The Express.
London, England, 1847-08-27 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL.

ALLEGED MURDritArriDDLEY.-011 Monday
morning the adjourned Inquest commenced on the body of
Thorpe, some particulars of whose death appeared in this

paper last week. Martha Thirsted, of Dudley, deposed to
Thorpe leaving the Angel Inn, in that town, at twelve at
night, at which hour two men, the one being the prisoner
Grady, cams in and asked for drink, but were refused. They
left the house, and when outside she heard a scuffle and this
cry of murder. On looking out at the front door she saw
the two prisoners, who were using the mast revolting lan-
guage, and ono of them intimated that they had "given" it
the deceased.—Police-constable Page was on duty in Dudley
on the night in question; between twelve and one he
heard the cry or murder in the direction of the
Angel Inn. Went to the spot and found the two
prisoners, and a man having the appearance of a boatman,
with a straw hat on and a waistcoat with sleeves. This
person had his fists up, as if in the act of fighting. He went
up to him, and touched him with his stick, and the man
went away. He then told the two prisoners to be off, and
they immediately followed the man by the castle wall in the
direction of Tipton. He then returned to the town, in con-
sequence of soother disturbance taking place there, and
heard no more of that occurrence.--Henry Ellis, a boatman,
residing at Moor-lane, Kingswinford, stated that he was on
his road towards Tipton and when he arrived at the castle
wall, be saw three men beating another shamefully ; heard
the man call out for help. Witness became frightened, and
went back towards Dudley ; it was then five minutes to one
o'clock. Did not see sticks used, but, as it was then dark,
the party might have had them.—George Law stated that,
between one and two o'clock on the morning in question,
he was on his way from Dudley to Tipton, when he
got opposite Mr. Barnes's gate in the new road, opposite the
castle-wall, he saw a man lying on the ground with his head
in the gutter. lie went over to him and lifted up his head,
titian which the man requested that he might be allowed to
lie. He hail a straw hat on. I thought he was
drunk ; there was a man with me named Charles Burton,
and he thought the same. Soon afterwards we met a man
in a dark dress. He appeared to be peeping and watching
about, near the end of a street called Birmingham-street.
His knee was bent. I saw a patteu attached to his leg, sad
I believe the man to have been the prisoner Grady.—William
Seymour said that on the Sunday morning referred to he
was in charge of a brick-kiln on the Tipton side of Dud-
ley. Between ono and two o'clock the deceased came
staggering into the brick-yard, and slipped into a
drain. Ile soon got out, and came up near the kiln where
witness was, who thought he was tipsy, and said, " Master,
drink has made you bad ;" to which he replied, " 1
hope the Lord will have mercy on my seul—l shall die." On
this he put his hand to his head; it was then bleeding.
Witness said he bad been fighting, but deceased answered,
"I have not." He then asked witness to get either a
policeman or a doctor, on which he told him that he had
better go to Dudley. The deceased then went out of the
yard towards Tipton, and seemed steadier than he had been
with witness for about an hour preceding.—Mr. H. Hai,
surgeon, who had subsequently Made a post rnortem exami-
nation of the body, said that the deceased hod come by his
death from the ethos of injuries received by the infliction
of several severe blows on the head by some instrument
such as a stake. One of the blows on the left side of the
head must have been a dreadful one, and he (the surgeon)
was surprised he had lived so long after its infliction.—
Thos. Hawthorn, tunnel-keeper at Tipton, saw the deceased
about a quarter to two on the Sunday morning, being at-
tracted by hearing some groans. The deceased was lying on
the bridge not far from his boat. He spoke to the deceased,
and perceived he was very id. Thorpe requested he would
take him to his boat, hut witness took him to his companion's
boat, because there was a fire in it.—The prisoners then
called the two following witnesses, for the purpose of proving
an alibi:—J. P. Dunn, a shoemaker, of Dudley, stated that
the two prisoners were in his employ on the Saturday night
in question; they had brought home wilds to his shop as
late as eleven o'clock, and were paid for it. Malony
might have been there even later than that. When
they came the last time there were two men with them.
—J. Doyle, a shoemaker, living in Dudley, stated that the
prisoners lodged in hie house. Between ten and clever' they
left to take home their weak. They had not returned at
twelve on the Sunday night referred to, and he went to try
and find them. Between one and two o'clock be found
them at Catherine Lynch's, and two other men (Caverner
and Reardon), who had been previously seen in their com-
pany, were with them. The proceedings occupied upwards
of ten hours, and resulted in the committal of one of the
prisoners, Patrick Grady, on the charge of " Manslaughter."
John Malony, the other prisoner, was subsequently brought
before theWednesbury magistrates, on the charge of being an
