The Express.
London, England, 1860-07-31 00:00:00

CHOWN SIDE.--(Before Mr. Justice Blackburn.)

Hanle Henry Matthews, a boy aged 14, surrendered to
take his trial for the manslaughter of Henry Emery.
Mr. Barrow conducted the prosecution. The prisoner
waif defended by Mr. Addison.
It appeared from the evidence, that on the evening of
the Bth of June, the prisoner and the deceased, who was
one of his playfellows, and who was 10 years old, were in
the bakehouse of a person named Darling, at Chatham.
Darling, it appeared, had been out with • gun shooting
sparrows, and the last time he attempted to fire the gun,
it did not explode, and he left the cap on and placed the
gun behind some sacks in the bakehouse, and he then sat
down and amused himself by playing a flute. While he was
so engaged the prisoner took up the gun and pointed itat his
companion, and almost at the same indent it went off and shot
the boy in the face, the charge carrying away the entire
roof of his mouth, lodging in the brain, and thus causing
instantaneous death. The prisoner appeared overwhelmed
with sorrow at what bad happened, and there was some
Mitfor supposing that the gun went off accidentally ;
all events, it was perfectly deer that the prisoner
had no intention of doing any aenous mischief.
The jury returned a verdict of Not (hilly.
Jan Oretinger, 35, hawker, waa charged with the man
slaughter of Cordelie Covell.
The facts of this came will be fresh in the recollection of
our readers, as they have been given within the last few
days. The prisoner get his living by hawking earthenware
about the country, and the deceased had cohabited with him
fora considerable time. They were in the habit of quar-
relling, and the prisoner frequently made use of violence
towards the deceased, and shortly before the fatal occur-
rence took place, she had left him. This occurred at Croy-
don, and it appeared that he met her at Bexley in company
with another man, and in the course of a quarrel that took
place between them, the prisoner knocked her down, and
inflicted injuries of which she died a few days afterwards.
The prisoner was committed originally upon a charge of
wilful murder, but the grand jury ignored the bill for that
offence and found one for ma=langliter only.
The jury returned a verdict of thailtir, and
The prisoner was senteneedto three years' penal servitude.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.--S 4 ....HREWBBURY, JULY 30.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice Byles.)
FORGERY BY A WOMAN.
Jessie gains, a young woman of 21 years, was charged
with uttering a forged 51. Bank of England note, on the
17th of March last, at Shrewsbury. She was also indicted
for uttering another forged Si. Bank of England note, with
intent to defraud.
Mr. Whateley, Q.C., and Mr. H. James prosecuted;
primmer was not defended.
The prisoner wee found Guilty, and sentenced to three
years' penal servitude.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT. =NsivcAsrm-oN-Tysz,

JULY 30.
Mr. Baron Martin, who took his seat shortly after nine
o'clock, at once proceeded to sentence the absconding re-
lieving officer, Thomas Jenkins, who had pleaded guilty to
stealing a cheque for 751., the moneys of the Newcastle-on-
Tyne Union.
When called upon in the usual way, the prisoner said he
had nothing to say except to refer to his former good cha-
racter. He then banded to his lordship several testimonials
which he had received at various times, testifying to his
good conduct when in the police force of this borough, as
superintendent of the vagrant ward, kc. The prisoner, as
he stood in the box, appeared exceedingly nervous, and his
countenance sunk and careworn.
His Lordship, in passing sentence, referred to the nature
of the case, than which, he said, he could scarcely conceive
a worse. It was the case of a man who had apparently
been trusted for a long time, himself embezzling a sum of
money, absconding to Glasgow, and thence seeking to take
his passage out of the country, in possession of money
which ought to have been honestly applied to the relief of
the poor.
The Prisoner—lt was through drink, my lord.
His Lordship—l shall treat you precisely as I treated a
man at Durham for a similar offence, which is, that I sen-
tence you to fifteen mouths hard labour.
Two running-down rises on the Tyne occupied the re-
mainder of the day, and concluded the business of the
sedan.