The Express.
London, England, 1859-04-12 00:00:00

T 6141.8 .AT 111 W ZOBI.

The trial of James Stephens, an Irishman, charged
with the poistateg of his wife, was ooze:laded at New York
on the 21Fth ult., having tested eighteen Lay!. Stephan has
toe some time veiled in the upper part of New York, In the
sasployment of as retain carriage seeker, whose goodwill
he had won by his faithful aiteetioe le ide business, and by
his Mike doorman of the religioes duties of the klethediot
lifiscogel Church, of which be was a member. His wife,
also Irish, wee nearly fourteen mans older than himself.
They had lived together la apparent happiness for savant
years, till in two euccessive Yammers two nieces
of hie wife had arrived from Ireland end Amato
members of hie unity. Two rims ago his wife
sickened, and in September died. He followed her to the
grave an apparently sincere mourner, and continued in the
employment of his old mister, trusted as before. Just within
• year after hie wifs's death the brother of the Wean ar-
rived from Ireland and Immediately made anmeault upon
Su
with a pistol it his was arrested,
workshop. He w arrested,
irltml
ilbe coarse of the eternisation it canoe out that ate-
plane wee charged with having made an attempt at violence
apes eau of
she
ogterihaaer !if:btu:l.2g poisoned
Arndsta wife
demAdfoadr
the peeps..
that the body of the wife should be exhumed and anstyead
to molt Lire of them slanders. It was taken up on
the anaivereary of the barbel, and subjected to
what was probably the most garrotting examination in the
history of medico) jurisprudesee. lam afraid to state from
rettelleellea bow may Um, the chemiita stood by to watch
Airsick, of a simple test. Enough to ry that the presence
Memo, In sufloieat quaatities to destroy human IA was
pored Mend • doubt. It was also shown that the pri-
soner bed about that time wellies. a quantity of semile.
On the port of the defence It wee stimephd to be shown that
the meek so bought bad been mad to kill nite,
and that the cheroots of the aims was abandoned.
In both of these positions the dehisce failed, mid the
Jury, after a trial of almost nopeemilinted Welk ems A
this sky of letegthened litigation, tad the Mfeerereeff.
Whom the start met to Icabar the verdict, the was
soomputied by his daughter, a child of eight you who
was eating a cake with the greatest uscososta and who eon.
timed to eat on se the fatal " guilty" fell from the mouth of
the foreman. A motion in arrest of judgment was weds,
" bat I think," writes • sorreepondest, " it will not seed
anythisg. At this time there is a sort .f banging mania
pevalent, end the gallows is refused nothing. There are a
Wigs number of pawns under sentence of death in all parts of
the country. Four gusto be hanged to one bitch at Baltimore
a...milli, having shorty been once reepited,but warned that
=musette. It la eves thought that Mrs. Hartwig, now
sentence of death for husband murder at Albany,
Mk be executed, though the banging of a woman lea very
mum thing in the United States. Three mat were execrated
at New Chimes en the 18th. Poisoelng is getting so mi-
nim that peopWs bomb an becoming Misdeed, as they did
in Hoary VIII.'s time, when Rouse was boiled to death for
that nisi. A cook Is under arrest in New York, euspeeted
of having poisoned the breakfast at a bourdinrhoese on the
24th. Two xenon have died from eating the food, and
others have been very ill."
Monday, the 4th of April, was the day atedgeed for the
trial of Sickles. His mama pressed bard for an sailer day,
bat without sums. They its good lawyers and class ob..
servers of public sentiment, and they know that every day
the trial Is palpated ha day lost to their client in • &Ansa
sense from that in which Tim sometimes lot • day. Could
the trial be postponed until suiumn, Sickles would be con-
tiotel of murder, and probably hanged. As it is, the proba-
bilities an in favour of his acquittal. Some decent people
are yet en his Ode, but is de months he will be abhorred by
all melee the hammering potion of the population. kira
Key, mother of the murdered man, is ray ill. She be/levee
that her sou dial of apoplexy.