The Express.
London, England, 1865-08-02 00:00:00

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WEDNISDAY- £UGtST 2, 1865.

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VOAHOICK CLROUlTpreasall.—Ozomm, A.troun 1.
searta ei bulimia yellorday imen&g
elleek. Mr. 7usliss Oteaptaa pamddiag on the Mil OK
and Wawa' Nettie the Caroni Omit. Mere an 18,
muss muted jar wial, 50 at vbkeh ers marked tar aposiel

juries. •
Cabin ausa.—(Beta's Mr. Barn Pigott.)
I.ITh•OILDONAki Call.-1111.1 KOMODO OVA COVVIVeII tvi
Thernas J 43, lOW, who slimed to be peso
°ripple. and who limped tato the dook upon crutches, wit
charged with fetaireasly sad maliciously wonading William
liLo" with latent to murder htm. In other counts the pri.
Rose/ "Wes olarM with an latent to do the preematet
grienbe Pally Pm
Mr. Poised prowouted oa behalf of the Treasury. This
cam created a great deal of intend on account of the err,
eeppaseet aseP whets the &lisp& 'doses was essausith4
sad the extheadiaary sanative made by the prisoner as to
the motives that had iodated him to commit tee mime.
Mr. William Mess depend the be was Scripture reader I
alba Woking seavisitpriam. The primer was one of the
emeista in that prison, mad oa the 29th of June Let he
was abased is use of the rehab", cells. Witness ebbed
him es that day in his cell. sad asked him bow he
was. He rtaie "1 um poorly—very poorly." We-
ans remarked that perhaps the pother had tasselling to
do with i 4 aed he them remarked to the pima' that it
was well maws the stains sad escrows of this life to lea
=tow joys a brighter world. At Wes time
was seam by
_Ow Ms wprimmer ca his hed,
ead the prisoner shifted towards hue, sad before be hod
Pay finished the matesoe he made two stabs at him,
and wounded him MU the wrist end at the back of his arm.
The list woad bled a peal deal, sod wham me out of
etee sell to the misty, where Dr. Campbell, this medial
abler, attended kt Wm. The wounds at the meal time
*eV very warty Paled. but be was still sullen:4 from the
OP* to the nervous syst
the em.
by pr _1 have Pews you
twelve years, you have always behaved respectfully sad
properl y tows, tad I haw no reason for supposing that
pea to raked say nailed or angry !sales inwards me.
Yea have often spokes to me of the enmity with which yea
sees treated liar satiosities ot she prima. I have
howl yea sow that you were rubbed to paaiduneat
and placed e refractory Dell when you wow softiies
beta a plea disease, but L was not acquainted with the
wears Of your aileasts.
Thome& Wood, the prisapal warder of the refectory
ward, at Woking Prins, deposed that be was on duty os
the day in geemos, ma maw the prosecutor seine out of
the plimeWs cell, at the same time ea laimalag that be had
lees stabbed. Witseas went late the osli, sad the prisoner
several times asked what was the day of the words. sad he
replied that he knew as well as be did. Ha ieerched the
sod foetid the blade of • small Imife copaaled ip the
lira ventilator of the cell. t
Cpa.rp Uderwoad, &mother warder, deposed that he se-
ampailed the last witness into the primped cell, and
sedated to search for the knife. The primmer said it was
so use their esszadag, for an saga had brought it to him,
sad a easel had taken it sway spiv. The primesr then
said, "The poor fellow most have seen him when be came
la, as he was sitting by ray side. If that man dies to-
morrow he will go to heaven for be is a Oleittiao." Whew
the kali. had bees bead, the prisoner sold, " 11l Poses.
pas Dr. Osapheire yet--the villain"
Oroirexamised by prisoner-1 have known you for
alibt years, and daring that thee you have always behaved
civilly and respectfully, es a primmer should do towards an
allow. I have alma/ways bard you weak relStat°ll7,ll Mr.
