The Express.
London, England, 1847-07-17 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD CIRCIIIT.—WORCESTER, JULY 18.
("sown Crivar.—Before Mr. Justice Coleridge.
MANSLAUGHTIII.— Thomas Lloyd was charged with the
wilful murder of John Philpotte, at Kidderminster, on the
30th day of May lest. A party of persons, of whom the
prisoner was one, bad been drinking at seveni pubic-houses
m the town of Kidderminster unt6 a late hour. The de.
ceased was returning homewards, end fell n with the pri-
soner and his party ; a fight ensued between two men, with
which, however, neither the prisoner nor the deceased inter-
fered. At last the prisoner taunted Philpotts about going
" to Bluosinagent' " and finally added the insult of delibe-
rately spitting in his We. This caused a scuffle, which
was, however, repressed by the interference of the police :
psalm bang:intend, the various parties left in the direc-
tion of their homes. At about half-past two o'clock in the
morning the landlady of the house when the prisoner lodged
was aroused by the return of her husband, a friend of his
lest ;ng him home In a drunken state, and the prisoner. The
husband wee uproarious, and was held in • chair in the
kitchen, which fronts the high road, by his wife
and the friend. The prisoner passed into the back
kitchen, as though he Intended going up dears to
bed; he however returned in • few minutes to the
kitchen. Just then a noise wee heard of voices calling out
'• Fetch hint out." It was not apparent to whom this cry
referred—whether to the prisoner or to the other man
(Lockley). The door was open, and Mn,. Lockley rose to
clime it, and had one hand upon the door and the other upon
her husband's shoulder. Just then the deceased rushed for-
ward end Snick at the prisoner ; they both struck together.
Almost in a moment the deceased uttered a cry, and said
"It is all over with me." He reeled round two or three
times, and fell deed before the of the door. The pri-
soner returned into the kitchen, and the house was
shut up. The polio, came, gained admission, and
took the prisoner into custody in the hack-kitchen. On the
bob of the grate was found a knife open covered with blood ;
this knife was the property of the prisoner ; blood was upon
his hands and clothes. The surgeon who examined the
dead body said the wound in the throat was two lathes and
three-quarter in depth ; the carotid artery was divided, and
death must hare anted in two or three minutes after the
infliction of such a blow. Mr. Best addressed the jury for
the prisoner, and prayed them to find him guilty of
manslaughter may. Mr. Justice Coleridge summed up, I
explaining most lucidly the legal distinction between
murder and memelauSsr. The jury found the prisoner
guilty of the bane , and he w sentenced to be im-
prisoned and kept to e
labour as
for two years.

A Wire SCALDED TO DEATH BY A HUSBAND.—MY-
asks Lovell Newell was charged with having caused the
death of Mary Ann Blewitt, by throw ;ng on her a quantity
of ecalding water, at Dudley, on the 3rd of June. At the
time, and indeed for some time previously, the deceased had
suffered much Places, partly induced by dropsy, and puth
barttailkum is of the prisoner. Mr. Huddlestone with Mi.
kr the reaseatioa. On the day in question, tingly
womb pima Wire= the parties,
and a violent beating fol-
lowed,. asuistiarwards die was ew e in the coal-hole belonging
to bee in a crouching position ; she was bleeding at
the aa n the prisoner was standing over her with a
kettle is ea* head and holding her with the other ; she
wu heard imploring him not to throw it over her; she
did so three times and held the handle of the kettle with
her left hand, trying to push it from her, and be trying to

throw it over her, which at length he succeeded in doing,
and poured the contents of the vessel over her neck and
shoulders : the deceased was heard to say, " Hercules, Her-
cules !don't ill-use me any more ; I am scalded." In coming
out of the coal-hole she was wet all about her bosom, and
cried out, "Oh dear ! what am I to do, I'm in violent pain."
The poor creators suffered very much for some days, and at
the expiration of little more than • week died.—The sur-
geon who attended her deposed to the nature of the scalds,
and attributed bar death to them.—The jury, after • length-
ened consultation, found the prisoner Guilty of man-
slaughter. The learned judge sentenced him to twenty
years' transportation.