The Express.
London, England, 1847-03-19 00:00:00

ENFIELD PETTY SESSIONS.

Before Yr. E. T. Williams. Joe. laialrmaaj, and Br. E. Willisses, jun.
ILLICIT DIVTILLIBUT.—Mr. G. Buncombe, formerly a
chemist, was summoned by order of the commissioners of
excise for having allowed an illicit distillery on his premises,
by which he was liable to • penalty of 2001., and also for
each of the stills 2001, chow having been sit erected there.
Dr. Bateman attended in support of the information. The
defendant did not make his appearance, but the eireum•
stances of the case were gone into. On the 19th of January
last, Inspector Mellish proceeded to the cottage of the de-
fendant with Serjeant Watkins and an excise officer, when
they forced their way into an apartment, which bad for-
merly been • barn, in which they discovered six large stills,
the defendant and a man named Walters being there, and
some of the stills being at work. They took them into cus.
tody. They subsequently proceeded to search the premises,
where they discovered between 300 and 400 gallons of wash,
and about thirty tubs, some of them of a large bin, filled
with spirits. The defendant was fined in the penalty of
1,4001., namely, 2001. for being the landlord, and 2001. for
each still.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
HOME CIRCIIIT.—MAIDSTONE. MAUCH 18.
Chows Cam.—Betcae Chiethistiee W.lde.

EIfiIiZZLZITitiT)IT • I.lllti TO 617•EDIANI.--
'J. Ezell, 28, formerly the clerk to the board of guar-
dians of the Tenterden union, wu indicted for feloniously
embezzling various sums of money ; and he wu also
charged upon several other indictments, with forging accep-
tances to bills of exchange to the amount of SCOL, with in.
tent to defraud a lady named Edward.. At the sitting of the
court the prisoner pleaded not guilty, but subsequently re.
trotted that plea, and pleaded guilty to two of the indictments
for forgery.—His lordship said he would look over the depo-
sitions, and consider what judgment ought to be pronounced.
NORFOLK CIRCUIT.—HUNTINODON, Manor 18.
Before the atf.floroo.
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STACK Bonnino.—Zbe7;l7l;lia, aged 18, was convicted
on her own 000fession of having set fire to a stack of wheat.
Toe only remarkable fact attending her crime is that her
brother was convicted and transported at the last assizes fur
• similar offenee.-Bentenos was deferred. .

P1111•10US Costirtcrios.—Daniel ilooton was charged
with having stolen a watch, after a previous conviction for
felony. The evidence did not present any facts of interest
or novelty, and the prisoner was found guilty. He was then
arraigned on a charge of having been convicted of • felony
previously to committing the offence of which he had just
bsea found guilty. It turned out, however, that the con-
viction took place after he had been taken into custody and
committed for the principal charge. Thereupon the learned
judge directed an acquittal on that part of the indictment
which related to the previous conviction. The intention of
the legislature mu that the panadusent Amid be Ready
aggravated if committed after preview etayleties and pun
ishment. In this case, the two eihnese wows not separated
by an interval of time, during whist the pdemer had been
tried, senteed, and punished. The mead offence, there-
fore, could not be treated as evidence that a former mild
punishment had been inoperative by way of reformation or
warning. The prisoner was then called up for judgment,
and it appearing that the 'eaten*, on the former occasion
had been one of four months imprisonment with hard labour,
he was sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour
for two months.
Wore Mr. Justice Coleridge.
CIRTING AND WOVNDING.—NiCAdaI St/VOSS and David
Gerrogkey were indicted for having cut and wounded James
Day, with intent to maim him. Mr. Tozer conducted the
prosecution, and Mr. Prendergast defended the prisoners.
It appeared that on the 29th of July last, the prisoners and a
large party of Irish harvest labourers, armed with sickles
and sticks, went to the house of the prosecutor, who is a
gamekeeper, and also keeps a public-house. On entering
the holm they called for ale, which was supplied to them is
the tap-room, and consumed to the extent of eighteen pints.
When payment was demanded, they not only refused it, but
denied that they had had any ale, and walked away. The
prosecutor rushed to the door, seized one Pierce Mahoney,
the last of the party, and insisted on being paid, Mahoney re-
fused to pay, and the prisoners ran to his assistance, one
brandishing a stick, and the other flourishing a sickle, so
that the prosecutor let go his hold, and went into
the house, out of which, in the dispute, he had gone. The
three Irithmen ran off, but were soon pursued by the
prosecutor, who had entered the house to get his gen.
Mahoney was overtaken and seized, when the prisoners
again came to his assistance, and a conflict commenced, in
which the prosecutor, holding Mahoney with his left band,
warded off with the gun in his right hand blows from the
stick of owe rimier and the tickle of the other. Eventually
the peomentor's temple was split open by a blow from the
'tisk, and Mahoney made his escape. A labourer, however,
cans/ to the amistanes of the prosecutor, and the two pri-
soners were seised and committed for trial. These Lets
having been proved, the learned judge interposed, and ex-
pressed his opinion that the charge of felonious assault could
not be maintained, but that there must be a conviction for a
common moult. The connect on both sides concurring, the
jury returned a verdict of guilty of a common moult The I
udge, after adverting to the serious nature of the offence,
and condemning the prosecutor for having taken out his gun,
sentenced the prisoisen (who have been in gaol since the day
above-named) to be imprisoned for siz maths from this time.

