The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-11 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.—YarmasY.

RIM* TKO CCM Vasa ere Xe. lrerwa TALSOCID.
THe cir•aosor arriblernn Mumma tar Birrits•:. oast*.
ardrre llepeareaff end Hopwood, two young mesas,
entreude red to take their trod epos the charge of klimaimaly
toting sad wounding Jane Parnell, with latest to murder
her.
la two vibe r Croats the invest of the prisoners was maid le
bete de grievous bohly harm to the promestrie.
Mr. Geckle anadected the prommatim. The prisose's
was teeming by Mr Perry. The ease was one of en
ehereeter.
jilattelZowict, a pollee ecestable, deposed that an the
maim el the lad December, be was ea duly Lathe Bethnal
Irma read, who a, in coneegoes^e of some tat,reaatien ha re-
month. west to Neasier arse; Bathe tut, bete
be new
the plan
as • bed, witk a upon Me
throat, and is a very eacited cats. I* etuteegaesee of what
was afterwards told hum, he went to meeker house In
Aam'e-pikee, where he found the female primmer, sad
told be, Ir• wanted bee fo- cutting • wennea'a throat.
She eiclaimtd "Oh door. 1 bees not bean thet" He tad
be, that ate wec en with him ra see She woman who bed
been woseded, ar.d she renamed to go aid waled mbe wt.. I
to the police station. H. e pnapetled her, however, to accost-
piny him to the b .use is limner street, where the praises-
Um was lying, sad wbes the proescu'rix caw her she feat- I
diately said that she was the woman who had weaseled her. I
He shortly after took the male prisoner iato handy, aad he
isadentood the proena-rut to say wheel she saw him that
wee me el in pastime whe had assailed bey. The Wieser I
dented it.
Br Mr. pant—He did sot observe say mean of • giggle
is mammy street, sad he Aid sot find my masks la the poi-
Dome's i.e.,.
Sarah Dorm deposed that she resided at No. 18, Ramsay
sliest, aad was scrosinted with the preemotzlx, Jane t
Paraell. Oa the eyeanig of Dee. 2, she was standing at her i
owe deaf, wises the observed two females and a am strag-
glier under admit wall at a short distance. The man and
One of the weans had masks on. She was sure that the
female prisoner was one of the women she saw, but ale
could not idt only she man. Altar • short struggle the maa
sad woman who wore the masks ran off, arid the pectinate'',
who was the second woman, Men came towards her, sad
fell tate ber arm., subduing, " Oh, Saab, Sarah, Mn.
Hopwood has oat my throat." Witness then observed that
the theist of the proeireutriz was est and bleed's', end she
immediately Pent tdr a waked man and the police, and at.
torments went to the prbeser's boss., where the female 1
prisoner woe pointed out by her aid taken int, custody.
Cross misused—Wane% comicered hi nett a married I
w0w..., but she did not know what church she was married
at. In point of feet 'be wee not actually merried, hot she I
had beckon the ',wet of mania.. for tw, years and three 1
weeks with the person she am liner with. Tlio struggle e
between the parties took place leader a dead wall. The pro-
weutrie dad not suet= oat or call for the poliee. The pre- I
Wolf an ha I formerly cobabi ed with the male prisoner bat
be had leiher and gone to live with hie eras wife, and
were dear g treed er whin this occurrence teak plan. She
knew a woman named Callow, but did 112 f remember hiving
mid to her or to any other person that she sew nothing of the
straggle, althosigh she was needing at her own door at the
time, mealier did the remegaher saying that the prowestris
when she first came into her boom at, the trassaetios,
earl that Orme Hopwood had cut her threat. Mee. Parnell
was a monk. d woman, and she believed her husband was
at ma.
Juts Parnell, the proncurak, deposid that she woe the
wife of James Perna, and was 26 yearn old. Her hoaxed
woe sew at era. Aiwa% lour or five months hp she cohabited '
with the male pri,wer' hat be had sites left her and Bose
to he. with hie wile. Witneu bad been married fear years
Ou etc 2d Member, between six and seven o'clock is the I
',tains, she was is ILanesey Street, on her way to emit M.
in,., and when As had got about half way down the
street dm was snacked by a man and woman with masks
os. The man pat kis arm round her reek, end at the
same moment she felt as cut upon her throat with some
10..filtnent. She struggled with her assailants for *mg
time not then fell, but at* mattered to pall herself up by
the *Lir: of the %vitae/ell gone.. The mar 'a hand was tapes
her month all the tame, and whet ohs had raised herself up
she felt the Matrument passed a second tints won her
throat. Bath the persona who snacked her bad masks es
bet while the atragrle was going oa the mask GU off thi
woman, and she saw it was the female primmer. She wee
sure that the instrument was is the wow's hand. After
she had been cut the seeemd time the man threw her down
with rest onuses, sad he and the Inman then ran
sway, sad ale got sr and made the best of her way
to Mrs. Dare's boom, where she became insessible.
The female prisoner was brou,tht is soon al erwarde by •
police c.w.stable, and she immediately identified her as the
Cr.on who bad attacked her in the manner she described.
M mull not identify the male prisoner.
Sy Me Perry—Witane and Istre. Hopwood were at the
Brae Owlet ftfOgilielillef I to keep the peace towards se*
other. Oa the S etarday before the occurrence took place the
bad made • charge against the female prisoner of having
out her in the forehead, and the magistrate ordered that
*hey should both pat in bail to keep the peace towards each
other. At the period she was assaulted by the primmer the
was limit alone, but she had been laying with • man
framed Anderson. When her husband cams home from
sea the last time, he did not charge her with
making away with his moiety. She had sever made away
With any furniture, ben the male prisoner had done ea. She
was aware, while the was living with the prisoner, that he
lleu a married man aid that he had been married !manna'
pars, aad had • family, and also that after he had left her
Be west to live with hie wile. She did not scream et Mos.
r" or "Police" whole the et/eagle was going es, and
die had been attacked in such • manner before. She
suffered from the injary else received for • week, and dudes
tree dye she kept her Md.
Mr. lteeissaia Bell, • hareem, who was called in to exa-
mine the penes of the pregnant:, deposed that he diode-
gm
red three IDIOMd wessda upon her neck. They were all
parallel to each other, and appeared to have been indicted at
on. time. The injury was not at all serious, and the akin was
steely dnided._ . . . . .

