The Express.
London, England, 1852-10-28 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLl► COURT.--YESTZIPAT.
batcar L,.e C. 1114 DAMS Pwira.
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Ge ry Gtep..n:2.l,;;;:liCati;;;lent, was iodictcl for
a felonious assault upon Anne Hall, a girl eleven Teen old.
Tn. facto of the case us not At foe publication. The jury
found the grinner Ouilly.--Senteree deferred.

MA-NSLACOHTZIL.

J.,;n Leie,s. '22, was indicted for the wilful murder of
Richard Stannett by stabbing him with • knife.
The prisoner by a coroner's inquisition was Charged with
the offence of mauslaughter only.
Mr. Bodkin, c .unsel for the prosecution, in opening the
cow, said that although the grand jury had thought fit to
find a hi:l for murder against the prisoner. he felt bound to
admit that it operated to him that the evidence would not
support that charge, but that the offeace, committed by the
pawner amounted. in point of feet, to the crime of man-
sleughter only. He was afraid, however, that it would be
rule to appear my clearly that the prisoner, in a moment
of excitement and passion, bad caused the death of a fel-
low-workman by stabb nit him; and although he had uxdonbt-
oily a good deal of provocation before he commit-
ted the act, yet that woulo not iu law be a sufleient
jastileatioo ; and it appeared to his that the jury would
have no alternative iu the performance of their duty but
to find the prisoner guilty of the minor offence of man-
aLughter.
Toe following witnesses were then 'moused :
Joseph Rawbone deposed that he was a shoemaker, and
lived with his brother at Old Brantford. The deceased
Richard Bpaneett was an apprentice to his brother, and the
prisoner was also in his service, and they all three were in
the habit of working together in the seine shop. They
were so engag. d on the 16th October, and during the day
there bad been a good deal of "larking" going on betweea
them, and the deceased went in a playful manner towards
the prisoner and laid hold of him. The prisoner was in a
very great passion at his doing this, and said that if be did
not leave him alone he would stick a knife in him. There
was a knife which he used in his work lying on his seat, and
the planer snatched it up, and witness laid hold of his hand
and said he would not Incas it unless he promised to put the
knife down. At this time tho prisoner and the deceased had
hold of each other, and in a minute or so the prisoner said
he would put the knife down. The deceased upon this'
leased his hold of him, and witzicas let go his band; and
Stannett, as he left go of the prisoner, struck him on the
face, and the instant the blow was given the prisoner
stabbed him in the belly with the knife, and he staggered
bark, exclaiming " You have done it at last."
1.,p0s being cross examined, the witness admitted that
the "larking he had referred to principally consisted in
worrying the prisoner, and it appeared that all sorts of
trick., such es placing cobbler's ware ou his scat, smacking
his face, de., bad been practised upon him. Ho also ad-
mitted that ihe prisoner hail repeatedly complained to his
brother of the manner in which he was annoyed and in-
sulted by the deceased.
Charles Blake, a police constable, deposed that he lock
the prisoner into custody, and upon his telling him that he
was charged with stabbing &anoint, he asked if he bad
hurt him much, and when he informed him that he was
stabled in the belly, and that it was a very serious charge,
he said he was very sorry for what he had done, but they
bad aggravated Min to do it. He also said that the knife
was by nis side, and that be took it up in the first instance
merely to frighten them sad prevent them from annoying
_ _

Mr. linekland, the house surgeon at St. George's
Hospital, proved that the decesW was brought to that'!
establishment, and that he was found to have received a
very severe wound in the abdomen, and that he died on the
following morning from the consequences of that injury.
Mr. Sallantine, in addressing the jury for the prisoner,
urged that there was no evidence whatever to sustain the
sharp of wilful murder, and said it was clear that the un-
fortunate prisoner had no intention in the first instance to
de misehief to the deemed or say otter puma, but that he
had been goaded to wend: the ern le the Walla that wave
promisee: upon him sad the MIMI 'Mena eamalthut spas
his person at the time by the demand.
:Several highly respectable whammies, awed wire. was
Mr. Bazaar& tie • ry de* et Oh Jams's, WeMethriter,
by which parish the xjriiasse bed Isms 14011M0N4 wore
called to speak to his ebiesster, rad they Mellareed in
describing him as lizioa a pedeelledi iselisades, landaas
lad. His conduct as etheremposts Moe spewed M As..
been most esemplary. and A. bra iessived • psi eseduet
medal from the pariah althasidsh
The learned J edge haw*" sumsed up, the jury found
the prisoner Gavlty of "Meree/mestram," bet at the same
time strongly et elisesended hen he swim on amount of
his previous good character, mad the pat provocation he
had received.

Sentence was postponed.
Richard Garthreette surreadered to take his trial for the
manslaughter of Mary Anise Welsh.
It appeared that the family of the prisoner and that of
the deceased re• ided near each other, is Potter-street, Cam-
berwell ; and it would seem that there had been some ill
&tilos between them, which resulted in • regular fight be-
tween the prisoner and some of his family and the deceased
and two of her daughters, on the evening of July a. The
deemed became very ill shortly afterward,, and was removed
to the woekbeide, when else died on the 2711 August; and
W cae, en the part of the pecimeutioe was that on the night
of the fight "he had received two blow' from the prisoner
epos her left breast, which bad produced an abeam, which
was the immediate caved death. It appeared, however,
frees the medical teMinieny that this abeam might have
been predated by other earn Wu violence, sad the master
of the workhosioe, who me anal as a witness for the pri-
soner, stated that when the diseased was upon her death
bed sad perfectly aware that her sad was approaching, she
said to hem that she weal/ IA tfhs tenth, and the feet wee
that she bad fallen Isms ups Ihe boa ea du canal bridge
and bad hart her ride leisee thenitlibt this fight took place.
The jary returned a /WM Oriby.

