The Express.
London, England, 1862-04-17 00:00:00

ATTEMPTED MURDER AT DUDLEY.

At the Dudley pettFsessions, yesterday, before
j Bennett and Chptain Pletcher, Thomas Read, a
(siraerlt-town quack doctor, was charged with shooting a man,
named Oliver Newsy, with intent to murder.
Polios-constable Dement stated that be was on
duty at Bates.bill at three o'clock yesterday man.
lug. He was tailed to the house of Noway, who
was suffering from • wound in the left band.
He went to the house of the prisoner, whom he
found in bed. He charged him with shooting at Oliver
Newsy, and doing him serious injury. Prisoner said
"I did, and there are the pistols," pointing to • braes of
pistols on • chest of drawers. Witness, upon examining
the pistols, found one loaded and the other recently dis-
charged. Prisoner afterwards said, "I meant to shoot the
—; 'lope it has gone through him." He also told the
dicer that, after he had shot Newsy, he went into the
street with the loaded pistol, and walked up and down
for half an hour, with the intention of shooting the
first man he met. Witness then took the prisoner to
the police-station. Upon examining the prisoner's pro-
misee, witness found two bullet holes in the entry door, and
two bullets about two yards higher up. There was blood
upon the outside of the entry door. A medical certificate
was put in, stating that Newsy hail a bullet wound through
his Idt band, and would be unable to attend for • few days.
The prisoner was remanded until Monday next. The only
reason at present assigned for the commission of the act is
that the prisoner had been chaffed by the wounded man
and others. and be therefore determined to have his revenge.
Some words wad between Newsy and the prisoner, oppo-
site the prisoner's house, and the prisoner set his dog on
Newsy, but the dog refusing to bite, prisoner said, "
@hoot you." He then went into his house and fetched his
pistols, and shot at Newey, who was at the bottom of the
entry, and the bullet took effect in the left band. Prisoner
was intoxicated at the time of the occurrence.

DEATH OF MR. BRANDT, COUNTY COURT JUDGE.
—We regret to announce the death of Mr. Robert Brandt,
the highly respected judge of the Manchester County Court,
which took place on Tuesday evening at a quarter to eight
o'clock, at his residence in Pendleton. Mr. Brandt, who
was in his 66th year, has been suffering a good deal during
the last few years from gout, and latterly from water on
the chest, which last disease proved fatal. He was the KO
of a Manchester merchant, carrying on business in Morley-
street, Manchester, and was called to the bar in lel
Before his appointment of county court judge he was for
many years one of the Commissioners in Beoluuptcy, sad
Judge of the Bury Court of Bequests.
BUICIDZ IN • RAILWAY TUNNEL.—Yesterday
afternoon Mr. Missing, • draper, for many years residing at
Tranquil-vale, Blackheath, left the London-bridge railway
station by • down-train on the North Kent line, and when
in the tunnel, between Blackheath and Chariton, committed
suicide by shouting himself with a pistol. The deceased
had taken • ticket for Blackheath station, but proceeded
further down the line, evidently with the intention of do
gelling himself when the train arrived in the tunneL
THE FEARFUL CATASTROPHE AT BURTON.—FOUL
Most DRATFIe.—On Tuesday night two more deaths or
curved, one in the hospital and one at Prieatfield ; and yew
terday the body of a missing man was found in the canal at
the works, and wearer man died in the hospital. There
are now therefore 23 persons lying dead from injuries re-
ceived by the explosion, and there is reason to fear that
before this account appears in print certainly another life
will have been sacrificed by the same accident. The
injured person who is not expected to recover
is a woman who at the time of the explosion
was engaged in washing "breezes" outside the works.
The few other persons injured are expected to recover.
Three are in this condition in the hospital. Mr. Rose is in
• position to contribute only the COOIIIII which will be rr
quired for the deceased. Some iron and cal masters, who
are aware of this, are, through the Rev. Mr. Richards, the
vicar of Ettingshell, taking steps to mho a small fund out of
which some relief could be afforded to the dependents of the
deceased and the sufferers. Yesterday the inquest was opened
before Mr. W. M. Phillips, coroner, at the King's Arms,
Bilden. A number of witnesses having been examined, the
Dmiry was adjourned for a week.
EATH THROUGH F.XeRSSIVE DRINKING.—Yeater.
day morning an inquest was held at the London Hospital,
by Mr. Humphreys, touching the death of Philip Fitz-
patrick, aged 22, who expired on Thursday last from the
effects of drinking off at a draught a pint of neat rum,
under the following circumstances:—Francis Clarke said
that he was in the Two Brewers public-house, Challenge-
street, last Wednesday, and he saw deceased, who Wel
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friscd of his, speaking to a young woman with whom he had
been keepiug company for some time previous. They appearedo
to have made up a quarrel, and deceased was in high spins.
They bad been drinking some half-and-half, but he was quad
sober. The young woman ordered a pint of rum, witness
supposed to treat the company, but the moment it was laid
on the bar deceased took it up, and saying he would driok to
her health OA it had been drank before, drank off the
whole without once taking the measure from his lips. Ha
changed countenance, instantly staggered backward, sod sat
down. He became insensible in lees than five minutes. He
only spoke, after drinking the rum, to ask for a pipe, but of
earn it was not given to him. He was conveyed in a cab
to the hospital, where he died in two or three hours. De'
ceased was not • man of drunken habits. The jury returned
the following verdict : " That deceased died from the effects
caused by drinking a pint of neat rum at a draught."
CRIDUISTY AND IMPOSITION.—At the Liverpool
Police-court _ yesterday, • singular case was invest-100a
before Mr. Raffles the stipeudiary magistrate. Mar!
Gattent described by the detectives as a " usveldlog
dodger, wee ohareed with obtaining V. 4s, 6d. from a
youug girl named Susan Fox, stssistant in • cigar shop in
the Brunswick-mad, by the following means :—lle ',Timmer
some time last year sold the proascutrix a " rid "„ riqz
and during lest mouth some earrings and other' jewelled,
and after the sale had been effected she called upon Mss
Fox and wished her to give them up, or give money for
them, maybes they had been stolen by her (the prisoner
Miss Fox proteetiog that the theft had nothing to do wi
her, the prisoner aid it would be a very serious matter for
her, and that she would be put in prison as the receiver of
stolen property. This statement so worked upon Miss For
that she was induced to give various sums to the above
amount, hut upon the woman again calling and offing
threats about imprisonment, she was handed over to the
police. The accomplice of the prisoner has not been spew
heeded, but the prisoner herself war sent for trial.