The Express.
London, England, 1851-08-26 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE

DISCOVERY AND ('usl\Mll r %I. OF A GANG OE
Tuu:r we A:4l, Ilia role sue. • - Great interest has been
touted at Itotti by tlw dnsuo ry of a Lave gang of thieves,
who as porters and errantl-bio, have bevrl carrying on an
'steno's...y.4.ns of robbery fur .Itilt• time poet, by which
several of the hauling tradesmen of the lily have suffered to
• large amount. Ina Worehip Esq., mayor
of 'lath). aflor OrTrial adjour tttttt rats, rendered mi. cowry by
the vaunt nod fed the roblories, yesterday luny
Collinittli al the following prisoner. for list : Herbert Corte-
stose.'l Nonni Iteynuul.. J W 111,111S' Jatob Arehart',
Henry Kunio U.I. lie-04W OVI MIMS, Edward loos ier,
William Levier, and Jan, lof• f ; the two last-
mused, who are hind...m.l and oil. being charged as re-
el...CM of the stolen goods, awl all the others with stealing.
The whole of the 'prisoners, with the ceception of the two
elder lo vii roe were uremia 114.). and porter. in various esta-
blishments to the city ; and .rum the evidence of on secoomo
plies., owned lit nth) Sheldea. 1,410 was admitted as a wit-
woo, it oppe.in, iii a regular system of robbery 1141 been
conical on by theist all for a long time past. and the pro-
perty transferred to the I s 'll4O •' house. William Levier,
who is a f Arland.' f by trade. has hitherto borne a
very high character, and been a regular atten-
dant at chianti, amt live ili.rovery of his coneesion
with a Kong of thievis has naturally created a
tonsiderable degree or ,Arit. meld. Tlw discovery of the
masa awl of a large quantity tat stolen property WAS made
la OW following manner. Mr. It. Withers, of the Hem of
WWI( S. Withers. hatters awl hosaf f 14 the Abbey-ehurefi-
pied, happening to be in Mr.. Ilieks's shop in Miloon-
street, °booms' the prisoner Wilkins, who was errand. hoy
thin., throw his cap ender Ow counter and lean the slop
iusinviluetely be saw Mr. Withers there. This recited sus-
piennionol Mr. %%Owes picked lap the cap. and then
fount hi. town private mark in it ; foul upon inpiin he
red that it had been etolen from hi. stock. ilkins was
dole iounialy, hut Gni polio., upon going to Levier's
p.ousc, where be lodged. to search hi. bin. were nitood
Dul obtained a scorch warrant, however, anil
the froth of Go siewoloarion iliseliewel the fact that the
hoot.• was a complete depOt lor stolen property, and not
oily imohicafed the Leviers as receiver., but all the other
pre.oner. As thieves. properly belonging to each of their
employer. has rout berm tonna there. In the drawers and
cupboards, new hats, caps, silk and satin handkerchiefs,
scarf., mekties, and other similar articles were found in
large quantities, beside. bottles of Eau de Cologne, spirits
of wine, china ornaments, sponge., mil other property.
Nuiltil up in the staircase a large hoard 0011 also
dioosered, coutainine a number of new book-, and
a variety of valuable and triivectlaneous articles. A
bwiket which had been left at a public-house in the
neighb urhood by the female prisoner, with)s request to
the landlady to take care of it for her, was also found to
be full of stolen property. as was also a large bundle lett by
the mime prisoner at the Mon of another neighbour.
Several articles were also round pledged at the shops of
various pawnbrokers. Amongst the property thus re-
rOrrrril In• articles to the valu: of between :kV. and 40/.,
belonging to Mss.rs. Withers alone. Mr. Ilayward, book-
seller and librarian, and Messrs. Green end Janitoon, the-
mists, are al., amongst thine plundered to a considerable
venue Bad was applied tor by Levier'. solicitor, but re-
fused by the Mayor.