Moos, sed 1 do sot know thy reason why you should have
111-feeling tower& him. I hays the charge of the refractory
ward, and when you have boom brought there it Ism always
ben for complaints that have Pea made of your eopduet
la the islimary. I as aware that you have bees under
medical taberneat, sad mediae was sent for you by Dr.
Campbell to the winerory ward, but you refused to sake
It. When you lure removed into the penal ekes ward on
this eemesioa it was under a eaten of six mesa& penal
clam diet.
Prisoner (to the witness)—At the time this senteum was
pealed upon me was I sot is bed in great pie sad Pabie
Witaup?
_ .Prisester—Did I sa for a pea part of the tip that I
Was ender year sharp return the principal partial of my
teed, the Priddlies because L bead that It wasted one
of toy oomplante. tadammatido of the Madder!
Wlinees-1 know that you returned the porridge and
son other patios of the food that wee supplied to you.
Prisoner—Wee not all that I had to subsist upon for swo '
months a pint of milk bed 20 ounces a bread a day. with
the eiweptbs of the dye whoa 'saes, was supplied!
Whams—You said yea could sot est the reel of the food
that was gives you, sad you retuned it.
Is further crosi-examiaatice by the primmer the ilium
said that he told him that the porridge was injorioue to his
diem's, sad be asked for other food, bat the doctor would
net let him hive any. Ile also said that he bad heed the .1
salient medical once, say that the adapt was suffering.
beta • amplimitios of diseases, but he did not remember)
Idea wise that be was eafferimg from an sneak.° of the
seise and dimes a the bladder.
Primmer, to the wiser —Have you sot yearn!! mad that
yes thattPt
Mines my panbiesest was a pest that too severe
ler sp t
Wisness—l aver said so, but you have said It to me jj
sad I bees buoyed yes up as well as I weld. sad esooaraged
yea te bear up &pint it.
Primmer —Have you set also frerlierestly heard me say
that I had so tateaties to Ware Mr. Moss, sad that my
object in easesithiser the eat wee to be mot for Ilia, la
eider that I might expose the cruel treatment te %bib
bed been satibeted?
Witness—l have bead you say am
Mr. Jobs Campbell, the medical Akan of the wises,
deposed that, in the aftersooad the:9th of Jose, he bead
the promater at his surgery is the prison in a very weak.
end hinting sandities, and epee examiniag him be found
s wowed is the back part at ese of hm anse two helms
extent, sad from which bleed bad flowed profusely. Thew
was another wound es the sea arm, but that was almost
esperibial At lido time the prosecutor was wader his care
for an Waseca of this Pant, end be was fearful that the
shock be received might have bees attended with embus
rmalts. He bed known the prisoner as a 000viot for elms
yeses.
Crees.examised by the primmer wee aware that you
wets &Misted. but I always weadared that yea made 'oat-
o& out to be worse than you really were. lam aware that
you have a spinal dims" bal I have so rased to believe
that et times you suffer very great pais. Your health
was weakly delicate, bat I considered myself justified in
mactionlog your being sentenced to six mouths' peal-elea
diet is the refractory ward. I know that you were eaffertag
frombhroale inflammation of the bladder, but 1 ocamiirr that
you were scheming as much as yea could to get off from
being piebbie. lam swam that for two morels yes
bed no other food than a pint of milk sad twenty oasis of
bread a day. I did not see anything la your can that
woald justify meta altering your food. You were allowed
ep have a bed in cell in the refractory ward. but I did
socorderit, on ago sot wore that it was in cooppeose
eq2ramitbreag usable to sit up.
—Hove you sot maid that you had so feeling
for -

