The Express.
London, England, 1860-10-12 00:00:00

Apia xx 4.11 BEWCABTLII.

• DECLARATION AND 00101ITTAL OF LOCKET.
Laeoll WedAretday • special sitting of magistrates
held le theOwarLhowes, Cheeter-reet, when of
Deebey wee beeteshi up charged with the mud.: of
Thomas Henkel; at tirpeth out the eight of the 29th
his wife.
oh, sad with Invite at the lame time attempted to muster

Tiss---magistrates on the bench were—Major Johnson
Pdadeutan), H. R. Webster, Fag., and the Rev. J. H Shep-
=Mime! Whits, chief- constable of the county of
and Superintendent Squire of the county constabn.
fiery, were also present.
Ica aanimpaamas of the anticipated matinee of the murderer
there wee more than the usual excitement, and the court
was crowded throughout the p The prisoner,
who is 58 7ears of age, is five feet five Dial. in bright ;he
is wall-built and ranscidar, evidently ame et pad
and, from all reports, he is certainly a man of peat
activity. He haa the reutation of being endow with
practical talents of a highly reepeetehls character ; and as •
workman he was, it is said, capable of performing any sort
of labour shout a coed-pit. Wonderful stories are told of
his feats se an athlete of runnings, leapings, and so forth,
of an extraordinary description ; and although he occs-
'loudly indulged in strong drink, he bore by no means the
character of an unsteady man. His face indicates great
nerve and resolution. The features are prominent, and by
no means disagreeable in their expression. The brow is of
considerable breadth, but recedes rapidly at the top.
He is partially held, and his hair, which has at one period
been a light brown, is now sprinkled with grey. The eyes
are mull, grey, and restless ; the latter peculiarity in those
organs would no doubt be aggravated by the mmtal excite-
ment which one in the position of Lockey must of necessity
have been under. The expression of the mouth is firm ; the
chin is long, and sharp at the lower part ; the whiskere busby,
and meeting under the chin. The diem he wore on the
night of the murder was in the possession of the pollee, and
he was dressed on Wednesday in a black shooting jacket,
light moleskin trousers, and a brownish grey tweed vest.
During the entire proceedings he stood in the dock
guarded by policemen, his hands, in which wan
a black worsted cap, nervously peeping the Toile before
him. He seemed to pay the closest attention to the
evidence, but declined asking any questions of the wit-
nesses, with the exception of his wife. At the close of the
examination of that poor woman he asked if she had
not asbd a sovereign from him on. the occasion of his
visit to her a fortnight previous to the night of the mur-
der, and whether, at that time, she had not said she
would think over his proporl of their spin living toge-
ther before he amp back? Mrs. Locke) eadessed she
had asked the sovereign from him' as he had promised
her one. but answered his second question in the nega-
tive. The production of the knife with which the
crime was perpetrated, still showing stains of blood, of
the bloody shirt of the unfortunate Hstrison, of
the blood-stained clothing worn by Mrs. Lockey
on the night of the murder, and of the
clothes worn by Lackey himself on the occasion
a decent suit of black, but rendered horrible by
stains and blotches of blood—produced a great sensa-
tion among the spectators. So also did the examination
of Mrs. Lackey ; and indeed so painful at one stage of her
examination was the impression produced, that one man
actually fainted, sod had to be carried out of the court. '
In giving her evidence, a repetition of that which has
already appeared in our columns, Mrs. Lockey was at
times considerably agitated, and the poor woman is still
suffering end weak from the injuries she has sustained.
Themes was conductedfor the prosecution by Mr. Theodore
Hoyle, of Newcastle, and the wittiness examined were Mrs.
Lackey, Samuel Wilson, son of Mrs Lackey by her former
husbaud, an intelligent looking boy, 11 years of age ;
Edward Hart and John Wright, binds on the ' Farm ;
Samuel Robinson, sergeant to the police; P.C. •
Frances Oughtou, miner, from Pity-ere ; Mr. John Nowbresi
Hudson surgeon, Chester-le-Street • and Robert Cloulsoa,
miner, from Lessiegthorne. The 'evidence of all the wit-
nesses, with the nevem° of the Labsamed one, has alre•dy
been given at length. That tendered by Coulson was as
fellows :

