The Express.
London, England, 1853-12-01 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVEnNfi, DECEMBER 1, 1853.

young man named Henry Lre, by', that he also imputed
to his wife an incestuous intetcour,ss with her own brother.
to the prise house, accompanied by
night or t".ie 24th October, Lee, who
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anther young man, and i,try anted permission to be al- •
lowed to remrin there ur.til the time in the rimming wheys
they would hose to go 'A 'nuke.% and the prisoner allowed
them to do so, and they laid down in their clothes is a
lower room of. i'de house, and about four o'clock in the
morning the rangier got tip and let them out. ge then
returned t"., his bed, and the proneutrix was very
much e.iarmed at hearing him mutter to him-
eel's 1' There is not much chance yet." She atter-
vs eras heard him say, "It is too soon ; I must wait
a little longer." The prosecutor was so much alarmed
at his conduct that she got up at G o'clock and went down
stairs, intending to go for some eminence ; and while she
waa engaged in dressing herself, the prisoner came down
stairs end asked if Henry and Thomas (meaning Lee and
his companion), were gone. She told him he most be
foolish to ask such a question, as he had let them out him-
self ; and the prisoner then said, " We are all alone then,
sow ?" The proncutrix told ham there were as many
there as were required, namely, himself, herself, and the
three children, and the prisoner then went up stain again.
In a 'hold time he returned, and she observed him take
something from his trousers pocket, and then he said he
should like to have her brother there by himself. The pro-
*nutria told him that he knew her brother would
not be alone with him, on account of his having
threatened his life ; and immediately upon her saying
this he seized her by the hair and commenced a most
savage attack upon her with a knife, and cut her throat in
three separate places. During this attack the unhappy
woman seised the blade of the knife and forced it from him
and threw it away, and be then drew a second knife and
wounded her with that also. While this murderous pro-
ceeding was going on the daughter of the prisoner was
down stairs, and was about to call for IllaitAllCl when the
prisoner, using a dreadful oath, made a desperate thrust at
her with his knife, and it appeared that Inn for her having
I stumbled at the moment she must have been stabbed between
the shoulders. The unhappy woman succeeded in getting the
second knife from the prisoner, and he then, according to
her evidence, put his fingers into the wound he had
indicted in her throat and attempted to tear it open. Alter
this be dragged her into a back room, where he got posses-
sion of a third knife, with which he was about to inflict
further injury upon his wretched victim, when, in conse-
quence of the alarm given by the daughter, assistance
came, and his wife was rescued from him. The prisoner
wee taken into custody shortly afterwards, and he then told
the policeman that he hoped his wife would die as then he
should be banged and he should be happy. It ought to be
stated that the prosecutrix most positively denied that there
was any foundation for the suspicions entertained by the
prisoner, and her brother and Lee were in attendance as
witnesses to confirm her statement, but Mr. Ribton exer-
cised a very proper discretion in not requiring them to be
put into the witness-box.
The learned counsel for the prisoner made an appeal to
the jury on behalf of the prisoner, the only struggle he
made being to save him from being convicted of the capital
crime charged in the first count of the indictment.
Mr. Justice Talfourd having summed up, the jury almost
immediately returned a verdict of Guilty of wounding with
intent to murder.

The learned Judge, in directing sentence of death to be
recorded, said that, although the life of the prisoner was
forfeited, and mast justly forfeited, to the law, it was not
his purpose, so far as his humble power weut, that the
capital sentence should be carried out, and he
should make a representation to that effect in the proper
quarter. The jury had performed their duty firmly and
most properly, and he was glad that they had not been in-
duced by the eloquence of a I d counsel, to refrain
front returning the only verdict which it appeared to him
they were justified in giving upon the facts. There was no
doubt that in a moment of brutal passion consequent upon
a delusion as to his wife's infidelity, for which there did not
appear to be the slightest foundation, he had committed a
most savage attack upon her, and it was a providential cir-
cumstance that her life had been spared. All the facts,
however, would be taken into eonsideration in the proper
quarter, and at present ho should merely direct sentence
of death to be recorded.

Alicia Avery, 42, was indicted for cutting and wounding
Thomas Avery, with intent to do him serious bodily harm.
Mr. Dearsley prosecuted.
The parties in this case were man and wife, and it ap-
peared that on the night of the 23rd October, they had been
drinkiug together, and returned home at a late hour. A
quarrel then took place, during which the prisoner struck
her husband, and the latter got the finger of the prisoner
into his mouth and bit it, and upon this she seized a chop-
per, and cut him on the head with it, without, however,
fortunately, inflicting any very serious injury.
She was found Guilty of unlawfully wounding.
Sentence was poitponed.