The Express.
London, England, 1859-12-06 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

NORFOLK CIRCUIT.—NoawtcH, Dn. 5.
CROWN COUlT.—(l3s(Oee Mr. Justice Crompton.)
The business to both the oity and county jurisdictions was
premeded with this morning. The tomer woo soon disposed
of, sad presented no Swarm of ;Olio interest.
In charging the county grand Norfolk ustice Crompton
said he was sorry to observe in the calendar, es in
some of the nildlead 000ntim so many Wetmore of that
nalachieroas crime, arson. In all mass wham this serians
ott-sca was clearly marls out it must be remand with
strong hand.
Samuel Dickerson and George Omen Mrs Merged with
folouionely shoorMg at and woondiag John Bookie,
keeper on Lard Waglierris estate at Mara" with La=
to murder him.

Yr. W. Cooper sad Yr. Drake appeared for the proeeca•
don • sod Kr. Rome Icor the deasee.

TGe ce;ses openeilithe learned otemsel for the prose-
cution war one of • mime character, the gun by which the
gamekeeper was shot being Arad, ea alleged, by Dickerson
when the parties were within • few yards armed ether, while
Crowe threw a stone at him. The keeper we edooely
wounded, receiving no lies than 100 meal shot is the peke,
and was for some time in *dangerous end dashes' Meth •
great many minute circumstances were stated to show that
Dickerson end Crowe were walking together in the neigh-
bourhood of the spot where the occurrence took piece, the
firmer being observed by one person with •gun perelelly
concealed under his coat. This gas it or he had
obtained tar poaching purposes from Crow, sod It wee
sought to be shown that • similar vuspon wee afterwards
bond cemeseled in • haystack nest • lows. The per-
des wen apprehended the same evening, end on the following
ley en esemineekin was math of the footmarks observed near
the plea whim the gar was fired, the remit being that they
merespeaded with imprreskos mode by boom found Is
Dickeremie house. A pair of boots observed to have been
went be Crows on the day in question could not afterwards
be_done4. . .

—Yin. Reeve submitted that even amenzoing that the ciranut-
Maas as stated were proved maim Dickman, they could
net be taken to implicate Crows.
Yr. Juana Crompton, minting, said he thought it might
be seemed that the sot of throwing the stone was =-
and did not indicate an intention to inflict co
the keeper the injtuy charged in the indictment.
By the direction of his lordship Crows was mordingly
Acquittal, end the cm spinet Dickerson erne thin gone
intot _

The exaostoatkes of witnesses to es of the statement
of the leaned comma for the pioeeeatlea wee belag pro-
ceeded with when oor paroel wee despatched.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.—RTAFFORD, Dac. 6.
The outesimios for the winter manse for this nasty was
rbare on Saturday by Kr. Juana Wilke. To-day
elme learned judge needed at the trial of the primes's,
who numbered thirtyetz.
2heauss Bouwt, 24, labourer, wee smeigsed for hkelonely
mahang aad killiad at
maw lisof Asian, the perish of
Debbiagtea. a Oast, report, et Jetta Jordan.
The primes' was is the Genies of the prcesoator into I. a
Illstor. The bens wee peateeteg la toe of the pressontres
meadows, sad wee ado at 4 la the abeam prearding the
day of the offence. bet at 6 cm an amandag ft ins found
dg from the effects of mei berrffile trutslity. The
prisoner wee arrested the same day ia a bean-
and said he abeeht not have dime It Vlt bad are berm
for the drink. • Inge clop boil., hanag blood wed horse-
hair upon it, was head la his roast, and blood was epee him
doer • pest-mansea siamlosi we of the body of tbe salmi
showed that the Annie bed an bees reaflesd to the more
I act of sromam het Chet the force which wee employed to
do this was of WI salshat to maim the
The jary heed the Omer
The prossonor and he bad lost four other hones In a
similar way, without big Mk to diatom the offender.
The primate was to suse years' penal me-
hais.