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examination. The accounts, prepared by Mr. Peters,
showed that his d-bts are 1,420/. ; assets about 370 f.
Mr. Bagley appeared to oppose; Kr. Linklater supported
the hankrupt.
The baakrupt, in examination, admitted that be bad had
in training a hone called Pope Pius, as also several others;
'but be denied that they were his property.
Ultimately an adjournment was ordered, so that further
accounts should be rendered. _ _

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CAPTAIN K..—THIS LONG RANGE.
The ease of this bankrupt, the well-known projectile
inventor, has been frequently before the court, and the very
voluminous accounts prepared by Meson. Harding and
Pullein (Guildhall-chambers) bays been fully detailed in
our journal. This was the certificate meeting.
A second class certificate was granted without remark.
Ix at 11. Haman.
The bankrupt, a linen draper of the 13Iackfriars-road,
passed his examination un ,pposed.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.—Yserzin,y.
BYTOM U. Jcmci COLXIBIDOS ANY Mk Janet CIPINWILL.
KILLING A WITR.

Thalia* Johnson, G 3, .horinaker, was indicted for the
wilful murder of Sarah Johnson, his wife.

The prisoner was charged by the coroner** inquisition I
with the offence of manslaughter only.
It appeared that the prisoner, who is a shoemaker by
trade, lived with the deceased, to whom he hod been
married for more than forty years, at No. 24, Graham-
street, St. Luke's, and they occupied two rooms, one a
back parlour on the ground floor, which was used as a
workshop, and a bedroom over it. Shortly after 11 o'clock
at night on the 10th January, the prisoner went home very
much intoxicated, and very soon afterwards some of the
other lodgers in the house heard a great noise in the
prisoaer's room where he worked, and upon going to a
hark door to listen, they heard sounds as though crockery
and other things were being thrown about and broken, and
the prisoner was heard to exclaim with an oath, " I'll do
for you, you —." At this time it appeared that no one
but the prisoner and his wife were in the room, and
the deceased was heard to say in a faint voice,
"Do you call yourself a man?" After the violence had
continued for some time, it appeared as though some heavy
body had fallen to the ground, and then all was silent. The
nest morning, about five o'clock, the prisoner accosted a
police-constable in Mecklenburgh-street, and told him that
his wife was dead, and he wished him to accompany him to
his house. The constable inquired how it happened. and
the prisoner replied that he did not know ; he was in bed
up-stairs and heard a noise in the lower room, and upon
going there he found that his wife was dead, and he said
that he had immediately come out to give informa-
tion to the police. The constable upon this accom-
panied the prisoner to his residence, and he there
found the deceased lying dead upon the floor. There
was a quantity of blood near her, and the room was in
great confusion, and strewed with broken articles, and ex-
hibited every indication of a violent scuffle having taken
place in it. The constable made a second inquiry of the
prisoner as to the cause of the death of his wife, and his
only reply was, " I did not do it." A surgeon named
Hutchinson, residing in the neighbourhood, was then sent
for, and he immediately observed that the rue was one
of a suspicious character, sad he asked the prisoner if
he could account for the death of his wife, and he
replied, " I did not murder her—l did not do it."
It was then observed that the prisoner's hands were bloody,
that there was also some blood upon his forehead, and his
boots were also covered with blood, and when he was
aslscd how he accounted fur these circumstances hr said
_ .

that he must bare got the bitiod on his boots by walking
about the room, and that he had bloodied his hands
when he touched the deceased upon his tirst did-
eovering her, alter he eame down stairs. The pot:
martens examination ili.eliKed that the unhappy
violence.

erased bad been aubjected to most brutal
Her month was cut ; her neck bruised and swollen,
and there w;.• also a severe cut, sigh an one ar would be
inflicted by A shoemaker's knife, at the hack of her head,
which had revered the temporal artery, and it was the
opinion of the surgeon that the contusions had been urea
shined by blows or violent fall,, and the consequence of
these injuries was the estravaration of a large quantity of
blood upon the brain, and this was the immediate cause of
death.

......
The jury found the pri.oner Guilty of manslaughter, and
he was sentenced to be transported for life.

KILLINO A 111:41151NO.

Jone Brown, IS, was indicted for the manslaughter of her
husband, John Brown.
. .

The facts of the case have appeared very recently in the
police reports. The prisoner and the deceased, who, it ap-
peared, were only married in September last, resided in
Surrey-row, Blackfriars-nail, and it would seem that not-
withstanding their recent marriage they frequently quar-
relled, and lived together on very bad terms. On the even-
ing of the 4th December the prisoner, after being absent
from home the greater part of the day, returned about six
o'clock, and she shortly afterwards expressed her intention to
go out again. The deceased objected to her doing so, but the
prisoner persisted in her intention, and went down into
the kitchen, where she was followed by the deceased,
who struck her a blow with his open hand. It appeared
that after this some further altercation took place between
them, and the prisoner sudd,nly seized a small poker, and
thrust it with great siolenee against the forehead of the de-
erased, inflicting a severe wound. A surgeon was called in,
who dressed the injury, and at this time it appeared that no
serious consequences were anticipated from the wound.
Four or five weeks afterwards, however, the deceased
was taken ill, and he died on the 17th day of Ja-
nuary, and upon a post-mortem examination it was
discovered that the immediate cause of death was
the formation of a number of abscesses on the brain, which
were stated to be the result of the injury he had received
upon the forehead. The prisoner was taken into custody on
the 111th of January, and she then stated to the officer that
her husband had taken up a knife •to stab her, and she
merely made use of the poker to protect herself.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty, but recommended
her to mercy on account of the provocation she had
received.