GUN row Mit Z,'IORES (LIVERPOOL) EXEMeTION
its:rest Acr.—A notice appear. in the Ginette stating
that the. Lords Commissiomeri of the Admiralty, with the
approsal of the Master-Lit neral of her Majesty's Ordnauce.
And the comminioners for the c onservaney of the river
11:ervey. have selected that part of the river Mersey which
lir, along the western side of the Eastham Sands, to the
ewtssard of Broomboro root, for the mooring of vessels
suituhNo for the reception and storage of gunpowder, in COO-
fortuity with the act li and 1.1 Viet. cap. 67.
llnee, viol. GALES vr Livritroor..—LlVEßTOOL,
Moil Dar: —Yesterany morning early the wind, which was
lightly blow inn from the west, sprmug up into a henry gale.
and tun/incise: throughout the day, at times a perfect hur-
ricane, ibecompanied with torrents of heavy rain, fur miles
up the country, east, north, and south of Liverpool. TM
crops of wheat and oats, which bail been cut and arrayed
in shuck, were their on down, hunt open, and nattered Mee
the fields and hedges. Finis Liverpool a large number' egg&
*els left the river outwxrd bound, and it is feared that war
will have suffered greatly' from the storm. l.'p to thealliwis
noon of this day we regret to narrate the Wlawiy o—The
Madmen, for Calcutta, has put be* with haat
&c. A sloop, supposed to be the ahewells of
sunk in the river yesterday, crew deetweed. The of
Ruacern, laden with laawtoso. seek Tapleste Beek
mterday, while is sow of tap D.._kU 81•111121. r One

NORTHERN CIRCUT.—LivERrooL, AUG. 25.
(SOURS.
Ca t. of Mk Rio En.
James and ./,use ll'oelerogeori war, indieted fur the wilful
murder of Mary Woddingtou, at Manchester, on the 21th
a April last.
Mr. Monk, with whom was Mr. Bowlers conducted the
prosecution, and Mr. Pollock defended the prisoner.
The facts of the case, according to the opening state-
ment of the learned counsel, were briefly these:—The de-
ceased was st daughter of the female prisoner, banthr
man; she was almost sixteen years of age, and been
living in service, but owing to some fault which had been
found with her by her mistress, she left her place and re-
turned home. As this had likewise occurred on a former
occasion the male prisoner, who was a lamplighter in Man-
chester, was bean' to vow vengeance against the girl, and to
declare that he would "get shut" of her. The evening
before her death the girl was seen by the neighbours about
eight o'clock, in perfect health and spirits; at half-past
four in the morning the male prisoner took home a fellow-
workman, with whom he hail been making a bargain about
a waistcoat. When they arrived the female prisoner was
p, and in the pantry. She said her daughter had been ill
1:11 night, from having eaten nuts the day before. The
Mahood told her to "hold her blab," but she went
ea to say, that she had asked the girl if she had
been taking arsenic, as there was some in the
Douse, but the deceased denied having touched it.
The woman oleo made many contradictory statements to
various purists as to the cause of her daughter's death. On
aims! ~stem examination arsenic enough to kill 30 people
was found in the body, and these facts taken in conjune-
' tion with the receipt of 71. by the prisoners from a burial'
club on the day of her death, led to suspicion against them,
and they were accordingly apprehended.
The first witness called was Thomas Waddington, son of
the prisoners, an intelligent boy between 11 and 12 years of !
age, who said that on the day before his sister Mary died,
which was a Wednesday, he went to dinner about one
o'clock, when hi. father arid mother bad finished theirs;
his .inter did not have any. About five o'clock he was
going license to tea, when lie met his father, mother,
and a younger brother going to the fair. His mother
'seed him to go with them, but he said he
could not, and about wee. o'clock his mother
brought his tea to the shop where he. was employed—Mr.