Ca=ON ?Ili alt.

Jean Coifs'''. 31, sweep, in; INMeloi for the espital
offence of Jr:on:owl inflestiag ups Michael Dwyer rur-
alist habit injuries to itio. with intent to nor.
iter hiss.

Tie Prisoner ie the ma when aims he bass or fro-
gently recently When the pails. end whose brutality ea
so many occ.sisas a has. sneered him the terror
of the seighbnarhaad when he sodded. He was tried on
Tuesday at the /rinse sessions, mil einhenesd to two resat'
hard labour fee a visaing amenit tablas eat of the same
tranantion, and was soniend to he god of ?tempts by
Weis to take his India he present absege.
Mr. Bodkin and lb. alma modested he prosecution.
Tbe primmer we eminhodol.
Mr. Bodkin. is his seine to Beam, mid that the NM
sew before the. was mss whisk Weil Mee
bees presented is he hum et es o oh-
hemmer, but there sae mom eissormieoeseseesessed
with the present teassoesiss
he to hove
*silted the ciantrairelems et Oboe by whom he meow
ties wee iastituted, gesteeft dirge et felony whet
the primmer km bowleg- greit • meet despeseh mod
violist assault um ens of Weir game, with the Mot to
sursdor him. The sees bed esesied .s good did et public
interest, and bad enemissed ISM remarks I. tam
inernals ; and if the jury bad send these semsska. he
trusted
i they would dismiss them item their Wade. ett
allow thous n any way to prendiss the primmer, bell
the eeee bole' y apes the intim) that would be hid bean
them in support of the show The learned seingielglw
proceeded to direct the attleotisa of the jary to
esi theleatate
apes which the isiiietiment was framed, mid
that if they should be of from the and
declaratimis of the prisoner at the dee of the eselenessee
and from the dreadful injuries he mediated that be really
intended to murder the ossetable it would be their ditty to
Gad him guilty, but if that latent was not aside out to their
satisfaction be explained to them that by a recent altera-
tion is the law they would have aes &hematite but to acquit
him altogether.
Michael Deer, the prosecutor, who still appeared to be
uttering dreadfully from the iethrin he bed reosived, being
unable to stand or walk without assistaact, deposed that he
was a police•coustable of the P division, and on the *Ma
lag if the 13th of September he was en duty at the Cam-
berwell pale/filiation, when be resolved Whammies that
there was a dished:man at • pebllo.heuse called the Brick-
layers' Arms, and he proceededthere to pat on mad to it.
Os hie arrival at the plan he Is the primer stead-
ied °Wee& the public-knee, end &best a bushed rod
efty people round him. The prima to have
received a hurt on his head, Lad wee his dishes
were bloody, and wits's, silted him to him le •
donor and have his wend deemed. n•sy at het
seemed willing to do so, mill wsthd withbles sheet tlMmsee
quietly, and he then wig my sensed, steeped dews,
seised sailor., by his legs, sad One* him down upon his
back with great violent*, sad the meows' be was ea the
ground theprierrearriistoped three time oyes bis sheet sad
stoma*. Be hes dew limit dew Imes Me sod pet
his lest Wine his meek sod mold boos dried his tt the
meek bed set bashes. While be we Ming hie the pet
seem sidelined, " You -- Ile he yes sew.
Whams smuggled se well se he MN ails, eM get
is the top if the primmer, sod hid hid of his
hoods, and wiles he did so the Velem, ellimpted
le bits him. Ho held the primer se hog as
be mould, and be then got up, sod witness shxs The pri-
mmer Seined back and put up his arms Is a flghtlag pos•
tore, and when witness raised his loads to rasa kis heed
the primmer stooped dun and ran at him, sod " Dotted"
bins to the ground with his head. While he wee upon the
ground the prisoner vas so to hies mod kicked him, at the
same tie* exclaiming. " Yee I'U do for you sow."
I R. was iejored in socb • dreadlid manner by the last attack
of the prisner that it was some momenta before he rev,-
vere,l, and the prisoner leaned over be, and on his getting
en his legs the primmer aisle " batted" him down in the
Name meaner, and he thee attempted to kick him again In
the stomach, sad said, "Yes l'll give you another
dewier, sad nem rise again.' After a short
ties he recovered a little, and got up and drew his
nankin, and be then heard some one is the crewd say,
Well, don., Cannon, give it the —," and the prisoner
then tried to get his truncheon away from him. Some
other constables had by this time come up, and one of
them, named Thorne, wee knocked:down by the prisoner.
He was at length secured, but it required the martian of
six constables ad three private venous, to convey him to
the station-heams. Wanes was the. taken to Mr. Flower,
the .orgies of the divines, and he remained in bed for
three weeks, and was still ander his care. None of the
persons io the crowd rendered him aseistanim while the
otoit. sr was ill-usiog him, although he asked them to
.
Thu ptoorcut‘r, in answer to questions put by rho prisoner,
denied that be first scented Iten and told him to go on.
He &so denied tinelag nosed the wound on his head by
striking him with his trissehees, and said he knew nothing
about lie way ia whisk the waled was ressived.