The Express.
London, England, 1851-07-26 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 26, 1851.

NORFOLK CIRCUIT.-NORWICH, JOLT 25.

The learned judges of assize arrived in this city by an early
train yesterday, and at 4 o'clock the respective commissions
for the county of Norfolk and the county of the city of
Norwich, were opened in due form, after which their lord-
ships attended divine service in the cathedral.
The criminal business promises fully to occupy the time
at the disposal of Mr. Justice Cresawell. The city calendar
contains seven prisoners, one of whom is charged with
manslaughter ; and that for the county 44 prisoners, whose
imputed offences include one case of murder, seven of ar-
son, two of perjury, four of rape, two of felonious wound-
ing, three of robbery, two of burglary, a variety of larce-
nies, and one Post-office case.
The cause list for the county contains five causes, of which
two are entered for trial before special juries ; and that for
the city contains one special end one common jury cause

WESTERN CIRCUIT.---DORCIIEsTER, JULY 24.
The commission was opened here yesterday afternoon,
and the judges, having arrived at an early hour, were able
to p to church and discharge all the necessary prelimina.
ries so as to be enabled to commence the actual business of
the ionises at ten o'clock this morning. The consequence
MS a paucity of grand jurymen at the hour when the roll
idniee but owing to this arrangement the whole of the
boolum, civil and criminal, was completely disposed of by
do o'clock—the hour filed for the judges' dinner to the
magistracy. Such a circumstance as that of the disposal of
the whole of the civil and criminal business of this county
ill eight hours bas ail scarred foe many years.
Game COM'.
IMAXIISAVOIiTik.
2: eireindo alas' la • musk frock, was arraigned upon
Ike ossoostgeo=idiloo Ow the wilful murder of Captain
at Lyme Regis. The bill fee
= having, title direction of the judge, been
'by the
sued Ivry, the prisoner was tried only for
lamer Watt Mr. Stock, who prosecuted, stated the
no to the jury. The prisoner was • labourer, living at
Lyme, and the deceased was a gentleman, of t 12-two
2,
years of age, who had been a captain in the
Artillery, and had several run dam retired to Lyme Lek
On the lath of April, Capt. Spam was sitting in his ova
house, and cries of " Murder!" seem heard preoceedlmt tram
the road. Captain Symms sod other persons mane.'
diately went to the spot The prisoner Time•
bed wee found lying la said pummelling g man
mod poor, with whom be was proceeding. to Lysol.'
tabonba Inarrellsd with Yin, ad struck him vm. Cap.
las Ili's and his miglibooos with some difilmity rescued
Law 11.= Ili lida. drib. 11111.11; -who tv. ore lie would
A • kff as alb* Gal saw ftill 'Me hat off he
mesa at Wm. *mow bin down, knelt or. his body, and no
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nma all boos lam GE Ilfm. The unfortunate
cleaned we at ems Wad to IfrAP, wet, when it was dia.
We"' tbal be bed led die Tir,stem. aide, and was in a
Mato of complete inileneihilltY . Kolbe aid was summoned,
bat so severe were the ilAtreces he bad received that the
Pit mornimh after hatr.ig remained insensible since the
attack, he expired.

The prisoner asserted that he bad not the slightest in-
tention of injuring the unfortunate gentleman. It was all
done, he said, "by a twist." Captain Symcs wanted
Wt°
away from Lyme, and he wanted to go to Lyme,
and in jerking liims;lf out of Captain Byrnes' grasp the
injuries were occasioned. In support of this view of the
case, he cross-examined the countable of Lyme ltegis, in-
quiring if the captain did not say, when asked if ho had any
charge to prefsr, Oh, not mach; it's only a hit of a brush. '
The constable acknowledged that he had used these nerds,
and the judge remarked that he ought to hare stated them
in his evidence in chief.

The jury at once convicted the prisoner, and Mr. Justice
Coleridge sentenced him to be transported kr 20 years.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.--7Yoktii„ JrLY 24.

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William Scoff, who woo sawirteted of felonion,ly shooting
at Sophia Widdop, at Lose, with intent to murder her, was
sentenced to be transported for ten years.
81100118° A PULICRNAN AT LEEDS.

