The Express.
London, England, 1853-09-17 00:00:00

HORRIBLE CASES OF W/FE•BEATING.

Yesterday two of the most shocking instances of
this prevailing crime that have hitherto been made public
were investigated at our police-courts.
At the Southwark court, Dela Murphy, a man of Her-
culean frame, was placed at t..e bar, charged with assault-
ing Ellen, his wife. The pour woman had been foui.d in-
sensible, immediately after the infliction of the injury, by
the polioe. She appeared in court, but se ill that she could
hardly give her evidence.
Ellen Murphy said that her husband, wbo was in the
habit of illusing her, came home at 12 o'clock at noon
drunk, and she got under the bed to get out of the way of
his violence. lie did notuotsue tier, but he took the things
off the mantel-shell and carried them away. He returned
two or three times in the course of the day, and each time
she hid herself under the bed, to get away from him. At
see, n a'clock in the evening she was under the bed w:ien he
entered the room and laid himself on the bed. She un-
fortunately coughed, and be heard her and called out,
Who are you, and why don't you speak 1" She called
out, " Spare my lie, and let me go." He then jumped off
the bed and seised hold of me by the hair of my teed, and
pulled me from under the bed and ferociously ditztated me.
Mr. Col:she—Whit did he do then ?
Complainant—He jumped on me, and kicked me, until I
wes insensible. Only six weeks ago I ass delivered of a
still. ben n child, and that wea through his ill-usage.
The poor woman was in such a week state that she was
allowed to leave the witness box, and Mr. Combs asked the
prisoner what be had to say for soaking such a brutal at ac:
on his wife.

The priwner, in a sullen manner, said that she 'baud
him, and said she would do far bun, and he certeinly did
give her a slap, out not so much as she had stated.
In answer to the magistrate, police-constable 138 M
said that there wean person in tee !muse at the time, and
he was called by a neighbour who saw the prisousr run
out, and who discovered his wife lying insensible on the
floor.

Mr. Combe &skid whether there was say danger?
The officer rep Fed that the surgeon had certified that she
was very bad. She had bruisep all over her body.
The wife was recalled, and, in answer to the magistrate,
she said she was a very sober woman, and acted honestly
towards her husband. Her body was completely covered
with bruises. She was under the bed more than five hours.
The prisoner, who could make no defence to the chair,
was email& d for a week, to sac 'n the extent of the in-
juries he had inflicted on her.
The prisoner, who seemed to think very little about it,
was then removed by their soler.
At the Westminster Police-court, Edward Leach, a
powerful, determiued.looking fellow, was charged with •
similar offence.
Complainant, whose right eye prisented a most shocking
appearance from the ellect of recent violence, and whose
face and neck were covered with severe contusions, stated
that the defendant was her husband. She bad been mar.
vied to him only two years, and it was his daily habit to ill-
treat her. He never cause home in the evening without
doing so. After she had gut his breakfast that (yesterday)
morning, he asked her to give him sizpence ; when she re-
plied that she bad not got so much. Upon which he de-
clared, with a fearful oath, that he would kick her brains
in, and commenced beating her about the head.
Mr. Broderip—Did he disticure your face in that way ?
Complainant—He did that, sir, the night before last, and
bit me.

Mr. Broderip—Bit you, did you any ?
Complainant—Yes, he seises me by the hair, and bites
me allover my body.
Daenuant On a brutish tone)-.." Don't tell lies."
Mr. Brodenp—Don't interrupt the proceedings. You
will be heard in your turn.
Complainant-1 am covered with marks all over my
body—(bursting into tears). I entreated him this morning'
not to beat me again, u I was so bad from hie previous ill
usage.
Elizabeth Anderson, of 6, Queen's-place, Peter-stract,
said, that bearing screams of "murder" from the com-
plain& .t, she went to their room. Observing her condition
as ahu got away from him, she told him that he ought to
know better than to beat a woman like that, upon which
he replied that if he could get at her he would kill her.
Witness said, "ain't you satisfied with the face you have,
given her ?" when he declared he was net, but would give
it her worse when he got hold of her. Witness took the
poor woman, whose body was covered with bruises, down
stairs, to protect her from further violence.
James Saunders, 192 B, said that he was called on the
previous night and told that the woman had been most
cruelly beaten by her husband. When he took defendant
in charge he said to his wife, " You if you come here
kick your liver out."
Defendant, in reply to the charge, denied that he bad
struck her that morning, end said he asked her 60 times
for a shilling. She got drunk and squandered his means.
The wituess Anderson was recalled, and declared that the
complainant was a sober, quiet woman, always attending
to her home.

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Mr. Brodcrip sentenced defendant to six months' hard
labour.

THE FATAL ACCIDENT AT CLARBOROUGH

TUNNEL.