accessory, and both prisoners, who are Irish shoemakers,
late working in Dudley, will be re-examined this day
(Friday) before the bench of justices.
CHARTIST INVASION OF A BELIRV.—The Gloucester
Journal states that on Monday the chartists at Redmarlcy,
being desirous of having a merry peal of the parish Mils to
grace their " demonstration," applied to the proper quarter,
but were refused. This exasperated some of them, and they
imprudently determined to carry out their wishes by force.
On repairing to the church tower for that purpose they were
encountered by the ltev. Octavius Goodrich, the officiating
minister for the incumbent, the Rev. Mr. Commeline, and
who peremptorily ordered them to depart. It is stated, how-
ever, that they derided his authority, broke open the door,
and assaulted the rev. gentleman. For this assault, three of
the parties, James Rawlings, Edward Rawlings, and Henry
Goode, were subsequently summoned before a magistrate,
when James Rawlings was convicted in the penalty of 51.,
and in default of payment was ordered to be committed to
Worcester gaol for two months. The two other defendants
were admonished and discharged.
GLOUCESTERSIHRE.
ALLEGED ATTEMPT TO RILL.—At the Cheltenham
police-office, on Wednesday, H. J. Field, a young man car-
rying on business as a mercer, in one of the principal
parts of Cheltenham, was charged with wilfully firing a pis-
tol, with intent to kid his emit, Mrs. Eliza Boulton. Front
the evidence of witnesses on behalf of the prosecutrix, it ap-
peared that they had attended a Kte at Pittyille.spa on the
previous evening. They returned about 10 o'clock, and on
proceeding through the gate, near the hridge, they perceived
the prisoner. As the prosecutrix and her party passed
they heard the report and saw the flash of a pistol, end, on
turning round, perceived one in his band. The prisoner im-
mediately moved away from the spot, hut he was followed
end given into custody. At the police station he was
searched, and there were found on his person another pistol,
a powder flask, and some percussion eaps.—The solicitor for
t the prisoner
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A PUBLIC EXECUTION PREVENTED.—At the late
Somersetshire assizes, Chief Justice Wilde left for execution
a convict, named Maurice Perry, for taking part in the wil-
ful murder of John Bailey, a police-constable, at Bathamp-
ton. The unfortunate officer was endeavouring to suppress
a fight between two railway labourers, at which seventy or
eighty persons were present, and whilst so engaged be re-
ceived such violence as to terminate in his death. By many
the evidence was thought not inclusive enough to warrant
the conviction of the prisoner for the capital offence, and the
jury, after considerable consultation, found the prisoner
" Guilty of being a party concerned, but we have no evi-
dence of his having given the fatal blow." The Chief Justice
said—" Guilty of being concerned in what, gentlemen ?"
One of the Jurors : "In the murder, my lord." The Chief
Justice said, " If he was there with others having a common
object to prevent the peace officers from putting an end to
the Light, that amounts to the crime of murder." The jury
then again consulted, and returned a verdict of Guilty, and
the wretched man was sentenced to death. Imme-
diately steps were taken to induce the government to spare
his life, and no doubt to strengthen. the grounds for thus
seeking the royal mercy, one of the jury which tried the
convict sent the following epistle to him at Taunton gaol :
Burnham, near Bridgewater, Aug. IL 1047.
An one of the jury on your trial, I hasten to inform you that the
verdict was returned without mecum deliberation, se there were many
i doubts which were impresull on our minds in the address, on your
behalf, of the learned counsel, which I um sorry to say owned our
memory, and winch the Lew allow P end which I believe would alter
the verdict given, which I shall lay before the proper quarter.
4.4/110, TIPP:7I,,
This letter and other documents were laid before the Se-
cretary of State. A minute inquiry was instituted, and the
authorities of the gaol received a communication fr.‘m tti.
Home-office to the effect that the Crown had directed the
reprieve of the convict. Whether the punishment of trans-
portation for life will follow has not transpired.

DEBBY SWEEP9.—Ihe magistrates of NVindsor bare
expressed their determination to put down " Derby sweeps,"
and lotteries of a similar nature, in every public-house with-
in their jurisdiction. Yesterday, being the general annual
licensing day for that borough, Mr. Robert Blunt, who pre-
sided on the bench of magistrates, at the Town-hall, stated
to the whole of the licensed victuallers who were present,
that unless they promised to discontinue the species of gam-
bling alluded to, their licenses would not be granted; the
reference being made especially to two houses, the Adam and
Eve, and the Crispin. It was also stated by the bench that
their licenses would, fur the future, be immediately sus-
pended in the event of its being discovered, after the notice
they had given, that the system was suffered to prevail in
any of their respective houses. The required promises were
made, and the whole of the licenses were then renewed.

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