The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-21 00:00:00

EMBEZZLEMENT BY THE SECRETARY OF

THE LEEDS INFIRMARY.

Mr. William Beckwith, the secretary and collector
of the Leeds Gonad lafinnasy, has been taken into custody
on the charge of having embezzled more than 1,0001. of the
foods of the institution. The prisoner was examined yes-
terday before the mayor and other magistrates. The esti-
demos taken spinet the prisoner was very lengthy, but the
following is the meet impatient part of it.
Henry Hall, Req., who has been We: surer of the infirmary
for the last 33 years stated, that the irisoner had been em-
ployed as secretaryand collector of the subscriptions of the
charity since the year 1837, 12 years ago, when he was ap-
pointed to the of by a general meeting of the trustees.
His salary was 801. a year, and hie duties were to keep the
books of the institution; to conduct the correspaedenee
with distant trainees ; to attend the meetings of
the weekly board; to enter the proceedings of
that board; and to collect the subscriptions by personal
application to subscribers resident in the town, and by
lower from those resident at a distance who did not remit
them at the proper time. It was his duty to enter lo a book
kept for the purpose ell subscriptions received by him, end
present that book to him (Mr. Hall), an treasurer, on pay-
ment of the money or when called for; he had to pay over
the money monthly, and in the month of Janu ry, when the
subscriptions were aue, two or three payments were usually
made by Line. The last Bum of money paid in by the pri-
soner was 521. 18s., which he gave to Mr. T e last Fri-
day. On many occasions be (Mr. Hall) had gone through
the list of subscribers with the prisoner, and had latterly felt
much surprise at many parties beinz in arrear who
he felt sure would have paid on being called upon.
Mr. Joseph Mason Tennant said Ise was one of the trus-
tees of the infirmary, and last Friday he efficiated as chairman
of the weekly board. After the business had been transacted,
and all the members of the board except himself had left, he
asked the prisoner if he had succeeded in collecting the
arrears of subsaiption which be had on the previous week
bun tad to get in. The prisoner, who appeared much
affected, replied that he had not collected anytWng, and
added that he was sorry to say he was ade fau!ter. On being
asked to what amount his accounts were eh ticient, he said he
could not tell, but entered all the sums he had received and
not accounted for in the treasurer's collecting book. These
entries, on being cast up, he (Mr. T.) found ansuoted to
11,0201.75. After this oisclosure, he (Mr. T.) took the
book to the treasurer, and showed him bow matters stood.
The pa isoner had:frequently:been interrogated in reference
to the non-payment of subscriptions by parties who
appeared to be several years in arrest, and who, it wat, wall
known, would pay on application, and be had generally
trained some excuse such as that the ,partics were not in
when ko happened to call, or that he had been requested to
coil again. The total amount of arrears was about 2,0001.
Mr. Richard Hardwick, woollen draper, Mr. Henry Hud-
son, machos'. Mr. J. tideland, budder. Mr. Joy, oil mer-
chant, Mr. Henry Ludolph, well merchant, and various
other parties resident in Leeds, who se satscriptions had been
represented as in arrest in Leeds, deposed to having paid
their subscriptions regularly to the prisoner, and produced
receipts for the same in kis handwriting.
At the close of the examination the prisoner's solicitor
Kilted for a remand till this day (Tuesday), in order to give
him time to make an answer to the charge preferred egaiost
hie client. The application was acceded to by the mayor
and magistrates.

EXTRAORDLNARY CASE AT HORBURY.

The village of Horlanty, near Wukcfi, Id, has been
thrown into a state of great excitement by a painful occur-
rence that has come to light within See pest week. An in-
dependent gentleman of the name of CIRTIU lived in the
village in respectable style. Ile was a bachelor, and a you-g
lady lived with him as housekeeper, who was kr.own as
Miss Craven, sail was reputed to Le his natural daughter.
In the middle of last week a report prevailed that title young
person had giv.n filth to a child, which had been made
away with, and that the body had been found buried in the
plantation belonging to the house. Toe report reached the
ears of the meltable', who instituted inquiries, traced the
report to a man who bad seen the body of the child, and
then intermed the coroner, who directed that an itquest
should be held forthwith. Accordingly, on Saturday, the
body of the child having been proateed, en inquest was held
over it at the Fleece lan, when the following tacts were
elicited :
Thomas Nettleton said: I live at Ilorbury, and am a
butcher. I was told by Ellen Sykes (Mr. Craven's servant)
that she saw Mr. Craven burying somethicg in the I 'ante-
tion, and in consequence I went to the place. I tech some
earth up with my hands, and found a bundle wrapped in
brown paper. I tel.& it up and opened it, and found a new
born child. I made another hole and buried it grain. I
showed it to Ellen Sykes before I buried it. It was a boy.
