The Express.
London, England, 1858-04-07 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 7, 1858.

artst Casteehary it was lire Smith who proposed to so oa
to Whitstable. Whew they attired at WhiUttabhi Iss went
a walk with Mrs. Smith. They did riot ratans to Caatartau7,
bat stayed at Whitstable all sight.
Mr. Haddliaton—liad you any Worm:rot with bar at
Whitatabk t_

it-riser-11 &Mule newer the Troths.
Mr. liteidleetea said he was quite eatudted with the
llMir.

Whim eitatiamsd—Hs had said ho wouki marry her at
the tad vi serer if she would have molting MOTO to do
whit her htt ud. Ho might have said so st-Whitatable.
Ills was ht September. Afterwards sat her la London.
She wait down with him once to We bare et Heirisy to tea.
Ms father sad mother wen prageat Deelleed to wwer
whether he bed shot with her la Leaks.
Bet-easeshg—He would bays motet her, if he thought
she wee ad mealed to Mr. Smith.

, •
Mr. soak ratteramater at trey knew the male pet.
miser kr baying eta blot werenl titre when his father
' wee Tiered Sedirry, an ailleinieg pariah. He menembered the
mss grin woke is the emielest of the 3rd of Fernery.
When M arrived, • pater when he spoke to, believing him
to be Mr. Smith, want met et the gate end give up his
ticket. The prosecute" mu roe there with a lady in black,
and they proposed to go over the emmaca. He tried to per-
suade them to go sham the road. The ether pros, whom
he bed take for Mr. Smith, also rid he wee going to Wee-
terielgh, which is raw over the ourria. About this time the
train prod without stepping at Yate. Heard •
epees train
of rotor, followed by • arab, as if • pan wee
broken. Sent two porters, Tilley and Heaven, sad follow-
ing them found Mr. Leech being held up by one of the mm,
end new a man and woman going of Received from one
of the ass a loaded six-barrel revolver, capped. (The
weep= was produced and laid upon the table.) There was
• fox cover In the direction in which they were going.
Croes•examined—There is a pellet or wad (red in leading
the pistol) so placed under the hammer se to prevent it falling
as the nipppile without design. It was in that state when the
pistol was ekod up.
Charm Hearn, lbenies of the plate-layers at Yale sta-
lion,hsard the ery ken the station and the crash described
by Mr. Wok, and went midi • leaner to the spot. Found
two Freer on the peat The or underneath appeared
to be the Oar" Soma' Smith. Then was blood on both
arms. The ram was about 16 yards distant, and she
airs up and tried to pa Kr. Leach off the prisoner. Two
other persona three= rep Leech was raised, sad the one
seder got up sad mearibill about on the ground with his
bend and foot. Mr. Lark said, " Hold the man, for he has
nearly killd ma" On which the other man mid, The
Bret men that miser re I'll blow hie brains ' rid he
and the woman lam war off towards WrOrWgb. Wit-
ness raked up the phial does to the spot whir he found the
stro'sggling Mother. All the ern chambers of the pis-
tol had wim dree..
Homy My anolisralled pedlar at the evidence of the
two moan witemers. Mar Mr. Leash sad the lady
with lira gem es dr • third &Sowed. That
Yr re prkeent . Wires him.) He ram about
yr& [
Ibrind- Mom H. Irid his head tether down-
When dray was bead ea the nausea, and vit-
ae= went to the fp* he shred ere of Oboe had • stick in
his hand. Wirer atimared le lake to, bat did mot succeed.
The same pence ends • no elk Br eurrlttag ea the greed.
[Witness here identified the Ben. peroner.] Maw ler go
away with the male prisoner, prier is whisk the bar
picked up a= ken the
Mr. Wm. et Tar, rardered re-
* Mr. sad Mr. Smitheraie who anived
by the goad Ida ea the sight lithe MI shniery. Had
the cries of" aiterwards, sad ad Nada pieta d
up a widow's akar 200 or 300 yards Iran the get
where the iiruab was described to him es have taken plan
There Is se ewe of the arm at bears living at Wapley, bat
there is • Airily of that mere at Yale.
Serosramimed—Mr. Smith's tether wee vicar of Chipping
o=
arrest to the primmer on the 3rd of
Februnry hies, depord—On that day they were at home
at to Mirn went or between Ave and six o'clock, and I
rte rem spin nest mmminrt. Before he went out my
master end re I was to go to bad at ten o'clock ; that he
