The Express.
London, England, 1849-10-24 00:00:00

THE CLAPHAM MURDER.

Jaws lVesfon was placed at the bar to answer the chugs
of murdering his wife and child at Clapham.
Mr. Bodkin. who appeared for the prosecutor, said that
upon the information that bad come to the knowledge of the
authorities, he considered it right to state that their opinion
was that the prisoner was in au unsound state of mind, and
on that account was not competent to plead to the indict-
ments that would be preferred against him.
The Jury were accordingly scorn on the noire dire, and
Mr. M'Mardo having given evidence that the prisoner was
now of unsound mind, the jury returned a verdict to that
effect, and the prisoner was ordered to be detained during
her Majesty's pliasnre.
THE ATTEMPTED MURDER AT DULWICH.

Stephen Alfred Gordon, alias Dalkn, was indicted for
feloniously cutting and wounding Sarah Frances E wings,
intent to murder her.

Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Clerk conducted the prosecution for
the treasury. The prisoner was undefended.
The facts of this case have been Rios n very recently, and
it will, therefore, be unnecessary to repeat the evidence on
the present occasion. It will be remembered that the pri-
soner and the prosecutriz had been on intimate terms. and
that the proatentsiz was in the family way by him, he
having seduced her under a promise of marriage.
On the night of the 19th September the prisoner in-
duced the preatcutriz to accompany him into Dulwich-
wood, under the pretence that be was going to take her to
Croydon, where he had provided lodgings for her, and as
they were going through the wood, the prisoner made a most
desperate attack upon her with • rszor, and cut her severely
on the throat, and afterwards beat her in a most brutal
upon the head with the butt-aid ..f a pistol, and he
ultimately ran away, leaving the protecutria for dead. The
Week's received by her were of a moot serious kind, and she
had not yet recovered the use of her speech.
The prisoner, when called upon for his defence, made a
rambling, unintelligible statement, during which be declared
that he was not the father of the prosecutor's child.
Mr. Justice Creswell having summed up, the jury imme-
diately returned a verdict of Guilty.
Judgment deferred.

SPORTING.
NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING.

NEWMARIET, TUESDAY NIMIT.

THE CANTIRTDOESHIRE.—The objection made against
Reby by th,: rider of Ribaldry, on the ground of a cross,
came before the stewards after the races this evening, when,
after on examination of the riders of the horses forward at
the finish of the race, it was clearly established that no cross
had taken place; the judge's fiat, therefore, wu affirmed.

ENTRIES FOR WEDNESDAY.
HANDICAP for 2. ymolds; first half of Ab.
The Wren, Set. 7st; Albreda, Mt; P by Don John, out of Stew to
Alnderby, Tat 101 b; h o by Dromedarydem by Mulatto, 7st 71b.
MILLING HANDICAP ; T.Y.C. Winner to be sold for 1001.
Kelesbea, 5 yn, 8 et ; Tottinsfer, f yrs, Bst Sib; St. Oswald, 5 yr*,
7.t 111 a ; 457 our, out of liondsme, II yrs, 7st 71b ; The l'robe,
S yrs, 7st 41b; St. Drina, 3 Ire, Got Mb; hr fby ?Juicy Moloeb, out of
Pendulum, 8 yrs, Sat 101 b.
HADICAP PLAT!. A. F.

Danner. 4 yrs, Bat 71bs ; Iron Rail, 5 yrs, Sat 71bs; Lostlstone,
4 3n, Set 41b ; Inteatober, 4 yrs, Bit 711*; Dulcet, seed, tit; To-
pianos, 4 yrs, 7st 12161; st. Antonio, 4zra, 7selllts; Iter-skelter,
4 71 7st 112 g :rims, 3
Ckuto..yrs,73styr..lol ;
Gkia,oarit4di 7 t,7lbs
Oulocyathts, 4 yrs, Gat 1011; • Mounseer, 3 yrs, Gat Ilb ; Sauter la
Coops. 3 yrs, Bst 410.4; Sir (Albert, 8 Set 121bs; Cayenne, 8 yrs,
Set 71b,; the Swift, 3 yrs, sst 711 e; lan, 3 yni, Sat Sibs.
RWiltearattlat ; grinner to be sold for 401. T.Y.C.
Montnender, 5 yrs; Paquin, 3 yrs; Cigarette, 1 yrs; lone, 3 375.
BWiIIIPSTAILLIS 0110 eon, each, for 2.yr-olds end upwezde;
lest half of Ab. Id. _ Winner to be sold for 2501.

Plough Bey, 1 yrs; Rose Pompom, 11x; Remnant, 1 yrs ; llum.
lnre7, 11x; 2127P8u5, 11x.
Sunscairrtox PLAT., T.Y.C. Winner to be sold for
3501.

Ahdel Rader, 3 yrs• Ilsorribill, 3 yre; Strongbow, a yes; eh f by
Slave, out of Exotic, 2 yea; Sisyphus, 2 yr.. Falcon, 2 yre ; Nimrod,
by Venison, 2 yro ; The Wren, 2 yrs; Subterfuge, by Sir Hercules,
out of Thug'. dam, 2 yea.
BWBCI'iTAKES for three-yr-olds and upwards. T.Y.C.
Winner to be sold for 1401.
Bishop of Boodonre Cob, aged • The Fiddler, 4 yrs; Shropshire
Sitch,Telegraph, 4 yrs ; Bryce Snallsfoot, S yrs ; Thtingiu-tb,
yrs; TbornblU, 3 yrs; Chatterer, 3 yr..
BWPAPSTAKES for 2-pbolds ; first belt of Ab. N. The
winner to besold for 701.
Ch fby Gladiator out of Malibran ; General Schnitz; Pamela; eh f
by Gladiator, out of Dilbar ; al.dolarin ; Emma; lunacy; Shamrock;
Eunuch; c by Rateatcher, out of taperanza.