The Express.
London, England, 1847-04-01 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 1, 1847.

wanted them. To this she replied that she bad money sent
to her for those things, and added, " I am not going to
punish my body any longer." On another occasion, the
prisoner was seen with the child in her arum, its face covered
by a frock, and a quilt wound several times round its body.
Her neighbours repeated their remonstraneee, and, at
length, the prisoner became so angry, that she exclaimed,
with an oath, '• I can't rest in the house for the dolls of
neighbours around me." The elder children were in a
healthy andition. The policeman who took the pianist
into custody stated that he found the child in bed, and
that, when be asked the prisoner why she did not give it
some meat, she replied she had none to give it. She had
nothing, she said, but union bread, and the child would not
eat that. There was the half of a sixpenny loaf in the house,
and one of the prisoner's children was eating raw turnips.—
Mr. Herne, assistant relieving officer for the parish, proved
that on Tuesday, the 24 February, the day after the child
was born, application was made to him on behalf of Jenefer
Bolitho. Ile supplied her with a loaf of bread and 21b. of
oatmeal, which he purchased, and on the following Friday
he gave her two loaves of union bread. The board of
guardians afterwards ordered her to be furnished with four
loaves of bread every week, and these she continued to re-
ceive for four weeks. The bread was called " forthright
tread," composed of corn ground down without extracting
the bran.—Jane Polkiaghorn, the prisoner's aunt, was
called, and she told • most lamentable tale respecting
the per woman and her family. When the relieving officer
gave I er the first loaf and the 21b. of oatmeal, witness said
to him, " Is this all you mean to give her ? nothing for
bring, no meat for the baby, nor candlelight, nor soap ?"
The children were acts .11y starving, and, with the exception
of the union bread they had nothing to eat. Wham, had
given them gruel and treacle as long as it lasted, and when
that was gone the prisoner was in the habit of cutting raw
turnips into slices, and after giving some of them to her chil-
dren she would place the remainder upon a shelf " as if it
was bread." The prisoner had often soaked the union
bread in hot water, and had sucked it, and said she wished
she could have a loaf " to fill her up.''—Mr. Mitchell, the
district-surgeon, proved that the child died on the 3rd
March, and that on the following day he made &pat mortem
examination of the body. There was no appearance of die-
ease, but the stomach was empty and the intestines nearly
so, and the body was in a very emaciated state. In
his opinion the child had died from want of
sufficient nourishment, but upon this subject he could not
speak positively. The child might possibly have died from
convulsions, and, if such had been the case, there would be no
appearance after death to prove it. In order to show that
the prisoner was not altogether in want of means, one of her
neighbours stated that her eldest boy earned half a crown a
week, and that she frequently had halfpence in her cup-
board.—The prisoner,. ho cried a good deal during the in-
vestigation, ranee a long and pitiable statement in her
defence, confirming the evidence given by Jane Polking-
horn respecting the starving condition of her family.—Mr.
Justice Creswell, in summing up, told the jury they were
first to consider whether the child died of starva-
tion, and if that was made out to their •atisfaction,
then the more important question would arise as
to how far the prisoner was guilty of causing its death, by
withholding from it proper food and noarishment. Upon
this subject he would read to them the words of • learned
judge:—" If the prisoner was guilty of wilful Reelect, so
gross and wilful that you are satisfied she must have con-
templated the death of the deceased, then, if death followed
from these means, she would be guilty of murder; but if
you think only that she was careless, and that the death of
the child was occasioned by her neglect, although she did
not contemplate causing that death, then she would be guilty
of manslaughter, and not murder." The jury would, there-
fore, Dave to say whether the prisoner poseessed food capable
of nourishing her child and had wilfully withheld it, and to
such an extent that she must have contemplated the
child's death; or whether she was merely negligent,
although grossly negligent, and that the child died
in consequence of such negligence. In the former
case the verdict must be one of murder, and in
the latter manslaughter only. They were, however,
to decide, in the first place, whether the prisoner had in any
way been the cause of the child's death.—The jury retired,
and, after an absence of half an hour, returned a verdict of
Not Guilty.—The poor woman was then ordered to be dis-
charged.
The aimless terminated this afternoon; and to-morrow
the learned judges will proceed to open the commission at
Taunton.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.-LIVERPOOL, MARCH 31.