was gang ont and did sot know what tine he should re-
turn. Thin la • latch key to the door, which my master
keeps. Bekaa they went out my master and mirror sp-
Leamd to be on good terms together. They menied very
together for two or three days or a week before. Be-
-17.7•1mm they did not lire so happily together as at this time.
There bad been a change within shout a month. Did not
her them come home in the night. It was not an marl
thing foe my master end mistress to go out together ea an
evening.
Emma Warner, sures at Mr. Smith's up to this day, de-
prod that on the evening of the 3rd February her master and
mirror went or
re=ber after tea, between Sr and sr
o'clock. Oa the day she had bred her many say
to her aeries, Yen rid I have ea invitation eat &mot-
row sight" lt was not very ohm that her master and mine
&se west sat rgethisr. This whams else had seared, Mks
her bilaw-ervaat, that her realer sad mistress wen a great
deal Mader to ark other then easel. Before her mistress
west eat, on the ad Feiraery, she told the children she was
going at le tea. They asked her where she wee going, bat
she did sot say. When she ordered tea one of the children
asked her why dr wee ring to have tea, sad she answered
that they resates where they were going to visit) would
tot bre tea(
till S o'clock. The Autry was in isourning at
that time. Os the evening that she went ant witness new
her sew a piece of craps ore the veil. She then pat it on,
and asked rases If she could see her fees much through it.
Wirers serwered, " No." Her master told her to go to bed
at 10 deka, their usual hour, sad le take the baby with
her to his bee until be cur hour Her master
that night wore a blue flannel shirt and black
neck tie. Had never .see her meaner wear theme things be-
fore. About half-past one o'clock in the morning Mrs. Smith
oars rats, and told her to go to her own room. Her egress
dm trussed down stairs and immediately returned, telling
bar to Irwin • little longer. Wittier then heard the foot-
step el Mr. Smith go up to the room above, where the bath
wee, sad aftcrwarda come down again. Her mistress than
told her to go up to her own room. She went up, and the
reek then struck two. Next morning she went to her
mitattr's room to deem the children. Her master and mistress
were then in bed. Saw her mistress's petticoats, and noticed
that they were very dirty, se if the weenie had been walking
in the dirt. The children remarked, " Mama, how dirty you
have got your petticoats." Also noticed her minter's trousers
were very dirty. On the Saturday afternoon wither went
to the bath-room to weak the children, and new her master's
eat wet, as if it had been pat into the water. This was Iwo
days alter the morning on which they came home. There
wee also dirty water in the bath. Oa the day after they went
ern to lea leer mistress washed her petticoat and handker-
WO, three towels, and her master's miler, neck
ba tie,
sad liendharchief. This was the lest time witness had knowa
r wash.

Chides Gala, cooper, of Wkkwar, proved that at about
half-put sine on the evening of the 3rd of February the pri-
mers came to his house—(witness identified them)—which
was her mikes and a half from Yate, further from Bristol.
The male pima? maid he wanted • conveyance to Bristol,
and that he had bees attacked by two men. Smith had •
mod in his heed which had marks of blood upon It. Asked
ham bow he got off so sadly, end ha replied that he got off
without a scratch. Witness smewered, " Not without a
snatch, I believe, dr," and he wiped the blood off his fete.
Ha said he bed secured two stones, being in • lonely place,
sad whea one of the men came up ha east ousts( the stones
at hint and be made off ; that the other seised his, they had
• end he full back with the other on the top at him ;
that h• dna " paused " hie head with the other stone.
Witness offered to go for the patios, but Mr. Smith replied
that as he had come off so wel he did not care about it, and
that it would only locur additional impetus. The woman
stood by all the ttrne, and said she never saw such a scene in
her Ida Mr. Smith mid if he had had • pistol he would es
eons hams shot hie assailant as • Sax.

