The Express.
London, England, 1867-02-28 00:00:00

(Before the Recorder.)

Replied Cioeci, 50, described as a marble merchant,
Antonio Ga/lions, 36, shoemaker, and Madhir Decola,
36, engineer, were indicted for feloniously breaking and
entering the dwelling house of John Votieri, and stealing
therein 130 precious stones, known as onyx stones, his
property. The prisoners allioni and Decola pleaded
guilty. The prisoner (,Mucci pleaded not guilty and was
put upon his trial.
Mr. Metcalfe, with whom was Mr. Straight, conducted !
the prosecution, instructed by Messrs. Wontner ; Mr.
Serjeant Ballantine (specially retained) and Mr. Montagu
Williams (supported by Mr. Willis) defended the prisoner.
It may be remembered from the reports which have
already been published of the police-court examination of I
the prisoners that the prosecutor is a dealer in precious
stones residing at 24, Park-street, Islington, and was also
executor and trustee under the will of the father of the
prisoner Ciooci's wife, who was entitled to some prorrty
under her father's will. About this • claim had been
made by the prisoner and resisted by the prosecutor, and
it seemed from the opening statement of Mr. Metcalfe
that the prisoner conceived the notion of possessing him-
self of some of the property which he knew to be
deposited in the house of the prosecutor. For this pur-
pose it was alleged that he engaged the services of a man
named D'Angelis, who retained the assistance of the two
prisoners who had pleaded guilty. It would appear that
all the ies were constantly seen together up to the
part
night of- the robbery, and that the three prisoners, with
D'Angelis, went together to the house. The prisoner
ejecta remained outside, and the other three men entered,
and having gagged the servant boy, Gallioni and Decola
began their search for the property, when D'Angelis, who
bad been secretly in communication with the police, by
signal called them in, and Gallioni and Decolawere taken
into custody on the spot.
The jury, after an absence of upwards of an hour, re-
turned into court with a verdict of Guilty.
Mr. Montagu Williams handed up to the Recorder •
number of testimonials, including one from the Earl of
Shaftesbury, to the character of the prisoner Ciooci, and
the learned counsel added that the other two prisoners
were anxious that his lordship should also peruse the
written statements they had prepared.
The Recorder said he had read the statements made be-
fore the magistrate by the prisoners Gallione and Decola,
and though those statements could not be presented to the
jury, yet he might now ray after the verdict had been
pronounced that those statements so made fully confirmed
all that had been sworn to by the witness D'Angeles. He
would take with him all the documents and read them be-
fore passing sentence.
The sentence on the three prisoners was accordingly
deferred, and they were removed from the bar.

(Before the Common Serjeant.)
Janes Bradshaw was indicted for obtaining by false
pretences 110,000 bricks, with intent to defraud Mr. Reed,
a gentleman residing at Whittlesey. Cambridgeshire.
Mr. Begley prosecuted, and Mr. Warner Sleigh defended
the prisoner.
The prisoner, who was proved in the amuse of the trial
to be one of a gang known as "Long firm," of the Bristowe
gang, and who, under the name of Browning, had been
waiter at the notorious Bristowe Coffee-shop, in Duke-
street, Tooley-street, issued cards under the firm of
Bradshaw and Company, having whames on the Regent's
Canal, and at Bell-wharf, Bow, obtained the bricks from
the prosecutor on giving two references, which tinned out
to be subterfuges, and that the referees were unknown,
their premises having been taken one week and vacated
the next, without notice and without payment of rent.
. .

The jury, without hesitation, pronounced • verdict of
Guilty, and
The Common Serjeant sentenced the prisoner to be kept
in penal servitude for the term of live years.

NEW REGULATIONS AT THE JUDGES' CHAMBERS.
—To-morrow, Lord Chief Justice Cockburn will commence
his sittings at the Judges' Chambers, when a number of
regulations for transacting business will be strictly observed
until further notice. The acknowledgment of deeds to be
taken at ball-past ten, and counsel at half-past one,
o'clock. Stamps are to be affixed to all documents
requiring the same, or the eases will not be heard.
SHOPKINO CASE OP MURDER AND ATTEMPTED
StICIDIL—Jane McCarthy, 32 years of age, lodging at 10,
Shap-street, Pearson-street, }Unitsland.road, with her
two children, a hoy aged 4 and a girl of 2 years, had been
for six months past receiving relief of 2s. 6d. and four
loaves weekly from the parish of Shoreditch Recently
the term for which such assistance was granted expired,
and on Monday last the mother made application to Mr.
Samuel Andrew'', the relieving officer, fur • renewal of
the ticket, at the same time stating that neither herself or
children were well. Mr. Andrews promised to call at
her lodging, and did so the same day ; the mother was
then in bed and the children lying at her feet. There was
no complaint of food being required, and thinking that
probably a little wine in the shape of nourish-
ment was the best thing to administer, he gave
instructions for the supply of • half-pint of
port. On the following .lay, between four and live o'clock,
he again went to the lodging, and saw the mother lying
on the bed with four wounds in her throat, but not dead,
while the youngest child was lying by her side with its
throat cut from ear to ear, and this apparently for be-
tween two and three hours: • black-handled razor in a
large quantity of blood was also found on the bed. Doctor
Buley, of thy Kingsland-road, and the assistant of Dr.
Wallace, of the Hackney-road, were quickly at the house.
The woman rallied under their attention, but became so
violent that it was requisite to place a strait-waistcoat
on her, as she made repeated attempts to do herself further
injury. A nurse and every possible aid haring been rendered
by Mr. Andrews, he left until 12 o'clock at night, when
the murdered child and the other, who was yet lying at
its mother's feet, were removed to the workhouse. Very
slight hope is entertained of the woman's recovery. Her
husband some months since was convicted of feloniously
stealing, or receiving. • large quantity of gotta percha,
and is now undergoing 12 months' imprisonment for that
offence.