MIDLAND CIRCUIT—DERBY, Msacn 18.
Cover.—Before Mr. Justice Panacea.
CHANGE or MURDEIL—Thomas Crow, 64, was indicted
for the wilful murder of his wife, Ann Cross.—Thomas Cross
was a gardener, and, at the time of the occurrence in ques-
tion, he lived with the deceased in Osborn-court, Bt. Peter's-
street. In his business as a gardener be was considered
clever, and had worked for some of the principal gentlemen
in the county. On the day in question, screams were heard
to proceed from his house, but nothing was done; but,
in reply to en inquiry made for his wife, he said she was
not at home. In the course of the afternoon a daughter of
the prisoner's, who is a milliner, called at the house, and,
after staying some time down stairs with her father, she
expressed a wish to go up stairs to see her mother. Crags
prevented her, whereupon she ran to a neighbour of the
name of Osborn, and naked her to come in. Mrs.
Osborn and the daughter then went to the
house. The prisoner still tried to prevent his
I daughter from proceeding up stairs, but owing to the inter-
' reran*: of Mrs. Osborn she got upstairs, and was shocked
to find her mother lying deed on the bed with her throat cut
and the floor covered with blood. The daughter ran means-
ing down stairs, and there found her father in the act Si
stabbing Mrs. Osborn with what appeared to be a pruning-
knife. From the wounds then inflicted Mn. Osborn has not
yet recovered, and is even now considered to be in a danger-
ous state.—The defence was insanity, and on that ground
the prisoner was ultimately acquitted, and he was ordered to
be confined during her Majesty's pleasure.
WESTERN CIRCUIT.—DORCHESTER, Nancy 18.
DARING ROZBEET.—Barthotomno Oak, 32, and WilliENO
Reid, 27, were indicted for stealing hem the dwilling-hoses
of George Lane, at the parish et Oiemenis, a
and other monies, his property.—Mr. Fake prestes"ll.l4
Mr. Edwards defended.—The prosecutor, it appeared, kept
a turnpike-gate at Tatterdowa, and, on the night of the
18th Feb., 1848, being awoke b • cry of "gate," he pot
up and opened the outer door, wheewpe. tea nee 11161114
bun, whilst two others went into the harm nay till him
that they would cut his head off if he did net remain quiet,
and immediately afterwards they met the preemstor's wile
coming down stain, sad they struck her visor*, slaying
they would have her life if she did net let these haw vs
the mosey was kept. After she hell ambled them moo
thie ipshat, es* of the sees held her down *Mr theether
took a lathers Rem be peeks; and wad up Oslo
into her bed room. The bees Si the area who ressabei
below was Methemed, and pertly eoneeelsd by a heseAber.
chief. The mu who west epeeist, teak away IL Oe.
whisk bed boss deposited in the window. Me Mier*
eassesltog the with this robbery wee to the aid
that, so the is ItIOINHIGN. they were seen together ks
the et iirdesrn, and it was proved that a
mememities bod takes passe between them m to the best
mesas of ilikerbleg thsmosives for the purpose they bad in
view. The Whose obis gave this alimony wee the wife of
one of the mm she stood outside the presseater's home, as
above tleembeill sod she stated that her husband, the two
soil Jibe Reid, the brother of William Reid, left
lee beer tegether, and that her basbead returned home at
six Ode* hs the seresiag. Re wee sentenced to trans.
porteties sons LS stiothe ago. The seam witness proved
that she hod ease heard Winless Reidgive en amenat of the
robin, whisk corresponded with the Mamma of the pee.
leastar and hie wife.—The pri.on® were me appsehemied
IMO the month of October Lat.—Verdict, Gas7f y. Si.
NM, 14 years' transportation.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—YORK, Mei= 17,
SOIIIIIT OP AN ODD FIIILLOWS' CLUB. —Comp Hsi-
rental, was charged with having, on the 4th of January Ire,
at Mebane hissiously stolen box, containing
14i. lbs. lid., ties the dwelling-hams of Wilma Clark.—
Mr. Pubis sad Mr. Deeseboy were he the promation ,•
Mr. Ovens* be dr permer. The gems., at the dor el
'this trimmer, was dossent Min Ohl Tellem• ChM,
at Itsibirre, sear P Oa the fels of harry
last. *sr ma subside/ Ye essiity at the Crams ley.
lan, Midarstae. at what& sasetiag various sums of =
wire mid by the manbas at sa
worms arm. At the iisse brtilms'al= fob
were pima in a bon besaghig to the dab, te them
wire ire kart ise berg hiptashoin.landissil af ths Irma.
Intimadis et lie rub
hs bra JO'S Hardisy
andpersaillear at Se Wit ir Wm-
triM In siesib Mies wirer, Mhe was
Ist ths nellires afidi graboserr, eallhaften.aPaerawad
the risme metros, mirmad. whoa he inkesmid hir
dm be had ems to take idea Lee asairly for the sebbery,
end. st tin mate dim the idler abeinei hiss asp up,
kb miaow stria the flier. Key task it up,
whir leered ter it vas Me K seem whisk win Monti-
• Iddimes fa impie et the ahem air having been
gime, the phase was
Ileisra
seal dal*.
.11arslbsik.
The as of tha atradt robbers, reported in our
yostardies paper, was resamsd.—Mr. . Matthewe having
seidressed the,' cm of thee, Maims wire
idled far tom,
eta aria ea the ghee
was. la &JIM ipssiL—At a IrisbeerSr. Alma glib te wm ttP, sstd Ile , adtsr
on niceness ig mural I *Oft if ~IF— I
Mr. Rasa Salk in Pais ammo wet the yelmars,