The Express.
London, England, 1860-03-15 00:00:00

Csovz.Cotrirr.—(Before Mr. Jadtia Keating.)

misager"lof Best"-eljaminwuGuar*Py, •beer-hose; keeperburgia7of Po' etobiZ-ti"
near Wolverhampton, on the night of the sth inst., and dab-
Best":n. Lersealey prosecuted ; the prisoner was
undeismasil.
The evidence showed that the prosecutor mode his doors
and windows fast before retiring to rod, stabotit, one o'clock
in the morning. Wee afterwards aroused from his sleeu by
his door being hie
open by the prisoner, whohad a blank
weak upon we face, a Life-preserver 111, uahaailemawand
candle in the other. Prosecutor shouted out, "
end the prison's struck him • violent blow on the head •
the Ws-preserver. Prosecutor replied by knock him
down with his data. A second burglar now entered, skin
masked, and having a life-preserver in his band. A
now ensued, Guy bravely de-
fd=te himselflB and preventing either of them
from asesphig. Presently a young man (Wm. Guy),
his nephew, colas to hia aid, and the conflict was more
'liquid. On entering the mom, however, Wm. Guy received
Not the absent an a blow over the left eye with a life-
preserver, which laid bare the skull, and was likely, accord-
ing to the testimony of the gorges's, to have occssioned
death. Nevertheless the young man fought with his as.
gallant with a chair, and the combatants seemed to change,
the absent ruffian making at the prosecutor as he wee
keeiag the prisoner down, after the prisoner hod cried out,
" Throttle him, Jack, or we 'shall be taken," Prosecutor
bit the fellow's thumb severely, and the ruffian cut his arm,
depriving him of its use, and then camped throngh the
window. The prosecutor still held by the prisoner, when,
after a struggle of about forty minutes, a policeman came
up and found old Guy in hie night shirt, stained with blood,
with the pel•owir, whoa he held on the floor.
struggling
possession ewe wire 14 skeleton keys, a rod
of iron, and other burglars' implements, with powder, shot,
and slugs, to load a pistoL
The jury convicted the prisoner, and be was sentenced to
The

The judge ordered 51. to be paid to the prosecutor in ex-
religion d the admirstioa of the court of his conspicuous
bravery, without which the men would certainly have es-
caped.

MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—LnccoLN, KiscH It

Ciowu Count —(Befene Mr. Justin, Wilke.)
CAI VP =WM
- Masse Peel the younger, fanner, was charged with the
mender of Mark Brewer on the 12th of December
led, A second count in the indictment charged bim with
niandsughter, sad • third count for a common assault.
Mr. Fitsjarties Stephen and Mr. Hui& were lox the pc-
eienlian ; and the prisoner was defended by Mr. MamuLy,
40., and Mr. O'Brien.
The principal evidence t the poisoner was a state-
merit made by the deceased, when he believed he was
dying, to the effect that the prisoner had twice pulled
him about indecently in the stable ; that he one
.day
came into the stableand asked for a sieve, and then mewed
him (deoesaed) and &awed him into the stable ; that it
hurt trim a good deal at the time, and when he made the
statement he was ruffermg from it. A little after he took
a handkerchief and hung him on the wall. A man named
Smith came in, and seeing him on the wall, celled.
" Cherie+, Charles, Mark has hung himself !" and then be
took him down. In the middle of the same week Tom
Peel struck him over the back with a fork, which hurt him
• good deal. Deceased was said to be of weak intellect.
A number of witnesses having been examined,
The jury, after being locked up a few minutes, returned
• verdict of Not 6%44.