distance than they could reasonably be supposed to be able
to accomplish, and though the deceased was not as warmly
clad as he ought to have been, that might be accounted for
by the mildness of the season before the day in question,
which it so happened was perhaps the coldest day during
the past winter. It could not he denied that the buy had
died of told, which had been occasioned perhaps by his
dawdling on the road, waiting for his master's coming up,
for had he walked on briskly, or had the elder boy taken
him by the hand and run him up and down the road, as he
had done himself, the stupor produced by cold which results
in death would not have gained the mastery .ever him. lie
might also have stopped at the turnpike, or gone into one
of the houses which the boys passed, in which case his life
would have been saved.

lio lordship having summed up,
The jury returned a verdict of Ustilty.
His lordship, in paining sentence, said that he had
doubted in his own mind whether public justice did not
demand that the prisoner should be transported, but after
consulting with Mr. Justice erosive% they had come to
the conclusion that it was not necessary to go that length,
nbe hod been kind to the biy and did not appear to have
previously ill-treated him. lio would, therefore, only sem
tenee him to be imprisoned with hard labour for two years.
Their lordships proceed to Durham on Monday to open
the commhsioo.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.-YEnxßDt'r.
8.7011 i Ma. PUIJII/ItT ADAMS. AII&WWIT !malt.

The March General Session of the Peace for the county
of Middlesex commenced this morning at the Sessions
House, Clerkenwell, before the Assistant Judge (Mr.
Serjeant Adams), Mr. Witham, Mr. Roe, Mr Whiskin,
Mr. Turner, Mr. Wilks, Mr. Denzil, J. Thomson, sod oths r
magistrates. The calendar contains the names of 52 pri-
soners for did, of whom 47 were charged with felony and
5 with misdemeanor.
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