L me
Witessi—l do not recollect ever baring made um et such
a expressios.
Reexamined—The prisoner had She same food as the
• convists.
The primmer then addressed the court mad 'try in •
speech of some considerable duration, with great
earnestaim. and in a manner which showed that be was,
inielsotly, • man of considerable intelligence. He said that
if he bad been merely charged 'with stabbing the prosecu-
tor he shenkl at once have needed guilty ; for, parade:Mil
reltzallat appear that a consist should speak the truth, he
that ha loved truth. He denied, however, that he
was actuated by either of the infests charged in the indict-
ment, and mid that the only object be bad in committing
the ad imputed to him was that he might have ea °pima'.
laity of exposing theorem! and diabolical practices to which he
bad his fellow-convicts were subjected, sod had driven him
to do what he bad done, for the purpose of escaping from the
heads al these wham be looked upon. as his intended mur-
derers. He wished the court sad pry to nuderstand, in
the fink place, that at Wolin prison a convict had no
appeal spirt cruel treatment It was tree that officials
were paid to havastigase each matters, but the duty was
performed cerelamly, mid from them a omelet could gat m
amines. If he complained to the governor, unless his am-
Asian wasoorroborated is some wry by one of the °Moses,
the complaint was dierwded, sad hi ma punished far
making frivolous sompWnts. It was a had sad camel
system that would sot allow a poor prboner an sp-
porton* to obtain junks. The pitfalls were lad
to believe that the convict notate was jest
end merciful, and that means were afforded to the convict
of a moral and religious reformation, but this was far from
the feet, and the reel truth was that • convict was tee
times man the child of hell when he lilt • convict prima
than whoa be entered it it was • thieves' trsioing college.
As them ware ladies peasant he would refrain from farther
alluding to the horrible mormities that were committed,
and he would manly my that the most usesteurel *Donn-
ass ware constaatly method without any attempt being
made en the part of the ofileish to put a stop to them.
He had made a repreesneatioo to toe governor of the
abonalsable prinkse that were gong on, sad the result
was that he was punished for making the eom-
plant, sad the only evened tor his being see-
teamed to this pncialimarat of six mouths' penal clam diet was
that be bed ratified the cruel treatment to which he bad
Man senketed, end be would inform the jury how this ha
paced. He bad complained on • former oceasiou of the
systematic pleader et the canine ratimos that was pur-
sued. and for ibis hi was "esteemed to aim months' nasal
elms diet at MilThask. The medical Mess there, Dr. Gay,
vase humane, geed mss, and sena; his sosditica, be would
not ellew the 'antipasto be caeried out, sod be released
Is the Wismar, the whole of the sine months,
when he was "est beak to Waking. He was sent
le the iefirmary, sod we of the warden removed tee
ether minion who were is bed sear him to soother part of
the ward, mil then told him that he should bare plenty at
Inch air, sad be ordered the windows directly opposite to
his bed to be opened, sad they was kept main day sad
night for fourteen days, sad the sinsequesce wan that his
malady was may mash tromard. all the led symptoms
re need, mad be Mame eneirdi deaf with one of his ears.
When be complained to Dr. Oarapiall. the tasty roily he
' male was thee be bed only jest retained hone
sod ha web soda legleamg his MI pair, sod it.. bewail