I have known the prisoner for some time. I are
a pitman. I worked with him about • month since
id Leasingthorne Colliery. I had frequent converse-
' tie= with him regarding his wife. He used threats often
with regard to her. He was jealous of the miller at first,
and at the latter end of the mom weeks that I worked with
him he said that "she had taken • old bailiff to live
with her, and that if she did not live with him she would
live with no one else." He doubted it would be a bad
job, and said if he cached him he would coup their
heels up.
By the Beach—When he had those conversations within'
ha
_was not excited or drunk. _

tallMYM;:fic;il;:tate; he left I never saw anything of him
to-day.
At the close of the evidence foe the prosecution, the chair-
man (Major Johnson) addressed the prisoner, and produced
some amusement by addressing him as Milner Gibson. He
mid that if he had any statement to make it was now the
time to do no. He warned Lim that earl he might my
might be used as evidence against him em smother occasion,
but that he need make nostatement nukes he liked. He (the
chairman) would indeed recommend him to reserve his
statement ; but, at the same time, the beach would
her him if he had anything to my, and what he dad my
would be written down.

The prisoner preferred making his statement, sad proceeded
to do so in nearly the following terms r—The Ant time 1
saw her after our separation we were very kind. I went to
the house about nine o'clock at night sad stopped till titres
in the morning. A fortnight after' whoa I Gaut saw her,
she was all the other way. She didn't ken was, and she
asked what I was doing there. We est up till 11 o'clock.
The wean Bonbon was there and sib M 7 wife told hint
two or three times to go to bed, but he did not go. About
11 o'clock she went up stairs. I followed her, sad ahe aged
when I was going. I mid lam going we thou. She lay
down between the two boys. It was not a bed, but two mat-
Inns* laid side by side on the floor. There was no room for
me, and 1 lay down by the side on the baud'. I got cold nod
weeded to get in beside them, when she got up and wee*
down stars. 1 then lay down with the boys. I said it was
bald for • man, after coming nineteen miles across the
to have to lie on boards and the other man in a good
Cd7frf raid she might have coutrived differently. She
said be paid far Ida bed. I said I could pay for mine. I had
• sovereign. Next morning she never. spoke to me, but Mr.
}Unison was eve7thing. She did give me • cup of coffee.
I skipped till 11 o clock. I thought I would not trouble
them farm y dinner, and I askedherif she would gun and set
me • bit. She went with me about fifty yards, and said,
" New, Lackey, ar't gars to give me that sovereign r
said, "Aye hinny on conditions. If thou'll live with me
swan thou shall Ime't." She said she would consider by
seat fortnight. I stopped with my son tin Monday morning,
and went back to my work at Leasiogthorne. I was at my
work about a week, when I got a letter saying she had
bees drinking at l'elton on the Meador I left. I
was weir put about when I beard on't. When 1 came
home List time on the 29th, to my peat amazement she
was lying on the bed with the man. [Mrs. Luckey : "Oh,
?mall She oame off the bed when I went in, and I says,
Now, hinny, bow art thou?" She said, " Middling."
I said, " Thou'rt going on bravely here. D—n yeti. blood,
Pte • goat mind to kill you both." I was almost and,
and I pulled nut the knife. I stabbed her and then I
stabbed him. That's all I have to say.
On the above declaration being read to the prisoner, and
laid before him for signature the prisoner stepped briskly
op to the table, avdedhibited his name in a bold, font
Band, remarking that he would have been all the better of
his spectacles. On having been formally committed to stand
his trial at the next arises, he was removed from the dock,
and lodged in Durham Gaol. We understand that he is to
be watched in his cell, as fears are entertained that he will
make an attempt to destroy himself. A sou and a son.in.
law of the murdered maa were in court during the pro.
ceedinge.