The Express.
London, England, 1852-05-13 00:00:00

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an& Ala the jury without may'tation Manisa • verdiot
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MIDDLESEX SESSIONS,—YeirrniDaT.
B.roas Ma. Ileasener Lasm, morose Juin, AT nu now-
WAY" WIATIIITATAIL
Sesame Bakens.
Richland Ambler, a young men, apparently not mien than
twenty-three or four pen of age, falsely described es a
seseenderod to take his Ws] on an indictment,
le ens he was charged with bevies committed an insult
ee Marls Newberry, a girl elghteert years of age, with
incest, &e.
Mr. Parry, is opening the sem to the , said it was
cal deserv
ingtbe men grave sad serious tion, not
ealy ea seems& et the name of the dory Merit, but oldie
eeeesseem of ash• Aug. cm a penes Wm the di fend
askwM, thee& deseribed as a ningesa, woe not, he be
lined, a numbs, et the Clilege et Surgeees, and thinker
bed no right to that 41/ipillefas. The meanie be woe
chatted with was committed an the preen eta rug girl,
who was an inmate of as inelitsties of • meet Metal 4:be-
moan, to peeeene of humble stadia, gelled the Meese of
Cheeky, Is then Teems vein. Imprelahly receeinseaded
to the mineesem, we meshed More when at of service,
and ens et Se heineteni gamed Mamie, Ihnhigton, would
he Mad le Moe bed a skate is thedreemensees on which
the promestion was founded ; bet be MA sot Intend to call
bar as a whams, as there was so dente she was the tool
and vied. ef the dehndent.
The 'Wm, tee the presenatien, whisk bee already ap-
peared la our odunene, having boss gee into,
Mr. Hallandale addressed the jery lee sea
efence. He
besought them to gravely and aninesly liberate ere
they pronounced their verdict, end sot to act without
action on an improbable story, told by a girl of eighteen,
who was rather attractive in appeanne!, and en attack
on whose virtue was the matter of inquiry—a story
which the defendant had no means to answer, and
upon the veracity of which so very much depended. This
was one of a class of cases which were scarcely fit to be tried
by juries, because the tears of injured innocence (and the
proneutris had not been swing of them), wore wont
to wash away the cool and sober Judgment of
those to whom her tale was told; and whilst, from
that noble and chivalrous feeling in the nature of man,
which swayed the better judgmedt on behalf of the other
sex, some of the most honourable deeds and noble things
recorded in the world'. history had resulted in s matter in
which a man filling a respectable station in life, had his
liberty for a time, and his character and prospects for ever,
depending on a statement uncorroborated, made by a girl
who could not at her age, and with her ex be so
totally unacquainted with the world es sho p ' lobe.
He had no sympathy whatever for a person who get bell of
these young girls for the gratification of hie pansies% emil
he would admit the immoral nature of the connexion We
preen the defendant and the girl Herrington, but the Jen
had to distinguish between immorality and criminality, awl'
if too great a degree of credence were given to these im-
probable
stories, many a respectable sad innocent ma'
would be dragged from his home, and made the victim of a
false accusation.
Mr. Parry recalled the witness Barry to explain why the
Tr:proceedings were began three weeks after the occurrence.
Led that she had noticed Berrie' Herrington take
another girl out of the house, end she therefore complained
to the matron, end an inquiry took place.
The Assistant Judge summed up the cue with great
minuteness, and with reference to the girl Herrington, said
it was out of the question to cell her for the prosecution, as
she was implicated with the defendant, and had been his
instrument. If this were a false charge, why was she not
called for the defendant ? Perhaps it was thought that she
was not a girl of good character, and that awkward things
might come out in the cress-examinetlee, and therefore she
was not forthcoming.
The jury retired, and after a short absence returned into
court, and pronounced the defendant Guilty on both counts
of the indictment.
The defendant, with greet earnestness of manner, begged
of the mart to hear his witnesses; he had ell along wished
them M be celled, but his counsel refused to examine
them ;hay Gould prove him to be innocent.
The iWeeeet Judge said the defendant's counsel had
mead most prudently and wisely in so doing.
Mr. Parry said the girl Bemngton had been brought to
the Bart, in order that she might be examined, if the de-
isamisat wished it. The girl Herrington wee the daughter
of a eiergynan, and haring been seduced by him, by de-
mos he got her completely in his power, and bad instigated
Mx to take modest, chute, and virtuous girls, to his house,
ear She of lure or prostitution. There were two
Mbsida theprosecutrix in this House of Charity, who
a Yba M W house by Berriugton.
The Amistent Judge said he should not go beyond the
facts preyed fa the case, end should look only to the legiti-
mate commsgmmers of those facts. In a most impressive
manner be premed's:l to address the prisoner (who held
stews his bred and mini), who, he said, had been moat
properly emitted, after a patient investigation and due
emeideretien, ma evidelee which he amid then say
ormglandp milisilisd the mart, and which no twelve
yburg Ma weld doubt. The defendant's mutual
Illsolliheat the cue displayed discretion, pro-
lastssosi and it was folly for the
sempain of his witnesses not being celled.
The time bed ,rived when he had not to weigh the evi-
Hem le all in minuteness with the jury, sad the defen-
alai Mod et the bar a erheisal about to receive punish-
ment be Mistime. The only part of the case which met
with hie coadammaties wee that in which it appeared that
the girl Heerisgeme bed been allowed to remain in the
institution. She was the defendant's unfortunate 'fetish
she had been trained to act as she had by hire, • suttees
either really or ostensibly—a profession of all others with
lewd to the relations between those who followed it sad
Males rendered the offence still more deeply serious. The
Bart believed that he went with Herrington into the bid.
room to complete some bargain with regard to her bringing
the victim. The court felt bound to pass a severe sentence,
which was that he be imprisone4 and kept to bard labour
for eighteen calendar months.
Mr. Parry mid Berringtoe was going to a penitentiary.
She had only been kept in the institution until after the
trial of this was.

