The Express.
London, England, 1858-03-11 00:00:00

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HOME CIRCUIT—CH=OImm, MARCH 10.
Cools' COURT.— pekes Hr. Jostle* Erie.)
Alfred PkUsjar, 27, a young MIL
surrendered to take bit trVissarb-oa atkilffictment which
originally contained three eon* the that charging him with
burglarionaly breaking Into the dweillsg-bonea of Elisabeth
Norwood, with ink nt to steel__ the emend, with the ease
act, with intent to oommit • Minions ram& upon the row
outrix ; and there wee a third, whkd clamed him with
wounding the proeecutrix with Wet to do her grievous
bodily harm. The grand jury ignored the OM two mate
of the Indictment, and the rimier was tried ape the third.
Mr. T. Clambers and Mr. M ax darted the prose-
cution. The prisoner was Xr. Madera
The learned counesi for the possoation, in opening the
one to the jury, described It as on den unnenal sad rather
character. The prowcutrie and her Meer appeared to be
maiden ladles powered of coesidorabie property and they
ocoapied • cottage at Stanstead. The that we the
subject of Inquiry was committed so ter batik as the lath ef
April, 1864 (Easter Sunday) ; and it appeared that on the
evening of that day the yroseentria sad her sister went to
bed at their usual hour, and about twelve o'clock at night
they were awoke by hearing a noise down stain and the
voices of several man. The proescutrix went to the front
window of her bedroom to give an alarm, when as
she at trot imagined • long pole, but whichsuboor
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turned out to be • clothes prop, was throat at her
the window, end she received anon seven blows upon
Lae an/ head. Her steer bid LH of the polo, and her hand
we drags/ Lolly through the glen end out, but their
swum athistanos, efts • shoot One, rinsed all the moo
otanned in the °aunts to make al; bat the proseentrix was
very Ma bef, and did not mover far several maths after-
wards. The *be wade every tiopiery, leak wee mmHg to
obtain else to the parties evened mall gene Lathe
hatwhin Y appeared Hal, ia eganiganes of MOO
wee sale by g wows, amid limed, and
semi ether parer =ha ha Ws hon=adk°
the KS at • len= ka the of
illereten, end • vann we applied fur la the moan at
Deomabar, V" to apprehend Abe. It mem& however,
tlin be abandel ken the neiphswlteek sad It was Nab-
=lneutebed est be bed gam be Ossede, ead an
ri an end sate lido. 'Ed Iha Omsk himthe late d
oh , end
Ina bask es We e naley ups pun t
Yawed, pensealria, aelderlMy,
donned the einemalwases mike whisk mho was ass acted as
shove sensed. She aid that she ken the beer run away,
hut et was amble to speak to iiiedV of any of them.
The prienner ems le bar la Hs sandit allusions, otter the
oasts hai been amelleol, awl 6111 her that he had COtne
to eagle the Slab, "NI he at the eine Sae add that he bad
roarer boa in wok a dreadful sine hare, and that be
could not deep at night. He also end the* his tsar told
him he had never ear suck • sight, end Sat he wed not
sleep. The prises the wished to be., *Whir she la-
ban 6s go to low, sad whetherne shed' owe a berm,
gad be mil that if she did he anti nab a comeller
He the add that she bed anal* ion Drably
and she styled, " Yee, I was ; I mast think how youLanky of it,' and Se piens hang doers his bead end
nab ai reply. The whams elided en aerates& to sable
the astlar, end the parser lira oust away, gad she ego so
non kin van a short line ego.
The preeecutrin, in answer ito "polkas pat by Mr. Rod-
thielered that the prisoner ant eke she had reprimand,
and she darted that whet he nil wee that he would rather
ad:aphis( than ban sank • agesin lisagbg aver hie
ha alumina to the maser Hat we ourreat I. the
Allege that be was one et IL patties onowsed ire the out-
rage. She elm maid that the primmer was quite sober when
he Lae to her.

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bard hsr staktrat as Is O Norwood, the s Mind the presseutriz, or-
Ideas= saying tent ha had
core to settle the dirk sod abe proved that when they in-
bred to wort his oar, he irk • arras bag tly
fall of sassy, end rid that Its eirld spend as snob roomy
in law r they raid.
Mr. Jerk at pressed • uniterkedent In the Yorkshire
guise, bat wis al Ma Ira of the essuraos was in the
or , awl strAknni in the seighbourbood of
digiond diet NOVlnnitir, 11154, the prisoner
saar le hire art rid, " This b • nice job shoat Mks Nor-
ris& I Maw whin*. pas fonad." Ho sew the
pisses spin as the seas minim and he rid he had heard
that a warier was plug to he taken out. He added, " I
have got pin* of mousey, and I only wanted to hare •
lark' wilt the oil lay—the • kag owl would have her •
ran ono is kaadle." On the 6th of Deressber the pkonre
ears to Wm issass oa horsebeck and rid his he mat not
WI any we what he had said Mar Mks Merweed, mud he
took out his parse and said he wadi glee Mr ray mow be
pleaded if hit did act. Witare rellesed to Lb any Isoney,
rad the primmer thrombi bwould go to Norwood sad
try to m with her. Oa the followi day wiener
Ter to aggrho itemgss& the Omer, hat could notng find him, and
he did sr it veantly.
Is aorrr Ita wirer said he had beard that
the prisms woe say melt ailleted to drinking, and that
hie ink was to ern aster MINA He our always •
ray arms
of being
was o
to am,bora awl he bad en one cessica tiredng
Mrs Weenie he ftsid
along la the