Bases's fish shop. She hail never brought his tea there be-
fore. lie told her he dicl'nt want the tea, but she said he
must take it. At that time nothing was said of his sister
being ill. lie (lid nut get home till bedtime, and on getting
up in the morning his mother told him to go and call his
ister Mary. Ile went to her room and found her on the
floor. Ile, called to her, hut she did not avower. lie then
touched her on the face lend found she was soli. Ile want
to his mother and told her that his sister was on the floor,
and that he could not get any answer from her. His
mother immediately got up and went to see her. On get-
ting into the room she touched his sister and acid she was
very cold, and then went back to his father. Witness stopped
ill the room with hissioter, andshortly afterwards his father
and mother came in. His mother wanted his father to
lift his sister on to the bed, but he said she had better wait
till the doctor came, and his father went out to fetch him.
Before going to work, witness said he would tell the buy
who worked with him that his riskr was dead, and the boy
would tell the master, but his mother told him not to tell
any one. When he left his sister was lying with her head
on a Isis by the side of the lad, and the bedclothes were
pulled off the bed and wrapped round her.
Cross-examined by Mr. Pollock—Wanes% used to take
his tea at home regularly; his sister had been to the fair,
Iner. doe's not know if she had been that day when ho met
his father, mother, and little brother going; before going
out for the doctor, on the morning his sister (lied, his father
employ' down stairs a few minutes. 'there was a cupboard
below, in which the things wire kept, it seas not locked ;
his sister Mary used to be tasting at things about the house
when his mother was out.
Itesexamined—llas seen his sister take the bread and
butter, and anything else that was in the cupbscarl when his
mother was away from home. Ile knew his sister hod been
at the fair become his mother had tsld him no.
Ily the Judge—Since his father and mother had been
taken up, he had not seen them until to-day; lie had been
kept in the workhouse, und had gone once to the olice, and
once felon. to Liverpool, to tell what he knew pabout his
sister's death.
lk. Henry Brown, lecturer at the Pine-street School of
Medicine, Manche -tie, deposed that lie had attended the
kinale prisoner on two occasions; he was called up at 7
o'clock on the morning of the 24th of April, to go to the
prisoner's house, as there was a girl dead there. On arriv-
ing there, he saw the female primmer, and, except n mere
recognition on her part, she led the way up stairs
without speaking. Ile finial' the deceased wrapped in a
blanket and coverlet, her head resting on a box and her
hands on the side of the bed ; the forehead wax of a dark
colour, from suffission ; the lips were livid, and the lower
jaw was firmly el•aed. The bialy was warm, but the ex-
tremities wsre quite cold, the nails blue, and the heart and
lungs had ceased too act. Witness reeked the mother what
the (keelboat hail hail for dinner yesterday, and she said
potato-pie ; lie then made many other inquiries as to
whether she had taken anything else, and the mother
answered she haul been eating nuts all the day before.
After much delay and reluctance on the part of the female
prisoner, witness succeeded in getting at a portion of the
ejeeted matter., which he took away in a bottle and
analysed. The presence of arsenic was most conclusive.
The Male prisoner, with a woman who had been called in,
removed the body before witness left, when he observed a
very peculiar appearance of the hands, which were neither
flaccid nor rigid. The female prisoner maid, " This is an
awful lowans sa, sir," to which witness replied Yes, you
must let the coroner know." The man upon this said, she
should not go out .4 the room till the doctors had examined
her, for 1111 y most heck:well. A post-mortem examination
was made the no-at day, and the appearaneet of the body
were those of perfeet lwalth ; the girl was robust amt stout •
but there was lockjaw, the result of most cases of arsenical
poison, and the stomach presented everywhere marks of
the most siolent itutlartimation. Upon some portions the
arsenic was artually toosering the membranes. Others were
Wholly destroyed, awl upwards of sixty grains of the
poison' were taken assay allogvthcr. There was not the
slightest doubt that the cause of death was arsenic.