CROWN Co, irr—Behr' Mr. BaropAldrreon.

CONTINUATION OP THE TRIAL OP MRS. JOHNSON, FOR
Mtianite.—Mr. Serjeant Wilkins proceeded to address
the jury on behalf of the prisoner. He commented par-
ticul irly upon the absence of all motive on the part of the
prisoner for committing the offence with which she steod
charged ; for, supposing the prisoner to be a woman
of annual habits, was it at all likely that she would
avoid the society of a well-looking man of 40, merely
for the privilege of enjoying that of a man between
60 and 70 years of age. After the body had been
buried four months and exhumed again, • farther ex-
amination was made. and Mr. Watson told you then the
whole quantity of metallic poison be could discover, did not
amount to much se a grain in weight; and would
the jury, upon so faint a glimmering of the possibility
of arsenic having been administered to the deceased,
come to the conclusion that the primmer at the bar
had bees guilty of an offence which would sacrifice her
life to the laws of her country ? But it was said that the
prisoner had purchased arsenic at the shop of Mrs. Livesey,
in the afternoon of the 27th November. It might be pos-
sible that she did go to that shop on that day, but was it not
also possible that sprat one else might that day have pur-
ehaeed the arsenic from Miss Livesey, and that Miss Livesey
and Miss Hardman, whale attention was tilled to the
circumstance until the 4th of January, when they were first
confronted with the prisoner, and asked whether she was
the woman who purchased it, might have an idea that it
was her, and yet be mistaken ? Their hypothesis was, that
she went there to purchase poison for the purpose of mur-
dering her husband—her husband being dead, and it being
suspected that he was poisoned But, supposing even that
she did purchase arsenic on that day, was it at all likely,
if she had been purchasing it for such an object as that,
that she would have gone to a shop where she was so likely to
be known, from the fact that she and her husband had often
been there, and were continually passing by it? Pena= about
to administer poison to another, did not go to work that way;
and he thought the jury would be of opinion that, if she (lid
purchase poison on the day in question, she purchased it for
a perfectly innocent purpose. It may be said that she after-
wards denied having been at the shop at all : but would the
jury on that account alone deem her guilty ? Equivocation
and falshood in moments of peril were no proofs of guilt.
Let them remember that the prisoner at the bar had had:this
charge hurled at her before she was confronted with Mica
Livesey. A coroner's inquest had been held and she was
acquitted upon that charge. It was, therefore, by no means
improbable that when again threatened ehe might, under the
feeling of the moment, have equivocated in that manner, and
thereby involved the case in some difficulty, but by no meats
furnished any proof of htr guilt. Mr. Serjeant Wilkins
again referred the jury to the unsatisfactory nature of the
second examination of the intestine, of the deceased, @Berke
had been buried four months, and said he would leave it to
them to say whether the result of that examination satisfied
them or not that the deceased died from the effects of arsenic.
The learned counsel then carefully went through the whole of
the evidence, and concluded by an eloquent appeal to the feel-
ings of the jury on behalf of the priseuer, calling upon them to
deliberate carefully before they agreed toe verdict which might
consign a fellow creature to a premature and untimely end.
—Hie lordship prefaced hie summing up by a most admi-
rable address to the jury on the relative duties of the counsel
for the prosecution, the counsel for the defence, hie own duty,
and lastly the duty of the jury themselves, in so important •
case as the trial of* fellow-creature for an offence which if
proved would bring him or her toe condign punishment. He
then carefully went through the evidence adduced in proof of
the existenceof poison in the stomach of the deceased, alling
the attention of the jury to the very unsatisfactory nature of
the evidence, but leaving it to them to say whether they were
satisfied by it that the deceased died from the administration
of arsenic. His Lordship next commented on the evidence
given as tending to show a motive on the part of the prisoner
for getting rid of her husband, and in this evidence he
thought there were many improbabilities and inconsistencies.
Having gone carefully through the whole, and particularly
reminded the jury that the surgeon had stated there were no
yellow or white spots on the lining of the stomach on the
day the body was first opened, which spots, had they been
there, would have been evidence of arsenic being present, he
said that they had in the first place to decide whether the
deceased came to his death by poison ; for if the' were not
of opinion that he did, then there was chatty no case
against the prisoner. If they were of opinion that he did
come to his death by poison from arsenic, then they
would have to examine and determine as to whether
the prisoner at the bar was the person who administered
it to him ; and in coming to a conclusion in that
respect, they must carefully weigh the evidence bearing
upon her purchase of the arsenic, and that also which
tended to show • motive for her making use of it in
order to remove her husband. Her conduct during the illness
of her husband was not, he thought, altogether inconsistent
with the conduct of a wife attached to her husband. The
questions, then, for the jury to decide, were these—were
they satisfied that the deceased died from the effects of
arsenic? Were they satisfied the prisoner bought the ar-
senic just before his ilium ? Were they satisfied that she
had a motive for Fettiog rid of her husband ? And was her
conduct such during his illness as to lead them to the conclu-
sion that she administered the poison to him ? If they were
of opinion that he died from arsenic, then the charge against
the prisoner would become a serious one for their considera-
tion. The jury retired for about half an hour, and at
twenty minutes past seven o'clock returned into court, and
delivered a verdict of Not Guilty. The prisoner bore her
trial with great apparent fortitude, and after the summing
up of the judge her countenance betrayed no symptom of
uneasiness whatever as to what might be the verdict of the
jury.
Nisi Plum—Before Mr. Baron Rolfe.
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Lane O. HUDDERSPIELD.:ND MANCEISTIR RAILWAY
AND CANAL COMPANY.—RAILWAY COM . lON. MY.
Thomas Lees, the plaintiff, is a gentleman now retired
from business. He resides in Derbyshire, but is the owner
of a mill and premises at Stalybridge ; and the action was
brought to recover 5,0001. compensation for a shed attached
to tho mill, and nine cottages, &c., adjoining, taken by the
railway, whereby it was alleged the mill also bad been in.
juriously affected in value. The shed taken away was used
for the storing of cotton waste, and the want of such a
convenience detached from the mill, affected the question
of insurance. The plaintiff went upon the 68th section of
the act, which requires those whose land will be tarn,
to give notice if they deem proper, of their desire to have a
jury, and if the company neglect the notice 21 days, they
must pay the compensation claimed. For the defendants it
was contended, that the notice was defective ; that the pro-
perty had not been taken possession of, till the neeerery

