The Express.
London, England, 1864-07-14 00:00:00

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HOME CIRCITIT.—HERTroszo, JUL: 13.

(Before Boma filartio.jang
Robert Hatt. 40. • old mac, was
with wilfully arrematalbh.ioiously 'Millie fire to hie
deterEig bowie, with intact to defreud the Union lire-olSos.
Mr. J. Clark ',Deducted the prteecutioa, tad the primmer
was &deeded by Mr. Woollett.
The evidence against the primmer, as le generally the
ease is charges of this deseriptioe, was entirely circumstan-
tial, but it was of the most conclusive chancier.
. .

The toy without ►esitation returned a verdict of Ceder,
and the leaned judge sentswied the Kismet to be kept m
nasal sarvitoda ler seven rein, obeerviag at the sane Wee
that but fog ►is age, hag* regard to the atrocious chamber
a the aerie, he &Wield have isificted a mush heavier
posiahment.
Ow other owe aowelnded the basiasm at the wins.
NORFOLK ClRCUlT.—Laiciona, JULY la
(bows Coon:.—(Bdet+ Mr. Biros BisawelL)
ZITILAORDINAIT CA.III OF IMMIX

John Upton, a framework fattier, was charged upon the
coroners inquisitios with the wilful murder of kin eon,
Wittiest Upton, et Leicester, ea the 26th day of Jaeger, lost
Mr. O'Malley, Q. 0.„ sod Mr. Metcalfe appeared far the
presecutim ; Mr. Orridge &holed the prisoner.
The facts of the mu are them fa October last year the
prisoner, his wife, sod sou cams from Nottingham to Lei-
cester, and took • moll henna in Barkley-street They
were in very straitened circumstances, and the man meld
earn only about 10s. • week. The boy was small for his
age, and, ss his master described him, dull, sad it was eel
the month of Januery that he °biased my employable&
The father bad complained that the lad was • greet 1
incumbraece, and said be wished be could be "shut of him," I
sad that he thought he must put him in the Bastille. I
'manias the workhouse, or get him to p for a
soldier or sailor. The boy, it seems, tried hard to get sm.
t, for he celled sum or eight times on • Mr.
Cwards, • chemist, in High-street, sad collies again on
the 19th of January, and saying he was starring, Mr.
Edwards with great kindness owed him as an mead bey. '
Oa the evening of the 26th. Mrs. Edwards complained that
she had lad • pate of earn' est from the eittiag-temei, sad'
soother buy is the shop told idm I/Mos, although he cern-
plated of being starved whoa he came, had now Aber in
his pocket. This incited the mapicka of Mr. and Mrs.
Edwards, and the boy was bud with the theft. He
denied it stoutly, and aosousted for the pomades
of the money by saying "a stranger memo had seat It him
tram Nottingham. This WY no uneatiefeetory that Mr. '
Edwards said he must p dove ad call on his father and see
&bout it, and harinipecertaised the father's eddies. desired
1 his wife to go. The boy weal on with his work, bet very
shortly after, when Mr. Edwards woo singsged, he was um
to leave by the bob door of the promisee, and from that
mama was never seen 'gab alive. This was between sit
and seem in the sortie& Mrs. Edwards saw the prisoner's
wife, who was the mother-in-law of the boy, and about
9 o'elock the woman and bar husband (the premeer) aims
to the shop and asked Mr. Edwirds if be intended to
promote the boy. Mr. Edwards raid no, but the father
said be had bad • deal of trouble with hiss, and be
would be promented. He lett then, bat returned shortly
with a parcel of new paper, valsetiess,eavelopee, pencils,
and • knife, all new' that be bed fo la the boy's box,
and also said the boy had not come bum No great OW,
tics. were fours to have been made by the father to lad,
the lad, although ha bee dam said be wrote to Nottingham,
whither he thought the bey might have run, and also west
to the polio*, but on the 17th of February a
holy was food boating in the meal, which turned out
to be the body of the missing /ad. There wire
seven woods upon the head rod body, and NON ribs on
each side were fractured. A past-snort= exerninatios was
made by two medical men and Ike result left no doubt on
their minds that the woundsL on the bead were the cause of
death, and had been indicted Wan the body cone into the
water. There was no indicatiCa of death baying Don
caused by drowning. The boy bad left his cap and coat at
Mr. Edwards's. bat on the body there was no shirt, and the 11
bowmen ware stripped bows below the knees. The boding
the body miler these circumstances earned intone
excitemest, ad the so serer at ma held an in-
quest. The prisoner wee suspected, sad the strictest
search made of the honor be occupied at the
time the boy was missed. He bad moved about ten
days after the boy disappeared, but at his new lodgings I
sad in his former no trace of blood, or any indication of any '
struggle or deed of vicious, meld be found. An old bed,
this tick of which had large stains upon it, was &monad the
few articles of furniture, and theme stains were pronounced '
to be from blood, but when made no conjecture could be
farmed. A patch-work quilt formed part of the furai.
true, and upon this the whole question of the father's
supposed murder of the boy was based. A neighbour had
seen this quilt hanging out to dry, with other thing, a few
days after the boy left, and upon the occasion of the fourth
meeting of the coroner's jury a woman came forward and
told a most extraordinary tale. She said that ea the night
of the 27th of January, at about 12, she was coming home
from spendiog an evening at a public-house; that as she
got to the Pasture-bridge the I,w a man coming towards
her, and that as be weed her on the bridge she
maw he was carrying something very heavy between
his shoulders, both hands being up to hold the
beriberi, end that whatever it was, was wrapped
up in • patchwork quilt. The roue was jut post the hill,
sad was shining brightly, and she saw the man 'a faes ; brl
thinking he was only " moonshining" (explained to mean
removing his things to cheat his landlord) she said within.
So well did she observe the man though, she said, art co
the Tuesday following she saw him is the market place at
Leicester' and was about to ark him how be got on with his
nuoushieing, when the man seeing her pat bit head to his
face and suddenly disappeared. This mu, she swore, win
the prisoner. It seemed teat she had seen him
going from the gaol to the inquest, but said nothing
to the police till, as we have said, after the fourth meeting;
bet on being taken to the gaol, she at eon picked oat the
prisoner from other men. On erces.commination by Mr.
Orridge, she answered the questions so °mantled orily that
the jury evidently disbelieved her tale. To strengthen the
ease agßiest the man, another woman came forward same
days after the inquest, sad she declared she bad also mesa
the prisoner at about • quarter pert ten on the
night the boy was misting, leaving the street where
he lived, carrying on his shoulder semetbieg heavy
in • tatabwock quilt ; and that be saw her end at
ogee turned beck. This worsen, oe ormotimatination,
derived there was no mom, that the eight was dark, sad
that she believed it to be • quilt that the man was carry-
, leg, because there were many colours. Upon the 'video*
of these women, with statements made by other
mach to the prejudice, of the primate, bat in realtrirei
evidence, the grand jury thought proper toiled the bill, and
the man was pat span his trial. The sour, eat at sine.
and Om examination of the women sad the medical men
being sempleted about ens,
Mr. Orudge called the attention of the court godlier
to the face that they bed sow heard all the arterial

Yr. Mahal& at moo ailaildial this Imo so ; epos viola
The jury ail Shay desired to hoar ao more.