She was aentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard
labour for nine mouths.

AS6AILE OW MR. LITTLER.
George Stingk, 21, cabman, and lionnals Collis, 21, were
indicted for amaulting Adatu Leffler, with intent to rob
bim.

The jury acquitted the woman, and found the male pri-
soner guilty of a common assault only.
He was sentenced to three months' hard labour, and as
he was leaving the dock he exclaimed, "Thank you, my
lord, thank you—thank God for that."

NEW COL:RT.—YESTERDAY.
Scrota to. Cowman SCLIZAIR.
PLUNDERINO THI DOCKS.

Charles George indicted for
stealing 48 ingots of copper, the property of the St. Kathe-
rine Dock Company.
It appeared from the evidence that at about 10 on the
morning of the 31st of December, the prisoner came to the
Docks in a cart, and asked about some canes, and was
referred to Mr. Davis, the foreman of the cane Ikon lie,
however, loitered about the docks until 12, when he was
teen to have his cart backed up to the entrance of the vault
which contained a quantity of copper ingots, and nne of the
men placed to watch the labourers leaving for dinner see-
ing the prisoner treading a quantity of straw into his cart,
he went up to him, and asked what be had got in his
cart, and he said, nothing. The officer, suspecting some-
thing, turned up the straw, and found the ingots of copper,
which turned out to be part of a large number of ingots
brought to this country by the Walfage, in 1849, and placed
in that vault. The prisoner said he had been sent by some
one, a Jew, whom he did not know.
The jury found him Guilty.
Mr. Clarkson requested that sentence might be post-
poned until next session, which was agreed to.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS—YESTERDAY.
1:11.04.1111a. B[I.IILUNT ADA" ASSISIMPT hoilL
GlOBll ASSACLTS.
William 'Jaye*, a gentlemanly-looking young Ilan, was
indicted for haring indecently assaulted two little girls,
named Jane Hoskins and Maria Fulcher Bevan.
The prisoner was a schoolmaster at Shack Jewell, and one
of the auaults charged against him took place in Qctober,
and the other in January last.
The jury found him Guilty.
It was stated to the court by an inspector of police that,
since the present charges had been preferred against the
prisoner, nine others had been brought forward. The pri-
soner had been tried for felony, but acquitted on &techni-
cality, and about fix months ago he was married to a very
respectable young woman.
Mr. Witham, who tried the ease, sentenced the prisoner
to one year's imprisonment in the Rouse of Correction.
The court then adjourned.

THE POLICE COURTS.
MANSION-HOUSE.
ENC 111•111 AND THlll.—Robert MykMei NIA brought
before the Lord Mayor, charged with having robbed hie
wiployen, Mews. Leaf and Co., of Old Change the
extensive warehousemen ; and Henry Jacobs, alias Wilson,
1 was charged with having received the articles stolen.
Ms. Jones. of Sise-lane, appeared for the prosecution.
Mr. P. H. Wood appeared for the prisoner Vrilson, oAat
Jacobs.

It was stated, upon the put of the prosecution, that the
cue was of the desperate class of crimes which were of
very frequent occurrence at the present time, and which
were promoted and encouraged by experienced veterans in
the art of receiving.
Mr. Wm. Jennings, clerk in the receiving house of the
London Parcels Delivery Company. No. 155, Chearide,
mid—Yestarday I received a parcel from the prisoner
DLad, whom I knew to belong to the house of
ens Leaf and Company. It was directed to Mr.
Wthma, at the Britannia, Britaankeplaoe, Bishop-
gate. I suspected that all was not right from
the prisoner having beenght a panel of goods with the
mon Menden me two or than maths ago to the dike,
emignimg same men thir laving brought it. He left the
pared to be forwards& b the eampts, to Mr. Wthea. I
matte to Mr. 01M, .f the Pima Delivery Camara', and
in his presence opened lhognami. awl saw ft easteheed 411
handkerchiefs. We Om semmunimied with Wawa. La
sad Co., sad they.Mdtadirctileas their gook
There went forty PM& leb-
',gamily an the lama der, a mound pared me been& to
as with the same dimities, and sae et the item of Leaf sad
Co. brought • handkerchief and placed it in the panel in
mM+. mamma is the employment of Mem,.
Lea and said—does after nine o'clock yesterday