James Murton, 26, was charged with having, on the 31st
of March last, at Leeds, attempted to shoot henry Mirfield,
with intent, &c.
The prosecutor is a police officer in the Leeds force, and
on the morning of the 31st of Marsh last, about two o'clock,
he was on his beat in Kirkgate, when he observed the
prisoner lying upon the door step of an inn, situated
su that street. lie was apparently asleep, and the officer
took hold of him by the collar with the intention of
awaking him. The prisoner at first refused to get up, but
at length did so. Mirtield asked the prisoner what he was
doing there, and he replied that having no bed to go to be
had consequently laid himself down upon the step.
Whilst this conversation was going on the prisoner pulled
out a loaded pistol, which ho presmited at the head of the
police officer, but, although the hammer went down, the
pistol fortunately missed tire. The prisoner immediately
ran otr, and whilst he was making his exit he attempted •
second time to discharge the pistol, but failed in so doing.
Mirfield sprung his rattle, and the prisoner was apprehended
by • person in the street.
In defence the prisoner said the officer struck him vio-
lently with a stick over the bask several times before he
pulled out the pistol.—Guilty.—To be transported for life.
1.1t1.04 RIOT AND MNSLAUGHTZU IN YORK.
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Nadia& Donal/in and James Donallin were charged with
the mau.laughter of James Flannery, in Long Close-lane,
on the lith of April last.
The prisoners and the deceased were Irishmen, and for
some time they had lived neighbours in Long ('lose-lane,
and worked in the chicory fields in the neighbourhood of
this city. On the 16th of April last, there was some dia.
turbanec amongst • few of these people, but that sassed
over, and it was not until the following morning that any-
thing serious occurred. Between nine and ten o'clock on
the looming of the 17th a quarrel arose in the lane, at,
the commencement of which Mary Jordan, the deceased's
daughter, was struck by James Donallin. The deceased
having beard of this, came out of his house, and seeing
James Douidlin, he struck him. After this, Michael, the
other prisoner, took part in the fray, and a very serious
riot_and outrage ensued. The number of the parties
present increased, and a terrific fighting and disturbance
took place. Whilst this was going on, James Donallin
armed himself with a long brush, with which he struck
the deceased over the head; and Michael Donallin not
only beat him with a poker, but threw at him a large
paving stone, which hit him on the head, and felled him
to the ground ; death ensued on the second day after the
affray took place.
Ilis lordship directed the jury to acquit James Donallin,
and he sentenced Michael to three months' imprisonment,
at hard labour.

SENTENCES.
William Hoyland, convicted of robbery it Handsworth ;
William Beckwith, John Wood, and William Baxter,
found guilty of robbery at Bothwell ; George Staley, con-
victed of highway robbery at Sheffield; George Kaye, for
highway robbery at Huddersfield, were severally transported
for 15 years.

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THE POLICE COURTS.
GUILDHALL.
George Lake, proprietor of Lake's Dining-rooms, Cheap-
side, ,•urrendered to his bail, before Mr. Alderman Wilson
and Sir C. Marshall, for re-examination, on a charge of
violating the person of Emma Gardener, aged 16, his ser-
vant. The circumstances under which the charge was
made, and the details of the evidence given on the former
examination were given in the Daily News of this day
week. Mr. llallaaine now appeared for the defendant.'
The complainant not appearing, the learned counsel asked
the aldermen to discharge the defendant from the serious
charge made against him, and proposed to call evidence for
a warrant for her apprehension on a charge of wilful and
corrupt perjury. According to the instructions he had
received a more wicked case could not be conceived. The