This was on Tuesday morning. I was called upon by Mr.
Roger Ring, Mr. Joseph Berry, and Mr. John Gee, on Friday
morning. They are constables for llorbuty : they ask• d ins
to meet them at Stu Fleece Inn, in llorbury, and to bring the
bundle I had found. I went and dug up the bundle and
brought it to tl:e Fleece. I laid it on the table in the room
in the eresence of the constables and other persons. 1 left
it with them. Ellen Sykes told me not to say anything, so I
did not mention the finding of the child to the constable nor
to any one. Ellen Selma told me she SIM Me. Craven
digging something. She told me she suspected semeti.ing
was up. I never denied I knew anything about the child,
or had it in my possession. I groom and work occasionally
for Mr. Craven.
Ellen Sykes, upon her oath, siid—l am a single woman.
I wee servant to Mr. Edward Craven, but was discharged
last Thursday by Miss Craven. Mr. Craven is a bachelor.
Mies Craven is about 24 years old, and lives in his house re
his daughter. I bad been there three years the let of last
June. I never told Nettleton I saw hlr. Craven digging
or burying in the plantation, but I did tell him I saw Mr.
Craven graving is the garden—by graving I mean working
In the garden: he is in the habit of doing so; be
(Nettleton) said he ens —pWed something wit up, and said
he supposed I suspected. I laughed and put it off, and
a little girl came in and we said no more at that time.
This conversation took place on Tuesday evening. I never
told Nettleton not to mention the finding of the child to any
one. It was last Monday morning, betwixt nine and ten,
when I saw Mr. Craven working in the garden. Nettleton
told me I was not to name it to any one that he found the
child. At the time Miss Craven was confined to her bed, I
had reason to suppose she was delivered of a child. My rea-
son for supposing so was the difference in her appearance
before she was confined to her bed and after she came down
stairs. She came down stairs about four o'clock last Monday
afternoon. I saw the bed linen was changed and taken
►way. There were finer sheets on the bed than were put on
before. I did net attend her en Saturday and Sunday. Mr.
Craven himself attended to her on those two days, but I
wont into her bedroom occasionally.
Medical testimony concluded the evidence, and the coroner
then weat over the evidence very minutely, and directed the
jury as to the law of the ease. The jury returned a verdict
of "Stilhborn."
On Monday, a solicitor applied to the magistrates for war-
rants of apprehension against the parties concerned in the
above offence ; but the magistrates required some evidence
to be produced before taking this step, and issued sum-
monses to the witnesses already named to appear before them.
• Mr. and Miss Craven have left Horbury, no one knowing
4 whither they are goneßradjord Observtr.
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A GAOL CLIAPLATN TORTURING A CONDEMNED PRl-
sowsa.—Whilst Mary Ball was Icing in her condemned cell
at Coventry, the Rev. Richard Chapman, who was chaplain
of the gaol, burnt her hand with a lighted candle, for this
purpose, as he informed her, of giving her a foretaste of what
hell was. The following are the particulars as given in
evidence :—On Saturday afternoon, the 4th of August, the
governor of the gaol, Mr. Stanley, had occasion to go to Bir-
mingham; on returning, shortly after six o'clock the same
evening, he was informed by Miss Winter, the assistant
matron, that during his absence, the chaplain had visited
the prisoner, Mary Ball, then under sentence of death,
and by force, in her presence, had held the condemned
woman's hand over a lighted candle, thereby burning and blis-
tering it. Mr. Stanley immediately ran to the cell, when the
prisoner showed him her hand, which he found to be blis-
tered as he had been informed; the prisoner expressing
herself glad that he had come, and complaining of the Rev.
