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

MAIOE OP ITILIVL NORDEN AGAINST ♦ TORZIGN

OILMAN.

Sillies Garai (22), a Spanish seaman, was 'resigned on
the charge of wilful murder, committed on William Mar-
shall, la Liverpool, on the 2nd April lest. The prisoner
having a vary Imperfect knowledge of the English language,
the Spaniehocesoul in Liverpool woe sworn, acid desired ey
the judge to stand near the peleoner and interpret lite-
rally, and without gloss, the evidenoe deposed to by the wit-
nesses.
Thla case areas from a public-bones quarrel, he
Preston-street, Whitechspel, Liverpool, about 12 o'clock
on the eight in question. Daring the quarrel
the prisoner, who was accompanied by several other
foreigners, conceiving the Englishmen (of whom Marshall
wee one), with whom they were quarrelling, to have offered
some 'malt to himself and his companion*, med. certain
menacing gesticulatioos, putting his hand to his throat, as if
to intimate by his motions, accompanied with broken Euglish,
that be intended to cat some persona amts. The English'
men were in the " mug," where singing was going on; the
foreigners were in the bar, and went out of the how.e a little
before the Englishmen left; the latter having remained from
a little after 8 o'clock until chatting op time. When the
devoted and his ampanions left the public-house they
found the foreignere outside the door, and then,
after brandishing his knife two or three timei, the primes;
inflicted a rowel wound upon Marshall. As soon es the
wound wan inflicted the prisoner was seen throwing a knife
away, which wee afterwards picked op and found oreseseked
la the boot of another of the foreigner*. When the police-
man took the knife out of the toot it win stained with blood.
Mr. Simon and Mr. Deighton appeared foe the prosecu-
tion, and Mr. Aeptnall conducted the defence.
It appeared from the evidences of the surgeon who attended
the deceased on his being taken to the hoepital that the
wowed which caused the death of Marshall wee Inflicted in
the left side of the chest, and was three inches deep. The
surgeon farther said that the wound might have been made
by des knife taken out of the boot of one of the prisoner's
assedmies.
Mr. Aspinall, in his address to the jury, called attention to
the elseractere of tte witnesses cited for the prorpecntkin.

One of them had himself been convicted and iMITIfiBOUId ice
eight menthe ; the others, moat of them mere lads, were
paeans wiao spent their evenings In each places as t' amp,"
amidst all the excitement of music and drink. The learned
counsel further 'Mated Beet he should produce a witness to
Drove that it arse not the prisoner that administered the fatal
blow.
Mary Bowden watt called for the defence. She lived with
her mother, who kept a lodglng-hosee fur sailors in Liver-
pool. Primmer and several other foreignens lodged at her
mother's on the 2nd of April last. The prisoner went out
that night, but loft a bundle of clothes end other thiage.
amen lrhich his knife and 'heath were found after his
on. The knife fonn4 ens a common sailor's knife.
'43,a.',inelge—lie had no knife each as the ass produced
and referred to before ] Ann Collins, who was at the public.
house where the quarrel was commenced, left the hones with
the prieoner end smother foreigner. When they got
outside, els saw a man not the prisoner take a toile from
hie aide, and stab the prisoner, who fell a short time after the
stabbing took place. She paw the man who had oommitted
the deed first walk and then run away, the prisoner (at that
tune having hie jscoet over his shoulder) remaining near
her. She saw the knife after it waa picked up, and they said,
tt Hews the butte! twee the Wier
The case wee proceeding whoa sir parosi woo despatched.