Elizabeth Franklin corroborated the lad wiener's testi-
WM,. Mr. Smith gave his name " Henry Johnson," of
No. 7, Wilson-dreet, St. Paul's, Bristol.
Thomas Webb proved that on the night of February 3rd he
drove a lady and gentleman from Wick war to Bristol. He
use them down at the Whits Hart, Old Market, when be
arrived about I o'clock in the morning.
Mr. Ober Limitary, bookseller, of Park-street, Bristol,
produced a card, which was brought to his shop on the 25th
of January by aby named Lock. He believed the baud-
unities to be Mr. Braith's. On the card was the following
—" M. 8., Mr. Lsabury'e, Park-•tenet, Bristol." Received
three letters in one day. Some bad the initials, " M. 5.,"
and some "8.M." These three letters were given to the boy
Lack, who is a pupil of Mr. Smith. One of the Idlers wee
addressed to Mr. Smith at length. Sent up some other leder
to Mr. Smith, with this Metals.

Gerard May Lock was, in January and February lest, •
ITSof Mr. Smith. Remembered taking the card referred
Mr. Lesbury. It was on the day of the marriage of
the risme Royal. By Mr. Smith's directions I told Mr.
Leal:try that letters received with that address were to be
kept ter Mr. Smith. In • few days after, on • Saturday, be
Wird spin at Mr. Leabary'a and received three letter.
One was addreord totter Rev. Samuel Smith. one to" 5.M.,"
sot oft to "11.8." Gave them an to Mrs. Smith, wbo kept
the orms eddreeved to the Rev. S. Smith, and gave the two
earn to Gee of the pupils to take to Mr Smith.
Robert Neville, assistant to Mr. Gibbs, gunsmith, Bristol,
&awed that on the 29th of January, about seven o'clock in
W evening, the male parasite tame to his employer'. shop,
and asked to look at rime He looked at several and
west away, but on the gad of Fairport, the day before the
attack on Mr. Leech, be came again, and bought • 6-barrel
revolver, which, at his request, witness loaded with powder
tad ball, sad plead a pellet seder the hammier, which would
pewee! it Mktg on the nipple. Witness made out an in-
voke of the oracle, sad, on asking the name, be gave one
which wittier, thought yea " Hicks," but, at all events, it
was not Smith. Wieners, noticing his clerical dress, asked
him if be should say 'Reverend," and he answered,
" Oh, no."

Mr. Lannon river, of Chipping Loot bury, who was
caned la to see Iffr. Look cia the might of the lird of February,
demeibed the arm no of the wawa& fie had lost a gnat
*al of blood bra the wounds as the bad. Attended him
**ht days, when be was sufficiently recovered to remove.
Heard he was er ea the Friday, both wrath haring been
menet as Wedirriley sight. The wound. were not of a
damp are elmraelle.
Mem= firlacirin produced the parcel of Mr. Leach's
*Yr whir he led in the attook, and whir ware found
ta Mr. Smith's wardrobe. They were identified by Mr.

Pogo e Sergeant Rumen proved that when he sppreheaded
the primmer, Mr. Smith said to hie wib, " Whitener goer
lane they ask you, make no reply."
Shia wee the case for the proercation.

