The Express.
London, England, 1851-04-08 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLI) COURT.—YE4ERDAY.
CRIMINAL AIMOAULT AT I.v.wi,•ia.tm.
Thomas Bishion, a person of gentlemanly appearance,
and who, it appeared, had formerly held a commission in the
arm v, surrendered to take his trial upon au indictment tia
tuisdenusanor in having unlawfully assaulted a young girl,
stoned atudia Bolton, with a felonious intent. Mr.
Clarkson conducted the prasceution ; Mr. Bodkin appeared
for the defendant.
From the evidence of the prosecutrix, a girl 13 years of
age, it appeared that the defendant, who is a worried man,
lived at Lewisham, and she had been in his service eleven
months at the time of the occurrence. On the evening
of the 2aed of January the wife of the defendant had
gone to a concert in London, accompanied by a
girl Mint 4 Eliza Marshall, who was also a ser-
vant in the family, and one of her children, and
the assault was represented to have been committed
while the defendant and the prosecutris were alone
in the Louse. The evidence negatived the fact of the com-
mission of a felony, and utensil- went to establish the mis-
demeanour. The pritsecutrix narrated the facts, within of
courste, are not of u character to be detailed, and she stated
that on the same night she communicated to her fellow-
servant, Eliza Marshall, what had occurred, but it appeared
that she said nothing to her mother, or any other person,
until several buys afterwards, and she accounted for this by
saying that her fellow-servant pressed her to earnestly to
sty nothing about it, that she consented to do so, until she
found herself in cud, it state of illness, that it was neces-
sary to obtain medical advice.
Mr. Bodkin, on behalf of th- defendant, urged upon
upon them the improbability of the story told by the pro-
sevutrix, and also the improletbility that a gentleman in the
position of the defendant, who had always, as he should
show them, lonic the character of a man of honour and
morality, should have conducted himself in such a manner.
lie also remarked upon the difficulty that always existed in
meeting charges of this description end the impossibility of
contradicting the statement of the proseentrix with regard
to the main fact, but he Kahl that in the present instance he
should lw able to show that with regard to the statement
of the proseentrix that she had made a communication to
her fillow servant upon the buhject of the attack that had
listen made upon her the same evening, it was not true, aud
if he succeeded in establishing that fact, he trusted the jury
would consider that it tended to throw discredit upon the
whole isf her testimony, and that they ought nut to act
upon it under such circumstances.
Eliza Marshall, the girl referred to, was then called, and
site swore positively that on the night in question the pro-
secutrix said nothing whatever to her about her master
having assaulted her. She was subjected to a severe cross-
examination by Mr. Clarkson, but she persisted in the state-
ment she had originally made.
In order to contradict this witness, Sarah Bolton, an
elder sister of the pricecutrix, was called to prove that
Marshall told her that her sister had said to her that "aim
was bail" through her master, or words to that effect,
Several witnesses were called to speak to the character of I
the defendant, and among them Lieut.-Colonel Pottinger
and Lieut.-Colonel Crofton, wow all described him as having
the character of an honourable and moral man.
Mr. Clarkson having replied,
The Recorder Pennant up. Ile observed that if the evi-
dence outistied the jury that the charge had been Math: out,
the station and character of the defendant ought not to
operate in the slightest degree to prevent them from sae hug
so by their verdict; but if, on the other hand, they enter-
tained any reasonable doubt upon the subject, then the
deteintant was sauteed to the IRAMIL of that doubt As much
no the meanest of her Majesty's subjects would be under
similar circumstances..
The jury retired at 5 o'clock, and after being in delibera-
tion an hour and a half, they sent in a written communica-
tion to the court, stating that they had not agreed and were
net likely to agree, and wished to know whether they
could not be discharged.
Tne Recorder, upon receiving this communication, di-
rected the jury to be sent for, and he told them that it was
not iu his power to assist them in the way they desired.