On Thursday afternoon an inquest was held at the
Odd Fellow.' Aras hes, near the Rctford station of the
Mahchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, on the
body of the late Mr. H. E. Strickland, whose melancholy
death, wl,ilst making some geological investigations near
the Clarborough tunnel of the above line was described in
our impression yesterday. The ju'y were taken by special
train to view the place where the accident occurred.
David Mitchell, goods clerk at the ltetford station, de-
' posed as fa.llows—l was on the platform of the Itetford
station yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon, at about 8 o'clock,
when the deceased came up to me and asked permission to
' go down the line to inspect the Clarborough tunnel, staling
that he was connected with the British Association, and
was travelling for scientific purposes. I told him that
Mr. Carr, the station-master, was not at home, and that
I could not permit him to de so. He repeatedly pressed
fur permission, but I told him I could not give it as it was
contrary te the company's orders. He then asked me to
gave him a note to go by the road, and inquired the way,
Ultimately I accompanied him as far as the hop-gardens
and then pointed out the way to Clarborough by the canal
side. We then shook hands and parted, and I did not see
him spin alive. He requested his luggage might be for-
warded to Gainsborongh. The witness identified the body
as that of Mr. Strickland. _ _ _

Two plate layers engaged on the tine deposed to se ing
the deceased walking on the line near the Clarborough
tunnel with a note book in his hand.

James ChaSenor, engine driver in the service of the Great
Northern Railway Company, said-1 left Lincoln with a pas-
senger train yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon at 35 minutes
' past three. Jest after we got from under the Oringley
Bridge I saw the deceased standing on the line
about two and three quarters miles from Retford. There
is here a very sharp curve on the line. I saw the
person get off the up line, to avoid a coal train which WAS
•pproachin him, and step on to the down line whih we
were running g upon. He was from seventy to eightyc yards
uff my train. 1 whistled alarmingly, shut off the steam,
reversed the engine, and put on the break. He seemed to
take no notice of us, his attention being directed to the coal
train. The engine struck him, and when I pulled up I
['and him about thirty yards from where the collision took
place. I war so much alarmed that I dare not go within
fifteen yards of bins. It appeared to me that his head was
off. I gave information of the occurrence to the clerk in
charge at the Itetford Station, and the remains of the de-
ceased were fetched thither on a truck. The dtgessed was
about 110 yards off when I first saw him, and we Were going
about twenty-five or twenty-six miles an hour, which is the
ordinary speed. The line is on a decline towards Refford.
After some consultation the jury brought in the follow-
ing verdict We And that the gleamed was on the line
without leave, and that he lame to his death by being
accidentally run over."

THE SABBATARIAN QUESTION IN SCOTLAND.—On
Bentley moroing last the steamer Emperor left the
Broomielaw with a full complement of passengers, there
being upwards of four hundred persons on board, including
a considerable number of ladies. Oa reaching Gourock,
we ware informed, two or three gentlemen who had been
passengers by one of the Liverpool steamers went on board
the Sunday steamer, with the view of being conveyed
across to the village of Row. Upon reaching the pier at
this place, the gentlemen from Liverpool were landed, but
their further passage was pmvented by a huge wooden
gateway, which extended right =TOM the middle of
the pier. This, it seems, however, proved no very
serious obstacle, far some of the passengers speedily
procured a saw, with which they rut away a suffi-
cient number of the wooden bus of the gate or bar-
ricade to enable the passengers to get through. When
the Emperor approached the head of the loch, it was
also found that the old stone pier erected by the fishery
board was strongly barricaded under the orders of the
' lord lieutenant of the county. There was no force of men,
however, to defend the erection, and a small beat having
been loaored from the steamer, with a party carrying an
I axe, saw, crowbars, and other implements, the obstruction
in a few minutes was thrown into the loeb, and floated
sway in the direction of the other pier. No landing was
attempted here, the steamer at once making for the regular
pier. At this point some persons, with the view of giving
annoyance to the passengers, about on. hour before the
arrival of the Emperor, lifted Dilae or ten planks from the
middle of the pier ; hut this difficulty was easily got over,
and the entire body of the passengers disembarked in safety,
the planks which had been uplifted from the pier being
made use of as a bridge to enable them to get over the
wooden gateway adjoining the tollhouse. There was one
of the rural policemen and some other men with him over-
looking the landing, but no disturbance ensued, and the
passengers, after walking about the neighbourhood for two
nouns, again quietly embarked in the same way as they had
come, without creating the slightest noise, or giving annoy-
ance to any person.—Glasgow CAronick.
111 E GLENGARRY EYICTIONA.— These evictions
I took place on the Knaydart pi etteelolle of the Glengarry
family. Some 300 persous left peaceably, taking advantage
of the opportunity for emigration which was presented to
them. About one fourth of that number (exclusive of
several infirm and sick persons, whose forcible removal was
thought dangerous) persisted in remaining, had their habi•
tatious tumbled down about their ears, and are now living
in the shelter of the rocks. All of them, we believe, were
much in arrears of rent, and Mrs. Mildewedl behaved libe-
rally as respects their proposed transportation.—lnverneas
Ackertiur.