JUKTICES' JI7MTICI IN NORTHASI PTONSHIRE.
At the Middleton Cheney petty sessions on Monday, the
25th, a middle-aged farm labourer, named William Peck-
over, in receipt of 10a. a week, from which had to be de-
ducted Is. which he pays for rent, was summoned before
the Rev. F. Litchfield and Mr. T. B. Cartwright, on the
ground that he, being possessed of " sufficient means," did
not contribute to the maintenance of his father. Evidence
of the chargeability having been given, the defendant was
ordered to pay half-a-crown a week. George Wade, fifty-
nine years of age, and William Wade, his brother, were
also summoned on a like charge. The relieving officer
deposed that the father in in receipt of 2a. 3d. weekly
and two loaves, making altogether a cost of 3s. 31. ; and
as it was shown that George was in receipt of 12s. a week,
and only paid Gd. a week rental, whilst William wax only
in receipt of 10s. a week and paid Is. a week for rent, the
full amount allowed by the guardians was ordered to be
divided between them in the following proportions:
George to pay :ht. 3d. a week. and his brother ls. M. But
perhaps the hardest case of all was that of John Mayo, a
stonebreaker on the roads, earning Its. a week, and 63
years of age, paying Is. a week rental, who wax onlered to
pay Is. Gd. a week towards the maintenance of his father,
93 years of age.

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tatEd T WESTERN AND BRENTJTOAD BAILWAT.

The ordinary half-yearly meeting was held yes-
terday at the offices of the company, Victoria-street,
Westminster ; Mr. P. DAVIT in the chair.
Mr. ELET, the secretary, read the report. It stated
that during the half-year a further increase in the coal
trade had taken place, the tonnage for the last half-year
showing an increase of 29,000 tons, as compared with the
corresponding period of 1865. At the same time the trade
in general goods had diminished from 53,315 tons in the
half-year ending Dec. 1865, to 49,495 tons in the cones.
pending six months of 1866. Debentures to a compara-
tively small amount would fall due during the current
half-year, and the directors invited the shareholder, to take
them up, since the rental guaranteed by the Great
Western Railway Company rendered them a first-class
security. The net revenue admitted of the payment of
the preference dividends, together with one at the rate
of two and a quarter per cent. per annum on the ordinary
share capital. The directors and company had to lament
the decease of Mr. H. G. Day, for many years the deputy
chairman of the company.
The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report,
referred with satisfaction to the increase of the coal
traffic. This trade from South Wales to London was now
about exclusively carried by rail, and was rapidly in.
creasing. Indeed, owing to the facilities of transit Welsh
steam coals were now very little higher in price than the
Nor kb country steam coals, and were in fact moreeconomicd,
as it was computed that 100 tons of Welsh would raise as
much steam as 115 tons of Northern coal. In addition,
they possessed the great advantage of not producing
smoke, which enabled them to be used in situations where
steam engines could not otherwise be erected. With re.
gard to the debentures, be observed that they had a
minimum guaranteed income for 99 years of upwards of
6,000/„ besides the tollage upon stones, coals, ice., and had
only about 55,000/. of debentures, the interest of which
was the first charge on the guaranteed income. After
alluding in touching terms to the loss sustained by the
death o their valued colleague, Mr. Day, the chairman
concluded by moving the adoption of the report and ac-
counts.
Mr. Ponce seconded.

The Secerrtiiv stated th►t the annual amount charge.
able to the Great Western Company bad goes on gradually
increasing from 6,3437. in 1860 to 8,055 i. Last year ; so that
the debenture interest, which amounted to about 2,7004
• year, was really a first charge on over 9,0001., instead of
' the minimum of 6,000 f. guaranteed by the Great Western.
The motion wan unanimously agreed to.
The usual formal business as to the dividends, election
of retiring officers and directors, wan then transacted, and
Mr. H. Browse having been elected a director in plata, of
the late Mr. Day, the proceedings were brought to a close
with she customary vote to the chairman and the board for
their continued exertions on behalf of the company.