Mr. Chapin in's treatment. Susanna Winter ales informed
the magistrates that it was about half past five o'clock en the
Saturday afternoon that the chaplain visited the prisoner,
and immediately on entering the cell he called for a lighted
candle, which was brought to him He then took the candle
in one hand, and with the other laid hold of the hand of
the prisoner, Mary Ball, which he held over the candle, and
asked her if she felt it. After a time she snatched her hand
away, having previously endeavoured to withdraw it, say-
ing at the same time that she did feel it. The c *plain
asked her what that would be compared to the tor-
ments of hell, where her whole frame wo.ild be
burning for a hundred years? Whilst the chaplain
held the prisoner's hand over the candle, she
tried hard to get it away. Miss Winter gives it v het
opiaion, to the best of her judgment, that the hand of the
prisoner was held over the candle two minutes. The candle
was first held at a dietaries from her hand, and brought
nearer to it gradually. She tried hard to get it away, what,'
it was being held. After Mary Ball had got her baud away,
Mr. Chapman told her not to think he was actuated by any
motives of cruelty towards her, and that his design was to
give her some idea of what the torments of hell were. Theo
statements having been made before the magistrates, in the
peeeence of Mr. Chapman, he admitted that they were sub •
stantially correct. He added that he was actuated by the
best of motives, and that what he did was to facilitate her
notion of pain. The magistrates have suspended this Chris-
tian chaplain until the next general quarter sessions, when,
of course, he will be dischareed. We have gleaned the
above particulars from the Coventry Herold of Friday.
A MAN KILLED BY A BULL.—A fatal accident
happened to Mr. Samuel Crumpler, of Lytchet, on Sunday
last. About five o'clock in the evening, whilst crossing a
field, a young Norman bull ran at him, and knocked him
down ; he immediately regained his feet, and was 'shout to
chastise the ferocious animal, when he was again knocked
down and gored. Some children who witnessed the occur-
rence then ran for assistance, but on its arrival, Mr.
Crumpler was dead, and the enraged animal standing over
the body, which presented a most distressing spectacle The
clothes, excepting the boots, were all torn off, and the body
torn and pierced in many parts. Mr. Crumpler's hat and
stick were found about 100 yards from the body, and the
Impression is that the animal had taken the body on its horns
and either carried or dragged it to the distance at which it
was found. An inquest was held on Monday before Mr. I.
0. Chislett, deputy-coroner for the hundred of Cogdean,
when the jury gave directions that the bull should be killed.
lied ceps been on the horns of the bull the consevencee
would not probably have been so distreseing.—Poole Herald,

(TREAT EAST INDIAN PENINSULA RAIL-
WAY COMPP Y.—CONTRACT WITH THE
EAST INDIA COMPANY.
We subjoin the material point' of the contract en-
tered into between the East India Company aad the
Indian Peninsula Railway Company, which wee m-
ended yesterday.
After the stipulatiss respecting the deposit of
600,0001. by the latter into the treasury of the former
--it is agreed :
1. That the Bast India Company shall select*, rents of
as experimental live of railway, to commence at or sear
Bombay, and to take such • directiou to et near to Celli=
that it may form part oft line of railway from Botubsy to
the lialsej Ohne, the estimated cost of which to be
100,0001,er thereabouts ; the mils,' to be metle laudanum'
tor the calmest" of mangers and goods with all rani
cable spot&
That the Best Indio Company may from time to time
ohm the mate or direction of the Hee, or extend or limit
the same, a they shall think fit.
3. That the last India Company shall provide the land
which shall be tequired for tho railway and the ameba sem
seabed therewith, end proper statilne, Olen, waroboasts,
mid other COSWOISSION foe the same.
4. Thatke shall be au electric telegraph established,
r'
sad that ell the works shall be constructed in such a manna
as the East ladle Company shell approve.
6. That the Beet India Compasy mey require any specified
pert or puts of the railway to be compieted for the seamy-
sem of ravagers end geode befog the resseiniss post
shall be cone'rocted.
6. That the depeatt shell be paid by instalment., ar. the
tame following : —45,000 i. within four minder months from
the date of these renew", and thenceforward at t r
such ira el
net lea than 1.10,0001. pry mows, sad payable at p
rk& of the year as shall bo assented to by the Boat It
Compare?, until the whole of the said sum of 600 0001. titer.
lag Mali have bean paid up, which payments may be made
in suss of not tees than 21,0001. each is Laudon : provided
that eines raid railway commay shall receive any pwtims of
their calmaibed capital is Wm, it shall be lawful for them
to pay the aIIIOSOt so received in sums of unless than 50,000
rupee into the treasury of the Bast India Company at Bose.
bay, is sallefiection of the instalments aforessid, and the as
of such respective payments three, shall,
whoa produced to the East ladle Company in London, be
441.00)!.masiered sad taken in part satisfaction of the nid not of
0 so to be paid as aforesaid, at the etchings of
Is. 101. for each c3mpany's rupee pet:mind that such
prawn Into she treasury at Bombay shell sever eland
die senate which may from time to time be required for
comedian* is Ind is, such limit being determined upon by
the Zest India Cimpany.