They must be unanimous in their verdict.
he ntreman of the jury said that ten of the jury were
quite agreed a, to the verdict that ought to he pronounced,
but they could nut get the other two over to their way
of thinking.
'the Recorder said the jury must discuss the matter
among themselves, and they had better again retire.
The jury accordingly retired a second time to their room,
and having been absent until nearly half-past seven o'clock,
they returned into court and gave their verdict, finding the
defendant guilty of a common assault.

NEW COCII.T.—YEIrrEtwAY.
Bacon, 11IN Cuismos
HORNE STEALINO.
Marks rad, 27, dealer, was indicted for stealing a mare,
valued at 61., the property of William Baldry.
The particulars out of which the charge arose were these.
The prosecutor is a farmer and dealer residing at Twicken-
ham, and prisoner had been in his employment and had
upon some occasion% sold for him. in February last prose-
cutor had a cob and mare pony, the former of which was
for sale. On the lath prisoner came and took the rob
sway to show a gentleman, and brought it back, saying,
that he wind sell the pony. Prosecutor told him he would
nut part with it. 't he prisoner, having waited until he went
from home, came and took both away. Ile came back
a few days afterward% with the cob, and said he had shown
the other to a gentleman at Acton. It was ultimately dis-
covered that the pony had been sold to some one at Hyde-
park. The prisoner did nut come back to where he lived
until a week afterwards, and he was then apprehended, and
upon his being searched 4/. Is. was found on him, he having
sold the mare for 61
For the defence it was urged that the prisoner might
have supposed he had a right to deal with the pony ; and it
was proved that prior to this transaction he had borne an
excellent character.
The jury found hint Guilty, and he was sentenced to
12 months' imprisonment and hard labour.

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THE POLICE CO URTS.
THAMES.
William Day, a respectably dressed young man, 21 years
of age, late barman to Mr. Deacon, wane and spirit mer-
chant, 100, Curtain-road, WM charged with feloniously Its.
NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—LWERroot, APRIL 5. molting Ann Harriet Newman, a young needlewoman,
NISI FLU'S —Snout Ma. Jt Aries C cs,ww.r. residing with her parents at 8, Manning-street, Limchouse.
AIIIIISTEAD C. WILDE.—INNELECERS' LIABILITIES. About half past 1 o'clock on Tuesday morning Hillier,
This was an action brought to recover the amount of a 47 G, found the complainant sitting on the step of a door in
sum of money stolen from the Neptune Inn, Clayton- Little Sutton-street, Clerkenwell, apparently in a state of
square, in this town, and belonging to a commercial tra- stupefaction, out of which he endeavoured to rouse her, but
seller. Mr. Joseph Armistead has for a long period tra- to no purpose. She had a written address iu her hand.
yelled for the house of J. and J. Armistead, seed crusher., She appeared entirely deprived of the use of her limbs, and
&e., of Leeds, and the plaintiffs in this action. During 20 he was compelled to convey her to the station on a stretcher.
