The Express.
London, England, 1852-11-25 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS. THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 25, 1852.

mem indicted for the ntanalaaglear d be The Commies &dual asanneed them to be transported ;
Shoats child. Lewis for 1, sad Canningbeas for 10 years.
Platt prosecuted. The fedilifeafemMehl have been I Wi/liose Edwin Lewis, 28, carpenter was indicted for
818f4colehoS wfthithe Iseeitiesee• se hat by the he- feloniously latermanying with Bush Halve, his wits brie'
mane interference of the sheriffs, Mr. was instructed then and now alive.
to watch the cue an her behalf. The Ant marriage was proved to have taken place at the
It
ymeend that the primer vas mat n's Begat:see-idles, in Bridgwater, is dept. 1851, and that
holly noasepotaistews aw at the Bth the prisoner lived with his wife about 4 menthe.
No WM about the hones observed Elisabeth Hales, the second wife, a lady-like young per-
by
_tams tither servants of Mr lay's, bees delivered of a sou, of very preposaessing appearance, next gave endows
shads death the primer bad always positively denied of having been wedded to the prisoner on the 6th floptinsber,
Matahßwaala Shot milleioa. Is the course of the after- 1852, at fit James's Church, Westminster.
MOM MINIMUM' beard • noise in • cupboard, of By Mr. Badlands's—She had not instigated this preemie
yid* Ow plow log the key, which she supposed to be Lion; it was her .brother. Prisoner had always b, hayed
%yet eat, liable" toosivod some injury, and she ep- kindly teller. /the freely forgave him the injury behest dose
Os primmer 111 w Ow key of the cupboard. The pri• her, end was willing to give hire up to the rightful claimant.
range 111M8 hula her ewe room. and while the other A certificate of the second marriage having keen put in.
servant wet gone to fetch a light, she was seen to go into Mr. Ballantine rue to address the jury for the defence,
the eepheard and come out in • harried manner, and when and in so doing commented strongly oar the circumstances of
her feliew•servant earns up with the light, and asked her the ease, regretting that he had not the power of placing
what was the matter, she said that the cat had been caught before the jury evidence which, as he was instructed, would
by the tail, and that she had run away. Then appeared to considerably eztenuate, although, of course, not justify, the
be very little doubt that the ptisoner had placed the child conduct of the prisoner. The truth was he had lived mo..t
is the cupboard, and that she Ind got it out during the unhappily with his first wife, and being prevented by the
short &begun of the other servant, and soon afterwards the monstrous regulation of a law which afforded the luxury of
bdy of the infant was found in the yard of the house quite divorce to the rich, while it denied it to the poor, he
dead. There were, however, no marks of violence of any had rashly and certainly most unlawfully contracted •sectind
description upon it, and there was no evidence whatever, merriage. The learned counsel then called
except with regard to the noise that was heard in the cup- Mr. lhotnaa Huichin, a builder, who stated that he ter
hoard, to show that the child was born alive. It appeared veiled from Bridgwater to give the prisoner a character.
that a bill for murder had been presented before the grand He had known him for four years as • well-conducted young
Joey against the prisoner, but they ignored it, and taunted man.
woe for manslaughter only. Mr. Metcalfe examined this witness as to his having been/
Two witnesses were called to depose to the facts above the prisoner boast of this bigamy, and assert that in the
sarrated, but in answer to the questions put to one of them, event of this second wife not suiting him, he would shave
a married woman, by the court and the conned for the off his whisker, and get a third. (Laughter.)
prisoner, with regard to the asters of the noise that was Mr. Ballantine appealed to the jury, if they had ever
heard in the cupboard, she said she would not attempt to heard of such a mode of getting a wife ; he hail always
state with any certainty that the noise she heard was the believes! that such blessings were obtained by such appen.
cry of a child. It was also stated that the instant the door doges being retained. (Much laughter.)
of the cupboard was opmed. the noise ceased, thereby The jury found the prisoner Guilty.
creating a strong impression of the probability of the story When called on for judgment he entered into a long
told by the prisoner, that the cat's tail had been caught in statement of his wife's abandoned habits, which she, on
it, and that the noise that was heard was caused by the bring called, said was totally without foundation.
animal, and was not in point of fact the cry of • child. Tile Common Berjeant on bearing this, ordered him to be
Mr. Justice Coleridge expressed his opinion that under imprisoned, and kept to hard labour for IS mouths.
these circumstances the poisoner could not be convicted. If
she had been indicted for murder, the jury might have con-
victed her under such an indictment of ceccealing the birth
of the child, which appeared in reality to be the object she
had in view, but this being an indictment for manslaughter
the prisoner could not be convicted of unending the birth,
said she must be acquitted altogether. Ilia lordship then
explained to the jury that in the absence of any positive
proof of the child having been born alive, or of any injury
likely to cause death !Irian indicted upon it by the prisoner,
he was opinion that the present indictment could not be
sustained.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—YESTEELDAY.
Bonus Ma. SitMaKT ADAM, AMOUNT JVDOIL
James Dunkley, 55, was indicted for stealing, and Riesard
Gotthey, 29, for feloniously receiving a quantity of oats and
beans, the property of Messrs. Pratt and Sewell.
The prisoner Dunkley was in the employ of the prose-
cutors, who are contractors in Oray's-inn•lane, and in con-
sequence of suspicion entertained a strict watch was kept in
the stables. Ile was detected carrying off a quantity of
oats and beans in a basket, and he was followed to the
house of the other prisoner, who is his son-in-law. There
was no evidence to show that Gobbey actually received the
property, but it was clear he was aware what Dunkley hid
with him, and from a statement made by him to the police-
officer, it appeared that ho blamed his wit and her father.
Ile said, when charged, " I knew it would come to this ;"
and, turning to his wife, he said, It
that it should be brought here; it was yours and your
father's."

