The Express.
London, England, 1863-04-11 00:00:00

THE ACTON MURDER.

It appears that for some time after the comict
tics of the prisoner Joseph Brooks he continued to assert
that he was iOll4OOlEi of the others, but it is astialnitory
to state that dariag yeatentsy he appeared to fed the awful
pollen ia which he was placed, sad he has made state-
ments teatuncsiat to as admission c 4 hi guilt. When
he was visited cm Thursday by the sheriffs he stated that
it was not true that when he procured the gin at the shop
of Mr. Ayres, at Hammersmith, it was loaded, and on
his being reminded that the witnesses bad sworn posi
tively to the mammy, besides which it was sot lady
that a pawnbroker would take in a loaded firearm as
• pledge, he persisted in declaring that what be
bad stated was true. Yesterday aftersoce, Mr. Alder-
man mad Sheriff I*wresce, sad Mr. Shmiff Jones, so.
erespealed by their uadur-lseriffs, Mars. Mackzoll and
Pamir, and the governor of Newgate, proceeded to the pri-
senores oell, and informed him that in scoordancre with the
wistful duty that devolved upon them they would Sil Mon-
day, the 27th lastest, as the day for carry* out the law.
The culprit did not betray say emotion ups. hoarier/ the
fatal sancemeement, bat he explored • desire to make •
sidemen it rehresos to the crone of which be had hese
semokilled. OMB poetises of this have triumphed. mad it
appease Mist the primate, Whig it was mei=
any hew to state any falethoods, admitted that
was hi gas that had caused the death of the dammed,
but be seemed to ooszthi the ides' that his was
not the hand that st, although he
at the same tiros admits that he knew all about the trans-
action. The ptiaciaer states that the evidence given by the
girl Jane Gale, to whom, it will be remembered, be was to
have been married three or four days after the murder was
committed, Is quite true in every particular sad be ex-
presses bia sorrow for the pain be has caused her. It win
be recollected that the suggestion on the part of the prose-
cution as to the motive that led to the commission of the •
crime was that the unfortunate deceased, while cm
his deny on the evening of the murder, bad detected the
peisoner and hia brother Isaac in the ct of stealing some
budding materials belonging to a Mr. Saunders, eke
was carrying on some building operation. is the
neighbourhood, and it appears that the prisoner has ad-
mitted that about six o'clock the dammed met him mid its
brother carrying some wood that they had improperly re-
moved, and that he taxed them with riesling it, _sedan
them they must accompany him to the police statics. B.
states that his brother fume ran away, and be accompanied
the enstable a short distance, but, upon striving at an open
gate leading acmes the fields, be also ran off and succeeded
in getting away from the constable. The prisoner
was aware that the constable knew him, and
that be was pretty certain that proceedings would
be taken against him, and be states that he and.
his brother held a consultation as to what should be
done, and he appears to endeavour to throw the blame
upon his brother, although the evidence all tended is the
contrary dimness, and to show that the phones' was
himself the principal agent in the mad affair. The primer
and his brother Isaac are both natives at • small village in
Oxfocciebir• called ,
Curium near Oxford, and the early pert
of their lives wee occupied farming sad other agricultaval
operations, but about ten year. ago they both came to Loa-
doe. The prisoner served for a short time is the Royal
Artillery, and during the Russia' war be was with his regi-
ment in the Crimea • and it has been amertained that he
is • deserter. He has not been visited by any of his mho
tiara since his conviction.
The Commiationere of Metropolitan Police, with the con-

sent of the Horne Secretary, hire granted to Mrs. Davey,
the widow of the murdered constable at Acton, a pennies
of 151. per annum for the remainder of her life.

TRZ BANKING FatBEZZLIILINTS AT Hint.—At the
Hull borough sessions, on Thursday, John Henry North,
late easistset cashier at the Akan of the Hull Bsukiag
Company, was charged with embezzling 3,1634 15a. 2d., the
property of his employer'. The mode by which this series
of embezzlements was effected was sa follows :—The bank
being one of issue, its notes were liable to be out sad da-
maged in the course of boeincea As these eat and damaged
notes earns into the bank, it was necessary that they should
be revoked before they were re-issued. The notes remained
is the cashier's hands until they underwent the neeemszy
repairs, so that each eashier bad often in his pommies
notes amounting to several hundred pounds. The Dotes
were put into a parcel and taken into the cashier's account
when his ash was blamed, as damaged notes amounting
to such a sum. When, therefore, the primes',
from time to time, abstracted the money, he added the
amount abstracted to the sum represented by the parcel of
damaged Dotes, sad with the exception of this parcel of
damaged Dotes the cash of the prisoner would be correct.
On the 17th of Jesuitry lest the chief cashier, Hr. W. A.
Lambert, had 00:111401) to check the cash in he bands of
the prisoner, and found that it was sot correct. He nest
for the prisoner, who had not been at the teak for ream
time io consequence of illness, and after making acme ex-
amination, the prisoner confessed that be had taken the
deficiency in sums varying from 301. to 501., sad that he
had applied it to the education of his childree and to cover
lows incurred by railway speculations. He also W 7040 a
letter in which be acknowledged havieg taken the asesy,
sad he completely exonerated mere other parses In the
eatabliabrneat from blame.—Tice Etemsdaer maimed la
to five years' penal servitude.
CRTRIAL PALAcL—ONI SHILLING DIT.--1711.
DAT, Az= 10. —Admissioes on payment, 2,642; ditto
by mass tickets, 1,308: total, 3,980.
The. DZ Joxotes LIGHT-BROWN COD Livia OIL.
—Hie erroneous notion that Cod Liver Ofd must mmemarily be
unpleasant to the palate has bees most satiotactorlly refuted by
munberlese eminent physicians who have erteasivery prescribed
Dr. de Songh's palatable Light. brown Cod-Liver asseopt
other high authorities. Dr. Meriden Ithspratt, Y. 11.9 writes—
. I have tasted your OR. and bud it is not at all nauseous—•

v ,;id ery re oommenon. 7 • cops' ed • ,
b. &LA& IkL, sad 9h., Df 1:07. de Jones's web, Auer, li•rford,
sad Co., 77,4izaatt, Loudon. aaet elwable.--(Advortio•ment.]