years he has made the Neptune his home on visiting Liver- Her hands were bloody, but there was no mark of violence
pool. On the 4th November last he repaired, on arriving on her person. From the station-house she was conveyed
at Liverpool, to his accustomed inn, where the def ndant, to the Royal Free Infirmary, Gray's-inn-road, where she was
Emma Wilde, who had then the management since the attended by Mr. Robertson, the house surgeon. When mini-
, recent death of her mother, received him. On the night ciently recovered from her state of stupefaction she gave the
of the 7th he deposited £285, in gold and notes, in his following extraordinary account of the circumstances which
driving box, which he locked up and left upon the table in led to her being found in the position in which the con-
the commercial room. On examining his driving box next stable discovered her. She said that on Monday, the 31st
morning he found that it had been forced open and that ult., she got a letter from a young man named Richard THE EDINBURGH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND
all his money had been taken away. Ile, therefore, Roberts, who was paying his addresses to her, making an THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH C . .—At a meeting of
claimed from the landlady recompense for his loss; and, appointment to meet her that afternoon at the Ben Jonson, the Chamber on the Ist inst. a resolution was adopted to
the liability being disputed (though it was alleged by Rhodeswell, Stepney. Though the letter wee not in his memorialise the London and North Western Company, and
Mr. Armistead in evidence, that a promise to restore the handwriting, she imagined that he had got somebody else such other railway companies as may be deemed advisable,
value of the amount had been made by the defendant) his to write it, and kept the appointment, going there between requesting them not to accede to any application from any
employers had recourse to the present procedure to re- 4 and .5 o'clock in the afternoon. Instead of Roberts she Electric Telegraph Company for the exclusive use of their
cover. Cyrus Watts, the man charged with the robbery, met the prisoner, who said your name is Newman ; you are lines. It was stated that the old Electric Telegraph Com-
is now awaiting his trial at the sessions. Mr. Scrjeant waiting for Dick Roberta ; come with me, and I'll show Pans, having failed to obtain a renewal of its patent. had
Wilkins was engaged for the plaintiffs, and the Attorney- you where he is. He then took her round the corner, applied to the London and North Western for the exclusive
General for the defendant. The defence urged was, that where a cab was waiting, and wished her to go on to the use of all the lines of that company. The Chamber have
there was nothing in outward show to indicate that the de- Ben Jonson's Bridge, which was close at hand ; but she re- also resolved to send a memorial to the government on the
fondant was the ceper of the hotel; that the license on the fused. An altercation ensued, during which the prisoner and Y
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6th and 7th of November was in the name of the deceased the cabman tried to force her into the vehicle, but some UEN THE SUNDAY LABOUR IN TILE POST-OFFICII
mother of the defendant ; that the name over the door was persons passing by interfered, on which the prisoner was resumed a fey months since, the postmaster-general
that of the mother ; that the bills were not in the defen- cried out " What business is it of yours ? She is my wife. promised that he would relieve his subordinates faom all
dent's name ; and that the probability was (considering her and 1 want to get her home." Though she protested to the labour that was not absolutely necessary for the convenience
sex and age), that the defendant was not the owner of the contrary, the parties adopted his statement, and she was of the public. It was considered very desirable that every
hotel at all, though, for family reasons, she might have re- forced into the cab. She had not been long there when the effort, and some sacrifice should be made, to dispense with
mained in the house. Mr. Knowles also dwelt strongly on prisoner put a white handkerchief to her mouth and nose, the services of the country postmen as much as possible on
the fact of there being no corroboration of the statement of and she became almost immediately insensible. On Sundays. This numerous body of men walk oftentimes
Mr. Armistead with respect to the restoration of the value awakening out of her trance, she found herself lying on a between 20 and 30 miles a-day for a small pittance per
of the property. sofa in a large room, with a young woman sitting opposite week. They start very early in the morning, from the chief
The Judge having gummed up, a verdict was returned her. The woman, who seemed to commiserate her position, *Meer in towns, and distribute correspondence in the rural
for the defendant, on the ground of negligence. asked her if she felt herself better, to which she replied districts. In the evening they return to the chief offices with
" I don't know that I have been ill," for she did not per- the correspondence collected at the poet offices in villages
I NORTH WALES CIRCUIT.—CHESTER, APRIL 7. ceive that any injury had been done to her. She asked the and hamlets. It is now resolved that on Sundays these men
Csows Cerar..-Itsposs Ma. Jessica *mamas. young woman where she was, to which the other replied, shall commence their return to the chief offices so as to
Tea BIUSENHEAD Mot. " You're in a' low house.' " Shocked at this intelligence, arrive at the latter about midday, in order that they may
This case was proceeded with at the sitting of the court though she did not find that she had been abused, she cried have the whop of the after part of the sabbath to spend
this morning. out, " I must get out at once ;" to which the young woman with thea mini:ies, and atten t cnarch. This arran,oernent,
Mr. Roebuck proceeded to address the jury on behalf of replied, "I do not think there is much use in your trying. in some parts of the country, commented last Sunday.

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