The Bev. Mr. 801,6 thee made a meet telling and im-
On:eddrees to the wort, raiding from notes which be
his hand. His statement was pwhaps the most es-
treordinary ewer made la a coast of Justice. He acid he
shined have pi tell them of his folly sad his shame, but he
solemnly seared them that what he was about to tell them
wee • clear end true statement of the circumstances which
had brought him into that position. After a powerful appeal
to the feelings of his lordship and the jury be with
his narrative. In fluptember, 1848, ho said he first saw his
present wife, that limb Mille, and ihil is love with bee.
Bhe wee them abstain perm of ego, the daughter of
mall Lose la Leal, living la Lyles at Swan and Edgar's.
He had net lima hot LPL! Lea at Cambridge, but it was
speed that they &veld be tassels as woes. as he could afford
it. His &thee, although view el illedbury, had • large
family, sad therefore could net win him • and from his
sixteenth yaw he had maintained himself by Lacking. He
married Leh Mills, in July, 1849, at St. Ponces' Church,
London, and they spent a fortnight at his wife's father's, is
Heat. Subsequently, he obtained a mooed mastership of
Bishops' College, Bristol, with 1081. a year, and left his wile
in London for • time, until he could make arranxements for
her reception. Subsequently she came 0 live with him ; his
circumstances improved ; they took In some boarders; and
he gave up the Bishops' College, and wan getting an income
of 4001. a year, when the terrible disclosure came upon him
which had blasted all his happiness. He wee very fond of
his dear wife and children, of whom he had four. Bat he
had frequently observed her melancholy, and she had Elo-
quently wept upon his bosom, declaring that she yea
unworthy of his kindness. At length, an the 22ad
of January last, he having remarked on her me-
lancholy, she told him she had something on
her mind which calmed It. The rev. prisoner then
in impressive languore desaibed the stew between himself
and his wife, when she, heeding at his het, acknowledged
that she had been unfaithful to him since their '
that daring his absence from her at Bristol her mind had
poisoned by Leach—that she had been persuaded he had
forsaken bar, and Leach wrote =prom* his sorrow for her
foriont condition, and begging for an interview—that they
met at Canterbury, and proceeded thence by rail to
Whitstable, avow by two relatives of Mrs. Smith—
that they sat until the train was lost, which be
imputed to the design of Leach, sad that the two companions
of Mrs. &Mil went to bed leaving them together—that then
the diet adaltery took plane between them, which wad
repasts& is Lon. His wife also told him that Leach had
peo teen at y her the end of seven years. Re they
describedrma the state of mind which Attie had thrown him
foto, sad on which he had made • resolve to
administer a chastisement to him, sad he had re-
solved that the retaliation should be after the manner of
the seduction. Leach had travelled to Canterbury for hie
emu lust; and he (Mr. Smith) resolved he should travel to
Tate for hie chastisement. He had therefore directed his
wife to writs the letters (which he himself had ooncocted);
he had pleased the widow's weeds and the journey to Tate ;
and his wife had implicitly obeyed him, acting under the
promise which he made to her that he would do him no
serious harm. He then dosoribed the facts of the attack
' exactly as they hed been detailed by the witnesses, and de-
clared that he. had no Intention to um the revolver, but he
took it with him for the purpose of protecting himself by
threatening to use it in owe Lack should threatea him
the knife. He thought the Ira wiles* erickaansee was
known to his own cone:Lae would take the beating quietly.
He concluded with • ibrethie appal to the jury, acknow-
ledging be had treaagremead the law, but appealing to them
on the wore of feeling.
' Mr. Huddleston thee proceeded to address the jury on
behalf of the female prisoner whom he described as the
victim of the seducer (Leech), when but • child of 16 or 17
Cr. After her marriage the prosecutor had still pursued
,saad would not allow her to take a respootable position
in life. He found her out when she was staying with her
friends in Kent, and, though it pimeed him to decline to
answer the question, the jury could not for • moment doubt
' that he had committed the crime of adultery with the your
woman. At that very time he knew she was a
wsmau, for he admitted that he had addressed a letter
to her in her married name; and the fact that be pro-
mised her, If she would live with him, he would marry
her In seven years showed the same. It was all very
wall for the prosecutor to enjoy the immunity of the
winsome-box, while the primmer's mouth was closed
In the 'ileum of the dock ; but the politicos of
the prisoners was preferable to the infamy of that
awho did not dare to deny his guilt, because there were
In that bonne at Whitstable who could have maitre-
him. The learned counsel preceeded to coated that
the male prisoner never intended to murder the prosecutor,
for if he had done so he could have dam it without &Soul_ ry.
At the meet, his offers,* only amounted to unlawfully
wounding, as there was nothing to show that he Intended
to lallice grievous bodily harm, oe to do more than give
thizarasseutor a rood thrashing. With respect to the
prisoner, the learned counsel observed that the
law presented that In • cue of this sort the wife was
acting under the coercion of her husband, though that fact
alight be rebutted if she was found acting alone. He then
ocoszoisted cm the facts of the case, to show that in writing
the letters sad in everything she did she was acting under
the authority, end even in the eyesight of her husband, and
upon that woad he contended she was entitled to ac-
quittal. The hams& oatmeal concluded by easing that he
asked solidus from mercy, bat be believed the jury would
166111= 6" Minas'; sod 18 called upon them to do
yield
ios to MLR es men by saying she was nut guilty.
Mr. Baron Chaanell having summed up the evidence, the
jury found both the prisoners Godly of cutting and wound-
ing with intent to disfigure and to do grievous bodily harm,
but they added that the female prisoner had oommitted no
actual violence, and that she had acted throughout under the
coercion of her husband.

