The Express.
London, England, 1864-08-17 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Registrar Hulilt.)
RE JOHN WILTON.
• -.vapor Chidley, of the firm of Mean. Chidley, of
•1 Jewry, presented • petition on behalf of John
formerly of 8, Commercial-place, Peckham, and 3,
.itreet, Commercial-road. Peckham, builder. The
:,.t bad been engaged in extensive building opera-
. .14 his total liabilities are said to be between 3,0001.
; assets considerable.
the application of Mr. Chidley adjudication was now

said that the bankrupt .0 at present nom-
-. liorsemoogerbuie gaol as a prisoner for debt, and
t...ipply for an early day to be named for him to be
t so to surrender and ask for his release from eas-

i:cgistrar granted the application.
r J other petitions of minor importance were opened.
~:ouiissioner Fans was the commissioner of the day,
,elt were no cues on the list.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice BAN.)
CONVICTION roe NORDIN.
ffir''ty, alias Annie Boren, 29, a good-looking
woman. was indicted for the wilful murder of Henry
• •-•*.eigh conducted the prosecution ; the prisoner was
by Mr. Orridge.
• appeared from the opening statement of the learned
.I for the prosecution that the prisoner was an unmar-
,,,,aa, and that oa the 16th of July she was admitted
Clerkenwell Workhouse almost in a stets of labour,
wan very shortly afterwards delivered of the child in
•: which appeared to be healthy, and to continue
thrice until Saturday, the 30th of July, on
lan she left the workhouse at 10 o'clock in the
IL:. taking with her the child. On the
.ruing the prisoner went into a public-house celled
tarison Arms, Gray's-ion-road, having with her a
paper parcel, and she told the servant that she
1 to be left alone, as she desired to arrange some per.
her dress. Very soon after this the prisoner paid for
and water which she had ordered, and left the
. : and upon the servant going into the room where the
,er had been, she saw some marks of soot in the tire.
and having recently cleaned it this excited bur
100, and she obtained some aseistmace, and a man put
'.and up the chimney, and took from thence a pares,
. was found to contain the dead body of a child.
vas immediately given and the prisoner was fol.
• ....1 and taken into custody by a police-constable named
i:ite...od upon his asking, in her presence, whether the
.2 was dead, she aid that it was, and she added that she
s sorry she had done it, and she wished she bad taken
child to the workhouse and had it buried. According to
•,vidence of Mr. Paul, a enigma, who examined the
it was quite warm when he maw it in the same
mac, and that be believed it had been dead
at an hour. There were no external marks of
:en& upon the body, but upon removing the
Jr he found that the brain was congested and
-_- longs, it appeared, were in the same condition, sod the
is his opinion, arose from suffocation. The principal
not of evidence against the prisoner consisted of a letter
rich she bad written on the evening before the child's
sorb, in which she stated that the child was then deed, and
as she was consequently empty handed she proposed to
out of the workhouse on the following day, there bring
loubt that at thin time the child was perfectly well. It
erne,' to hare been a very healthy child from the moment
-is birth, and according to the testimony given by some
the witnesses the prisoner seemed to bare been
•,:y kind to it while she was in the workhouse. When ahe
co eternised before the magistrate, and also when she
TJ before the comer, it appeared that the prisoner
eerted that the child was deed at the time she pat it in
chimney, and also stated that it had been troubled with
_:.dr spasms from the time of its birth, and that it was
:irked in the street and suffocated before she could render
any assistarce. The nurse at the workhouse, however.,
.:ted that, so far as she knew, the child was mot troubled
:h the complaint mentioned by the prisoner.
Mr. Orridge made a most earnest and feeling sp.
to the jury on behalf of the prisoner, and
urged that all the circumstances merely amounted to
• -picion against her, and that it was to the highest degree
probable that a woman who was proved to have be-.
red in the kindest possible master to her
wild should have suddenly oceriebred the project
murdering it. The learned counsel then commented
• considerable length upon the facts of the one, sod argued
.st there was nothing to show that the child did Dot die ia
• e manner stated by the prisoner, and that she had thee
pidly and insanely resorted to the expedient of comsat-
the body in the chimney, in order to get rid of it.
The jury retired at 1 o'clock to consider their verdict, aid
turned into court at three o'clock, finding the prisoner
'144,y, but straggly reesmineading her to mercy, on the
nod that she lied been a good mother to the child down
the period of bar leaving the workhouse.
the learned judge then passed seateme of death on the
,nr‘..oner, who was carried from the her in a fainting con-

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)