7. That muss required for the works in pope's may be
drawn from the trews" of the East India Company, or the
Bombay government, and which shell be set off at the en-
silage of Is. 101. for each company's rapes, spinet the said
sum of 607,0001.
11. Fares aid tolls of the completed line, or my part
emesed thereon, to be subjected to the approval of the Bast
India Cninpary, but only with a view of limiting the said
thee and tolls, es far that the net receipts shall not exceed
l 0 pr''.
I. That, upon e completion ol the whole of the mid es.
perish/anal has of railway, the East India Cempeny will
great to the said railway company a teas gni MU Is the
lead for a term of ninety-Dim yeah, essommeshe 6111 M
sky cf the date of theme presents.
10. That the sail railway company, sad .theft 0111.11.41.1*
was% and agents, as also tine account" eas Aim man
ell these be subject to the soperhanadeses sal NOM of
the East India Coman as M linglie d abahligh
end that the Bast India , Companwelly sheik, st teememble
times, have free access to ell the beam, astaints. pip= and
documents of the railway mama%
_nap ismosisstiess
between the railway company sod ilisk bpi eidnes. !be
Zest ladle emspeny shall else snail a paws. sot being a
shareholda in the said company, to be an ehalkio amber
it, but no other emcee or emeal of the said railway

Ir."11;at all the repeseal ef the said railway company
ion, WE time to time, be stated and submitted to the
Rae lndta Compacy, he their sanction and approval.
12. That so soon @sum railway and works shall have been '
eempishiel and furnished with the amosmary rolling stock
and plant, the capital mount skill be made up, and a state.
meal of i s fersilhed le theism India Company, and thence-
forth and boss the cronies of doe lime the mat el maistain-
lag it, with its ambient," and meek, in peed weekom con-
ditioe. shall be payable by the newsy company out of its
13. That at all times daring the said term of ainety-nise
rem tke railway company eiell keep the eailway and tele-
Brepbe in a state of good repair.
14. That tho revenue accounts of the railway company
shall bl made up half.yearly, to the 30th day of June and
the 31st day of Deenaber to every year, or to such other
days in the year as the East India Company shall appoint ;
mod shall be reepekely transmitted to the East India COON
pray, Who shall be at liberty at all times, ia auditing the
mid amoseta, tn make say eonectiocs therein which may be
heeessary.
16. That all Eraser (except the money covenanted to be
otherwise paid) received by the railway ompany in India,
*514 without any deduction, be rid to the East India
Oesepany, I. an account to he called" The Revenge Account
a the Ores* ladies Peninsala Rodney Company ;" and,
when any mom shall be riquired by the railway compaay,
each money may be drawn by the railway eempany, accord
leg to such arrangement. as shell bon time to time be made
whl the List ladle Oseapany for that purpose.
16. That ski East India Company shall from time to time,
dairies the term of 99 yeses, pay to the rail% ay company in
London, half early, on the 30thday of June and the 31st
day of Deoember in every year, ilatee4 at the rate of 51. per
met. per SWIMS on the sum of 600,0001. sterling, or on such
parts thereof sa shall foe tke time being have bees paid into
theie Oman ; such interest upon any past of the mid sum
of 600,000,., being considered is the first instance's running
from the day em which the sane chart have bean so paid, or
be deemed to have b:en so paid, into the treasury of the East

Ldfa Company.