IaSIISCOW Slaves SUlSSlpteltily brought a number of
articles to witness, which he also analysed, and in a hand-
kerchief he found indications of arsenic, as though used
by a person while lobouriint under sickness occasioned by
that poison. On tire afternoon after the death the female
primmer called to knew the result of his tests of the bottle
he hail referred to. Ile wirer spoke to her of anemic, but
alw said he would not find any albelliC, for, though she had
had some in the Louse' she had thrown it in the tire a few
days before. Sht• said her former landlord had given her
mime to destroy rats. Witness asked her what effect was
produced when the arsenic was thrown in the tire, but slit
replied that she did not notice. She 'dated that her
daughter knew she had the arsenic iu the house, but did
not know where it was kept.
Crowezarrined—The exterior appearance of the de-
, ceased was at hid as though she had died of tetanus, and
se know might have joked it she hod been subject to fits.
Neither of the prisoner, seemed desirous to conceal any,
thing when asked questions reapecting the deceased. The
female prisoner, whom he had twice attended for a long
periost, was usually confased when describing to witness the
symptoms of her own illness. According to witness's opi-
nion, the poison could nut have been administered more
than six hours before death. There must have been two
drachms, or 120 grains, taken into the stomach, judging by
the quantity found otter death. Three or tour cruets would
lie sufficient to eau, the death of an adult person in pre-
vious good health. this wanes,' uuderwent a long cross-
examination as to several medical points of his testimony,
but the general tenour remained as deposed to in his exarui-
natium in ehief.l
"Award Martin, a lamplighter in the same employment
as the male priesuer, deposed to various circumstances cor-
roboratory of the statement made in the opening case for
the piuserutron. Among others was an observation by the
ass, in reply to his landlady, that " he would not have
minded about the girl'. death if she hod not had poison:"
=other was, a statement that he had been looking at ids
hest hat a few days before the girl's death to sec if it would
do for a funeral ; and of a third person he wanted to know,
before the girl's death, how much 71. would du for a funeral.
Mrs. Fernhead, a neighbour, deposed that she saw the
deceased about eight o'clock on the eve g previous to her
death. She was than in good health and spirits, and was
very cheerful while in conversation with witness. At seven
o'clock the next morning she heard of her death, and in a
quarter of an hour afterwards saw the utalo prisoner go
into a beer-boon., and the woman came to the floor fur a
moment and thn•vr away the contents of something con.
resided under der apron ; soon atter which the doctor was
sent for, at whose desire the coroner was summoned.
The ease had not concluded when our parcel left.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.-YrATERDAT.

The Recorder ,tat in this court and di..par-ed of several
eases, the details of which were of no iutered to the public.

TIMID COI:RT.—YESTERDAY.
RI ...ILK Ma. I.e. via. tivssior.
THE BREFAL At/SAULT IN 11011.74/IEY-WHOD..
Thomas Simrriar, 20, glawblower, was indicted for un-
lawfully inflicting upon Sarah Eliailx tit Brown grievous
bodily harm by violently assaulting and beating her.
The prisoner, a respectably-dvassed, quiet-looking young
man, rather below the middle stature, pleaded ^ Not
guilty."
The proisecutriz, a young woman apparently about 18
years of age, having beets sworn, stated that she was
a nurserymaid, and r.sided at No. 8, Anne-place, Ball's-
pood. On the evening of the 22ad of July, at about live
o'clock in the afternoon, she W going along the broad'
path near lionsserwood bevies. /hr raw the prisoner and
two other young ass in a Add NO by. There were two ,
young women weed sf Mr as On same path. Atter she
lead passed down th• Ms in the wood she stopped to look
round, when Mae as ems up and struck her
a violent blow as OM sar. res turned round and saw
that it woo tios yriassm,oad be immediately struck her :ano-
ther and sore violent Wm as ilmi eye. which knocked her
dews. TM primmer in se ID her with great TH./-
least, Wknees es bee musaeh with ouch violence
as ts nearly depivs Mt He bet seams He then tried to
lase be clothes over bee bead. She struggled as much as
bee misused condition maid permit of to prism gm
swam tram a filalisc klis pryer {bebs bad
evidently km Witmer Ind by tbia
Mimi abort Mamma Ms Wmad. Mike bseerrtre
time ley the tines% ni anieenoesis to tttW kr else by