The Express.
London, England, 1847-04-02 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 2, 1847.

bility for a few moments. This wee the word act of eft.
lessee throughout the whole transactisn. Oa the officer
?Kettering be saw Cole making off, and he was not able to re
take him. At the following Lent Assizes an indictment was
found spinet the defendant and two men who had joined in
the rescue, for assaulting the excise officer in the execution of
; his duty. One of them pleaded pithy ; the emend has not'
been yet taken; and Cele also kept out of the way till kat
November, when he was apprehended as the original ease I
warrant, and under which he has been since kept in esreladyi
On the close of tho case for the prosecution, Mr. Hudffilaleal,
having taken ionic objections to the warrant on whisk tie
i officer had acted, which were overruled, was then proceeding'
to address the jury, intimating an intention to call w'
i but, on a suggestion of the court, submitted to a vardiet of
guilty. Ile then prayed the court to pass immediate tantammt,
and save the defendant the trouble and expense of being
brought op for judgment in the Court of Queen's Bench;
; but Mr. Serjeant Talfourd refusing to pray judgment, it was
not passed.
APRIL I.
CaoWN On er.—BefOre 'Mr. Sergeant Geselee.
A young woman of the name of Susan George, about 19
years of age, was indicted for the murder of her illegitimate
child, about a month old, en the 26th November last, by
• drawing. A surgeon who made a postmortem examination
of the body after it had been taken out of a brook where it
had been obviously lying for some time, considered all the
symptoms which he observed indicative of drowning, though,
if he had not known that the child was found in a brook, he
could not have sworn that the child had not died from con.
vulsiona. There was some contradiction between his evidence
and the opinions expressed in works on medical jurisprudence
as to the symptoms which indicate death by drowning, and
the jury, after a short deliberation, acquitted the prisoner.
Crrii. Stnr..—Before Yr. Justice Yank and • Coarsen Jury.
Cazaswele. v. Cottize.—This was an action for a ma-
licious prosecution, under very peculiar circumstances. The
plaintiff, who is • veterinary surgeon, at Leoznineter, on a
Sunday, in Oct., 1846, while the family of the defendant,
who is • young lady, residing near that town with her mother,
the widow of a surgeon. was at prayers, came to the house,
rang the bell, went into the drawing room, took a book
of love songs up, and put it in his pocket, and then, pro-
ceeding up stairs to the defendant's dresaing•roons, took
away a ring belonging to her. The servant who let him in,
and accompanied him through the house, told the circum-
stances when the family returned, and he was that evening
taken into custody, the neat dry brought before the ma-
gistrates, and committed to the sessions for trial. At the
sessions, however, the chairman, on charging the grand jury,
told them it was apparently a lovers' quarrel, and that they
ought
erdantt throw
swoorunt
before
bill; They did so. The
had never spoken to the plaintiff. His ground of defence
was that he had often spoken, and been for a long time pay-
ing his addresses to her, and (that he took the things intend-
ing to return them to her in the evening. After the bill
had been ignored the present .action was commenced. A
great deal of evidenee was adduced on both Aides . by the
plaintiff, to chew that he bed bees often allowed the favour
of speaking to her and walking With her, and this for three
or four years back ; and by the defendant, to chew that he
was reenacting towards her the prat of Richard Dunn to
Miss Austin Burdett Contts; that .ehe regarded been with
disgust, and had often complained taker mother and friends
of his pursuing and annoying her. ffte plaiatiffs condense
pointed ehiutly to conversations and miaow, in 1843 and 1
1844 ; while the defendant's pointed oltsW3y to ezpreseiansof
dislike and annoyance at more regent periods. His lordehip, 1
in charging the jury, told them they had to consider two
questions : fired, had the defendant no probable cause for the
prosecution ; and second, was she influenced by malice. The
Jury, after deliberating twenty minutes, rctarned a verdict I
for the plaintiff, Damages, 801.