By the Chid Bares—He had great difficulty in caning to
any conclusion with regard to the sort of instrument with
thigh the can bad been toilette& He was, however, new
of opinion that they might have been occasioned by en b-
arnacle seed by
milted of being protected so as to ant only to a certain depth
By Hr. Parry—The iejary was not attended with the
bast danger to the prosecutes& He did sot think it was
irub as tajury as could have been inflated by a person upon
liana unless ha ware lett banded.
Henry Hogan, deposed that on the 2nd of Dumber,
shoat sin o'clock in the evening, he was standing near
billowy-street, when he saw the prosoeatrix ping I. that
brectioe, and b. saw the two prisoners gollowiag hoe. They
had ao auks on at that time. -

Crose-saanuatd—Weald swear that be Head at Ms plea
Wien be had Oven Ms Wrist at the police-wart. He was
aware that perseas bad been isquitaag for hia at We
eddesse, bat wets aaable to had Lat.

The Chief Berths latiatated that after the evidence of the
, the best punt charglag the latent to murder clearly
110111:11rset be eapported, sad the agnate' for the jury would
be whether them wee so tatentioa to lathes and disable se be
dierievers bodily lane.
Mr. Perry then addreessei the jury for the prisoners, and
M esid the debase he was lastrothed to make, sad
Men the rapestable sown Ina labia be derived Ms
Mentseheas, he had so doubt he Acta be able to nuke out
the the eatidatlea at the jam ash that tie Marge was the
husk el • pees mg alualeabie asspitap, red that tiara
ti as the &skint Isaadalea tor It. Vabqpili, their
haperiewee thelpiff Shea that meet eases ems net satttqaest,
and osly ent the prstiliss d.y they bad SIMS a IMO Is
Ilia coon where • stsamthese wanes had male •
sharp yoked • Wetly nameable geardames, odd& as,
shorty pored to be entirely without iseadaisa. Ho lbw
Wed the attention et the jary to the het that as Memo
had •••• made to identity the sea, sad he amid that h hat
avuhatly the object of the abandosed peaseattria a get rid
eit the wife of the mole prisoner by say area, even a the
gates% of pendiy her to the scaffold, a pewit, whisk was
Involved by the first MUM of the indsetumrst, is order that
the wed renew bar intimacy with hue hothead, sad bath
U. CealleZloll resumed between thee. The leentedeasesel
ala soaseated spa the extreamliaelp setae* el the ere,
ern ea it appeared area the evidasee tee the preelestles,
sad putaslarly urea die thanes el rbag a thew that
Oa dumber el the pereesaata, se eta tamale
Inn either dirty err ten, while he said neat hare a the
ease it than bad beat say tree la ae story told by the
odium.
annul wawa were that celled is babalt of the
pruners, sad Waif 'valence established Is the clearest pas
sib's maser, that upon the day wiles assault was ells
So Use hoes- iressesitted, both prisoners were wgogod at
then Witham Is backgammon-board makers the whole of
the they, sad oath sear sine o'clock u sight, whoa the
lethal* primer was taken tato Ineetody. It wee else proved
that the winless harsh Darn lad gives several venoms of
the tratheetiest, sad Oat epos sae imago. attar the swat-
saws at the polies swam sad when she sae a liquor, she
and that she withal We. Pas, & to understand what she
had end at the pollee court, it whir Ibis their startle might
both 'MC was likewise sive& that the witness
Bosse mild set be bead at the &Was he pre at the
polio wort.

Hr. Cockle audit a brief reply to this *sidearm oa behalf I,
of tl.e prisoners.
Ihe Chief Baron then proceeded to nut up, and after re•
11. "lute that ate NM exhibited • degree of predissay which
ta•
ppili was smeary Beguiled, seen Is seems of jamas,
be was about to temark es the cage, whoa he yes stopped
by theory, who mid they were quite satislied that the (M.
dame ler the proaccutioa estld sot be relied spot, and tkey
therefore found the priesaus Nal Guilty.
The Chief Baron said he had eutertaised themes* opinion
fors bag tuna. A mon strange sad improbable story, taken
altogether, he had sever heard ; sad it was a very eatraor
dairy circumstance that an instraiseat 'herald have begs
made um of which appeared to be capable eg ratans an
effusion of blood, sad giving a colour to the sharp, wbil•
at the same time it woe utterly imporible for it to hate
Cunard any @snots I: jury.
Mr. Parry said that after the rescission roma to by the
jury. he had to opply to their lordships to order the tomtit- I
tel of the witless's Parnell, Dams, sod Hogan, and that • prosecution should he profaned against them. The primers
were persons is as humble mettle of life, and It WY with
great &acuity they had raised the nemssary funds to de-
fend themselves at the present ocrmsion from this linkmAdia charge, and it was quite out of Unit power to iostnwto Say
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