The Express.
London, England, 1859-08-23 00:00:00

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At the Bristol polioeocart yesterday Mark Batt,
• master tradesman, and owner of candderable house pro-
m the city, and Remy Bally, a grocer, carrying on
in Newfoundland-street, were charged before the
sitting magistrates, W. Herapath, Robert Clay Barrow' and
0. C. Lane, Requires, with having capitally assaulted Mrs.
Ann Cottle, the wife of • respectable butcher, residing at
HU althea Newfoundland-street. Mr. *yrs appeared for
the prosecution; Mr. Edlin (of the Weaken Circuit)
and Mr. Sherrard appeared foe Bally ; and Kr
Pigeon defended Butt. The ones =dud an unwonted
amount of intend, and the court and Its approaches
were densely crowded. The inquiry occupied nearly
live hours, but the extraordinary facts abetted may he
briefly stated. The complahuuit, Moe. Cottle, has a younger
sister named Perry whose husband keeps the Newmarket
Tavern, in the Hoeriefair, Bristol, and on Monday evening,
the Bth instant, the complainant spent the evening
at her sister's house. Just as they had done sup•
per a pony carriage, belonging to the prisoner Belly, drove
op to the door, and be and the other prisoner Batt got out,
entered the tavern sod called for something to drink. It hap-
pens that Butt is Mr. Cottle's landlord, and Mr. Belly, •
near neighbour and an acquaintance of her husband, end
they both spoke to her end handed bee • glees of beer, which
she drank. They chatted • little time, sad them they
said they were going to drive straight beme, and she had
better get into the carriage and ride with them. She at first
declined, but they Melted her to do so, and se her deter also
urged her to ride she consented. Instead of going straight
home, as they had promised, they turned op Bury-street.
She told them they were not going right, to which ow of
them replied, " We are going to drive you a short distant*
for • little air." They drove her to the Black amnion, where
they induced her to take • glees of brandy and water,
and they subsequently drove to the Bridge Inn, where
they gave bar something more to drink. After that she
remembered no more excepting that she had an indistinct
recollection of being at the Black Hone Inn, West-street,
end seeing • niece of hers there, until the found herself
the next morning on her own bed with the exception of her
shoes and bonnet, in the clothes :ha had worn on Monday.
Her habiliments were soiled and disordered, ant she was very
ill, and had been ill ever since. Other evidence disclosed the
fact that altar leaving the Bleck Horse the ac-
crued drove her to • stable yard belonging to the
prisons Bally, where, she being in a state of
helplessness end =consciousness, and incapable of resistance,
they successively committed the offence charged against them.
The crime was established by the evidence of a policeman,
end dew= address from Mx. Edlin, both prisoners were tally
ennunithrd to take their trial upon the capital barge at the
se= Cilmecestee seises. Mr. Edlin and Mr. Pigeon applied
to have than admitted to bal. The magistrates said they
would receive the application as • notice, and would give it
their beet cossideration. The prisoners, who appeared
were then removed in cue-

greatly ranched at the decision,
tody, the pd. Bally loudly pretesting hie Innocence.