THE POLICE COURT'S.
BOW STREET.
Jan Middleton, charged upon the information of the
Hon. Patrick Talbot, privets secretary to Lord Derby,
with sending a threatening letter to his lordship as prime
minister, and remanded on Saturday, was brought up in
custody, and again placed at the bar.
The particulars appeared in tillitiress of Monday,
mated that the prisoner c his misfortunes,
when we
es ea unsuccessful master cooper, on e government, the
Oise, and the public ; and that 'he was remanded for the
of ascertaining the state of his mind. It was yes-
' IPl:readerstood that the prisoner had been examined by
eh, prim surgeon, who was of opinion that the man was
lariat The appearance and manner of the prisoner were
mach the same as before—excited and uncollected.
Xt. Drury (addressing the prisoner) said—You bays
bees examined, I believe, by the prison surgeon?
Prisoner—That gentleman has been speaking to me, but
IdM not take what be said to me as an offence. After the
' emanation with him I went into my closet end prayed to
Owl te protect me from the vengeance of my enemies. Tb
Imbegner owes me a sum on account of my evidence and
noes with respect to the Irish fisheries of 8.50,00 W.
Mr. Hswry—You have received 2031.
The prisoner denied this, and began to wander in his ob-
servations.
Mr. Henry said the certificate of the surgeon should he
read, and called on Mr. Baxter, the prisoner's friend, who
was preeent, to attend to the reading of the document.
The chief clerk then read as follows ;
" I have examined John Middleton. and certify that he
is not of sound mind.—J. 0. WAKEFIELD, surgeon, Howie
of Detention."
The prisoner—Oh ! good heaven!
Mr. Manners Finney, formerly a woollendraper, and
now an assistant to Mr. How, of 230, Holborn, woollen-
draper, having been sworn, said that he had known the
primmer, who hail nursed him when a child—that the pri.
mar long entertained and ezpressed a claim against the
purament—and that he thought him as sensible a man as
aria mart.
Ida. Henry—You have heard the certificate read
Wilmem—l have, sir; bet I still think the prisoner fa Of
mewl mind.
Mr. Henry—Tie medical certificate states that he is of
mama mind. Primer, fee have committed an offense
in eeedief4 threatening letter to Lord Derby. Your Maim
Wbees aired beeismd you have had 2001., but that is
Se csesties drat +arc_ If you wish it I shall have yes
namMed by a =Ake' beard.
Primer—My lord, send fora clergyman to examine sma,
se Igm a peer sinner. I have bad a letter some time sip
ban the Doha of Wellington.
Mr. WWI* was then put into the witness box, and aebsi
by prim "if it was nut the finger of Ood which Mi.,
MINI hint to er,
witness." Witness believed that any doetee
whe mid the prisoner was mad, must he mad himself.
Mr. Meaty said that was not the question put by the
Orme.
Wilwese—Then, Ide eet know whether it was not the
=
Owl whisk direseed the prisoner to me; but the
beg dims en the gememeet.
Mr. Amy would wee permit the eourt to be made the
MOM ef publishing seek alleged claims. People came
to meet trequently with each objects, but he would not per-
mit mesh a course. The primer should, for the present, be
gives up to Mr. WON" the Miter of the Strand Union,
to be tanker suashret by the asedicai officer of the pariah
in which the primmer had last ,eeided, and should be again,
if neeessary, brought ejp is, further examination in court.
The prisoner said be ad to that arrangement, and
went in cheep of Mr. Lockhart to the Strand Union.
The prisoner's wife, a woman of decent appearance and
quiet demeanour, was in court during the examination, but
remained passive.
MARY LIMON E.

Thorium Lloyd, STrineksasith,l,;ing in Maiden-lane,
Islington, war charged with brutally treating his daughter
Amelia, aged A years.
Charles Deering deposed that on the previous afternoon,
as he was walking along Maldon.rosil, Kentish-town, he
saw the prisoner, who was much the worm for drink, car-
rying the child by its legs, its head hanging downwards.
Witness at drat thought that the poor little creature was
dead, but on going up to him and taking it from him, he
hand that he-had-been mistaken. He gave the child to a
adhow-lattoarer to hold, and kept pow-mina of the pri-
mmer until he had ea oppeetabity of giving him in charge.
'swift Herbert ma that in College-street, Camden-
emit.* saw the prisoner take up the child by iu lags
gr iedi its he'd egaind sone railings. It was taken Aron
kin by
.1 lady, who serried it with ter into her house in

A woman named Rogers Mated that abeam it coon after-
wards given up to the prisoner, upon his promising to take
mi eaflß Ile, however, had not proceeded kr, when he threw
it deem on the pavement, saying that he would do for it
somehow or other. Witness spoke to him with regard to
hie inhuman behaviour, epee which ho aimed at her •
blow, but did not hit her.
blward gismos proved that he saw prisoner throw the
&did down In a brick hold sad roll over it.
Readey, 61 8, stated that the prisoner was given into his
melody in Wardiegton-street, and upon examining the
child he found one lump on the top of the head and another
upon the forlibeed; them wee also a quantity of sand upon
the bonnet, whisk led whams to some to a conclusion that
the child had been dragged along the ground.
The little girl, who had been brought Into the court by
her mother, did not now exhibit any marks of ill-usage.
The prisoner, on being asked what he had to say, admit-
ted having drunk too freely, but denied that he had the
slightest intention of doing the little girl any harm.
Remanded.