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defendant was desirous for the fullest investigation • he de-
clared he never touched the girl or made any proposals to
her, or acted towards her other than as a master should do
towards his servant. It was necessary for the safety of the
public at largo that so fearful a charge involving the penalty
of transportation for life, should be met by the most prompt
measures to repress it. The absence of the girl proved the
wickedness and falsity of the charge, in addition to which,
he had the evidence of a respectable surgeon, who had exa-
mined the girl, that no recent traces of violation were to be
found upon her person.: tinder those circumstances he
asked that a warrant should be issued forthwith for her lip-
prclit nsion, and also that the defendant should be at once
discharged.
Mr. Wood, the chief clerk, wished to know what the
affegations of perjury were ?
liallantine—} or falsely having sworn that the de-
fendant came into her room and forcibly took possession of
her person.
Alderman Wilson having directed the officer to again as-
certain whether the complainant or her father was present,
and whether any person appeared on her behalf, and the
answer being in the negative, said, as to the knowledge of
the parties of the hour and time they were tq„attend there
meld be no mistake in the matter, for he ad expressly
given directions that they should be informed. The charge
Isms one of a serious and injurious nature against a trades-
men of the cite of London, and, as the learned counsel had
said, one which, if believed, involved the punishment of
leaseporution for life. The defendant was there with his
WI es to meet the charge. The complainant was not
hetbseasing, nor did any one appear on her behalf; he
thought, therefore, the defendant ought to be discharged.
The defendant was then discharged.
Mr. Ballantine said, the defendant, being then dis-
alerted, he should propose to put him into the box as a
Witness, in support of his application for the warrant for the
gemplainant's apprehension on the charge of having cora-
=hied gross, wilful, and corrupt perjury.
Mr. George Lake, the defendant, then entered the wit- I.
SO
Me bash sad having been sworn, deposed that on Weelnes- fit.
ewaishe the 17th of Jul (the night the offence was alleged et.'
SO law been committed) he returned home about half-past
east hh wife was waiting up for him ; she shortly after went to
hell, and he followed her in about ten minutes or a quarter se
hf an hour after. He never entered the bed-room of Emma :141.
Gardener that night, nor had he done so on any other occa sy
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intercourse with her, or ever made any proposals for that 6
purpose, and the statement made by her at the previous ex- St.
emulation was entirely false, and a pure invention. After
joining his wife, he never left the bed until about six an
o'clock in the morning.
Alderman Wilson said, before granting a warrant, he
should require some further evidence than that of the de-
fendant himself.
Mr. Ballantine replied, ho was perfectly ready to call le
the surgeon who had examined the girl, and should, also, Is
on another occasion, call the wife of Mr. Lake, who would tt
prove that her husband had never left her room during the
night, if it was thought necessary. IT
Alderman Wilson thought some further evidence must 18
be given.
Mr. G. S. Childs, surgeon to the police, deposed that on
Friday last he examined the girl, and found that there was ;
no evidence of any recent violence having been offered to s
her. She was not a virgin, and expressed a reluctance to be f
examined.
Emma Bruce, one of the witnesses examined on the pre-
vious occasion, deposed that Emma Gardener had told her
that her master had had intercourse with her, and that
she had no doubt she was pregnant.
Margaret Sarah Lake sans—l am the wife of Mr. George
Lake, of Cheapside. I remember the night when my her
band came home. I sat up for him until half-past one. I
scolded him for keeping me up so late. The boy and say.,
self turned off the gas. I then went up to bed ; it was Wien
two o'clock. My husband followed me up stairs Ia shwa
ten minutes, and, so far es I know, he never left the roam
again until the morning. If he had dose so I think I meet
have heard it, as lam a very light sleeper. If my husband
left the room it must have been when I was asleep, and he
must have returned quickly, as I was not disturbed and
did not mica him. He got up about six o'cleek in the
morning.
Joseph Beckley deposed that he was in the employ of
Mr. Lake ; he recollected titling up for him onfthe night in
question. After Mr. Lake returned home he (witness) and
Mn. Lake turned off the gu. He followed to his own
room at the back of the fourth floor. Emma Gardener
slept in the room opposite on the same floor. He gese I rally
slept with his door open and did so that night; he leeward his
master come up stain, eater his bedroom, and lock the
door. Emma Gardener went to bed about half-past ten,
and did not get up till dr ; had there been any noise m the
house he must have heard it.

said ha Considered that be bad stiewa

aulHeicnt to authorise the magctrateiseVitig the warrant
Alderman Wilson said he was not satisfied with the
manner in which the girl gave her evidence before, and
be thought in justice to the defendant that the warrant
should go.
The witnesses having signed their depositions the war-
rant was issued, and at once Viaced in the hands of the
ofiker.
MARLBOROTT.OH-STREET.
The magistrate has received the following farther sub-
scriptions for Ann Hicks :--•• A.D." 10s. ; " F. W.," 10s. •
0 A Reader, Is. ;"I.M. M. m.,•• ; end aM. note in th,;
following letter :
•• Colonel Sibthoep presents his compliments to Mr.
' Hardwick, and bar to enclose bl., in addition to the former
61. forwarded through the Mornhog Herald as 'M.P., a
' consistent opponent of Das Crystal P 4m*.' "

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