The jury accordingly, under his lordship's direction, re-
turned a verdict of .Vut Guilty.

NEW COURT—YESTERDAY.
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Awl Butler, 25, married, was indicted for gaoling three
Bank notes, value 61. each, and 12 sovereigns, the proper y
of and from the person of David Cooper.
The circumstances attending this prosecution were these:
The prosecutor is a carpenter, icing in Alger-place, Thames
Bank, and upon the night of the 30th of tieptenilme,
having been out drinking dieting the day, he met the
prisoner in Fleet-street. He entered into conversation
wits her, and whilst talking a police-constable came
up and cautioned him as to the company he was in. The
prisoner would not leave the prosecutor, and ultimately she
persuaded him to take her into an alehouse in Fleet-street,
where they went into the back parlour, and had some
ale. After being there for some abort time prosecutor
fell asleep, and when be awoke he found that prisoner was
gone, and his pockets had been rifled of the money
named is the asdiettnent. Ile ultimately found the offi-
Pr who had spoken to him upon first speaking to the
prisoner, and having given him information of the robbery,
hi (the officer) neat day took prisoner in Clare-market.
Bhe was remanded, and, the number of the notes being
known, one was subsequent/ traced to the Bank, and
from thence to a man named Vincent Lee, the landlord of
the York Arms, chin-lane, and the only account that he
could give of the possession of it was, that he had taken
that and another elle, both at different times, from men
whom he did not know. Ile took them over the bar; one
in payment for some ale, and the other for 3d. worth of
brandy. Four or five days after that he (Lee, paid them
to his sister, a Mrs. Houghton. of 24, Tark.street, Bethnal.
green • and from her, through some other hands, it reanhed
the Bank.

Several witnesses gave Onbbey a very excellent character.
He was a greengrocer, and kept a house in Sutherland-
terrace, Caledoninn•road. Dunkley had been in the employ
of the prosecutors 20 years.
The jury aceuitted Gobbey, and found Dunkley Guilty,
with a recommendation to merry.
The Assistant• Judge said this was a case in which he
could not attend to tho recommendation, the prisoner
having, it could net be doubted after the statement made by
Gobbey, carried on a corrplete system of plunder. He
sentenced him to eight months' hard labour.

The Recorder questioned the witness Lee very closely as
to his pcesession of the notes, but he did not vary the state-
ment soave made. He said be did know this persontr ; she
had been at his bar. One of the men changing the notes
gave the name of Simper.
The Recorder-1 should Ila,lllo you to be careful how you
act for th. future. This cue is toll of suspicion, and if
you change autos this way in • locality like ticire-lane, you
will find it to be most dangerous. It wont do for you to
get rid of notes this way by passing them away through
your sister.
His lordship then called up Mrs. Houghton, end gave her
• similar caution.

There being no evident* to connect the prisoner in any
way with the pommel= et the note, and it appearing that
the prosecutor had given ao luny different and confused
accounts of the matter. the Recorder stopped Mr.
Sleigh during his address to the jury, and intimated to bits
that be did not think the jury could safely convict upon the
evidence.

