The Express.
London, England, 1865-09-21 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT

(TIIIB DAY.)

(Before Mr. Jake Sae.)
idassrat 15, an Winless% leaking led, wee
Memel with eiesek' ire to • direißag home
belonging to WO= Astkinraiir. said Witham Animus
belstalhozieret at the Si... was a seta emit la
the the paver oilse of salami%
to monk> aka
ilk. Iforbs lemmata.
The Oresseater ask • fader *airy* ea *wow
is Mow Oilmtheteset, sat tho prisoner wee la hie sinks
as eased boy, but It apposes& that as the leth of Ai
is oasseemasee Cl the primenter Maim Me= to Wwa,
iwi
that to ores sake( has, he bad gives him pokes te quk.
end to was to Isere on thefollowisg Botowley sight 0. wTuesday bates the presesertor pes up • hill in
window tor another boy, acid Most two sm.
atermede he peresived • stem moil of to, eetd
as going la* She kitchen be dieoured that k.
home had bees set en tin. It bad *Tautly bees
la • Mu*, hid Mu prisoner, probably upon Marie{ the
was eommg doeskin, bad sodeaveared te
W promo/atwl th• Sr..fire. The primmer was ordered to else
y, and se he was patting his out on to do se,
the prosecutor told ham he should sot let him go tail ►he
keew more about the fire, as be was pertain that * )1.4
does it inaligiossly, sad the primmer
be than edmiltsd Net
, bad set Ire to the dresser with • piles of piper. no
atm" in same to a qualm pat by the lemsed jam
said that the wiener hod been is his servile, fa
about five months, and ha knew sake( more shost
W.. Wheel the prisoner was khan isle east*
reargßarabee, • polkeeenstable, who had told him that to aim
with as•Pilimlirto to the boas% he replied, "I& It,
and the me.. I die it was rest mJ roam wee gain*
Tme away end get another boy.
The primmer, when asked by do barna fudge who*.
to •Br Anything to tito *ye replied that be bal
to say.
Tw sky famed th• prisoner goilby upon the nacre mime
count in the indictment, that el attenuates to IA ire le
the house. bat strongly reoominended him to mem m
&coyest of his
Mr. Juetioe =Lie tossing eratesiro, said that the yet
goner bad bees dealt with yin mercifully, sod be regam
: his sot se of a wicked, ambievous boy, and be &di
best him seek. Re hoped he might still bums a mil
member a society, sad he would loot subject his te the
isentamioaties Cl • winch might prove his satire
gals. Acting thor ore upon the view of the osee take by
the jury, be should order that be restive twelve stake
with a birch rod on the following day, and that as Wm
My ha should be delivered up to hie mother.
Mani Brock, 39, and lienoes Block, 28, two Wm.
able looks' oremorm, man and wife, were charged aces
an tediekeest, and eke by the aoroser's *Maine*. nth
the wilful murder a Week oak child.
Mr. Poland sad Mr. Orridge eouducted the meeetation
as behalf of Si.. Treasuey. The *sown were nopro.
widest with legal meetesee, bat at thia request of the
learned "age Mr. Collins kindly undertook to watch the
cue es their behalf.
The circumstances of this as. wen of the sad
palatal end eistrusiag character. It appeared fres the
Modentest Cl the learned counsel for the prams.
=intihaS the prisooms resided at Little Pearietruit,
antallkik, an& that the man was a boot esker,
d Ids wits assisted him in that bases% but they um
so doubt is • mieersble solidifies.. although that maks
wee very materially egpsvated by their drunks. bade.
TM child in question was born on the 6th of August, eat
the female primmer was delivered by • midwife nada the
superiumudeme of Mr. hies, the parish doctor, sod, es.
cording to the evidence, it was & healthy child, end there
was nothing in its appearance to denote that it was likely
to die a premature death. Nothing particular seemed to
ham °marred until the 28th of August, on which day it
spewed that both the prisonen were drunk, sad amasses
impair belag made of them in refereore to the child, they
book said that it was dead. This statement did sot appeals
hem bees sakisbietory to the parties, and they west to the
rams that was occupied by the priumn,sed it was thee
emend that tb• child was not deed es they bad stated, bat
although oars it was in such • critical slate that Mt
Aliens, • medical man, wee' inotaliktly dolt tar. Eli
however, found the poor child via pest his skill, the eely
evasplem of vitality that it exhibited being that when In
damn had had Cl the child's hand, he felt. dal
pram from the beers. The poor What died my
aeon afterwards, and, epee a post mortem examiestisa I
appeared that all the vital wpm, except the kidneys we
healthy but the body was is • mostdreadf ol state at ,vale
lien, said from the appearance at the stomach the poor what
bed mat had any food for two or three days, end it our
Mated that whereas an ordinary child of deemed sem age
woad have weighed nine or toe pounds,tbe wily
weighed three. It appeared, according to the foams d
Kr. Allison that the femalreilueisour was in such a Milk
so
eenditaos far es a supply of milk, BIM oho
might it she bad been eo minded, have amid the sem
guy
..dripnoishosent to the child, mid noon the feck Inks
d.
d cosequeme of what lie beard, Kr. Allies
i liked to !give • certiscate uto the canoe of death, sad a
80100111 e• was subsequently held upon tbe body el
the child. Roth the primmer, were examined. and it el
peered that the female mid that the child bad bees satiety
from its birth, sad that Dr. King had told ber that it ma
not live, a fact that was positively outradicted, ad sheiks
represested that the child was too weak to take food. The
male prisoner was also examined, and ha appeared to Ism
admitted that they were both drunk on the 28th of Mye l.
and said that the child had been very weak from its beret,
and at the time he said it wag dead he really believed that
it was so. The medical evaluate went to show that the
child died from want of food, and the sugeatios ea the
I part of the prosecution was that if the female maser had
wilfully neglected to supply proper nonridatoest to the
infant she was guilty of the crime of wilful murder. a
that it the ampere by from segligenes, and by gittN
drunk and leaving the child without food, had untribetel
to it. death, they were at all evade amenable to the
charge of muslaughtair.
eeding
[The trial was peoc when we went to piste].
(Before the Recorder.)
Louise Plena( Vali-rout eurrendered fn &whew of her
hail, to answer an indictuset charging her with wilful sed
a, moot perjury in the court on the 15th Assort hat. Ifs
indictment masked • second count Margie, her with oll•
tut and corrupt perjury whoa examined as a witness as ht
own behalf in an action " Bouillon e. Valemie " kid
before Mr. Baron Pigott in the Court of Exchequer, al
Wertminster, in the month of May last.
Mr. Ribble and Mr. Bosley appeared for the promaine
and Mr. F. H. Lewis and Mr. Warner Sleigh for the dr