17. That, If the expenditure of the railway company shall
enesed the said sum of 600,0001., the moneys to meet each
mow brass been raised and paid by the railway company
tato the %/usury of the East India Company, the seme cam-
pasy shall, daring the then resides of the determinable term
ef 99 years, pay to the said ratl.ay company, half yearly, on
the days atereseid, interest at the rats of 61. per sent. per
seam on the same mown to be calculated from the res-
peetive times when they shall have been so paid into the
of the Blot bidet Company.
wi'. That if after the selection ci the experimental line of
railway the East India Compute, with the view of keeping
the eipeaditsn within 500,0001., or fi r say other reason,
think fit to limit the extent of the said expaimeatal line of
railway, the provisions herein contained with edemas to
the otiginally intended line shall apply to the said limited
extent of railway in thews, manner as if the same had bee.
originally selected: provided that, in ease of any alteration
is the selected line of railway, all expenditure which shell
have been incurred by the railway compaay, and which
shall hive been sanetioaed by the Nast India Company,
shall be considered as properly expended, althetuth the same
may in the event be useless for the porpote of the said rail-
way, as finally adopted.
If. That so soon as the railway company shall begin to
week the mid experimental railway, or any part thereof, the
net reatiple which shall be realised daring any half year,
sr terthe texasseneement rip to the first of the aforesaid
belfeycarty days, after deducting therein= all sans which
shall have been mended in the repair and 'maintenance of
the sold railway sad works, and the repair and reiteration of
*a rolling stock and pint, and the ma:serenest and other
speeillsd deductions, 'hall be applied in the first plies in ce
Swards discharge of the interest whisk shall be payable by
the But India Company in respect of the said hall year, se
es to exonerate the Best India Company so far ea the NAM
Met receipts will extend from the payment of sea
sad the residue, if any, dutch net receipts shall be
is manner following (that is to say); Ose moiety be
forthwith applied in the payment of en& same as shall
at any previous time have bees paid by the Bast
India Company to the said railway sompany, by way
et interest, together with simple interest on such meek
at the rate of 51. per cent. per annum from the times
of payment respectively, and such mulAy shall be paid
its the treasury of the Bombay government in India,
and shall be applied in reduction and discharge of the whole
of the interest payable to the Best India Company, on the
said sums of money, before the MOO shall ha applied in
liquidation of any part of the principal thereof. The other
moiety of the sail surplus nee receipts shall be paid to or
applied for the yea of the railway ernapany, and if at any
time during the 99 years the whole of the monies previously
paid by the East India Company with interest shall have
bus repaid, then for every half year during such time, and
se often as the same shall happen, the said railway company
shall be entitled, for their own use and benefit, to the
entirety of the said surplus net receipts, or, as the ease may
be, es mach thereof Lethal remain after such repayment sad
Illesbante as last aforesaid shell have beta made.
20. That the railway company will, at all times, convey
gevernmeat mails. anti when on duty, all officers and per.
OM of the post office, free of charge, and will also soave,
when on duty, the troops, both horse and foot, of her Ma-
jesty and those of the East ladle Compaay, besides the mili-
tary and general stone of the latter, also all artistes of, or
when on the business of, the Bost India Company ; the cal-
ibers sad pawns of similar station is life, to be entitled to
travel fiat Blast carriages at secoadtelaes fares: and the
troops and Europese artisans in seeoad-clem carriages at the
lowest fares, and all other perms, at lb. lowest fares.
21. That, at the end of the tins of 90 years, by @Sexism
time, the land to he provided with the railway theism,
awl all buildings, plant, sal fixed ismehhu, shell remit Is
mid Dienes the property of the Beat Ossajppan as
asesimo of tLie goverment of India, free ban ms asblo awl
thanes whatever, save each ma s tall have bass saimalsaul
by Sts East India Company ; and reap leads In Great Beibeir,
rdras may then be bald by the said seilway company for thel
Prof their business, shall be said, and the deer arms
od by such sale shall be paid by the Bast kali Com-
pany es It. WIN account ; and the sad railway I
shall deliver to the Bast India Company SI lbeir gni
theiczasealtaat, all plane, surveys,
we( nddoesments whatsoever ,18:1;siVrill.
ag us female, and affeirs of the said way awl
the mid railway tompiny shall sell to the last lolls
posy, who shall be bound to purchase the same, alt the an.l
Mcarrispee, stork, machinery, and plant whisk shall
used in working the said railway, we otherwise be
seissexias tterewith, by a valuation to be mathlselegsse
sr Yak aspire; an the East India ta,,
tbsdowttai employ in Landau the sea=asionly to is ea'
within four maths after
pa islmalaalts,
cols istarsit the at dm rata of pw east pa salmi
lbws the opisatkia of Ws said tau of 99 rim