The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
A respectably-dressed elderly woman, named Smith,
surrendered to take her trial for bigamy.
The case was • somewhat singular one. The prisoner
was married on the 13th October, 1310, at Tonbridge, in
Kent, to one John Smith, with whom she lived some ten or
eleven years. After which they separated, from some cause
that was not stated. After that period it appeared that she
bad amassed some property, consisting of two small houses
sad sem money, and was again married on the 26th of
hllOllll7. 1841, at Newington, to a man about her own age,
soma Joaeph 110116111110, stating herself to be a widow. She
pined the whole of her property at his disposal, and acted
the part of • goad wile to him, and had worked at her be
Islam as a wireworker. Two years after the second mar-
, rive the second husband heard that she bad a husband
' living, and taxed her with it, but this she denied, and they
' went down together to Maidstone, and the first husband'
was introduced to the seeoml oas as the brother of the first
one, and it was not until • few weeks ago that the second
husband did find out the truth. When the police-coestable
told her with what she was charged, she said that she had
not been guilty of any offence as her first husband was mar-
-1 rind again. This mu not proved. but it was shown that he
bad from the period of their separation lived with a woman,
calling her his wife.
The jury found her Guilty, recommending her to mercy.
The Recorder, after commenting upon the nature of the
eerie, ordered her to be imprisoned for one month in the
gaol of Roggen,.
Jab Gerrard, 36, builder, wan indicted fir feloniously
forging • request forth. delivery of goods, and thereby de-
frauding Charles James Andrews.
The cam, which lasted from the re-assembling of the court
at midday until pest silt in the evening, was in substance
this:—At the February session of this court the prisoner '
was convicted of aiding others to pick pockets st &fete at
Charltempark, and sentenced to three months' imprison-
meat in Maidstone Gaol. He came out on the Ist of May,
and thea,l4 twed, took of • Mr. Spicer a shop and some
_ Mikes at which he opened under the name of
"O. Wat'.l!nl cud Sri, con c: .1 cn.:l tnrrchantl."
from there, and snider the title of that firm, wrote to the
prosecutors, who are agrieultural implement makers at
Reading, Barks, to send two chaffoutting machines I
up to Paddington, which they did, and he sent a
carman and fetched the goods away, which he at once sold
for much lees than their value. The prisoner 'it appeased,
after having once taken the place at Meidatooe: slid not go
down there but sled to have his letters redirected and
out to • poet-ofilos in Shoreditch, where he called fur them.
, The jury found him Guilty.
Mr. Cockle said that prisoner bad obtained a quantity
°firm, building materials and other property, from various
people, amounting in value in the whole to nearly 4001., all
of witch he sold as soon as be got them at a great sacrifice.
The Recorder sentenced him to 10 years' transportation.
The prisoner, who is a well-dressed dashing-luking nun,
it is stated, is • member of a highly respectable and opu-
lent family.

THIRD COURT.—TESTRILDAT.
Moose TM. °MOON seaman.
Jessie Lewis, 19, labourer, and Wilson Conniegharis, 19,
Unman, were indicted fur burglary in the dwelling-house
of John Willson, and stealing a silver cream jug, a quantity
of knives, four coats, a clock, and several other articles.
The prosecutor, a gentleman living at Vessel-road,
Brixton, stated that early on the morning of the 27th of
October, he lowa that his residence bad been broken into
by same thieves having effected an entry by the back kit-
then dear, through is hick they had cut a hole large enmesh
to made them to mash the bolts, which had been drawn
back. They had then forced the front kitchen door, by
breaking the leak off. Having thus gained an entrance,
they proceeded to ransack the place of all they could lay
lium, hands on, taking down the clock, all the mats that
were in the ball, a parcel containing Ctn. of tea that was in
the parlour cupboard, the whole of the knives sad forks
that were in the kitchen, and a few articles of plate—for-
tunately all that had been left out. Prosecutor bad himself
been the last up in the house, and seen every place safe.
The property now prodmed, which had been shown hint
the day after the robbery by the police, was his.
From the evidence of Btandage and Topping, constables
is the 1' division of police, it appeared that on the morning
following that on which the burglary had been effected,
the whole of the property was found by them in two baskets
enweeled beneath a quantity of rubbish which was lying in
soma mews contiguous to the prosecutor's dwelling, and
having found an owner for it, they replaced and watched
the come until night, when Cunningham stealthily ap-
peached the spot, and was in the act of removing it as
Sunders pounced upon him. Topping apprehended Lewis
at the entrance of the mews, 60 yards from the spot. When
cmfronted with his fellow prisoner, he denied all know-
ledge of him, and alleged that ho was returning from his
work. Some foot-marks in the prose tutor's garden were
subsequently found to correspond with shoes warn by Cun-
ningham.
Mark Thorn deposed to having seen the prisoners drink-
!!! t at a beer-shop three hours previous to their
7 n, and furthermore, to their haring been = saso-
six years.
La Mame, the prisons in set up the very stale excites of
bean seiliostelly tumbled over the property.
nejwey having fused Mau Orally, a fame: oonvictioa
INN roved spinet Onanisgiteni he stealing lead in 1661.