The Express.
London, England, 1852-01-08 00:00:00

tieerge O. Manning said—l keep the house No.
33, North-street, Mary ebene. I knew the deceased by
the name of Nutt. On the night of the Bth November,
the prisoner came to the house accompanied by the last
witness, and he asked if Mrs. Bare was at home. I told
him I knew no such person, and I mentioned the names of
toy lodgers, avid raid there was a Miss Nott ; and he said
that was his wifo's maiden name, and he went on to say
that there was property of his in my house, and my daugh-
ter had induced his wife to come and live in my house. I
told him this was not true. The prisoner then said he would
burst open every door in the house if he did not get his
property, and he said it was in two boxes. I told him I would
assist him to get his property if it was there, and that Miss
Nott would be in at 8 o'clock. She was so very regular that I
could depend upon her. I asked the prisoner to walk into the
parlour, and we sit there for a long time, and the prisoner
made use of very bad language towards his wife, and said
that she and the other one, meaning Mrs. Bands, were no
better ti.an common prostitutes. 1 told him I hoped to the
contrary; that I had not seen anything wrong, and did
not believe there was anything wrong in their conduct.
The deceased came home shout nine o'clock, and immedi-
ately went up stairs. I told the prisoner, as she tame in,
that she was the woman he wanted to see, and gave him a
lighted canape, and he followed her up stairs, and I went
out to fetch a policeman, as I expected some disturbance.
%Viten I returned home I found the deceased in her own
room, dead.
By Mr. Ballantine.—The prisoner wanted to get the
boxes before his wife came home, and if I would have• per-
mitteil him I believe he would have broken open the door
and taken them away.
Rebecca Maiming, wife of the list witness, proved that
after the prisoner went into his wife's room she heard them
talking together, but could not distinguish what was said.
They appeared to be talking quietly. In a short time the
prisoner called the boy upstairs and told him totake the boxes
down. All had been quiet up vi that time; but immediately after
the hoy was told to take the boats down, witness heard
v iolent screaming, and something fall heavily to the ground,
apparently like the table ur chairs, in the deceased's room.
The screaming did not continue more than two minutia,
and when it ceased the prisoner came dome down stairs and
as he passed her in the moulage she observed that his hands
were covered with blood. Witness immediately went up
stairs, and found the deceased upon the ground, leaning
Oil r a chair close by the fire-place. Iler hair was all about
her face loose, and her eyes were wide open, and one of her
hnild. was tightly clenched There was a wound upon her
face, from which the blood was &wing. Iles bonnet was
tinier the grate. She threw her head back, and there was
a noise in her throat, and she died.
By Mr. Ballantine —Witness never went into the de-
ceased's room.

By the Court—A man named Thompson called upon the
deceased on the Sunday after she tame to lodge with her.
She believed that Mrs. (lands was at home at this time.
Selina Beckett deposed that she lodged in the adjoining
room to the ono occupied by the deceased and Mrs. Honda
On the night this occurred witness was in her room, and
heard the prisoner and his wife go into the back room. The
door was closed when they went in, and she immediately
heard loud quarreling, and the prisoner called deceased a
--. The prisoner before this had said that he wished to
take away the hones, and he accussd his wife of having
been at a low public-house with some low prostitutes. The
deceased replied, " Su help me tied, I wins not there." The
prisoner then said he would not go out of the house with-
out the boxes, and the deceased told him if he would
sit down she would explain everything to him. Wit-
ness was frightened at what was going on, and ran down
stairs to tell the landlady, and when she returned to her
own room, she heard the deceased screaming " Murder."
Witness looked out of her room, and saw the deceased's
room door was open. The boy wee in the act of coining
out with one of the boxes, and she saw the prisoner and
the deceased standing by the window, fighting, and the
prisoner struck the deceased several heavy blows. They
both fell down together. mud the deceased appeared to be
holding the prisoner. She did not see the deceased strike
a blow or attempt to do so. All she could see of the pri-
soner's hand was his clenched fist, and she was unable to
distinguish whether there was anything in his hand or
not. The prisoner struck downwards, as though he
was stabbing, and the demised screamed " Murder " every
time he struck her. Witness requested the boy to inter-
fere, but he said he should not do so, and that It served the
woman "Jolly well right." The deceased attempted to get
up at one time, and the prisoner struck her tour or five
heavy blows on the head end face. Not a word was said
by either of them while this was going on. The prisoner
witness as he went out of the house, but the was too
riaglet.tlened to observe whether he had anything in his hand
or not. She saw the deceased on the ground, and the room
was covered with blood. About ten minutes afterwards
she heard that the deceased was dead.

