The Express.
London, England, 1859-08-25 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 25, 1869.

ASSIZE INTALLIGENCE.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—LivairooL, Avow! St.
(Mon Mr. Brno Weiscos.)
W ILL FOROTAT AT PILTDIXTON, IIZAA MANCZBATIII.

Ascher/ Hank, 17; /id. 44; Josq44lM ;
and Ruth Berry, IS, ware ahr wish Soren sad attar.
hag a will, purporting I. be the Mt will and temment of
As. Dem, decesseL
TM Aterney-Osaimil Bliss, masted by Mr. Holker and
Mr. Ellis, mooned Ise the prosecution, instructed by
Mews. Gould.. sad tea; Mr. Pope conducted the
' Mesa Walden and Swinburn having become sequaiated
with the fact of Ann Deng belagraa illegitheate child, sad
that her property—if so legal will had been made—would go
to the crown, put themeless into communleatios with
the solicitors tor the Ducey of Lemosegeo, sad the prisoner*
were therefore @rimed tamspithasidagery. Hardy and the
Berrys weteoperatives. flopsweestmetimeasolieltor'seigek,
but of bite had occuptedhiroselfinverieseerays. Ana Dees, the
deceased, was a pew= of sociatris gad pewter's habits, and
lived for easy years in Brewegramet, Salford, carrying on
barlases se a silk-espy. She had for some ante ha= her
daft been alleged, havinformizaseveral attacks of paralysis.
The deceased by her own gad economy had reamed
onsiderable property, 61111. d had been deposited in
the beak of Meson. Lloyd, IMMO% end Co., of Man-
eheser ; and as the Ism payment We the bask by the do-
omed took place Is ISM, it was presumed this she had other
invemagerrta either is life mintranors it of ..sea Oast kind.
On the 13th of Apdl het Ann Dean, having become mach
worse in her health, at the request of Rath Dem west to
the house of the Mame Hardy, who lived is !iodise=
Before she would go, however, she wished is know whether
her tt thine would be este," and whether Hardy's "rem was
paid.- She special directions that the bay d het cedar is
which she had carried on business abesid be given Mimeo
Dean, draper in Pendleton, her own coughs. Am the cab la
which the deceased wee bang mama. to Hades pored
Mr. Deal's shop, sadas M. lisesbm zed she mos=
it, Ana Des pointed to the shop, sad told Mrs.
that lame Dean, who waste have the hey, lived them. The
primer Hardy me Mead to the derma= by manage,
and the demised heehaw mowed ca what terms she was to
live with hies, arrived there ca the IS,It of April, and died
disease night. Mrs. Fletcher, who scomparsied the de-
ceased to Hardy'', remained with her op to about 8 or 9
o'clock, gad the deemed had hopes to ramble before
she big Thies was no will mode or signed by the de-
emed ay to that time. Eden °Meth, a young female,
rsmeisad in the rem SKIM of the bate between
Kra Fletcher's besting sad Ann Dean's dying ; she
sew ao will made. When lease Dean heard of the death
of hie relative he went to Hardy's, and requested the keys
of her boxes saying that he woo tote executor. The keys
were refried by the parties, and toe was told that the ba-
rraged had given all she had to them. Subsequently the
['Hartere alleged that they had found the will of the demised
in her box. The maw in which the document alleged to
be forged was obtained was circuitous and ingenious. Hope,
who had bees once a solicitor's militant, dictated the fora
to Joseph Berry, and he wrote it in the Hare sad Haneds
pnblio-house, Pendleton. Asa Dean wee interred on the
title of April, and on that day the forgery was committed.
Subsequently the will was =palled in the probate-office, and
meager.. were taken by the primers to obtain the money
by virtue of WWI will. lOW Dees, when be become
acquainted with the movements of the prisms% entered •
cereal; but from some cease or other the eked of
that caveat was last. The ream Reedy and
Ruth Berry, in leas, west the beet, meet
with whet wag comidared to be eiddelent authority,
and received 3381. ; en the sums d 4 Heady en ha
own account 200/.; and Rath Berry depathed a like esa In
her cams at the mine time. Ia the coarse of a law melts
the whole of the rigorism were ansged, and la the poems-
Mon of Hope wee foetid • domes at purporting to be a quid
form of proceeding truing trees the peeper authorities spelt=
Richard Hardy. In this deemmillit the pertitelaw of the
logrory were detailed, pardothrly matdosing the Hare end
Hounds, Peadletme„ se the plea where the bagasse wee
anted. Ia the pennies tit the woe Moms, oat his cap.
ten, was frond mother paper, being a detailed account of
the sonless renamed is the will business, sepecially men-
tioning his stieedense at the Hare and Hound. on the 18th
et Aped lest; the amount of this bill was 761. The Attor-
-General said that the principal ev‘dence would be that
Hardman.of ea acoompllos. The jury would no doubt look
with mowing upon his statements, but still they would be
corroborated by amenb other prams of noinsposeleshie re-
spectability.
Several intimates bed beat rumba and the owe was
still proceeding when one penal me &spud:est.