iiiiLoedZipd;ierredparing gentlemen till the morning.
and said he would admit the women to WE, and reserve the
point in her favour.

ROME CIRCUIT.—Kmorrox, APRIL 6.
(Brion) Mr. Justice Williams and • Common Jury.)
.

This was an action to mover damages for a malicious
prosecution.
Mr. Pearce was counsel for the plaintiff; Mr. Montagu
Chambers, Q.C., and Mr. A. H. Simon were ter the
defendant.

This case was of rather a peculiar character. The plaintiff
was a young woman In a bumble position of life, a domestic
servant, end she sought to recover damages from the defen-
dant for having falsely accused her of perjury under the..
circumstances :—According to her evidence, she met the de-
fendant, who is an elderly man, Jimmied, and living with his
wife at the time in the Regent's•park, one evening in
the month of June, 1864, and he entered into con-
versation with her, sad finding she was out of a situation,
he prandial to get here plaoe. After they had talked together
for some than he proposed that they should have some re-
fieshmeat, end he took her to a public home, where she bad
a gime of wine, and he eventually induced her to consent to
accompany him to a house of ill-fame, end the plaintiff alleged
that this was the first time she had been guilty of similar
misconduct. It appeared that after this the defendant intro-
duced the plaintiP to hie daughter, and recommended her is
a servant, and she continued in her marries for some time, and
in February, 1866, she wasdelivered of a male child. The de-
fondant, who, it appeared, carries on the busbies of a builder at
Camden dawn, for some time gave the plaintiff money,
but
_upon his failing to do so, she summoned
him be the magistrates at Wandsworth, and they
mad* aa order that he should pay half-a-crown
a week for the child. He complied with this order for several
mouths, but at length he became In erveer, and upon his
the
ti
beiniFffsd for payment he obtained a summons against
, calling upon her to appear before the
W worth bench, to answer a charge of having committed
wilful and corrupt perjury In the evidence given by her to
et=the order of affiliation. This eurumous was dis-
hy the magistrate, and the present action was brought
to recover damage, from the defendant for having, es was
snit, maliciously preferred this charge against the plaintiff
plaintiff, a young woman of very ordinary appear-
suck wee maimed, and she proved a great many of the
above Iscita, and swore positively that it was in the month of
June, lat, that she first met the defendant, and she also
staid that after he had obtained her the situation ea servant
to hie daughter he visited her and the illicit intercourse be-
tween then was continued in his daughter's house.
The deiedant, a man over fifty years of age and of mord-
-B.KI appearance, was called as • winter, and be admitted that
be had been ' imprudent" in his connexion with the plain-
' tiff, but he asserted that the intercourse first commenced in
the month of September, and therefore he could have had ao
right to claim the paternity to the infant.
The craw-examination of the witness ceased a gond deal of
Imaghter. He denied having given himself out to be ame
who went about trying to reclaim young girls, but be admitted
that it was his practice to endeavour to induce young women
he met in the streets to leave off their evil warms and go to
some penitentiary.
Mr. Justice Williams inquired whether be wait to under-
stand that the witness was in the habit of asking every
prostitute he met to do this? (A laugh )
The witness said he did not refer particularly to prosti-
tutes, but his observation principally applied to girls whom
he met without any shoes on. Laughter.)
Mr. Pearce (to the witness)—hen year practice la, if you
meet a girl without any shoes en to accost her, and advise
her to go to a penitentiary. (!renewed laughter.)
The witness starlit wee.