By Mr. Ballantme—She hiard the prisoner any to the
deceased, " I want nothing of you but my boxes, and, so
help me God, I wont leave the house till I get them." She
did not believe that she told the coroner what the boy said
when she asked him to go to the auistanoe of the deceased.
The boy Blaxton was here re-called, and he said that, to
his recollection, he never made use of the espresnons attri-
buted to him by the last witness. lie afterwards positively
stated that he did not do so.

Baron Platt asked him why he did not interfere when he
saw the mac beating his wife ?
The boy replied innocently " What could I do ?"
In answer to another question by the court, he said he
was eighteen years old. Ile also said that he smoked and
drank at several public houses with the prisoner on the
night in question.
Emma Webster, another lodger in the house where the
deceased lived, save evidence of a similar character to that
of the witness Beckett. She also said that she heard the
deceased say " So help me God I have not done it," and
about a mantel after the screaming began. The last
words she heard the deceased utter were " Oh, he has mut,
dcred me."

Mary Robinson deposed that she was acquainted with
the prisoner and his late wife, and after she left him he
repeatedly inquired respecting her. About a fortnight be-
fore witness heard of the death of the deceased, the pri-
soner came to her house and asked her if she knew where ,
his wife was. She told him she did riot, and he then said
that his wife was in the country, nursing au old lady, a
hundred miles off; and he added, that he did not mind
tramping a hundred miles to have revenge, for revenge was
sweet. Witness asked him why he thought wrong of his
wife, and if he had ever seen her do anything wrung; and
he replisd that he had seen her making up some finery
which he thought only fit for • loose wornwomw in the street.
He then said he had never found anything wrong of her,
and had always found her act justly from the moment he
first saw her untill she left him. In the course of the same
conversation the prisoner said that if he could lay his hand
upon his wife she would not forget It.
Rebecca Linehaus proved that shortly before the death of
the deceased, a man whom she believed to bo the prisoner,
purchased a file at her husband's shop. He first purchased
a fiat file, but on the same day he changed the fiat one for
a triangular file. The the with which the dreadful art was
committed was here produced, and the witness said it was
of the same description u the one she sold to the man, but
she could not identify it further.
By Mr. Rallantine.—This first file the man purchased
was not sharpened at the top. If the prisoner was not the
man who purchased the file, she was very much deceived,
and she would never attempt to recognise any one ag sin.
The examination of ono or two more witnesses closed the
case for the prosecution.
The court then adjourned, and had not resumed when wo
went to prow.

MURDER IN SHADWELL—Tms DAY.

THAMES POLICE-COURT.

This afternoon at ono o'clock, Jose Frotoee Ben-
dingo, a Spaniels !seaman, belonging to the ship White
Sqaall, was charged with feloniously stabbing James Almon,
on English seaman, who has since died of the wound.
This morning, at two o'clock, the parties were in a low
house in New Oravel•lane, Shadwell. Another Spanish
sailor was there. The deceascd,Almon, was invited by one
of the Spaniards to partake of some boor, which ho re-
fused to do. Some words ensued, and the Spaniards
drew their knives. The prisoner plunged his knife into
the lower part of the Englishman's abdomen, and he
fell mortally wounded. The screams of the women brought
immediate assistance, and the prisoner Iris secured and
given into the custody of Lane, 397 K, who conveyed him to
the station-house in King David-lanc.The wounded man was
also conveyed to the same place on a stretcher, and Mr.
nom, surgeon, of High-street, Shadwell, was in immediate
attendance.

Serjcant Squire, No. It K, naked Almon if he knew
the man who wounded him, and he pointed to the prisoner,
and said that is the man who stabbed me with a knife.
Mr. ROW then advised that the wounded man should be
taken to the London Hospital, which was done.
On the Spaniard being placed at the bar, Sergeant Squire
said the patient could not live many hours, and that the
surgeons of the hospital had requested that the deposition
of the poor fellow might ho taken as soon as possible.
Mr. Ingham directed that the prisoner should be at once
conveyed to the London Hospital, in custody, where Mr.
Symons, the chief clerk, soon afterwards arrived. The
patient, a remarkably fine athletic man, was sinking'
test. Ile made his declaration, that the prisocec
who was brought to his bedside, had stabbed him ; and he
soon afterwards expired. The prisoner was then taken back to
the police-court and remanded.—llis companion, who a'.so
drew his knife, escaped. The police are in active math of