bond had been granted ; and that Mr. Bellhouse, of Liver-
pool, who was appointed by two magistrate*, under the Soith
section, had valued the property in question at only 2,3981.,
which sum had been deposited acmrding to the require-
ments of the act. Verdict for the plaintiff.

POLICE.—YEsTERDAY.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Urrenino A FORGED
CHEOUE.—llertry J. Dentden, an artist, was charged with
having uttered a forged cheque for 1201. Mr. Clack, the
manager of the Argyll-place branch of the Union Bank,
said the priaor,er on Tuesday presented a cheque for 1201.,
purporting to have been drawn by Mr. F. W. Chappell,
solicitor, of Golden square, who banked with the company.
As the signature differed from the usual mode of signing
adopted by Mr. Chappell, the cashier brought the cheque
into his private room, and he then directed that the prisoner
should be introduced to him. When the prisoner entered,
be asked him where be had got the cheque from ? lie said
he got it from a person named Arnold. The cheque had
been given to him in a letter, which he produced. The
letter purported to have been written from No. 3, Waked-
square. lie had met Arnold that day in Piccadilly, and had
consented to present the cheque, which he believed was
genuine. His explanation of how the cheque came into his
possession seemed so candid, that he was allowed to leave
the bank, on an understanding that at a future time he
would give further explanation if needed. It was after-
wards ascertained that the cheque was a forgery, end a police
constable was employed to take Demden into custody. The
case was remanded till Saturday next.
MARYLEBONE.—HORBERllle.—RichardCAurcliilland
IVilliam Churchill (father and son), were finally examined,
charged with having fraudulently obtained a large quantity
of glass from Mr. Linton, residing in the New-road, near
Hampstead-road. The prisoners were sent for trial.
THAMES. EXTRAORDINARY CREDULITY. Captain
Mil/stead, and an American named Beach, were charged
by Mr. Williams. an outfitter, with obtaining money
and goods from him under false pretences—Mr. Wil-
liams stated that on Friday week last the two pri-
soners 'were driven up to his house in a cab. The driver,
Macpherson, whom witness had known for many years, said
they wished to obtain respectable lodgings, and wanted to
know if he (Mr. Williams) could accommodate them. Mill-
stead !aid he had been a captain in the Danish service, and
had a claim on the Danish Consul-General here, of 1,600d015.
at the same time producing what appeared to be a Danish bill
of excheinse for that amount. Millatead further asked witness
if he cools oblige him by advancing him a little money, and
the cabman having privately told Williams be believed every
thing was correct, he acknowledged he was completely de-
, ceive.l, and advanced him 21. The next day Millstead em-
ployed the same cabman to take him to his Excellency Count
Reventlow's residence. He remained in the house about 20
minutes, when ho returned and told witness all was right,
sad he should have his money in a few days. On the faith
of this statement, he (Williams) advanced him 51., and sup-
plied the other prisoner, Beach, with several articles of
wearingapparel, including& new drew coat, value 31.10 x. • the
whole amounting to upwards of 151. A few days having elapsed,
and no money being forthcoming, witness's suspicions began /
to be aroused, and he sent a friend to the count's residence,
to ascertain whether the document was a genuine one, and
if Millstead really had any claim on the Danish govern-
ment. The answer returned by his excellency was,
that the paper was not worth a single farthing.
He consequently gave hint into custody. A similar charge
was preferred against Millstead by MINIM Simmons, shop-
man to a Jew clothier, named Harte, who had been imposed
upon by the same document.—Millstead, in his defence, per-
silted in asserting the genuineness of the bill, and in confir-
mation produced a letter relating to the subject of his pen-
sion, signed by M. de Bielke, secretary to the legation.—
Mr. Yardley ordered the case to stand over for a short time,
