The Express.
London, England, 1862-03-05 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD CIRCIIIT.—Oxsosp, MkNAM t
Comm Count..
(Brian Mr. Joutke Cromptcm.)

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John Hall, labourer, aged 33 wan charged with the
wilful murder of Stephens Moulder, gamekeeper to Loa
Dillon, on the 20th day cf December last.
The case commenced at 9 o'clock in the morning, and
occupied the whole of the day, and was not brought to a
termination before 7 o'clock in the evening. A great num•
her of witnesses were examined, and several of them were
subjected to a long cross-examination, but the facts them.
selves lay in a very small compass.
Mr. Serjeant Pigott and Mr. Sawyer conducted the case
for the crown, and Mr. Staveley Hill and Mr. Harington
for prisoner.
On the night of the 19th of December last, two game.
keepers of Lord Dillon's, named Stephen Moulder and
Thomas Curtis, were watching a coppice known as Shears-
ooppioe, pet of Lord Dillon's estate at Ditehley. They
commenced between 10 and 11, and remained there till be-
ruLwoossis tweet 12 and whorl they heard some one io the coppice.
They thee., and caw two men coming across
the • They followed them along the ride, and when
within tea or twelve yards of them one of the men turned
round and deliberately fired at the keepers, the result of
which was that Mockler received almost the entire mutants
and fell to the ground, dying instantly. Some of the shots
also struck the other keeper, Curtis, but did not injure him.
The man who fired the pa ran off immediately be bad
done so, and Curtis, believing it to be Hall, called out,
"Jack, Jack, I know thee." The man swung himself over
a gate and got away. The other man who was in oompany
with him was a labourer named John Turkey, who
was captured by Curtis, after a scuffle, Tuokey
calling out to his mate to come to his amistance.
Turkey was taken into custody, when he gave tip a ramrod
which Hall had dropped and he had picked up. It was
Foveae in evidence that Hall and Turkey had been together
on the 19th of December drinking at various public-houses,
and about 11 o'clock at night went to the house of Joke
Mayoock, brother-in.law to Hall, where the latter asked
Maycock for his short gun which be bad to repair.
The gun was fetched, arid loaded, and Hall and
Turkey went away in the direction of Shear*.
copse, where the unfortunate occurrence took plies.
At a public-house where Hall, Turkey and others bad been
drinking on the night of the murder, Hall used some
angry language towards the keepers. and said he should
not mind shooting a man. Certain footmarks were trued
front the gate, where the man who fired the gun bad made
his Nape, to the turnpike road, and these being compared
with the boot* taken off Haft feet, corresponded most
minutely.
The jury returned a verdict of Wilful Murder, but re-
commended the prowler to mercy on the ground that they
believed his firing the gun was a momentary act, and that
he only meant to disable the keeper but not to kill him.
The Judge said he rite concurred in the verdict, and
could not see how the jury could safely have come to any
other conclusion. His lordship then passed sentence of
death in the usual form, and said that the recommendation
of the jury should be forwarded to the proper channeL

MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—.NORTHAMPTON, MARGE 4.
CROWN Oonme—(Before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn.)
ATTEMPT= MORD= OF A OA=MFMM.
William Patrick, 24, labourer, dreier Ardesfon, 48,
weaver, and Hearts Clarke. 35, weaver, were indicted for
the attempted murder of William Leak a gamekeeper, in
the employ of Viscounts= Hood, at Barton Seagrave, on
the 30th of January Wt.
All the prisoners pleaded not guilty.
Mr. O'Brien appeared for the prosecution ; Mr. Oave
defended the prisoness.
The jury convicted all the prisoners, and they were each
sentenced to ten years" penal serrittste.