The Express.
London, England, 1849-04-11 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.—TIIie DAY.
Before Mr. Jostles Wiohtniaa.
THE CASE OF MR. DROIIET.
Upon the application of Mr. BaUentine, the trial of Mr.
Drouet for manslaughter, arising out of the fatal eases of
cholera at Tooting, was fixed for Friday morning. Si F.
Thesiger is specially retained for the deferce.
ATTEMPT TO MURDER.
J. Cushmay, 19, was indicted for feloniously shooting at
Emma Tyler. with intent I. murder her, or to do her some
edemas bodily herrn.
Mr. Ryland and Mr. Laurie conducted the prosecution.
The prisoner was defended by Mr. Woellett.
The dalmatian of this ease will be fresh In the recol-
lection of the public, from the lengthened reports of the
diligent examinations of the prisoner at the Mansion House.
The prosecutriz was a young girl about Axton, and it ap-
t mad that she and the primer were neighbours, the ren-
itence of their parents being in Angel court, Bisbopegats.
street, and that they and some other young people were on
friendly terms and " kept company," and were is the habit
of playingOod "baking," as it is termed, together. Oa the
night of the 17th of Jan , the poisoner, the prosecttrix,
and a young girl naiad Elite Graves, were together about
ekht o'clock in the evening, and it armed that the peasan-
t& had 1i ft the prisoner to go and speak to another young
ma named John Somers, and this gave some offence to the
prisoner. Nothing particular occurred at this time; but
shortly afterwsrJs the prisoner *gain came into the court,
and he told Elias Graves that he wasted to speak to Emma
Tyler very particularly. The prosecutrix, who bad gone into
her own house, came out accordingly ; sad when she saw
the prisoner she 'eked him what he wanted; upon which be
oohed her hand and held it tightly. She turned round, and
was in the set of speaking to Bliss Graves, when the prisoner
pp lied a pistol from his reket, and, without swing a word,
discharged it in the face of the proseentrix, and than ran
away. The proeecutrix was immediately taken to the hos-
phal, where it was found that she bad received two wounds
spas the left side of her face, that bad evidently been pro-
by a pistol bullet, which had passed completely
threngla in • slanting direction, and then lodged in her hair
where it was found on the following day by one of the
nurses of the hoepital. When the prisoner was taken into
custody, he at tint said that there was nothing but
paper in the pistol, and afterwards he said that he
only intended to frighten the prosecutrix. He afterwards,
however, told a rambling tale, to the effect that the prosecu-
trix bad requested him to provide two pistols, else to kill her
and the other to destroy himself with, and he likewise said
that she had also proposed that she, the prisoner, and the
ether girl, Graves, Weald go to Loudon-bridge and drown
I themselves together. These facts were distinctly proved in
evidence, and the prosecutrix, in cross-examination, said that
op to the time in question she had always been on the most
friendly terms with the prisoner, and did not entertain the
slightest idea that he was actuated by any malicious feeling,
and she said she considered the prisoner had done what he
did for • lark.
The coons-1 for the prisoner urged upon the jure that this
was the only reasonable interpretation that could be put
upon his conduct, and he contended that if he had really
been actuated by the intention imputed to him, nothing
could have revented him from destroying the aossontrix,
standing, se he did, ease by her with a loaded pistol, and
she being quite unprepared fur the attack that he was
about to make upon ker.
Some witnessen were called, who noise favourably of
the previous conduct of the prisoner. They described him
es a boy of weak constitution, and it appeared that he had
suffered a good deal from illness ever since he was a child.
The learned Judge hides summed up, the jury after a
short deliberation, returned a veidict of Gaily against the
pricner op sn the fourth count in the adamant, charging
him with intending to do grievous bodily harm to the prose-
atria. Sentence was deferred.

—Mies Tempest, of the
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Ashworth. The appoiatatent was 'Bade at Wentbridp es
the 26th alt., and is endorsed by " two of her Mitimere Jew
tiees of the peace."