The Express.
London, England, 1853-03-23 00:00:00

kind of red plush waistcoat, the material of which I
corresponded with a piece of stuff toand on the
hr,keo wislow of the deems: Ws cottage. Other state.
menu which Moore had given of the transaction were
then detailed by several witness, s, and they all set forth
different stories. Walsh wu missed from his abode early
or. the morning of the weirder, and Moore and be were
aund to hr in sudden pomossion of money. As regards the
ease against Henry Blackburn, it would appear that it
mainly rested upon sonic remarks which had fallen from
him premier. to the murders, that he would come into pose
sea-ion of some property on his father's death, and that he
was picked mat of a hatch of prisoners as having bought
<event pounds of resin at a shop in Wolverhampton on the
Friday previous to the perpetration of the atrocious
crime. Moore had endeavoured to fix him in his
statements, but there was nothing like consistency
in his representation,. Mr. William Webb, the sur-
geon of WAWA Infirmary, detailed at some length
the injuries inflicted upon the deceased couple. Three
were three wounds on the head of John Blackburn—one
between the eye', another on the right side of the forehead,
and a third on the head. The bones were driven in. The
axe produced would mfbet such wounds. The use had
hair upon it correspooiliug with the hair on the man's fore-
head. The blows were decidedly inflicted before death.
The deceased man must have been in a recumbent position
when the blows were struck. The body of the woman was
much more burnt than that of the man. The scalp was
completely carbonised. There was a fracture of the right
eye extending backwards, and there was another fracture
at the back of the head. Believed she was in xa upright
or semi-recumbent position when she received the blow.
The ease tor the prosecution having closed,
Mr. Seejeart Allen solar:seed the jury at great length for
the prisoner Henry Wieldier°. Mr. Serjeant Thomas, and
Mr. C. Evans, follows d fur Moore and Walsh.
Mr. Justice Talfourd then summed up, and having
pointed out the evidence us it affected the different prison-
tea, left the jury to determine their guilt.
The jury then deolierated, and found the prisoners Char.
Moore and Edward W•lsh Golly, and Henry Blackburn
Not Guilty.
His lordship then wane d the black cap, and :in • most
impressive address, pointinz out the enormity of the crime
which the wretched men had committed, passed sentence
of death upon them, holding out not the alightesi:hope of
mercy.
The two miserable convicts were then led away. In the
c mese of the evening it was stated, that after they had re-
turned to the gaol they made a confession of their guilt.
lu closing our notice of the trial, it is only fair to remark
that the conviction of the culprits, Moore and Welah, was
in • greet measure to be attributed to the zeal and activity
of Mr. Richards, the chief of the Stafford polio', who was
the first to detect the fact of Moore writing the asiOyincins
letters, and who arrested both prisoners.
SHREWSBURY, MARCH 22.
The commissiou for this couaty was opened at a late hour
last night, by Mr. Justice Vaughan Williams, Mr. Justice
Talfourd being detained by the amount of criminal business
at Stafford. This morning, the judges having previously
proceeded tt hear divine service at St. Chad's Church,
accompanied by Algernon C. Heber Percy, Esq., the high
sheriff, and the municipal authorities of the borough.
At 12 o'clock Mr. Justice V. Williams proceeded to
charge the grand jury.
The calendar contains the names of 43 prisonore, of whom
there are for feloniously cutting and wounding, 3 ; bur-
glary, 1 ; uttering forged receipts, 1 ; concealing birth of
child, 1 ; unlawfully entering land by night in pursuit of
game; bigamy, 1 ; stealing a bullock and a;ciow, 1; assault, 5 ;
together with several eases of larceny and of stealing from
the pecans. Ono of the poaching cases, in which six per-
sons are implicated, is likely to prove very serious. At the
civil side there are only four records entered for trial, none
of which are likely to present any features of general in-
terest which would justify • report.
Mr. Justice Talfoord sat in the Nisi Prius Court trying
records.