to allow of a communication being made to Count Reveno
low. On the return of the messenger, it was stated that
neither the minister or his secretary was at home, and the
prisoners were consequently remanded till Monday. Amongst
Millatead'e papers were found some letters addressed to
him at New 'York, Baltimore, &c. relative to his pension,
showing that the same plan had dc.,
successfully pursued
in America.
HAMMERSMITH.—CAUTION TO FAMILIES AND SER-
VANTS—CharIes Neil was finally examined, charged with
having been concerned with William Newman, now awaiting
his trial, in stealing two new great coats, of the value of Si,.
from No. 29, Royal-crescent, Notting-hill, the residence of
Mr. A. We've.. On the evening of Friday, the
19th instant, the prisoner knocked at Mr. M'Clure's
door about half-past eight o'clock, and on being an-
swered by Elisabeth Turner, the cook, he handed her a
book, saying, "This bank is for your master ;" the cook
said, " For Mr. M'Clure ?" and the prisoner replied," Yee ;
I have lost the address." The cook shut the door, leaving
the prisoner in the hall, and lock the book up
into the drawing•rocon to her master. Mr. M'Clure
immediately told her to hasten down stairs, u it
was a ruse to rob the house. She did so, followed by Mr.
M'Clure and his brother, when the hall door was found
open, and two new great coats, which had been hung up
only ten minute, before, had been stolen. On reaching the
street, Mr. M'Clure and his brother heard that two men had
been seen leaving in different directions, and they did the
same, Mr. M'Clure fortunately overtaking, at Notting-hill
turnpike, the other prisoner, Newman, with one of the coats
on his arm. The prisoner, at that time, escaped, but the
police having since been in active search for him, he was
captured on Saturday last, in Carnaby-street, Carnaby-
market, by policeman Johneock. The prisoner imme
diately. said he supposed it was for the job at Notting-
hill, and that he must get some one to say that he was
somewhere else on that evening.—The prisoner, who made
no defence, was fully committed for trial.
SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST AN OMNIBUS DRIVER.—
Joseph Rhoads, driver of a Hammersmith omnibus, ap-
peared, on Tuesday, to answer a charge of having, on the
evening of the 6th inst., et Knightsbridge, carelessly driven
over a man named Benjamin Collins, the husband of a
laundress living at Hammersmith, by which several of his
ribs were fractured, his lungs injured, and his life for some
days placed in imminent danger.—The prisoner had been
three times remanded, and each time admitted to bail, Yes-
terday the injured man having become an out-patient of St.
George's Hospital, was able to attend, although evidently in
a very weak state. On the evening in question, about seven
o'clock, as the man Collins was wheeling a barrow containing
five baskets of linen along the Great Western-road, keeping
as close to the footpath on his proper side as he possibly
could, when near the Knightsbridge barracks, he suddenly
heard some one call out, " Stop, you'll be over
the man," and at that instant he felt the heads of the
horses in the prisoner's omnibus on his shoulder, and
as he himself was crying out, he was knocked down,
and the omnibus wheels went over him, and what
afterwards occurred he bad no recollection of. All the wit-
nesses concurred in stating that the omnibus was not going at a
furious rate, but very steadily on its journey; and that it
was probable that the prisoner did not see Collins with the
barrow until it was too late to avoid the accident.—The
prisoner declared that was the fact. He exceedingly re-
gretted the accident, and was ready to make any recompense
in his power to Collins —Mr. Punter said it appeared to
him from the evidence that there was no criminality in the
case, which was, therefore, a question for a civil action,
which the injured man might bring either against the coach-
man or the proprietor of the omnibus, who was answerable
for the sots of his servant. As there was no criminal e
substantiated against him, the prisoner must be '

