The Express.
London, England, 1865-07-17 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

MIDLAND CIR.CIIIT.—WAswicc, JULY 15.
Cgowr Coast.—(Befare Mr. Junicoftiekbara.)

Samuel Golelstose, clothier, Birmingham, and /orris
Levi, soother clothier in that tows, were indicted for
baying uolawfally conspired together in the removal of
good. belonging to the hater prisoner, in order to defraud
the creditors of the said Morris Lori, within sixty days of
his bankruptcy. The prosecution wits instigated by the
authorities of the Birmingham Bankruptcy Ooert.
Mr. Field, Q.C., Mr. Kennedy, and Mr. Well!, IMO
counsel for the provocation ; Mt. Serjeant O'Brien de-
fended the prisoner Goldstone.
Both the prisoner* were found
Levt wail sentenced to twelve and Goldstone to 40t
months' impriwooment, the former sentence ineluding the
punishment allotted for the offence of a similar character
of which Lori bad been found guilty at the previous odor ;
Goldstone wee likewise ordered to pay a line of 1001. to the
crown "as an example to fraudulent traders."

ifosso berg was abio arettet;tealT4hirto;ths'
meta ou the &large of which he had b•m found =°111a;
previous day.

WESTERN ClRCUlT.—Wpm:mina, Ram a
(Before Mr. Justice Resting.)
THE NITRDCII AT PORTIWOUTR.-8111111101 01 DZATH.
John Hughes, aged 21 years, a soldier, was indicted for
the wilful murder of Mane Clements, • married wanes, at
Portage, on the sth June last. This was • most exciting and
dreadful case, and the court was very fully crowded.
Mr. Pouldea, with Mr. Conner, °Deducted the proem.
tion ; sad Mr. Charles &feuded the prisoner.
The prisoner warn • private soldier in the 25th (Cams-
roans.) Regiment of Foot, stationed at Cambridge
Remake, Portals. The dunned was the wife of
Charles Clemente, • stoker as beard of the Diadem frigate,
to whom she had bees married foutees years, sad they
had two little children living, use aged three or four, and
the other about fire years old. The deemed raided
Ms small house is Mostagnastreel, at Leadpert.
her huebend, wham duties kept him • good desiCeen=
his vowel, did not very often come home, and on flneday,
June 4th, be was not there at all. Oa that same day,
however, the prisoner and two comrades wen at Pentane ;
they had quitted the Cambridge barrens is the
evening. sad went to the Queen's Read, Greathalo-
street, kept by a person named Wyatt. We beerhouse
was DOW Clemente' house by • short an. They bad drunk
• quart or two el beer here when the demand aims in end
called for a pint of beer, which she took into the tap-room to
drink. She there got into coovereation with the primmer,
hung at the time the two children with her. The pri-
soner commenced itexuang himself with the ehlidirea, and
took the youngest girl on his knee, and pat his forego capon
her head to amuse her. Tactual presently proposed that
soother quart of beer should be called for for the soldiers
to drink ; she herself than ordered it, sad then • mooed
quart. When the time arrived at which it was proper for
the soldiers to leave, the prisoner seemed very *talons to go
away with the deceased, end he took the childree round
to the house, and returned to the bestehen for deceased.
Prisoner told the landlord that the deoeseed was •
" toweey" of his, and that he wished to me her home. The
whole party then left, the primmer stopping at the woman's
house, and retries togo to the barrens with Ida comrades.
He did not get to his quarters netiltbefotlowingmornisg. The
prisoner and the deceased then west in, and were 11111111 no
more that night. After this nothing could be traced except
from the infanta, and cue of these went and gave /widest:le'
before the Portsmouth magistrates. The following morning
the attentica of the neighbours wen attracted by cries
of distress at the house, and the elder child was found
at the door perfectly asked, and crying dolefully. " Oh,
mother, my poor mother!" Rome of the midgets dose
by then went into the bone, sad toned the deemed on the
floor lying with her feet in the fireplace, flat on her back ;
she bore masks of deadly violates, was seedy nude,
and had oa neither boom nor *tackles.; she was quite cold
and stiff, her legs wide apart, and no clothing about the
bips. A discharge was running from her mouth. On her
face end meek there ware fire distieet mark. of human
teeth, one of which had takes such effect on the windpipe
as to cause suffocation sad consequently death. The ;wi-
ener came into barracks at 6.40 in the morning. Under the
body ado:eased were some pines of &anal (tun), which
had evidently been used as saran, but her stocking. were
sonesatirely. White the risme, was taken lute ondody at the ,
guard room ea the following day, two stockings ware foiled
I. his trowsers pocket, and deessen's husband was strongly
of opinion that these were his wife's. She bad unusually
small feet, and used to cut the toe-parts of her stockings
off sad sow them up man.
The prisoeer declared when nee charged that be had
sot been at the boase at all ; the stockings found os
him were damn, and he aid they belonged to • girl named
" Loco." of Prospect-plan sad • prostitute. The de.
ceued'a husband also subsequently came forward, and mid
be was mistaken about the stookisp, that the stocking.
found on the prisoner were Rouble* made ones, sad had
not been cut shorter. The surgical widens was that the
body, when found, had been dead eight hours, sad death
bad taken plea from great violate.. There was no proof
of violation of the wowan's parsec ; there were means of
great pressure.on the wisdpipe, seflielent to produce death.
Th. jury found the prisoner Guilty, sad sentence of death
was pared in the usual form.