Witwawa, ;and Fleeted sad Smith, and some other
witseeme, awe that exemined, sad the twodin forams spoke to
steesemale alleged to have been made regrag the pirtemer's
share to the ttemaction, by a man mated Potts, sad also
to the alleged finding of the props, broken up, and in the
Oct of buning, on the morning after the oecturenes, Pattie
=; bat in croes-examinatica it appeared that neither of
turn referred to mentioned what they were repre-
sented to have seen until several months after the occurrence.
The deposition of • man named John Smith was also put by
by which it was made to appear that the prisoner had ad-
mitted that he was concerned in the outrage, and he wee also
represented to have stated that If be had got into the home
he would have " spoiled the old maids."
Mr. Rodwell made en able address to the jury on behalf of
the prisoner, and after observing upon the very extraordinary
character of the Inquiry, be said it appeared to him that the
evidence failed altogether to establish the charge. The case
for the prosecution rested mainly upon the foolish statements
made by the prisoner himself ; but he said the jury would
remember what sort of person the prisoner was, his habita of
drunkenness and his fear to be alone in the dark ; and be
asked them whether it waa not extremely probable, that each
a person, hearing that he waa pointed at by the tittle-tattle of
the village as one of the parties concerned in an outrage of
this description, should have been reedy to pay a earn of
money to clear himself. With regard to the women Plaited
and Smith he said his instructions were that they were not
speaking the truth, and that they had trumped up the story
they had told for some purpose or other.
The learned counsel then called some witnesses who fic•tli
contradicted the witnesses referred to, and the jury Inter
in the course of their examination, and said they di not
wish the case to proceed any further, as they did not consider
there was sufficient evidence to justify them in convicting the
prisoner.
A verdict of Not Guilty was acxeditigly taken.

NORFOLK CIRCUIT—BEDFoRD, MARCH 10.
Czown COWlT.—(Before Mr. Justice Wightman.)
&maw( Morris, a ticket-of-lean man, possessing a most
unfortunate testimonial of character in his physiognomy, wee
charged with having set tire to the Bedford County PI iiloll.
It appears that after • series of outrageous offenoes he et
length became located in this prison se a convict, but he was
determined, if possible, to get free again. Accordingly he
den :sod the scheme of setting fire to his bedding and other
articles in the cell, with the expectation that as the fire
spread the alarm would throw the °Moore off their guard end
enable him to make his escape. At the trial the prisoner, on
being arraigned, pleaded guil.y, having • leer on his coun-
tenance. The judge was furnished with some little account
of bin antecedents, from which it appeared that
he was convicted at the Walsingham mak= on
the 27th of March, 1868, and sentenced to tea years'
transportation, for stealing clothes. He yes discharged
upon • ticket of leave on the 11th of June, 1866.
. was subsequently convicted of felony on 16th May 1867,
for which offence he was sentenced to two years' Minim.
meat. Whilst undergoing his sentence of traMportadon he
immersed to Pentonville Prison, on account of his general
bed conduct at Dartmoor, in which he persisted after having
been corporally punished for refusing to work and tor re-
peated acts of Insubordination. During his confinement there
—vie., from October, 1862, to July, 1864—he had thirteen
reports against him for assaulting and resisting the officers,
for profane language, and destroying r-111 furniture, ho.;
and at length it was found necessary to report his miscon-
duct to the directors, who ordered him oorporeal punishment
As be refused to work attar the ioniction of the punishment,
he wan removed to Pentonville Prison for further probation.
Ths changes do not appear to hays subdued or improved this
interesting *got of model prison iskonters.
The Judge sentenced him to a keg term of penal servitado.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.—STArroRD, Mayon 10.
(Bekaa Mr. Baron Channel].)
STZALtIO A POST LITTER AT NIWCASTLII.

George Mayer, 38 years of age, who had been employed ht
the Post-office, at Newcastle, for 18 years as stamper and
letter-carrier, was indicted for stealing, on the Bth of January,
1864, at Newcastle-under-Lys*, • post latter, eontaining a
201. Beak of England note, half • sovereign, and 3s. Bd. bit
stamps, the property of the Postmaster-GenteaL
rhrrege were fire counts Laying the charge.
Mr. Whateley, Q.C., and Mr. Bros were for the prose-
cutor, end the prisoner was defended by Mr. Kesealey.
The case was opened by Mr. Whateley, Q.C., and the
peculiarity connected with at was the length of time--• period
of four which had elapsed slice the alter was loipt,
before the prisoner was charged with the robbery. The
theory of the prosecution was that the prisoner stole the
letter as • servant in the Post-office, and to cooneequeoce of
the poatmaaur being &ha cashier of the National Provincial
nk in the town, retained possession of it until December
last, when the postmaster res;gned his position as oast'', at
the beak, and removed to Stoke-upon-Trent, where be co.
mired the 11114111 of postmaster. Immo:la:4 altir
the • removal from the bank, the note vu pm.
used by tie prisoner sad cashed. It farther appeared that
the note was embed without any demo: on protestation, the
=is previously borne ea extompLuy rharratar for
, big very much respected.
To prove the ens, • number of wimenses van examiusd.
Mr. Join Mt& Dunlop, cashier at the Manchester sad
Liverpool Bank, Manchester. proved that on the 19th of Oc-
tober. 1864 he coshed • cheque for 1004 for Mr. Joseph I