MONEY MARKET.

WEDNESDAY BESNMI.

The market war in a remarkably quiet state until
the close of business, with Consols stationary at 881 to 1 for
money and this account. There was but one transaction of
any magnitude by which the business apathy was momen-
tarily disturbed, consisting in a purchase of 100,000/. Con-
sols for next account (in May) at 881. The purchase was
connected with the Hebrew interest out of doors, front the
fact of its being made by a broker known to act generally on
their behalf. As it was viewed as an operation for bolster-
ing up a weak and falling market, it failed to exercise any
influence on the course of prices and busbiess. Console
Scrip was Ito 1 discount. Exchequer bills Is. discount to
Is. premium. India bonds (small) were par to Is. discount.
Long Annuities 9 to 1-16 for the opening ex-dividend.
The near approach of the Easter holiday; and the fact
that to-morrow will commence the rest Hebrew Feast of
the Passover, which for one week will separate all of that
community on active business, gave the impression, par-
tially assisted by the apparent sluggish state of the market
to-day, that for several days to come there would be a com-
parative abstinence from jobbing and speculative action. The
impression, however, is likely to prove erroneous, judging
from the eagerness with which, after the regular
hour of business had clamed, speculative transactions
recommenced upon a considerable scale. Upon a report, as
it subsequently transpired, of an express from Paris, said to
have brought lower prices of the Rental, the sales of Consols
were resumed, with a parcel of 50,0001., at 881, which was
followed by many other dealings in the same direction. The
result was a further decline in Consols to 881 to 1.
In the foreign market, the business was almost entirely
confined to the usual details of pay-day upon the settle-
ment, with an evident indispositlim of the jobbers to open
fresh accounts, with the holidays before them. Prices were
not altogether sustained. Spanish Fives were lower, at 22
to 1; the Threes, 331 to 44; Deferred, 151 to 161;
Passive, 43 to 6. Portuguese, 83 to 5. Mexican, 211 to 2.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 581 to 91; the Fours, 93
to j. Brazilian may be now quoted 87 to 9. Peruvian, 38
to 40. Russian, 110 to 11. Belgian, 95 to 6.
Among the rumours in currency, to account for the heavi-
ness of the stock market, it was stated, as of some certainty,
that at the weekly board to be held to-morrow at the Bank of
England, the minimum rate of discount would be raised.

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