In answer to farther questions the defendant admitted that
be bad continued the illicit intercou.se with the plaintiff after
she was la his daughter's service, bet be denied that it tool
place in the house of his daughter, and said that it only
occurred on two eccssione, and then she went out with him.
Another witness eta called, who swore that the drat Inter-
view between the dalesdant and the plaintid occurred in the
month of eaptember, and it also appeared that the defendant
had paid 361. to make sa action for seduction that had been
brought mist hiss by flts father of the plauttie.
Mr. Omahas, la oamdag up the defendant's can, ad-
mitted that be bad meted isestorally and hoproterly In regard
to kb emadea will the plaintiff, but he urged that be had
bon dm* aellitasely pbsd, and that th• pow
Nelda wamardyeremedaavea teeter mon from him.
H. tbea amid the sited, at the jury to the • that
bad been Wand on behalf of the defendant, end caseuadod
that it bad bin clearly eetabliehod that ha weld sot bare
Urban for What at akild he walks, sad that there awe
paiardefartbedena be bad probrred aphid
baraid todelsibi seraird lap, the , allor
short dabs's, ion, ealmed a woo* for Mr

WESTERN CIRCUIT.-Bnurrot, APRIL 6.
Mr. Justice Crowder entered this city shoot 5 o'clock kid
evening, and wee waived by the scan; High Sheriff Oho

Irk duireal appointment being io dispute beton the Hasse
of Lards), Osage 0. Edward'', Egg , the Right Worshipful
W Mayor, haw Allan Cooke, Esq., sad the usual oortdp.
His lordship at ante proceedei to the Ouildhall, when Is
opened the commiesinn. He afterwards dined with the
mayor at the Council-house. The auras list contains entries
0/ 19 oases, of which three as at down for spacial
Amangst the maim is ono against the Bristol and Exeter
Railway Company, which is lady to slate some interest.

wheat head was bandaged up, stated that she had lived with
the prisoner upwards of tat years sa his wife, and they had
four children living out of six. They kept • grocer's and
tobacconist's shop in Tooley-street, and until within the last
two years they bed lived happily together. On the previous
night, between eleven and twelve o'clock, she was in the shop,
when without the least provocation he seised a Widow
jar and struck hee on the head with it. Ohs fell down in-
sensible, and on her recovery she was conveyed to the
hospital, where her wounds were dreamed, and mass was meat
home.

Mr. Comb* asked her whether he bad ever manned her
before f

She replied that be had frequently attacked her In a very
brutal manner within the last two years. About six months
ago she was compelled to give him into custody, when he
was sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard
' labour. Since his liberation be had recommenced his dlasap
In cross-examination by Mr. Solomon she said that she.
was willing to accept of a small weekly sum from him and
leave him, provided it was guaranteed to her, as the home
was hers, and he came to her. She denied ever giving Wm
any provocation whenever he ill-uaed her. Sbe never was In
theism* under the influence of liquor, but the prisoner was
almost always drunk. He was in that Mate when be struck
her with the tobaccoi at.
Mr. Combs naked her whether she bad any witness who
eaw that done ?