the time of kis apprehension, seemed to be possessed of large
rums of money. It rand, too, from the etatemeat of a
witness of this name o M`Donald, that in the beginning of
January be had had some conversation with Fitzgerald, who
said that he wanted *embody of spirit to assist him in draw-
ing a cheque. A person of the name of Swindell also heard
similar hints in a conversation at Fitzgerald's lodgings. Evi.
dent* was given also of Rickel thou haying, the week before
the cheque was obtained, spoken • good deal of some approach-
ing change in hie circumstances, in connection with something
he was engaged in for Fitzgerald. The day also the money was
obtained a witness named Denman met Richardson, who asked
him to go to Liverpool. They did so, and remained there a
few days. They then went to Crewe and Nantwieh. After
being there some time they went on to London, and stayed
there flee weeks, Richardson paying all the expenses, and
during that time he iutormed Denman of the mode in which
the money was obtained, by getting payment of the note
due to Meson. Longworthy. Richardson then returned to
Manchester. Fitzgerald, after being for some time very
irregular in his attendance at Mears. Barbour*' on the plea
of illness, finally asked for permission to go to Ireland to re-
cruit his health, and left Manchester on the 6th of February.
Letters were after this date received from him by his em-
ployers. which bore an Irish postmark, and which gave a
most pathetic account of the sufferings of the poor Irish,
but which, however, it was proved were all written in dif-
ferent parts of England, and one of them came to hand on
the day on which he was apprehended, the Bth of March, at
Bristol.—The prisoners were both found Guilty. There
appeared reason to believe that Richardson had been made
the instrument of Fitzgerald, and the jury recommended
him to mercy.—His lordship sentenced Fitzgerald to be im-
prisoned for two years, and Richardson for one year.—Mr.
Pollock conducted the case for the prosecution; Mr. Monk
appeared fur the prisoner Richardson.
Maria O'Neil, a young woman of very prepossessing ap-
pearance, was indicted for having stabbed Ann M'Curniskey,
with intent to do her some grievous bodily harm. Mr. At-
kinson conducted the prosecution ; the primmer was not
defended by counsel. It appeared that the prisoner and the
prosecutrix were both inmates of a house of improper cha-
racter in Liverpool, and on the night in question, as the
prosecutrix stated, the prisoner was intoxicated. She had
gone up to bed in a room where she slept with two other
young women, there hayloft been some previous quarrelling
between them. The proeecutrix went to the room
for the purpose of getting her night-dress, and on
opening the door she saw the prisoner standing in the
centre of the room. She had a knife in her hand, and,
as the prosecutrix supposed, mistaking her for the person
with whom she had been quarrelling, rushed at her, and
wounded her in the arm. The prosecutrix got hold of the
knife, and the prisoner drew it through her band, inflicting a
rather severe wound. The preset-unix then grappled with
her and they fell, when the prisoner again stabbed her
twice is the side near the back. She then got up, went to
the window, and called for the police, when an officer came
to her assistance. On the prosecutrix being taken to the
hospital it was found she had received several wounds, which
had bled freely, but none of which were dangerous. The
prisoner, in her defence, stated that she had been brutally
attacked by the prosecutrix, and had acted only in self.de-
fenee. Verdict, Guiky. The prisoner stated that she was
most Anxious to get into an asylum, and leave the course of
life is which she had been engaged. His lordship said he
had keen making invades, and would endeavour to assist
her inatitaining such a avfuge. In the meantime, however,
the sentence of the court.must be, that she should be impri-
sontd forgave years.

POLICE-YESTERDAY.

MANSRMI4IOUBE.—ManieI Peiser, a German, who
keeps a coffee and eating house, at No. 6, Mutchinson-street,
Houndsditeh, was charged with having allowed gambling in
his house.—lnspector foeherry suited that on Tuesday, the
234 Meech, at tudf-past 11 o'clock at night, he went, in con-
sequence of information, to the home of the defendaet. He
found two persons playing cards at a table, upon which were
lying some halfpence. There were five men in the room,
and an attempt was made to conceal the cards. The de-
fendant said that the gentlemen were only playing for two
cups of coffee, and that he never permitted gambling for
money in his house.—The Lord Mayor said that the de-
fendant had convicted himself by acknowledging that he
had allowed cards to be played in his house.—A City police-
man said, that during the last (our month' he had known
the defendant, and that fretqquently in the course of that
time be had known that dietutbanecs, both within and with-
out doors, took place in consequence of the gambling which
was carried on in the house. The pawns wn, played were
generally shoemakers, tailors, and poor foreigners. The
gambling was canted on all night.—The Lord Mayor com-
mended the vigilance of the inspector, and said that the
numerous complaints which bad been made at the Mansion-
house by the parents of young raisin who were encouraged
to gamble in such houses, determined him to punish every
delinquent proprietor who should be charged before him
with having violated so necessary a law.—The defendant ,
was then convicted in the penalty of forty shillings.
LAMBETH.—EXTRAORDINARY CAFE OF BIGAMY.—D.
AAeron, an Irishman, upwards of 60 yearn of age, was
examined on a charge of bigamy. Timothy Aheron, the
brother of the prisoner, deposed that in the year 1823, he was
present at the ' of his brother with Ann Fitzpatrick,
at Kensington Chun . The prisoner, after that marriage,
lived with his wife for two or three years, when they
separated, and after this the prisoner went to live with
Catherine Joyce, then present. They lived together for some
time before he became aware of their marriage, and when he
was told of it by Joyce he said, "A pretty job you have made
of it with a married man." Joyce replied, "Married or
single the job is now done." At this time the prisoner's first
wife was alive, and he recollected her dying some yeara after-
wards, when he attended her funeral. The woman Joyce
was aware that the prisoner was a married man when she
married him.—Mrs. Catherine Joyce, alias Regan, deposed
that in the year 1828 the prisoner visited her as a single man,
and made a proposal of marriagef to her, which she accepted_
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