thattiber atm,lnk gin aim a Dail or a madame
•iW (akin -did have his lee distroyed. Dr. Damp
, attlietlh: Meal report him to 11110101/0/: fin Mee.
eN list the gommir ymeM net sot in the
' Min the Moder el-Prisest mom sad am, wpm
Mistammte wade to biro by the cash& at the Pi*,
he was sestaresed to six months' -penal clap diet for iamb.
ordieste Maw* best Iran ri so other sot of
Meataliditaties *binMott he hei stated: He bed assraly
r
against
the ormila breetment to which he had
eseams9.lllls dabs hich Ist at the lime
he 'debt • almost the
well have bees, sward to death.
War ter asestbs all the toed he had was _twenty
of bread and a pint of milk per dari sad
amtaF an this lime he was sufficing the most isteme
nosy Lim% the iffeeldon
bled a i,ns bladder cod hit spine, and
wet
MAW toned' his wed MAIM.
emiglainal boti. Campion. ba awl& set at
lm would not make 05
any
anoraks, sad when he applied toslo, Dinette of Primes.
rtho same to visit him, he relso4itialetfere. tinder these
oirminstames he felt that mists soieth was done in
the muse of a few weeks he meet be sired man. The
mato mot set believe the camel Mattoon to which the
warm comic& were subjected. One pert of their system
at treatmant was that no prisoner was anowsd to sleep more
*ea two hours. At the expiration of that period an nicer
mat round the prison and knocked with hie kayo
al every cell, and if the prisoner did sot answer,
he west is sad palled the imbue off him
aid swam him. lie would ask list whether
sash sots as them were sot manlike the proceeding. of the
hapintion in Span and Portugal this those that would be
ezported to take place in Finned, but they were sever.
Melees true. The pihoeir Mee went ea to say that he had
SO malice towards the promentor, who he kitty was a good
Obrinian man, but he thought it was a leas crime to
malt the assault apes DM than upon one of the °Maas of
the gaol, masa whom he estertained • feeling of maim
bat issidectared that he wrapped a piece of rag round the
blade of the knife, so that it goad sot posibly enter the
arm to • greater depth than an iamb, and he amortel most
eolesinly that his sole motive was that be might be aim
=Mid for trial, and thus have a opportmity of letting this
pub& buoy the cruel treatment he had reamed.
WUt was the good, be said, of humeri and pod judges
like his for &hip inflicting sestemas upon priamers in the
hope that they might be reformed and reared good mem-
bers of society, when the effect of the system of treatasset
to which they were subjected was to make them ten these
wools then they were before? So far as he ((the primmer)
was saneeesed. lie was fan urging towards lb. gram, and
it mattered very little whet seatonse was passed apse blat,
bat he did hope that his lordship would take some inseam"
to have the matter inquired into, and iambi some motto.
lion for the poor convict against wrong and injustice.
Mr. Baron Pigott, is smanales up, said that Bags:
was charged with the offence of wounding the let
with the intent to murder, and also to do him a
bodily berm ; and if the jury Mould think that maim' of
theme la tents was established. there would tbs. he wither
alternative, that of cosarning him of unlawfully
as offence which he had ondenttedly 0
had heard the statement that was made by the pincer,
and although tome portions of it wire inament, still the
ikon stated by him (*Malay had a hearing he .
lion as to with what intest the act was so=t rpm
The jury. am a short deliberation, *equated igiSpri.
ester of the felocious portion of at amp, and found him
guilty only of unlawfully wonedies.
Mr. Poked stated, in mower to quakes pat by the
loomed judge. that the prisoner was originally oon&tod of
felony is 1849. and 'satiated to six moat& imprisonment.
is October, 1953, he was again tried for ottani', a forged
bank note, sad two provisos sonvictione were then proved
against him, sad be was sentensed to Meaty years' tram
poriatioa. While la custody happened that he made two
sitimpia to slab the warders, but Its was moray puelthed
Is the prison. He obtained a tickstotlean, and in May,
1862, he was epic °omitted of titter* a forged oats, and
mutant to tea years' penal senituds, sod h• was wader.
going that sesdease at the time the present offense was
committed.
Baron Pigott mid he would oansiakir what eller le
dam with the primmer.
Cm!. 31111.—(130ore Mr. Justice Crompton.)
IMDZIAN r. AXIL
Mr. Pewee was for the plaintiff, and Mr. EistjeUll Baas-
tle• far the 4sfenthet.
This was an adios to morn &amps for a hawk of
prom of lamina
Theise pialatiff in this mhos was about 23 mare of age.
Her father formerly kept a Myers at Wawa, and the &fee-
t, who eras as undertaker in the neighboarhood, beams
acquainted with her and paid her attentions. Same tiros
last year he met her a letter, in whisk he addressed her
es "My diwirMise Needitamnied west on to say that be had
isms a long time looking for a partner, and at length he
had foued one who he thoarbt would salt MR in
herself. The defendant proomded to date in this letter that
as it was to be • partnersb~i-pp for lifejperisaps she had better
1/1/0 the minter some cosideretia, end he said that if she
waated any referenees respecting him she would obtain theca
at a place lie sawed. The plaintiff mosped the proposal,
sad a day was appointed for the wedding, and the middles
sloth's was puicimed, but the defoodast suddenly broke
off the inatint, slating in a letter he wrote to the pb&nff's
Maw that th• reason Iwo did as was something he had
heard Main Mate plaintiff and her family.
Mr. Betliant Ballantine, when the ease had been opened,
mid he maid not resist a verdiet, sad with regard to this
Astensist °Masa in the defeadant's letter, he was
last:mead to withdraw everything like an imputation
epos the ihameher of the plaintiff or her funny, sod to
admit that them was not the least foundation fee Was sag-
palm eostained in that loam.
A verdict for the PAM was that sabered by earnest,
with BO& damages.

NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Kazionarriz, At m. 1.

NI& Pann.—(Before Km Bares Bramwell.)

MUMMY= O. 114.1111 L -BMWS OF POOMIDIE OP 11.4111•01.

Mr. Brett, Q. 0., bed Mr. Ton, were for the plaintiff;
and Mr. Man wee far the defendeat.
This wee es adios for breads of promise of marriage.
The *lope.
bfi
Mere Aso Whanelt,was the daughter of •
peblicen Hefei et la.row aged 23, end the de-
fendant was • dealer in winless, aged 33 ; sad escorting to
Aline Whetmough, who was the prinsipal Tritons and
sister of the plaintiff, the defendant lived with his mother
at Tiesciottege. sear the *nitre, wins. four years ego,
he wee in the habit of visitlog their house, the flare Ina,
and begea to pay Iriseddreesse to her. doer efterwarde the
father sad mother of the }lentil, hewn( observed the
conduct a the defendeat, end somewhat afraid of the coo-
sexiss, became he was rather ohne her is entire,
spoke to him on the sabjerit. He declared his intestines to be
honourable. and the courtship wee allowed to go on. fish-
sequeetly the father and mother of the deleadent died,
sod about • year age, defendant, as urged by the
roans(, Wing advastage of bet feehop valor
her maltiplMd misfortnism, effected her sednetios, and
she had aims given birth to • child. The defendant bed
ulnae mauled swan wanes, Tire. Cron, • widow. Mr.
Elgin sidled so Witiltelil for the defenoe ; end in ell-
dreads; the Jam admitted the plosiire of marriage, sod
that the sweets of the plaintiff were respectable sad well-
conducted pprrpie. H. admitted there was also • one foe
°My for thi.llapttraitsdiotogtihve jury, oe
om tchfromzvo=
He einetesded that thier: bad he:: widens.
to show that the detentes* was wealthy, or thatn he had
married • fortune.
The Jury tanned round for a few minutes, and feud for
the plaintiff—damages, 2501.

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the cheque, eod he know et so traowetioe with Mows
Alblbes width wail/ kr& Wm to seespi sea • hill se lb,

ose is question. _
Stnt 13pital unit he hind the two hooks peedeoed fn
the gee esiter's dwit al Yr. disam's ease ea the lleth
Jona Oa the Iletit of July be apprehended the
=ilaa on a woman! haled to lie Measise.
He sew the prhauer ati that dep ski* It 1
a brougham la Gray's.binhae, sad. leek ..hies fate ,
sailetly. He hid the primer lie &aria, smi be mild ha
unthancell it. lie teak the paissent Bouriaar,
Pl:ag= bite ha morn stench the, and ha pne WM a lasi
emstniadegeoeneurolps.
Mr. 11Wleas mid them was another charge aphid the
primmer for toggles a bill for 1001.
Mr. Csolifile 1.1111 meta Gallo& awl said the prig/weer called
him oa the 10th Jane ant with a DiU of euhringe fir
1001., which be asked Wes to dissount. The bin was
diswa by the psiesemo, gad proportel to be sompted by C.
J, Whitehead sod Co., of Tore=strsel. Limelsome. He dies
mwasted the bill, sad atve the priecoar a Algae for the
O. Jg. Whitehead, of forectisek Limaboase, nisetualtar,
tdatikneer the petioaer whoa be was alert to Mum.
sad Whitehead. Mr. Whitehead, of that firm, was
wlteme's brother. Tke prisoner used to go to his oft*
after his owe Wastrel hours to make set kis books, and be
bad ao other immuastions either with the primmer or
Masers. Addison. The acceptance to the bill for 1004
piadmad was not his, sot. did he authoring sop perms to
sign it.
The primers wee econmitied far trial epos both clisrges.
Mr. Weigh asked that the Weimer might be admitted to
hen
Mr. Mathias mid fate gayeties of bail were raised he
should be prepared to go tato weed ether charges et it
similar kind.
The Lord Mayor dotard to aossis to the application.