—She replied ihat ahe believed a constable saw It.
(Norge Atkinson, 95 M, said th►t he was on duty to
Tooley-sheet, about twelve o'clock the previous night, when
be saw a mob of persons collected about the prisoner's shop,
which was open. While be was endeavouring to disperse
the crowd, be saw the prisoner snatch up a tobacco jar (an
earthen one), and strike the complainant over the heed with
it. He immediately rushed into the shop, and prevented
him from repeating the blow with a broken piece he held is
his hand. After securing him, he oonveyed the complainant
to the hospital, where het wounds were dreaeed.
Mr. Solomon asked him whether the complainant did not
make use of a filthy expression to the prisoner before he
struck her. _ _

*Ttnesesaid hews' done by, and he never heard her attar
a word, or give the hest provocation to trim.
In answer to the charge, Mr. Solomon said he was in-
structed to say that the complainant aggravated his client
=tairsneh by calling him filthy name, and in a moment of
t he took up the jar, which he wee using, and
struck her, but he had no intention of injuring her. He
therefore hoped his worship would adjourn the cue for a sow
days, and allow his client to make some arrangement with
the complainant.
Mr. Combs said that he must make an arrangements he
thought proper when he cane out of priam, am it was not
likely he could overlook such a murderous assault. It was
indeed a wonder that be had not killed her. He had, it
appeared, suffered three months' imprisonment for assaulting
her, and u that bad done bin no good he should sentence
him to Biz months' bard labour in the Homes of Correction.

Yr. Solo on hoped hie worship world not do that, sa it
would be the ruin of him. He wee willing to allow her
anything in reason for her and the children's sup.
Kr. Combs said he could not listen to anyt t ng of the
kind. He most be imprisoned for six months.

Lemmas.
Henry Mackenzie, Henry M. Campbell, and Ernest Marriott,
cadets at Addieoombe, were charged, the first named with
assaulting Mr. Lund, superintendent of the P division, and
Rogers, 483 P, in the execution of their duty, and the two
latter with attempting to rescue • and William Wilcox, •
geethenaa's gardener' wee charged with interfering with a
pelmenran, when he bad one of the former defendants in
onstedy.
Mr. Lund stated that on the evening before, while the
national anthem was being played at the Crystal Palace, be
saw a disturbance at the south corner of the centre
transept,
and on going there found the defendants knocking off
hats of persons in front of them. He remonstrated with them,
when he received two severe blows on the head from behind.
A constable then told him that Mr. Mackenzie was the par-
son who struck him. He again remonstrated, when he was
seised by the waist by Mr. Mackenzie, and with the assistance
of the others lifted off his het He was much hurt by the
wham, as he was flawing from • heart complaint. The
primers than rushed away, shouting Fire,' and causing
much ormetentation to the persons in the building, but were
ultimately taken into custody, in spite of attempts to reams
them. After Mr. Land's statement had been confirmed,
Mr. Charnock, for the defendants. said that he regretted
the occurrence, which had only arisen out of the extreme
loyalty of the young gentlemen. He called the Rev. Mr.
Abbott, who rid that policeman 476 used unnecessary vio-
lence in collaring Mr. Macke see, and that Mr. Lund spoke
of sending for endures. He did not see any woman struck.
Mr. Norton here remarked that one of the previous wit-
names had stated that be had seen a women with bruises on
her lam which she said she had received from the cadets.
Mr. Haines, the attorney for the defence, Mated that he
was at the Crystal Palace on the occasion referred to, and he
staked the tleaustly conduct of the cadets up to the time
of the disturbance, and he thought they were dealt harshly
with by the police.
Colonel Donnell, the staff officer at Addiscombe, having
given the three cadets an excellent character, and Wilcox's
master having done the same in the case of hie servant,
Mr. Lund stated that he had for some observed the
excellent and gentlemanly conduct of the Addlsoombe cadets,
sad was extremely sorry that such a circumstance should
have occurred.

Mr. Norton spoke highly of the general conduct of Mr.
L6Oll. He was happy to say that this was the first case of
the kind that bed occurred at the Crystal Palsies. He should
take a leaked view of it, and flneMackenzie 81., Campbell 21.,
Marriott 11., and Wilson 10s.

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